Friday, January 15, 1993 Mariucci Arena, Minneapolis, MN Northern Michigan Wildcats 1 - 1 - 1 -- 3 Minnesota Golden Gophers 1 - 3 - 0 -- 4 1st period 02:45 MN Fiebelkorn (C. McAlpine, Bell) 06:37 NMU Smtih (Harding) 2nd period 00:11 MN C. McAlpine (Zwakman, Johnson) 05:31 MN Johnson (Nielsen, C. McAlpine) 05:46 NMU Frederick (Hmileton, Hadden) 14:37 MN Dustin (unassisted) 3rd period 02:22 NMU Karlander (unassisted) Shots: NMU 7-5-11-23; MN 11-21-8--40 Goalies: Saurdiff, NMU; Callinan, MN Referees: Bill Waisenen, Mike Schmitt Linesman: Larry Gonrowski Attendance: 7,235 I must comment on Minnesota's fourth goal, officially scored unassisted by Bobby Dustin, as it was the strangest I've seen in a while. Dustin flipped the puck into the Wildcat zone as he crossed the red line, then skated to the Gopher bench for a line change. Wildcat goalie Corwin Saurdiff skated out to play the puck, but at the same time his teammate, Steve Woog (son of Gopher coach Doug Woog) tried to bat the puck out of the air. Woog made contact but inadvertantly set the puck bouncing toward the Northern goal; Saurdiff had no chance to block it. It was one of those strange situations in which each player tried to do the right thing, but the combination didn't work out. Quoted in the Minneapolis paper, Saudiff said, "Steve busted his butt to get in position to make a play on that puck. I was heading over to try to get the puck so our defense wouldn't get hammered coming back after it. But as soon as it was redirected, I knew it was going in." -- Erik ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Erik Biever GO GOPHERS! [log in to unmask] / [log in to unmask] / [log in to unmask]