This the news that we figured that was coming, I think there are a few more players we have to worry about, Danny Kristo is one, but also Corbin Knight and possibly Aaron Dell. The Fighting Sioux did get some good news as they found out that Junior defenseman Andrew MacWilliam will be returning to the Fighting Sioux in the fall for his senior season. According to @UNDSID there could be a few more to come. Good Luck to Brock Nelson... [Official Release]
I will post any updates that come up. It's turning out to be a busy news day for the Fighting Sioux.
There have been 8 players
to forgo their college eligibility this season in the WCHA this season.
University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux
Brock Nelson, sophomore, Forward, New York Islanders
Colorado College Tigers
Jaden Schwartz, sophomore, Forward, St. Louis Blues
Denver University Pioneers
Drew Shore, Junior Forward, Florida Panthers
Jason Zucker, sophomore, Forward, Minnesota Wild
Minnesota-Duluth
Bulldogs
J.T. Brown, sophomore, Forward, Tampa Bay Lightning
Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks
Terry Broadhurst, Junior Forward, Chicago Blackhawks
St. Cloud State Huskies
David Eddy, Junior Forward, Calgary Flames
Mike Lee, Junior Goalie, Phoenix Coyotes
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Tuesday, April 03, 2012
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Islanders won't pressure Nelson
This is the worst time of the year when fans of college hockey teams have to worry if they are going lose their favorite college hockey players. According to Chris Botta, who is a writer for the New York Times and the New York Islanders had this to say about Fighting Sioux forward Brock Nelson on his twitter feed.
This past week, DU lost blue chippers Jason Zucker and Drew Shore in a matter of couple of days. So you never know what will happen and fans always seem to worry up until the puck drops in October.
This past week, DU lost blue chippers Jason Zucker and Drew Shore in a matter of couple of days. So you never know what will happen and fans always seem to worry up until the puck drops in October.
Nelson takes home some hardware
Fighting Sioux forward Brock Nelson has made the All-CHN second team.
2011-12 All-CHN Team
First Team
F Jack Connolly, Sr., Minnesota-Duluth
F Spencer Abbott, Sr., Maine
F Austin Smith, Sr., Colgate
D Justin Schultz, Jr., Wisconsin
D Brian Dumoulin, Jr., Boston College
G Shawn Hunwick, Sr., Michigan
Second Team
F Brock Nelson, So., North Dakota
F Reilly Smith, Jr., Miami
F Drew Shore, Jr., Denver
D Torey Krug, Jr., Michigan State
D Danny Biega, Jr., Harvard
G Troy Grosenick, So., Union
Rookie Team
F Kyle Rau, Minnesota
F Johnny Gaudreau, Boston College
F Scott Wilson, Mass.-Lowell
D Joey LaLeggia, Denver
D Patrick McNally, Harvard
G Frank Slubowski, Western Michigan
2011-12 All-CHN Team
First Team
F Jack Connolly, Sr., Minnesota-Duluth
F Spencer Abbott, Sr., Maine
F Austin Smith, Sr., Colgate
D Justin Schultz, Jr., Wisconsin
D Brian Dumoulin, Jr., Boston College
G Shawn Hunwick, Sr., Michigan
Second Team
F Brock Nelson, So., North Dakota
F Reilly Smith, Jr., Miami
F Drew Shore, Jr., Denver
D Torey Krug, Jr., Michigan State
D Danny Biega, Jr., Harvard
G Troy Grosenick, So., Union
Rookie Team
F Kyle Rau, Minnesota
F Johnny Gaudreau, Boston College
F Scott Wilson, Mass.-Lowell
D Joey LaLeggia, Denver
D Patrick McNally, Harvard
G Frank Slubowski, Western Michigan
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Through these doors episode 19
This should get you in the mood for the NCAA regional championship this weekend. No matter how this season ends, it has been an exciting group to follow and cover. This team started out 4-7-1 and 1-5 in the WCHA and ended on a hot streak that covered almost three months that saw them go 21-5-2, that's a pretty impressive run in any league.
