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ECAC Championship Round 2014-15 Schedule #2 ST. LAWRENCE (20-13-3) VS. #4 COLGATE (21-11-4) 18-13-3, 14-7-1 ECAC Semifinal Round: 1980 Rink • Herb Brooks Arena • Lake Placid, NY Oct. 4 CARLETON (ex) W, 4-0 March 20, 2015 Oct. 10 at RIT L, 5-2 Semifinal winners play March 21 7:37 for ECAC title Oct. 11 at Niagara W, 10-2 Radio: WFLK 95.3 • Greg Lapinsky, Wally Johnson Oct. 17 #4 FERRIS STATE L 3-2 OT Zeebs Du Jour: Oct. 18 #4 FERRIS STATE W, 2-0 Friday: Oct. 24 at #10 Miami (OH) W, 5-4 Saturday TBA Oct. 25 at #10 Miami (OH) L, 2-1 OT Oct. 31 CLARKSON T, 2-2 OT Nov. 1 at Clarkson W, 4-0 PLAYING FOR A TITLE: The team picked by both coaches and media to finish 11th in Nov. 7 at Brown* W, 5-2 the pre-season polls will be playing for the ECAC Championship when it opens champi- Nov. 8 at Yale* W, 4-0 onship weekend at Lake Placid with a semifinal contest at 7:37 p.m. on Friday against Nov. 14 at #6 Colgate* L, 5-2 Colgate. The Saints finished second in the regular season and took out Rensselaer in Nov. 15 at Cornell* W, 4-2 two games at Appleton Arena last weekend following a first round bye. The Saints won game one of the best-of-three quarterfinal series with RPI 1-0 and finished the job with Nov. 21 PRINCETON* W, 3-0 a 5-1 victory on Saturday night. SLU made its third consecutive home playoff appear- Nov. 22 QUINNIPIAC* L, 3-2 OT ance, but its first at home in the quarterfinals since a sweep of Quinnipiac in 2009. SLU Dec. 6 CLARKSON* L, 2-1 improved to 24-5-0 in home quarterfinals on Appleton Arena ice with their fifth straight Dec. 12 at Vermont L, 2-1 series sweep. The 24 wins include two mini-game victories to decide the series winner. Dec. 13 VERMONT L, 2-0 The Saints are making first semifinal appearance since 2010. The Saints are making their 41st ECAC tournament appearance and are 64-58-4 all-time in the tournament includ- Jan. 2 at Northeastern T, 3-3 ing 35-8-0 at Appleton Arena. The Saints have made the semifinal round 16 times and Jan. 3 at Northeastern L, 4-2 have won six tournament titles, the most recent in 2001. Jan. 9 CORNELL* W, 3-1 Jan. 10 COLGATE* L, 2-0 STILL PERFECT: The quarterfinal sweep of RPI kept the Saints unbeaten against RPI in Jan. 16 at Dartmouth* W, 3-2 tournament play. SLU improved to 7-0 against the Engineers in the post-season, 6-0 in the ECAC tournament and 1-0 in NCAA play. The first post-season game between the Jan. 17 at Harvard* W, 5-1 two New York State rivals was in the 1961 NCAA quarterfinals in Denver with the Saints Jan. 23 YALE* W,3-2 OT winning 6-3. The rest have all come in the ECAC tournament, but none before the semi- Jan. 24 BROWN* W, 5-2 final round prior to last weekend. SLU won 3-1 in the 1964 semifinals; 6-5 in overtime in Jan. 31 at Clarkson* W, 2-1 a 1992 semifinal game in Boston which featured both current Saint men’s and women’s Feb. 6 RENSSELAER* W, 3-1 head coaches, Greg Carvel and Chris Wells in the lineup; 6-3 in the 1999 semifinals at Lake Placid and 2-0 in the 2000 championship also in Lake Placid. SLU won Friday’s Feb. 7 UNION* W, 7-1 game one of the quarterfinal series 1-0 on Chris Martin’s goal with 51.5 seconds to go Feb. 13 at Quinnipiac* L, 2-1 in regulation and Kyle Hayton’s 27 saves for his SLU record fifth shutout of the year. Feb. 14 at Princeton* T 1-1 OT Game two went to the Saints 5-1 as Mike Marnell scored two goals and Hayton made Feb. 20 HARVARD* W, 5-1 38 saves for the win. Feb. 21 DARTMOUTH* W, 6-3 THE SAINTS AT APPLETON IN 14-15: The Saints finished the year 11-5-1 at home with Feb. 27 at Union* L, 3-2 the quarterfinal sweep with eight straight wins to finish the year. They won nine of ten Feb. 28 at Rensselaer* L, 4-3 at home since the start of the new year and outscored the opposition 50-26. Goalie Mar. 13 RPI (Quarterfinal 1) W, 1-0 Kyle Hayton had a 1.46 goals against average and a .952 save percentage in 17 home