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GOAL Stands! Kozek from Genoway and Frattin. 13:55

GOAL!!!GOAL!!!GOAL!!!GOAL!!!GOAL!!!GOAL!!!GOAL!!!GOAL!!!GOAL!!!GOAL!!!GOAL!!!GOAL!!!GOAL!!!GOAL!!! Kozek!! Edit - under review. Kozek may have been in the crease....

Decent shift. Chorney with a blast from center slot. Duncan goes high glove. Very nice, but long, shift for our #1 PP guys. Just couldn't get it past Zacharias.

Now Oshie draws a penalty and its 4x3. Come on guys, let's build that lead. 7:46 left.

Yup. Mankato executes a beautiful 3 on 2 and the trailer shoots it wide high-glove. We got lucky.

Half-time! Still 2-1.

Wow! Oshie with a glorious chance. Came down the right side, faked the shot, then circled and almost beat Zach to the far post.

Yup. We had almost nothing. I don't like the smell of this. MSU jump is good right now.

PP over. One good chance late. 6:30 into the second, still 2-1.

4: in. Nothing happening. Still 2-1.

Game on. Mavs with a good first shift and a chance.

Berge got open because his man got picked. (And the Sioux covering the picker was a couple steps back.)

End of 1. 2-1 Sioux. SOG MSU 10, UND 10. VV from Chorney, Bina 8:34 PPG Duncan from Oshie, SHG 9:58 Berge from Sackrison 15:47

Dang. 2-1. Berge. 4: left in the first.

Talent drives special teams. Mankato is a couple puck wizards away from a dominating team ... they are strong on their skates, they play their system, but they just don't score much.

Mav powerplay. 10: left in the first. Still 1-0. 2-0!!!!! Duncan!!!!! Oshie wins the draw in the Mav end, gets a shot, Zach leaves a big rebound and Duncs buried it.

Sweet wrister from 20'. Duncan won't get an assist, but his screen left Zacharias with no eyes.

Sioux powerplay not generating much. Oshie with a long wrister. Duncan fans on a wrister from the Spot ?!? that's a first. Killed off, but a "let's go Sioux!" chant starts up. 7: in. No score. And another Mav penalty.

Bruess' mom, if she was a REAL hockey mom, would have told him to "put on your fight strap, dear" because Kaip would be looking for revenge.

I can see where Mankato has had success, especially against teams that don't like getting hit. They are physical and work that angle well. Fortunately for us, UND plays better in that kind of game. Shinny is not our style. We'll need to be better tonight ... need to create more "riding time", make the Mavs chase us, cycle the puck deep.

Anybody think Mankato players will put their fight straps on tomorrow?

THE FRIDAY CURSE IS BROKEN!!!!!! FINAL 2-1!!! Nice last 90 seconds, we kept ragging the puck and dumping it back deep.... sweet.

2:40 left. still 2-1. Game opening up. Come on Sioux close the door.

Stafford with 3 goals and 2 assists tonight. http://scores.espn.go.com/nhl/boxscore?gameId=280118002 I'd be happy if we can just keep MSU at "1".

Frattin with a good chance ... ARGH!!!! I hope these up-close missed glorious chances don't come back to haunt us.