Gophers 3 Huskies 2

Tonight's game between the SCSU Huskies and the Minnesota Gophers was for the most part an pretty exciting hockey game that featured a lot of up and down the ice offensive action, almost the race horse hockey that many in the WCHA have come to love. To say the least it was nice to see the return of of hockey with a focuse on offensive and less on the defensive side. I was affraid going into the game that it was going to be a bit of a yawner.

Surprisingly; during tonight's game referee Derrick Shepherd unexpectedly found his whistle again as he called an amazing 17 penalties during hockey game. There were 9 penalties whistled against the Gophers and 8 whistled against the Huskies. I am not sure there were 17 penalties called all of last weekend between the Mavericks and the Gophers.

I was surprised at the score of this game as I thought the Huskies would have run the Gophers out of the building. Seriously, common sense would have told me that the Gophers would have been tired after playing almost 5 games last weekend. The Gopher found their legs, won the game and will get the 7:00 pm game tomorrow night. I guess we won't get to see if there is actually still the Gophers rule this season.


Box Score

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1st Period (20:00)
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MIN 1 - 0 6x6 Tony Lucia (7) (Evan Kaufmann, Derek Peltier) 0:25
MIN (+): 12,5,20,22,19,G33 STC (-): 26,9,12,21,24,G33
MIN-1 Mike Howe (2-Tripping) STC 0x1 6:05
STC-1 Andreas Nodl (2-CHARGING THE GOALIE) 6:27
MIN-2 Ben Gordon (2-Hooking) STC 1x2 7:00
STC 1 - 1 5x4 PP Garrett Raboin (2) (Ryan Lasch, Aaron Brocklehurst) 7:33
STC: 7,19,21,9,G33 MIN: 5,20,16,G33
MIN-3 Stu Bickel (2-Hooking) STC 1x3 7:49
STC-2 Chris Anderson (2-Slashing) MIN 0x1 12:02
MIN-4 Jay Barriball (2-Hooking) STC 1x4 16:30

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2nd Period (20:00)
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STC-3 Michael Olson (2-Tripping) MIN 1x2 3:12
STC-4 Brent Borgen (2-Elbowing) MIN 1x3 3:12
MIN 2 - 1 6x4 PP Evan Kaufmann (9) (Blake Wheeler, Cade Fairchild) 4:35
MIN: 19,17,28,26,13,G33 STC: 13,24,7,G33
MIN-5 Patrick White (2-Cross-Checking) 8:10
STC-5 Aaron Brocklehurst (2-Interference) 8:10
STC-6 Ryan Lasch (2-Diving) MIN 1x4 8:10
MIN-6 Ryan Flynn (2-Slashing) STC 1x5 12:40
MIN-7 Tony Lucia (2-Hooking) STC 1x6 13:06
MIN-8 Cade Fairchild (2-Roughing) 15:36
STC-7 John Swanson (2-Roughing) 15:36
MIN-9 Mike Carman (2-Tripping) STC 1x7 18:34

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3rd Period (20:00)
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STC 2 - 2 6x6 Tony Mosey (5) (Ryan Lasch, Garrett Raboin) 15:34
STC (+): 27,19,24,12,28,G33 MIN (-): 7,17,13,6,2,G33
STC-8 Nick Oslund (2-Goaltender Interference) MIN 1x5 15:50
MIN 3 - 2 6x6 GW LL Mike Howe (6) (Derek Peltier, David Fischer) 19:47
MIN (+): 24,20,5,16,11,G33 STC (-): 10,21,13,24,12,G33
Timeout - St. Cloud State 19:47

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End of Game

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