Published Monday, December 29, 1997, in the Pioneer Press.
> Gophers' power outage continues
> Northeastern scores two short-handed goals
>
> GREGG WONG STAFF WRITER
>
> The winning streak lasted one game.
>
> A night after ending a school-record, nine-game losing streak, the University of Minnesota
> men's hockey team started another one.
>
> The Gophers, who have not won twice on the same weekend all season, fell 4-2 Sunday to
> Northeastern in the physical, penalty-filled championship game of the Mariucci Classic.
>
> Just as in their losing streak, it was the same old thing for the Gophers: They can't score
> despite outshooting the opponent (this time 42-25), their power play was awful (just 1 for
> 13 despite having 30 shots on goal with a man advantage, including 18 in the third period),
> and goalie Steve DeBus allowed a bad goal.
>
> ``It was typical of so many games this year,'' Gophers coach Doug Woog said.
>
> But the most troubling part of the game to Woog was the injury to junior defenseman Billy
> Kohn, who suffered a concussion after taking a blind-sided elbow to his head from the
> Huskies' Brian Cummings at center ice early in the third period. Cummings had just come on
> the ice on a line change and made a beeline for Kohn, who never saw him coming.
>
> Kohn hit the ice hard and was on his back for several minutes while being receiving medical
> attention. With assistance, he managed to skate off the ice. Later, he was taken to University
> Hospitals for further examination.
>
> Cummings' hit on Kohn probably precipitated a melee less than a minute later in which eight
> players were penalized for a total of 32 minutes. The Gophers wound up with a four-minute
> power play -- on which they did not score.
>
> ``Our feeling was (Cummings' hit) came a little late,'' Woog said.
>
> The Gophers already had two injured defensemen, Jason Godbout and Ben Clymer. If
> Kohn is sidelined, they will be down to four.
>
> ``We're already playing with fewer guys, and maybe that's fatigued them and exposed them
> a little too much,'' Woog said.
>
> Still, the short-handed Gophers had plenty of opportunities to win this game because
> Northeastern played so much of it short-handed on the ice. The Huskies took 21 penalties,
> but the Gophers could convert on just one power play in 13 chances. The Huskies,
> meanwhile, were 1 for 4.
>
> Huskies goalie Marc Robitaille, outstanding in making 40 saves, was named tournament
> MVP. Joining him on the all-tournament team were teammates Roger Holeczy, Mike
> Jozefowicz and Aaron Toews, Gopher Casey Hankinson and Notre Dame's Brian Urick.
>
> In beating the two-time defending Classic champion Gophers (5-13), the Huskies (10-5-2)
> won their first tournament since the 1988 Hockey East playoffs. They are in first place in
> Hockey East and are 6-0-2 in their past eight games.
>
> ``For a team picked to finish last in Hockey East and to come in here and win with all that
> adversity tonight is fantastic,'' Huskies coach Bruce Crowder said of his team, which had 12
> freshmen and five sophomores in uniform. ``I told the guys we wouldn't catch a break, and
> we didn't. We battled and we bent at times, but we didn't break.''
>
> The Huskies broke the Gophers' hearts with their penalty-killing and short-handed goals.
>
> Speedy Billy Newson scored short-handed 45 seconds into the game to get the Huskies
> started.
>
> Hankinson scored both Gophers goals, the first early in the second period to tie it 1-1, and
> the second to move the Gophers within 3-2 in the third period.
>
> The Huskies scored twice between Hankinson's goals, Cummings on a five-on-three power
> play and Todd Barclay short-handed when his sharply angled shot hit DeBus' stick and
> popped up between the goalie's legs and into the net.
>
> Northeastern's clinching goal, by Aaron Toews with 4:35 remaining, essentially was
> short-handed because it came on a two-on-one rush just three seconds after a Huskies
> penalty expired.
>
> ``We had our chances, but we couldn't score,'' DeBus said. ``And I killed the team with a
> mistake like that (on Barclay's goal).
>
> ``It's the same old story.''
>
> Northeastern 1 1 2--4
> Minnesota 0 1 1--2
>
> First period--1, NE, Newson 4 (Holeczy), 0:45, sh. Penalties--Toews, NE (interference),
> 0:21; Kearns, NE (checking from behind), 3:16; Pagel, Min (hooking), 4:15; Jozefowicz,
> NE (hooking), 5:18; Berg, Min (cross-checking), 7:56; Haglund, NE (checking from
> behind), 10:41.
