Needing to have a strong showing at home after struggling to 13 games without a win, the Michigan Tech Huskies came out flat costing themselves dearly in a 6-2 loss to the Alaska-Anchorage Seawolves Friday night at the MacInnes Student Ice Arena.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I felt the first 40 minutes of the game I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think we moved our feet,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Huskies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 head coach Jamie Russell. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t defend well. We didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t win battles.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Jade Portwood notched a pair of goals, including an empty-netter in sealing the Seawolves\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 seventh victory of the season and first of 2010.<\/p>\n
Tommy Grant got the visitors on the board first at 5:33 of the opening frame with a power-play goal. Kevin Clark set up the goal with a nice pass. Brad Gorham also assisted on the goal.<\/p>\n
Portwood put the Seawolves up by a pair with a shot through traffic that eluded Huskies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 netminder Kevin Genoe at 5:48. Ken Selby and Craig Parkinson assisted on the goal.<\/p>\n
The Huskies looked to fall even deeper into a hole when senior defenseman John Kivisto took a penalty for checking from behind, but instead, the Huskies rallied.<\/p>\n
Picking off a Seawolves\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 pass at center ice, assistant captain Brett Olson blew past two defenders and deked the puck around Jon Olthuis for a shorthanded tally at 10:16. The goal was Olson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 10th of the season.<\/p>\n
The Huskies nearly evened the game on the next shift as assistant captain Jordan Baker and junior center Eric Kattelus skated in on a 2-on-1 as Baker fed Kattelus, but his shot was stopped by Olthuis for one his five first period saves. He would finish with 27.<\/p>\n
The second period was all Seawolves as Mitch Bruijsten scored at 4:40 on an unfortunate bounce for Genoe. Curtis Leinweber assisted on the goal.<\/p>\n
Sean Wiles got loose at 10:39 to score a shorthanded goal off a turnover by the Huskies in their offensive zone.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153That goal gave us some breathing room,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Seawolves\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 head coach Dave Shyiak. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Anytime you are on the road and can go up two or three goals, I think that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a positive thing.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
In the third, Olson cut the lead in half again with a power-play marker at 5:17. His 11th goal of the season was set up by a shot wide of the net by Baker. Kattelus also picked up an assist on the goal.<\/p>\n
The Huskies controlled play for much of the period, but couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find the net behind Olthuis again.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We came out and we did some good things in the third,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Russell. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You need to do that right off the opening drop of the puck.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
Russell pulled Genoe with 2:14 left, but the move backfired as Portwood and Clark both notched empty net goals in a 55 second span.<\/p>\n
Genoe finished the game with 29 saves in the loss.<\/p>\n
The Huskies (3-19-1 overall, 2-15-0 in the WCHA) were 1-for-5 on the man advantage while the Seawolves (7-13-1, 5-11-1) finished 1-4.<\/p>\n
The teams meet again tomorrow afternoon for the last time in the regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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