Pinchevsky said the Nordiques’ breakouts could be better on the man-advantage, and they plan to correct that for Game 2. “When you have a productive player who goes into the dirty areas, and he makes himself available, and the vision of Nick Bernard who has an elite stick, you are making plays like everyone saw,” Pinchevsky said. They didn’t score on the first two, but forward Brendan Gibbons notched his fourth goal of the playoffs by deflecting a Bernardo pass into the net midway through the period to even the game 2-2. The Nordiques had three power plays in the second period. We just need to go back to work and keep hitting our details.”īranden Piku ripped a slap shot from the left circle past Nordiques goalie Thomas Heaney (22 saves) for a power-play goal that gave the Black Bears a 2-1 advantage 3:40 into the middle period. “We kind of know both sides of it, and that’s why it doesn’t affect us. “Not the way anybody wants to start a period, and we have been on the other side of that several times when we scored right away in a period,” Pinchevsky said. Kareem El Bashir netted his first playoff goal on a shot from the top of the crease nearly a minute into the stanza to tie the game 1-1.
Maryland evened the score early in the second period. “A great win by Patrick Schmiedlin, great support by Tony Achille, and we all know Nicholas Bernardo is offensively gifted up there and has a great release.”
“I feel like winning draws at key times help any hockey team, but when it produces, it’s a big momentum shift in a key part of the game,” Pinchevsky said. Forward Patrick Schmiedlin won the faceoff back to Bernardo. Pinchevsky said the Nordiques’ plan is to return to the Robertson Cup, as they did during the 2020-21 season, and this time win the title.ĭefenseman Nicholas Bernardo gave Maine a 1-0 lead a little more than five minutes into the first period when he put home a one-timer.
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