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Michigan Tech players celebrate a goal during the Huskies’ sweep of St. Thomas last weekend (photo: Michigan Tech Athletics).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In what their head coach called a \u201cgutsy\u201d effort, Michigan Tech\u2019s victory over St. Thomas on Saturday night was as satisfying as they come.<\/p>\n

\u201cGutsy effort by our guys. You like every win, but you like some more than others,\u201d MTU coach Joe Shawhan said in his postgame comments after Tech survived for a 4-3 win and a series sweep in St. Paul. \u201cAnd the ending of this one was exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Huskies had taken a 3-0 lead in the first 10 minutes, but Michigan Tech saw the Tommies eat into that lead over the course of the game. Tech\u2019s Arvid Caderoth was ejected just 12 minutes into the period because of a contact to the head game misconduct penalty, and St. Thomas scored twice on that extended power play to make it 3-2.<\/p>\n

The Tommies eventually tied the game at 3-3 midway through the third period, but Ryland Mosley scored a dramastic shorthanded goal with just over two minutes to play to give the Huskies a 4-3 lead and, eventually, the win.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a huge game for us. We have four tough games coming up with the top two teams in the league \u2013 three at home,\u201d Shawhan said in the postgame. \u201cWe\u2019re a little beat up right now for sure. A couple guys went down during the game, and a few played hurt, but it was a gutsy effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

This season, it seems as though \u201cgutsy efforts\u201d have been the Huskies\u2019 calling card. After losing three of their top five scorers from last season, the Huskies were predicted to finish fifth in the eight-team conference. However, Michigan Tech has been defying those predictions thus far. They\u2019re 8-3-2 overall and 4-2-2 in the CCHA, good enough for third place. However, big matchups with Minnesota State and Northern Michigan loom ahead the next two weekends.<\/p>\n

Shawhan said during his radio show on Monday that he predicted Northern Michigan would win the league and Minnesota State would finish second. Currently, MSU is second, NMU is fourth and Bowling Green is first, although the Falcons have played 10 conference games already. Still, NMU, BGSU and MSU lead the league in scoring.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe league is going just how you kind of figured it would go. The teams that have the best ability to score are up in the standings,\u201d Shawhan said. \u201cThe fact that we have eight wins, I give our guys a ton of credit. It\u2019s been a grind. We haven\u2019t played great in some of them, but the guys have found ways to come out and win hockey games. Doing that, I know it\u2019s been a source of pride for me to see how they\u2019re competing and how they\u2019re growing as hockey players. On paper we should be at the bottom of the league.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maybe that\u2019s not strictly true. The Huskies did, after all, return Blake Pietila, who has continued to post elite numbers (his 1.90 GAA and .929 save percentage are both just outside the top 10 nationally, and only Bemidji State\u2019s Mattias Sholl has better numbers in the conference). Mosley, a junior forward, is also having a breakout season, having already surpassed his points total from 2021-22 through just 13 games (he had 13 points last year and had 15 this campaign). He leads the team in both points and goals (seven).<\/p>\n

But Shawhan called his team an \u201canomaly,\u201d mostly because they haven\u2019t quite scored as much as their peers in the top half of the league, and also because they don\u2019t have standout offensive players to lean on like they did a season ago with Brian Halonen and Trenton Bliss.<\/p>\n

Despite this, Tech has only lost three times \u2013 against Bemidji and Bowling Green and an early-season nonconference game against Ferris State. They are so far perfect in their four games against non-CCHA opponents (having swept both Alaska and St. Lawrence) and are No. 18 in the Pairwise.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re the anomaly, because we\u2019re winning some hockey games and I give our players a ton of credit for that,\u201d Shawhan said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a ton of experimentation, a lot of guys stepping up, emerging and doing things. It seems to be someone different every time, but we\u2019ll take that because when everything starts clicking, you never know what could happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Huskies host Minnesota State this weekend in Houghton; the Mavericks are coming off a split with NMU. Tech has lost seven consecutive games to MSU, including going 0-4 against them last season. The last Huskies victory over the Mavericks was Dec. 6, 2020, in Houghton \u2013 a 3-1 win in which Pietila made 43 saves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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