Former Viper Pimm Named Hockey East Weekly Top Performer:

Former Vernon Vipers forward, Braden Pimm is one of seventeen players named in this week's Hockey East weekly top performers. Pimm forced OT with his game-tying goal vs.UMass with two seconds left and notched three assists in his first two games. Pimm in his second season with the Huskies, played three years in Vernon from (2007-2010).

This was posted on the Hockey East website:

Hockey East Weekly Top Performer

Braden Pimm, NU (So., F, Fort St. John, B.C.) He forced OT with his game-tying goal vs.UMass with two seconds left and notched three assists in his first two games.

The Northeastern men's hockey team treated Huskies fans to a 3-3 overtime thriller against Massachusetts in both the season opener and head coach Jim Madigan's first-career game as sophomore Braden Pimm netted an extra attacker goal with two seconds left in regulation at Matthews Arena. Friday's contest marked the first time Northeastern and UMass met in the season opener as Madigan went 65 minutes in his introduction to Hockey East. The Huskies unbeaten streak of six games (4-0-2) is the longest against any other squad in the conference. In his first contest as head coach, Madigan's tie marks a program first. No coach has ever skated to a tie in his first game behind the bench. The last time Northeastern opened with a tie was at the Kendall Hockey Classic against Alaska-Fairbanks on Oct. 10, 2008. Junior Justin Daniels broke through in the season opener against UMass by scoring Northeastern's first two goals of the season. It was the Suffern, N.Y. native's first-career two-goal game after suffering a goal-less season in 2010-11. Junior transfer Vinny Saponari joined Pimm and J. Daniels as two-point getters on Friday evening in his first-career game donning a Huskies sweater. Saponari tallied two assists in the opener and followed up that performance with a short-handed goal and assists at Maine on Sunday. Saponari's man-down tally was the first of NU's kind of the season. Sophomore Anthony Bitetto joined the multi-point club in 2011-12 with a goal and an assist at Maine. Bitetto's goal was the first marker by a Northeastern defenseman this season. Heading into Friday's contest against New Hampshire, Saponari, Pimm and senior captain Mike McLaughlin are riding two-game point streaks. McLaughlin assisted in Friday's game and followed it up with his first goal of the season at Maine.