LSSU Lakers 2016-17

[gfmorris]

Re: LSSU Lakers 2016-17

I have heard of the 5 minute interference once before but never saw it. So Jake made high contact with a Charger and that's what the infraction was not the way it sounded like. Thanks for clearing that up Geof it was confusing on the radio.

I don't know if your radio guy was there, but if he was and was using the normal road radio perch, there's no way that he would've clearly seen that hit — but he would've seen something on Headrick along the boards in front of the bench. I see about one major interference a year — almost always standing a helpless guy up in open ice and going too high with the hit.

GFM

[PerkyforPrez]

Re: LSSU Lakers 2016-17

He is there and said he is way up. Thanks for the clarification Geof.

[PerkyforPrez]

Re: LSSU Lakers 2016-17

Great job Lakers.

[Bill]

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Great job Lakers.

Yep, great way to start their WCHA season. Although several guys were banged up a little, it sounded like none of the injuries were serious enough to keep them out of action next weekend.

[Laker Dude]

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Yep, great way to start their WCHA season. Although several guys were banged up a little, it sounded like none of the injuries were serious enough to keep them out of action next weekend.

All 3 did return after the injuries tonight.

[LSSULaker889294]

Re: LSSU Lakers 2016-17

Great start for the Lakers! This team has definitely improved over last season. An example is UAH swept us at home last season but we sweep UAH at their barn this weekend. Let's hope the Lakers can continue the momentum next weekend. I'm hoping for some good crowds at Abel Arena for Pink in the Rink.

[LSSULaker889294]

Re: LSSU Lakers 2016-17

Mankato lost in Alaska (huge upset) tonight. The Lakers are the last remaining undefeated team in the WCHA.

[LakerBaker]

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What a start for the good ship Laker, led by Damon Whitten, as they improve to 4-0 on the season.

Led by a pair of goals from Anthony Nellis, Lake Superior State picked up an important road-sweep over Western Collegiate Hockey Association rival Alabama-Huntsville Saturday evening with a 5-2 victory.

The Lakers (4-0-0, 2-0-0 WCHA), the 59th ranked team in scoring (1.80 goals per game) in 2015-16 are averaging six goals per game to start the season. The victory also gives LSSU their first 4-0-0 start since the 2013-14 season, when the team started 4-0-1.

The Chargers (2-5-1, 2-3-1 WCHA) opened the scoring just a minute into the game with Max Mchugh's fourth goal of the season. McHugh's goal came unassisted and put Huntsville ahead 1-0.

LSSU trailed for just under eight minutes, for the first time this season, before Nellis (3-2--5) slammed in the tying power-play goal. J.T. Henke (3-4--7)and Luke Morgan (0-4--4) each added assists on the tying tally.

With under five minutes to play in the first period, freshman Bryan Basilico scored his first collegiate goal in his first game wearing the anchor. Sophomore forward Josh Nenadal added the assist on the Basilico goal for his first point of the season.

LSSU took a 2-1 lead into the first intermission with the shots on goal tied at 7-7.

The Lakers came out hot again in the second period and quickly took a 3-1 lead on an even-strength goal from Mitch Hults (2-5--7), 1:33 into the period. Freshman Brayden Gelsinger (3-4--7), coming off a two-goal game on Friday, added the assist for his seventh point of the season. Freshman defenseman Collin Saccoman (0-4--4) also factored on the goal, tallying the second assist, for his third assist on the weekend.

With 5:40 left in the period, Nellis scored his second goal of the night after leaving the ice with an injury on the previous shift. Henke and Morgan again assisted on the goal by Nellis.

After 40 minutes of play the Lakers held a commanding 4-1 lead and were outshooting the Charges 18-11.

McHugh notched his second goal of the game on the power play, just 2:18 into the third period.

The Lakers and Chargers would stay at 4-2 through much of the final frame until a centering pass from the boards by Nenadal found a streaking Diego Cuglietta (3-2--5) who tipped in the fifth goal for the Lakers with 1:51 left in regulation. Cuglietta made an acrobatic dive to complete the goal and crashed into the boards with his third goal and fourth point of the series.

Gordon Defiel was strong in net, despite the two goals against and made 18 saves in his fourth win of the young season. His counterpart, Jordan Uhelski started and saved 28 shots for the Chargers.

On Friday night, two goals each by sophomore Diego Cuglietta and freshman Braydon Gelsinger propelled Lake Superior State to their third-straight victory to start the season. The 6-3 victory in their Western Collegiate Hockey Association season debut came on the road at Alabama-Huntsville.

