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New Ulm’s season ends with 2-1 loss

Staff photo by Steve Muscatello New Ulm’s Brandon Mehlhop (3) tries to get past Sabastien Vaillanourt of Hutchinson during Section 3A playoff action Saturday at the New Ulm Civic Center. For more photos of this event go to cu.nujournal.com

NEW ULM — Hutchinson came into Saturday night’s Sectiion 3A hockey game having lost its last five games of the regular season.

But Hutchinson ended its losing streak and also ended New Ulm’s season.

Cass Longie and Ryan Houseman scored goals for Hutchinson and goaltender Brooks Telecky stopped 23 of 24 shots as it downed fourth-seededNew Ulm 2-1 on Saturday at the New Ulm Civic Center.

Nate Miller scored the lone goal for New Ulm in the third period with Brandon Mehlhop getting the assist. The Eagles’ season ends with a 14-11-1 record.

New Ulm goaltender Jack Raymond stopped 24 of 26 shots.

Hutchinson (7-15-3) will face top-seeded Luverne on Monday night at Gustavus in a semifinal game. Luverne defeated Windom Area 5-0 on Saturday night.

“We battled tonight,” New Ulm coach Ryan Neuman said. “I knew going into this game that they had a solid goaltender [Brooks Telecky] and we just could not seem to beat him. In the first period we seemed to shoot a lot of pucks into his glove and we had stressed to shoot the pucks low. Once we made those adjustments we got some quality scoring chances.”

New Ulm trailed 1-0 on a Longie power-play goal at 6:27 of the first period and carried that slim lead into the second period when perhaps the turning point of the game happened.

The Eagles were just coming off a power play when the Tigers’ Cody Arlt picked up a puck in neutral ice and broke in on Raymond with Houseman on his right and no defensemen to help Raymond.

Arlt passed to Houseman, who beat Raymond for a 2-0 lead at the 12:31 mark of the second period.

“We were not frustrated being down [2-0],” Neuman said. “We were more frustrated that we thought that the puck was offsides on their first goal. And there was a penalty called on Hutch that was then not a penalty. Their second goal was a freak bad bounce where we had five guys peppering down low and they get a guy coming out of the penalty box and they scored a goal off of it.”

New Ulm cut the lead to 2-1 on a Miller wrap-around goal at the 7:15 mark.

Neuman then yanked Raymond for an extra attacker with 1:21 left in the game but could not get the tying goal.

“I did not think that we played to bad tonight,” Neuman said. “We have not played in a week and a half. It just seemed like everything went against us tonight. We ran into a hot goaltender.”

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