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Athletic Communications, Women’s Hockey • Kelly Grgas-Wheeler University of Minnesota Duluth • Duluth, MN 55812-2496 • (218) 726-8937 • Fax: (218) 726-6529 THE MATCH-UP Games 3 & 4 NO. 6 BULLDOGS WILL SET THE TABLE FOR No. 6 UMD vs. No . 3 Minnesota NO. 3 MINNESOTA THIS WEEKEND AT AMSOIL Date: Nov. 27-28, 2020 Friday 6:07 p.m., Saturday 3:07 p.m. Nov. 24, 2020 Site: AMSOIL Arena (6,600) -- Duluth, Minn. The No. 6 University of Minnesota Duluth women’s hockey team will host the No. 3 University of Minnesota this weekend at AMSOIL Arena. The Western Record: UMD: 2-0-0 Collegiate Hockey Association series will get underway Friday night at 6:07 Minnesota: 1-1-0 pm. and concluded Saturday at 3:07 p.m. There will be limited spots available for media, but at this time, there will be no fans admitted into AMSOIL. Video: http://bit.ly/32loRmj Stats: www.umdbulldogs.com USCHO RANKING: UMD-- No. 6, Minnesota -- No. 3 2020-2021 Schedule USA TODAY/USA Hockey Magazine: UMD-- No. 6, Minnesota -- No. 3 Date Opponent Location Time THE SERIES: After going 1-2-1-1 against Minnesota during the 2019-20 11/20/2020 Minnesta State Mankato, MN W, 5-0 season, the Bulldogs are 29-60-10 all-time against the Gophers. 11/21/2020 Minnesota State Mankato, MN W, 7-3 11/27/2020 #3Minnesota Duluth, MN 6:07 PM UMD junior center Gabbie Hughes has had immense success against Min- 11/28/2020 #3Minnesota Duluth, MN 3:07 PM nesota, and has notched seven goals and seven assists for 14 points in 10 12/4/2020 St. Cloud State Duluth, MN 6:07 PM career skates against the Gophers. 12/5/2020 St. Cloud State Duluth, MN 6:07 PM 12/11/2020 Wisconsin Madison, WI 2:00 PM The Bulldogs and Gophers have gone to overtime in four of the last 10 games 12/12/2020 Wisconsin Madison, WI 2:00 PM they’ve played in. In those four skates with extra time, UMD is 1-1-2 officially (with a WCHA double overtime win and shootout win filed under official ties). QUICK HITS --The Bulldogs have seven of the top eight scorers in In the last series showdown between the two programs on Jan. 31 and Feb. the nation one week into the 2020-21 season. Blueliner 1 of 2020, UMD both shutout and was shutout by the then No. 1 University of Ashton Bell leads all scorers with five points (1g, 4a), Minnesota at Ridder Arena. while both Anna Klein and Anneke Linser occupy the second spot with four points each. Klein has an NCAA- On Jan. 31, Minnesota, used three goals by Amy Potomak in the first period best three goals and one assist, while Linser has two to push past UMD 5-0. The Bulldogs, heavily outshot 50-17 in the contest, goals and two assists. suffered their lone shutout of the season in the loss. --As a team, the Bulldogs lead the country in scoring Maddie Rooney had 45 saves for the Bulldogs, a season-high and the eighth with a whopping 6.00 goals per game average. Of the time the then senior goaltender had stopped 40 or more saves against Minne- 12 teams sota over her career. UMD went 0-of-2 on its power play while the Gophers were 2-of-6. The 50 shots allowed in the game was a season-high for a Bull- --After going 1-2-1-1 against Minnesota during the 2019- dog opponent. 20 season, the Bulldogs are 29-60-10 all-time against the Gophers. The Bulldogs flipped the script on the Gophers the following afternoon (Feb. 1), shutting out Minnesota 2-0 behind 35 saves from Rooney, who ended up --UMD junior center Gabbie Hughes has had immense with a total of 80 on the weekend. Then senior forward Sydney Brodt led all success against Minnesota, and has notched seven scorers with a goal and an assist, while Hughes netted the first goal of the goals and seven assists for 14 points in 10 career skates game 1:28 into the contest. against the Gophers. UMD vs. Minnesota (All games) (29-61-10 All-Time) --Hughes is at 91 career points -- just nine shy of the Feb. 1, 2020 2-0 Win Away Feb. 3, 2019 3-5 Loss Away Jan. 31, 2020 0-5 Loss Away Feb. 2, 2019 3-2 Win OT Away 100 career point plateau. Nov. 23, 2019 3-4 Loss Home Jan. 5, 2019 3-4 Loss OT Away^ Nov. 22, 2019 2-2 Tie 2OTW Home Oct. 6, 2018 2-3 Loss Home --Senior defenseman Ashton Bell picked up WCHA Mar. 8, 2019 1-4 Loss Away* Oct. 5, 2018 2-2 Tie OT SW Home Defenseman of the Week honors Tuesday, while Clara Van Wieren reeled in a WCHA Rookie of Week nod. +WCHA Final Face-Off Semifinals +MN Cup, Ridder Arena Five-Time NCAA Champions 2010 • 2008 • 2003 • 2002 • 2001 BY THE NUMBERS completed WCHA series of the season. BULLDOG HISTORY BULLDOGS VS GOPHERS The Bulldogs were led by junior winger All-Time Record/Seasons ............................474-215-70/22 Overall Record Anneke Linser’s four points on two goals WCHA Record/Seasons ......................... ......330-149-53/20 2-0-0 1-1-0 and two assists, as well as two goals each WCHA Tournament Record/Yrs ......................... ..43-22/20 Conference