November 1, 1991:
Minnesota Duluth 1 1 0 - 2
Wisconsin 0 3 1 - 4
First Period
Scoring:
Minnesota-Duluth - Kaiser 4(Plante, Tarrel), (pp), 11:03
Penalties:
Mark Strobel, W, 1:13 (hooking)
Torrel, UMD, 1:46 (slashing)
Rohloff, UMD, 4:49 (interference)
Christian, UMD, 4:49 (roughing)
Mark Strobel, W, 4:49 (roughing)
Plante, W, 6:28 (interference)
Fairchild, W, 9:54 (holding)
Tucker, W, 9:54 (10-minute miscounduct)
Penner, UMD, 12:31 (double-minor, roughing)
Christian, UMD, 12:31 (double-minor, roughing)
Karakas, UMD, 12:31 (double-minor, roughing)
Moore, W, 12:31 (double-minor, roughing)
Helgeson, W, 12:31 (double-minor, roughing)
Balkovec, W, 12:31 (double-minor, roughing)
Richter, W, 15:07 (slashing)
Torrel, UMD, 16:03 (interfence)
Second Period
Scoring:
Wisconsin - Balkovec 1(Tucker), (pp), 2:02
Wisconsin - Spenser 1(Plante, Harwell), 8:27
Wisconsin - Helgeson 1(Moore, Shier), 8:38
Minnesota-Duluth - Larson 1(Karakas) 12:31
Penalties:
Torrel, UMD, 1:09 (boarding)
Rohloff, UMD, 4:31 (cross-checking)
Plante, W, 4:31 (cross-checking)
Torrel, UMD, 14:24 (cross-checking)
Plante, UMD, 10:30 (holding)
Third Period
Scoring:
Wisconsin - Kurtz 5(Nelson, Balkovec), 16:03
Penalties:
Nelson, W, 2:13 (interference)
Andrusak, UMD, 15:25
Rafalski, W, 15:25
Saves
Flint (UMD) 8 3 7 - 18
Derksen (W) 8 5 14 - 27
Powerplay:
Minnesota-Duluth: 1-for-4
Wisconsin: 1-for-8
Attendence: 8124
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Wisconsin Coach Jeff Sauer gets his 250th win at Wisconsin, 5 games
into his 10th season leading the Badgers. His record at Wisconsin is
now 250-131-17, and 417-353-28 overall, in his 21st season. The game
was Wisconsin's home opener.
The first period was very long. Referee Buzz Christiansen called 22
penalties. Twelve were 6 sets of double-minors as a result of an
altercation after Wisconsin goaltender Duane Derksen made a save.
Including two more minors (one to a side) earned during the 3-on-3
play, the teams skating 3-on-3 for 6 minutes. Several of Christiansen's
calls were "new emphasis" calls, but they weren't that bad.
Unfortunatly, Christiansen was inconsistant.
Wisconsin's Chris Tucker got a 10-minute misconduct when he spoke to
the ref after a "new interpretation" holding call on freshman Kelly
Fairchild. According to the new rules, no one may speak to the ref
during the game, except the captains (who can only discuss logistical
issues) [This statement is according to Bill Howard, UW goalie coach
and radio/tv color commentator, who I heard on the taped-delay tv
broadcast]
Shortly before the incident which led to the long 3-on-3, a UMD player
held a Wisconsin player in a bear hug in front of the UMD bench.
Christiansen was about 5 feet away, and watched for 5-10 seconds,
without calling a penalty. When the play moved down the ice, Derksen
made the save. A Duluth player took two slashes as Derksen while he had
the puck beneath his glove on the ice. By any rules, it should have
been a slashing penalty. By the new "no contact with the goalie when he
freezes the puck" rule it should have been a penalty. Neither was
called, and the result was six players pushing, and shoving (and some
punches). I'm not sure that everyone deserved double-minors, but it did
calm everyone down.
After the first period, Christian called only eight penalties, letting
go some of the "new emphasis" calls he made early. To be fair, it also
seemed like the players adjusted a bit.
UMD's first goal came on a powerplay. Derksen made the first and second
saves, but Kaiser put in his second rebound from right in front of the
net.
Wisconsin's first goal was also a power play. After putting good
pressure on the bulldogs, Tucker got a pass out to Maco Balkovec at the
right point. The freshman took a hard shot that beat Flint low on his
left side for his first badger goal.
Wisconsin's second goal came on a nice shot from freshman Jamie
Spencer. He drove in on the left side, with a Bulldog on him. His shot
came in mid-stride, hitting the far corner from a low angle.
Eleven seconds later, the UMD defense collapsed to the right side of
the ice, and the Badgers completed a pretty play to make it 3-1. Joe
Harwell took the puck at the right point, made a nice pass to Dan
Plante comming in on the left, who fed a backdoor tap-in to freshman
Jamie Spencer.
Duluth pulled within one on a goal off a face-off to Derksen's left.
Bret Kurtz scored a nice goal, working the puck past a defenseman at
the blue line, skating around another defensemen crossing to the front
of the net, and putting away a hard shot on Flint's right side.
In the second and third periods there were flurries where both teams
sped up the game to a very fast pace.
Coach Sauer was not pleased with the Badgers' play. He said that they
didn't play together as a unit of five very often, which is something
that they had worked on in practice. On the other hand, they won.
I noticed that the team didn't take any dumb penalties (ok, many: the
misconduct was dumb) and seemed to avoid making the big mistakes. Two
freshmen scored goals, and Duane Derksen played very well in the nets.
--david
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david parter [log in to unmask]
university of wisconsin -- madison computer sciences department
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