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UMD BULLDOGS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEN’S HOCKEY Communications Office • Bob Nygaard, Director • University of Minnesota Duluth • Duluth, MN 55812-2496 [email protected] • (218) 726-8191 • umdbulldogs.com • @umdbulldogs January 10, 2018 IT’S BACK TO THE NCHC GRIND FOR NO. 15 BULLDOGS AND A WEEKEND VISIT TO COLORADO COLLEGE THE PUCK DROPS HERE: The University of Minnesota Duluth will usher in 2018 this Friday and Saturday 2017-18 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH ROSTER (Jan. 12-13) by taking on Colorado College in a two- No. Name Pos. Hgt. Wgt. Yr. Birthdate Hometown (Previous Team/League) game National Collegiate Hockey Conference road 3 Mikey Anderson D 6-0 200 Fr. 5/25/99 Roseville, Minn. (Waterloo/USHL) series. The puck drops at 8:30 p.m. (CT) on Friday 4 Dylan Samberg D 6-4 215 Fr. 1/24/99 Hermantown, Minn. (Hermantown H.S.) and 6 p.m. the following night at the Broadmoor World 5 Nick Wolff D 6-4 210 So. 7/21/96 Eagan, Minn. (Des Moines/USHL) Arena (7,380). 6 Louie Roehl D 5-10 180 Fr. 4/9/98 Eden Prairie, Minn. (Minnesota Wilderness/NAHL) 7 Scott Perunovich D 5-10 170 Fr. 8/18/98 Hibbing, Minn. (Cedar Rapids/USHL) THE RECORDS: UMD is 9-9-3 overall and 3-7-0-0 in 8 Koby Bender F 6-1 200 Fr. 7/15/97 Cloquet, Minn. (Muskegon/USHL) NCHC play (tied for seventh place with the University 10 Kobe Roth F 5-8 175 Fr. 1/11/97 Warroad, Minn. (Des Moines/USHL) of Nebraska Omaha) while Colorado College sports a 11 Avery Peterson F 6-3 210 Sr. 6/20/95 Grand Rapids, Minn. (Nebraska-Omaha/NCHC) 9-8-3 record in all games to go with a 3-5-2-1 NCHC 12 Jarod Hilderman D 6-1 200 So. 4/11/97 Kamsack, Saskatchewan (Fargo/USHL) mark (sixth place). 13 Joey Anderson F 6-0 195 So. 6/19/98 Roseville, Minn. (U.S. National Under-18 Team) 16 Billy Exell F 5-10 180 Jr. 10/4/95 Thunder Bay, Ontario (Minnesota Wilderness/NAHL) HOW THEY RANK: This is how the Bulldogs and Colorado 17 Blake Young F 6-3 215 Sr. 11/2/94 Battleford, Saskatchewan (Battlefords/SJHL) College stacked up in the latest USCHO.com and USA 18 Nick McCormack D 5-11 190 Sr. 9/9/93 Ramsey, Minn. (Brooks/AJHL) Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls. 19 Justin Richards F 5-10 195 Fr. 3/17/98 Columbus, Ohio (Lincoln/USHL) uscho.com USA Today 20 Karson Kuhlman (C) F 5-11 190 Sr. 9/26/95 Esko, Minn. (Dubuque/USHL) UMD No. 15 No. 15 21 Matt Anderson D 5-11 205 Fr. 4/11/99 Shakopee, Minn. (Holy Family Catholic H.S.) CC RV NR 22 Jared Thomas F 6-2 200 Sr. 2/21/94 Hermantown, Minn. (Sioux City/USHL) 23 Nick Swaney F 5-11 180 Fr. 9/9/97 Lakeville, Minn. (Waterloo/USHL) ON THE AIR: The two UMD-Colorado College clashes will 25 Peter Krieger F 5-11 190 Jr. 12/9/93 Oakdale, Minn (U. of Alaska/WCHA) be carried live on KDAL-Radio (610 AM and 103.9 26 Jade Miller F 5-10 185 So. 7/1/95 Minto, N.D. (Austin/NAHL) FM) with Bruce Ciskie handling the play-by-play re- 27 Riley Tufte F 6-6 220 So. 4/10/98 Ham Lake, Minn. (Blaine H.S.) sponsibilities. This marks the 50th year KDAL has been 28 Sammy Spurrell F 5-11 185 Sr. 10/5/92 Sherwood, Alberta (Spruce Grove/AJHL) the radio home for Bulldog hockey. The broadcast can 32 Hunter Shepard G 6-0 210 So 11/7/95 Cohasset, Minn. (Bismarck/NAHL) also be heard at: kdal610.com. 36 Ben Patt G 5-10 175 Fr. 5/19/96 Brampton, Ontario (Notre Dame/SJHL) 37 Nick Deery G 6-1 185 So. 5/25/94 La Crosse, Wis. (Steinbach/MJHL) In addition, both ends of this weekend’s series will be 39 Parker Mackay (A) F 5-11 185 Jr. 6/10/94 Irma, Alberta (Spruce Grove/AJHL) videostreamed at: nchc.tv/umd Head Coach: Scott Sandelin Assistant Coaches: Jason Herter, Brett Larson, Brant Nicklin THE COACH: The runnerup for the 2010-11 Spencer Hockey Sports Performance Director: Dr. Susan Hoppe Penrose Award (American Hockey Coaches Association Resident Athletic Trainer: Jordan Ellis NCAA I Coach of the Year) and recipient of that honor Strength and Conditioning Coach: Anthony Morando in 2003-04, cott Sandelin is in his 18th season behind Equipment Manager: Chris Garner the UMD bench where he has compiled a 324-293-85 