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Prep spotlight: Holderness gaining confidence from balanced start

By Liam FlahertyDecember 10, 2021

Cooper Boulanger
Senior captain Cooper Boulanger (Barre, Vt.) leads the Bulls in scoring after the opening week of the campaign. (Dave Arnold/NEHJ)

In the preseason, Holderness coach Alan Thompson (Gilford, N.H) emphasized the need for his team to play with a balanced scoring approach. Three games in, the Bulls have done just that, winning their first two contests by a pair of nine-goal margins.

Eleven different players found the back of the net in the team's 12-3 season-opening victory over Hebron Academy. Three days later, six different players scored at least one goal — junior forward Aidan O’Connell (Wilmington, Mass.) potted three — as Thompson’s club defeated Pingree, 9-0. Junior goalie Evan Plunkett recorded the shutout in net.

For their efforts, the Bulls were chosen for the Week 1 installment of New England Hockey Journal’s prep school power rankings (released every Tuesday), filling the No. 10 spot after going unranked in the preseason top 10.

Tags: 2021-22 Prep School Hockey, Alan Thompson, Cooper Boulanger, Holderness, Lakes Region, Prep Schools

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