>
> Second period--2, Minnesota, Hankinson 4, 1:03. 3, NE, Cummings 6 (Dupont, Mischler),
> 12:57, pp. Penalties--Trebil, Min (roughing), 2:52; Kearns, NE (roughing), 2:52; Dupont,
> NE (hooking), 3:38; Kohn, Min (tripping), 11:11; Hankinson, Min (roughing), 12:10;
> Brown, NE (slashing), 15:35; Mischler, NE (holding), 18:20.
>
> Third period--4, NE, Barclay 10 (Peterman, Robitaille), 2:27, sh. 5, Minnesota, Hankinson
> 5 (Spehar, Anderson), 8:09, pp. 6, NE, Toews 1 (Holeczy), 15:25. Penalties--Campbell,
> NE (interference), 1:25; Cummings, NE (elbow), 7:46; Smith, Min (double roughing), 8:43;
> Hankinson, Min (double roughing), 8:43; Mills, MIn (double roughing), 8:43; DeBus, Min
> (crossing the center line), 8:43; Campbell, NE (double roughing), 8:43; Haglund, NE
> (double roughing), 8:43; Brown, NE (double roughing), 8:43; Robitaille, NE (double
> roughing-high-sticking), 8:43; NE bench (too many men), 13:22; Campbell, NE
> (interference), 18:10.
>
> Shots on goal--Northeastern, 7-11-7--25; Minnesota, 13-11-18--42.
> Goalies--Northeastern, Robitaille (60:00), 42 shots faced-40 saves; Minnesota, DeBus
> (58:19), 25-21. Power plays--Northeastern, 1 for 4; Minnesota, 1 for 13. Referee--John
> Seidel. Assistant referees--Marco Hunt, Ed Zepeda. A--9,767.
>
> Notre Dame 5, Brown 1: Some of Notre Dame's disappointment about not playing
> Minnesota was taken care of in a victory over Brown in the third-place game of the Mariucci
> Classic.
>
> With nine Minnesota natives on the roster and eight in uniform, the Irish had hoped to play
> the host Gophers.
>
> ``The kids wanted to play Minnesota,'' Irish coach Dave Poulin said. ``They didn't want to
> play the consolation game, but the important thing is they came out and took care of business
> today.''
>
> The No. 1 line of freshman Dan Carlson of Edina, junior Brian Urick of Minnetonka and
> senior Steve Noble of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, combined for four goals and four assists.
> Urick scored twice and Carlson and Noble once each.
>
> Sophomore Troy Bagne of Moorhead scored the other goal for the Irish, who at 10-8-2
> have one more victory than all of last season.
>
> Michael Bent scored the lone goal for Brown (2-10) in the third period to deprive Irish
> goalie Forrest Karr of his first career shutout.
>
> Notre Dame 1 4 0--5
> Brown 0 0 1--1
>
> First period--1, ND, Noble 5 (Carlson, Molina), 13:09. Penalties--Quinnell, Br (hooking),
> 0:42; Clark, ND (holding), 6:12; Cotnoir, ND (cross-checking), 8:06; Hoiness, Br
> (cross-checking), 8:06; Carlson, ND (tripping), 13:47; Bagne, ND (interference), 17:43.
>
> Second period--2, ND, Urick 7 (Fraser), 3:56. 3, ND, Carlson 6 (Noble, Molina), 10:34.
> 4, ND, Bagne 1 (Clark), 15:35. 5, ND, Urick 8 (Carlson, Noble), 17:18. Penalties--Smith,
> Br (holding stick), 1:53; Kopischke, ND (roughing), 7:14; Smith, Br (boarding), 12:30.
>
> Third period--6, Brown, Bent 1 (DiRenzo, Prescott), 3:08, pp. Penalty--Bonega, ND
> (elbowing), 2:57.
>
> Shots on goal--Notre Dame, 14-21-10--45; Brown, 12-7-8--27. Goalies--Notre Dame,
> Karr, (60:00), 27 shots faced-26 saves; Brown, Holowaty (35:35), 31-27; Stirling (24:25),
> 14-13. Power plays--Notre Dame, 0 for 3; Brown, 1 for 5. Referee--Tom Goddard.
> Assistant referees--Jon Elvy, Jay Mendel.
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