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SCSU, Michigan Tech prepared for informal hockey clash
The 2nd, 3rd seeds in NCAA West Regional accommodate during 3:30 p.m. Friday
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FARGO, N.D. – Michigan Tech is a hockey group that has not played in a NCAA Division we contest given 1981.
But Tech goes into a West Regional semifinals tied for a inhabitant lead in wins (29-9-2) and has certainty going into Friday when it plays St. Cloud State (19-18-1) during 3:30 p.m. during Scheels Arena (ESPN3).
“We usually watched (St. Cloud State) a small bit during practice, and we know that they can movement good and they’ve got some smaller guys who can unequivocally pierce a puck,” Tech youth brazen Alex Petan said. “We usually need to play a hockey and we’ll be alright.”
The leader of Friday’s diversion plays for a informal pretension and a outing to a Frozen Four during 8 p.m. Saturday (ESPNU). Friday’s other semifinal diversion has top-seeded North Dakota (27-9-3) personification fourth-seeded Quinnipiac (23-11-4) during 7 p.m. (ESPNU).
Tech plays a home games in Houghton, Michigan, and is a least-known group in a informal on a inhabitant level. North Dakota is personification in a 13th true NCAA contest and reached a Frozen Four final season.
St. Cloud State and Quinnipiac are both creation their third true appearances and played one another in a Frozen Four in 2013 — a usually year St. Cloud won regionals. So what does Tech do well?
“When we’re personification during a best, we’re skating and everyone’s relocating their feet,” Blake Pietila pronounced of Tech’s character of play. “When we’re not removing pucks low (in a descent zone), we consider that’s when we get into trouble.
“I consider we need to play a elementary diversion and make St. Cloud’s defensemen go behind and play a puck, we should have some success.”
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Tech goes into a informal second in goals opposite per diversion (1.77), sixth in goals-per-game (3.55) and seventh on a energy play (21.6 percent).
Tech is led by comparison brazen Tanner Kero (19 goals, 45 points) and youth goalie Jamie Phillips. Phillips is third in a republic in goals-against normal (1.71) and save commission (.935) and leads a republic in wins (28).
“It looks like they have a unequivocally industrious group and a good goalie,” St. Cloud State youth brazen David Morley said. “They have some descent players who can unequivocally make some plays that we need to be wakeful of.
“They’re a good forechecking group and they work hard, so we’re going to have to compare that tomorrow and move a ‘A’ game.”
Tech finished second in a WCHA during a unchanging deteriorate and runner-up in a discussion tournament. The approach his group played final weekend in a discussion contest has Tech manager Mel Pearson, a former University of Michigan assistant, confident.
“Minnesota State is as good as anybody in a nation and it was a good lead-up to this weekend and we consider that will assistance a players,” Pearson said. “I consider we can simulate on how tighten those games were and how tough we had to play.
“I can’t take a sorcery wand and, bang, now you’ve got knowledge in an NCAA tournament,” pronounced Pearson, who played for Tech in a inhabitant contest in 1981. “But behind in my day, we didn’t have it possibly and we went to a Frozen Four.”
AGAINST TOURNAMENT COMPETITION
Tech has played 7 games this deteriorate opposite teams that done a NCAA contest margin and went 1-5-1 in those games. Four of a waste and a tie were to WCHA champion Minnesota State-Mankato, that is a No. 1 altogether seed in a tournament. Tech played horde to Minnesota-Duluth in Dec and separate a array with a Bulldogs.
St. Cloud State, that finished sixth in a NCHC in a unchanging season, played 26 games opposite teams that reached a NCAA contest and went 12-14 in those games, including 4-1 in a final 5 games.
INJURY UPDATES
St. Cloud State Coach Bob Motzko had a one-word answer when asked if St. Cloud State’s 3 harmed players are approaching to play.
“Yes,” he said.
Senior defensemen Tim Daly (upper body) and Andrew Prochno (hand) and youth brazen Kalle Kossila (upper body) have used with St. Cloud State via a week. Prochno and Kossila both missed final weekend’s games in a NCHC Frozen Faceoff since of their injuries. Daly suffered his damage after removing strike in a third duration of a championship game.
FARGO RETURN
There will be 4 St. Cloud State players and one Michigan Tech actor creation visits to a former home this weekend.
St. Cloud State’s Jonny Brodzinski, Jimmy Murray, Nick Oliver and Joe Rehkamp and Michigan Tech’s Tanner Kero all played during slightest partial of their youth hockey careers for a Fargo Force of a United States Hockey League.
“It creates it a small additional special and we’re all, obviously, vehement for that,” Kero said. “To be behind in a stable where we used to play, it’s flattering cold and it should be a fun weekend.”
St. Cloud State youth defenseman Jarrod Rabey pronounced there has been some fun jabs being thrown around his team’s locker room about a trip.
“It’s an ongoing fun in a locker room that this is Oliver’s homecoming,” Rabey said. Oliver played 140 games for Fargo, and his relatives live about an hour divided in East Grand Forks. “It’s genuine full round for those (four) guys and they’ve swung behind around and are behind in Fargo.”
Oliver pronounced that there are a lot of memories influenced by being behind in Scheels Arena.
“It’s really flattering special to get behind and see a aged faces and we get to see people we don’t get to see that often,” Oliver said. “There’s (10) of us in a informal who played for Fargo, so it’s cold for a lot of us.
“At a same time, it’s a business trip. We can suffer it for a small bit, though it’s a business outing and we’re here to win dual games.”
PROBABLE LINEUPS
NO. 12 SCSU (19-18-1)
NO. 7 MICHIGAN TECH (29-9-2)
St. Cloud State statistical leaders
Michigan Tech statistical leaders
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MEN’S HOCKEY
NCAA DIVISION we TOURNAMENT
West Regional
(at Scheels Arena, Fargo, North Dakota)
Games Friday
St. Cloud State (19-18-1) vs. Michigan Tech (29-9-2), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN3).
North Dakota (27-9-3) vs. Quinnipiac (23-11-4), 7 p.m. (ESPNU).
Championship Saturday
Friday’s winners, 8 p.m. (ESPNU).
Northeast Regional
(at Verizon Wireless Arena, Manchester, New Hampshire)
Games Friday
Boston University (25-7-5) vs. Yale (18-9-5), 1 p.m. (ESPNU).
Minnesota-Duluth (20-15-3) vs. Minnesota (23-12-3), 4:30 p.m. (ESPNU).
Championship Saturday
Friday’s winners, 4:30 p.m. (ESPN2).
Midwest Regional
(at Compton Family Ice Arena, South Bend, Indiana)
Games Saturday
Minnesota State-Mankato (29-7-3) vs. RIT (19-14-5), 3 p.m. (ESPNU).
Nebraska-Omaha (18-12-6) vs. Harvard (21-12-3), 6:30 p.m. (ESPN3).
Championship Sunday
Saturday’s winners, 6:30 p.m. (ESPNU).
East Regional
(at Dunkin’ Donuts Center, Providence, R.I.)
Games Saturday
Miami (25-13-1) vs. Providence (22-13-2), 5:30 p.m. (ESPNU).
Denver (23-13-2) vs. Boston College (21-13-3), 2 p.m. (ESPN2).
Championship Sunday
Saturday’s winners, 4 p.m. (ESPNU).
FROZEN FOUR
(at TD Garden, Boston)
Semifinals Apr 9
West Regional champion vs. Northeast Regional champion (ESPN2)
Midwest Regional champion vs. East Regional champion (ESPN2)
Championship Apr 11
April 9 winners, 6:30 p.m. (ESPN).
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