Will that be enough to carry Michigan Tech this season? Probably not. But family connections-his aunt is Michigan Tech’s athletic director-brought him to Houghton and he should be a major contributor for them.Įven though Kukkonen only ended up with one assist on the scoresheet, I thought he did a really nice job driving the play and using his speed and skill to draw in defenders and create open space for Mosley and Pietila multiple times throughout the game. Kukkonen is a bit of an outlier in that he’s an NHL draft pick that doesn’t come from Tech’s normal recruiting footprint of the NAHL and the Pietila family. But I’m intrigued by what freshman Kyle Kukkonen brings to that line. Mosley and Pietila have never been huge scorers, though Pietila did have 13 goals last season, which adjusting for Michigan Tech, is like 50 elsewhere. The big question for Michigan Tech was where would the offense come from after losing a superlative offensive talent in Brian Halonen, along with a handful of other key seniors that dotted the top of Michigan Tech’s team scoring list last year. The difference-maker in this one was Michigan Tech’s first line of Ryland Mosley-Logan Pietila-Kyle Kukkonen, which had a hand in both goals and should have had a third if not for a video review that we’ll discuss further.
Fairbanks alaska time zone series#
The two teams will complete their series late Friday evening in a game that starts at 7:07pm Alaska Time/11:07pm EST.
The shutout was the 11th of his career for Michigan Tech goalie Blake Pietila, which set a new Michigan Tech school record. The Huskies allowed 14 shots on goal in the the third period to just six put on Alaska’s net, but Michigan Tech did an excellent job of limiting high-quality chances and the Nanooks were never able to seriously threaten getting back into the game. Mosley’s line would strike again at 12:19 of the second period when Logan Pietila jammed home a goal at the netfront for a 2-0 lead.įrom there, the Michigan Tech defense went into lockdown mode. 2:59 into the second period, Mosley scored a short-handed goal to put Michigan Tech in the lead. Michigan Tech’s Ryland Mosley appeared to give the Huskies a 1-0 lead late in the first period, before the officials headed to the video review booth and, rather inexplicably, overturned the goal, claiming Michigan Tech was offsides on zone entry.īut the puck doesn’t lie and Mosley would not be denied his goal.
The two teams played a scoreless first period, though not without a little controversy. The Huskies took the first game of the series on Thursday night with a 2-0 victory. The Geophysical Institute has forecast Kp 6 for Thursday’s storm.Michigan Tech made the trek way up north to Fairbanks, Alaska for a Thursday-Friday non-conference series against former conference foe Alaska Fairbanks. The lights appear suddenly and the intensity varies.Ī geomagnetic index known as Kp ranks auroral activity on a scale from zero to nine, with zero being not very active and nine being bright and active. Northern Lights occur when a magnetic solar wind slams into the Earth’s magnetic field and causes atoms in the upper atmosphere to glow. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center said people wanting to experience an aurora should get away from city lights and that the best viewing times are between 10 p.m. Boise, Idaho Cheyenne, Wyoming Annapolis, Maryland and Indianapolis, according to the institute. Light displays are expected to be visible overhead in Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Helena, Montana, and low on the horizon in Salem, Oregon. The Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks has forecast auroral activity on Thursday in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Indiana, Maine and Maryland.Īuroral activity also has been forecast for Canada, including Vancouver. Three months ago, the light displays were visible in Arizona, marking the third severe geomagnetic storm since the current solar cycle began in 2019. Northern Lights, also known as aurora borealis, are most often seen in Alaska, Canada and Scandinavia, but an 11-year solar cycle that’s expected to peak in 2024 is making the lights visible in places farther to the south. A solar storm forecast for Thursday is expected to give skygazers in 17 American states a chance to glimpse the Northern Lights, the colorful sky show that happens when solar wind hits the atmosphere.
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