UND opens with win, tie, trophy<\/strong>
\nFourth-ranked North Dakota made its longest road trip of the season over the weekend to Portland, Maine to take part in the Icebreaker Tournament. UND opened with a 6-2 victory over Lake Superior on Friday before tying Maine 1-1 on Saturday.<\/p>\nUND spotted LSSU a 2-0 lead on Friday through Lakers goals from J.T. Henke and Mitch Hults. Lake State couldn’t keep going from there, though, and instead gave up five unanswered UND tallies.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, a second-period goal from UND’s Chris Wilkie was canceled out in the same frame by Maine’s Cam Brown. Neither team scored again in regulation or overtime, but Maine won a shootout.<\/p>\n
UND won the tournament with an official 1-0-1 record. Maine, which officially tied both of its games but also won shootouts in both, finished third.<\/p>\n
UND will try to build upon its Icebreaker success this next week with a home-and-home series against Bemidji State.<\/p>\n
Omaha opens with road sweep<\/strong>
\nWhen No. 10 Omaha and sixth-ranked Minnesota State met this weekend in Mankato, one thing was for certain: The Mavericks were going to win each game of the series.<\/p>\nAs it turned out, the same group of Mavs – the ones that traveled north from Nebraska for the series – won both times.<\/p>\n
Omaha opened Friday’s game on fire, taking a 2-0 lead in the first period before Austin Ortega added to the lead 58 seconds into the next period. MSU answered with a pair of goals, but Omaha goaltender Kirk Thompson’s 24 saves were enough to give the visitors the win.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, MSU failed to get into the scoreboard. Instead, two Jake Randolph goals and a first collegiate shutout from UNO freshman goaltender Evan Weninger gave Omaha a 2-0 win and a series sweep.<\/p>\n
Omaha is on the road again next weekend, this time at Vermont.<\/p>\n
CC struggles at home<\/strong>
\nMy NCHC writing partner Candace Horgan and I both believed that Colorado College had a great opportunity to open its 2015-16 season well this weekend with a home series against Massachusetts. Little did we know, apparently, that UMass had other ideas.<\/p>\nThe Minutemen won both games of the set, and it all started on Friday with a 6-3 victory over the homestanding Tigers. UMass scored each of the game’s first three goals, and the Minutemen kept CC sufficiently at bay from there.<\/p>\n
Saturday was more frustrating for the Tigers, however, than that 6-3 loss on Friday was. CC looked well in position to salvage a split on Saturday thanks to three second-period goals, but UMass scored four times in the third, the last tally coming with 3:07 left in regulation.<\/p>\n
CC will follow the Minutemen back to Massachusetts later this week when the Tigers taken on No. 14 Massachusetts-Lowell. UML is 1-0 on the season after blanking Rensselae 3-0 at home on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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