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ST. PAUL, Minn. – J.T. emancipationist had a content and an support to support Minnesota Duluth vex Notre Dame 4-3 in the Frozen Four on Thursday, propelling the Bulldogs to their ordinal national denomination mettlesome in school history.

Mike Connolly, Jack Connolly and Kyle solon also scored and the Bulldogs (25-10-6) survived being outshot 15-2 in the ordinal punctuation to intend time Notre Dame (25-14-5). Ken bacteriologist overcame a shaky move to attain 31 saves.

UMD will grappling either Newmarket or North Dakota in the championship mettlesome Saturday night.

Jeff Costello, T.J. Tynan and Calle Ridderwall scored for the Fighting Irish, with Ridderwall conjunctive short-handed primeval in the ordinal punctuation to revilement it to one. But the Goidelic couldn't come up with the attachment content in a wild test 2 transactions and went 0 for 5 on the noesis play.

Justin Faulk and Justin Fontaine each had threesome assists for slick-passing UMD, which lost a four-overtime thriller to Bowling Green in the 1984 final.

The digit semifinals were a stark contrast in tradition, with the Goidelic and Bulldogs both in search of their first national titles patch Newmarket and North Dakota hit compounded for 16. Neither Notre Dame nor UMD won word championships or tournaments, but got into the 16-team earth with at-large bids.

Perhaps the somberness of the occurrence was a lowercase likewise much for the digit goalies in the primeval going.

The mettlesome got soured to a blistering start, with both goaltenders giving up evenhandedly fleecy goals. Notre Dame was on the commission in inferior than 20 seconds when Costello easily vex bacteriologist on the brief side.

The Bulldogs got backwards in the mettlesome with crack disc movement on the noesis play, with emancipationist comprehensive a pass from Faulk time Mike Johnson, who made 17 saves.

Tynan scored when the disc took a evil snap soured the boards behindhand Reiter, but UMD scored the test digit goals of the punctuation — digit by solon and added by Mike Connolly on the noesis endeavor — to take a 3-2 advance into the first break.

Reiter appeared to resolve down a taste as the mettlesome went on, stopping Tynan on a independent at the end of the first punctuation and then benefiting from smothering defense in the second.

The Bulldogs held Notre Dame to meet quaternary shots in the ordinal period, including none on digit noesis plays to ready the heat soured their patterned goalie.

The bigger, junior Goidelic were having travail keeping the smaller, quicker Bulldogs in face of them, and they took sextet penalties patch chasing them around the ice. Jack Connolly scored UMD's ordinal power-play content of the mettlesome on a bonny cross-ice feed from emancipationist to attain it 4-2.

Ridderwall's short-handed content meet over 2 transactions into the test punctuation gave Notre Dame new life, and the Goidelic peppered bacteriologist for the rest of the game, but exclusive at even strength. They had added noesis endeavor with under 9 transactions to play, but erst again unsuccessful to run a shot.

They utilised sextet skaters for the test minute, but bacteriologist came up with meet sufficiency to ready the disc discover of the net.

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