Senior wing Nick Swaney scored two of the three first-period goals for the Bulldogs, who wrap the regular season at 1:07 p.m. next Saturday against the Huskies in St. Cloud. Senior wing Kobe Roth had the other, with all three coming within four and a half minutes of each other.
Swaney, the Minnesota Wild prospect, finished the Bulldogs’ Senior Night with three goals, completing a hat trick 13:38 into the second period to also nab himself his 100th career point in 129 career games as a Bulldog.
Senior wing Koby Bender — who set up Roth in the slot with a nifty pass in the first — iced the game with an empty-net goal in the third period. Roth, Bender, junior center Jackson and junior center Noah Cates all finished the night with two points for UMD.
The Huskies pulled within two of the Bulldogs 6:15 into the second after SCSU sophomore wing Zach Okabe scored on the power play. It’s the sixth power-play goal UMD has given up in 12 kills over the last four games. The Huskies finished 1-for-3 on the power play Saturday.
Bulldogs freshman goaltender Zach Stejskal made 24 saves on 25 shots in his sixth start of the season.
Huskies starting goaltender David Hrenak was pulled from the game after Swaney made it 4-1 in the second. Hrenak finished with five saves on nine shots while his replacement, sophomore Jaxson Caster, stopped all 24 shots he faced in relief.
The Bulldogs came into Saturday’s game with two goals in their previous three games — 4-0 and 4-1 losses Feb. 12-13 at Western Michigan and last Thursday’s 2-1 home loss to Colorado College.
UMD, sitting third in the NCHC at 42 points, now heads to St. Cloud next Saturday with a chance to take second place away from the Huskies, who have 43 league points. North Dakota has already clinched the NCHC regular-season championship and Penrose Cup, doing so a week ago. Neither the Bulldogs nor the Huskies can slip below third in the NCHC, with Omaha locked into fourth at 38 points.
The Bulldogs and Huskies were supposed to wrap up their regular seasons this weekend, playing Friday in St. Cloud and Saturday in Duluth. However, Sandelin said he and Huskies head coach Brett Larson — the Duluth native and former UMD assistant under Sandelin — did not want all of next weekend off before playing the single-elimination NCHC Frozen Faceoff March 12-16 in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Four players — Easton Brodzinski and Micah Miller for SCSU and Luke Loheit and Wyatt Kaiser for UMD — were sent to the locker rooms early Saturday after scuffles with less than a minute to play. Brodzinski and Loheit received minor penalties for unsportsmanlike conduct while Miller and Kaiser received 10-minute misconducts for the same offense. Saturday was the fifth meeting of the season between the Bulldogs and Huskies, with SCSU still holding a 3-2 advantage in the season series.
St. Cloud State 0-1-0—1
Minnesota Duluth 3-1-1—5
First period
1. UMD, Nick Swaney 11 (Quinn Olson), 11:43
2. UMD, Swaney 4 (Noah Cates, Matt Anderson), 14:27
3. UMD, Kobe Roth 11 (Koby Bender, Jackson Cates), 16:05
Second period
4. SCSU. Zach Okabe 4 (Spencer Meier, Seamus Donohue), 6:15 (pp)
5. UMD, Swaney 13 (N. Cates), 13:38
Third period
6. UMD, Bender 4 (Roth, Jackson Cates)
Saves — David Hrenak, SCSU, 10-11-X—21; Jaxson Carter, SCSU, X-2-6—8; Zach Stejskal, UMD, 4-6-14—24.
Power play — SCSU 1-3; UMD 0-3. Penalties — SCSU 5-26; UMD 5-18.
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