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Matt Kiersted has collected four goals and 23 points from the North Dakota blue line this season (photo: Jim Rosvold).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Good hockey teams know how to redeem themselves following a setback.<\/p>\n

Great teams don\u2019t worry about having that happen too often.<\/p>\n

This season\u2019s North Dakota team is comfortably somewhere on that line, with the Fighting Hawks looking at holding the No. 1 overall seed for the NCAA tournament if it began today.<\/p>\n

After missing the tournament in back-to-back years, UND picked up only its third loss this season on Friday at No. 11 Minnesota Duluth.<\/p>\n

In opening a series that USCHO featured last week, UND looked to continue a hot streak that had seen the Hawks lose just once in their last 20 games dating back to Oct. 19.<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s game looked to be going UND\u2019s way early as the Hawks led 3-1 six minutes into the second period. Minnesota Duluth used goals from its special teams units to tie the game heading into the third. The Bulldogs then piled on three third-period goals that helped snap a three-game winless skid.<\/p>\n

UND turned the tables Saturday, coming from behind in the third period to win 3-2. Westin Michaud opened the scoring for the Hawks for the second consecutive night, but although Duluth\u2019s Luke Loheit and Scott Perunovich scored two goals four minutes apart in the third period, UND would snatch the points. Matt Kiersted leveled the game at 10:24, and Jonny Tychonick scored the eventual game-winner 94 seconds later.<\/p>\n

Kiersted\u2019s tying goal marked his fourth point of the weekend and bumped his multi-point game streak to four. UND goalie Peter Thome, making his second start of the season, finished with 22 saves.<\/p>\n

During his weekly press conference on Monday, UND coach Brad Berry was asked about the Hawks\u2019 ability to make adjustments after running into problems like what they faced Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Friday night, we led the game and then we gave up a shorty and they scored a power-play goal, so two specialty team goals to tie it, and then the critical thing in hockey, you never want to give up a goal in the last minute of a period,\u201d Berry said. \u201cWe did that (on Nick Swaney\u2019s go-ahead goal with 50 seconds left in the second period), so there\u2019s a lot of things that went into their momentum. They\u2019re a good team, they earned everything they got, but we kind of shot ourselves in the foot a little bit.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we got into the third period on Friday night, we chased the game and we didn\u2019t chase the game the right way. When we won games from behind earlier in the year, it was when everybody was following the structure, believing and having patience in your game and then coming back. We tried to do a little bit of one-on-one hockey, meaning that guys tried to do a little bit too much, and that\u2019s part of caring and competing, but we didn\u2019t play as a team in the third, which kind of opened it up a little bit.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Saturday night, we had a lead going into the third, they got the lead (and) we were more patient and disciplined in our game. We had belief that we can come back as (six) guys playing on the ice, so I think there was a little bit more patience and confidence of knowing that everybody doing their job instead of doing something outside of your job.\u201d<\/p>\n

UND isn\u2019t out of the woods with regards to the NCHC\u2019s regular-season title chase, but the Fighting Hawks are six points clear heading into a home series this weekend against Colorado College. The series will likely have added meaning for Michaud, a UND graduate student who collected 29 goals and 62 points over three seasons at CC.<\/p>\n

Two weeks from now, UND welcomes No. 4 Denver to Grand Forks, N.D., for what currently are the Hawks\u2019 last two regular-season games against ranked opponents. UND then finishes at St. Cloud State, at home against Western Michigan and on the road again at Omaha.<\/p>\n

Denver\u2019s Olischefski nets league, national honors<\/h4>\n

Kohen Olischefski, a junior forward for Denver, earned NCHC and NCAA awards earlier this week for his performances in two wins last weekend at Miami.<\/p>\n

Olischefski recorded three goals and two assists in the two-game sweep. That saw him earn NCHC offensive player of the week honors Monday, and on Tuesday he was named as the NCAA\u2019s second star of the week.<\/p>\n

Bussi impresses for WMU<\/h4>\n

Western Michigan freshman goalie Brandon Bussi made 44 saves in a pair of 6-2 Bronco wins last weekend against St. Cloud State. Bussi was the NCHC\u2019s only goaltender to record two wins in that span.<\/p>\n

Bussi, who has now started all but one game this season for Western, now has a .909 save percentage and 2.73 GAA on the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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