UMD’s power play came alive on Friday night, scoring three goals on a Minnesota major penalty in the second period to turn a somewhat-competitive game into a blowout.
The three goals came 1:54 apart, two from Ty Hanson and one from Hunter Anderson. 3-1 became 6-1, and the result was never in doubt after that. It was basically an hour-long party for the UMD portion of Friday’s sellout of over 7,000.
This, Gophers coach Brett Larson hopes, is a much different hockey game. Larson has jumbled his forward lines, scratching Tate Pritchard and Mason Moe, and assuming both are healthy, there are probably another half-dozen guys he could be sitting instead. It was that kind of night for Minnesota.
UMD changes nothing, nor should it.
Carl Axelsson vs Luca Di Pasquo.
Lines?
Lines.
UMD forwards
Plante (Victor) – Plante (Zam) – Hall
Bibby – Shaugabay – Anderson
Zaremba – Arnott – Bentz
Fischer – Platter – Bechen
UMD defense
Hanson – Kleber
Pionk – Murphy
Cleveland – Siepmann
McInnis
UMD goalies
Axelsson – Dahlmeir – Sheffield
Minnesota forwards
Burnevik – Mooney – Ziemer
Hendrickson – Cullen (Wyatt) – Kvasnicka
Moore – Ludtke – Humphreys
Townsend – Cullen (Brooks) – Nevers
Harris
Minnesota defense
Whipple – Henricks
Lofgren – Murr
Rombach – Loftus
Begley
(Minnesota will scratch one more skater, likely a forward, after warmups. We’ll update that on BlueSky.)
Minnesota goalies
Di Pasquo – Strahl – Sabev
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