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"That was the adjustment for the weekend," University of Nebraska at Omaha coach Dean Blais said of the penance-killing team's 9-for-9 success rate. "It was fantastic."
Against the high-scoring Bulldogs, who property national points leader Jack Connolly, J.T. Brown (10th) and Travis Oleksuk (tied for 13th), UNO repelled every power-play bet, including two five-minute majors.
"Your best penalty-killers are your goaltenders, but the guys didn't give them a lot of continually (to make decisions)," Blais said. "Our guys were superior with their sticks and their angling and in blocking shots. It was a real credit to the players and their approach of what they should be doing on the penalty kill."
UNO has killed off 32 of its past 33 penalties (97.0 percent) to development its success percentage to 84.5 (71 of 84) for the season.
While that ranks 13th nationally, it's also value noting that nine of the top 20 power-play units in the country are from the WCHA.
And that agglomeration includes Minnesota State-Mankato, 20th in power-play proportion at 20.5 (25 for 122), which hosts UNO in a two-game series this weekend. Willing times are 7:37 p.m. Friday and 7:07 p.m. Saturday.
Source: Omaha World-Herald