For those who look for the dark clouds amid all of the silver linings of what is clearly a special season for the Minnesota Gophers, the team’s power play was sitting at 0 for 5 on the weekend after 80 minutes of hockey, at the end of the first period Saturday at Ohio State. But like a jackhammer that chips away and chips away, unrelentingly, at solid rock until it cracks, the Gophers’ special teams just kept grinding. And when the Buckeyes found a heap of penalty trouble early in the second period, that solid rock of Ohio State defense cracked. The Gophers got a pair of power-play goals and their second short-handed goal of the weekend in the middle frame on Saturday, pulling away for a 5-2 win and a sweep of their Big Ten road series in Columbus, Ohio. Defenseman Jackson LaCombe, who has rarely met a loose…
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