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Saturday, March 17, 2012
Dell backstops Sioux to 4-0 victory over the Pioneers
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St. Paul Minn. – Back in November, who would have thought that the Fighting Sioux would face off against Denver University and win the championship game of the Red Baron WCHA Final Five?
Especially on Sunday the 20th of November 2011. The Fighting Sioux had just suffered an unimpressive 1-0 loss to the Bemidji State Beavers at the Sandford Center in Bemidji, Minnesota. After that loss, the Fighting Sioux had a lackluster record of 4-7-1 overall and 1-5 in the WCHA. That record was good for 11th place in the WCHA standings.
After the game, the Fighting Sioux took the two hour bus trip down highway two back to Grand Forks, they regrouped and on Monday morning the Fighting Sioux coaching staff conducted a bag skate on the Fighting Sioux hockey team at six o’clock.
Since that early morning bag skate, the Fighting Sioux have gone an impressive 21-5-2. That is the best overall record in Divison I hockey since November 26 , 2011.
Coming into the game, the Denver Pioneers had played five games in eight days and there was the question of fatigue, the last three games the Pioneers played in, had gone to overtime including yesterday’s double overtime win against the University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs. You had to wonder how much was left in the tank for the Pioneers.
The Sioux would test the Pioneers tired legs early and often.
The Fighting Sioux got on the board first and broke the 0-0 dead lock at the 17:43 mark of the first period when sophomore Brock Nelson scored his 27th goal on the power play.
Before the public address could announce the first goal, the Fighting Sioux would score again with a goal from junior forward Carter Rowney at the 18:29 mark of the first period. That was the 18th goal of the season for Rowney.
The Fighting Sioux never looked back as they added a power play goal by Michael Parks in the second period and a shorthanded goal in the third period by Mark MacMillan.
Pioneers Head Coach George Gwozdecky was very complimentary of the Fighting Sioux after the game.
“Congratulations to North Dakota,” Gwozdecky said. “They did a nice job tonight, they are a good defending champion, they took advantage of a couple of leg weary defensemen and they did a nice job. They were better than us, pretty much in every area of the game and they are a good champion.”
The Sioux took advantage of the Denver Pioneers being a step slower and they kept moving their feet and making plays.
In the third period, the Fighting Sioux didn’t miss a beat, with Carter Rowney in the box for cross checking the Sioux cashed in shorthanded as well with a goal from Mark MacMillan to seal the game for the Fighting Sioux.
Goaltending was the story in this game as Fighting Sioux junior goalie Aaron Dell was the difference stopping all 22 shots that he faced, to record his second shutout of the season. Dell ended up securing a spot on the all-tournament team and was also awarded the WCHA Final Five tournament MVP.
With tonight’s win, the Fighting Sioux have won three Broadmoor Trophies in a row for the Fighting Sioux. No other WCHA team has ever done that.
Overall, Fighting Sioux head coach Dave Hakstol seemed pleased his team’s effort after the game.
“I am really proud of my team,” Hakstol said. “We tried to come into today and play a complete hockey game, right from the drop of the puck, try and play 60 minutes, third game in three days, energy levels aren’t going to be necessarily at the top end. We won the game through small details, plus one, five on five, we score two power play goals and a short hander, and we got very good goaltending. That’s a pretty good formula for a playoff time especially going in to a championship game.
“Denver has been one heck of a run here, in terms of the battles they have been through; maybe they ran out of gas just a little bit with the amount of hockey that they played. That was one of the things that we had try to exploit if we possibly could by being a really tough team to play against. We are proud to be Broadmoor Cup Champions.”
With the win tonight, the Fighting Sioux improve to 25-12-3 and will find out where they are going in the first round of the WCHA tourney.
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UND vs. DU lines
Fighting Sioux Forward Lines
29 Brock Nelson–10 Corban Knight (A) –7 Danny Kristo
16 Mark MacMillan–27 Carter Rowney–15 Michael Parks
Stephane Pattyn 28 –9 Mario Lamoureux (C) – 20 Joe Gleason
8 Dan Senkbeil–13 Connor Gaarder– No forward.
UND Defensive Pairings.
