A WCHA showdown between two promising Caps’ prospects last night went the way of Travis Morin and Minnesota State, who in shocking fashion on the road scored 5 goals in the game’s final 15 minutes to upend Andrew Gordon and his 4th-ranked St. Cloud St. Huskies 6-4. Gordon scored a goal for the Huskies, but Morin went 1 and 2 for the Mavericks. A rematch at Minnesota State takes place tonight.
Even more shocking was the sub-.500 Wisconsin Badgers taking out no. 1 ranked Minnesota 2-1. Caps’ prospect Andrew Joudrey had the primary assist on the game-winner. Minnesota’s last loss? Twenty four games earlier, on opening night, October 6, against Maine. The victory was the 1,000th in Wisconsin Badgers’ hockey history. Not a bad way to earn no. 1,000, upsetting no. 1.
Senior Joudrey leads the Badgers in scoring, with 4 goals and 15 assists in 23 games, but Mike Eaves’ club is pretty anemic in the offensive end. Still, Joudrey is a likely Caps’ training camp attendee this September, and he may get a good look as a defensive forward in Hershey. He wears the ‘C’ for Wisconsin.
Caps’ collegiate netminder prospect Justin Mrazek stopped all 24 shots he faced in Union’s 5-0 win over Rensselear last night. While the Engineers are seriously struggling this season, they did enjoy 10 power play chances against Union.
Speaking of Hershey, they were led by a gladiator last night . . . Maximus Daigneault, who stopped all 30 Binghamton shots he faced plus four more in a shootout. The Bears prevailed 1-0 on the road, overcoming an 0-for-9 performance on the power play, ending a three-game losing streak, and remaining tied with Norfolk for first place with 59 points. The baby Sens’ netminder acquitted himself in fine fashion as well: Kelly Guard stopped all 40 Bears’ shots he faced in regulation and overtime. Winning in shootouts isn’t something we’ve seen Hershey do a lot of the past two seasons.
Two shutouts by two goaltending prospects on the same night — you don’t see that very often.
Happy Hockey Day in Canada, everyone.
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Love the tidbits on our collegiate prospects.
What an awful game to watch in Bridgeport tonight. The only real stand out to me was Steckel. He seemed to always make the right decisions on both sides of the ice this night.
The puck was bouncing all night like it wasn’t even frozen. Darren Maschesny was mediocre, but there were a lot of defensive mistakes.
Robitaille got a misconduct for threatening a Soundtigers player on the bench by brandishing his stick, Slapshot Tim McCracken-style, as he skated by the bench. The blade of his stick was literally an inch away from the guy’s face.
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