FINAL: UAF 3 - Denver 2 OT

The University of Alaska scored in overtime to stun the University of Denver in Fairbanks on Friday night.

Gabe Levin and Matt Marcinew scored for DU to stake the Pioneers to a 2-0 lead, but DU's lack of depth came back to haunt Denver in the third period and overtime.

Trailing 2-0 until the last minute of the second period, the Nanooks completed their comeback with Garrick Perry's strike with just 25.2 seconds left in OT to secure a 3-2 victor.

DU will face UAA on Saturday night.

Boxscore

FRIDAY GAME: DU Line Chart Against Alaska

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DU's Injury Report From Monty's Press Conference

As the University of Denver hockey team departs for Alaska, the training room will be in heavy use while the team is away.

Garrett Allen suffered a lower extremity in practice yesterday and will not make trip to Alaska this weekend.

Freshman Evan Janssen is also out with a lower extremity injury. According To Mike Chambers of the Denver Post, he's expected to miss three weeks with a knee injury.  Likely this has to be very disappointing to Evan as he played junior hockey in Alaska in the NAHL in 2011-12.

Zac Larraza is still injured.

Emil Romig's NCAA "Euro-suspension" still has six games to run.

Nolan Zajac will continue to play at forward until several of the injured players return to the lineup.

There are only 21 eligible players to travel. Since this is a tournament, all three goalies can make the trip. The remaining 18 skaters will make the trip, including Wade Bennett who didn't dress last weekend.

Northern Michgan & Alaska Heading To WCHA?

(above) Survivor: College Hockey Edition continues this week with the WCHA Tribe adding Northern Michigan & Alaska

Kevin Pates of the Duluth News-Tribune is reporting that Northern Michigan and the University of Alaska [Fairbanks] could join the Western Collegiate Hockey Association by 2013-14. The University of Alaska rumor has been denied by the UA Athletic Department saying, "We've had no contact with the WCHA."

The University of Denver, Minnesota-Duluth, Colorado College, North Dakota & Nebraska-Omaha announced on Sunday that they will leave the WCHA in 2013-14 to form a new conference with Miami University.

We Need A Boone Destroying The Springs Video

Supposedly this University of Alaska hockey pregame video is all over the internet. Needless to say we were particularly impressed when the Polar Bear destroyed Anchorage.

Maybe we could hire UAF's video department to create a similar Boone video destroying Ruckus, various WCHA cities, plus North Dakota?