Sioux skate past the Seawolves 6-1

The UAA Seawolves are big tough team that focuses on defense first and are very difficult to play against, the Seawolves also have a tendency to play a very boring brand of hockey. I say this because one might have witnessed this when the UAA Seawolves played the Minnesota Golden Gophers two weeks ago in Minneapolis as the Seawovles beat the Minnesota Golden Gophers 1-0 in defensive battle. The game was about as fun as watching paint dry and was a tad bit of a snorer.

Earlier in the week I had said that the Fighting Sioux needed to get the lead early on the Seawolves and open the game up, because I didn’t feel that the Seawolves are as deep up front as the Fighting Sioux and they would have a hard time keeping up with the Sioux’s speed. This is exactly what happened tonight and the Seawolves were a step behind all night and didn’t have an answer for the Fighting Sioux’s speed through the neutral zone.

The Sioux blew by the Seawolves all night long through the neutral zone and proved the best way to beat the trap is to use their speed and just skate by the defenders going up along the wall. That pretty much what the Fighting Sioux did all night long.

The Fighting Sioux got going in the first period and scored two goals 17 seconds apart before the game was seven minutes old and Sioux raced past the Seawolves for a 6-1 win. Mario Lamoureux scored his second goal of the season and continued his streak of when Marios scores a goal for the Fighting Sioux they are undefeated, they have not lost a game when he scores a goal.

It was fun watching the Sioux stretch the Seawolves defense with crisp smart passes, it look like the tortoise chasing a rabbit all night long... The Sioux also keep the turnovers to a minimum, hence, not giving the Seawolves a lot of opportunities to score goals. The one turnover the Sioux had in the offensive zone ended up trickling over the goal line off of the stick of UAA's Matt Bailey.

With the win tonight UND Fighting Sioux hockey coach Dave Hakstol reached the 20 win plateau for a the seventh season in a row. UND is all alone in 2nd place in the WCHA standings with a 15-6-0 and is 20-8-2 overall.

Goon's three stars of the game

1.) Matt Frattin, UND 1g-2a-3pts
2.) Derek Forbort, UND 0g-2a-2pts
3.) Aaron Dell, UND 1 goal against

Links

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