University of Minnesota Athletics
MINNESOTA THUMPS QUINNIPIAC 11-2 BEHIND SENDEN HAT TRICK
12/9/2000 12:00:00 AM | Athletics
It didn't take long for Minnesota to get on the board as Paul Martin tallied his first career goal as a Golden Gopher just seven seconds into the game on a booming slapshot from the point. The goal narrowly missed being the fastest goal to start a game. That record is held by Bill Klatt who scored five seconds into a game against Michigan in 1968. John Pohl put Minnesota up 2-0 at 11:27 of the first period, lighting the lamp with crisp passes from Grant Potulny and Erik Westrum.
The scoring continued at 15:23 of the first period when Potulny's sharp shot from the slot beat QU's Justin Eddy. Senden got his first goal of the game at 16:02 when Nick Anthony's face-off win got Senden the puck in the high slot where he fired home the marker.
Quinnipiac got on the scoreboard at 1:54 of the second stanza with Chirs Cerrella's goal. The Golden Gophers responded, though, with Senden's second lamp-lighter at 8:26. Anthony and Martin assisted on the goal that resulted from a 2-on-0 break in the QU zone.
Matt DeMarchi kept the rout going at 11:58 with a little help from the Mariucci Arena glass. In an effort to clear the puck from the neutral zone, DeMarchi fired the puck off the glass. The puck ricocheted off of a support beam in the glass and flew into the net as Eddy scrambled from behind the goal.
Quinnipiac got its final goal of the game at 13:16 from Brian Herbert. Minnesota responded once again as Dylan Mills got his first goal of the season at 15:24 off of a blistering shot from the point.
Troy Riddle opened the scoring in the third period on a nice redirection of Nick Angell< /a>'s pass at 10:04. Westrum tallied his team-leading 11th goal of the year at 11:14 off a great feed from Pohl.
Then, at 12:53, hats littered the Mariucci ice after Senden notched his third goal of the game, putting home the marker from in front of the crease on a pass from Matt Koalska. Anthony closed out the scoring in the rout at 19:25 on another assist from Koalska.
Minnesota goaltender Adam Hauser turned away 13 of 15 shots and was relieved by Erik Young in the third period. Thirteen different Maroon and Gold skaters tallied a point in the dominating victory. The Golden Gophers' 11 goals was the most since the Maroon and Gold tallied 11 in a blowout of North Dakota in 1991.
Minnesota, 10-5-2 overall, faces the Russia Selects in an exhibition game Sunday night before taking a break for the holidays. The Golden Gophers will return to regular season action Dec. 29 against Union in the Mariucci Classic.
