Not for himself, Souliere was the backup goalie, but rather for goaltending partner Nathan Airey. Souliere felt such urgency to secure the puck from Airey’s first collegiate shutout that he is still uncertain if the final horn sounded before jumped on the ice.

“Was the game over?” Airey asked Souliere.

Souliere’s response: “I might have been on the ice before the game was over. No joke, I might have.”

Souliere got the puck for Airey following his 32-save performance, and the sophomore delivered a message right back. “OK, your turn. You go get one.”

Souliere didn’t disappoint as he stopped 22 shots in a 2-0 victory last Saturday to give the Gophers a sweep of then-No. 6 Wolverines and move Minnesota into the No. 1 spot in both college hockey polls this week.

No plan? It’s working.
Bob Motzko has his team atop the rankings doing something he usually eschews: Employing a goalie rotation. Since Motzko took over as Gophers coach in 2018-19, he has had two goalies start double-digit games only twice in a season. The last time it happened was in 2021-22, when Jack LaFontaine turned pro in January, forcing Motzko to turn to Justen Close. Close started 92 games over the next two-plus seasons.

Gophers goaltender Liam Souliere spent four seasons at Penn State before arriving at the University of Minnesota and becoming part of a successful goaltending duo. (MHM Photo / Jeff Wegge)

But Close’s departure after last spring created an opportunity for Airey, who missed almost the entire first half of 2023-24 because of injury, and also led Motzko to bring in Souliere, a graduate transfer who had spent four seasons at Big Ten rival Penn State.

The fact Motzko hasn’t picked a primary starter is a credit to Airey and Souliere.

“We have no plan,” Motzko said when asked about his goalie plan. “Just keep doing what we’re doing. We didn’t set it out to be a plan; it’s just working out that way right now. Both guys are doing great.”

Souliere’s 1.37 goals-against average is the best in Division I, and Airey isn’t far behind at 1.99. Airey’s 9-0-1 record makes him one of only two goalies in Division I to not have a loss. Souliere has a .943 saves percentage; Airey is at .918.

They have rotated all season, except for a late November series against Notre Dame when Airey got back-to-back starts in a pair of victories. Otherwise, it’s been Airey in the opener and Souliere the following night. Souliere made 28 saves in a 1-0 shutout against his former team on Nov. 2, a night after Airey stopped 21 of 22 shots in a 3-1 win against Penn State.

Tight friendship off the ice
One reason this system has worked so well is because the two have become so close. Talking to them in a lounge just outside the Gophers locker room on Tuesday, you got that feeling that they are more like brothers than hockey buddies.

Airey, 21, is from Cochrane, Alberta, and Souliere, 25, is from Montreal. The two had never met before the offseason and chatted a few times once Souliere arrived. But they hit it off during a trip to the Minnesota State Fair to help promote Gophers hockey.

“We’re both Canadian,” Airey said. “There was poutine and whatnot (at the Fair), so we were kind of comparing that and right away when you have two Canadians on a team, obviously, with Matthew (Wood, who is from British Columbia) as well, you jell right away, that’s just the reality of it. Going around that day we were talking about everything. Whether it was our pasts, or our futures and what we wanted everything to look like, we kind of went through a lot of stuff.”

Souliere appreciated the patience Airey showed in answering his many questions.

“I think I got to kind of show him my curious side,” Souliere said. “He’s a farm boy, and I knew that about him. When we went to go see the animals I was asking a bunch of questions and he was answering them. And he was happy to answer them. He could have been like, ‘Oh, this guy is weird, why is he asking me about, why do goats act like this?’ I knew that he knew a lot about all these types of different things that were happening at the State Fair and just getting to learn them. I also loved his maturity. For a younger guy, he’s super, super mature and calm. I take after that and I’ve learned a lot about that. It’s been great.”

Sophomore Gophers goaltender Nathan Airey has typically gotten the nod in net in series openers. (MHM Photo / Jeff Wegge)

Airey could have decided that after a season recovering from injury and then getting into only three games, with one start, playing behind Close, that he wanted to be the main goalie. But he welcomed the news that Souliere was coming to Minnesota and even requested the two be roommates on the road.

Airey said he had been impressed watching Souliere at Penn State and wanted to be pushed. “It was a no-brainer, I was pumped,” he said.

