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Oleksuk, Bulldogs capture NCAA hockey title

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.
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.


Leith Dunick

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A proud Nova Scotian who has called Thunder Bay home since 2002, Leith is Dougall Media's director of news, but still likes to tell your stories too. Wants his Expos back and to see Neil Young at least one more time. Twitter: @LeithDunick
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