OMAHA, Neb. – The 17th-ranked Western Michigan hockey team fell to Omaha, 10-2, in its second game of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference Pod at Baxter Arena on Thursday night.
The Broncos (0-2-0, 0-2-0-0 NCHC) picked up goals from Cole Gallant and Ethen Frank on the night but big second and third periods by the Mavericks doomed the Broncos.
Gallant tied the game up at 1-1 at 12:16 in the first period with a snipe-shot from the left circle for his first goal of the season. Josh Passolt picked up his second assist of the year on the goal and Drew Worrad tallied his first.