GameCenter final: Penn State 6, UND 4
Oct. 31—NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Penn State's Clayton Phillips and Connor MacEachern each scored two goals to give the Nittany Lions a 6-4 win in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game in Bridgestone Arena.
The Nittany Lions took a two-goal lead in the first period.
UND cut it to a single goal four times, but never managed to tie it.
UND's goals were scored by Judd Caulfield, Ethan Frisch, Jake Schmaltz and Riese Gaber.
Herald three stars
First star: Clayton Phillips, PSU, 2 goals.
Second star: Connor MacEachern, PSU, 2 goals.
Third star: Riese Gaber, UND, 1 goal, 2 assists.
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First period
Penn State 1, UND 0 — Tyler Gratton (Danny Dzhaniyev). UND forward Ashton Calder has a look on a rush, but misses the net wide. The puck carroms around the boards and starts a three-on-one the other way. Tyler Kleven is the lone guy back for UND and does his best to break it up, but Dzhaniyev's pass gets over to Gratton, who buries it.
Amazing patience here by Dzhaniyev and a great finish at the near post from Gratton!!#WeAre #HockeyValley pic.twitter.com/8TyjdQXxVV
— Penn State Men's Hockey (@PennStateMHKY) October 31, 2021
Penn State 2, UND 0 — Clayton Phillips (Kevin Wall, Ben Copeland) 12:48 (pp). Penn State gets a five-on-three power play for a full two minutes. UND nearly kills it off, but the Nittany Lions convert. UND blocks a point shot, but it deflects to a wide open Phillips backdoor. He buries it for a two-goal Penn State lead.
Cleaning up the garbage in front of the net!!#WeAre #HockeyValley pic.twitter.com/4wBlEBAxk7
— Penn State Men's Hockey (@PennStateMHKY) October 31, 2021
Penn State 2, UND 1 — Judd Caulfield (Riese Gaber, Jake Schmaltz) 18:10 (pp). UND gets one back on its third power-play chance of the period. Gaber toe drags the puck and shoots to get it on net. Penn State goalie Oskar Autio makes the save, but Caulfield is there to bury the rebound.
Just tap it in. Judd Caulfield puts UND on the board!#UNDproud — @UNDmhockey pic.twitter.com/XnSMqRrfLN
— UND Insider (@UNDinsider) October 31, 2021
Second period
Penn State 3, UND 1 — Connor MacEachern 5:32 (pp). MacEachern gets the puck in the right circle and snaps a shot that beats UND goalie Zach Driscoll high to the blocker side. The puck may have been re-directed off of UND defenseman Tyler Kleven's stick.
SNIPE you very much!!#WeAre #HockeyValley pic.twitter.com/7LjeU4edo3
— Penn State Men's Hockey (@PennStateMHKY) October 31, 2021
Penn State 3, UND 2 — Ethan Frisch (Matteo Costantini, Louis Jamernik) 7:37 (pp). UND gets another goal on the power play, this time with the second unit. There's a scrum for the puck in the corner. Jamernik gets it to Costantini, who makes a great pass to a wide-open Frisch. The Moorhead High product took one step and picked the corner above Autio's glove.
Frisch fires it home! Goal UND#UNDproud — @UNDmhockey pic.twitter.com/jTcYF6b0Rk
— UND Insider (@UNDinsider) October 31, 2021
Penn State 4, UND 2 — Clayton Phillips 15:47. Penn State turns a bunch of zone time into a goal when Phillips gets the puck at the top of the zone and snaps it through a screen for his second goal of the game.
We don't appreciate the double bird, sir, but we do appreciate the double score!!#WeAre #HockeyValley pic.twitter.com/wyb3WbiNem
— Penn State Men's Hockey (@PennStateMHKY) October 31, 2021
Penn State 4, UND 3 — Jake Schmaltz (Riese Gaber) 19:49 (pp). UND scores on the power play for the third time of the night. A puck gets to the slot area, where Gaber sends it back to Schmaltz. The UND rookie, at the top of the hash marks, fires one through traffic to make it a one-goal game.
Schmaltz sneaks one in!#UNDproud — @UNDmhockey pic.twitter.com/2hsyCu4ol1
— UND Insider (@UNDinsider) October 31, 2021
Third period
Penn State 5, UND 3 — Connor MacEachern (Jimmy Dowd Jr., Simon Mack) 12:52. Penn State once again answers UND and pads its lead on the rush. MacEachern flies up the right wing, and just as Sanderson gets possession, the Fighting Hawks defender loses his footing and MacEachern has a clear opening to shoot. He fires it past Driscoll for his second goal of the night.
Penn State 5, UND 4 — Riese Gaber 17:59 (ex). UND pulls goalie Zach Driscoll and has a bunch of chances. It finally scores when Gaber rips a wrist shot from the top of the circles to the corner of the net.
It's a Gaber Goal!#UNDproud — @UNDmhockey pic.twitter.com/r9N7P2eTtT
— UND Insider (@UNDinsider) October 31, 2021
Penn State 6, UND 4 — Ben Copeland 19:55 (pp, en). Copeland ices it with with an empty-net goal from his own zone.
UND's lines
Forwards
19 Mark Senden—21 Connor Ford—16 Ashton Calder
17 Riese Gaber—8 Jake Schmaltz—28 Judd Caulfield
10 Gavin Hain—27 Louis Jamernik—20 Nick Portz
29 Jackson Kunz—18 Matteo Costantini—9 Brendan Budy
Defensemen
26 Jake Sanderson—15 Ethan Frisch
7 Chris Jandric—25 Tyler Kleven
4 Cooper Moore—2 Brady Ferner
6 Brent Johnson
Goaltenders
33 Zach Driscoll
32 Jakob Hellsten
Out of lineup: Dane Montgomery, Carson Albrecht, Griffin Ness, Luke Bast, Kaleb Johnson, Harrison Feeney (inj)
Penn State's lines
Forwards
19 Connor McMenamin—14 Ben Copeland—21 Kevin Wall
10 Christian Sarlo—29 Connor MacEachern—12 Ben Schoen
11 Ryan Kirwan—17 Chase McLane—13 Danny Dzhaniyev
28 Tyler Gratton—7 Carson Dyck—23 Tyler Paquette
24 Adam Pilewicz
Defensemen
18 Clayton Phillips—3 Paul DeNaples
5 Christian Berger—6 Jimmy Dowd Jr.
15 Kenny Johnson—4 Simon Mack
Goaltenders
35 Oskar Autio
31 Liam Souliere
30 Doug Dorr
Pregame notes
There are no big lineup surprises for UND, which is moving Jackson Kunz and Brent Johnson back into the lineup after both sat out Saturday against Quinnipiac.
Pregame reading
Travel journal: UND in Nashville (updated 11 p.m. Friday)
Where are fans traveling from to go to the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game in Nashville?
UND prepared to see a lot of shots against Penn State
Like past destination games, UND to take in the city
In Nashville's Bridgestone Arena, Karl Goehring had his one night in the NHL
Former UND star now living in Nashville eager for the town to be introduced to his alma mater and its following
A look back at UND's destination hockey games
UND to wear special jerseys for the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game
For the second time, Clayton Phillips finds himself on the other side of a UND hockey destination game
