{"id":19733,"date":"2014-11-22T21:22:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T03:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/?p=19733"},"modified":"2014-11-22T21:22:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T03:22:57","slug":"minnesota-duluth-completes-sweep-of-cornell-with-2-0-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/2014\/11\/22\/minnesota-duluth-completes-sweep-of-cornell-with-2-0-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota-Duluth completes sweep of Cornell with 2-0 win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minnesota-Duluth got the best of special-teams play and parlayed that into a 2-0 win over visiting Cornell and a series sweep.<\/p>\n

“I’m extremely proud of our team this weekend,” coach Shannon Miller said. “We played with great discipline, composure, and we were resilient. I thought we were all those things for six periods this weekend, and this team can win a national championship.”<\/p>\n

Ashleigh Brykaliuk and Zoe Hickel scored in the first six minutes of the second period for the Bulldogs (10-4-2, 5-4-1-1 WCHA).<\/p>\n

Kayla Black made 22 saves to earn the shutout, the biggest when Cornell (3-6-0, 3-2-0 ECAC) had two short-handed breakaways just after the halfway point of the opening frame. Black denied Brianne Jenner on one attempt, and stoned Jillian Saulnier a bit later.<\/p>\n

“Those two players are so good, and when they get free, they’re taking the puck to the net by themselves; they’re so skilled,” Miller said. “So that was huge for us, turning the momentum.”<\/p>\n

In hindsight, Cornell likely needed a tally there for a different outcome.<\/p>\n

“That certainly would have helped,” coach Doug Derraugh said. “It makes it a totally different game. We had two of our best breakaway people in Brianne Jenner and Jill Saulnier, and the goalie did a great job of keeping it out.”<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs got a short-handed two-on-one rush of their own a minute into the second period and Brykaliuk ladled a pass to Jenna McParland that wound up behind her, but she sent it back and Brykaliuk was standing in front of a wide-open net.<\/p>\n

Less than five minutes after that short-hander, Lara Stalder fed Hickel going to the net after the Big Red had got one player back on the ice while on a five-on-three penalty kill, and Hickel snuck the puck by Paula Voorheis.<\/p>\n

“We had a little letdown there in the second period, and they took advantage on a couple of opportunities,” Derraugh said. “That changed the whole game.”<\/p>\n

“I thought our power play was good, even though we were one-for-nine tonight,” Miller said.<\/p>\n

The game had a couple scary moments for each side. Taylor Woods went heavily into the boards after a checking infraction on the Bulldogs at the end of period one, and five minutes into the final period, Stalder took a stick around the neck area and went down at center ice. Both were able to return to action.<\/p>\n

Cornell is now off until a key game with Mercyhurst in December, while UMD heads to Bemidji State for a crucial league series to close out November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minnesota-Duluth got the best of special-teams play and parlayed that into a 2-0 win over visiting Cornell and a series sweep. “I’m extremely proud of our team this weekend,” coach Shannon Miller said. “We played with great discipline, composure, and we were resilient. I thought we were all those things for six periods this weekend, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"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":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19733"}],"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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19734,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19733\/revisions\/19734"}],"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=19733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19733"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}