Airey, though, probably didn’t expect to get along this well with his goalie partner. Souliere already has a degree in finance and in some ways plays a big-brother role in a relationship that goes well beyond just talking about goaltending.

“Our interests are aligned, and that really helps,” Airey said. “We talk finance and I go to him. He’s got a lot of experience with that. We’ve talked relationships before, we’ve talked about a bunch of stuff. Whether it’s on the bus or wherever it is, we always enjoy each other’s company and we’re always on the same page.”

Rotation helps both of them
Their rotation has enabled both to pick up things from the other. Souliere can go to school on an opponent by watching Airey on Friday, and Airey can see how his veteran teammate approaches things on Saturday. The goaltenders offer different styles in part because Airey is 6-foot-3 and Souliere is 5-foot-11.

“Michigan, obviously is a super-skilled team, super-good team, and Nathan did a really, really good job of having calm feet and keeping his hands high,” Souliere said of what he picked up on Friday. “He made so many hard saves look easy and just being able to see that and understand that the success he had was because of those decisions. Not over moving his feet, keeping his hands up, tracking the puck, all those little things.

“I am going to school on Fridays and it’s awesome. I get to just feel the game out and see how he handles it and the things he’s doing that led to success.”

So what does Airey pick up from Souliere?  

“Two things for me,” he said. “First of all, his movement, it’s amazing. Whether it’s sliding, whether it’s feet-to-feet movement, it’s so smooth and crisp and it’s also quick and fast. Powerful. Another thing is he’s got so much experience, his puck movement is amazing. … Just his confidence with playing the puck is top notch. Whether it’s passing it up to a wing and bypassing the d-man sometimes. It’s just plays like that where I can just learn and watch and understand that maybe I have a little more time (to move the puck) than I think.”

Sophomore Gophers goaltender Nathan Airey, shown here in practice this week at Mariucci Arena, enters the weekend with a 1.99 goals-against average. (MHM Photo / Jeff Wegge)

The Airey-Souliere Show will return to Mariucci Arena tonight, Dec. 13, as the Gophers face a Michigan State team (12-2-0) that fell from first to third in the rankings this week.

Souliere, as usual, will be Airey’s biggest fan in the opener.

“It’s easy. I love the guy. He’s a great kid and well raised,” Souliere said. “This is a team game and whoever is doing the job is doing the job, and right now we’re both doing it. It’s wonderful and, to be honest, it’s kind of nice. We get to just talk about the game together after games and we kind of just feed off each other.

“He’ll go on Friday and do fantastic, and it kind of just pushes me to have to do the same. I’m pretty sure that if I do great on the Saturday, he feels the responsibility to keep it up on the Friday and it’s kind of like a give-and-go kind of thing we have going and it’s been awesome.”

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Hockey fans are the same as normal people. We don’t ever get enough hockey, so we don’t need a Christmas break from, for example, the tension and pressures of college hockey races. But the teams definitely could use a pause, and all the major Division I conferences take a Christmas break, just to recharge the systems and take a deep, collective breath to get ready for what is sure to be a wild and crazy second half.

It also gives us the perfect opportunity to evaluate the way the late, great country songwriter Guy Clark would put it: ‘Wondering what it’s coming to, and how we got this far.’

The best guess is that the final standings will bear little resemblance to what the various conference standings show now at the midpoint. But looking at the six mens Division I college hockey teams in Minnesota, we can see into three of the country’s top college hockey conferences. We all think “our” conference is the best, and they all have their moments, but which one has been the biggest surprise so far? Which teams? Which players? You decide.

St. Thomas leads CCHA standings
My nomination is the CCHA, the league that had retained the best name in the game as the WCHA but wasn’t satisfied and switched it to another regenerated name for the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. That conference has been dominated from its current incarnation by Minnesota State Mankato. There was no reason the Mavericks couldn’t do the same again, even though living legend coach Mike Hastings took the money and ran to take over the Wisconsin program in the Big Ten. Unfortunately for the Mavs, some of their top players followed along and went with him.

So after 10 or 12 games, who is leading the CCHA? As top candidates we have the usual suspects — Michigan Tech, Northern Michigan, Bemidji State, MSU-Mankato, Lake Superior State, Northern Michigan and Bowling Green. Oh, and don’t forget the new guys on the block, St. Thomas.

