Wrist injury puts UND’s MacMillan out indefinitely<\/strong>
\nIt won’t look like it if you only check the box score, but not everything went right for third-ranked North Dakota on Friday night during its 6-1 win over No.5 Providence.<\/p>\nTrue, UND routed a top-five opponent at Ralph Engelstad Arena, and that’s big for a North Dakota program that typically starts seasons slowly. During the game, though, UND lost its leading scorer to a horrific injury.<\/p>\n
Late in Friday’s second period, UND senior forward Mark MacMillan found himself tangled up with a Providence player near the two teams’ benches. During the fracas, one of the Friars player’s skates cut MacMillan on the wrist.<\/p>\n
MacMillan went to the UND bench and immediately threw the glove on his affected arm off before teammates and UND training staff applied bandages to the wrist.<\/p>\n
Surgery was required, and MacMillan underwent it Saturday morning. So far, there is no specific timetable for his return to action.<\/p>\n
For as long as UND is without him, though – starting on Saturday when Air Force comes to Grand Forks, N.D. – MacMillan will be missed. He began the season in fantastic form and picked up seven points in two wins at Colorado College the weekend just over a week ago.<\/p>\n
Minnesota-Duluth’s inconsistent start to the season continued<\/strong>
\nDown, up, down, up, down, up. It reads like part of an old-school video game cheat code, doesn’t it?<\/p>\nFrustratingly for Minnesota-Duluth, it also describes the Bulldogs’ start to this season.<\/p>\n
UMD is making a habit so far of losing its first game of a weekend before coming back the following night to win the second. That happened again last weekend during the Bulldogs’ split at home against Denver.<\/p>\n
The pattern kept going on Friday when UMD dropped the opener to the Pioneers by a 3-1 count. In Duluth’s defense, though, DU goaltender Evan Crowley arguably stole the win by making 30 saves.<\/p>\n
The Bulldogs recovered well, however, scoring three goals in Saturday’s second period and three more in the third en route to a 6-1 victory.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to see just how long UMD’s current stye of inconsistency sticks around, and it may for a while yet. The Bulldogs welcome Miami to Duluth this weekend before hitting the road to face St. Cloud State Nov. 7-8.<\/p>\n
St. Cloud State takes one of two against defending national champions<\/strong>
\nUND’s two-game set with Providence last weekend wasn’t the only top-ten matchup that involved an NCHC school, as No. 9 St. Cloud State trekked to upstate New York to face second-ranked Union.<\/p>\nMy NCHC writing partner Candace Horgan and I both predicted that the series would end in a split, and that’s exactly what happened. The Dutchmen blew SCSU’s doors off on Friday during a 5-1 win, but the Huskies came back the following night in Schenectady to win 3-2.<\/p>\n
Union made SCSU look ordinary early on Friday, as the Dutchmen were up 3-0 8:54 into the game before finding itself up 5-0 late in the third period. A Ben Storm goal with five seconds remaining in the game later ruined unlucky Union goaltender Colin Stevens’s shutout bid.<\/p>\n
Three different Huskies scored the following night as SCSU salvaged a series split.<\/p>\n
This week, the Huskies move from playing the country’s second-ranked team to playing the first. In-state rival Minnesota will be SCSU’s next opponent during a home-and-home series.<\/p>\n
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