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Misery at Mariucci continues<\/strong>
\nMany fans around the NCHC miss rivalries from their teams’ previous conferences. North Dakota fans got to live one out this weekend as the third-ranked Fighting Hawks played twice on the road against old WCHA foe Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Coming out of the series, UND fans might feel thankful their team no longer plays in Minneapolis every year.
\nAfter a 5-5 tie Friday against the Golden Gophers and a 2-0 loss on Saturday, UND is now winless in its last nine games at Mariucci Arena.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game marked a reunion for the two teams after a three-year hiatus in their long-standing rivalry. The rivalry’s passion clearly hadn’t gone away – as evidenced by 11 after-the-whistle penalties Friday – and the rest of the action was just as exciting. UND led four separate times but Minnesota never went away and instead got a game-tying goal from Tom Novak with 1:17 left.<\/p>\n

UND did a lot of the right things again in Saturday’s rematch and more than doubled 13th-ranked Minnesota’s shot attempts at 80-38. Gophers goaltender Eric Schierhorn was terrific, however, in making 33 saves and stopping a Brock Boeser penalty shot inside the game’s final minute.<\/p>\n

UND hasn’t won on Minnesota’s home ice since Feb. 1, 2008, and the Hawks won’t get another chance to do so until the 2019-20 season. The teams will meet again next season in Grand Forks, N.D., before playing on neutral ice in Las Vegas the season after that.<\/p>\n

UND (5-3-1 overall, 0-2) is now winless in its last four games, having been swept at then-No. 2 Minnesota-Duluth on Oct. 28-29. The Fighting Hawks are home this next weekend for another big rivalry series against No. 3 Denver (6-2, 2-0).<\/p>\n

Bulldogs thrive in comeback role<\/strong>
\nFans that went to both games of this weekend’s series between top-ranked UMD and homestanding St. Cloud State might feel they watched the same story unfold both nights.<\/p>\n

SCSU scored in the opening minute of both games. The No. 8 Huskies saw 3-2 leads fall away both nights. Most importantly, UMD won both games by identical 5-3 scores.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs, currently leading the NCHC standings with 12 points, has won its first four league games to mark UMD’s best-ever start in NCHC play. No less satisfying for UMD is the fact that the Bulldogs have won their last six games against SCSU in St. Cloud after having gone 0-10-2 there between 2007 and 2014.<\/p>\n

UMD is making a name for itself this season in games’ third periods. The Bulldogs are outscoring opponents 11-2 in those final stretches while outshooting them 98-59. UMD outscored SCSU 3-0 in the third period both Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n

UMD (7-1-2) will hope to keep rolling at home next weekend against a Western Michigan team that’s 5-2-1 overall (2-2 in NCHC play) and fresh off a home sweep of Miami.<\/p>\n

Omaha plays catch-up<\/strong>
\nSpeaking early last week, Omaha head coach Dean Blais discussed the importance of UNO starting conference play well this weekend at home against Colorado College.<\/p>\n

His Mavericks got the job partially done. Two power-play goals in Saturday’s first period helped UNO in a 6-4 win over the Tigers, one night after CC pulled out a 2-1 win in Friday’s series opener.<\/p>\n

Omaha sits third in the country in power-play efficiency so far this season, and the Mavericks showed why early in Saturday’s first period through goals from defenseman Luc Snuggerud and forward Austin Ortega.<\/p>\n

UNO later found itself ahead 5-1 before two CC goals late in the second period cut the Mavericks’ lead in half. A Tyler Vesel goal inside the game’s final five minutes helped put the game to bed.<\/p>\n

Mavericks forward David Pope finished Saturday’s game with four assists. His four-point night tied a school record and marked the first four-point outing for a UNO player since Matt White did so in 2013.<\/p>\n

Friday’s game had provided a different story. CC picked up goals in the first four minutes from Mason Bergh and Kade Kehoe before holding on for a 2-1 victory. The Tigers are 4-1-1 in NCHC series openers against UNO. Another win on Saturday would have boosted CC (3-5, 1-1) to just one game under the .500 mark overall.<\/p>\n

The Tigers play at home next weekend against a SCSU (4-4, 0-2) team looking to avenge its two losses to UMD. Omaha (4-3-1, 1-1 NCHC) hits the road to face Miami (3-4-2, 0-2), which has lost each of its last three games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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