Third-period goals by Asher Barnett and Kienan Draper tied this game and Jayden Perron’s power-play goal in overtime decided it, as No. 1 Michigan came from behind to beat No. 2 Michigan State, 4-3, in Yost Ice Arena.
On the game-winning play, Michael Hage took the puck across the slot and brought Michigan State netminder Trey Augustine across the goalmouth with him. Hage slid the puck back to Perron, wide open in the left circle. Perron’s one-timer squeaked by Augustine on the short side at 3:10.
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The teams were tied 1-1 at the end of the first after Charlie Stramel put the Spartans on the board at 15:14 and Nick Moldenhauer answered for the Wolverines at 17:04.
Shane Vansaghi and Owen West scored for Michigan State in the second period, giving the Spartans that 3-1 lead after two.
Draper picked up the second assist on Barnett’s goal at 10:27 to pull Michigan to within one, and Draper scored unassisted and shorthanded at 12:52 to tie the game.
Michigan freshman Stephen Peck earned his sixth win of the season in his sixth game of the season, making 31 saves on 34 shots. Augustine stopped 31-of-35 in the Michigan State net.
The win puts the Wolverines four points ahead of the second-place Spartans in Big Ten conference standings. The teams meet again Saturday night for their annual game in Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena. Michigan and Michigan State split a home-and-home series the first weekend in December.
No. 10 Minnesota Duluth 3, No. 3 North Dakota 2 (OT)
With seven seconds remaining in overtime, Zam Plante scored to give Minnesota Duluth a 3-2 win over visiting North Dakota.
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The goal was Plante’s second of the game and his 13th of the season.
After a scoreless first period, Duluth took a 2-0 lead in the second on goals by Hunter Anderson and Plante’s late-period goal, scored on the power play.
Ellis Rickwood scored shorthanded for North Dakota midway through the third period to make it a 2-1 game, and Jack Kernan found the net at 18:29 to send the game to overtime.
In just his fourth game of the season, Ethan Dahlmeir recorded his third win with 22 stops on 24 shots. Jan Špunar made 29 saves on 32 shots on goal.
Miami 4, No. 3 Western Michigan 2 (OT)
At 11:05 in the third period, Miami freshman David Deputy tied the game for the RedHawks. At 1:40 in overtime, Deputy’s unassisted goal gave Miami a 3-2 upset win over visiting Western Michigan.
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The win extends Miami’s current streak to five games and the RedHawks are 6-1-0 in NCHC play in the second half.
Matteo Drobac made 30 saves on 32 shots for his 15th win of the season. In net for Western Michigan Hampton Slukynsky stopped 13-of-16 shots.
No. 5 Quinnipiac 9, Brown 1
Antonin Verreault scored twice and Ethan Wyttenbach had a goal and two assists in Quinnipiac’s 9-1 mauling of Brown in M&T Bank Arena.
The Bobcats led 6-1 at the end of the first with all six tallies coming in an eight-minute span, the first by Markus Vidicek at 5:53 and the last Verreault second of the period at 13:50.
Wyttenbach scored the winner at 8:01 in the opening stanza, his second GWG of the game-winning goal of the season.
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Tanner Hartman had Brown’s only goal early in the first period.
No. 7 Providence 6, New Hampshire 1
A five-goal third period propelled Providence to a 6-1 road win over New Hampshire. Will Elger finished the night with two goals and a helper and Tanner Adams led the Friars with a goal and three assists.
With the game tied 1-1 early in the third period, Aleksi Kivioja gave Providence a 2-1 lead with the eventual game-winning goal.
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Cam MacDonald had New Hampshire’s only goal, a power-play marker that gave the Wildcats a 1-0 lead at 1:57 in the first period.
Jack Parsons had the win for Providence with 22 saves on 23 shots. In net for New Hampshire, Kyle Chauvette saved 24-of-30.
No. 8 Denver 2, Colorado College 2 (OT)
Denver staged a second-period comeback and took Colorado College to a 2-2 overtime before winning the shootout, gaining a point on league-leading North Dakota.
Down 2-0 in the second, Rieger Lorenz’s power-play goal at 3:37 was the start of the Denver rally, and the Pioneers tied it on Jake Fisher’s fifth goal of the season.
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Kristian Epperson was the only player to score in the shootout, giving Denver the extra point.
Klavs Veinbergs scored both goals in regulation for Colorado College – each on the power play and 1:23 apart on the clock but in different periods. His first goal gave the Tigers a 1-0 lead at 19:03 in tThe first with his second coming 26 seconds into the second period.
Through 65 minutes, Johnny Hicks stopped 30-of-32 for Denver while Jackson Unger saved 29-of-31 for Colorado College.
No. 9 Cornell at Colgate
Charlie Major scored twice – including the game-winning power-play goal – and Xavier Veilleux led all scorers with three assists in Cornell’s 5-2 road win over Colgate.
Major’s goal first goal of the night at 12:04 in the second period put the Big Red up 3-1.
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Veilleux assisted on both of Major’s goals, picking up the second helper on the game-winner and earning the only assist when Major scored at 17:40 in the third to give Cornell a 4-2 lead.
Alexis Cournoyer had the win with 30 saves on 32 shots. For Colgate, Andrew Takacs stopped 26-of-30.
