{"id":8867,"date":"2008-03-14T14:48:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T19:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2008\/03\/14\/tigers-take-game-one\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T11:55:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:55:31","slug":"tigers-take-game-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/2008\/03\/14\/tigers-take-game-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Tigers Take Game One"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a much closer battle than the final score indicated, the Colorado College Tigers took game one of the best-of-three series against the University of Alaska Anchorage, 4-1. <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We stole one? Yeah, you could probably say that,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said CC head coach Scott Owens. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We got outshot by eight and we weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t real sharp, but I think they were good. They played very well.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153They came out playing hard and determined and they never quit the whole entire game,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d agreed Tiger goaltender Richard Bachman (27 saves). \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The scoreboard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a little off from what the game really was.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n

The Tigers started off the scoring quickly. Just 37 seconds into the opening frame, Mike Testwuide hanging out back door slammed home a Bill Sweatt pass past Seawolf netminder Jon Olthius (16 saves). <\/p>\n

The rest of the first period was back and forth between the two teams, with the Seawolves getting the majority of the chances. <\/p>\n

UAA finally broke through on one of those chances 2:15 into the second period on the power play. With Kris Fredheim in the box for high-sticking, Brad McCabe tapped in a pass from Josh Lunden past Bachman. <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I thought they played a great game,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Owens. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look like a team that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s won one game in 2008. <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We came out quick [with] that first goal and then just slowed down,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said CC forward Tyler Johnson. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think we had it wrapped after that first goal but we realized that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re out-playing [us], they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a good team and so we just had to realize that and came out strong after the second period there.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n

With just under two minutes to play in the second, the Tigers regained the lead when Johnson wristed a shot from the high slot that went high over Olthius\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s glove. <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I thought it was a good quality shot; I thought he made a good shot on it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Owens. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard to know. I thought all three goals were pretty good efforts – all three of the goals we scored.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n

The Tigers kept their momentum going into the third period, going up 3-1 2:47 into the frame when Scott Thauwald floated in a shot past Olthius off a face-off. <\/p>\n

Alaska Anchorage had perhaps their best chance of the game about nine minutes later when they had a shot seemingly ring off the corner junction of the crossbar and the post. <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think I might have got a little bit of it then it went back real fast and then popped right back out front so I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what it hit,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Bachman. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I was a little more nervous not knowing when they went to review it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We did a lot of good things, created a lot of good, quality shots,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Seawolf head coach Dave Shyiak. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t had a lot of puck support meaning we haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t scored goals.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n

In an effort to tie it up, Shyiak pulled Olthius with about 1:40 to go for the extra attacker, but Scott McCulloch sealed the fate of game one by getting an empty-net goal with 20.2 seconds remaining. <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We found a way as a good team to win the game,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Owens. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Tonight it was pretty much our third line that did it and Richard and we did it without any power play goals and, for the first time in a long, long time, we got out-special teamed and we still found a way to win. <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We bent a ton, but we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t completely break and we got better and we found a way to win.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not going to change anything,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Shyiak. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We just have to score goals, plain and simple. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing a lot of good things when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re out-shooting teams, out-chancing teams \u00e2\u20ac” what more can you ask for other than we need to create a little more puck luck? <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hang our heads. I thought we played a good game; we just didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t score enough.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n

The two teams face off again tomorrow night at the Colorado Springs World Arena. Puck drop is at 7:05 MDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a much closer battle than the final score indicated, the Colorado College Tigers took game one of the best-of-three series against the University of Alaska Anchorage, 4-1. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We stole one? Yeah, you could probably say that,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said CC head coach Scott Owens. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We got outshot by eight and we weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t real sharp, but I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"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\/8867"}],"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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions"}],"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=8867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8867"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}