Finishing up here at "The Ralph" ...
The Mavericks put North Dakota on the power play seven times in the second and third periods and 10 for the night. They scored a short-handed goal to take a 3-2 lead midway through the final frame, but that was no reason to keep playing with fire. Brian Kilburg's interference penalty led to Chris VandeVeld's game-tying goal at 13:40. With the teams playing 4x4 late in the game, Jason Gregoire scored the game-winning goal, finishing off an impressive individual effort by defenseman and UND leading scorer Chay Genoway.
The Mavericks will spend the idle weekend in eighth place in the WCHA standings. They're one point ahead of Alaska-Anchorage, which hosts North Dakota next weekend.
Some reaction:
Kael Mouillierat, who had three assists: “We were undisciplined; that can’t happen this time of year. We should know by now. The penalties we took were lazy penalties – holding, hooking, high-sticking. Those are the toughest kinds of penalties to kill off, and it bit us in the behind tonight."
Troy Jutting, Mavericks coach: “I thought that the kids competed hard all night. We played extremely hard, with a lot of heart and intensity. We took some dumb penalties, though. I don’t know, I guess (North Dakota) only took two over the last 2 1/2 periods.
Power-play opportunities were 10-4 in favor of UND.
Jutting on MSU winger Geoff Irwin, who had two goals and three for the weekend: "Geoff had a great weekend. He played 120 minutes of hockey."
Mouillierat: "We definitely played hard. You could tell we wanted it really bad. We're a desperate hockey team right now."
Mouillierat on letting the lead slip away: “If we’re the team we want to be, we gotta be able to shut teams down at the end of games."
Sioux coach Dave Hakstol: “There were all kinds of ups and downs in that hockey game. Physically, maybe it wasn’t our best game, but mentally, that was as good as any game we’ve had this year.”
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