DU goalie Tanner Jaillet (Photo Credit: Russ Hons)<\/p>\n
Friday night, it appeared that the University of North Dakota hockey team had watched the Minnesota Wild’s game<\/a> against the Nashville Predators on Thursday night.<\/p>\n UND followed the Wild’s game plan almost to a “T”.<\/p>\n Much like the Wild, the Fighting Hawks found themselves down 3-0 after 33 minutes of hockey. At one point, UND was outshot 20-2 to start the game. After giving up three goals to the Denver Pioneers, the Hawks grabbed the momentum and outscored the Denver Pioneers 5-1 the rest of the way.<\/p>\n \u201cWe got a little bit too fancy in our end of the rink,\u201d coach Berry said<\/a>. \u201cThey take away time and space and we turned pucks over and then when we got to their end in the first period we weren\u2019t putting pucks on net. We just simplified our game. Simo\u2019s line with Smitty and Yonner got us going. Guess what? They scored the game-winning goal, too.\u201d<\/p>\n After a lopsided shot total of 21-12 in the first period, UND outshot the Pioneers 24-13 the rest of the way.<\/p>\n At the 13:38 mark of the second period, Zach Yon cut the Pioneers lead to 3-1 when he snapped the puck from the left faceoff dot.<\/p>\n Less than two minutes later, junior forward Joel Janatuinen cut the lead to 2-1 when he banged home a rebound from the goal mouth. Again, good things happen when you go to the blue paint.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udea8 Stretttch!<\/p>\n Joel Janatuinen brings @UNDmhockey<\/a> within one at 3-2 just like that vs. @DU_Hockey<\/a>. #NCHCHockey<\/a><\/p>\n Watch on #NCHCtv<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/aPe3mwSYOv<\/a><\/p>\n — The NCHC (@TheNCHC) November 18, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n