No. 13 FSU Continues Dominance

“I think the team has done a great job of con­tin­u­ing to come to the rink and work­ing hard every day and under­stand­ing what it takes for our team to keep win­ning,” said Wysopal.

Freshman for­ward Matthew Kirzinger scored a short­handed goal with just over six min­utes remain­ing in the first period. Senior for­ward Blair Riley added an empty-net goal with 32 sec­onds remain­ing in the game to ice the vic­tory for Ferris. The Bulldogs out­shot the Mavericks 34–28 and both teams went 0 for 5 on the power play.

Three goals in a five-minute span in the sec­ond period led to a 3–1 vic­tory on Saturday as Ferris com­pleted its sweep of the Mavericks.

Sophomore cen­ter Jordie Johnston opened the scor­ing with his first goal of the sea­son four min­utes, 43 sec­onds into the sec­ond period. Wysopal and senior cap­tain Cody Chupp added power play goals 1:32 apart to the team a 3–0 lead at the mid­way point of the game. Head coach Bob Daniels said Nebraska-Omaha came out hard, but the team responded well.

“I’m really proud of our guys for com­ing out and show­ing the matu­rity to be ready to bat­tle a very good Nebraska team,” said Daniels.

Nick Fanto scored a short­handed goal for the Mavericks with five min­utes left in the sec­ond period, but that was all Nebraska-Omaha would get. Taylor Nelson recorded the win for the Bulldogs and improved his record to 8−1−1 this season.

While Ferris scored on only 2 of 19 power play attempts in the two games, Nebraska-Omaha did not scored on any of its 12 attempts.
Nelson stopped 28 of 29 shots on goal and improved his sea­son save per­cent­age to .942. He has the high­est win­ning per­cent­age and save per­cent­age of any goalie in the CCHA this sea­son. After his per­for­mance, Nelson was tabbed as the CCHA’s Reebok Goaltender of the Week.
“He is hot right now and he’s play­ing at a cham­pi­onship level,” said Daniels.

Ferris has a home and home series against in-state rival Western Michigan University this week­end. Western Michigan is cur­rently tied for 11^th in the CCHA stand­ings with a 2−7−3−1 in the con­fer­ence. Wysopal said he expects the games with Western Michigan to be “phys­i­cal and close.”