skating most of the third period down 6-5 or worse, colorado college
squandered leads of 3-0, 4-1 and later 5-2 to lose to minnesota duluth who
scored 5 times in the third for the come from behind game.  The
tigers, if they plan to have a presence at the end of the year, have
to learn to win despite a level of officiating more on the caliber of
club hockey than college level officiating.  The tigers are, IMHO,
talented enough that they can win depsite the type of officiating they
received.  They let the officials take the momentum away from them.
 
Minnesota Duluth put on a solid effort and desere great credit for
taking advantage of their opportunities and never giving up despite
third period 3 goal deficits to a highly ranked opponent in their second
game in under 20 hours at the high altitude of colorado.
 
CC got out to the early lead, and seemed to be on cruise controll,
almost putting the crowd to sleep, as well, apparently, as themselves.
For a while, it appeared that the only issue was wheyher judd lambert
would get his shutout.
 
The crowd came to life briefly when the gap was closed to 1, and again
when the bulldogs tied it, but CC was unable to come back to life.
They had good effort after falling behind 6-5, but the officials, who
had been calling even the most niggling incidental contact against CC
decided to swallow their whistles for the last few minutes.
 
Karen was at the game, and should be posting a detailed summary.
 
charlie shub
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