Mike Montgomery was deep in the zone behind the net when he threw a centering pass diagonally out front. The puck came hard off Fairchild’s skate for the bank shot into the back of the goal, giving the No. 20 Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs a sweep of the Minnesota Golden Gophers.<\/p>\n
“I was trying to get it to someone crashing the net; I was not trying to bank it in off a skate,” said Montgomery.<\/p>\n
The goal completed the rally for the Bulldogs from 2-0 down, the same deficit Duluth overcame against Minnesota the night before, where the Bulldogs scored twice off Minnesota skates.<\/p>\n
“It is hard to lose two games in a row in that fashion,” said Gophers’ coach Don Lucia.<\/p>\n
The Gophers’ players were visibly disappointed.<\/p>\n
“It stings knowing we had a lead and let it slip,” said Mike Hoeffel.<\/p>\n
“We just have to finish teams,” commented Kevin Wehrs.<\/p>\n
The tying goal came in the third at 3:22. After extended pressure by Minnesota in the Bulldogs’ zone, with numerous shots and scoring chances, Kyle Schmidt picked up a loose puck and skated one-on-one up the left boards and threw a 50-foot slap shot on net that beat Alex Kangas low on the blocker side. <\/p>\n
The Bulldogs followed the tying goal with two close calls.<\/p>\n
The first was when Justin Fontaine hit the cross bar five minutes into the third. <\/p>\n
The second required a 15-minute review to see if they had scored. <\/p>\n
Wade Bergman went skates first into Kangas and the puck went in the net. The play was called a no-goal on the ice. The referees could not see conclusively from the views how the puck went in. There was not enough evidence to overturn the no-goal call on the ice. One camera angle appeared to show Bergman got a stick on the puck to force it in before going in the net himself.<\/p>\n
“We got justice on our last goal,” said Bulldogs’ coach Scott Sandelin on getting the last bounce to make up for the no goal.<\/p>\n
For the third straight home game, Minnesota found itself taking a rash of penalties in the second period. This time it was four minor penalties to none for the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n
The Gophers killed three of the four penalties, allowing the lone goal to the Bulldogs’ Jack Connolly. It was Connolly’s third goal of the weekend. This one came on a rebound that came off at an angle right to Jack for the easy empty-net goal tap-in behind Kangas.<\/p>\n
The Gophers best scoring chance of the second came when Mike Hoeffel hit the near pipe on a shot off a pad rebound by Brady Hjelle. <\/p>\n
Duluth held Minnesota shotless for the first five minutes of the first period.<\/p>\n
At 8:24 of the first period, Hoeffel scored the first goal of the game on a tip of a shot from the point by Wehrs. The shot came off a faceoff win by Nico Sacchetti.<\/p>\n
Wehrs made it 2-0 Minnesota on a one-time shot from the right faceoff circle while the Gophers were on a five-on-three power play. The goal came just seven seconds before the two man advantage was to expire. <\/p>\n
The Bulldogs had a breakaway chance when the second penalty expired at 16:38 out of the box. Kangas made a blocker save on Drew Olsen to preserve the 2-0 lead in the first.<\/p>\n
Minnesota-Duluth is off Thanksgiving weekend while Minnesota heads to Michigan and Michigan State for the College Hockey Showcase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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