Fargo South 3 - Fargo North 0
This defense never rests.
Fargo South allowed just seven shots on goal en route to a 3-0 Eastern Dakota Conference boys hockey victory against rival Fargo North on Friday at the Urban Plains Center.
The shutout was junior goaltender Scott Buchholz’s first of the season and the Bruins’ second in a row.
“That is definitely a positive part of this game,” South coach David Benson said of the team’s defensive play. “I think it’s very, very aggressive play. We played well in the defensive zone and we controlled the neutral zone.”
South made it impossible for North to get its offensive attack started throughout the first period.
With massive checks and precise passing, the Bruins defense played keep-away from the Spartans for the entire 17 minutes.
North was even stymied during a couple power-play chances.
South outshot the Spartans 11-0 in the first period.
North goaltender Jake Labernik wasn’t as fortunate as his counterpart Buchholz.
Labernik was pelted with shots from start to finish in the first.
Senior David Burdick pushed the puck past Labernik’s skate and the posts to give the Bruins a 1-0 lead just 1 minute, 17 seconds into the game.
Peter Orson made it 2-0 with a shorthanded goal at 10:48 of the first. South was down to three men on the ice due to a barrage of penalties by both teams.
The goal came on a 4-on-3 opportunity for North.
“It was ugly hockey,” North coach Jay Erickson said. “There was no flow to it. … South is big, they are strong and they are tough. For us, it’s a lot of things. You are looking at a young team. We’re not very big or strong. We got to do the little things to win.”
North’s first shot on Buchholz came in the first minute of the second period.
The pace of the game slowed considerably as the teams combined for 12 penalties in the second period.
South took a 3-0 advantage on a power-play goal by Cooper Stellrecht at 9:46 of the second.
North defenseman Sam Johnson was ejected and assessed a 5-minute major penalty for using the end of his stick against a Bruin at the end of the second period.
The penalty put the Spartans at four skaters for the opening five minutes of the third.
Labernik finished with 33 saves. Buchholz needed only seven saves to secure the shutout.
The teams combined for 26 penalties.
“It was a good defensively-played game,” Benson said. “The only thing bad was that we took too many penalties. We expect a lot more of our guys.”
FIRST PERIOD: 1, FS, Burdick (Narveson), 1:17. 2, FS, Orson (Hooey), 10:48.
SECOND PERIOD: 3, FS, Stellrecht (Orson, Hooey), 9:46 (pp).
THIRD PERIOD: No scoring.
SAVES: FN, Labernik 9-13-11—33. FS, Buchholz 0-5-2—7.
Timmay07 wrote:Fargo South 4
Grand Forks Central 1
South pretty much played the second period down 5 on 3
Timmay07 wrote:what were the reasons for them being out? if i may ask
keep pointing fingers as to who's fault it is but the real thing that happened was just the fact that central was almost completely man handled even while having TWELVE powerplays in the second period and first two minutes of the third. usually when you go 0-14 as a powerplay it either means you are not a very good team or the opposing team is just that much better... and south outscored central 1-0 in that second period in the midst of killing off those 12 penaltiesgfhockeyrules wrote:Nice little scrum at the end of the game? Central player(Cieklinski) gets a clean check on Orson, and then gets ran from behind, by a South player - that is called chicken s*it hockey. The scrum then ensued when Danny Ray(GFC) and others came into help their teammate. None of this would have happened if it weren't for that blatant cheap shot by South. South was shorthanded quite a bit of the game, and if Central had ever figured their power play, the score could have been reversed. The rematch in Fargo should be very interesting.
13 minutes of penalty kill in one period will get you outshot like that. south dominated central 5-5 no questiongfhockeyrules wrote:If you get outshot 36-22, you are not manhandling anyone. Like I said previously - the rematch will be very interesting in Fargo.
sportsman101 wrote:The most frustrating point of the game for Central came in the second period. The Knights had three 5-on-3 power-play opportunities but were unable to solve South goaltender Scott Buchholz.
Buchholz made 18 of his 35 saves in the period.
tell me that says south didnt deserve to win the game
Central player(Cieklinski) gets a clean check on Orson, and then gets ran from behind, by a South player - that is called chicken s*it hockey. The scrum then ensued when Danny Ray(GFC) and others came into help their teammate. None of this would have happened if it weren't for that blatant cheap shot by South.
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