4 Derek Forbort – 24 Ben Blood
2 Andrew MacWilliam (A) – 5 Nick Mattson
18 Dillon Simpson–22 Andrew Panzarella
UND Goalies
32 Aaron Dell
31 Brad Eidsness
Fighting Sioux Players Stats
Denver Pioneer Lines
12 – Ty Loney – 15 Drew Shore (C) – 18 Luke Salazar
17 Jason Zucker -23 Nick Shore – 19 Daniel Doremus
37 Nate Dewhurst – 26 – Shawn Ostrow – 8 Dustin Jackson (C)
14 Larkin Jacobson – 25 Matt Tabrum – 22 Jarrod Mermis
16 Zac Larraza
Pioneer Defense Pairing
21 Joey LaLeggia – 5 John Lee
24 John Ryder – 4 Josiah Didier
2 Scott Mayfield
Goalies
31 Juho Olkinuora
33 Adam Murray
1 Sam Brittain
Pioneer Player Stats
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Friday, March 16, 2012
UND vs. UMN
Video online for all Final Five Games.
The game is on Midco and 668 on DirecTV.
Fighting Sioux Forward Lines
29 Brock Nelson–10 Corban Knight (A) –7 Danny Kristo
16 Mark MacMillan–27 Carter Rowney–15 Michael Parks
Stephane Pattyn 28 –9 Mario Lamoureux (C) – 20 Joe Gleason
8 Dan Senkbeil–13 Connor Gaarder– (No forward).
UND Defensive Pairings
4 Derek Forbort – 24 Ben Blood
2 Andrew MacWilliam (A) – 5 Nick Mattson
18 Dillon Simpson–22 Andrew Panzarella
Fighting Sioux Goalies
32 Aaron Dell
31 Brad Eidsness
Fighitng Sioux Players Stats
Minnesota’s Forward Lines
7 Kyle Rau–27 Nick Bjugstad–24 Zach Budish
11 Sam Warning–19 Erik Haula–21 Jake Hansen
16 Nate Condon–9 Taylor Matson–17 Seth Ambroz
14 Tom Serratore–22 Travis Boyd–13 Nico Sacchetti
Minnesota Defense Parings
4 Seth Helgeson–12 Justin Holl
10 Ben Marshall–20 Mark Alt
6 Jake Parenteau–29 Nate Schmidt
Goalies
35 Kent Patterson
1 Michael Shibrowski
30 Jake Kremer
Gophers Players Stats
The game is on Midco and 668 on DirecTV.
Fighting Sioux Forward Lines
29 Brock Nelson–10 Corban Knight (A) –7 Danny Kristo
16 Mark MacMillan–27 Carter Rowney–15 Michael Parks
Stephane Pattyn 28 –9 Mario Lamoureux (C) – 20 Joe Gleason
8 Dan Senkbeil–13 Connor Gaarder– (No forward).
UND Defensive Pairings
4 Derek Forbort – 24 Ben Blood
2 Andrew MacWilliam (A) – 5 Nick Mattson
18 Dillon Simpson–22 Andrew Panzarella
Fighting Sioux Goalies
32 Aaron Dell
31 Brad Eidsness
Fighitng Sioux Players Stats
Minnesota’s Forward Lines
7 Kyle Rau–27 Nick Bjugstad–24 Zach Budish
11 Sam Warning–19 Erik Haula–21 Jake Hansen
16 Nate Condon–9 Taylor Matson–17 Seth Ambroz
14 Tom Serratore–22 Travis Boyd–13 Nico Sacchetti
Minnesota Defense Parings
4 Seth Helgeson–12 Justin Holl
10 Ben Marshall–20 Mark Alt
6 Jake Parenteau–29 Nate Schmidt
Goalies
35 Kent Patterson
1 Michael Shibrowski
30 Jake Kremer
Gophers Players Stats
Refs:
Derek
Shepherd (15) and Marco Hunt (3) AR: Tony Czech (80) and Jeff Schultz (55)
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Sioux grind out 4-1 win against Huskies
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Tonight was no different, as the Fighting Sioux had to work hard to get the win against the Huskies. One can markup tonight’s game as another hard fought epic battle tonight as well.
