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MEDIA INFORMATION SLAP SHOTS Wisconsin Sports Information • The Badgers own a seven-game win streak over UMD and have won 10 in a row in Duluth. Hockey Contact: Julie Kluge • Rookie defenseman Tom Gilbert leads all league freshmen blueliners in scoring with 1-6=7. E-mail: [email protected] • Alex Leavitt has five assists in the last three games Fax: 608-262-8184 • Game Captains: John Eichelberger (C) — Rene Bourque (A), Jon Krall (A) Phone: 608-262-1811 Website: UWBADGERS.COM FIRST WCHA ROAD SERIES INTERVIEW AVAILABILITY ... Wisconsin players and The Badger hockey team (4-4-0 overall, 0-2-0 WCHA) heads north next weekend coaches are available for interviews following prac- for its first league road series of the year. Wisconsin faces Minnesota-Duluth (1-2-3, tices during the week. Out-of-town media wishing to 1-1-2) in Duluth at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center (5,333). The arrange a phone interview with a player should con- Badgers are idle this weekend (Nov. 8-9), while the Bulldogs are at top-ranked tact Julie Kluge at 608-262-1811. Coach Mike Denver. Eaves will also appear at a media conference each Radio: All UW home and away games can be heard live on WIBA-Radio (1310 Monday during the regular season at 1 p.m. CT in AM) with Brian Posick (play-by-play) and Bill Brophy (color) behind the mics. the National W Club Room at Camp Randall Stadium. NORTH & SOUTH The Wisconsin hockey program has many former alumni who called Duluth their PRACTICE SCHEDULE ... The following is the home town. Over the years there have been seven student-athletes from Duluth who Badgers’ scheduled practices for the week of Nov. have become Badgers ... 11-17 (Practice times are subject to change.) Former Monday 3:30-5:30 p.m. Arena Tuesday 3:30-5:30 p.m. Arena Pos. name, years GP G A Pts. Wednesday 3:30-5:30 p.m. Arena W Jason Francisco, 1989-93 122 24 34 58 Thursday 2:30 p.m. Leave for Duluth W Darren Haley, 1994-97 112 22 25 47 D Sean Hill, 1988-91 124 35 94 129 PHOTO AVAILABILITY ... Mug and action photos of W Andy Wheeler, 1998-2002 134 23 37 60 current Wisconsin hockey players and coaches are G Jon Michelizzi, 1989-93 43 3.72 GAA .869 (891/934) available at ftp://www.uwbadgers.com. Contact the UW Sports Information Office for the passwords. Current W Nick Licari, 2002- 7 2 0 2 LOCKER ROOM ACCESS ... Wisconsin’s locker room is D Tom Sawatske, 2002- 6 0 3 3 closed during the week and after games. Coach Eaves and selected players will be available follow- TELLING STAT ing each home game in the Media Room of the Kohl The Badgers have been like night and day on the power play when it comes to Center. playing on Friday and Saturday nights. On Friday nights, the UW is just 1-22 (0.45) on the power play, while converting on 6 of 17 chances (.353) on Saturday nights. TEAM INFORMATION ... Wisconsin’s weekly game notes/release is available each Monday during the ROUGH ROAD AHEAD season. It can be obtained via UWBADGERS.COM or The Badgers went 4-4 in their first eight games this season, playing six of those by calling Julie Kluge to receive an e-mailed pdf ver- eight on home ice. The next eight games will prove to be just as challenging as the sion. A paper copy is available at the weekly UW makes its first league road trip of the year at Minnesota-Duluth next weekend Monday media conference in the National W Club (Nov. 15-16) before having to travel to fifth-ranked (and currently undefeated at 6-0- Room at Camp Randall Stadium and at the Kohl 0) North Dakota (Nov. 22-23). Center following the football season. It certainly doesn’t get any easier for Bucky when returning home on Thanksgiving weekend to play sixth-ranked Michigan (Nov. 29) and 13th-ranked CREDENTIALS ... To request credentials to a Michigan State (Nov. 30). The Badgers close out their first half of WCHA play host- Wisconsin home game, please fax or e-mail a letter ing second-ranked and defending NCAA champion Minnesota on Dec. 6-7. to Julie Kluge at the UW Sports Information Office. The five teams on the UW’s schedule in the next month are a combined 20-6-5 (.726) POINT BLANK WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ...

