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#15 Vermont (18-10-5 • 10-7-4 HEA) vs. Merrimack (13-14-6 • 7-8-6 HEA) > Game 34 Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 • 7:05 p.m. • Gutterson Fieldhouse • Burlington, Vt. SCHEDULE & RESULTS BROADCAST INFO OVERALL 18-10-5 VIDEO: CatamounTV.com CONFERENCE 10-7-4 RADIO: WVMT 620-AM HOME 11-5-1 Play-by-Play: Alastair Ingram ROAD 5-5-4 2016-17 Analyst: Tom Child NEUTRAL 2-0-0 AUDIO: UVMathletics.com/Listen OCTOBER VERMONT MERRIMACK 7 at Clarkson W, 5-2 CATAMOUNTS WARRIORS LIVE STATS: UVMathletics.com 8 CLARKSON L, 3-2 18-10-5 (10-7-4 HEA) 13-14-6 (7-8-6 HEA) 21 at #20 Nebraska Omaha T, 4-4 COACHING STAFFS 22 at #20 Nebraska Omaha W, 5-2 LAST TIME OUT LAST TIME OUT 28 #11 MICHIGAN W, 3-0 W, 3-1 vs. Merrimack L, 3-1 at Vermont VERMONT 30 at #16 Northeastern + W, 3-2 Head Coach: LEADERS LEADERS Kevin Sneddon (Harvard ‘92) NOVEMBER Goals Goals Career: 272-333-85 (19th) 4 at #6 UMass Lowell + L, 3-1 Bowen (12) Gustafsson (14) Vermont: 222-234-67 (14th) 5 at #6 UMass Lowell + L, 4-2 12 at UMass + W, 2-1 Assists Assists Associate Head Coach: 15 DARTMOUTH W, 5-2 Colton (15) Seney (19) Kevin Patrick (Notre Dame ‘92) 18 MAINE + W, 6-2 19 MAINE + T, 2-2 Points Points Associate Head Coach: 25 vs. UMass + # W, 4-2 Colton (26) Seney (28) Kyle Wallack (Springfield ‘97) 26 vs. #3 Quinnipiac # W, 5-1 Assistant Coach: DECEMBER Goals Against Average Goals Against Average Kyle Reynolds (Vermont ‘15) 9 #5 BOSTON UNIVERSITY + W, 4-2 Lekkas (2.45) Delia (2.18) 10 #5 BOSTON UNIVERSITY + L, 4-0 MERRIMACK 17 #12 UNION L, 7-3 Save Percentage Save Percentage Lekkas (.913) Delia (.926) Head Coach: 18 #12 UNION L, 2-1 Mark Dennehy (Boston College ‘91) 30 BENTLEY W, 7-1 TEAM STATS TEAM STATS Career: 157-248-59 (13th) 31 BENTLEY W, 3-1 Goals Per Game Goals Per Game Merrimack: 154-220-56 (12th) JANUARY 3.21 2.45 3 #16 ST. LAWRENCE W, 4-3 Associate Head Coach: 7 NORTHEASTERN + W, 4-3 Goals Against Average Goals Against Average Curtis Carr (Kent State ‘03) 13 at Providence + W, 4-3 2.67 2.58 14 at Providence + L, 4-1 Associate Head Coach: 20 UCONN + W, 5-4 Power Play Power Play Bill Gilligan (Brown ‘77) 27 at UConn + L, 3-1 17.9% (29-162) 14.8% (25-169) Goaltending Coach: FEBRUARY Penalty Kill Penalty Kill John Carratu (Plymouth State ‘92) 3 at #17 Notre Dame + T, 4-4 85.4% (129-151) 79.4% (131-165) 4 at #17 Notre Dame + L, 4-1 OFFICIALS 10 NEW HAMPSHIRE + L, 4-2 Penalty Minutes Penalty Minutes 11 NEW HAMPSHIRE + W, 5-3 12.0 12.5 Referee: Jeff Bunyon 17 at #11 Boston College + T, 3-3 Referee: John Gravallese 18 at #11 Boston College + T, 2-2 Shots Per Game Shots Per Game Linesman: Jason Williams 24 MERRIMACK + W, 3-1 31.5 29.5 Linesman: Pat Turcotte 25 MERRIMACK + 7:05 pm MARCH SETTING THE SCENE 3-5 HEA First Round @ TBA • 15th-ranked Vermont closes the regular season tonight against Merrimack in the second 10-12 HEA Quarterfinals @ TBA of a two-game Hockey East series, honoring the Class of 2017 on Senior Night 17-18 HEA Championship & TBA • UVM clinched at least the 6-seed in the Hockey East playoffs with a 3-1 win over the Home games in ALL CAPS Warriors last night, leading to a home matchup with 11-seed Maine or 12-seed UMass + Hockey East game • Vermont sits only one point behind fifth-place Providence and would secure the 5-seed # Friendship Four (Belfast, Northern Ireland) @ Campus Locations with a win tonight and a Friars loss on the road at last-place UMass in Amherst & TD Garden (Boston, Mass.) • 2009 was the last time a UVM team finished higher than seventh (T-3rd) 1 HOCKEY EAST STANDINGS GAME NOTES CONFERENCE OVERALL CATS SNAP WARRIOR’S UNBEATEN STREAK Pts GP Record GP Record • The 15th-ranked Catamounts used 27 saves from Stefanos Lekkas 1. UMass Lowell 29 22 14-7-1 34 22-9-3 and a strong third period to snap Merrimack’s eight-game unbeaten streak in a 3-1 victory last night at sold out Gutterson Fieldhouse Boston College 29 22 13-6-3 36 18-14-4 • Vermont improved to 18-10-4 (10-7-4 HEA), posting