Coming into tonight’s game, Huskies’ junior goalie Mike Lee has never won a game against the Fighting Sioux in his three seasons with the Huskies, going 0-5-1 during that run. With the 4-1 loss tonight, Lee’s record drops to 0-6-1.
While his junior goalie has yet to win a game against the Fighting Sioux, Saint Cloud State coach Bob Motzko described his goalie, “as a big time goaltender.”
The Huskies and the Sioux play a similar style of play as both teams like to limit the other’s time and space and get into the passing lanes making it difficult to generate scoring opportunities. That rang true tonight. At times the Huskies frustrated the Sioux by clogging up the neutral zone and they also did a good job getting the shooting lanes.
The Fighting Sioux also got in the passing lanes, took away the Huskies time and space and frustrated them as well.
Corbin Knight broke the defensive stalemate at the 7:40 mark of the first period, when the junior center curled in front of the net to center the puck. It went off of the SCSU defenseman Sam Zabkowicz and into the net past Lee.
With Knight in the box for charging, junior forward Ben Hanowski made the Fighting Sioux pay with his 23rd marker of the season.
Fighting Sioux sophomore forward Brock Nelson had been a little bit snake bitten as of late, but was able to get off of the snide with his 24th goal of the season as he snapped a shot over Lee’s blocker.
Motzko was impressed with Nelson’s first goal of the game.
“He’s coming down on his off side, a pretty good hockey player to, I think that’s the player in our league that you’re going to watch play in the NHL for a long time,” Motzko said. “He was able to cut back in the middle of the rink and that is where is he is going to go he is on his offside, kind of one on one and you can keep him on his back hand and you keep him down there, and he was perfect. Our guy crossed his feet over and he stepped back into the middle and was able to make a shot.”
The pesky Huskies wouldn’t go away quietly into the night.
With the Huskies goalie out of the net and pressing hard down low, Nelson would get his second goal of the game and his 25th goal of the season to ice it.
Fighting Sioux junior goalie Aaron Dell played well, and was the difference in the game stopping 28 of 29 shots.
When it was all said and done, this was a very even game and either team could have won. Motzko agreed.
“It was an extremely hard fought hockey game,” Motzko said. “It was a tough grinding game; it was a great game down on the bench. I don’t know if there were a ton of plays being made…”
With the win tonight, the Fighting Sioux improve to 23-12-3 and jump up to ninth in the PairWise Rankings.
The Fighting Sioux will play the top-seeded Minnesota Gophers in the semifinal game at 7:07 p.m. tomorrow night.
Coach Dave Hakstol seemed excited about the prospects of playing the Minnesota Gophers again.
“I said it yesterday, we are in the greatest venue possible for post season play in college hockey,” Hakstol said.“Saint Paul… the entire town is electric, this building is an awful lot of fun with the number of fans that are in the building, we have an opportunity to play a rival tomorrow night. If you like competition, you will like the game tomorrow.”
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Saturday, March 10, 2012
UND vs. BSU Game 2 - TV info
Fighting Sioux Forward Lines
29 Brock Nelson–10 Corban Knight (A) –7 Danny Kristo
16 Mark MacMillan–27 Carter Rowney–15 Michael Parks
Stephane Pattyn 28 –9 Mario Lamoureux (C) – 20 Joe Gleason
8 Dan Senkbeil–13 Connor Gaarder– No forward.
UND Defensive Pairings
4 Derek Forbort – 24 Ben Blood
2 Andrew MacWilliam (A) – 5 Nick Mattson
18 Dillon Simpson–22 Andrew Panzarella
Fighting Sioux Goalies
31 Brad Eidsness
32 Aaron Dell
UND Official Players Stats
UND Injuries: Forwards Taylor Dickin Rocco Grimaldi (season knee surgery), Brendan O’Donnell (season ending sur gery), and Derek Rodwell (season shoulder surgery) are out.
