I know it’s early and I don’t see a need to start the Fire Hakstol threat over on Sioux Sports as of yet but last night’s game was tough one to stomach. The Sioux raced to a 5-1 lead only to cough the lead up and then had to win the game in a shoot out. While some might blame the Sioux's listless play on the time change and travel but the Sullivan Arena has turned into a house of horrors for the UND hockey team in the last 9 games the Sioux are an unimpressive 4-4-1. The fact remains that the Fighting Sioux had UAA’s rookie goalie Chris Kamal on the ropes but the Fighting Sioux hockey team let him off of the hook by letting the Seawolves score and get back into the game. Seriously, the Sioux had the young goalie rattled but they took the foot off of the gas. The Sioux will need a better effort tonight if they are going to beat the University of Alaska Fairbanks Nanooks.
If I had to explain last night’s game in one sentence it would be, “It was a horrible effort all the way around and magnified by bad defense and goaltending.” In my opinion the goals that did the Sioux in were the third and fourth goals. Those two goals were a comedy of errors that leaves even the most die hard fans scratching their heads. I would have to ask, where was the team effort after they got a 5-1 lead? At 10:57 of the second period the Sioux gave up the first of four unanswered goals.
On the third UAA goal Brad Eidsness goes into the corner to play the puck is beat to the puck by UAA forward Jade Portwood, the big forward pass the puck to Sean Wiles who has an empty UND net to shoot the puck into. The fourth UAA goal was a horrible effort all the way around, the puck is turned over in the offensive zone and Tommy Grant makes the Sioux hockey team look like a bunch of uninspired pylons.
1. Corban Knight UND, 2 goals
2. Jason Gregoire UND, 2 assists
3. Tommy Grant UAA,
Box Score
--------------------------------1st Period (20:00)--------------------------------
AKA-1 Mark Pustin (2-Holding) NDK 1x1 2:07
NDK 1 - 0 6x5 PP Brad Malone (1) (Brett Hextall) 3:06
NDK: 22,26,21,4,19,G31 AKA: 15,27,36,8,G35
AKA 1 - 1 6x6 Curtis Leinweber (1) (Tommy Grant, Jordan Kwas) 12:25
AKA (+): 11,16,23,14,17,G35 NDK (-): 29,8,5,2,7,G31
AKA-2 Luka Vidmar (2-High-Sticking) NDK 1x2 15:09
AKA-3 Quinn Sproule (2-Charging) NDK 2x3 19:05
NDK 2 - 1 6x5 PP Jake Marto (1) (Chay Genoway) 19:38
NDK: 25,5,7,10,17,G31 AKA: 15,8,14,36,G35
--------------------------------2nd Period (20:00)--------------------------------
NDK 3 - 1 6x6 Corban Knight (1) (Jason Gregoire, Derrick LaPoint) 0:47
NDK (+): 10,17,5,2,26,G31 AKA (-): 27,16,8,20,11,G35
NDK-1 Brad Malone (2-Boarding) AKA 0x1 1:38
NDK 4 - 1 6x6 Carter Rowney (1) (Jason Gregoire) 3:41
NDK (+): 27,17,22,3,2,G31 AKA (-): 27,40,36,23,9,G35
NDK 5 - 1 6x6 Corban Knight (2) (Danny Kristo) 7:32
NDK (+): 10,7,4,24,27,G31 AKA (-): 27,20,16,13,3,G35
AKA 2 - 5 6x6 Matt Bailey (1) (Brett Cameron, Mitch Bruijsten) 10:57
AKA (+): 21,7,12,3,13,G35 NDK (-): 9,27,21,4,24,G31
NDK-2 Evan Trupp (2-Interference) AKA 0x2 14:24
NDK-3 Chay Genoway (2-Interference) AKA 0x3 15:00
AKA-4 Craig Parkinson (2-Boarding) NDK 2x4 16:41
AKA 3 - 5 5x6 SH Sean Wiles (1) (Jade Portwood) 18:07
AKA (+): 27,36,23,11,G35 NDK (-): 24,10,5,7,17,G31
AKA 4 - 5 6x6 Tommy Grant (1) (unassisted) 19:00
AKA (+): 16,20,14,8,15,G35 NDK (-): 10,5,25,17,9,G31
--------------------------------3rd Period (20:00) --------------------------------
AKA 5 - 5 6x6 GT Brett Cameron (1) (Mitch Bruijsten, Matt Bailey) 1:34
AKA (+): 7,12,21,13,3,G35 NDK (-): 4,29,24,7,8,G31
NDK-4 Andrew MacWilliam (2-Elbowing) AKA 0x4 4:06
Overtime (5:00)
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