The Lakers (3-0-0, 1-0-0 WCHA) have now scored at least six goals in each of their three victories to open the season, marking the most goals by the Lakers since posting 18 goals in three-straight games in 2009-10. During a five-game winning streak that season, the Lakers posted 25 goals.

Cuglietta led the Lakers with a three-point outing, scoring a pair of goals (one shorthanded), including the game-winner, and assisting on another. All three points came in the second period. The Kamloops, B.C., native also finished with a +3 rating.

Gelsinger opened the scoring a minute into play and later scored his second of the night mid-way through the second period. Gelsinger now has three goals and three assists in his first three collegiate games.

Also factoring in the scoresheet for the Lakers, Gage Torrel (3-2--5) put the Lakers ahead 2-1 with his first period power-play goal and later assisted on Gelsinger's second goal.

J. T. Henke (3-2--5) scored with 1:41 left in the middle frame to give the Lakers their sixth goal. Cuglietta and junior defenseman Kyle Chatham each registered their only assists of the night on the final LSSU goal.

Freshman defenseman Collin Saccoman (0-3--3) scored two points for his first career multi-point game.

Sophomore forward Jake Hand returned from a preseason injury for his first action of the season and tallied an assists

Sophomores Mitch Hults (1-5--6) and Owen Headrick (1-6--7) continued their point streaks, with Hults tallying a pair of assists and Headrick recording one assist. LSSU captain Gus Correale and assistant captain Aidan Wright each tallied one assist as well.

The Lakers took a 2-0 lead into the first intermission before Josh Kestner scored his first goal of the season, 3:34 into the second period, cutting the LSSU lead in half. The Lakers closed the second period with four goals in under eight minutes to take a commanding 6-1 lead into the final 20 minutes.

Jordan Larson and Brandon Salerno each added goals for the Chargers (2-4-1, 2-2-1 WCHA) in the third period, but UAH could not mount the come-back as Gordon Defiel finished with 28 saves in his third-straight victory.

Matt Larose made the start in net for UAH, but allowed all six of the Lakers' goals on 25 shots faced and was replaced by Jordan Uhelski to start the third period. Uhelski turned aside all six shots from the Lakers in the third period.

Both sides tied with 31 shots on goal. The Lakers' power play hit once in three opportunities, while the penalty killers blanked the Chargers on all five attempts by UAH with the man advantage. The Lakers have now killed 22-of-23 power plays attempted against them for a 95.7 penalty killing percentage.

The Lakers return home next weekend to face WCHA opponent Alaska for LSSU's annual Pink in the Rink Weekend. Single game tickets to all of the Lakers home games cost $12 for adults and $6 for children (17-under) unless a special promotion is running. Tickets for all LSSU Athletics events can be purchased online at http://lssutickets.universitytickets.com or by calling the Norris Center ticket office at (906) 635-2602.

Randy Russon from www.hockeynewsnorth.com and www.saultthisweek.com will have much more on the Hockey North Show heard every Tuesday at 5 p.m. on ESPN Radio 1400.

Ringy Dingy!

[sm2pk]

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Winning is so much better than losing . Nice to see such a great start with the offense making shots count.

[jsmithe]

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Winning is so much better than losing . Nice to see such a great start with the offense making shots count.

Hopefully the hot start will lead to a good turnout this coming weekend against _airbanks. Through 4 games this year, they have almost one third of the goals scored in all of last season and two fifths of all the goals scored in 2014-15.

Also, this is the 3rd year in the last 4 that UA_ has been the opponent for Pink in the Rink.

[Bill]

Hopefully the hot start will lead to a good turnout this coming weekend against _airbanks. Through 4 games this year, they have almost one third of the goals scored in all of last season and two fifths of all the goals scored in 2014-15.

Also, this is the 3rd year in the last 4 that UA_ has been the opponent for Pink in the Rink.

The Nanooks will probably come in feeling pretty good about themselves after beating the Mavericks last night.

[Bill]

Re: LSSU Lakers 2016-17

The podcast of last week's Laker Hockey Show is now available at the Lakers website. For future reference, both hockey shows are under Hockey/More+/Coaches Show. Here's a link to last week's show:

http://lakers.sovcomm.net/Laker%20Ho...10-18-2016.mp3

[jsmithe]

Re: LSSU Lakers 2016-17

More votes for the Lakers in the USCHO poll this week - up to 44. If you count back, that would peg us around #23 if the poll went that far.

[davyd83]

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Congrats to Damon & crew on the great start. Good to see LSSUs early success!

[sm2pk]

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I was surprised how low the attendance was for the MN State and Alaska series up in Fairbanks . Unless the number was put in wrong on the box score for the games. Or, the state is getting ready to decide if the hockey programs up there stay or go and it has to be hard to get support from fans if they think they may not be around .