When a reporter asked Matt Anderson a tongue-in-cheek question about trying to shake off the rust he had from missing a whole season of hockey Saturday night, all Anderson could do was chuckle.
That’s because Anderson, whose last game was the Massachusetts hockey team’s loss to New Hampshire in the 2003 Hockey East semifinals, had just scored a hat trick in the Minutemen’s 6-4 win over Clarkson at the Mullins Center Saturday night. Anderson’s trifecta was the first by a UMass player in nearly two years, dating back to Thomas P
