 Before Friday night's comeback victory over Michigan Tech, the BSU men's hockey team had been 0, 61, and 9, dating back to 2012 when trailing entering the third period. With the win, the Beavers put a little more distance between themselves and the Huskies at the top of the WCHA standings, and Saturday looked to do the same. No score in the first period, just a minute in, the Beves get on the board, Phil Maranaccio finds Kyle Baumann, he finds the back of the net, what nothing BSU. Stay that way until late in the second, look at the effort for Miles Fitzgerald, just outworking everyone up the ice, getting by the sliding defender, and then finding Justin Bodry for the goal to zip BSU. Then in the third, same score, Bodry repays the favor to Miles, finding him to put BSU up three. They wouldn't need any more than that, thanks to the outstanding game from Michael Bitzer. He recorded 27 saves and the shutout, BSU gets the 3-0 victory, they're now 10 points up over Michigan Tech and the WCHA standings. This time of year it takes care of itself, we know what you're playing for, you're playing for a pretty big prize. This is why guys play. You play because of the playoffs and trying to win a championship and all these types of things, so getting these guys excited to play, not very hard right now, not very difficult. Obviously we do how big this weekend was, but going into the next weekend here in Alabama, you can't think about this weekend, you just got to carry on and like I said, just take the next game and focus and be ready to go. It's kind of weird to think, but at the same time you just kind of have to understand where we are and kind of ground ourselves and think that if we have a great opportunity here and we just want to keep the ball rolling. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.