University of Minnesota Athletics
Thursday, December 4
Columbus, OH
6:30 PM
University of Minnesota
8-9-1, 4-3-0
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at
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Ohio State
5-10-0, 1-6-0
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Minnesota
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6
Ohio State
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Team Stats
MIN
OSU
Shots
28
35
PPG
1
0
SHG
0
0
Penalties
1
4
Penalty Mins
2
8
Faceoffs Won
24
44
Game Leaders
+/-
3
Goals
1
Sh
3
A
2
+/-
0
Goals
2
Sh
5
A
0
+/-
2
Goals
1
Sh
1
A
1
+/-
0
Goals
1
Sh
2
A
0
Players Mentioned
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Photo by: Samantha Hollingshead
Lamb's Three-Points Power 'U' to Road Win at OSU
12/4/2025 10:00:00 PM | Men's Hockey
Di Pasquo makes 32 saves to backstop Gophers
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Minnesota men's hockey team matched its season high with six goals and powered past Ohio State, 6-3, Thursday night inside Value City Arena. Brody Lamb led the way with a three-point effort, while Beckett Hendrickson and Brodie Ziemer each added two points to back a 32-save performance from Luca Di Pasquo in the road victory.
The Golden Gophers (8-9-1 overall, 4-3-0 B1G) saw ten different players reach the scoresheet against the Buckeyes (5-10-0 overall, 1-6-0 B1G), a team receiving national votes. With the game tied 3-3 early in the third, Lamb buried the eventual game winner at 6:40 before Ziemer and Javon Moore sealed the result with empty-net goals in the final 90 seconds.
Neither team found much rhythm through the neutral zone in a scoreless opening period. Minnesota generated the first extended push midway through the frame when Ziemer and Erik Påhlsson tested the OSU netminder. That pressure led to the night's first power play at 8:19, but the Buckeyes' penalty kill held firm and built momentum of its own. Di Pasquo turned away multiple quality looks to keep the game level before Minnesota's second man advantage in the closing minutes produced a flurry around the crease that went just wide. The teams remained locked at 0-0 after 20 minutes.
The second period brought all the action the first did not, with five combined goals in a frantic stretch. Skating 4-on-4 to open the frame, Minnesota was dealt an unlucky bounce just 49 seconds in as a puck deflected off a Buckeye forward with his back to the play for a 1-0 lead. The Gophers responded on their third power play less than two minutes later. Ziemer took a feed from Luke Mittelstadt in the slot and snapped a shot under the bar to tie the game 1-1 at 3:50.
Minnesota continued to push and took its first lead with 10:57 left in the period when Lamb threaded a centering pass to Teddy Townsend, who finished from close range. A brief review was needed to confirm the goal after no call was initially made on the ice. Just seconds later, Hendrickson rattled a shot off the post but stayed with the play to convert a rebound off Jacob Rombach's point shot, stretching the lead to 3-1 with goals just 37 seconds apart. Ohio State answered late in the period, capitalizing on sustained zone time and a rebound opportunity at 13:22 to trim the margin to 3-2 heading into intermission.
The home side carried that momentum into the third and tied the game 4:52 into the frame, stuffing in a rebound to make it 3-3. But Minnesota countered quickly. Lamb created space with his speed on the rush, driving past the Buckeyes' defense and burying his own rebound less than two minutes later to restore the lead. From there, the Gophers held strong defensively as Di Pasquo turned aside another late push.
With the Buckeyes pulling their goalie in the closing minutes, Minnesota capitalized twice into the empty cage. Ziemer struck first before Moore added the final touch, lifting the Gophers to a hard-earned 6-3 victory on the road.
Noteworthy
Lamb added to his team scoring lead thanks to another multi-point outing, his sixth of the campaign and 19th of his career, behind a goal and a pair of assists ... The senior captain has 12 points during his past eight games and tied for the team lead Thursday by blocking four shots ... Ziemer continued his hot streak, finding the back of the net for the sixth time over his last six outings, four of which have been scored on the man advantage ... The sophomore now leads the Gophers with 10 goals and ranks third in the NCAA with six power-play goals following his second multi-goal effort of 2025-26 ... Townsend picked up his second collegiate goal and point with the second-period tally ... Hendrickson surpassed his freshman goal total as the Minnetonka, Minn., native put away his fourth of the year ... He has eight points across the past eight games and 13 for the season behind to his fourth contest of multiple points this year ... Moore scored in consecutive nights for the first time in his career and has eight points in the last seven games ... Mittelstadt was the first Gopher to reach double-digit assists in 2025-26 on the power-play helper, his sixth point via the man advantage ... Rombach picked up a point for the second-straight contest, the first time he has done so in his young tenure ... All three of his points this season have come since Nov. 15, a span of five games ... Thanks to a point in six of his last 10 appearances, Jimmy Clark reached 11 points overall with his eighth assist, while Tanner Ludtke and Moe each stretched their point totals to seven via assists ... The six goals scored by the Maroon and Gold matched a season high and was the fourth time hitting that mark this year, including three times over the last five games ... Minnesota scored a power-play goal for its fifth-straight outing, totaling eight tucks in that stretch ... The Gophers played in a different time zone for the third-straight weekend following games in Central Time (Nov. 21-22) and Mountain Time (Nov. 29).
