Re: Michigan Tech 2012-13 Season II - Beware of Huskies in the Spoiler Role...
So happy the Furne goal/no-goal didn't impact the game.
Good discipline tonight, we kind of did what Stephen Anderson tweeted about quoting the Grand Forks Herald writer, "One big mistake Tech made was getting involved with scrumes and taking bad penalties, the best way to beat UND is to lull the place to sleep. All they did during those scrums was get The Ralph riled up.
Mel's postgame thoughts:
What can you say, just told the guys we're not surprised as a coaching staff, they shouldn't be either, we played well last night but no moral victories
They keep giving great effort, they lose Rix, already without D. Johstone, the guys ralied, can't say enough about them
UND had won 14 straight playoff games, we live to see another game, tomorrow will be a heack of a game
Pheonix made a couple great saves, the breakwaway by Grimaldi, great save, and then the other way great backhand by Eick
They pushed us in teh 3rd, we didnt' play as well as I thought, we were down some bodies, but we earned this win
So proud of our players, they represent MTU so well, game on
Look at the shots, not a big difference between these two hockey clubs, we outshot them both nights, we're doing a lot of good things
Saunders played very well for them too,
Mel's ecstatic, so happy for our players, told them, we have a new breed of huskies, the old breed has been sent to pasture
We skated play, we'll make mistakes but it's how you handle/recover from them, we did a great job, when we needed Pheonix stepped up and did well
1 game and I like where we're at, we've got some confidence, we have a golie playing well, we've got speed & physicallity
3 games in 3 days, will be more of an endurance test
Can guys skate tomorrow morn? Haven't let guys skate Friday or Saturday, while UND has had brisk skates, hopefully that strategy will pay dividends.
Have to finish it off, we'll give it everything we have.
On the Furne goal/no-goal? Mel - haven't seen it, would really like to see it Dirk - unvelivble no-one had any idea it went in Mel - it doesn't matter, hopefully some puck luck carries over to tomorrow