Lady luck was finally on the side of the Michigan Tech Huskies on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Huskies, who hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t picked up a win since Nov. 13, picked up three second period tallies en route to a 4-1 win Friday night. It was the Huskies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 first win in 16 games.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I thought we did a good job all the way around tonight,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Huskies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 head coach Jamie Russell. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We did a good job in our end.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Captain Malcolm Gwilliam led the way for the Huskies with two goals and an assist.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The win\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the most important thing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Gwilliam. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I thought the older guys led the way tonight.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Both squads skated evenly through the first 21 minutes of play. Freshman Kevin Genoe made 10 first period saves including a couple off the stick of Mavericks\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (11-15-2 overall, 5-13-1 in the WCHA) forward Tyler Pitlick. On the other end of the rink, Lee made eight stops of his own, fortunate that Huskies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 forward Jordan Baker missed the net four times over the course of the period.<\/p>\n
Senior winger Drew Dobson put the Huskies (4-20-1 overall, 3-16-0 WCHA) on the board just 1:26 into the second period. Baker, an assistant captain, found Dobson crashing the net and hit him with a pass for the one-timer that beat Lee. Junior center Eric Kattelus also assisted on the goal, Dobson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fourth of the season.<\/p>\n
The Huskies struck again almost six minutes later when assistant captain Brett Olson notched his team-leading 13th goal. Olson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s goal came as the direct result of hard work around the goal as he cut across in front of Lee and fired the puck over his left shoulder. Senior defenseman John Kivisto and Gwilliam assisted on the goal.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A couple of their goals were because we had opportunities to clear the puck out and we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Mavericks\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 head coach Troy Jutting. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Their goals were the result of pucks that should have been out of our end.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Gwilliam extended the Huskies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 lead to three with his goal at 17:38 of the second. Junior winger Bennett Royer got Gwilliam the puck and then proceeded to crash the net while Gwilliam fired on Lee. The resulting collision between Royer and Lee allowed the puck to slip past Lee an in the net for Gwilliam\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ninth of the season.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Malcolm Gwilliam is a big body and he has good hands,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Russell. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He did some good things getting pucks on net on the power play.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
The Mavericks took control of the game in the final frame, firing another 11 shots at Genoe, including opportunities where they worked him out of the crease, but they continued to struggle to find a way to sneak anything past him. Genoe would make 30 saves in the win.<\/p>\n
Gwilliam picked up his second goal of the night on a four-on-three power play at 15:05 of third. Kivisto had the puck at the left point before feeding the puck to Dobson whose initial shot rebounded out to where Gwilliam could find it for his 10th of the season.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It feels good to get goals,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Gwilliam. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Drew had a great shot and I was just able to chip the puck through the goalie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s legs.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Thirty seconds later, Rylan Galiardi spoiled the shutout bid for Genoe as he stole the puck from a Huskies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 defender and beat Genoe with a quick move to the glove side. The unassisted goal was Galiardi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sixth of the season.<\/p>\n
The Huskies finished 1-for-4 on the man advantage while holding the Mavericks to no goals in four chances.<\/p>\n
With the win, Genoe improves to 3-13-1 on the season. Genoe was in goal for the last Huskies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 victory at the hands of the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs, a 3-2 win on Nov. 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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