Mar. 14 RPI (Quarterfinal 2) W, 5-1 games this season. Brian Ward led the Saints in scoring at Appleton at 4-10-14 while Mar. 20 Colgate (semifinal) 7:37 Tommy Thompson and Mike Marnell shared the home goal-scoring lead with seven each. Mar. 21 ECAC Finals 7:30 Mar. 27-29 NCAA Regionals TBA POST-SEASON SHUTOUTS: Friday’s 1-0 shutout of RPI in the quarterfinals was the Apr. 9 NCAA Semifinals (Boston) TBA seventh post-season shutout win in Saint history and the second over RPI. The Saints Apr. 11 NCAA Finals TBA beat the Engineers 2-0 in the championship game at Lake Placid in 2000. It was also the seventh 1-0 win in program history since the first 1-0 victory at Cornell in 1928. It was just the second 1-0 home win in program history...the other also coming against RPI in *-ECAC Games November of 1997. The weekend series sweep marked the 12th and 13th times this season that the Saints have surrendered one goal or less in a game. The Tale of The Tape SLU Colgate Quinnipiac Harvard Record 20-13-3/14-7-1 21-11-4/11-7-4 23-10-4/16-3-3 19-12-3/11-8-3 Offense 3.18/3.18 2.67/2.41 2.78/2.73 3.26/3.23 Defense 1.97/1.86 2.08/2.32 2.16/1.68 2.47/2.45 Power Play 15.9/12.2 17.0/14.3 20.0/16.5 19.7/20.3 Penalty Kill 87.2/84.9 87.4/86.2 88.3/90.7 85.8/89.0 Special Teams Net +7/+2 +8/+2 +15/+6 +8/+9 Pen. Per Game 13.8/15.4 13.2/12.7 12.9/13.0 9.1/9.9 SAINT SUPPORT STAFF: Aisha Visram, a 2007 graduate of the University of Guelph, is in her second season as athletic trainer for the Saint men’s hockey team. Mike Elberty, a 1979 St. Lawrence graduate is the strength and conditioning coach and Brenden McHugh is the video coordinator for the 2012-13 Saints. Wally Johnson is the sports information contact and is in his 39th year of working with the Saint program. He also works with the Saint radio broadcasts during games. THE BREAKDOWN: The 2014-15 Saint roster includes four seniors, six juniors, eight sophomores and nine freshmen. The Saints lost four of their top five scorers from last The Record When: season and workhorse goaltender Matt Weninger, who played in 132 games during his Overall Record: 20-13-3 four seasons including 34 of 38 last year. Of the 18 returnees, seven played in all 38 At Home: 11-5-1 games last year, and an eighth in 37. The Saints also return junior Tommy Thompson On the Road: 9-8-2 who sat out last season and will have two years of eligibility. Neutral: 0-0-0 League: 14-7-1 THE SAINT CAPTAINS: Senior wing Gunnar Hughes will be the Saint captain this season League Home: 8-3-0 while classmate Patrick Doherty and junior forward Brian Ward will be the assistant League Away: 6-4-1 captains. Hughes, an assistant captain last year, follows in the footsteps of his broth- Non-League: 6-6-2 er George as a two-year captain for the Saints and joins Sean and Kyle Flanagan and Non-League Home: 3-2-1 Mike and Pete Lappin as the only brothers in SLU hockey history to both captain teams. Non-League Away: 3-4-1 Hughes scored five goals and had 13 assists last season and has played in 109 career Non-League Neutral: 0-0-0 games with 16 goals and 35 assists for 51 points. He has five career game winning goals Leading after One: 15-6-2 for the Saints. Doherty, an excellent special teams player, has five power play goals, four Trailing after One: 0-4-0 shorthanded goals and five game winners among 24 career goals in 111 games. He also Tied after One: 5-3-1 has 17 assists for 41 points. Ward had eight goals and nine assists for 17 points in 38 Leading after Two: 17-2-1 games in his first season of collegiate competition. Trailing after Two: 0-8-1 Tied after Two: 3-3-1 BROTHER ACTS: The Saints have a pair of brothers on the roster for the 10th straight year In Overtime: 1-3-3 as while Greg Carey graduated and Matt Carey departed for the pros after last season, Scoring First: 18-7-3 step-brothers Christian Horn and Patrick Steinhauser join the squad this season. The Car- Opp.