BSU Forward Lines
9 Ben Kinne (C) – 14 Aaron McLeod – 28 Jordan George
18 Radoslav Illo – 11 Shea Walters – 4 David Boehm
17 Jamie MacQueen – 12 Jeff Jubinville – 16 Danny Mattson
7 Brance Orban – 13 Drew Fisher – 6 Darcy Findlay
BSU Defensive Pairings
29 Brad Hunt (A) – 22 Matt Prapavessis
8 Jake Areshenko (A) – Sam Windle
5 Matt Carlson – 25 Brady Wacker
Beaver Goalies
33 Dan Bakala
30 Andrew Walsh
BSU Player Stats
Referees - 4 Todd Anderson and 33 Brad Shepherd AR - 70 Andy Dokken 83 Justin Hills
Radio: UND 96.1 (KQHT-FM) – The Fox.
Webcast: FightingSioux.com
TV Saturday: UND Sports Network,FoxCollege Sports Central, DirecTV 617, MidcoSN3
TV Sunday: UND Sports Network,FoxCollege Sports Central, DirecTV 617, MidcoSN3 (if necessary)
Friday, March 09, 2012
UND vs. BSU game 1 WCHA playoffs (TV INFO)
Fighting Sioux Forward Lines
29 Brock Nelson–10 Corban Knight (A) –7 Danny Kristo
16 Mark MacMillan–27 Carter
Rowney–15 Michael Parks
Stephane Pattyn 28 –9 Mario
Lamoureux (C) – 20 Joe Gleason
8 Dan Senkbeil–13 Connor Gaarder– No
forward.
UND Defensive Pairings.
4 Derek Forbort – 24
Ben Blood
2 Andrew MacWilliam (A) – 5 Nick
Mattson
18 Dillon Simpson–22 Andrew
Panzarella
Fighting Sioux Goalies
32 Aaron Dell
31 Brad Eidsness
UND Injuries: Forwards Taylor Dickin Rocco Grimaldi
(season knee surgery), Brendan O’Donnell (season ending sur gery), and Derek
Rodwell (season shoulder surgery) are out.
BSU Forward Lines
9 Ben Kinne (C) – 14 Aaron
McLeod – 28 Jordan George
18 Radoslav Illo – 11 Shea Walters –
4 David Boehm
17 Jamie MacQueen – 12 Jeff
Jubinville – 16 Danny Mattson
7 Brance Orban – 13 Drew Fisher – 6
Darcy Findlay
BSU Defensive Pairings
29 Brad Hunt (A) – 22 Matt
Prapavessis
8 Jake Areshenko (A) – Sam Windle
5 Matt Carlson – 25 Brady
Wacker
Beaver Goalies
33 Dan Bakala
30 Andrew Walsh
BSU Player Stats
Referees - 4 Todd Anderson and 33 Brad Shepherd AR - 70 Andy Dokken 83 Justin Hills
Referees - 4 Todd Anderson and 33 Brad Shepherd AR - 70 Andy Dokken 83 Justin Hills
Radio: UND 96.1 (KQHT-FM) – The Fox.
Webcast: FightingSioux.com
TV Friday: UND Sports Network, Fox College Sports Central, DirecTV 617, MidcoSN3, theScore
TV Saturday: UND Sports Network,FoxCollege Sports Central, DirecTV 617, MidcoSN3
TV Sunday: UND Sports Network,FoxCollege Sports Central, DirecTV 617, MidcoSN3 (if necessary)
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
UND vs. MTU game 2 lines
FYI: Live audio on FightingSioux.com is currently unavailable because of a server crash. Fans can also listen on 961thefox.com and IHeartRadio.
Fighting Sioux Forward Lines
29 Brock Nelson–10 Corban Knight (A) –7 Danny Kristo
16 Mark MacMillan–27 Carter Rowney–15 Michael Parks
Stephane Pattyn 28 –9 Mario Lamoureux (C) – 20 Joe Gleason
8 Dan Senkbeil–13 Connor Gaarder–14 Taylor Dickin
UND Defensive Pairings.
