St. Cloud State Men’s Hockey Falls in OT to No. 10 Minnesota Duluth

Friday, March 6

Amsoil Arena | Duluth, Minn.

7:00 P.M. CT

St. Cloud State

16-18-1

Minnesota Duluth

21-13-1

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St. Cloud St.

Minn. Duluth

Photo by: Bill Prout

St. Cloud State Men’s Hockey Falls in OT to No. 10 Minnesota Duluth

3/6/2026 11:50:00 PM | Men's Hockey

Box Score

Huskies lose 2-0 lead, drop first game of NCHC Quarterfinals

ST. CLOUD, Minn. – St. Cloud State Men's Hockey (16-18-1, 9-14-1 NCHC) dropped a heartbreaker to No. 10 Minnesota Duluth (21-13-1, 11-12-1 NCHC), 4-3, in overtime in the first game of the NCHC Quarterfinals on Friday at AMSOIL Arena in Duluth, Minn. The Huskies took a 2-0 lead in the second period, but an extra attacker goal and an overtime power play goal gave the Bulldogs the edge and 1-0 series lead.

The Huskies took a 1-0 lead just 6:33 into the game when sophomore forward Austin Burnevik (Ham Lake, Minn.) sent a wrist shot to the back of the net on a breakaway with assists credited to freshman forward Nolan Roed (White Bear Lake, Minn.) and senior defenseman Mason Reiners (Edina, Minn.). Burnevik's team-leading 20^th goal was the only goal of the first 20 minutes as SCSU took a 1-0 lead at the first intermission.

SCSU then extended its lead to 2-0 on sophomore forward Gavyn Thoreson's (Andover, Minn.) 11^th goal of the season. Thoreson forced a Bulldog turnover and then flung a shot towards the net from under the goal line, which deflected off the UMD goaltender and across the goal line. UMD would score its first goal of the game at 16:02 to make the score 2-1 after two periods.

In the third period, UMD first tied the score at 12:45 when Adam Kleber scored his third goal of the season. The Huskies didn't wait to respond, scoring 1:49 later when Roed hammered home a one-timer off a beautiful pass from Thoreson to take a 3-2 lead. UMD pulled their goalie with around two minutes remaining and scored an extra attacker goal with 29 seconds to tie the game at 3-3 and force overtime.

The Huskies took a high sticking penalty at 3:26 of overtime and UMD would score on the ensuing draw to take the game 4-3.

TOP HUSKIES

Thoreson and Roed both had a goal and an assist for two points to lead the way offensively for the Huskies.
Burnevik netted his team-leading 20^th goal of the season in the first period.
Freshman goaltender Yan Shostak (Minsk, Belarus) made 34 saves in between the pipes for the Huskies.

NOTES

In the loss, SCSU moves to 85-72-11 all-time vs. Minnesota Duluth and 30-40-3 in Duluth.
The Huskies are now 13-12 in NCHC Quarterfinals contests and 2-4 against UMD in first round games.
With the loss, SCSU moves to 6-8-1 on the road, 12-4-0 when scoring first, 10-1-0 when leading after first period, 11-3-1 when leading after two periods, 6-11-0 when its opponent outshoots them and 6-8 in one-goal games.
SCSU went 4-for-5 on the penalty kill to improve to 76.5 percent (75-of-98) on the season. In the last nine games, the Huskies are 86.4 percent (19-of-22) on the kill.
Burnevik scored his team-leading 20^th goal of the season to become the 32^nd skater in program history to score 20 goals in a season and the first since Veeti Miettinen scored 20 in 2023-24.
Thoreson scored for the second consecutive game and for the 11^th time this season while adding an assist for his fifth two-point game of the season. The Husky sophomore has scored eight points (4-4—8) in the last five games.
Roed scored his fourth goal of the season and 13^th assist to total 17 points for his fourth two-point game of the season.
Reiners and freshman forward Noah Urness (Roseau, Minn.) each had a single assist, recording their seventh and 10^th assists of the season, respectively.
Shostak made 34 saves in the game, marking the fifth time this season he has made 30 or more saves in a game.
Junior forward Tyson Gross (Calgary, Alberta) went 11-13 in the faceoff dot, marking the 31^st time in 35 games he has won 10 or more faceoffs in a game.

UP NEXT

St. Cloud State and Minnesota Duluth will meet for the second game of the NCHC Quarterfinals on Saturday, with puck drop scheduled for 6:00 p.m. CT at AMSOIL Arena.

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