Kent State players examine the puck that found its way into the net.

  Friday nights game started out slow with lots of errant passes and the Illini looking a little rusty, but things did come back together after the start of the second period. In the first period the lone goal was scored by Illini's Scott Kohler, his 4th goal of the season, and the assist going to Matt Breit. In the second period, some sixteen minutes after the first Illini goal, Tom Ennessy took advantage of the power play and fired a laser shot past KSU tender Billy Ferkol, Dan Lynch and Pat Olson assisting. Later in the period, Brett Duncan caught fire as he scored two more Illini goals within fifteen seconds of each other giving the Illini a 4-0 lead in the contest. Pat Olson assisted on both Duncan goals, while Brian Tilden assisted on the first and Todd Chrustowski assisted on the second. Before the close of the second period, Brian Tilden, with help from Joel Park, slipped his 100th career goal past KSU's second goalie of the night Cameron Lee. Starting off the third period the way he ended the second, Brian Tilden again found the net with Brett Duncan and Joel Superfine backing him up.  That assist gave Joel his 100th career assist with the Illini. Kyle Mulvey added to the third period scoring, assisted by Brian Coleman, to give the Illini a 7-0 edge over the Flashes. Not to be left out, the Illini's Luke Carlson added the eight goal of the night with the assists going to Mike Roesch and Joel Superfine. The game came to a close the same way it started with Scott Kohler putting the puck in the net, this time with the help of Kyle Zabrin and David Vargas. The 9-0 win left the Illini with an overall record of 20-1-0. With this shutout, Tim Danlow now holds the single season shutout recod with 5.

  Saturdays match up started out like it was going to be more of a game, but the stronger Illini squad equaled its performance from the night before to once again knock off the KSU skaters. With Coach Cassel in Italy for the World University games, Assistant Coach Rick Kohler took the reigns of the Illini did a pretty good job of it. Seven and a half minutes into the first period, Illinois was the first team to strike as Brian Tilden, Assisted by Ennessy, put the puck past KSU's Lee. Kent State came back half way through the period and took advantage of an Illini penalty as Derek Heinz evened things up at 1-1. Brett Duncan put the Illini back on top though as he scored the the assistance of Tilden and Ennessy. The second period was all Illini, as goals from Kyle Mulvey, Brett Pachol, Steve Krates, and Brett Duncan all found their mark in the back of the KSU net. Each goal was a single assist coming from Jim Rogers, Tom Ennessy, Darin Trulock, and Pat Olson. This was Brett Pachol's first goal of the season, and Darin Trulocks first assist in his first game of the season. The Illini ended the period with a 6-1 lead. In the third period Scott Hacker took over the net minding duty from Tim Danlow and the wheels fell off of the Kent State wagon and their frustration showed. The Illini's Steve Krates scored his second goal of the evening just 12 seconds into the period, giving him his third goal of the season, Jeff Condis and Darin Trulock assisting. A minute later Pat Olson, teamed up with Ennessy and Tilden, put another nail in the KSU coffin as he buried the puck in the net. Jim Rogers topped off the Illini scoring at nine with the help of Scott Hacker and Justin Stock. In the last six minutes of play, KSU took 6 penalties, two of them being misconduct penalties as the players frustrations clearly showed. The Illini even put in an ALL defensive player line up that was something to see. The Illini ended the night with a 9-1 win, and a 21-1 record.