4 Derek Forbort – 24 Ben Blood
2 Andrew MacWilliam (A) – 5 Nick Mattson
18 Dillon Simpson–22 Andrew Panzarella
UND Goalies
31 Brad Eidsness
35 Tate Maris
UND Official Players Stats
UND Injuries: Forwards Rocco Grimaldi (season knee surgery), Brendan O’Donnell (season ending surgery), and Derek Rodwell (season shoulder surgery) are out.
Michigan Tech’s lines
19 Blake Pietila–16 Brett Olson (C) – 22 Jordan Baker (A)
15 David Johnstone–8 Jacob Johnstone–18 Alex MacLeod
12 Ryan Furne–10 Tanner Kero–28 Milos Gordic
27 Bryce Reddick–9 Dannis Rix–14 Chad Pietila
MTU Defensive Pairings
3 Bradley Stebner–25 Carl Nielsen (A)
24 Daniel Sova–5 Justin Fillion
6 Steven Seigo (A) –34 Riley Sweeney
MTU Goalies
30 Josh Robinson
35 Kevin Genoe
Fighting Sioux Forward Lines
29 Brock Nelson–10 Corban Knight (A) –7 Danny Kristo
16 Mark MacMillan–27 Carter Rowney–15 Michael Parks
Stephane Pattyn 28 –9 Mario Lamoureux (C) – 20 Joe Gleason
8 Dan Senkbeil–13 Connor Gaarder–14 Taylor Dickin
UND Defensive Pairings.
4 Derek Forbort – 24 Ben Blood
2 Andrew MacWilliam (A) – 5 Nick Mattson
18 Dillon Simpson–22 Andrew Panzarella
UND Goalies
31 Brad Eidsness
35 Tate Maris
UND Official Players Stats
UND Injuries: Forwards Rocco Grimaldi (season knee surgery), Brendan O’Donnell (season ending surgery), and Derek Rodwell (season shoulder surgery) are out.
Michigan Tech’s lines
19 Blake Pietila–16 Brett Olson (C) – 22 Jordan Baker (A)
15 David Johnstone–8 Jacob Johnstone–18 Alex MacLeod
12 Ryan Furne–10 Tanner Kero–28 Milos Gordic
27 Bryce Reddick–9 Dannis Rix–14 Chad Pietila
MTU Defensive Pairings
3 Bradley Stebner–25 Carl Nielsen (A)
24 Daniel Sova–5 Justin Fillion
6 Steven Seigo (A) –34 Riley Sweeney
MTU Goalies
30 Josh Robinson
35 Kevin Genoe
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Friday, February 17, 2012
UND vs. MTU lines
Fighting Sioux Forward Lines
29 Brock Nelson–10 Corban Knight (A) –7 Danny Kristo
16 Mark MacMillan–27 Carter Rowney–15 Michael Parks
Stephane Pattyn 28 –9 Mario Lamoureux (C) – 20 Joe Gleason
8 Dan Senkbeil–13 Connor Gaarder–14 Taylor Dickin
UND Defensive Pairings.
4 Derek Forbort – 24 Ben Blood
2 Andrew MacWilliam (A) – 5 Nick Mattson
18 Dillon Simpson–22 Andrew Panzarella
UND Goalies
31 Brad Eidsness
35 Tate Maris
UND Official Players Stats
UND Injuries: Forwards Rocco Grimaldi (season knee surgery), Brendan O’Donnell (season ending surgery), and Derek Rodwell (season shoulder surgery) are out.
Michigan Tech’s lines
19 Blake Pietila–16 Brett Olson–22 Jordan Baker
15 David Johnstone–8 Jacob Johnstone–18 Alex MacLeod
12 Ryan Furne–10 Tanner Kero–28 Milos Gordic
27 Bryce Reddick–9 Dannis Rix–14 Chad Pietila
MTU Defensive Pairings
3 Bradley Stebner–25 Carl Nielsen
24 Daniel Sova–5 Justin Fillion
6 Steven Seigo–34 Riley Sweeney
MTU Goalies
30 Josh Robinson
35 Kevin Genoe
29 Brock Nelson–10 Corban Knight (A) –7 Danny Kristo
16 Mark MacMillan–27 Carter Rowney–15 Michael Parks
Stephane Pattyn 28 –9 Mario Lamoureux (C) – 20 Joe Gleason
8 Dan Senkbeil–13 Connor Gaarder–14 Taylor Dickin
UND Defensive Pairings.
