Just got home from 2 1/2 hours of walleyball - my regular Friday night routine. Pretty much expected to see a Sioux loss when I checked in, and I was right.
Saw the first and part of the second period. My perspective follows.
Sioux were slower paced than SCSU. That is a team that works incredibly hard every shift and made UND look slack, a bit like UND did to UM last weekend.
Huskies just whacked the puck out of their zone every chance they got. UND's tenacious forcheck and minute-long sessions of cycling of the puck (during the UM series) were AWOL tonight.
Tomorrow will be the same outcome unless UND can put even more pressure on the goalie. The Sioux seriously need to work harder tomorrow than they have during any of the games to date. They need to crash the net and get some ugly goals. Otherwise, they'll suffer an SCSU sweep. I was really impressed with how fast and blue-collar the Huskies were tonight.
Time to suck it up and salvage a split. Go Sioux.