Shot Charts from UAA vs UND (10/26/2012)

s/t to Stats on Crack for the Shot Charts.

UND head coach Dave Hakstol on the UAA Seawolves…

“This was a team we expected to face,” Hakstol said. Highly competitive – good players – guys that battle hard together.”

Head coach Dave Hakstol on Steph Pattyn and his line mates

“I like their whole line, Hakstol said. I like what that line did, Bryn Chyzyk was playing his first game at center, and I thought Chyzyk, Pattyn and Rodwell did their job as well as any of our four lines.”

True to form – faceoffs – senior forward Corbin Knight was solid in the faceoff dot again last night as he went 11-6. On the other side of the ice UAA forward Matt Bailey was 13-6 in the faceoff circle.

Freshmore forward Rocco Grimaldi has a 5 game scoring streak going back to last season.

I thought that UND played a completed game, or as complete of a game that you can play at this time of the season. After watching them play to exhibition games at home the first two weeks of the season and not watching them at all last weekend, I listened to both games on the radio. I think that UND made some great strides from week one to week four.

Check out international man of mystery Matt Schill and Tim Hennessy as the break down last night’s game. We’re lucky to have Matt and Tim, they're an awesome addition to UND sports.

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

[Box Score]

FightingSioux.com

USCHO

Delusions of Grandeur

UND hockey Blog

UAA and UND Lines - Taylor Dickin to start tonight

Brad Schlossman has posted the lines for tonight's game and Freshman Taylor Dickin will be making his first start in a Sioux jersey and he will wear number 14. Dickin was an All Star in the MJHL so he does come with some impressive junior hockey numbers.

UND’s lines

19 Evan Trupp–22 Brad Malone–21 Matt Frattin
17 Jason Gregoire–10 Corban Knight–26 Brett Hextall
14 Taylor Dickin–29 Brock Nelson–27 Carter Rowney
15 Brent Davidson–9 Mario Lamoureux–11 Derek Rodwell

2 Andrew MacWilliam–25 Jake Marto
4 Derek Forbort–24 Ben Blood
3 Derrick LaPoint–20 Joe Gleason

32 Aaron Dell
31 Brad Eidsness

[UND Stats]

UAA Seadog's Lines

16 Tommy Grant–20 Alex Gellert–27 Sean Wiles
19 Nick Haddad–21 Matt Bailey–12 Mitch Bruijsten
5 Justin Kirchhevel–40 Daniel Naslund–7 Brett Cameron
36 Jade Portwood–14 Craig Parkinson–18 Chris Crowell

8 Scott Warner–23 Luka Vidmar
3 Wes McLeod–15 Brad Gorham
11 Curtis Leinweber–26 Tyler Currier

35 Chris Kamal
33 Rob Gunderson

[UAA Stats]