There’s bad injury luck, and then there is Hofstra’s bad injury luck.

A broken jaw. A stress fracture in the back. A broken foot. A broken hand. A broken wrist in a freak weight room accident.

And then there was Eric Wenz’s misfortune at Towson on March 30. Seconds before the opening faceoff, the defenseman was stretching and injured his hamstring, leaving the Pride without a player it planned to use against Tiger attackman Brendan Sunday.

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” Hofstra coach Seth Tierney said.

Yet the Pride went out and played Towson within a goal that day, then came back and upended UMass in overtime a week later. And while 4-7 isn’t the place the program wanted to be, Hofstra finds itself in the mix in the CAA heading into Saturday’s trip to Delaware.

The Pride haven’t fixed everything, but a defeat of the defending CAA champs after enduring four one-goal losses is a welcome sign for Tierney.

“I don’t know where it’ll go from here,” Tierney said. “But I’m thankful we won this week, because I think it has given us a little bit of belief in what we’re doing.”

On the surface, Hofstra ably answered two of its biggest questions coming into the year. The Pride lost goalie Jack Concannon, a third team All-American goalie, to graduation and saw faceoff man Kyle Gallagher (55.9 percent in 2018) transfer to Penn. Yet Brian Herber has claimed 53.4 percent of the draws this season (while taking all but two over 11 games) and goalie Bobby Casey has stopped 52.4 percent of the shots on goal he’s faced.

Instead, the task of generating offense with an ever-changing lineup has proven Hofstra’s biggest issue. Ryan Tierney has team highs in goals (32) and assists (eight), but no other player has more than 13 points.

The return of attackman Dylan McIntosh, who missed six games with a broken jaw, provides some encouragement. He scored twice against UMass. Whether that victory was a prelude to a strong finish remains to be seen.

“Will those experiences help us going forward this year? Or will it help next year or the year after?” Tierney said this week. “They’re going to help. I just don’t know when. I’m not a fortune teller. I just know yesterday’s practice was a good one.”