Testwuide honored as INCH Player of the Week

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With just six points in 18 games prior to last weekend, Mike Testwuide wasn’t exactly setting the world on fire offensively. But things changed once Clarkson University rolled into Colorado Springs. Testwuide terrorized the Golden Knights, scoring twice in both games of CC’s 5-2, 6-1 sweep, and on Tuesday was named national Player of the Week by Inside College Hockey.com (INCH). The sophomore right winger added an assist in Saturday’s victory, when he was credited with the second game-winning goal of his collegiate career, to finish the series with five points. Now playing on the team’s top line with Chad Rau and Bill Sweatt, he will try to stay hot as the league-leading Tigers play host to St. Cloud State University in a key WCHA series this Friday and Saturday at the World Arena.

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His Statistics: 2 Games, 4goals, 1assist—5points

His Impact: If asked to name Colorado College's most dangerous offensive player, Mike Testwuide would probably not immediately come to mind. That's no knock on Testwuide, a serviceable sophomore forward who entered last weekend's non-conference series against Clarkson with two goals and four assists in 18 games this season.

The Golden Knights certainly know his name after the Vail, Colo. native scorched them in the Tigers' back-to-back thrashings at World Arena. Testwuide's two goals Friday were biggies. The first midway through the second period — the first of four unanswered goals CC would score — evened the score at 2-2. The second came on a power play less than two minutes in the third to give the hosts a 4-2 lead.

In Saturday's 6-1 romp, Testwuide notched the eventual game-winner 12 minutes into the first period with a power-play goal, then scored just under five minutes into the second to stretch the lead to 3-0. He also set up teammate Bill Sweatt's second-period goal that gave the Tigers a 4-0 edge.