HOUGHTON, Mich. - The Michigan Tech hockey team tied the WCHA record for most ties in league play with seven after skating to a 2-2 tie with No. 15 Minnesota Duluth Saturday (Feb. 22). Tech became the seventh team in league history to record seven ties and improved on its own record of six set in 1995-96.
Michigan Tech is now 5-22-7 overall and 1-18-7 in WCHA play and Duluth is 16-9-7 overall and 10-8-6 in the league.
“I thought we played well tonight. I was happy with our performance,” said head coach
Jamie Russell. “I really challenged the team after the second period. We challenged individuals in the room before the third and we asked who wanted to step up, who wanted to be a leader, who wants to be put in that situation to be successful and get the tap on the shoulder to get the job done.”
For the second straight night the Huskies got on the board first. Sophomore
Jordan Baker created a turnover in front of the Bulldogs bench and then skated in on junior Alex Stalock and scored his 14th goal of the season unassisted at 7:39 of the first period.
Senior Michael Gergen tied the game at 1-1 after he scored his eighth goal of the season off a pass from senior Andrew Carroll. Senior Nick Kemp also assisted on the goal at 12:36 of the first period.
UMD took a 2-1 lead in the second period after scoring the lone power play goal of the game at 13:31 of the second period. Senior Josh Meyers fired a shot from the blue line that dipped on its way to the net and hit the cross bar before finding the net. Meyers was assisted on his eighth goal of the season by freshman Mike Connolly.
Senior
Derek Kitti tied the game at 2-2 with his third goal of the season at 7:08 of the third. Junior
John Kivisto picked up his fourth assist of the year on the play.
Freshman
Josh Robinson (3-8-2) made 28 saves on 30 shots in his fifth straight start for the Huskies.
Stalock (15-9-7) made 19 saves on 21 shots for the Bulldogs.
Michigan Tech will take next weekend off (Feb. 28-March 1) before hosting Minnesota in the final series of the regular season March 6-7.
Photo Credit: Michigan Tech
