UMD & Niagara tie 3-3 Saturday

As the title says, UMD and Niagara tied 3-3.

The lack of a crowd today was terrible. Mind you, the City of Duluth was holding an outdoor skating party 200 feet from the DECC with fireworks. The fireworks 'finale' went off about 2 minutes into overtime and you could hear them clearly while the players were playing.

Today was one of the better officiated games of the season at the DECC. Even with a couple questionable non-calls during the overtime, after UMD took a penalty IN the overtime, a lot of referee's would look to even the teams back up and Evonne Young was given 2 chances to do that.

UMD's first period looked like they hadn't been on the ice in 2 months, but a lot of that HAS to be due to the lines being thrown together, since the flow was better the 2nd and 3rd periods. Jessica Hawkins and Erin Olson saw regular shifts throughout the game and usually kept Niagara bottled up in their own zone.

Suvi Vacker played sparingly, mostly spot shifts at forward to spell Jill Sales who was playing both her defense position plus a wing about every 3rd shift.

Sarah Murray picked up an assist today, but seemed a step behind a few times today leaving Rasmussen to fend for herself 2 on 1.

Paying more attention to Riitta Schaublin today, it seems her problem lately in net is teams are screening her a lot more and she's not seeing the puck or the shot with the congestion in front of her. The defense needs to do a better job of clearing the lanes in front of her.