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| 2006-07 Records: 4-5-1 MIAC, 7-11-1 Overall |
| Last Week's Results: Saint Mary's 5, Hamline 4 OT / Details Hamline 4, Saint Mary's 2 / Details |
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| Cardinal News and Notes: The Cardinals' loss to Hamline snapped their season-high three-game winning streak. … Friday's game vs. the Pipers was the Cardinals' third overtime game of the season — and their first OT win (1-1-1). … After scoring just 12 goals during a seven-game stretch in which SMU went 1-6-0, the Cardinals scored 18 goals during their three-game win streak. … Matt Staehely (Shorewood, Ill.) netted his first collegiate hat trick vs. Hamline on Friday, and his overtime tally was his second game-winning goal of the season. … Anthony Bohn (Spring Hill, Fla.), who dished out six assists vs. the Cobbers last weekend — two on Friday and a career-high four on Saturday — added fthree more assists vs. the Pipers and now leads the team with 17 assists and 24 points. … Adam Gill (Rochester, Minn.) is the team's goal-scoring leader (11) and he and Bohn are two of seven Cardinals to have 10 or more points. … Mike Christensen (Detroit Lakes, Minn.), who posted the first two-goal game of his career vs. Concordia on Jan. 19, netted his fourth goal in the last three games with the game-tying tally vs. Hamline Friday. … The Cardinals' loss to Hamline snapped a five-game winning streak vs. the Pipers, dating back to a 3-2 loss on Feb. 21, 2004. … Saturday's game marked the seventh time in their 11 losses that SMU has scored two goals or less. |
isn't enough as SMU's win streak ends with 4-2 loss
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Staehely 1st collegiate hat trick in OT win Friday |
In the teams' Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference rematch Saturday, Olson rated his team's performance "four times better than we played Friday night."
And they lost.
Go figure.
"It's disappointing, because there's no doubt we play much better than we did Friday," said Olson, whose team came out on the short end of a 4-2 decision Saturday. "(On Friday), we got outshot (36-32), and for large parts of the game, we got outplayed, and yet, in the end we still find a way to come out with a win.
"And then (Saturday), we turn around and control the play for most of the game and lose — I just don't get it," said Olson, whose Cardinals held a 31-18 advantage in shots on goal, but had to settle for a second-period goal by Jesse Polk (Hastings, Minn.) and a third-period tally from Adam Gill (Rochester, Minn.). "(Hamline's) powerplay really hurt us. They went 0-for-5 on the powerplay (Friday), but scored three powerplay goals (in Saturday's rematch) — that was the difference."
Hamline jumped out to a 2-0 first-period lead Saturday, getting powerplay goals from Dustin Fulton and Joe Long 11 minutes apart. SMU cut the gap to 2-1 on Polk's eighth of the season four minutes into the second period, then tied it on Gill's team-leading 11th goal a minute into the third.
That, however, was as close as SMU would get, as Fulton put the Pipers back in front with his second of the night at 3:32 and Long gave Hamline some breathing room with his second of the game — on the powerplay — with less than four minutes remaining in regulation.
"This is one of those games you'd like to have back," said Olson. "We created good scoring chances, we played pretty well in our defensive zone, we just couldn't catch a break.
"Hamline made the most of its (offensive) chances, and we didn't — that's the bottom line."