In a game which saw UND outshoot SCSU by a margin of 27 to 40 and have twice as many powerplays, UND STILL manages to lose at home by a score of 5 to 2. So, what caused to Sioux to lose?? It appeared from the very beginning that UND was basically playing uninspired hockey. SCSU outhustled and outmuscled UND at virtaully every stage of the game. SCSU scored the first two goals in the game mid-way through the first period. The goals were only twenty or so seconds apart. After this happened, UND played their best for the rest of the first period and went on to even the score at 2 to 2. As the second period rolled around, UND came out flat and seemed to virtually give up. The third goal of the night for the Huskies also proved to be the last one that Kvalevog faced. One of the SCSU players had a breakaway, and instead of skating part of the way out to face the player, Toby continued to backup into the net. He backed up so far, that the SCSU player could shoot anywhere at the net and it would have been good. This lead to an irate Blais pulling him and putting Aaron Vickar between the pipes. Vickar's confidence seems to be low after the game at the University of Minnesota last Saturday, becuase he allowed two goals in the second period while facing very few shots (7 perhaps?). In the third Blais went with the freshman Schweitzer, and he stopped the five shots that he faced. Quick thoughts: The game was very clean with only a few penalties called. Brian Leitza played an outstanding game. SCSU was without Matt Cullen. If he had played, who knows what the score would have been. UND's defense had its worst home game of the season. The first two SCSU goals were giveaways, and the infamous third goal was, as I mentioned before, a breakaway. Kvalevog did stop a couple of other breakaways earlier in the game. The two teams face-off tonight at 7:35. charles - http://www.aero.und.edu/~cbell/hockey.htm The official homepage of ME - HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.