Both teams came out hard in the second period, but Georgia maintained their edge and added to their lead with a power play goal a little over three minutes in. Georgia extended their lead to three a few minutes later with a shorthanded goal from their penalty killing unit. Staring down a three goal deficit halfway through the game, the Devils finally got some jump and began playing better hockey. With five minutes left in the period Dan Phan tallied a power play goal off a feed from fellow freshman Dan Larrea. Larrea took the puck down the right side and fed Phan who was on the left doorstep of the net. Phan quickly roofed the puck into a wide open net as the goalie had no chance of sliding across in time to make the save.

After a more productive second period, yet still way short of Duke’s norm, the Blue Devils continued to press at Georgia’s lead. Less than four minutes in things looked to continue to go in Georgia’s way as Duke was called for a holding penalty. The Devil’s penalty kill began with solid defensive play that forced a bad pass from a Georgia skater. The puck hopped over the defenseman’s stick and into the neutral zone where Ben Tyson picked it up for a shorthanded breakaway. Tyson cruised in from the left side and ripped a sick wrister over the goalie’s glove to bring the Blue Devils to within one.
Duke fought hard the remainder of the period and peppered Georgia’s goalie with shots from all over the offensive zone. Unfortunately the puck would not bounce their way on several key chances late in the stanza, in particular on a rebound shot by Bert Maidment which the goalie managed to just make a toe save on. The Bulldogs iced their victory with a minute left in the game with a low wrist shot that beat Clayton Jernigan to bring the final score to 4-2.