Nic Kerdiles scores a dirty goal (Vine)

s/t to Andy Johnson... Badgers freshman forward Nic Kerdiles' scores his 13th goal of the season. Wow, that's a dirty goal. The Badgers beat PSU 3-2 in overtime.

Mike Chambers on the new "Super League"

Mike Chambers of the Denver Post has his take on the formation of the new Super League (CHSL). As always Chambers has an interesting take that’s just a little different than the other beat writers from around the league.

Mike Chamber; Denver Post ---- “There is no secret that many institutions, including ours, are looking at the intercollegiate hockey landscape and considering different options and opportunities for the future. It is our intent to continue to be a strong and proud partner with the other members of the WCHA while this process continues. The future of our program and the competitive alternatives for student-athletes attending our school in the future are decisions that need to be investigated, and weighed, and discussed.”

I wrote last winter that DU, CC and North Dakota, among others, should quit complaining about the UM and UW departures and recruit Notre Dame and Miami to the WCHA. The aforementioned stories in the Herald and elsewhere basically said the same thing, although I was surprised to see that a “new” conference would be a start-up league, not a “new-look” WCHA.

Hey, I’m all for an eight-team league that features DU, CC, UND, Notre Dame, Miami, Nebraska-Omaha, Minnesota-Duluth and Western Michigan … but why not keep it under the WCHA banner? If they do go to a start-up league, would St. Cloud State, Minnesota State, Bemidji State, Alaska-Anchorage and Michigan Tech just move to the CCHA, or if they remained in the “skinned” WCHA, who would join to make it a necessary six-team league?

Regardless, any league with DU, CC, UND, ND, Miami, UNO and UMD would be an excellent loop and make a fine non-conference scheduling partner with the Big Ten. Private schools DU and CC would UNDOUBTEDLY LOVE to be a hockey partner with Notre Dame, arguably the most recognized private school in the country.

Yikes!!! I think this is a scarey time in college hockey and there is a lot of uncertainty, like I told a friend of mine today, this makes my chest hurt. I don't think anyone really knows how this is going to play out. I do understand why these 6-8 schools are starting a "Super Conference" and I think that they are trying to do what is best for their universities

Edit - UND 3 DU 2 Double O.T.

You can listen to the audio of tonight's game on this link. UND is 131-115-8 all time against DU, this season 1-1 record, tonight's game is the rubber match. Current Pairwise UND 29-8-3 vs DU 24-10-5...

UND Forward Lines

*19 Evan Trupp 22 Brad Malone 21 Matt Frattin
25 Jake Marto 10 Corban Knight 26 Brett Hextal
14 Talor Kickin 29 Brock Nelson 7 Danny Kristo
15 Brent Davidson 9 Mario Lamoureux 20 Joe Gleason

Defense pairing

*4 Derek Forbort 24 Ben Blood
2 Andrew MacWilliam 5 Chay Genoway
3 Derick Lapoint 18 Dillon Simpson

Goalies

*32 Aaron Dell
31 Brad Eidsness

[UND Players Stats]

DU Pioneers Forward Lines

*17 Jason Zucker 15 Drew Shore 18 Luke Salazar
22 Jarrod Mermis 23 Nick Shore 9 Beau Bennett
16 Anthony Maiani 19 Kyle Ostrow 8 Dustin Jackson
11 Chris Knowlton 37 Nate Dewhurst 26 Shawn Ostrow

Defense pairing

4 Matt Donovan 10 David Makowski
*24 John Ryder 6 Chris Nutini
7 Paul Phillips 5 John Lee

Goalies

*1 Sam Brittain
33 Adam Murray

[DU Players Stats]

DU Goal 1, at 5:06 mark of the first period Dustin Jackson 5(Beau Bennett 16, Anthony Maiani 28). 1-0 DU...

UND goal 1, at the 2:32 mark of the second Danny Kristo scores his 7 goal of the year assisted by (Taylor Dicken 1, and Derrick LaPoint 8). - Two goals in two games for Kristo since his return from Frostbite. 1-1 tie game

UND goal 2 , Brent Davidson at the 8:18 from (Danny Kristo 18, and Derrick LaPoint 9). Davidson shot the puck behind the goal line and Britain kicked it into his own net. 2-1 UND. Stats - Kristo (1g-1a-2pts) Derrick LaPoint (0g-2a-2pts)

DU goal 2 at 17:47 mark of the third period by Anthony Maiani 8,from (Beau Bennett 16, and Matt Donovan 22). 2-2 score.

Shots on goal 42 DU and 36 UND

Penalties
9/18 minutes for UND
7/14 minutes for DU

--------- Over Time ----------
1st O.T. No Scoring
2nd O.T. UND goal 4, Matt Frattin score his 35th goal at the 5:11 mark assisted by (Chay Genoway 26 and Evan Trupp 21) ending the longest games in Final Five History... This was the first time since the 2007 WCHA Final Five that the Championship game had gone to overtime when Blake Wheeler scored a highlight goal against Jean-Philippe Lamoureux.

Goon's Three Stars of the Game
1.) Matt Frattin UND, scored the game winner, 35th goal of the season.
2.) Aaron Dell UND, 40 saves for the Fighting Sioux.
3.) Sam Brittain, DU 33 saves in the loss.