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Drew DeRidder played solid in goal last weekend for North Dakota just two hours from home against Western Michigan (photo: North Dakota Athletics).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s hard to argue with the case made in this week\u2019s Tuesday Morning Quarterback column<\/strong><\/a> that this college hockey season is reminding us to expect the unexpected.<\/p>\n

That has been particularly true with several NCHC teams, including North Dakota. As three-time defending regular-season league champions, the Fighting Hawks (7-8-4 overall, 3-5-2 NCHC) sit outside the DCU\/USCHO Division I Men’s Poll\u2019s top 20 and haven\u2019t cracked it since Nov. 14.<\/p>\n

They hope to have turned a corner last weekend, when they earned five of six points at Western Michigan. Goals from Judd Caulfield and Louis Jamernik V led to UND taking an overtime shootout on Friday, and Michigan State transfer goaltender Drew DeRidder made 25 saves in a 3-0 shutout win Saturday.<\/p>\n

UND coach Brad Berry found much to like from his team\u2019s first unbeaten weekend since the Hawks took five points Nov. 4-5 at Omaha.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew what we were dealing with going into Western,\u201d Berry said. \u201c(Lawson Ice Arena is) a tough environment in a loud, small building, but we knew they were a very good team and that we had to play our best defensively.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were going into the last two games of the first half of the season and wanted to end that playing the right way, and we addressed a couple of things how we had to play to have success: No. 1, defensively sound, and No. 2, locking down leads or playing a full 60-minute game, and for the most part, we did that in both games.\u201d<\/p>\n

Caulfield scored a goal in both games, bumping his total on the season to seven. It was also a breakout weekend for DeRidder, who earned NCHC goaltender of the week honors. His play last weekend reminded Berry of what DeRidder did in an October split at then-No. 1 Minnesota.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe made some big saves in that series, and his first half, along with ours, has been a little inconsistent. (Against Western Michigan), knowing those were the last two regular-season games before the first half ended, they were from his area,\u201d Berry said of DeRidder, who grew up two hours away from Kalamazoo in Fenton, Mich.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had a lot of family and friends there, and he has a lot of pride and he seemed to play his game and looked comfortable in doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeRidder is among a host of transfer players making a difference with new teams within the NCHC and adding a sharp contrast to the state of the league.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have a chance to add to your group, and everybody can, that evens the playing field out a lot,\u201d Berry said. \u201cYou know you don\u2019t have to rely sometimes on your freshmen, and if teams feel they want to add older guys who have played college hockey, they can.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re going to see that more and more all the time. You\u2019re seeing some names in the top 20 that you haven\u2019t seen in a while, and you\u2019re seeing some teams that aren\u2019t in there that usually are. It makes college hockey have even more parity.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou really have to kind of wait to see how the second half shakes out, because I think there are teams that have the experience to get where they need to go and see where their body of work goes.\u201d<\/p>\n

UND’s January slate appears relatively kind. After Lindenwood visits Grand Forks on Jan. 6-7, UND plays six consecutive NCHC games against teams (WMU, Minnesota Duluth and Miami) who, like the Hawks, are in the bottom half of the conference standings.<\/p>\n

And Berry would be happy to see more what his team did last weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a lot of good players that can make plays, whether five-on-five or on a power play, but it\u2019s about our play away from the puck: being above pucks, making sure that the other team has to come through layers to get to our area,\u201d Berry said. \u201cWe did that for the most part at Western, and we gave up two goals, on one night, and one was on a faceoff play at the end of the first period.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlaying better defensively, being predictable to your teammates and making it tougher for the other team to get to our net\u2026you have to score goals, but defense wins games, and we have to make sure we remember that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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