Director of Hockey Operations: Christian Koelling overall record -- including a 200-133-48 mark since Operations Assistant: Bill Watson the 2008-09 opener. Besides capturing the school’s Manager: Dale Haagenson first NCAA championship seven years ago, his Bulldogs have won 21 or more games in six of the last nine seasons (including last winter) while finishing below the .500 mark just one time over that stretch. Overall, they’ve advanced to seven NCAA tournaments (2004, 2009, 2011,2012, 2015, 2016 and 2017), includ- ing the last three in a row, three NCAA Frozen Fours (2004, 2011 and 2017) and two NCHC Frozen Faceoff tourneys (2016 and 2017, when UMD won it all). Before UMD parted ways with the WCHA following the 2012-13 season, Sandelin had directed his troops to berths in seven of 11 Final Five playoff events. A three time Spencer Penrose Award honoree as the American Hockey Coaches Association NCAA I Coach of the Year (winner in 2003-04, runnerup in 2010-11 and finalist last winter), Sandelin has also helped produce a pair of Hobey Baker Memorial Award winners (Jack Connolly in 2011-12 and Junior Lessard in 2003-04), seven NCAA All-Americans and 21 All-NCHC/WCHA honorees. In 2016-17 NCHC Frozen Faceoff Champions • 2016-17 NCAA West Regional Champions • 5 Hobey Baker Memorial Award Winners • 2010-11 NCAA Champions addition, he has seen 16 of his UMD pupils go on to do time in the National Hockey League and one take The Numbers on Sandelin part in the Winter Olympic Games (Justin Faulk for (Overall) (NCHC/WCHA) Team USA in 2014). YEAR W L T PCT W L T PCT PLACE 2000-01 7 28 4 .231 3 22 3 .161 10th One year ago, Sandelin and the Bulldogs rolled up a 2001-02 13 24 3 .363 6 19 3 .268 9th 2002-03 22 15 5 .583 14 10 4 .571 5th 28-7-7 overall record (for a .750 winning percentage 2003-04 28 13 4 .667 19 7 2 .714 2nd -- the second highest figure in club history) and spent 2004-05 15 17 6 .473 11 13 4 .464 6th a school-record 11 weeks occupying the No. 1 spot 2005-06 11 25 4 .325 6 19 3 .268 9th in the USCHO.com poll. They also went unbeaten in 2006-07 13 21 5 .397 8 16 4 .357 9th 19 of their final 21 games with one of those setbacks 2007-08 13 17 6 .444 9 14 5 .411 8th 2008-09 22 13 8 .605 10 11 7 .482 7th coming to Denver (3-2) in the NCAA national title bout. 2009-10 22 17 1 .562 16 11 1 .589 4th(T) 2010-11 26 10 6 .690 15 8 5 .625 4th During the course of the 2011-12 season, the Bulldogs 2011-12 25 10 6 .683 16 7 5 .661 2nd set a team record by going unbeaten in 17 straight 2012-13 14 19 5 .434 10 13 5 .446 9th games and were ranked first in both major weekly polls 2013-14 16 16 4 .500 11 11 2 .500 4th(T) (USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine) 2014-15 21 16 3 .563 12 9 3 .564 5th 2015-16 19 16 5 .538 11 10 3 .520 4th for a program-best nine consecutive weeks. In March 2016-17 28 7 7 .750 15 5 4 .708 2nd 2009, UMD became the first play-in game participant 2017-18 9 9 3 .500 3 7 0 .300 to ever claim the Final Five title and, later that spring, Totals 324 293 85 .522 195 212 62 .482 strung together a school-record six-game postseason winning streak before it fell to Miami University 2-1 in Lifetime Record vs. Colorado College: 28-21-7 the NCAA West Regional final. In 2003-04, Sandelin, Lifetime NCHC Record: 52-42-12 (.547) 53, turned UMD into a NCAA Frozen Four participant for the first time in nearly a generation, marshaling his troops to their most victories (they were 28-13-4 overall) and highest WCHA finish (second place on 1993-94 season head coaching the Junior Elite Hockey (40th choice overall). He served as Team USA’s head a 19-7-2 mark) since 1992-93. For his efforts, the League’s Fargo-Moorhead Junior Kings after working in coach at the 2005 International Ice Hockey Federation Hibbing, Minn., native was chosen the WCHA Coach that same capacity (and doubling as general manager) World Junior Championships, directing that club to a of the Year as well as the national coach of the year the previous winter with the Fargo-Moorhead Express fourth-place finish, and was an assistant coach for the by both insidecollegehockey.com and USCHO.com.