by Heather Rule/Special to CHN
MINNEAPOLIS — The biggest part of the game happened in the first two minutes of the Big Ten Championship. At least according to Michigan freshman winger Dylan Duke.
His team was already down 1-0 only 32 seconds in, on a backhanded-shot goal from Minnesota’s Jaxon Nelson. First shift, first shot on goal, first tally on the scoreboard. If Michigan wanted to take the thousands of maroon-and-gold fans out of it, they needed to act fast.
“I just remember thinking on the bench, when (Matty) Beniers, Kent (Johnson) and (Brendan) Brisson went out, I was thinking, ‘That’d be huge if they scored right here,’” Duke said.