Gophers men’s hockey closes the state of Ohio

Jonny Sorenson and Matthew Knies scored goals, and Jack LaFontaine had to fight just 13 times when the 6th Gophers beat the 18th Ohio State 2-0 on Saturday at the 3M Arena in Mariucci before announcing 7,294 lives to save the share. series.

“It was a good recovery for us. I give our friends the honor,” Gophers coach Bob Motzko said. “We needed a complete effort, and we got it from our entire lineup.”

Ohio State won Friday’s opening game 4-3 after digging a 3-0 hole after the first set.

The Buckeyes never made it to such a big hole in the rematch, but LaFontaine never let them make a comeback. LaFontaine’s teammates in front of him prevented Ohio State from receiving barely a single shot against veteran online men. The opponent’s 13 shots were the least after St. Lawrence won 12 Gophers 3-0 victories on November 17, 2018.

But to win the Gophers needed a goal or two. And they got just that.

Junior Jonny Sorenson took the Gophers (7-5, 4-2 Big Ten) lead with four seconds left in the opening period. Late goals in an episode often hurt an opponent – and this certainly did. Aaron Huglen had the only pass in the game.

The situation remained 1-0 until freshman Matthew Knies scored his fifth goal of the season in the third round of the game at 7:25.

That goal was just an assurance to LaFontainen, the winner of the Michael Richter Award last season, the best goalkeeper in the Hockey Division I. This was his first shutout this season, the sixth in his career.

Jakub Dobes, Buckeyes freshman goalkeeper from the Czech Republic against 1.06 goals in this series, was also good and stopped 20 shots.

But LaFontaine and Gophers were both better in a rematch with Ohio State (7-3, 4-2).

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