By Jodie Ng, News Correspondent 

The Northeastern men’s club hockey team ended their season with upsetting losses in the 2014 American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) Division II National Championships.

Over three days, the top 16 teams in the nation fought endlessly to earn the winning title. Northeastern played Pennsylvania State University, Missouri State University and Weber State University and unfortunately fell to all their competitors.

“Everybody wants to win but it’s not the end of the world when you loose,” head-coach Fred Carpenito said. “We forgot the previous day as much as we could and moved on.”

In the Huskies’ first game against Penn State, they struggled to score any goals as the Ice Lions took lead the entire game. The following day the team went head-to-head with Missouri State but unluckily still did not have a win under their belt. Going into their last game of the season against Weber State, the team was ready to leave it all on the ice.

In a hard-fought battle, Weber State scored first and led 2-0 at the end of the first quarter.  Northeastern didn’t break through until the second quarter with a goal from junior forward Kyle Demers. The Wildcats quickly responded with their own goal and from there, the contest between the two continuously went back and forth. Weber State unfortunately were victorious, defeating the Huskies 9-7

“We didn’t have a lot going for us during the tournament. It was a rough tournament,” freshman defenseman Michael Harris said. “We know we can do it, we know we can play a full 100 percent of our abilities. We just need to put it all together.”

Senior forward Gregory Dwyer who recently finished his Northeastern hockey career attributed the whole tournament’s defeat to sub-par performance.

“It’s definitely not that the talent was above us,” Dwyer said, “we just didn’t show up to play.”

Regardless of it all, he explained that members of club hockey want to continue to play the sport and that everyone wants to have fun.

“You realize you only have so long to keep playing,” Dwyer said. “It’s not a job, it something we love to do so all you have to do is get up and play again.”

Although the chance of a winning title may have eluded this year’s team, the Huskies know what needs to be done next season to be triumphant. Carpenito says the team’s defense needs to improve as they are graduating three senior goalies.

“It’s frustrating when you’re there but you got to take a step back and look at the big picture,” Carpenito said I think overall, taking a few games out of the picture, we had a pretty successful year.”