St. Norbert College’s Black and Black
Sweep NCHA Men’s Hockey Weekly Honors
St. Norbert College junior Kurt Black (F - Lake Country, British Columbia) is the NCHA Men’s Offensive Player of the Week and senior teammate T.J. Black (G - Wheaton, Ill) is the NCHA Men’s Defensive Player of the Week, the league office announced Tuesday.
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Black earns NCHA Offensive Player of the Week honors after a five-point weekend (2G/3A) that helped St. Norbert build its lead atop the Northern Division standings. Black went 2-2-4 in Friday’s 7-0 win over No. 7/8 Adrian College, with his first-period goal standing up as the game-winner. He added a pair of assists and another goal in the big third period to put it away. Black then had an assist in Saturday’s 3-2 victory over Trine.
Black picks up the sixth NCHA Defensive Player of the Week honors of his career - and second of the season - following an impressive 2-0 weekend in goal. He finished with 22 saves in Friday’s 7-0 victory over nationally-ranked Adrian, the first shutout for either team in the St. Norbert-Adrian series and the 18th of his career. He then posted 29 more saves in Saturday’s 3-2 win over Trine. For the weekend, he posted a 1.00 GAA and a .962 save percentage.
2018-19 NCHA WEEKLY TOP PERFORMERS
Yuri Chernichko, Marian
Chernichko provided late heroics scoring the game-winner against St. Scholastica with only 2:19 left to play. The goal was his fifth of the season.
Bo Didur, Concordia Wisconsin
Didur had two wins on the week as Concordia Wisconsin defeated Aurora and Lake Forest. The freshman had 29 saves in a 5-3 win over the Spartans before saving 30 shots in a narrow 2-1 win over the Foresters.
Jake Drinkard, Lawrence
Drinkard collected three goals and three assists as Lawrence split a pair of NCHA road games. In Lawrence’s 8-2 win at St. Scholastica last Friday, Drinkard scored two goals and had two assists. He scored both goals in the first period as Lawrence jumped out to a 3-0 lead. He added two assists in the second period as Lawrence took a commanding 6-1 lead. In Saturday’s 5-4 loss at Northland, Drinkard picked up a goal and an assist. He assisted on the first goal of the game and then scored with an extra attacker on the ice with 11 seconds remaining to pull the Vikings with a goal.
Connor Hogg, Concordia Wisconsin
Hogg scored the game-winner in Concordia Wisconsin’s 2-1 victory over Lake Forest. The senior sped down the ice and found the net eight seconds into overtime to give the Falcons the win. Hogg also had an assist in the Falcons 5-3 win over Aurora.
Paul Lochner, Finlandia
Lochner had the first goal in Friday’s 3-1 win, was a +2 on the ice and had three shots on net. Saturday he had a pair of assists in the 5-3 loss to Adrian.
Santeri Seppinen, Finlandia
Seppinen stopped 19 of 20 shots in Friday night’s 3-1 win over Trine and shut down the Trine power play at 0-for-3. Santeri followed up with stopping 29 of 34 shots in Saturdays 5-3 loss to Adrian (5th goal was an empty net) and helped shut down the Adrian power play (0-for-4).
Hunter Vorva, Marian
Vorva held Northland and St. Scholastica to only one goal each in conference action. Vorva made 54 saves on the weekend and recorded a .964 save percentage. The performances were the seventh and eighth time this season he has held an NCHA opponent to less than two goals.
Cole Woodliffe, Northland
Woodliffe played a key role in the Jacks two wins this past weekend, as he scored the game winning goal in the Jacks 1-0 shutout against Marian University on Friday and then scored another goal in the Jacks’ 5-4 win over Lawrence University on Saturday.