CrashingTheGoalie

“Gophers coach Don Lucia said he is not worried that sophomore center Jordan Schroeder has not scored a goal yet this season,” wrote  Roman Augustoviz on November 2nd.

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Schroeder was picked by the WCHA coaches and media to be the conference’s Player of the Year or, in one poll, the co-Player of the Year with St. Cloud State forward Ryan Lasch.

“I am not worried about that [goals] as long as he is picking up points,” Lucia said. ”The [Alaska Anchorage] goalie made a great save on the one. That line is starting to get some chances and scored two goals. That’s the important thing for me.:

Mike Hoeffel and Jay Barriball, Schroeder’s linemates, each had one goal. Schroeder had two assists Sunday for the second day in a row as the Gophers won 4-1 over the Seawolves.

“Jordan is a great assist guy, too, and those guys have to finish those plays when he sets them up,” Lucia said.

Schroeder had only 13 goals last season but 32 assists for 45 points. This past weekend he had six shots on goal against the Seawolves in the two games and was a plus-four.”

Roman Augustoviz previously wrote  on  October 29th.

“Gophers coach Don Lucia said this week that sophomore center Jordan Schroeder played much better against Denver University than he did the first weekend of the season at North Dakota. Lucia said he is not concerned Schroeder has no points in four games.

“You can’t do it by yourself,” Lucia said. “You have to do it as a linemate. …. In one of [the DU] games he had six scoring chances. He is starting to get the scoring chances and he is too good of a player not to have some of those start to go in.”

“You can’t focus on individual scorig, getting points yourself,” Schroeder said. “It’s about the team and right now we have been shut out three of the four games. So no one is scoring points which is unusual.

“We just got to bear down when we get our chances and hit the net.

“Our line, maybe me in particular, might be a target out there because of the success that I’ve had. You just got to battle through it. You got to keep moving your feet and playing hard and hopefully it will turn around.”