ST. CLOUD, Minn. — At least UMD got to play a few home games before returning here.
It’s been 250 days since St. Cloud State ended UMD’s season on March 12, a 3-1 win in Game 3 of their first round NCHC playoff series.
(To put that in perspective, the trip to SCSU rotated off UMD’s WCHA schedule in 2007-2008, and the teams didn’t meet in this building for almost two full calendar years because of it. After this weekend, UMD will have played 11 games here in 649 days. Anyone got a lead on a time-share?)
Anyway, you know the story by now. Bulldogs are winless in six, desperately trying to find their footing at five on five, where they’ve struck just three times in those six games (four power play goals). We’ll see if UMD can spread out the Huskies in the offensive zone and generate some possession time. With that can come all sorts of good things.
Lots of changes up front for UMD, as the Bulldogs threw the forwards in a blender.
Matthew Thiessen makes his fourth straight start in net against Dominic Basse, who has started all 11 for SCSU.
Lines?
Lines.
UMD forwards
Olson – Spicer – Biondi
McMenamin – Perkins – Steeves
Menghini – Loney – Loheit
Johnson – Smith – Bettens
UMD defense
Pionk – Pierce
Bast – Gotz
Gallatin – Dubinsky
Bodnarchuk
UMD goalies
Thiessen – Stejskal
St. Cloud State forwards
Kupka – Salquist – Molenaar
Miettinen (Veeti) – Miettinen (Verner) – Okabe
Ingram – Hall – Rogers
Ahcan – Rosborough – Reimann
St. Cloud State defense
Anhorn – Luedtke
Peart – Wylie
Ewart – Clark
Falk
St. Cloud State goalies
Basse – Posch – Gray
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