You’d better not forget the Tommies, because they are in first place, leaders at Christmas break with a 7-5 record and 21 points. Second is Michigan Tech, 6-4 with 19 points, then comes MSU-Mankato at 5-4-1 with 17 points in third place, with Bemidji State, 5-5 with 16 points, a surprise in fourth place. Bemidji State is feeling the heat from a three-way tie for fifth at 15 points with Lake Superior State at 5-6-1, Bowling Green 5-5 and Northern Michigan 5-5. Ferris State is eighth at 3-7 with 8 points.

NCHC is full of surprises, Bulldogs struggle
For just last weekend, though, nobody pulled off bigger surprises than the NCHC, where Denver and North Dakota had switched off being ranked No. 1 in the nation, and both seemed primed to fight off the surprising challenge of St. Cloud State.

But Colorado College made what must be an historic trip to Grand Forks, stunning the North Dakota Fighting Hawks 3-2 in overtime. The Tigers finished the weekend with an improbable sweep of the Fighting Hawks, who had just been voted No. 1 in the country a week earlier. 

The shocker of the weekend, though, was in Kalamazoo, Mich., where Western Michigan broke from a 3-3 tie eight minutes into the third period in the first game, and whipped the University of Denver 7-3. The next night, Western Michigan almost struck for a sweep but lost 6-5 in overtime. 

St. Cloud State seized its opportunity, winning 4-1 at Omaha to strengthen their hold on first place. Omaha won the second game in a shootout to prevent a St. Cloud State sweep.

One of the bigger surprises in a less-positive scope is that Minnesota Duluth struggled to score goals despite being projected as a contender in the NCHC. In recent weeks, the Bulldogs had been playing better and better, but still without the rewards their determination seemed to have earned. In their final weekend before the break, the Bulldogs hit the road to Oxford, Ohio, where they faced the Miami Redhawks in a series that determined who would escape last place.

The Bulldogs took a shootout victory it so desperately needed in the first game before taking a 3-1 victory the next day after adjusting lines. Blake Biondi spent some time at center and scored in the second period. 

The NCHC standings show St. Cloud State leading at 7-0-1 with 22 points, which certainly qualifies as a surprise. North Dakota is second at 5-3 with 18 points, followed by Western Michigan (4-4) with 14 points, Denver 5-3 with 13 points, Colorado College (4-4) with 10 points, Omaha (3-4-1) with 9 points and tied with UMD (2-5-1) with 9, and Miami 0-7-1 with 1 point.

Big Ten had surprising results; WCHA women’s hockey adventures
The Big Ten also had some surprises last weekend, as Minnesota went to Columbus and claimed a 5-4 victory over last-place Ohio State, but it was a battle. The Gophers rallied for a 1-1 tie in the second game, but the Buckeyes stole the extra point in the shootout. The result dropped the Gophers to 0-3 in games decided by shootouts this season. 

But the Gophers still have work to do to get to the top, where Michigan State swept Notre Dame 5-2 and 2-1 in East Lansing to claim first place with a 7-1-2 record and 25 points. That’s ahead of Wisconsin (8-2) with 24 points, after the Badgers swept Penn State 6-3 and 4-1 in Madison. Minnesota follows at 5-4-3 with 17 points, then comes Notre Dame (4-4-2) with 15 points, Michigan (3-5-1) for 11 points, Penn State (2-5-3) with 11 points, and Ohio State (0-8-1) for 1 point.

The women, not to be left out, had their own adventures in the WCHA last weekend, as Minnesota knocked off Wisconsin 5-3 in Minneapolis before the Badgers responded with a 5-1 win in the second game. First-place Ohio State extended its lead by sweeping MSU-Mankato 6-1 and 4-1 in Columbus. And St. Cloud State proved the seriousness of its intentions by splitting a series with Minnesota Duluth at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center.

So, the Buckeyes are first at 13-1 for a whopping 37 points, followed by Minnesota (10-3-1) with 33 points, Wisconsin (10-4) with 31 points, St. Cloud State (8-5-1) with 25 points, UMD (8-6) with 24 points, MSU-Mankato (3-11) with 9 points, Bemidji State (2-12) with 6 points, and St. Thomas (1-13) with 3 points.

