GENEVA, N.Y.-The sixth-ranked Hobart College ice hockey cruised to a 9-0 win over Johnson & Wales in its New England Hockey Conference opener at The Cooler this evening. Fifteen different players recorded a least a point for the Statesmen.
 
Hobart (2-0-1, 1-0-0) was led by sophomore Zach Tyson, who finished the game with two goals. Six other Statesmen had two points in the win, including sophomore Chase Bell (2a), junior Phil Satin (2a), junior Travis Schneider (2a), senior Zach Sternbach (1g, 1a), senior Lawson MacDougall (1g, 1a) and senior Will Harrison (2a). Sophomore Joe Halstrom made 20 saves as he earned his first career shutout.
 
Mike Rockwell started and made 36 saves in 40 minutes of action in goal for the Wildcats (0-2-0, 0-1-0). Mike Camasso made 15 saves in the third period.
 
Hobart controlled the game from the opening whistle, emerging from the first period with a 14-6 advantage in shots on goal. Tyson opened the scoring with his first tally of the season at the 17:10 mark of the first period. He collected a pass from Schneider, carried the puck to the goal line, and fired a shot off a Wildcat defender and into the back of the net. Bell was credited with the secondary assist. Junior Mark Benemerito nearly made it 2-0 just over a minute later, but his shot from the slot was fired wide of the cage.
 
The Statesmen used a four goal second period to push the game out of reach. Just under five minutes into the period, junior Alec Robitaille batted home a rebound for his second goal of the season. Harrison was credited with an assist on the goal. Sophomore Jake Gresh extended the lead to three goals with his first Hobart goal. He one-timed a pass from MacDougall into the upper left corner of the cage for a power-play goal. Seventy-four seconds later, first-year Félix Lamoureux notched his first collegiate goal. He collected a rebound in the slot and flipped the puck over Rockwell. Harrison and Satin were credited with assists on the goal. Sophomore Connor Quinn made it a five goal game with his first collegiate goal. Satin, who had the puck along the goal line, fired a cross crease pass that deflected off of a stick in front and ended up on Quinn's stick at the point. Quinn wired a shot into the upper left corner of the cage. The goal came 49 seconds after Lamoureux's tally.
 
Tyson pocketed his second goal of the game 12 seconds into the third period. He won the opening faceoff back to junior Mike Faulkner. Faulkner passed the puck to Schneider in the neutral zone. Schneider immediately fired a pass to a streaking Tyson, who carried the puck into the attacking end and squeezed a shot from the right faceoff circle between Camasso's pad and the right goal post. Just over a minute later, Sternbach notched his first goal of the season. He won a puck battle in the attacking end and wristed into the back of the net. Junior Andrew Longo and MacDougall wrapped up the scoring with goals in the final minute of regulation. Longo fired a shot from the left faceoff circle into the back of the net for his first goal of the season. Bell and junior Mitchell Spring were credited with assists on the goal. Twenty-five seconds later MacDougall added his first goal of the season. Benemerito and Sternbach picked up assists on the tally.
 
Johnson & Wales' best opportunity came in the final minutes of the game. Halstrom stopped a slap shot from Peter Costa and then made a sprawling stop on Jake Gold's rebound bid.
 
Hobart finished the game with a 60-22 advantage in shots on goal. The Statesmen were 1-for-7 on the power play and the Wildcats were 0-for-5 with the extra attacker.
 
Hobart will be back in action tomorrow afternoon when it welcomes Suffolk to The Cooler. Faceoff is scheduled for 4 p.m. Johnson & Wales will also be back in action tomorrow afternoon at Skidmore a 4 p.m.