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Austin Alger skates with the puck during Canisius' matchup with North Dakota at Harborcenter on Jan. 4, 2019
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Canisius CAN 0-2-0
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Winner North Dakota UND 2-0-0
Canisius CAN
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Final
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North Dakota UND
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 F
Canisius CAN 1 0 0 1
North Dakota UND 0 3 5 8

Game Recap: Ice Hockey |

Hockey Falls in Series FInale at No. 18 North Dakota

No. 18 North Dakota scored eight unanswered goals to erase an early deficit and defeat Canisius, 8-1, in collegiate men's ice hockey action Saturday at Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Forks, N.D.
 
Cole Smith scored two goals, Jacob Bernard-Docker tallied four assists and Mark Senden (1g, 2a) and Jordan Kawaguchi (3a) chipped in three points each to pace a Fighting Hawks (2-0-0) attack that featured seven different goal scorers and saw 15 skaters register a point.
 
Junior Austin Alger accounted for the lone tally for the Golden Griffins (0-2-0) as he gave Canisius a 1-0 lead just 4:05 into the contest when he finished off a 2-on-1 rush by wiring a wrist shot off the crossbar and in for his first of the campaign.
 
Senden tied the game at the 7:24 mark of the second period when he deposited a cross-ice feed from Kawaguchi into the Canisius cage from just in front of the right post.
 
Collins Adams gave UND the lead nearly six minutes later, finishing off a scramble with a wrist shot from the bottom of the left faceoff circle to make it a 2-1 contest.
 
Gabe Bast capped the second-period barrage with 2:36 remaining in the middle frame with a power-play tally, burying a rebound under the crossbar from close range to give UND a 3-1 advantage.
 
For the second straight evening, North Dakota struck multiple times in the third to put the game out of reach.
 
Smith made it a 4-1 game when he deflected home a Bernard-Docker point shot just 1:08 into the final frame before Harrison Blaisdell added to the UND margin on the next shift with a shot from the middle of the slot.
 
Andrew Peski stretched the Fighting Hawks cushion to 6-1 before the five-minute mark of the third while Cole Smith and Westin Michaud closed out the scoring with tallies during the last 10 minutes of the third to determine the final margin.
 
Head Coach Trevor Large's Postgame Comments
"It was a couple of early goals that made the difference in the third. Our goaltending was great. (Jacob) Barczewski had a pretty good scare at the end of the second with a skate to his throat, but he was ok. (The first two goals in the third) were definitely not his fault, we ended up turning the puck over in key areas and their counter was tough for us to handle. They were able to get to the net with some odd-man rushes and capitalize quite a bit in the third.
 
"Our goal is to have growth within the game and weekend-to-weekend. We'll lick our wounds here pretty quick and get back to work. Nobody's going to feel sorry for us in college hockey. We need to get better. It's something that we're going to have to go back and look at how we're going to do that. I know our guys believe and I know that we'll go back and get ready for RPI next weekend."
 
Game Notes
• Saturday's game served as the 11th meeting between Canisius and North Dakota. UND extended their lead in the all-time series to 9-2-0 with Saturday's victory
• Canisius moved to 5-6-1 against nationally-ranked competition since the start of the 2017-18 season with Saturday's defeat.  
• UND out-shot Canisius, 37-12, for the contest, highlighted by a 16-4 edge in the second period.
• UND was 1-for-4 on the power play while Canisius was 0-for-5 with the man advantage.
• Freshman goaltender Jacob Barczewski stopped UND's Shane Pinto on a penalty shot in the second period, becoming the first Canisius goaltender to deny an opponent's penalty shot attempt since Charles Williams stopped Robert Morris' Matthew Graham on Oct. 21, 2016.
• Freshman David Melaragni picked up the lone assist on Alger's first-period goal for his first collegiate point.
 
Up Next
• Canisius completes its season-opening road swing Oct. 19 when it opens a home-and-home series against RPI with a 7 p.m. contest at Houston Field House in Troy, N.Y.
 
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