{"id":1940,"date":"2001-02-23T13:32:10","date_gmt":"2001-02-23T19:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2001\/02\/23\/vezina-backstops-river-falls-past-st-norbert\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T11:54:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:54:31","slug":"vezina-backstops-river-falls-past-st-norbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/2001\/02\/23\/vezina-backstops-river-falls-past-st-norbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Vezina Backstops River Falls Past St. Norbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sophomore goaltender Jacque Vezina stopped 29 shots and Joe Dustin broke a tie with his second goal of the season as  Wisconsin-River Falls defeated St. Norbert 2-1 in the NCHA semifinals  Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Vezina was sharp all night, including a perfect third period when he saved all 11 Green Knight shots. The Green Knights had a chance to tie the game in the last two minutes when Jamie Steinert received a two-minute minor for charging the goaltender, but St. Norbert couldn&#8217;t get one by Vezina.<\/p>\n<p>Dustin scored the game-winner at the 16:44 mark of the second period. After his first shot from the point was blocked, the defenseman regained control  around the left faceoff dot and fired a wrister past Green Knight  netminder Ryan Gill.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons took the early lead on Jeff Bernard&#8217;s 20th goal of the season, a power-play goal at 8:49 of the second period.<\/p>\n<p>St. Norbert tied the game at 12:03 on a breakaway goal by Maris Ziedins. Officials called 26 penalties, totaling 52 minutes. The Falcons went 1-for-4 on the power play while the Green Knights were held scoreless on four  attempts.<\/p>\n<p>River Falls can win the series Saturday with a victory or a tie. If St. Norbert wins, the teams play a 20-minute minigame. The winner moves on to  the NCHA championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophomore goaltender Jacque Vezina stopped 29 shots and Joe Dustin broke a tie with his second goal of the season as Wisconsin-River Falls defeated St. Norbert 2-1 in the NCHA semifinals Friday night. Vezina was sharp all night, including a perfect third period when he saved all 11 Green Knight shots. The Green Knights had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}