Vermont 6, No. 11 Boston College 1
After jumping out to a 2-0 lead after one in spite of having been outshot 16-7 in the first period, Vermont grinded its way to a 6-1 road win over Boston College in the Silvio O. Conte Forum.
After Colin Kessler scored unassisted a little over a minute into the game, Ethan Burroughs scored his first goal of the night at 8:40 to put the Catamounts ahead 2-0.
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James Hagens pulled Boston College to within one on the power play in the first minute of the second period, but that’s as close as the Eagles would get. Leading 3-1 after two on Sebastian Törnqvist second-period goal, Vermont scored three unanswered in the third, including Burroughs’ second of the night on the power play.
Aiden Wright stopped 32-of-33 in the Vermont win. For Boston College. Louka Cloutier allowed five goals on 19 shots through 45:07 of play. Jan Korec finished the game, stopping 1-of-8 shots.
No. 12 Connecticut 2, Northeastern 0
Tyler Muszelik turned aside 16 shots in his second shutout of the season in Connecticut’s 2-0 road win over Northeastern.
Ethan Gardula’s career-high eighth goal of the season at 8:26 in the first period was the game-winning marker.
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Alexandre Blais had Connecticut’s second goal at 7:33 in the second.
For Northeastern, Lawton Zacher made 22 saves on 24 shots.
No. 13 Wisconsin 6, Notre Dame 5 (OT)
Evan Werner scored twice for Notre Dame in the third period to tie the game at 5-5, but Quinn Finley’s 10th goal of the season at 1:17 in overtime gave Wisconsin the 6-5 win.
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It’s the first conference win in the new year for the Badgers and it halts a six-game losing streak that began with a Jan. 15 loss to Michigan State.
Wisconsin led 4-2 after the first period, with Grady Deering scoring twice for the Badgers in the first multi-goal game of his career. Evan Werner opened the scoring for the Fighting Irish in the first, and his three-goal night gives him his first career hat trick and a career-high 14 goals on the season.
Daniel Hauser saved 29-of-24 for his 14th win of the season. In net for the Fighting Irish, Nicholas Kempf stopped 32-of-38.
No. 14 Dartmouth 3, Harvard 1
A goal in each period and a 21-save performance by Emmett Croteau carried Dartmouth to a 3-1 road win over Harvard.
The game was tied 1-1 after one when the teams exchanged goals a little over a minute apart in the middle of the first. Nikita Nikora put the Big Green on the board at 9:24 but Richard Gallant answered for the Crimson at 10:48.
It was Matt Fusco’s third goal of the season – his second game-winner – that put Dartmouth ahead 2-1 at 2:03 in the second.
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Austin Salani scored Dartmouth’s third goal at the 10-minute mark in the third.
In net for Harvard, Ben Charette stopped 20-of-23 shot on goal.
No. 15 St. Thomas 3, Bowling Green 2 (OT)
Nathan Piling scored twice and Nick Williams had the game-winning overtime goal as St. Thomas downed Bowling Green on the road, 3-2.
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The teams exchanged power-play goals in the first period, with Brody Waters giving the Falcons a 1-0 lead at 13:52 before Piling netted his first of the night at 18:33.
Noah Morneau put Bowling Green on top again 54 seconds into the second period, but Piling again found the net on the Tommies’ power play at 12:51 to make it 2-2 after two.
Carsen Musser stopped 25-of-27 in his eighth win of the season. Cole Moore stopped 24-of-27 for Bowling Green.
The come-from-behind victory gives the Tommies their 18th win of the season as they work to stay on top of the CCHA standings.
No. 20 Michigan Tech 3, No. 16 Augustana 2 (OT)
After Jack Anderson tied this won for Michigan Tech with less than five minutes remaining in regulation, Max Koskipirtti was the hero at 2:32 in overtime, giving the Huskies a 3-2 win over visiting Augustana.
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The game-winner was the fourth of the season for Koskipirtti and a career high 11th goal for the year.
The game was tied at one apiece after the first on Tom Leppa’s goal for Michigan Tech and Leonid Bulgakov’s marker for Augustana. Colton Friesen put the Vikings ahead 2-1 late in the second.
Owen Bartoszkiewicz earned his career-best 19th win of the season, turning away 18-of-20. Josh Kotai made 36 saves on 39 shots in the Augustana net.
Boston University 3, No. 18 Maine 2 (OT)
Trailing 2-1 after two, Boston University tied the game on Cole Eiserman’s early third-period power-play goal, and Ryder Ritchie scored at 1:42 in overtime for the 3-2 win over Maine in Agganis Arena.
Ritchie scored on a feed from Sascha Boumedienne as the pair skated into the Maine zone two-on-three.
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Maine took an early lead when Frank Djurasevic scored at 1:22 in the first, but Boston University answered two minutes later on Jack Murtagh’s goal. Late in the first, Max Scott put the Black Bears ahead 2-1. Scott also assisted on Djurasevic’s goal and led all Maine scorers on the night.
Jack Harvey led all Terriers in scoring, assisting on both tying and winning goals.
Mikhail Yegorov stopped 28-of-30 for Boston University. Albin Boija stopped 28-of-31 for Maine.