North Dakota stretches unbeaten streak to four with shootout victory

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (UND Athletics)– Drew DeRidder stopped all 26 photographs thrown his approach and added a trio of saves within the shootout to assist North Dakota seize two factors within the NCHC standings with a 1-0 win within the shootout on Saturday evening from Ed Robson Area in Colorado Springs, Colo.

With the official rating ending at 0-0, the sport finishes because the third scoreless tie in program historical past, with the final approaching Oct. 19, 2007 at Boston Faculty when the sport was referred to as after two intervals attributable to fog.

Tyler Kleven sealed the shootout victory for the Preventing Hawks (14-13-6, 8-10-4 NCHC) with a rocket previous Colorado Faculty (10-19-3, 6-13-3 NCHC) within the third spherical of the shootout to maintain the guests in sixth place of the league standings with two video games remaining.

DeRidder was glowing in web for his fourth shutout of the season and eighth of his profession to assist North Dakota prolong its unbeaten streak to 4 recreation, matching the season lengthy.

Just like final evening, North Dakota needed to climate an early CC assault however DeRidder and his protection had been as much as the duty via the opening 10 minutes of the primary, because the Fenton, Mich., native helped kill off an early penalty on the guests to maintain the sport scoreless.

Following the midway level of the opening stanza, UND began to take management and held the Tigers and not using a shot try for the ultimate 12:06 of the interval to complete with a 7-6 shot benefit however the recreation remained scoreless after 20 minutes.

Each groups had probabilities within the center body on the person benefit, however neither aspect may beat the goaltenders as the sport moved to the third interval nonetheless locked at 0-0.

Similar to the earlier two intervals, the goaltenders proved to the storyline within the third and the competition headed to additional time for the fourth straight time for North Dakota.

Within the additional session, each groups created havoc within the crease, however the goaltenders stopped all seven photographs fired their solution to shut out the 0-0 tie and power the shootout.
North Dakota returns residence to host Omaha within the last sequence at Ralph Engelstad Area of the season starting on Friday evening at 7:07 p.m. from Grand Forks.

Postgame Notes 

• Tonight marked the fourth straight recreation that UND has gone to additional time, matching a stretch in 2017-18
• UND allowed one purpose or fewer at even power for the sixth time during the last 10 video games
• The competition was the third scoreless tie in program historical past and first since Oct. 19, 2007 at Boston Faculty
• Each goaltenders earned a shutout within the contest, with every ending with 26 saves
• Kleven’s shootout purpose was his second in two tries this season, each approaching the highway
• UND completed 0-for-4 on the ability play whereas CC was 0-for-5
• DeRidder now has 4 shutouts on the season and eight for his profession
• UND gained the faceoff battle, 36-35, with Jake Schmaltz going 13-6 to steer UND

How It Occurred 

First Interval                                                     

No scoring

Second Interval 

No scoring

Third Interval 

No scoring

Time beyond regulation
No scoring

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