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North Dakota’s Gavin Hain has collected five goals in seven games thus far for the Fighting Hawks (photo: Shannon Valerio\/DU Athletics).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Many things come to mind when North Dakota fans think about their hockey team\u2019s unique selling points.<\/p>\n

There are the eight national championships, but more recently, the Fighting Hawks have also become known for their destination games.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game, exempt from teams\u2019 34-game regular-season limit, is a tradition that has taken UND just about across the width of the country over the last six years.<\/p>\n

Those games can take place at schools\u2019 home rinks, too, but UND played Cornell in New York in 2016, Minnesota as Las Vegas\u2019 Orleans Arena in 2018, Penn State in Nashville, Tenn., last season and returned to Las Vegas last weekend to meet Arizona State on Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n

The last two such games didn\u2019t go UND\u2019s way. The Hawks dropped a 6-4 decision last October against Penn State, and on Saturday, a heavily pro-UND crowd of 15,503 saw the Hawks cough up a 2-0 first-period lead and lose 3-2.<\/p>\n

Gavin Hain and Jake Schmaltz scored 2:03 apart in the first period for UND, and that had the home of the NHL\u2019s Vegas Golden Knights buzzing. Fans from the de facto home team would go home happiest, though. Arizona State tied the game on two power-play goals before Robert Mastrosimone buried a breakaway chance 24 seconds into the third period.<\/p>\n

\u201cA ton of our loyal supporters turned out for it, and it was a situation where it was a one-game weekend and I thought we didn\u2019t play our best as far as what we bring to the table,\u201d UND coach Brad Berry said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI congratulate ASU because I think they played a really good team game and played well, and at the end of the day, we have some things to work on here and try to get better at. In saying that, it\u2019s early in the season here, and we\u2019re going to get to work and we go into our conference schedule, where it\u2019s a blank slate. We turn the page and we\u2019ll try to build our body of work within our league now.\u201d<\/p>\n

UND has four more nonconference games left this season, against Bemidji State and Lindenwood\u2019s new Division I squad. Three of those games will take place at the Hawks\u2019 Ralph Engelstad Arena, and until at least the fall of 2025, UND\u2019s nonconference schedules will look a little more normal with no more additional destination games currently in the works.<\/p>\n

UND is open to playing more of those somewhere down the line. The Hawks have even traveled outside the country to play \u2014 they had exhibition games in suburban Vancouver in 2014 \u2014 and can do so once every four years. Hockey East and ECAC Hockey teams take advantage of this dispensation by participating in the Friendship Four, a tournament that returns this month after two years off due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

COVID has wiped out UND games across the Atlantic Ocean, too. The Hawks tentatively planned to play exhibition games in Sweden and Finland in August and September 2020 before the world \u2014 not just the hockey one \u2014 changed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t really explored that opportunity since COVID, but that\u2019s not to say that we won\u2019t,\u201d said Berry, who played one year of professional hockey in Sweden. \u201cI know they have that college series in (Northern) Ireland every year and they keep doing that, and we\u2019re open on doing it but I think it\u2019s a situation where you want to try to give your players the student-athlete experience, whether it\u2019s a destination game or something else.\u201d<\/p>\n

But now, Berry is focused on the start of UND\u2019s conference slate, starting with a trip this week to Omaha. The Mavericks are UND\u2019s travel partners in the NCHC, and this Friday-Saturday set could provide an intriguing preview for when the teams meet again March 3-4 in Grand Forks.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s two teams that play relatively the same way: fast, hard and there\u2019s a lot of intensity to the games,\u201d Berry said. \u201cWe\u2019ll play them again at the end of the regular season, and those games mean a ton for both teams, with potentially a Penrose (Cup, the NCHC\u2019s regular-season championship) or whatever that weekend looks like.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year, we won the Penrose on the Friday night in overtime (in Omaha), and it\u2019s coming back to our building this year. When you\u2019re playing that last game of the season in March against your travel partner, it\u2019s special.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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