Stories Related to Umaine Hockey Player On Scoring Spree After Year-long Drought

Donavan Houle thought he lost his scoring touch. The University of Maine sophomore right winger had scored 31 goals in 46 games for the Flin Flon Bombers of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League during the 2019-20 season and added three more goals in four playoff games. But he didn’t score a single goal for UMaine in its 16-game 2020-21 season and went seven games without one this season. Houle finally broke through with both UMaine goals in a 3-2 overtime loss to UConn and scored a goal in each game at Boston College last weekend before adding the game-winner in the shootout win, though goals scored in shootouts don’t count on the stats. He now has four goals in his last five games entering Saturday’s 5 p.m.