The correct answer, therefore, to the question of which conference had the most and biggest surprises through the first half of this season is — all of them! Ho-Ho-Ho! But all that does is make us certain that after a welcome pass for Christmas, the surprises will just keep on coming in the second half.

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Minnesota to hang fourth consecutive conference title banner

Minneapolis — A series split in Michigan opened the door for the Gophers fourth consecutive regular season title, and Minnesota swept their way right on through with 5-0 and 6-2 wins over Penn State.

The Gophers (21-12-3, 12-5-3-0) got goals in the second period from Hudson Fasching, Ryan Collins, and two from Kyle Rau to pull away from the Nittany Lions (18-14-4, 10-9-1-0) in front of 10,178 on Saturday night at Mariucci Arena.

Minnesota fell behind early in the first period when one of their former players Max Gardiner started off the scoring for Penn State by tipping in a shot from Zach Saar. The Gophers answered with two goals from Seth Ambroz and Hudson Fasching 20 seconds apart at the end of the period, and then held on after their four goal second period.

The win capped off a February and March turnaround that saw the team finish the season by winning nine of their last 12 games.

“Two months ago, who would have thought we’d be standing here,” said Rau. “I’m really proud of the guys and I think we’ve really grown as a hockey team catching our stride at the right time of the year.”

The senior class of Rau, Ambroz, Travis Boyd, Christian Isackson, Ben Marshall, and Sam Warning became the first-ever class of Gophers to win four consecutive regular season conference titles in the program’s 94-year history.

The Gophers started out the season as Big Ten favorites and the top-ranked team in both the USCHO.com and USA Today polls. The Gophers held onto that ranking through the first six weeks of the season, but then a few losses in November started Minnesota’s fall. The team then struggled through a 3-5-2 January stint that sent them tumbling out of the college hockey polls and onto the PairWise Ranking bubble.

“It’s easy to point fingers and stuff like that,” Ambroz said. “I think as we realized we still have the ability to reach all the goals we want, we finally came together here later in the season and able to play we are consistently.”

Rau attributed the losses to turnovers and bad rush sorting, but said his team has improved in those areas and can now count on them as strengths. They’ll certainly need to continue their strong play through at least Friday night.

The Gophers held their ground as the No. 12 team in the PairWise Ranking after Saturday’s games. The NCAA gives automatic bids to six conferences post-season tournament champions on Selection Sunday. Teams need to be in the top ten to assure themselves a post-season bid, but traditionally getting into the top 13 is considered safe.

“It was great we won the Big Ten, but we want to keep playing and had we not won tonight it would have dropped us to maybe 17 or 18 [in the PairWise] and now you’re forced to win the Big Ten Championship to get a bid,” said Lucia “There is still work to be done obviously, we’ve never won the playoff title with this group.”

While the challenge of a Big Ten Tournament title is ahead, Minnesota needs to at least win Friday to avoid sitting on the bubble come next Sunday. As the top seed for the Big Ten Tournament at Detroit’s Joe Louis Arena, Minnesota will play the winner of fourth-seeded Penn State versus the fifth seed, Ohio State, on Friday at 3:30 CT. Michigan State locked up the second seed and will play the winner of third-seeded Michigan against the sixth seed, Wisconsin, on Friday at 7:00 CT.

The winner then advances to the championship game on Saturday night at 7:00 CT and all the games will be covered by the Big Ten Network.

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“New” Players Guide Gopher Women in 8-0 Win

There was no offseason rust for the No. 1 University of Minnesota women’s hockey team against Penn State Friday night. Not that there would have been any excuses. Six months removed from its last game, Minnesota had several players back from an extended time off the ice.

The two-time defending WCHA champions got help from a pair of them and more.

The Golden Gophers (1-0-0, 0-0-0-0 WCHA) came out at Ridder Arena in championship form, taming the Nittany Lions (0-1-0, 0-0-0-0 CHA) by going 4 of 5 on the power play en route to an 8-0 win in the team’s opening game.

“I’m very happy with the win tonight,” Minnesota women’s head coach Brad Frost said after the game. “Even though (Penn State) gave up 8 goals, I thought they played tremendous.”

