College Hockey Weekly Report

Well the big East vs. West showdown in Durham was everything that it was shaped up to be.

On the first night North Dakota won 3-2 with goals from T.J. Oshie 1:03 into the first period. Michael Hutchins tied the game at 1 in the second period with an assist from Brett Hemingway. Drew Stafford made it 2-1 on a shorthanded goal from Travis Zajac. New Hampshire came right back on that same powerplay when Brett Hemingway tied it at 2 with his second point of the night 1:19 later. North Dakota finished off the scoring when Jonathan Towes scored on a 4 on 4 with 10:03 left in the third. Jordan Parise from North Dakota made 21 saves and Jeff Pietrasiak from UNH made 22 saves.

The next night had another great game between these 2 squads. T.J. Oshie just like the night before began the scoring with a power play goal with 3:49 left in the first. North Dakota would score the next 2 goals as Drew Stafford scored those 2 goals giving him 3 on the weekend. North Dakota would take a 3-0 lead midway through the second period. But UNH stormed right back with 2 goals from Brett Hemmingway to make it a 3-2 game after 2 periods. In the third period UNH would tie the game as Trevor Smith scored with 7:32 left in the third and that is how the game ended all tied. Jordan Parise made 40 saves including 16 saves in the first. Kevin Regan got the start for UNH stopping 25 shots.

In other college hockey action

Michigan and Michigan State ended up in a 3-3 tie. Michigan State tied the game with :43 left in the third period. Dominic Vicari of Michigan State stopped 20 out of 23 shots while Billy Sauer of Michigan saw more action stopping 35 out of 38 shots making 3 key saves in overtime.

BC and Northeastern ended up in a 1-1 tie. Dan Bertram of BC and Brian Deeth of Northeastern each scored a goal.

UMASS-Lowell continues to struggle in Hockey East play as they got shutout again by Providence 4-0. Tyler Sims again was great in goal stopping all 19 UMASS-Lowell shots. So far Lowell only has 1 goal in 3 conference games.

And Mike Lundin for Maine got the call against Alabama Huntsville on Saturday posting his first career shutout as Maine won 4-0.

And Minnesota got back on track after only gaining 1 point against Alaska-Fairbanks as they swept Minnesota State with a 4-3 win on Saturday.

Next week Maine will travel to Boston College and UMASS-Amherst as they try to continue their success this month.

Providence and Tyler Sims will try to keep their shutout streak going as they travel to Merrimack on Friday night then go to BC on saturday night.

And the big out of conference series will have Cornell playing for the first time this season as they host Michigan State for 2 at Cornell.