Icers junior forward Luc Walker will tell you all of goaltender Paul Mammola's yelling is starting to get on his nerves.

"In practice, it gets annoying how much he talks. In one-on-one drills, you know what he's going to say and you just wanna be like, 'Mammola, shut up,' " Walker said jokingly.

In games, though, it'd be hard to refute the results.

On Friday, Mammola recorded his second shutout of the season in the Icers' 6-0 victory against Delaware. The shutout was his first at the Greenberg Ice Pavilion, a place where he says it took him awhile to get adjusted.

"I really think that I'm finally comfortable, not only in the building but also on the team, in the school [and] with the ACHA," Mammola said.

The sophomore goaltender is in his first season with the team after transferring from UMass-Lowell, where he didn't have the type of freshman year he envisioned he would.

The ACHA is a lot different from what Mammola has grown accustomed to playing at UMass-Lowell, which competes in the powerful Hockey East Conference, and he's learning how to slow the game down as much as possible.

"Guys do different things here. ... I think to learn I have that extra second has really been the biggest thing," he said.

One of the aspects of the game on which Mammola prides himself is communicating well with his teammates out on the ice. During the course of a game he can be heard alerting his defensemen to the whereabouts of the puck.

Frequently he'll come out of his net to play the puck if needed.

"If we can communicate, we're going to have easy nights," Mammola said. "In the beginning of the year, everyone's mouths were shut ... but now, everyone has [caught] on and it's kind of a snowball effect."

Mammola won both games this past weekend as the Icers put their stamp on a season sweep of Delaware.

The fourth straight start is somewhat of an anomaly around these parts.

In recent years, Icers coach Joe Battista has been reluctant to deem one guy as his team's starting goaltender, but Mammola's play of late has changed his outlook.

"Right now, I've kind of changed my philosophy. Mammola's in the zone, he's on a roll and we're gonna ride him," Battista said after Friday's shutout.

But if not for the help of one of Mammola's teammates, the flow of Friday's game could have been much different.

It was early in the first period of Friday's game with no score as the puck trickled through the legs of Mammola.

As Mammola searched for the puck, Kevin Jaeger was trailing on defense.

"I was just wanted to make sure the guy on Delaware didn't beat me back in case a rebound popped out," Jaeger said.

It was almost as if the puck froze "about three inches off the goal line," as Jaeger put it, when he hurried back to get his stick on it and swipe it away.

At the time the game was still scoreless; no one knew that the Icers would eventually go on to win 6-0.

"Paulie was really happy, he gave me his game puck and thanks for it," Jaeger said. "He made the first save and it's our responsibility to make sure the second or third guy can't get to the puck."

Battista was overjoyed as he watched Mammola hand the game puck to Jaeger after the game.

For Mammola, the full transition process took a little longer than expected, but the Icers have been exposed to "one of the nicest kids I've ever met," Battista said.

And Jaeger feels the same way.

"I've seen guys transfer in here before from that type of program and feel that they're the best, but he doesn't have that attitude at all," Jaeger said. "The team's really taken its faith into him ... I'm glad he's the type of player he is."