UMD sophomore center Zam Plante tied the game late and won it in overtime to give the Bulldogs a 1-0 lead over St. Cloud State in the best-of-three NCHC playoff series at Amsoil Arena in Duluth.
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UMD 4, SCSU 3 OT
Bulldogs take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three series.
Zam Plante wins a faceoff and shoots the puck through to start the PP.
Bulldogs win it 4-3 3:30 into OT.
Amazing. Looks like he tied up Miettinen to get that shot off.
Truman takes a high stick to the face. UMD PP. 16:35 to go in OT1.
3-3 vs SCSU
OT underway in Duluth between UMD and SCSU.
3-3
Overtime in Duluth.
Bulldogs 3, Huskies 3
Game 1 of a best-of-three NCHC series.
UMD taking a timeout with 22.9 seconds left after taking the lead.
Sandelin must have to let the dog out and would like to try and win this in regulation yet.
ZAM!
Tie game.
22.9 seconds left.
Tip from Hanson.
3-3
UMD pulls Gajan with a second left on the PP and faceoff coming in SCSU zone
UMD going on the PP down 3-2 in Game 1 at home against St. Cloud State with 3:13 to go in regulation.
Correction, 22 not 28.
Roed had that one.
SCSU back in front 3-2 with 5:26 to go via some solid puck movement to get Thoreson an open shot.
Arnott did not get a piece of it.
All Kleber.
Tie game
That one should count
2-2 with 7:15 to go
Kleber shot deflected on by Arnott?
Pionk puts the puck in on a feed from Siepmann but the goal is immediately waved off for goalie interferenve.
Bibby made contact with Shostak.
No challenge from UMD on that one.
2-1 SCSU with 7:41 to go in the third.
SOG now 30-21 UMD
Pionk tripped and UMD going on the PP after a couple good looks by the top line on its last shift.
2-1 SCSU with 15:05 to go in the third in Duluth.
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UMD kills it
UMD on the PK to start the third down 2-1 at home to SCSU
End of the second period
SCSU 2, UMD 1
Bulldogs had Shostak scrambling. He got caught out in Proctor after making a stop on Hanson, but couldn't tie it.
Kleber then got called for interference at the end of the second, so SCSU gets a PP to start the third.
Bulldogs on the board.
Siepmann with a great feed to Gaffney in front.
2-1 SCSU over UMD with 3:58 to go in the second.
A turnover along the wall in the UMD zone leads to a 2-0 SCSU lead with under 8:00 to go in the second period.
Thoreson took the puck from Pionk and just chucked it on net.
We are going to attempt to play 5-on-5 hockey now with 14:41 to go in the second.
All penalties expired.
1-0 SCSU at UMD
Penalty parade.
SCSU kills the final 12 sec of its PP with a slash.
1-0 SCSU
16:45 to go in the second
UMD kills off that Bodnarchuk penalty to start the second, but now Cleveland is in the box for hooking.
Woof.
SCSU back on the PP leading 1-0
Gajan back out for the Bulldogs to start the second period in net.
Calm down @bruceciskie.bsky.social.
Gajan did the splits on his save at the end, but I can't tell if he was in pain or exhausted. He walked off on his own.
End of the first period
SCSU 1, UMD 0
Huskies with 1:13 of a PP to start the second after Bodnarchuk turned the puck over to Gross, then held Gross at the end of the breakaway.
Gajan with some big saves after giving up that first goal.
SOG 11-6 SCSU
