The Eagles return to action tonight as they face Michigan Tech in the third place game at the GLI. BC had a rough go last night as they were dominated by a very big and physical Michigan team. MTU comes into the game with a 9-10-1 overall record under first year head coach Mel Person. Some notable wins for the Huskies have been a blowout win vs Denver and a 3-2 win @ then #1 Minnesota. So by looking at those games you know that this team can compete with the big dogs. I expect MTU to play a very good game on both ends and I hope the Eagles are ready to counter. This is one of those games where if you win great but if you lose, well it is a killer. As I said in an earlier post, BC has not lost any "bad" games all year but if they were to lose tonight, it would be a killer in terms of the pairwise because MTU is not a great team record wise. I think that Coach York gave the team a good talk after last nights game because he knows that they really were dominated in the first and third periods by UM. I think BC will be ready to go tonight and beat the Huskies by a pretty good margin but you never know in this game.
Key Players
1. Brett Olson-F- 6 goals 13 assist
2. Steve Seigo- D- 3 goals 12 assist
3. Josh Robinson-G Ranks fourth in the WCHA in save percentage and fifth in Goals agianst average.
Keys for the Eagles
1. This is a must win, be ready. I am not leaving this place without seeing a win. The team needs to have that same mindset
2. The turnovers need to stop. To many times yesterday turnovers led to odd man rushes for the Wolverines that resulted in goals.
3. Stay out of the box. BC took some really bad penalties yesterday like interference, high sticking, and roughing. Needs to stop in order to win games.
Series history vs MTU- BC leads 6-3 all time. BC won the last meeting in November of 1988 by a score of 4-1.
Note- Milner is in net tonight for BC.
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