Record for junior Kylie Hanley (who also added an NCAA Regional Tournament..........................................4-4 2-0-0 1-1-0 assist) and Klein. All told, six players had NCAA Frozen Four Record...........................................11-2 Record vs. Top-10 Teams multiple-point outings and UMD put up the NCAA Championship Game ..........................................5-1 0-0-0 1-1-0 most goals in a regular-season game in six NCAA Champions....................................................5 Times Scoring Offense (G/Gm) seasons. NCAA Frozen Four Most Valuable Players.......................4 6.00 2.50 NCAA Frozen Four All-Tournament Team.......................19 Scoring Defense (G/Gm) NOTES FROM THE MINNESOTA STATE ACHA Division I Coach of the Year Awards........................2 1.50 1.00 SERIES: All-time, the Bulldogs are now 72- USCHO Division I Coach of the Year.................................1 Scoring Margin Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award Top-Three Finalists......6 +4.50 +1.50 7-9 against the Mavericks, and are unbeat- en in their last 15 outings. Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award Top-10 Finalists..........15 Shots on Goal (SOG/Gm) First Team All-Americans ................................................13 40.5 22.0 --11 players registered at least a point in Second Team All-Americans.............................................3 Penalty Minutes Per Game 11.0 4.0 the series, including seven that recorded Third Team All-Americans.................................................3 three or more. Senior defenseman Ashton Hockey Humanitarian Award Finalists.............................1 Power Play 2/11 (18.2) 0/4 (0.0) Bell led all scorers in the NCAA over the WCHA Player of the Year ..................................................3 WCHA Defensive Player of the Year.................................2 Penalty Kill weekend with five points on a goal and four 9/11 (81.8) 4/4 (1.00) assists. Senior winger Anna Klein had a WCHA Rookie of the Year..................................................2 Point Leaders team-high three goals to go with an assist, WCHA Student-Athlete of the Year...................................6 Ashton Bell (5) Grace Zumwinkle (3) and Anneke Linser recorded four points WCHA Coach of the Year...................................................3 Two Players (4) Two Players (2) All-WCHA Selections .......................................................89 (2g, 2a) in Saturday’s skate, a weekend sin- Goals Scored gle-game high among UMD players. WCHA All-Tournament Most Valuable Players................6 Anna Klein (3) Grace Zumwinle (3) WCHA All-Tournament Selections .................................25 Three Players (2) Two Players (1) --UMD’s seven goals Saturday as the most AHCA Scholar First Team All-Americans.......................22 WCHA Scholar-Athlete Selections..................................91 Last Competition it has put up since Jan. 23, 2015, when the at Minnesota State vs Ohio State Bulldogs scored 12 goals against MSU in WCHA All-Academic Selections.............................. .... 207 Nov. 20, 2020 5-0 Win Nov. 21, 2020 4-0 Win Mankato. It was also the most goals scored Winter Olympians (on ice players only).........................32 Nov. 23, 2020 7-3 Win Nov. 22, 2020 1-2 Loss in a series (12), also from the same week- end -- UMD scored 16 on Jan. 23-24, 2015 2019-20 REVIEW The rest was up to the Bulldogs defense (where UMD registered scores of 12-0 and 2019-20 Record ........................................................18-12-6 that helped Rooney by blocking 17 shots in 4-0, respectively). WCHA Record/Finish..................................... 11-8-5-3/4th the game and held the Gophers scoreless WCHA Tournament Record...........................................2-2 on five power play attempts. Rooney made --The weekend sweep was the first road 2019-20 Letterwinners Returning...........19 all 35 stops on the Gophers she faced, series sweep for UMD since the 2017-18 \ (11 F, 6 D, 2G) which doubled as the program’s first road season when the Bulldogs swept MSU in 2018-19 Letterwinners Lost ........................5 (3 F, 1D, 1G) shutout since Feb, 16, 2018 and second Mankato on Feb. 16-17, 2018 by scores of 2-0 and 3-2. UNIVERSITY INFORMATION over a ranked squad last season. Name ...............................University of Minnesota Duluth Location........................................................Duluth, Minn. LAST TIME OUT: UMD opened the 2020- --Junior goaltender Emma Soderberg se- Founded.......................................................................1895 21 season in grand fashion last weekend, cured her first collegiate shutout with 22 Enrollment ................................................................10,275 sweeping Minnesota State University, saves on Friday night in UMD’s 5-0 win.