On a night when Western Michigan honored its first class of players to play exclusively in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC), it was the young goaltenders who were on display as Minnesota-Duluth showed its power in a 6-3 victory.
Seven seniors, including three-year captain Sheldon Dries, were honored before the game. The group ran the gambit from the large enforcer Mike McKee, to solid contributors in Aaron Hadley and Michael Rebry, to long-time defensemen Chris Dienes and Taylor Fleming. The group, which came in before the 2013-14 season, was the first recruiting class in the post-CCHA era.