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Mavericks beat Gophers to advance to national championship game

April 8, 2022 By Minnesota News Network

Minnesota State fell behind early, but proceeded to score five unanswered goals en route to a 5-1 win over Minnesota in a 2022 NCAA NCAA Division I Frozen Four semifinal game played in Boston, Mass., Thursday night.

The Mavericks, 38-5-0 overall and winners of 18 games in a row, will play Denver Saturday night for the men’s hockey national championship. Minnesota State, which has won five of its last six NCAA tournament games, will make its first NCAA Division I men’s hockey national championship game appearance when it squares off against the Pioneers.

An inauspicious first period ended with the Gophers owning a 1-0 lead Thursday. Minnesota scored following a turnover at the MSU blue line when freshman forward Matt Knies finished off a two-on-zero opportunity at the 8:52 mark of the opening period, but that was the only offense the Gophers could muster in the contest.

The Mavericks bounced back in the second period, scoring twice to take a 2-1 lead into the final 20 minutes of regulation. Senior defenseman Benton Maas tallied his third goal of the year, converting on a wraparound chance that beat Minnesota netminder Justen Close on the far side at 12:38. Senior winger Reggie Lutz’s 15th goal of the year, scored on another wraparound play from the side of the net, came at the 6:29 mark.

Sophomore center Ondrej Pavel got his stick on a Jack McNeely shot from the point and the Mavericks took a 3-1 lead at 1:57 of the third. The goal, the 12th of the year for Pavel, also drew an assist from Josh Groll. Then at 13:17, sophomore center David Silye ripped a shot high blocker side from the right dot to make it a 4-1 Minnesota State lead. Junior center Brendan Furry closed out the scoring in the contest, tallying an empty netter with 1:09 left on the clock.

Silye and Pavel both had a goal and an assist to finish with two-point games in helping lead the Mavericks to their eighth win over the Gophers in the last 10 meetings between the two programs.

Senior netminder Dryden McKay, a two-time Hobey Hat Trick finalist as the top player in men’s college hockey, stopped 16 shots in the contest in upping his record on the season to 38-4-0.

 

 

(info courtesy of Mavericks Sports – Paul Allan)

(photo credit – Gopher Sports – Brad Rempel)

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