Lucas Sowder News Today

This week, the CCHA offers many reasons to turn on FloHockey - a potential out-of-body experience, a bubble balancing act and 10 angry men making a stand.

Wildcats senior winger AJ Vanderbeck skated out of the penalty box, called for the puck and ripped home the game-winner in OT.

The Falcons scored early to cut it to 2-1 before Austen Swankler’s game-tying goal with less than a minute left in regulation completed a comeback that had, in the first two periods at least, seemed unlikely.

Denver scored five straight third-period goals to capture the NCAA Division I mens hockey championship with a 5-1 victory over Minnesota State at TD Garden on Saturday, the Pioneers ninth title in school history.

Denver scored all five of its goals against the Mankato State Mavericks in the third period on Saturday.

Ondrej Pavel scored two goals and had an assist for the Mavericks, who have now won 13 straight and their 33 wins this season set a school record. Minnesota State outshot St. Thomas 50-14.

Sam Morton helped stall any upset thoughts with an early third period goal and Lucas Sowder provided the game-winner later in the period as the Mavericks snatched the first game of the best-of-three CCHA quarterfinal series.

Minnesota State kept the 109-year-old silver trophy in the comforts of its own home by winning the CCHA regular season championship on Saturday with a 5-1 victory over Bemidji State.

ABC 10/CW5 Courtesy: Michigan Tech Athletics THIS WEEKEND’S SERIES • No. 19 Michigan Tech wraps up the regular season at No. 4 Minnesota State this weekend. • The puck drops at 8:07 p.m. Friday and 7:07 p.m. Saturday at the Mayo Clinic Events Center in Mankato. • The two teams split a nonconference series on December 6-7 in Houghton. • The Huskies are 17-8-1 overall and 7-5 in the WCHA and have won three straight games. 100 YEARS AGO The Michigan C...