The University of Minnesota Duluth men's hockey team ran into the University of Nebraska Omaha's power play Saturday night in Baxter Arena in Omaha, Neb. and the result was a 5-2 loss for the Bulldogs in National Collegiate Hockey Conference play.

 

UMD, swept by the Mavericks on the weekend, gave up three power play tallies to the Mavericks, including two late in the third to thwart any chance of a Bulldog comeback.

 

UNO's first goal of the game also came off its power play 4:42 into the first period. But 33 seconds later, Zam Plante got back into the scoring column after a bit of a hiatus to knot the skate up at 1-1.

 

Omaha retook the lead at the 8:03 mark on a goal from Jacob Guevin, a lead it would never relinquish. The Mavericks tacked on another goal to take a 3-1 advantage 5:33 into the second period, a score that held deep into the final frame.

 

UMD was relentless in the third, and outshot UNO 17-4 in the frame, but a five minute major for boarding from defenseman Adam Kleber threw the Mavericks a lifeline, and they made it count, burying two power play goals about a two minutes apart. The first, at 15:38, stretched UMD's deficit to 4-1, before the second a minute later expanded it to 5-1.

 

Freshman forward Jayson Shaugabay did net a power play goal of his own with 23 seconds left in the third to cut into the 5-2 final, his second point of the night (1g, 1a) and third of the series (1g, 2a).

Shaugabay on the power play! pic.twitter.com/Gl2PLMFJgc

— UMD Men's Hockey (@UMDMensHockey) February 9, 2025

Adam Gajan, making his first appearance in net for the Bulldogs since Nov. 23, had 24 saves in the outing. UMD outshot the Mavericks 52-29 and went 1-of-3 on the power play while UNO went 3-of-4 and improved to 16-11-1 and 12-5-1 in the NCHC.

 

UMD (10-15-1, 6-10-0) wil return to AMSOIL Arena next weekend to host Arizona State University in a Friday-Saturday series that gets underway Friday at 7:07 p.m.

BULLDOG NOTES:  Jayson Shaugabay led all UMD players with three points in the series (1g, 2a) … Max Plante has notched at least a point in 11 of the 13 games he has played so far after dishing out the secondary assist Saturday night in his brother Zam Plante's first period goal … Plante had an assist in each game against UNO … UMD's rookie class scored all three of the Bulldogs goals in the series … in addition to Z. Plante's and Shaugabay's goals, Callum Arnott recorded one Friday night.