© Alex Kormann, Star Tribune Gophers junior forward Jaxon Nelson (24) took a hit from Minnesota Duluth defenseman Owen Gallatin in a Oct. 22 game. Two weeks ago, the Gophers men’s hockey team swept a two-game series from Notre Dame. After the successful weekend, coach Bob Motzko voiced his concerns about the team’s play against the Irish. “I was a little critical of some of our looseness,” Motzko said. “But it’s hard to get the message across when you win two games. [The team] said, ‘Coach, what are you talking about?'” Motzko saw the same issue in the Gophers’ series opener at Wisconsin last weekend. “There we were again,” he said, “with a lead twice. It was the same thing that was kind of distracting. We were playing pretty good, we had 80 shot attempts. But our looseness … our attention was not real strong on details and we lost…
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