{"id":221465,"date":"2021-03-16T23:19:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T04:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=221465"},"modified":"2021-03-16T23:20:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T04:20:27","slug":"und-5-3-over-st-cloud-statenchc-frozen-faceoff-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=221465","title":{"rendered":"UND 5-3 over St. Cloud State,NCHC Frozen Faceoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GRAND FORKS, N.D<\/strong>.<a href=\"https:\/\/fightinghawks.com\/news\/2021\/3\/16\/mens-hockey-und-rallies-to-nchc-frozen-faceoff-championship.aspx\"> UND<\/a> \u2013 The University of North Dakota scored three times in the opening six minutes of the third period to overcome a 2-1 deficit to St. Cloud State and claim the Fighting Hawks first NCHC Frozen Faceoff Championship, 5-3. North Dakota is now the first team in NCHC history to win both the regular season and the Frozen Faceoff.<\/p>\n<p>Last night&#8217;s overtime hero <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/fightinghawks.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=10304\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"10304\">Gavin Hain<\/a><\/dfn> tied it up 2-2 on a power play goal at 3:22 to shift momentum to UND&#8217;s end. <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/fightinghawks.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=10305\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"10305\">Jordan Kawaguchi&#8217;s<\/a><\/dfn> go-ahead goal, a give and go in front of the net from <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/fightinghawks.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=10319\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"10319\">Riese Gaber<\/a><\/dfn> with 4:54 left setup the game-winning goal 28 seconds on a power play as Gaber one-timed his second goal of the night, earning him the Tournament&#8217;s Most Outstanding Player award.<\/p>\n<p>Gaber and Kawaguchi both finished with two goals and an assist, while <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/fightinghawks.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=10296\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"10296\">Collin Adams<\/a><\/dfn> recorded two helpers as well. Goaltender <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/fightinghawks.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=10311\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"10311\">Adam Scheel<\/a><\/dfn> made 30 saves in net and was named to the All-Tournament team alongside teammates <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/fightinghawks.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=10296\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"10296\">Collin Adams<\/a><\/dfn>, <dfn><a href=\"https:\/\/fightinghawks.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=10321\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"10321\">Jake Sanderson<\/a><\/dfn>, Gaber, and Hain.<\/p>\n<p>A complete recap of the game with highlights and photo gallery of the championship celebration will be available later on FightingHawks.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND FORKS, N.D. UND \u2013 The University of North Dakota scored three times in the opening six minutes of the third period to overcome a 2-1 deficit to St. Cloud State and claim the Fighting Hawks first NCHC Frozen Faceoff Championship, 5-3. North Dakota is now the first team in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":102961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221467,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221465\/revisions\/221467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}