FOND DU LAC – St. Norbert College played its first road game of the season and came away with a hard-fought 3-0 win over Marian University in a Northern Collegiate Hockey Association matchup at Blue Line Family Ice Center.
The Green Knights (6-0, 3-0 NCHA) matched their best start since going 6-0 to start the 2017-18 season. St. Norbert had a penalty-free game, its second in its last three games. The Green Knights had just one game with no penalties in the first 1,015 games in program history.
St. Norbert had scored at least five goals in each of its first five games this season but had to grind out scoring against the Sabres. Following a scoreless first period, the Green Knights broke through at 15:31 of the second period when Braden Lindstrom scored off assists from Cameron Morris and Byron Hartley.
That goal would hold up until late in the third period, when Liam Fraser posted his fifth goal of the season, scoring off assists from Logan Dombrowsky and Bryan Gilman at 13:59. Brock Baker then sealed the win with an empty-net goal with 1:53 remaining, finishing off a Dombrowsky helper.
Fraser’s goal was the 62nd of his career, moving him into a tie for fifth place with Cody Keefer, Marc Belanger and Bruce Henderson for most goals in school history. He is also now eighth in career scoring with 133 points.
Dombrowsky had St. Norbert’s lone multi-point game with two assists.
Marian outshot St. Norbert 21-19. Hunter Garvey made 21 saves to fashion the shutout for the Green Knights. Nicholas Von Kaufman made 16 stops for the Sabres.
The Green Knights had just one power-play chance, coming up empty in the first period.
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