She’s just amazing,” UMD fifth-year senior Taylor Anderson said Thursday about Soderberg, who picked up her program-record 12th shutout of the 2022-23 season. If Soderberg can see the puck, she can stop the puck, Rogge said. Rogge said that’s what the Bulldogs want to do against Minnesota, which ranks second in the nation in shots on goal per game at 40.8 and first in goals per game at 4.65. “I think they were working good in front of the net, but they were just not getting the pucks to the net. “We kept them to the outside a lot,” Soderberg said. Soderberg finished with 16 saves while the Golden Knights - who took two five-minute major penalties - attempted just 33 shots, and only one coming below the faceoff dots and in Grade-A range of Soderberg. “Granted they were in a lot of penalty trouble.”Ĭlarkson struggled to get shots through against UMD on Thursday in the Bulldogs’ 2-0 NCAA regional semifinal win at Ridder. “Clarkson didn’t get much of a sniff,” he said. The way UMD locked down Clarkson defensively on Thursday reminded Frost of how UMD locked down Minnesota in last year’s regional final. As Frost noted, UMD is a much different team than it was even in January, playing with better structure. Gophers coach Brad Frost and Bulldogs coach Maura Crowell both said Friday they don’t put a ton of stock into the regular-season series, especially since those games were back in January and November. “Getting shots through from the point is also important, and just getting pucks deep, going to work and keeping the pressure on in their zone.” “You’ve got to shoot hard, and you’ve got to make her move laterally that’s the biggest thing,” Minnesota fifth-year senior defenseman Gracie Ostertag said of the key to beating Soderberg. Not counting an early season game at Long Island in which UMD led 5-0 in the third period, it was the only game all season in which UMD’s WCHA Goaltender of the Year and top-three finalist for national goaltender of the year was pulled early. Minnesota chased Bulldogs fifth-year senior Emma Soderberg from the net in the second period after scoring five goals on 17 shots. 5 contest was the only one Minnesota ran away with as UMD fell behind 5-1 after giving up two goals in the opening 35 seconds. The Gophers needed an empty-net goal for the two-goal margin on Jan. The Gophers also won both games at Amsoil Arena on Jan. Minnesota swept a tight regular season series with UMD, winning 3-2 (OT) on Nov. But we first need to take care of tomorrow.” There’s definitely that hunger to get back there,” Gophers fifth-year senior Grace Zumwinkle said Friday. “The last time for a lot of us older girls was out in Quinnipiac. The Bulldogs seek their third-straight NCAA Frozen Four appearance, while the Gophers are trying to get back to the Frozen Four for the first time since losing to Wisconsin in the 2019 NCAA title game in Hamden, Conn. It will be streamed for free on Big Ten+. where UMD rallied from a goal down to upset Minnesota 2-1 before advancing to NCAA final against national champion Ohio State. Saturday’s game is a rematch of an NCAA regional final played last year at Ridder. “We were like, ‘We’re going to come home, we’re going to do it all and it have it be our last game.’ That has definitely been a motivating factor since it’s been announced.” “I remember when it got announced, (Ashton Bell) and I knew we were coming back for our sixth years,” Rogge said.
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