The York University Lions men's hockey team lost to the Concordia Stingers 8-2 on Friday night (Oct. 24) at Canlan Ice Sports.
 
The Stingers opened up the scoring at 12:33 of the first period with a goal that shook the Lions' defence when Dany Potvin and Alex MacDonald crossed the puck from the right side to the left side, allowing the very fast Olivier Hinse to net the puck.
 
The Lions often held the puck in the Stingers half by chipping the puck over the defenders and making quick passes on the right side, but the Stingers picked up on many counter plays. The puck criss-crossed from left to right in both the Lion's and the Stinger's half in a fast-paced first period.
 
The second frame was action-packed with a total of five goals and 27 shots coming from both sides.
 
The Stingers started the scoring with a chipped goal at 2:45 by Dominic Beauchemin over Chris Perugini (King City, Ont.) while he was on the ground, and at 5:45, a York defender lost his stick leaving a gap for the Stinger attacker Antoine Houde-Caron to score a third goal.
 
Dylan Smoskowitz (Richmond Hill, Ont.) created an opportunity for the Lions when he sent the puck from the right side to Mitch VanTeeling (Brandon, Ont.) on the left who sent a one touch shot flying to the net, but Stinger goalie Robin Billingham stopped the potential goal.
 
In a counter attack Hinse charged Perugini, who was left alone in the back, and sent the puck to the in the net at 6:57.
 
The Stingers attacked again with a brilliant shot from Jeremy Barriault over the top right shoulder of Perugini at 8:42, making the score 5-0.
 
York finally found a break with a great goal by Kyle Campbell (Halifax) that he chipped over Bilingham's head to the centre of the net.
 
With the start of the third at 6:57 Hinse netted a hat trick with the sixth goal for Concordia. The Lions netted another goal at 14:50 by Colton Vannucci (Calgary) to change the score to 6-2.
 
Concordia kept on stinging with two final goals at 15:23 and 18:25, both by Hugo Vincent.
 
The Lions had 24 shots and 17 saves from Perugini, who played 28:42, and 17 saves for Mitch Maraschiello (Buffalo, N.Y.) who played 31:18. The Stingers finished with a total of 42 shots and 22 saves from Bilingham.
 
Up next for the Lions is a game on Saturday at 7pm against the No. 4 nationally-ranked UQTR Patriotes at Canlan Ice Sports.