The game, which had been through two periods, started to pick up in the third. Minnesota Duluth scored two goals early in the period, and it looked like they were going to ride those into victory as time ticked down. But North Dakota pulled their goalie down and cut the deficit in half with under two minutes left.
Collin Adams gets the goal with the extra attacker. Und is still in this. Then with their net still empty, team captain Jordan Kawaguchi completed North Dakota's comeback with just 55 seconds left, scoring the game-tying goal. Then they went to overtime. And they kept going, OT after OT. Just a few minutes into the fifth OT, the game almost ended when a North Dakota defenseman clanked a shot off of the Minnesota Duluth goalpost.
Minnesota Duluth answered by zipping up the ice and actually ending the game just into the period. I told the guys after the game, 'This is life. This is what life is. It's not fair. We had a ton of opportunities to win the game. So his teammates owe him a milk shake, too. Courtesy of Notre Dame, here's a look at the highlights from the game that seemed like it would never end. Also, shout out to Irish play-by-play man Darin Pritchett who spent over six hours on the air with no color analyst and had to fill seven intermission segments.
Hopefully his voice still works. The Irish and Minutemen are scheduled to play Game 2 of this best-of-three series at p. ET Saturday night in South Bend. By Chris Peters. Mar 6, at pm ET 1 min read. Steve Mastalerz made 75 saves to backstop UMass to a win in five overtimes. There's three things we always talk about: your work ethic, your attitude and your choices that you make every single day. These guys did it to a T, to an elite level.
Captain Jordan Kawaguchi, who tied the game with an extra-attacker goal in the final minutes, hugged all of UND's players as they left the ice. The Fighting Hawks went 25 minutes without allowing a shot on goal -- including the entire first overtime -- but couldn't finish it off.
Saturday's game wasn't quite so lopsided -- final shots were UND -- but the chances to win it were plentiful. Gavin Hain hit the crossbar in the first overtime. Shane Pinto hit the crossbar in the third overtime. Just as the third overtime ended, Jasper Weatherby entered the zone on a rush, shot a puck that hit Minnesota Duluth goalie Zach Stejskal, fluttered in the air behind him, and landed on top of the net. Sanderson hit the post again in the fifth overtime.
It's one of those things where we needed one more bounce, we needed one more play to score, and we didn't. They gave it their all. It's everything we've asked the whole year of them. They did it tonight again. Not only did UND play the longest game in program history -- the previous record was Dec.
UND senior forward Grant Mismash, who averaged a point per game this season, sustained a leg injury in the second period. He attempted to play a shift in the third, but he couldn't go.
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