“We’re the eighth-placed team. There’s no pressure on us,” Miami head coach Enrico Blasi said last Monday. “We’re expected to lose, right? We’ve got to go and play our A-game.”
Though the RedHawks were expected to lose to No. 1 St. Cloud State, spurts of their A-game gave the Huskies trouble this weekend.
“I don’t think [the losses were] from lack of effort – a couple of plays that we might have wanted to execute a little bit differently – but other than that, I thought we were right there with them,” Blasi said.
But, ultimately, SCSU kicked Miami hockey from the National Collegiate Hockey Conference Tournament, handed the RedHawks their seventh series sweep and their 22nd and 23rd losses.