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UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT 2015-16 MEN’S HOCKEY GAME NOTES Media Contact: Alastair Ingram O: 802.656.1109 • C: 339.927.0097 Athletic Communications • www.UVMathletics.com Email: [email protected] 97 Spear St. • 205 Patrick Gym • Burlington, Vt. 05405 YouTube: YouTube.com/UVMathletics Press Box Phone: 802.656.4182 • Fax: 802.656.8328 Twitter: @UVMmhockey • #VCats GAME 8 tonight’s matchup schedule TV VERMONT CATAMOUNTS • 2-4-1 (1-0-1 HEA) vs. Overall: 2-4-1 N/A HEA: 1-0-1 #4 UMASS LOWELL RIVER HAWKS • 4-1-2 (0-0-2 HEA) Home: 0-4-1 RADIO Gutterson Fieldhouse • Burlington, Vt. Away: 2-0-0 WVMT 620-AM Neutral: 0-0-0 PxP: Alastair Ingram Friday, November 6, 2015 • 7:05 p.m. Analyst: Jerry Tarrant OCTOBER (2-4-1 • 1-0-1 HEA) Reporter: Josh Parker 4 ACADIA (Exh.) L, 2-1 10 at #8 Minnesota # W, 3-0 VIDEO 16 #3 NEBRASKA OMAHA L, 4-3 CatamounTV.com 17 #3 NEBRASKA OMAHA L, 3-1 Overall 2-4-1 4-1-2 23 #1 NORTH DAKOTA L, 2-0 AUDIO League 1-0-1 0-0-2 24 #1 NORTH DAKOTA L, 5-2 SportsJuice.com Home 0-4-1 1-2-0 29 at Northeastern + W, 3-2 Away 2-0-0 0-3-0 31 NORTHEASTERN + T, 3-3 LIVE STATS 0-0-0 0-0-0 UVMathletics.com Neutral 2.14 2.43 NOVEMBER (0-0-0 • 0-0-0 HEA) Goals/Game 6 #4 UMASS LOWELL + 7:05 pm 2.71 1.43 COACHING STAFFS GAA 7 #4 UMASS LOWELL + 7:05 pm VERMONT Power Play 11.8% 20.0% 13 UCONN + 7:05 pm Head Coach: Penalty Kill 82.8% 92.0% 15 UMASS AMHERST + 1:00 pm Kevin Sneddon Shots on Goal 26.9 29.7 20 at Maine + 7:00 pm Harvard ‘92 Penalty Minutes 9.9 8.9 21 at Maine + 4:00 pm Overall: 241-307-79 (18th) Goals Leader J. Privitera (5) Chapie (3) 29 vs. Penn State & 1:00 pm UVM: 191-208-61 (13th) Assists Leader 3 players tied (4) Gambardella (4) Puskarich (7) Chapie/Gambardella (6) DECEMBER Points Leader 4 at Boston University + 7:30 pm Associate Head Coach: GAA Leader Santaguida (2.56) Boyle (1.40) 5 at Boston University + 4:00 pm Kevin Patrick (4th) Santaguida (.911) Boyle (.949) Notre Dame ‘92 SV% Leader 11 ST. LAWRENCE 7:05 pm 12 at St. Lawrence 7:00 pm SETTING THE SCENE 20 at Union 4:00 pm Associate Head Coach: • The Catamounts host fourth-ranked UMass Lowell to begin a two- Kyle Wallack (4th) 29 LAKE SUPERIOR STATE % 7:05 pm Springfield ‘97 game league series in a rematch of last year’s Hockey East Semifinal. 30 COLGATE % 7:05 pm • Vermont earned three of a possible four points in a home-and-home JANUARY Assistant Coach: series against Northeastern last Thursday and Saturday. 2 NEW HAMPSHIRE 7:05 pm Jeff Hill (1st) • UMass Lowell has only one loss on the season but tied both of its 8 DARTMOUTH 7:05 pm Vermont ‘08 Hockey East contests against Merrimack for two points. 15 PROVIDENCE + 7:05 pm 16 PROVIDENCE + 7:05 pm UMASS LOWELL • The schools meet for the 46th time in the all-time series tonight and 22 at UConn + 8:30 pm Head Coach: have faced off in the Hockey East playoffs each of the last two years. 23 at UMass Amherst + 7:00 pm Norm Bazin • UVM is looking to snap a four-game winless streak (0-3-1) against UMass Lowell '94 the River Hawks, but six of the last eight matchups overall have been FEBRUARY Overall: 141-79-22 (8th) 5 NOTRE DAME + 7:05 pm decided by a goal or less, including all five in 2013-14. UML: 103-48-15 (5th) 6 NOTRE DAME + 7:05 pm 12 at New Hampshire + 7:00 pm Assistant Coach: CATS TAKE THREE OF FOUR FROM HUSKIES 13 at New Hampshire + 5:00 pm Cam Ellsworth • Vermont won 3-2 in the league opener at Northeastern last Thursday 19 BOSTON COLLEGE + 7:05 pm Michigan Tech '05 to win at Matthews Arena for the fifth time in its last six trips. 20 BOSTON COLLEGE + 7:05 pm • Dan Senkbeil scored his first career game-winning goal at the 13:46 26 at Merrimack + 8:30 pm Assistant Coach: 27 at Merrimack + 7:00 pm Andy Jones mark of the third period to break a 2-2 deadlock. Amherst '00 • UVM fought back for a point with a 3-3 tie on Saturday at Gutterson MARCH Fieldhouse despite holding a 2-1 lead after two periods. 