double-digit 3. Notre Dame 28 21 12-5-4 33 19-9-5 Hockey East wins for the third time in the last four seasons 4. Boston University 27 21 12-6-3 33 20-10-3 • Ross Colton (11) and Brian Bowen (12) scored power play goals, 5. Providence 25 21 11-7-3 33 19-9-5 while Craig Puffer (9) added an insurance goal in the third period 6. Vermont 24 21 10-7-4 33 18-10-5 • Sami Tavernier had the lone Merrimack tally on a 5-on-3 7. Northeastern 21 21 9-9-3 33 16-12-5 8. Merrimack 20 21 7-8-6 33 13-14-6 PLAYOFF PICTURE 9. UConn 18 21 7-10-4 33 11-14-8 • With 24 points, Vermont has clinched at least the 6-seed for the New Hampshire 18 21 7-10-4 33 12-16-5 Hockey East First Round and will host either Maine or UMass 11. Maine 10 21 4-15-2 33 10-19-4 • Vermont trails fifth-place Providence by one point for the 5-seed 12. UMass Amherst 5 21 2-18-1 33 5-26-2 • UVM is 8-2-1 vs. the bottom six teams and 2-5-3 vs. the top five CATS ROAR BACK TWICE CATS IN THE POLLS • UVM stormed back both nights last weekend against first place Boston College to earn two Hockey East ties at Conte Forum POLL USCHO USA HOCKEY • Down 3-0 at the midway point of the first period on Friday night, Sept. 26 RV NA Vermont rallied with a pair of goals in the third to earn a 3-3 tie Oct. 3 NA -- • Rob Hamilton scored twice for his first career multi-goal game Oct. 10 RV -- and netted the game-tying goal with 3:23 left in regulation Oct. 17 -- -- • On Saturday, Bowen answered a pair of one-goal BC leads and Oct. 24 RV -- scored twice to secure another point in a 2-2 deadlock Oct. 31 19 RV • Stefanos Lekkas made 30 saves both nights for the Catamounts Nov. 7 RV -- Nov. 14 RV -- PUT A BOW ON IT Nov. 21 20 RV • Brian Bowen was named the Warrior Hockey East Player of the Nov. 28 14 14 Week on Monday after a four-point weekend at Boston College Dec. 5 12 12 • The Littleton, Massachusetts native scored three goals and added Dec. 12 11 10 an assist in a pair of comeback ties against the first-place Eagles Dec. 19 13 14 • Bowen finished the weekend at plus-3 with 11 shots on goal Jan. 2 13 13 • The forward leads the team with 12 goals, scoring at least once Jan. 9 12 12 in each of his last three contests, and ranks second with 23 points Jan. 16 12 13 • In 13 games since the turn of the New Year, he paces the team with Jan. 23 11 13 three power play goals, 10 goals, 16 points, and 47 shots on goal Jan. 30 12 13 • Bowen is tied for ninth in Hockey East with a team-high six PPG Feb. 6 15 14 Feb. 13 16 RV CLASS OF 2017 Feb. 20 15 RV • Vermont’s senior class is tied for fourth all-time in the Division I era of the program (1974) in wins by a single class with 75 • The class is just four wins from climbing into second all-time and CAT STATS can tie the Class of 1989 for third with a victory tonight • Led by future NHL standouts Martin St. Louis, Eric Perrin, and Tim STAT HEA NCAA Thomas, the Class of 1997 is the winningest class with 83 victories G/GM 5 16 • Here’s how the 10-member class stacks up during the DI era: GAA 7 T-22 PP 7 31 RANK CLASS WINS KEY SENIORS PK 3 12 1. 1997 83 Eric Perrin, Martin St. Louis PIM 8 42 2. 1998 78 Jason Hamilton, Justin Martin 3. 1989 76 Ian Boyce, Kyle McDonough 4. 2017 75 Brendan Bradley, Mario Puskarich 2009 75 Viktor Stalberg, Dean Strong 6. 2008 74 Joe Fallon, Mark Lutz 2010 74 Brayden Irwin, Colin Vock 8. 1996 73 Steve McKell, Dale Patterson 2 SERIES HISTORY GAME NOTES VERMONT vs. MERRIMACK IT’S A ME, MARIO! • With a pair of goals Feb. 11 vs. UNH, co-captain Mario Puskarich MEETING: 39th became Vermont’s first 50-goal scorer in more than 20 years ALL-TIME: 14-16-8 • J.C. Ruid ‘97, the linemate of Martin St. Louis and Eric Perrin, was HOME: 9-7-4 the last Catamount to notch 50 during the 1995-96 season AWAY: 5-8-4 NEUTRAL: 0-1-0 • Mario also became the 43rd member of the program’s 100-point club on New Year’s Eve in a win over Bentley LAST 10 MEETINGS (4-4-2) • He was the first Catamount to reach the century mark since his former linemate Chris McCarthy on Feb.