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Drew Montgomery has compiled 10 goals and 17 points this season for Colorado College (photo: Casey B. Gibson).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sitting 32nd in the PairWise Rankings, Colorado College isn\u2019t what you\u2019d call a team on the bubble for a NCAA tournament berth this season.<\/p>\n

But with two regular-season games left, plus however far into the postseason the Tigers get, coach Kris Mayotte wants his squad to look the part.<\/p>\n

CC\u2019s series split last weekend at St. Cloud State included a fifth win from the Tigers\u2019 past six games, as the visitors were victorious 4-3 in Friday\u2019s opener. But a 4-2 defeat Saturday kept the Tigers from potentially cutting the gap on Denver in fifth place in the NCHC standings to one point.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, at 17-14-1 this season, CC is where it is.<\/p>\n

But Friday\u2019s victory showed glimpses of what the Tigers\u2019 season still could be. Eleven different CC skaters found their way onto the score sheet, and while four different Tigers scored, goaltender Kaidan Mbereko posted a season-best 42 saves, including 15 in a scoreless third period.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust be him,\u201d Mayotte said of what he wants to see out of Mbereko down the home stretch. \u201cHe\u2019s really good when he\u2019s him.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was also a good, if imperfect, team effort.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we got better as the game went on,\u201d Mayotte said on a night when CC scored three second-period goals. \u201cWe played a team that was off the weekend before, they\u2019re going to have their legs early. That, paired with getting used to the rink a little bit, I thought our first period was pretty sloppy in terms of chances we were giving up and our connectivity, but as we got into the second, you started to see us build our offense a little better and started to see us connect a little better defensively, and we were able to build some transition off of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we all executed really well. The talk on the bench was good, and there\u2019s starting to be a belief. I thought in the third, they had the shot advantage (15-8), and I think a little bit of that is just the nature of the score, but I really liked how we went out and played. We weren\u2019t hanging on. We went out to win the hockey game, and we got the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the script flipped Saturday, when St. Cloud State scored three goals in the first period and then held on to win, again after a scoreless third. Second-period goals from Fisher Scott and Zaccharya Wisdom couldn\u2019t get CC over the hump.<\/p>\n

\u201cI liked the way we played for the majority of tonight,\u201d Mayotte said Saturday. \u201cUnfortunately, we got down early, but we played a lot better than I think what the scoreboard reflects.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou outshoot a team 44-20, you win 70-plus percent of the (faceoff) draws, I loved our discipline tonight, I thought we were generating chances the right way, I thought we were using our speed. We were driving, we were getting to the net. Sometimes it\u2019s hockey, and their goalie (Isak Posch) played really well tonight. I thought he was the difference in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

CC now has one last bye week before finishing the regular season with a home-and-home set March 7-8 against Denver. The teams split their first two Gold Pan series games back in December.<\/p>\n

\u201cGet prepared for a long run,\u201d Mayotte said of his team\u2019s approach the rest of the way. \u201cContinue to get better, obviously, but at the same time, we know we\u2019ve got to go on a run here and win a lot of games to get to where we ultimately want to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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