GameCenter final: Colorado College 3, UND 2, OT
Dec. 8—GRAND FORKS — Noah Laba scored 35 seconds into overtime to give Colorado College a 3-2 overtime victory, snapping a 15-game winless streak against UND. Max Burkholder also scored for the Tigers. Dylan James had a goal and an assist to lead the Fighting Hawks.
First star: Noah Laba, CC, 2 goals.
Second star: Kaidan Mbereko, CC, 32 saves.
Third star: Dylan James, UND, 1 goal, 1 assist.
UND 1, Colorado College 0 — Dylan James 1 7:28. Colorado College forward Bret Link can't control a lob pass on a zone entry. James picks up the loose puck sitting at his defensive blue line and gets some speed. James skates through the neutral zone, catches Tiger defenseman Jack Millar a little flat-footed as he entered the zone and sniped one blocker side from the right circle.
Second period
UND 2, Colorado College 0 — Louis Jamernik V 4 (Dylan James, Garrett Pyke) 8:13. James continues his brilliant game by getting a puck along the wall and making a perfect backhand cross-ice pass to JAmernik in the right circle. Jamernik finished it off for his fourth goal of the season.
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— North Dakota Hockey (@UNDmhockey) December 9, 2023
UND 2, Colorado College 1 — Noah Laba 7 (Jack Millar, Nicklas Andrews) 13:40. The Tigers are finally rewarded for some of their second-period pressure when Millar launches a shot from the right point that Laba tips past UND goalie Ludvig Persson. The goal snaps a scoreless streak of 118:48 for the Tigers.
UND 2, Colorado College 2 — Max Burkholder 3 (Chase Foley, Ryan Beck) 19:38 (pp). The Tigers end their run of 29-straight blanks on the power play with their favorite play. Foley, at the top of the zone, feeds it to Burkholder in the left circle. He hammers a one-timer past Ludvig Persson to tie it.
Third period
No scoring.
Overtime
Colorado College 3, UND 2 — Noah Laba 8 (Chase Foley) :35. UND gets possession to start overtime, but Jackson Blake loses it behind the net and the Tigers go the other way. Laba takes it up the left side, cuts to the net and flips it past Persson to end Colorado College's 15-game winless streak against UND.
UND's lines
Forwards
17 Riese Gaber—22 Owen McLaughlin—9 Jackson Blake
28 Hunter Johannes—14 Cameron Berg—18 Jayden Perron
26 Dylan James—8 Jake Schmaltz—27 Louis Jamernik V
29 Jackson Kunz—11 Griffin Ness—21 Ben Strinden
5 Dane Montgomery
Defensemen
4 Jake Livanavage—20 Keaton Pehrson
7 Garrett Pyke—25 Abram Wiebe
6 Logan Britt—2 Bennett Zmolek
Goaltenders
32 Ludvig Persson
30 Hobie Hedquist
1 Kaleb Johnson
Not in lineup: F Carson Albrecht (inj), F Michael Emerson, D Nate Benoit, D Tanner Komzak
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Colorado College's lines
Forwards
28 Gleb Veremyev—26 Noah Laba—19 Evan Werner
8 Ryan Beck—20 Logan Will—10 Bret Link
12 Tommy Middleton—27 Stanley Cooley—11 Ray Christy
17 Tyler Coffey—25 Riley Stuart—29 Drew Montgomery
Defensemen
37 Nicklas Andrews—5 Jack Millar
7 Chase Foley—4 Max Burkholder
21 Tyler Dunbar—23 Ethan Straky
18 Connor Mayer
Goaltenders
30 Kaidan Mbereko
31 Henry Wilder
Not in lineup: F Zaccharya Wisdom (ill), F Klavs Veinbergs (inj), F Danny Weight, F Noah Serdachny, D Antonio Fernandez, D Nikolai Charchenko, G Jake Begley
Officials
Referees — Stephen Reneau and Andrew Wilk
Linesmen — Tyler Liffrig and Kyle Stephens
Supervisor — Thor Nelson
Pregame notes
There are no lineup changes for UND. . . Colorado College's lineup is as expected. . . Tyler Coffey is returning to the lineup for the first time since October. . . UND is 14-0-1 in the last 15 games against the Tigers. The last Colorado College win over UND was March 1, 2019. . . This is the final series before Christmas break.
