Midway through the second period Wednesday night, it appeared the Greenfield hockey team was headed for a nail-biter with Southwick.

The teams were tied 1-1 at the end of the first period, the lone Green Wave goal coming from Jacob Bryant off a dish from Aidan Roche. Shane Prusak’s goal early in the second period was answered by a Ram goal midway through the second period, evening the scoring at two apiece.

That’s when the Greenfield offense came to life.

The Wave tallied three goals in the closing half of the second period before lighting the scoreboard up four times in the third frame to come away with a 9-2 lopsided victory at Amelia Park Ice Arena in Westfield.

“We were buzzing around and outshooting them early,” Greenfield coach Adam Bouchard said. “The final score doesn’t show how close the game was for a while. We weren’t playing the style of hockey we want to play. We came out of the gates a little slow but as we picked up our pace, you could see the fore check, cycling and passing that we want to have.”

The goals came quick and fast for the Green Wave once they got rolling. Devin Niles scored on the power play off an assist from Prusak, and two minutes later Niles scored again, with assists credited to Roche and Prusak. 

Two minutes after that, in the closing minutes of the second period, Roche found the back of the net off dishes from Bryant and Niles to make it 5-2 Greenfield.

Midway through the third period, the Wave went on another scoring run, this one resulting in three goals in a two-minute span.

The first came off the stick of Prusak, and he tallied another 20 seconds later to cap off the hat trick and a five-point night. Knight picked up the assist.

One minute later, Knight picked up a goal with the assists going to Niles and Bryant.

With 2:05 to play, Trevor Kuchieski scored his first career varsity goal off a dish from Brody Gagne to close out the scoring.

Joshua Bordeaux picked up 16 saves in the win, as Greenfield outshot Southwick 37-18 on the night.

Next up is a Saturday night home tilt against South Hadley at 6:30 p.m.