Leading after first period ...... 2-0-0 HEAD COACH MIKE EAVES Trailing after first period ...... 1-4-0 Mike Eaves is in his first year as the head coach of the Badger hockey program. Tied after first period ...... 1-0-0 He was named the successor to retiring head coach Jeff Sauer on March 19, 2002. Leading after second period ...... 3-1-0 Twenty-five years after he helped guide the 1977 Badgers to the NCAA title, the Trailing after second period ...... 0-3-0 school’s all-time leading scorer (94-173=267) takes over his first Division I college Tied after second period ...... 1-0-0 hockey program. After an eight-year NHL career cut short by concussions, Eaves’ first coaching When scoring first ...... 3-2-0 stint was with the Calgary Flames as an assistant coach (1985-86). It was the first of When opponent scores first ...... 1-2-0 four different assistant coaching positions in the NHL. Eaves was with the Philadelphia Flyers from 1988-90 and 1993-94 and then most recently a member of When scoring 4+ goals ...... 3-0-0 the coaching staff for the Pittsburgh Penguins (1997-2000). When allowing 4+ goals ...... 0-4-0 Eaves spent the last two seasons with USA Hockey’s National Team Development When scoring three or less goals ...... 1-4-0 Program (NTDP) in Ann Arbor, Mich. He coached the U-17 and U-18 teams in the When allowing three or less goals ...... 4-0-0 program designed to develop the nation’s elite U-20 players. This past spring, the U- 18 team took the gold medal at the IIHF World Championships in Slovakia. It In overtime games ...... 0-0-0 marked the first time (other than Olympic play) that a U.S. team won the gold at an In one-goal games ...... 2-0-0 In two-goal games ...... 1-3-0 IIHF championship since 1933. Coach of the Year: Eaves was named the 2002 U.S. Olympic Committee’s Scoring on the power play ...... 3-1-0 Developmental Coach of the Year at an award presentation held at the Fort Scoreless on the power play ...... 1-3-0 Lauderdale Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale Fla. in October. Eaves is only the Opponent scores on the power play . . . . .3-4-0 third USA Hockey coach to be named the USOC Coach of the Year, following Ben Opponent scoreless on the power play . . .1-0-0 Smith (1998) and Dave Peterson (1997), who was selected as the National Coach of the Year posthumously. Outshooting opponent ...... 2-1-0 Badgers outshot ...... 2-3-0 SLAPSHOTS & REBOUNDS • The Badgers play four ranked teams in the next month in Minnesota (4-1-2), Games following a win ...... 2-2-0 Michigan (5-1-0), Michigan State (4-2-0) and North Dakota (6-0-0). The record of Games following a loss ...... 2-1-0 those four teams is 19-4-2 (.800). Wisconsin has as many losses as those four teams Games following a tie ...... 0-0-0 combined In Friday games ...... 1-3-0 • Wisconsin’s true freshmen have accounted for 8-17=25 of the team’s 25-45=70 as In Saturday games ...... 3-1-0 of Nov. 8. That works out to 32 percent of goals scored, 38 percent of total assists and Other days ...... 0-0-0 nearly 36 percent of total points. • Rookie Tom Gilbert is the WCHA’s top-scoring freshman blueliner with 1-6=7. Home games ...... 3-3-0 He also paces his teammates in plus-minus with a +4. Road games ...... 1-1-0 • Junior Rene Bourque has scored three power-play goals on just six shots. Non-conference games ...... 4-2-0 Freshman Ryan MacMurchy has tallied twice on the man-advantage on four power- Neutral site ...... 0-0-0 play shots. • Sophomore Alex Leavitt has a three-game scoring string with 0-5=5 in that Versus Hockey East ...... 1-1-0 span. Versus CCHA ...... 1-0-0 • Senior Brad Winchester has a goal in five of the Badgers’ eight games so far. Versus ECAC ...... 0-1-0 • MacMurchy scored goals in back-to-back games last weekend against top- Versus CHA ...... 2-0-0 ranked Denver. Winchester is the only other Badger to score goals in both games Versus WCHA ...... 0-2-0 over the weekend. He tallied once in games at Boston College and Northeastern. • Thirty-three percent of the goals allowed this season have been power-play BADGER HOCKEY RADIO NETWORK scores. The Badgers have given up 27 goals ... nine on the man-advantage. • All four UW losses have come when Bucky has trailed after the first period. WRLO 105.3 ...... Antigo WBIZ 1400 ...... Eau Claire OVER ONE MILLION WATCHED WFAW 940 ...... Ft. Atkinson On Oct. 19 vs. Alabama-Huntsville, the Badgers’ 1,000,000th fan came through WKBH 1570 ...... LaCrosse the turnstiles at the Kohl Center since the UW moved into the new arena in October WDLB 1450 ...... Marshfield of 1998. The 2002-03 season marks the fifth for Bucky in his new digs. Wisconsin has WJYI 1340 ...... Milwaukee led the nation in attendance all four seasons in the Kohl Center and adding in the WPDR 1350 ...... Portage four home games played this season, the Badgers have now drawn 1,025,714 to 88 WRJN 1400 ...... Racine games. That’s an average of 11,656 fans a game. WRDB 1400 ...... Reedsburg The smallest rink in the WCHA is at Michigan Tech, seating 4,200. The Huskies WOBT 1240 ...... Rhinelander would have to sell out 239 consecutive games to draw that same number of fans. WHBL 1330 ...... Sheboygan WJMT 730 ...... Wausau Note: The number of games carried is the decision of each radio station.