OXFORD, Ohio — After a nice rally following a very slow start Friday, look for UMD to do everything in its power to start the game on time here, as the Bulldogs finish up their first-half schedule against the RedHawks.
After Saturday’s games around the NCHC are complete, UMD will be the next league team to play a game, but that won’t happen until Dec. 28 in Milwaukee, when the Bulldogs face Northeastern to open the Kwik Trip Holiday Faceoff at Fiserv Forum.
Players have finals coming up if they haven’t already taken some of them, and they will be able to disperse for a brief time. Like a lot of teams after 16ish games over a ten-ish week span, there are bumps and bruises (and worse) that some players will be able to get healed up before they return.
I’ll file a midseason blog at some point over the break, but I want to take a second and thank all of you for your support of this program and our broadcasts. It’s your support (and our wonderful sponsors, obvs) that keep us being able to cover this team the way we try to. Thanks to the powers that be at the radio station, as well, because they remain committed to doing this the right way, which sometimes means sending me on four-day trips that are not cheap.
Anyway, only change for UMD is the return of 13 forwards and six defensemen, as Luke Johnson draws in for Riley Bodnarchuk. Miami makes one defensive change, as Spencer Cox draws in for Rihards Simanovics.
Zach Stejskal vs Logan Neaton.
Lines?
Lines.
UMD forwards
Olson – Spicer – Biondi
Steeves – Perkins – Bettens
McMenamin – Loney – Loheit
Menghini – Smith – Kleven
Johnson
UMD defense
Pionk – Gotz
Gallatin – Dubinsky
Bast – Pierce
UMD goalies
Stejskal – Thiessen
Miami forwards
Barbolini – Vitolins – Fletcher
Dukovac – Hallen – Waldron
Turansky – Daskas – Sullivan
Morrison – Mesenberg
Miami defense
Moulton – Clement
Feenstra – Kumlin
Cox – Drazner
Demsey – Rydqvist
Miami goalies
Neaton – Bruveris – McPhail
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