Notes & Quotes: #15 Michigan 6, #1 Minnesota 3
11/28/2008 12:00:00 AM | Ice Hockey
Michigan is 18-12-1 in the College Hockey Showcase. The Maize and Blue leads all four CHS teams in wins (18) and winning percentage (.597). Minnesota (16-11-4, .581) entered the game first in winning percentage.
In the College Hockey Showcase, the Wolverines improve to 8-8-0 against Minnesota, including a 4-2-0 record at Mariucci Arena.
In the overall series, Michigan has now won back-to-back games against Minnesota for the first time since the 1997 and 1998 College Hockey Showcases. U-M had previously won just two of 11 games in the all-time series. The Wolverines won last year 5-1 in the CHS bout at Yost Ice Arena.
Carl Hagelin scored a career-high two goals tonight. Previously, he had notched a single marker 13 times.
Louie Caporusso tallied his 13th goal of the season to keep pace for the national lead in goals. He is tied with Boston College's Brock Bradford, who also scored his 13th goal of the season tonight.
David Wohlberg recorded a career-best two goals this evening.
Travis Turnbull's two assists equaled his career high for the fourth time and first time since Nov. 3, 2007, at Nebraska-Omaha.
Danny Fardig tallied his fourth career multi-point game and in the process tied his career-best assist mark with a pair of helpers.
Twelve different Michigan players recorded points in the game. Four had multiple points -- Travis Turnbull, Carl Hagelin, David Wohlberg and Danny Fardig.
Michigan's season-best penalty-kill streak reached 25 before the Golden Gophers scored with a five-on-three advantage in the second period. U-M had not allowed a power-play goal since Nov. 8 at Alaska, a span of over four-plus contests.
Michigan recorded its highest goal total of the season on a Friday night. The previous high was four on two occasions.
Q U O T E S
Michigan Head Coach Red Berenson
On Carl Hagelin's re-emergence tonight... "Hagelin is a good player. You saw that he's a terrific player, but the puck hasn't gone in for him. He got a couple tonight so good for him."
On forcing Minnesota to replace starting goalie Alex Kangas... "You don't even think of things like that. All we were concerned with was trying to get the puck past him because we haven't been scoring and obviously he doesn't give up many. It's just one of those quirky games that went our way."
On how big tonight's win is... "We don't want to overreact to it, but it's a good solid win over a really good, solid team. Now whether it was a fluke we'll find out in future games. We've seen these games at Thanksgiving. We've had our team where we couldn't get out of our own way and we've had games like tonight where we don't do anything wrong."
