COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Third-ranked Minnesota Duluth was upset on Friday by unranked Colorado College 4-1 at Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Senior center Peter Krieger scored the lone goal for the Bulldogs. The Tigers got 40 saves from junior goaltender Alex Leclerc while sophomore center Troy Conzo scored twice.

A full game recap can be found here.

Below is just one giant thumbs down from Friday's loss by News Tribune college hockey writer Matt Wellens, plus his three stars of the night.

Thumbs down to whatever that was on Friday

I don't know who that was on the ice Friday in maroon, but it was not the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs.

That was not a good hockey team. UMD is a good hockey team. The team on the ice Friday was giving pucks away like a mascot with a T-shirt gun riding around the ice in the back of a pick up truck.

Here's what coach Scott Sandelin had to say about Friday's debacle:

"That's as bad a hockey game as we've played and this is not going to take anything away from CC. They played good structure," Sandelin said. "We made too many mistakes. You turn pucks over like that, you can't rely on (Hunter Shepard) to make every save. We started breakouts, we didn't to the net, we didn't hit net. We had no urgency, we had no pushback. Very disappointing, very disappointing."

"They didn't force the issue. We know they are going to pressure in certain situations, but how many turnovers did we have?" said Sandelin. "We almost gave them three breakaways just off going from the offensive zone into our zone because D getting too wide, guys falling asleep. We didn't play very smart hockey. We played kind of brain dead a little bit. We turned pucks over and when you do that, you're not going to win many games."

And here's the explanation of the captain, Parker Mackay:

"It was frustrating for sure," the senior wing said. "They got off to an early lead and they didn't look back. We were maybe expecting it to be easy out there or something. I don't know. We got figure it out and get back to work tomorrow."

"We made a lot of mistakes early. We coughed up a lot of pucks and created a lot of their momentum. We have to limit those at this time of year. It's unacceptable."

"We gave them a lot of their opportunities. Turnovers was the main thing. A couple missed opportunities, missed nets to create their breakouts. It's got to get cleaned up. That's the easiest way to put it."

Forget about what this result does for the Bulldogs' standing in the NCHC. They have their final bye of the regular season next week and it would be tragic if this team went into that break off back-to-back losses.

Matt's Three Stars

3. CC senior wing Trey Bradley: A goal and an assist, including the opening score of the night.

2. CC junior goaltender Alex Leclerc: He made 40 saves, giving up the one goal in the second period.

1. CC sophomore center Troy Conzo: Two goals, both in the second period.