Matt Christie scored at 2:58 in overtime to give Miami a 5-4 win and weekend sweep of the Alaska-Fairbanks Nanooks.<\/p>\n
One night after beating UAF 7-1, Miami was forced to battle from behind twice to take the league contest.<\/p>\n
“I thought we played our game for the most part, stayed in our systems for most of the game,” said Miami head coach Enrico Blasi.<\/p>\n
Five different RedHawks scored on the night. Derek Edwardson had a goal and three assists, including a helper on the game-winner. Aaron Voros netted two goals for the Nanooks, who scored twice shorthanded.<\/p>\n
“They’ve got an explosive team,” said UAF head coach Guy Gadowsky. “They keep coming at you.”<\/p>\n
Christie’s game-winning goal was a fluky shot that hit UAF goaltender Preston McKay’s stick, then bounced up, over, and behind McKay into the Nanook net.<\/p>\n
“I feel for him,” said Gadowsky. “That was a bit of a wild bounce. He deserved a much better fate.”<\/p>\n
McKay made 42 saves in the contest, and 26 in Friday before being replaced by Keith Bartusch in Miami’s 7-1 win. The RedHawks outshot the Nanooks 94-45 in the series, recording 47 shots in each game.<\/p>\n
UAF jumped out to a 2-0 lead after the first on goals by Cam Keith and Cory Rask, both the result of hard work in the Miami end. The first was a power-play goal at 10:44, when Keith tipped in Jason Grinevitch’s shot from the top of the slot. At 13:50 and shorthanded, Tom Herman centered a pass from the left to Rask on the right; Rask’s shot beat Miami goaltender Brandon Crawford-West high on the right side.<\/p>\n
Marty Geurin cut the UAF lead in half at 5:28 in the second, backhanding it in from the right circle as he was falling to his knees, and Todd Grant tied the game at 9:16, a fitting end to an efficient, cycling power play.<\/p>\n
Just over two minutes later, Andy Nelson gave Miami a 3-2 lead just after a faceoff in the left dot in the UAF zone. Mike Kompon won the faceoff and the puck squibbed over to Nelson, who one-timed it into the Nanook cage.<\/p>\n
The lead wouldn’t last long, as the Nanooks scored their second shorthanded goal of the night at 14:33. Voros and Ryan Campbell broke into the Miami zone two-on-one, with Campbell passing from right to Voros on the left. Voros’s shot beat Crawford-West clean, and the second period ended with the game tied, 3-3.<\/p>\n
Campbell and Voros combined again at 7:22 in the third to give the Nanooks a 4-3 lead when Campbell blew by Chris Michael at the UAF blew line, then passed up to Voros, who again one-timed it upstairs, but the RedHawks took advantage of a penalty to Herman late in the third to tie the game.<\/p>\n
With McKay drawn right to defend against Todd Grant, Grant passed left to Edwardson, whose shot found an essentially empty net at 16:03 to send the game to OT.<\/p>\n
In overtime, the Nanooks pressured Crawford-West, who came up big twice against Kelly Czuy, but it was Christie’s fluky goal from a Greg Hogeboom rebound that gave Miami the win.<\/p>\n
“You know, in a 7-1 loss, you’re usually able to say you needed better goaltending,” said Gadowsky. “We got great goaltending from Preston last night. In fact, I thought he made one of the best saves of his career last night.<\/p>\n
“But it was every bit a 7-1 game last night. They just really beat us. Tonight we battled hard. This is a tough place to play.”<\/p>\n
“Any time you go into overtime,” said Blasi, “if you win it’s a lucky bounce. I thought we didn’t execute in the first. We came out in the second and really battled back.”<\/p>\n
Miami was 2-for-8 on the power play, UAF 2-for-4. Crawford-West had 14 saves in his sixth win of the season.<\/p>\n
Both the Nanooks (5-7-0, 4-4-0 CCHA) and the RedHawks (8-6-2, 6-3-1 CCHA) take Thanksgiving weekend off. UAF, still winless on the road, hosts Nebraska-Omaha Dec. 5-6. That same weekend, Miami plays a home-and-home series with Ohio State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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