Coach Motzko's Comments
"I give our guys a ton of credit and our leaders. Sometimes it wasn't pretty, but we were pretty beat up coming back from Denver with the travel problems that we had. We had a great fight in us tonight," Minnesota head coach Bob Motzko said. "We have one more before a holiday break and tomorrow's a big game for us to continue to stay strong."
Next Up: Away at Ohio State (Dec. 5)
The Gophers play their final game of the 2025 calendar year Friday evening at 5 p.m. (CT) against the Buckeyes from Value City Arena live on Big Ten Network and the Gopher Radio Network 1130 KTLK-AM/103.5 FM.
The Golden Gophers (8-9-1 overall, 4-3-0 B1G) saw ten different players reach the scoresheet against the Buckeyes (5-10-0 overall, 1-6-0 B1G), a team receiving national votes. With the game tied 3-3 early in the third, Lamb buried the eventual game winner at 6:40 before Ziemer and Javon Moore sealed the result with empty-net goals in the final 90 seconds.
Neither team found much rhythm through the neutral zone in a scoreless opening period. Minnesota generated the first extended push midway through the frame when Ziemer and Erik Påhlsson tested the OSU netminder. That pressure led to the night's first power play at 8:19, but the Buckeyes' penalty kill held firm and built momentum of its own. Di Pasquo turned away multiple quality looks to keep the game level before Minnesota's second man advantage in the closing minutes produced a flurry around the crease that went just wide. The teams remained locked at 0-0 after 20 minutes.
The second period brought all the action the first did not, with five combined goals in a frantic stretch. Skating 4-on-4 to open the frame, Minnesota was dealt an unlucky bounce just 49 seconds in as a puck deflected off a Buckeye forward with his back to the play for a 1-0 lead. The Gophers responded on their third power play less than two minutes later. Ziemer took a feed from Luke Mittelstadt in the slot and snapped a shot under the bar to tie the game 1-1 at 3:50.
Minnesota continued to push and took its first lead with 10:57 left in the period when Lamb threaded a centering pass to Teddy Townsend, who finished from close range. A brief review was needed to confirm the goal after no call was initially made on the ice. Just seconds later, Hendrickson rattled a shot off the post but stayed with the play to convert a rebound off Jacob Rombach's point shot, stretching the lead to 3-1 with goals just 37 seconds apart. Ohio State answered late in the period, capitalizing on sustained zone time and a rebound opportunity at 13:22 to trim the margin to 3-2 heading into intermission.
The home side carried that momentum into the third and tied the game 4:52 into the frame, stuffing in a rebound to make it 3-3. But Minnesota countered quickly. Lamb created space with his speed on the rush, driving past the Buckeyes' defense and burying his own rebound less than two minutes later to restore the lead. From there, the Gophers held strong defensively as Di Pasquo turned aside another late push.
With the Buckeyes pulling their goalie in the closing minutes, Minnesota capitalized twice into the empty cage. Ziemer struck first before Moore added the final touch, lifting the Gophers to a hard-earned 6-3 victory on the road.
Noteworthy
Lamb added to his team scoring lead thanks to another multi-point outing, his sixth of the campaign and 19th of his career, behind a goal and a pair of assists ... The senior captain has 12 points during his past eight games and tied for the team lead Thursday by blocking four shots ... Ziemer continued his hot streak, finding the back of the net for the sixth time over his last six outings, four of which have been scored on the man advantage ... The sophomore now leads the Gophers with 10 goals and ranks third in the NCAA with six power-play goals following his second multi-goal effort of 2025-26 ... Townsend picked up his second collegiate goal and point with the second-period tally ... Hendrickson surpassed his freshman goal total as the Minnetonka, Minn., native put away his fourth of the year ... He has eight points across the past eight games and 13 for the season behind to his fourth contest of multiple points this year ... Moore scored in consecutive nights for the first time in his career and has eight points in the last seven games ... Mittelstadt was the first Gopher to reach double-digit assists in 2025-26 on the power-play helper, his sixth point via the man advantage ... Rombach picked up a point for the second-straight contest, the first time he has done so in his young tenure ... All three of his points this season have come since Nov. 15, a span of five games ... Thanks to a point in six of his last 10 appearances, Jimmy Clark reached 11 points overall with his eighth assist, while Tanner Ludtke and Moe each stretched their point totals to seven via assists ... The six goals scored by the Maroon and Gold matched a season high and was the fourth time hitting that mark this year, including three times over the last five games ... Minnesota scored a power-play goal for its fifth-straight outing, totaling eight tucks in that stretch ... The Gophers played in a different time zone for the third-straight weekend following games in Central Time (Nov. 21-22) and Mountain Time (Nov. 29).
Coach Motzko's Comments
"I give our guys a ton of credit and our leaders. Sometimes it wasn't pretty, but we were pretty beat up coming back from Denver with the travel problems that we had. We had a great fight in us tonight," Minnesota head coach Bob Motzko said. "We have one more before a holiday break and tomorrow's a big game for us to continue to stay strong."
Next Up: Away at Ohio State (Dec. 5)
The Gophers play their final game of the 2025 calendar year Friday evening at 5 p.m. (CT) against the Buckeyes from Value City Arena live on Big Ten Network and the Gopher Radio Network 1130 KTLK-AM/103.5 FM.
Highlights: Gophers 5, Ohio State 6
Friday, December 05
Highlights: Gophers 6, Ohio State 3
Thursday, December 04
Highlights: Gophers 6, Denver 5
Saturday, November 29
Highlights: Gophers 1, Penn State 2
Saturday, November 22