MICHIGAN TOPS WISCONSIN 3-2 IN O.T.
Michigan scored first in the first period on a goal by Oliver, his 34th, on the
powerplay. The Badgers tied the game up in the second on a goal by Blaine
Moore, who sat out the Friday game with Zent on the suspension from last year's
NCAA final game. The Badgers took a 2-1 lead in the third on Williams fifth
goal of the season, with about ten to eleven minutes left in the game.
At this point, Wisconsin started to think defensive-shell, and like the prevent
defense in football, it couldn't defend anything. Michigan scored to tie up
the game with nine minutes left in the game. Wisconsin once again took the
lead on a long-shot from the point by Tok, his third of the season. Michigan's
goalie, Shields, had been having trouble handling long shots. Many went
through him but wide. On the Wisconsin side, Carey was having another good
playoff game.
Michigan tied up the game once again at with four minutes left. Cam Stewart
put his 20th goal of the season in. Heading into overtime the game had been
so close that it would probably be a matter of which way the puck bounced, and
this is indeed what happened. On a rush on the Wisconsin goal, the Wisconsin
defenseman played it well and knocked the puck away from Roberts. The luck of
it was, for Michigan, that the puck bounced off Roberts back skate across the
goal mouth past a now out-of-position Carey and onto Roberts stick. End of
game.
A closing comment on the game. Sometime during the first part of the second
period the ref's whistles were lost. There were very few penalties stoppages,
maybe two or three, for the rest of the game for two physical teams playing a
very physical game. It wasn't a good game to try and explain some of the
subtleties of the rules to some of the hockey newcomers who were with us.
McBride was the more dominant of the two
refs doing this game.
LSSU DEFEATS UM-DULUTH 4-2
I don't have the benefit of a newspaper article in front of me so this will
be brief. I was rooting for Duluth so I noticed them more. As a consequence
this summary was written from that perspective.
The second didn't have quite the intensity of the first game. The referees
also were more consistent in the calling of the game. Duluth was the better
team as far as passing or executing goes. It was wonderful to watch even their
breakouts. Much of their passing is one-touch with quick redirections across
ice. The Duluth goalie played a more consistent and outstanding game. He is
also a freshman. The problem Duluth had was possibly a lack of depth,
especially on defense. This became an issue when playing Friday and Saturday
games. LSSU was the more physical and well-rested team. They played a
workman-like game. Maybe not as exciting or as noticeable but all of this
added up to a win for them.
By the end of the second period Duluth was obviously tired and struggling to
hold on. They were down 3-1. After the break, they came out much more
invigoratedi and put the pressure back on LSSU. Duluth narrowed the margin
to one goal about half way through the period. LSSU scored the final goal
making a difficult comeback for Duluth even worse. Duluth made it even harder
for themselves by taking a penalty with less than two minutes to go. They
did not pull their goalie at the close of their game. To their credit, they
put more pressure on 4-on-5 than LSSU was able to manage.
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