Aside from a slow opening 10 minutes, it looked like Minnesota could have played at the same fast paced level for an additional 60 minutes.

Penn State, making the program’s first-ever visit to Ridder, initially stood toe to toe with the Gophers. The Nittany Lions had a power play and 5-4 shot advantage before the tides turned quickly. Junior defenseman Milica McMillen and sophomore forward Dani Cameranesi both beat PSU goalie Celine Whitlinger 1:32 apart to give Minnesota a 2-0 lead and force Penn State to take a timeout 9:36 into the game.

Both Gophers scored twice Friday, with McMillen’s pair each coming with the team having an extra skater. Cameranesi’s new linemate, Patty Kazmaier finalist Hannah Brandt, had three points (1G-2A) for her 26^th career game with three points or more.

One player who could have had rust against Penn State yet didn’t was redshirt freshman goalie Sidney Peters who earned a shutout in her first collegiate game. The Geneva, Ill. native spent all last season practicing with the team without getting into a game. She found out Wednesday that she would be getting the nod against Penn State.

Peters made the most of it, making 15 saves in front of her family including a first-period breakaway on Nittany Lion forward Shannon Yoxheimer.

“I don’t think there are words to describe how special a moment this was,” said Peters, adding she would always remember her first collegiate save. “Just that one game was truly magical.”

Joining her in having an extended layoff was redshirt sophomore defenseman Lee Stecklein. Spending last season with the United State Olympic Team and being off since February, Stecklein had a pair of shots tipped by teammates for goals.

“Our forwards are incredible. I don’t know how they hit the puck out of the air like that. It’s something that I’ve never been able to do and that’s why I shoot the puck,” she said. “Great tips. That’s what we need and that’s their job.

She also impacted the ice on her own end.

“Obviously Lee was +3 tonight and had a lot of blocked shots,” added Frost. “She was just a calming presence back there and dependable. Now we have her running the power play back there, which she didn’t do her freshman year.”

As the game went on, the play and speed from the blue line in the offensive zone stymied Penn State, whose team featured seven Minnesotans familiar to the Gophers (including freshman forward Caitlin Reilly, sister of Gopher men’s hockey trio Mike, Connor and Ryan).

Brandt, McMillen and Cameranesi scored in the second period to extend the Minnesota lead to a 5-0. In the third period it was Meghan Lorence and freshman Cara Piazza each tallying power-play goals on Whitlinger, who made 40 saves Friday.

Sophomore defenseman Kelsey Cline made it 8-0 12 seconds after Piazza’s first collegiate goal.

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In Friday’s opening game, #6 Boston University defeated St. Cloud State 5-2 with three unanswered goals in the final 4:09 Friday.

Junior forward Rebecca Russo sped past a Huskies defender and beat SCSU goalie Julie Friend to give the Terriers a 3-2 lead that opened the floodgates. Twenty-six seconds after Russo’s goal, returning Canadian Olympian Marie-Phillip Poulin scored her first goal of the season, followed two minutes later by teammate Victoria Bach to put things completely out of reach for St. Cloud State.

Minnesota will face the Terriers tomorrow at 7 p.m. CT.

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Mersch scores twice, leads Wisconsin into Big Ten championship game.

SAINT PAUL—When the Penn State Nittany Lions faced off against the University of Wisconsin Badgers Friday afternoon, it was tough to predict how this game would go. Just nine seconds into the game, PSU goaltender Matthew Skoff had to smother a puck after a big save off a Badgers two on one rush. That first play was an indication of how things might go.

The Badgers dominated the first period of play, creating a handful of quality scoring opportunities. The Penn State defense surrendered more than a few turnovers in their own zone that gave UW scoring opportunities in close. But Skoff was brilliant in goal, turning away all ten shots he faced, which included some back-to-back rebounds. Though the Nittany Lions held the Badgers off the board in the first period, they couldn’t find the back of the net either until early in the second period.

Just 55 seconds into the second period, PSU’s Curtis Loik buried the games first goal on a highlight reel play. Coming into the offensive zone on a two on one rush, Loik redirected a perfect pass into the net that teammate Kenny Brooks chipped over a sliding Badger defenseman to get to him.