4 Derek Forbort – 24 Ben Blood
2 Andrew MacWilliam (A) – 5 Nick Mattson
18 Dillon Simpson–22 Andrew Panzarella
UND Goalies
31 Brad Eidsness
35 Tate Maris
UND Official Players Stats
UND Injuries: Forwards Rocco Grimaldi (season knee surgery), Brendan O’Donnell (season ending surgery), and Derek Rodwell (season shoulder surgery) are out.
Michigan Tech’s lines
19 Blake Pietila–16 Brett Olson–22 Jordan Baker
15 David Johnstone–8 Jacob Johnstone–18 Alex MacLeod
12 Ryan Furne–10 Tanner Kero–28 Milos Gordic
27 Bryce Reddick–9 Dannis Rix–14 Chad Pietila
MTU Defensive Pairings
3 Bradley Stebner–25 Carl Nielsen
24 Daniel Sova–5 Justin Fillion
6 Steven Seigo–34 Riley Sweeney
MTU Goalies
30 Josh Robinson
35 Kevin Genoe
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
UND sweeps out UW
Grand Forks, ND---There is an old saying in hockey that you sweep at home and split on the road. On Saturday night, the University of North Dakota was looking for that allusive sweep against the Wisconsin Badgers. Sweeps at home have been hard to come by as of late for UND.
At the Wednesday media day, UND head coach Dave Hakstol talked about splits not being good enough anymore, they needed to get wins.
After 26 games, UND has a grand total of two series sweeps (At UAA and C.C. home). Coming into this weekend's series against the Badgers, UND was ranked 19th in the Pairwise Ranking and looking to move up.
In hockey there is one way to move up in the Pairwise Ranking. Your team has to string together wins, and in this case UND needs to start turning their series splits into sweeps if they want to secure an at-large bid to the NCAA tourney, because they are running out of games. Unfortunately, UND has gotten splits the last three WCHA series.
The Badgers came into tonight's series finale with a horrid road record of 1-7-1, so you had to like UND's chances of getting the series sweep on Saturday Night.
UND's fortunes would change tonight with a 4-2 win against the Wisconsin Badgers. UND was led by the trio of Brock Nelson, Ben Blood and Danny Kristo. Al three players had two points on the evening.
Another emerging story is the offensive contributions of junior defenseman Andrew MacWilliam. Over the course of his hockey career at UND,Andrew MacWilliam has not been known for his scoring prowess, until recently. It took him 102 games to score his first career goal; it only took him five more games to get his second career goal.
Macwilliams goal was what I would classify as a timely goal, and a good response to a fluky play that lead to the Badgers first goal.
Macwilliam was going for a puck that looked like it was going to be icing on the Badgers, when Badger forward Keegan Meuer appeared to trip MacWIlliam, who fell on the play. Meuer grabbed and shot the puck past UND goalie Brad Eidsness.
Macwilliam would get the last laugh as he would score the go ahead goal at the 02:05 mark of the second period, with a blast from outside of the blue line that went in top shelf of the Badger net.
After the game MacWilliam had this to say about his second career goal. "The first thing we said when I scored that goal, that's karma, so I guess I got it back and we came out even. It happens, they obviously didn’t see it. They [refs] didn't make the call, it happens. We have to forget about it going in between periods there and regroup, and that is what we did there and we came out with hard effort the rest of the game."
Coach Hakstol was impressed with his team's effort after the game. What was even more impressive was that his team shut down the Badgers Mark Zengerle and Justin Schultz all weekend long.
"They had some opportunities, they're great players, but overall, we worked hard to try to minimize those. I thought we did a good job at that," Hakstol said. "I thought we did a better job of that tonight, than we did last night, especially with Schultz. The way he jumps up, and jumps into the play."
The coach was pleased with the series sweep of the Badgers.
