Thunder Bay’s Travis Oleksuk had a goal and assisted on the overtime winner on Saturday, helping his University of Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs capture their first NCAA national men’s hockey championship with a 3-2 win over the University of Michigan.
Oleksuk, in his third season with the Bulldogs, tied the score 1-1 early in the second of the title match. UMD took a 2-1 lead on Max Tardy’s tally midway through the stanza, but Michigan’s Jeff Rohrk tied it up with 2:14 to play.
The two teams played a scoreless third at the Xcel Energy Centre in St. Paul, Minn.
Kyle Schmidt scored the Division 1 Frozen Four championship winner at 3:22 of overtime.