Reedy’s Hat Trick Leads ‘U’ to 5-3 Win
MINNEAPOLIS – Scott Reedy’s first career hat trick carried the Gopher Hockey program to a 5-3 win over Ferris State on Friday night at 3M Arena as Minnesota is now unbeaten in seven of its last eight games.
Reedy was one of five Gophers to record multi-point games in the win with Tyler Sheehy and Nathan Burke both notching a pair of assists, Rem Pitlick earning a goal and an assist and Robbie Stucker picking up three assists for his first points with the Maroon & Gold.
After being outshot in four-straight games coming into the series, Minnesota (6-6-4 overall, 3-2-3-0 Big Ten) carried a 32-22 advantage in shots on Friday with Brent Gates Jr. and Rem Pitlick adding tallies in addition to Reedy’s trio of goals.
Reedy opened the night with his first goal of the season just 1:53 into the contest and added the final two goals of the night to reclaim the lead with the eventual game-winning goal at 6:18 of the second period and an insurance goal at 16:15 of the third. Stucker assisted on all three goals with Burke picking up helpers on the first two and Sammy Walker adding an assist on the final goal of the night.
Ferris State (4-14-1, 2-9-1-0 WCHA) answered back on Reedy’s initial tally when Nate Kallen scored at 3:20 of the first while Cooper Zech scored a power-play goal to take the lead at 11:47 of the opening stanza. The power-play goal was just the second allowed by the Gophers in the last eight games (Minnesota is now 28 of 30 on the penalty kill over that stretch).
Gates picked up a power-play goal of his own at 14:42 of the first period on a one-timer set up by Sheehy and Pitlick to make it 2-2, but Ferris State would go into the first intermission with a one-goal lead thanks to a tally by Jason Tackett at 19:01.
The final 40 minutes were all Minnesota, however, as Pitlick picked up the equalizer at 4:10 of the second period off assists from Sheehy and Sam Rossini followed by Reedy’s second and third goals of the night to complete the hat trick. Pitlick, who leads Minnesota with 16 points this year, now has points in eight of the last nine games as well as 10 of the last 12.
Eric Schierhorn picked up the win for Minnesota to move to 2-3-0 on the year, making 15 saves on 15 shots over the final 40 minutes after taking over to start the second period. Mat Robson made four saves on seven shots in the first period. Roni Salmenkanga suffered the loss for Ferris State, making 27 saves to fall to 4-10-1 on the year.
Minnesota and Ferris State close out this weekend’s nonconference series on Saturday at 7 p.m. CT on Big Ten Network.