The Huskies have apparently reverted to their old ways. After scoring first, to go up 1-0, the Huskies gave up a goal a mere 33 seconds later. The Gophers scored the game winner with 1:30 left in the first.
The Huskies opened the scoring on a Brett Barta goal to take a 1-0 lead at 6:12 of the first. After some nice puck movement down low, Mitch MacMillan passed the puck to Kevin Gravel, who then passed to Barta who buried his head and unleashed a slap shot from the point that beat Kent Patterson, in net for the Gophers.
On a play that I didn't get a good look at, the Gophers managed to beat Dan Dunn at 6:45 of the first. With 1:43 left in the 1st, the Huskies Drew LeBlanc took a penalty for interference. It too the Gophers just 13 seconds to score. The puck took a funny bounce right to Eric Haula, who was standing in front of the Husky net. He passed to Jacob Cepis on the far side, and he passed the puck to Jay Barribal, who shot the puck into a wide open net.
Today's game was completely different than Friday's game for the Huskies. They came out of the gate pretty slow and sluggish, and ended the game controlling play and competing. The Gophers, on the other had, came out of the gate flying. They beat the Huskies to lose pucks all over this ice and created good opportunities for the first two periods of play.
The Huskies found their stride in the third, and had multiple opportunities to tie the game, but Patterson proved too strong in nets for the Huskies.
All-in-all, the Huskies only showed up for 20 minutes of a 60 minute game, and it caught up them here. They should have already learned this in their first few games, but if they don't learn how to play for 60 minutes EVERY night, they're not going to win as many games as they should. Hopefully they'll figure it out soon enough.
