COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Every moment matters down the stretch of the regular season, with such little decided.
At this point, we know Miami will finish eight, UMD seventh, and North Dakota will land in the top four. Right now, that it.
These four games and next weekend’s eight will decide everything else, including the trip UMD will make for round one starting March 15.
Here, after a tie and UMD shootout win Friday, the Bulldogs make no changes. Largely because the Bulldogs have no changes to make, all 19 available skaters are in the lineup, and goalie Matthew Thiessen played well Friday, earning himself another go here.
Colorado College makes one personnel change, going to seven defensemen with Tyler Dunbar in place of 13th forward Tyler Coffey, who played very limited shifts in the series opener. Left wings Drew Montgomery (to the second) and Ryan Beck (to the fourth) swap lines.
Lines?
Lines.
UMD forwards
Steeves – Perkins – Olson
McMenamin – Loney – Loheit
Menghini – Smith – Bettens
Kleven – Fischer – Johnson
UMD defense
Pionk – Gotz
Gallatin – Dubinsky
Bast – Pierce
Bodnarchuk
UMD goalies
Thiessen – Stejskal – Sandy
Colorado College forwards
Veremyev – Laba – Wisdom
Montgomery – Will – Link
Middleton – Cooley – Christy
Beck – Veinbergs – Werner
Colorado College defense
Andrews – Millar
Mayer – Straky
Foley – Burkholder
Dunbar
Colorado College goalies
Mbereko – Wilder – Begley
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