The Nittany Lions lead was short lived though, as just 32 seconds later the Badgers tied the game at 1-1 when Jefferson Dahl found Michael Mersch crashing down the slot. Mersch made a slick move to his forehand around Skoff to finish the play.

“Our mindset on the bench was to respond to get the momentum back,” Wisconsin coach Mike Eaves said.

Both teams traded chances in the second period, with Wisconsin controlling the majority of play. Though the Nittany Lions looked poised to head into the locker room again tied, the Badgers were able to take the lead.

After a late bench minor penalty for too many men on the ice sent UW on the power play, it was Mersch again who capitalized on a great pass from Mark Zengerle. Mersch’s second goal of the game gave the Badgers a 2-1 lead with just 10.5 seconds remaining in the second period.

“Everyone contributed,” Mersch said. “I’m glad I could contribute with the goals, but everyone played a role.”

The third period saw Penn State make a big push as they spent most of the period in the Badgers defensive zone. The Nittany Lions had plenty of opportunities to tie this game, but seemed just inches way every time. The period would go scoreless, giving the Badgers the win and advancing them into tomorrow night’s Big Ten championship game.

As for PSU, their season has come to an end. They showed promise for a program in only its second season. They will definitely be a program on everyone’s college hockey radar in the future.

“We’ve come a long way,” Penn State head coach Guy Gadowsky said. “There’s a big difference in confidence and in maturity.”

The Badgers now look ahead to tomorrow night’s championship game, looking to become the first Big Ten Hockey Tournament champions.

“We want to win the first one,” said Badger goaltender Joel Rumple who finished with 24 saves. “We are treating the game as if you lose you’re done.”

Rumple and the Badgers will play the winner of tonight’s matchup between Minnesota and Ohio State. The puck drops at 7 p.m. tomorrow night to crown the inaugural Big Ten hockey champion.

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Penn State fourth liner’s double-overtime winner knocks Michigan out of B1G tourney.

SAINT PAUL—The Big Ten Men’s Hockey Tournament made its debut in grand style as Michigan and Penn State took over 90 minutes to declare a winner on Thursday afternoon at Xcel Energy Center. Zach Saar’s goal at 12:47 of the second overtime vaulted the No. 6 Nittany Lions over the third-seeded Wolverines 2-1 and into a Friday afternoon semifinal date against No. 2 Wisconsin.

With a faceoff in the Wolverines zone to the left of Michigan goaltender Zach Nagelvoort, PSU freshman center Dylan Richard won the draw and tied up his man long enough for his rookie linemate, Saar, to secure the loose puck and fire a wrist shot through traffic, beating Nagelvoort short side.

Saar, who grew up in Michigan, said just being on the ice with Michigan has special meaning for him but added scoring the game winner against them is, “a dream come true.”

Nagelvoort said he never saw the shooter or the puck and that he, “went down to cover, and the next thing I knew, it was in the net.”

The loss puts Michigan squarely on the outside looking in where the NCAA tournament is concerned but the Wolverines can still get in with the right amount of help.

“We’ve been on kind of a bubble here the last few weeks,” Michigan coach Red Berenson said. “We didn’t help ourselves tonight.”

Despite the low score, the goaltenders were busy in this one with the teams combining for 118 shots, including 51 in the overtimes alone.

Each goaltender posted career-high saves totals with Penn State’s Matthew Skoff backstopping the win with 52 saves while Nagelvoort turned aside 63 of 65 Nittany Lion shots. His previous career best of 39 saves also came against PSU on Feb. 21.

“He gave us a chance all night,” Berenson said of Nagelvoort’s performance. “He kept the game close when we were at our worst and gave us a chance. So I liked his game.”

Michigan and PSU were scoreless through the game’s first 39 minutes before Penn State’s Luke Juha’s long pass sprung Taylor Holmstrom for a breakaway and the eighth goal of the season for the Mercyhurst transfer at 19:37 of the second.

The slim lead held up through the midway point of the third but the Wolverines would not be kept off the board in this one. Phil Di Giuseppe notched his 13th of the season at the 11:06 mark to, ultimately, send the game to overtime.

Gadowsky said the game was an example of the amount of heart his team possesses.

“I really like the fact that we were playing an excellent game and we allowed them to tie it up relatively late,” Gadowsky said. “I don’t think our demeanor changed that much [after that].”

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