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Lleyton Roed has emerged as a top player for Bemidji State (photo: Brent Cizek).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lleyton Roed was the top-scoring freshman in the CCHA last season, notching 31 points (13 goals and 18 assists).<\/p>\n

It was about as good a debut for any Bemidji State player ever. The last freshman to lead the Beavers in scoring was Matt Read, who scored 27 points in 2007-08 and remains the team\u2019s Division I career scoring leader.<\/p>\n

So expectations were high for Roed coming into his sophomore season\u2013himself more than anyone. The White Bear Lake, Minn., native said he\u2019d never been more excited to come into a season in his hockey-playing career.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter having success last year, I came in very confident. It\u2019s probably the most excited I’ve been for a season,\u201d he said. \u201cI knew what to expect with our guys, we had a great group back here and just coming back with that comfortability, with a lot of playing opportunity. I was excited to get a fresh season going. Last season didn\u2019t end how we wanted to, so we\u2019re trying to build off that and have some more success this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 5-foot-11 winger has, accordingly, picked up right where he left off last year. Six games into the season, Roed has scored six goals. That averages out to a goal per game, although the average doesn\u2019t quite line up with actual reality. He was held off the scoresheet in BSU\u2019s 4-0 shutout loss at the hands of Minnesota Duluth Oct. 20, but made up for it by scoring both goals in the Beavers\u2019 2-0 victory over St. Thomas on Saturday night in Bemidji.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the best way to go about it is not to think about it at all,\u201d Roed said of his impressive start to the season. \u201cWhether you\u2019re scoring or not scoring, either way, let your game do the talking. If you deserve it, they\u2019re going to go in. You\u2019re going to go through some rough patches but you\u2019re also going to have some great weekends, like last weekend, so I think it\u2019s just about keeping an even-keeled mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whatever way Roed likes to think about it, the goals are coming. Last weekend, BSU swept St. Thomas, 3-2 and 2-0. Roed scored three of those five goals, and all of those scores involved the two things Roed said he improved most over the offseason: puck possession and decision-making.<\/p>\n

\u201cGuys at this level are a lot faster and stronger, so that\u2019s something I worked on a lot over the summer, is possessing the puck and using my feet,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve been putting myself in good situations, so that\u2019s been good.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Friday\u2019s game\u2013a 3-2 BSU win\u2013Roed scored on the power play, receiving a pass from freshman Liam Engstrom at the goal line then skating all the way around the right circle before entering the high slot and beating the Tommies goalie with a pinpoint wrist shot.<\/p>\n

Then, on Saturday, he managed to score again from the high slot, this time taking a pass from Eric Pohlkamp at the red line in a 2-on-1 situation. As he was coming in to score in the right circle, he deked out the UST defender before cutting to his left, skating towards the slot and scoring from the other circle. The third goal he scored on the weekend was an empty-netter to finish off the Tommies late in the third – not as impressive technically, but the end result was the same – two victories and six conference points for the Beavers, who are now 3-3-0 and 2-0-0 in the conference.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast weekend was huge,\u201d Roed said. \u201cIt\u2019s really important to get a head start in the conference, it\u2019s a lot easier to be ahead early than to be chasing in the conference late in the season. So we\u2019re going to look back on that later this season and see that as a big result, especially with how well the [the Tommies] are playing this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although they are leading the conference with an extremely small sample size, Roed said the Beavers know the month of November is especially important. This week, they travel to the Soo to take on a Lake Superior State team coming off two hard-fought wins against Clarkson and St. Lawrence. Then they host Michigan Tech before back-to-back road series against Minnesota State and North Dakota.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a really important month,\u201d he said. \u201cGetting that first sweep last weekend was huge, because we know these next few weekends are going to be tough. We have Lake State; they have some guys who can put the puck in the net this year and they always play stingy. Then we have Tech at home, which is a huge series for us, then traveling to Mankato, which is never easy. But we\u2019ll be ready for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to see ourselves as a top team in the conference. That\u2019s one thing we\u2019re shooting for. A big thing in the playoffs for this league is to get home ice. We want to check that off and get as high a seed as possible, so we want to make sure we get off to a good start [in November].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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