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(Take a guess where I am right now. Brr.)<\/p>\n
In which we had the weekend of the split<\/span> sweep, save the UND\/UNO series. But we’ll get to that.<\/p>\n Colorado College swept Alabama-Huntsville<\/strong> Wisconsin swept Minnesota State Minnesota-Duluth swept Michigan Tech<\/strong> St. Cloud State swept Bemidji State<\/strong> Denver swept Alaska-Anchorage
\n– Raise your hands if you were surprised about this.
\n*Looks around*
\nDidn’t think so.
\n– Thanks to Michael Morin’s second period goal on Saturday and Mike Boivin’s four point weekend, every CC skater now has at least one point on the season. I say skater since second- and third-string goaltenders Tyler O’Brien and Josh Thorimbert are still pointless.
\n– Speaking of whom, Tyler O’Brien saw his first regular season appearance on Friday when he started the third period.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– In which the Mavericks fall further in league standings, and their nice little run falls apart.
\n– Shane Frederick of the Mankato Free Press<\/em> had an interesting stat in his blog – in MSU’s last six WCHA games, they’re 0-5-1. Four of those losses were by one goal; the fifth was by two goals as a result of an empty-netter.
\n– Which says the Mavericks are close in league play, but not close enough to matter.
\n– Saturday’s win extended UW’s unbeaten streak at home to 10 games – its longest home win streak at the Kohl Center.
\n– The sweep also moved the Badgers into sole position of fifth place in the league.<\/p>\n
\n– Again, like CC\/UAH, really no surprise there.
\n– The Huskies were able to hang with the Bulldogs for the first period on Friday, and then the game fell apart for them.
\n– The weekend was good for the UMD goaltenders – two straight shut-outs.
\n– UMD’s Justin Fontaine is now in the top 25 of UMD’s career scoring list.<\/p>\n
\n– This weekend meant four huge points for the Huskies, who are now one point out of (a tie for) home ice.
\n– Conversely, it makes for a much harder struggle for Bemidji, as they have five more weekends left to try and gain some ground.
\n– Friday made for a tough loss for the Beavers, as SCSU’s Nic Dowd netted the game-winner with a mere 28.5 seconds remaining in overtime.
\n– Speaking of Nic Dowd, the freshman has quietly put together a decent rookie campaign (4g, 11a) and is the fourth leading scorer on the team.<\/p>\n
\n–<\/strong> With how well the Seawolves have been playing, this series was disappointing for them.
\n– Friday’s game was a back-and-forth affair with tons of momentum changes and really, could have gone either way.
\n– An interesting stat that was shown at Magness Arena was that DU’s unbeaten streak going into the weekend was 3-0-3 … interesting, because 303 is Denver’s area code. (har-de-har, i know).
\n– Saturday’s game, though I wasn’t there, sounded like it was at least some of the same – from the Denver Post<\/em>‘s Mike Chambers’ blog:
\nPioneers go from a 1-0 deficit to a 3-1 lead in the final four minutes of the first period, then survive a second-period Alaska-Anchorage barrage after captain Kyle Ostrow made it 4-1 early in the frame.
\n– <\/em>Also a fun stat from Chambers – All of freshman Jason Zucker’s 17 goals this season have come in league contests.<\/p>\n