GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- Minnesota Duluth accomplished a lot of the little details that lead to college hockey victories Saturday night.
Score on the power play? Check. Score late in periods? Check. Kill off a 5-on-3 penalty? Check.
Those details added up to a 6-3 Northern Collegiate Hockey Conference men's win over North Dakota before 11,974 at Ralph Engelstad Arena.
Adam Krause scored two goals -- giving him all three of his season goals in the weekend split -- and Aaron Crandall stopped 22 shots as the 20th-ranked Bulldogs improved to 5-4-1 overall and 2-2 in the league. Tony Cameranesi and Willie Raskob were credited with three assists apiece.
As it did in Saturday night games against Colorado College and Notre Dame, UMD came out with high energy on the second night of a series. And the team's power play, mediocre through the first nine games, clicked in the opening period. With Wade Murphy serving two minutes for tripping, Alex Iafallo scored from in front of the net at 7:28 for his second goal of the weekend and team-leading fifth of the season.
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North Dakota (4-5-1, 3-5) countered with a power-play goal at 10:18 when Dillon Simpson's slap shot from the left point blew by Crandall, who was screened by Drake Caggiula. It was the third power-play goal allowed during the series by the Bulldogs, who led the nation entering the weekend in penalty-kill percentage (93.6 percent).
UMD turned a 2-on-1 rush into a 3-on-1 advantage late in the period when Cameranesi dropped a pass for Krause. The junior right winger from Hermantown buried the shot for a 2-1 lead at 17:32.
The Bulldogs' power play struck again in the final 11 seconds of the period as Austin Farley picked out the left corner of the net for a 3-1 lead.
North Dakota halved the deficit in the second period as freshman defenseman Paul LaDue scored his first career goal by sending a wrist shot past Crandall's stick side. The No. 13-ranked team had a chance to equal the score but failed to convert on 1:20 of a 5-on-3 advantage. UMD made the most of that as freshman Sammy Spurrell tallied at 18:48 when he picked up a blocked shot and beat Zane Gothberg, who had replaced starting goalie Clarke Saunders to start the second.
Krause scored his second of the game at 6:30 of the third to establish a three-goal lead. Bryn Chyzyk cut the cap back to two with his first of the season but Joe Basaraba ended matters with an empty-net goal with 62 seconds to play.
