AUBURN – The Westbrook boys’ hockey team has learned to gauge their success by which way the puck is bouncing.

Saturday night, the puck was deflecting, caroming and ricocheting the way of the Blue Blazes.

Westbrook got a pair of fluky goals and held off a late Leavitt rally for a 4-2 win over the Hornets at Ingersoll Arena.

“If you look at our record, it’s 8-3 but a lot of those games came against some of the lower teams,” said Westbrook coach Travis Jalbert. “We’re 8-3 and we have 14 Heal Points and are in 12th place right now. Points-wise, that’s a big win for us.”

The Blue Blazes rallied from a pair of one-goal deficits and were tied entering the third. Westbrook got a goal off a carom off the end boards and another that hit off the Leavitt goalie from behind the net.

“For us, we don’t score a lot of bang-bang, pretty goals,” said Jalbert. “They’re usually chippy goals with bounces and deflections. It just seems to get us going, it takes a lucky bounce.”

Leavitt (7-4) went 0-for-7 on the power play and gave up a shorthanded goal. The Hornets also allowed a pair of power play tallies.

“They’re just not skating and playing as a team,” said Leavitt coach Ron Rouillard. “Everybody out there’s trying to do it themselves. They’re not skating to their potential. They’re not playing. They’re not skating, and they’re making excuses. That’s all they’re doing.”

With the score tied 2-2, three Leavitt power plays gave the Blue Blazes opportunity, including a two-man advantage for 35 seconds. Westbrook capitalized on the third penalty. A blast by Justin Dube from the right point went wide and dinged off the end boards. The puck kicked around for Scott Heath at the left post. He tucked it in for a 3-2 lead with 5:40 left.

“That was Scott being disciplined, staying in his position and waiting for things to happen,” said Jalbert. “Give him credit because he was in the right spot.”

Westbrook made it 4-2 just 17 seconds later. Shayne Nealey scored from behind the net when the puck went in off Leavitt goalie Cody Violette.

Leavitt got one back when Eric Theiss drilled a shot from the point, and Steve Rouillard put in the rebound with 2:29 left. A Westbrook penalty gave the Hornets a power play chance with the goalie pulled, but Leavitt couldn’t produce the equalizer. Zach Joy preserved the win with some solid play down the stretch in goal.

“They did not play to their potential,” said Rouillard. “They played down to the level of their competition.”

Both teams scored on their first shots of the game. Leavitt skated down and got a Cooper Legee goal just 20 seconds in. Westbrook got the puck to the other end soon thereafter and tied it with a Heath goal at 1:55.

A Drew Bent shot from the point led to a Ryan Urquhart goal and Leavitt lead with 4:38 left.

“In the first period we came out a little flat and got into some penalty trouble,” said Jalbert, whose team was outshot 13-4 in the first.

In the second, Westbrook failed to score on a two-man advantage but got the equalizer at 3:52 on a power play. Tyler Rand finished off a Tommy Lemay feed. The Blue Blazes outshot Leavitt in the opening minutes 7-1 and 21-13 over the final two periods.

“They had more opportunities on their power play than we did,” said Rouillard. “We weren’t even getting the puck to the net on our power play.”