USCHO: Big Ten Roundup 10/17/17

No. 15 Penn State 5, Michigan 4 OT

Playing catch up the entire night, sophomore forward Blake Gober finally put the Nittany Lions ahead for the first time only 53 seconds into overtime, as his first goal of the season lifted Penn State to a gritty victory in its conference home opener. Five different players scored for the Nittany Lions (4-3-0, 2-1-0 Big Ten) on a night when PSU fired 54 shots on net.“Even if we lost I absolutely thought we played our best game and got back to our identity,” Penn State coach Guy Gadowsky said, whose team was beaten in overtime last Friday by then-winless American International. “That was Penn State hockey.”Michigan’s Cooper Marody scored his first goal of the season off a defensive turnover to take a 4-3 lead early in the third period, a lead that stood until Chase Berger’s goal at 18:28 forced overtime. It wasn’t the only lead the Nittany Lions had to wipe out, as the Wolverines (3-2-0, 0-1-0 Big Ten) jumped to a 2-0 lead in the game’s first six minutes.Senior Dexter Dancs scored a pair of goals for Michigan in the first conference game of the Mel Pearson era.

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