"Yeah a needed result. We knew coming in that we got to sit with this result for two weeks. We got a bye week next week. So we wanted to make sure that we put our best effort on the ice tonight, and I thought we did that top to bottom. We had to grind out the first two periods again, and we came out of that with a one goal lead. I thought we played an outstanding third period, we kept our foot on the gas, we pushed pucks, we took away time and space and I don't think we gave up a grade 'A' chance."
A sweep has been a long time coming for UND.
With the win tonight UND recorded their first series sweep at home since November 25-26, 2011, when UND beat C.C. (7-6 and 4-3). This was also the first series sweep against Wisconsin at home for UND since November 22-23, 2002. With the series sweep against the Badgers, UND improved their record to 5-6-1 in the last 12 games against this opponent.
Box Score
Cross Posted at Inside Hockey...
At the Wednesday media day, UND head coach Dave Hakstol talked about splits not being good enough anymore, they needed to get wins.
After 26 games, UND has a grand total of two series sweeps (At UAA and C.C. home). Coming into this weekend's series against the Badgers, UND was ranked 19th in the Pairwise Ranking and looking to move up.
In hockey there is one way to move up in the Pairwise Ranking. Your team has to string together wins, and in this case UND needs to start turning their series splits into sweeps if they want to secure an at-large bid to the NCAA tourney, because they are running out of games. Unfortunately, UND has gotten splits the last three WCHA series.
The Badgers came into tonight's series finale with a horrid road record of 1-7-1, so you had to like UND's chances of getting the series sweep on Saturday Night.
UND's fortunes would change tonight with a 4-2 win against the Wisconsin Badgers. UND was led by the trio of Brock Nelson, Ben Blood and Danny Kristo. Al three players had two points on the evening.
Another emerging story is the offensive contributions of junior defenseman Andrew MacWilliam. Over the course of his hockey career at UND,Andrew MacWilliam has not been known for his scoring prowess, until recently. It took him 102 games to score his first career goal; it only took him five more games to get his second career goal.
Macwilliams goal was what I would classify as a timely goal, and a good response to a fluky play that lead to the Badgers first goal.
Macwilliam was going for a puck that looked like it was going to be icing on the Badgers, when Badger forward Keegan Meuer appeared to trip MacWIlliam, who fell on the play. Meuer grabbed and shot the puck past UND goalie Brad Eidsness.
Macwilliam would get the last laugh as he would score the go ahead goal at the 02:05 mark of the second period, with a blast from outside of the blue line that went in top shelf of the Badger net.
After the game MacWilliam had this to say about his second career goal. "The first thing we said when I scored that goal, that's karma, so I guess I got it back and we came out even. It happens, they obviously didn’t see it. They [refs] didn't make the call, it happens. We have to forget about it going in between periods there and regroup, and that is what we did there and we came out with hard effort the rest of the game."
Coach Hakstol was impressed with his team's effort after the game. What was even more impressive was that his team shut down the Badgers Mark Zengerle and Justin Schultz all weekend long.
"They had some opportunities, they're great players, but overall, we worked hard to try to minimize those. I thought we did a good job at that," Hakstol said. "I thought we did a better job of that tonight, than we did last night, especially with Schultz. The way he jumps up, and jumps into the play."
The coach was pleased with the series sweep of the Badgers.
"Yeah a needed result. We knew coming in that we got to sit with this result for two weeks. We got a bye week next week. So we wanted to make sure that we put our best effort on the ice tonight, and I thought we did that top to bottom. We had to grind out the first two periods again, and we came out of that with a one goal lead. I thought we played an outstanding third period, we kept our foot on the gas, we pushed pucks, we took away time and space and I don't think we gave up a grade 'A' chance."
A sweep has been a long time coming for UND.
With the win tonight UND recorded their first series sweep at home since November 25-26, 2011, when UND beat C.C. (7-6 and 4-3). This was also the first series sweep against Wisconsin at home for UND since November 22-23, 2002. With the series sweep against the Badgers, UND improved their record to 5-6-1 in the last 12 games against this opponent.
Box Score
Cross Posted at Inside Hockey...
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