{"id":18953,"date":"2014-03-08T21:35:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T03:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/?p=18953"},"modified":"2014-03-08T21:35:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T03:35:17","slug":"schilkey-score-lifts-ohio-state-to-tie-with-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/2014\/03\/08\/schilkey-score-lifts-ohio-state-to-tie-with-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"Schilkey score lifts Ohio State to tie with Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"

COLUMBUS, Ohio —<\/strong> Saturday marked Ohio State’s senior night, but it was a freshman that carried the Buckeyes.<\/p>\n

Scoring the game-tying goal with 3:50 remaining in the third period, OSU forward Nick Schilkey notched the shootout winner as OSU and No. 1-ranked Minnesota skated to a 2-2 tie, with the Buckeyes taking the shootout 1-0.<\/p>\n

The shootout loss prevented the Golden Gophers from taking the first ever Big Ten regular season title.<\/p>\n

Big Ten leading scorer Ryan Dzingel had a goal and assist in Saturday’s tie.<\/p>\n

“We knew it was going to be a battle,” Dzingel said. “These four (seniors) mean so much to our program. Obviously we want to send them off with a huge weekend, and I think we definitely did that tonight.”<\/p>\n

Though it was the first time in five contests Minnesota allowed more than two goals, Minnesota coach Don Lucia credited the job goalie Adam Wilcox did stopping 41-of-43 shots.<\/p>\n

“He made a couple huge saves, we made a couple gigantic mistakes,” Lucia said. “That is Adam; he covers up the mistakes we made. A win and a tie, that is a good weekend here.”<\/p>\n

For the second straight night, Minnesota had an early 1-0 lead as Kyle Rau scored his 10th of the season. He cleaned up a rebound from a shot from the point by Gophers defender Mike Reilly.<\/p>\n

Reilly, a draftee of the Blue Jackets whose arena is two miles from Ohio State’s campus, had four assists in the two-game series.<\/p>\n

Unlike Friday, Ohio State played well after giving up the goal. Minnesota outshot Ohio State by a margin of two through the first two periods. Just as important for Ohio State, the Buckeyes kept Minnesota from scoring another power-play goal.<\/p>\n

“You get scored on right away again; for our guys to understand and buy in not only with our penalty kill but our power play came through with a big goal,” Rohlik said. “We can talk about special teams all day because that is the difference.”<\/p>\n

The Gophers nearly made it a 2-0 game with 4:39 left in the second. Minnesota’s Gabe Guertler interfered with OSU goalie Christian Frey as Tom Serratore put the puck into the net. After initially being ruled a goal, the officials waved the score off to the delight of the 6,161 fans at Value City Arena.<\/p>\n

Ohio State rallied from a 1-0 second intermission deficit to force overtime and outshoot Minnesota 15-3 for the third frame.<\/p>\n

“That was one of our best periods of the year when you can outshoot a team 15-3 and get quality chances,” Rohlik said. “I thought we kept getting better jump, better jump. We were finding energy everywhere. It is a credit to these guys.”<\/p>\n

Ohio State got on the score sheet 2:31 into the third when Ryan Dzingel took advantage of a Reilly boarding penalty and lifted a wrister past Adam Wilcox.<\/p>\n

The tied contest lasted 24 seconds. Ben Marshall scored after firing a shot off the skate of Buckeyes defender Josh Healey that slipped past the stick of Frey to give Minnesota a 2-1 edge.<\/p>\n

The Buckeyes found an answer. Schilkey cleaned up a loose puck as Dzingel got pushed into Wilcox and fired the puck into the net with 3:50 left to knot the game at two.<\/p>\n

In overtime, Dzingel had a pair of breakaways that Wilcox turned away to preserve the tie.<\/p>\n

“As the game went on, they had, especially in the third period, we looked a little bit tired; it might have been some of the specialty teams and guys got a little too much ice time,” said Lucia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Saturday marked Ohio State’s senior night, but it was a freshman that carried the Buckeyes. Scoring the game-tying goal with 3:50 remaining in the third period, OSU forward Nick Schilkey notched the shootout winner as OSU and No. 1-ranked Minnesota skated to a 2-2 tie, with the Buckeyes taking the shootout 1-0. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":22374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18954,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18953\/revisions\/18954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18953"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}