Headline:  Badgers Go on offensive
 
     Here's part of the article from the Wis. State Journal summarizing
Saturday night's game with UMD.
 
    By Kent Youngblood
 
     ...The Badgers got goals from five different players.  Now, the Badgers
can't afford to get into too many shootouts like Saturday, when they were
outshot 40-38.  But the offense was inspiring.
 
     And Instant.  Scott Sanderson scored 21 seconds into the game on a
wrap-around that beat Taras Lendzyk to his right.
 
     The Bulldogs must have taken that as a cue.  They evened it up 30
seconds later when Adam Roy punched his own rebound past goaltender Kirk
Daubenspeck.  Chet Culick made it 2-1 at 10:17.  With Mark Strobel off with
a 5-minute major for checking from behind, the Bulldogs made it 3-1 at 19:00
when Rusty Fitzgerald took a pass from Rod Aldoff and scored from in front
of the net.
 
     Time for a change of attitude, if not for a change of pace.  "I didn't
let myself get down," said Daubenspeck.  "We came into the lockerroom and
changed our attitude and came out flying in the second period."
 
     While Daubenspeck was busy stopping all 15 of Duluth's second-period
shots, the Badgers were flying.  They had 23 second-period shots-several
from point-blank range-and at least six solid scoring chances.  They
converted on three.
 
     Dan Tompkins got the rebound off Shawn Carter's shot and fed it to Erik
Raygor, who scored at 5:01.  But it was coincidental penalties on Tompkins
and Duluth defenseman Greg Hanson that really opened the gates.  The 4-on-4
situation was perfect for Rafalski, a rushing defenseman.
 
     His shot from the center point past a diving Chris Sittlow beat Lendzyk
to make it 3-3 at 18:22.  Just 30 seconds later he turned a long rebound off
Sittlow's shot into a breakaway.  Lendzyk stopped his shot, but Max Williams
swooped down to punch in the rebound for a 4-3 lead.
 
     Then, just 7 seconds into the third period Williams found himself alone
with the puck in the left circle and slammed home an unassisted goal for a
5-3 lead.  But a game that seemed in a rush to judgement got interesting
after Roy's power-play goal at 8:30 and Brad Federenko's goal off the
face-off 62 seconds later tied the score, 5-5, at 9:32.
 
     Not to worry.  Daubenspeck, who finished with 35 saves, made some key
saves in the face of furious pressure that didn't let up until Roy was
whistled for hooking at 16:08.  With 45 seconds left in the power play Mike
Strobel took a pass from Mickey Elick and slapped it home.
 
     The Bulldogs had several chances in the final seconds, especially after
pulling Lendzyk with 45 seconds left.  but Daubenspeck held firm.
 
     "He really came up big for us in the third period," said Sauer.  "He's
a reaction-type goaltender, which is disconcerting to a coach at
times....But he scraps and competes and that's what he has to do."
 
     Williams, meanwhile, was the voice of reason.  It's early, he said.
Too early to draw conclusions.  Still:  "It's nice to prove some people
wrong," he said.  "We have a lot of guys on this team with lots to prove."