4-6 HEA First Round @ TBA Assistant Coach: 11-13 HEA Quarterfinals @ TBA Adam Nicholas • Anthony Petruzzelli scored the game-tying goal with 2:01 remaining 18-19 HEA Championship ^ TBA Southern Maine '10 in regulation for his second goal in as many games. 25-27 NCAA Regionals TBA • Mike Santaguida finished the Hockey East series with 49 saves. APRIL OFFICIALS 7-9 NCAA Frozen Four $ TBA Referee: Kevin Shea Referee: Peter Schlittenhardt CATAMOUNT NOTES Home games in ALL CAPS Linesman: Kevin Briganti • Jarrid Privitera has scored four goals in his last three games and is Linesman: Andrew Weber one away from matching his freshman year goal total of six. # U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game • Mario Puskarich has at least one point in six of his first seven games + Hockey East game & Wells Fargo Center (Philadelphia, Pa.) and ranks 17th in Hockey East overall scoring. % Sheraton/TD Bank Catamount Cup (Burlington, Vt.) • Alexx Privitera is four games away from his 100th career appearance. @ Campus Locations • UVM continues a five-game homestand tonight and will have played ^ TD Garden (Boston, Mass.) nine home games at Gutterson by the middle of November. $ Amalie Arena (Tampa, Fla.) STANDINGS & POLLS • GAME NOTES HOCKEY EAST STANDINGS EARLY HONOR FOR SANTA • Mike Santaguida made his 50th career appearance in net last Thursday at CONFERENCE OVERALL Northeastern and picked up his second win of the season with 21 saves. PTS GP RECORD GP RECORD • The junior finished with a career-high 39 saves on Oct. 23 against top-ranked 1. Notre Dame 422-0-0 6 3-1-2 North Dakota, including 33 stops in the first two periods combined. Merrimack 441-1-2 7 4-1-2 • Santaguida was named the Hockey East Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 3. New Hampshire 321-0-1 6 3-2-1 12 after posting his fifth career shutout at eighth-ranked Minnesota. Vermont 321-0-1 7 2-4-1 5. Boston College 211-0-0 7 6-1-0 • Last season as a sophomore, Santaguida ranked 19th nationally in both goals UMass Lowell 220-0-2 7 4-1-2 against average (2.08) and shutouts (3) and was 27th in save percentage (.923). Boston University 231-2-0 6 3-3-0 • Santaguida posted the third-best save percentage and fifth-best goals against UConn 241-3-0 7 3-4-0 average for a single season in program history. 9. UMass Amherst 120-1-1 7 4-2-1 • He earned a spot on the Mike Richter Award Watch List before the season after Northeastern 120-1-1 7 1-5-1 being named one of 28 finalists for the Division I honor last season. 11. Maine 000-0-0 7 0-4-3 Providence 000-0-0 7 6-0-1 SUPER MARIO RETURNS • Mario Puskarich missed 11 of the final 12 games last season due to injury but USCHO.COM POLL (NOV. 2, 2015) has posted a point in six of seven games to begin his junior campaign. • Puskarich is averaging a point per game to rank 17th in Hockey East and sits RK TEAM (1ST PLACE) RECORD PTS LAST WK sixth in the league with 25 shots on goal to lead the team. 1 North Dakota (27) 6-0-2 975 1 • The forward ranked second on the team with 11 goals and fifth on the team 2 Providence (18) 6-0-1 956 3 with 24 points last year despite missing a total of 12 games. 3 Boston College (4) 6-1-0 896 4 • Puskarich lit the lamp 19 times as a freshman and became the first Catamount 4 UMass Lowell 4-1-2 756 7 to win the Hockey East Rookie of the Year Award. 5 Quinnipiac (1) 6-0-0 745 9 6 Minnesota Duluth 3-2-2 700 6 • He also tied the UVM single season record with seven game-winning goals, 7 Harvard 2-0-0 666 11 including the game-winner in Game 2 of the league quarterfinals at Lowell. 8 Nebraska Omaha 6-2-0 664 2 9 Denver 3-3-0 539 5 THE PRIVITERA ERA 10 St. Cloud State 6-2-0 537 14 • Jarrid Privitera registered his first collegiate multi-goal game on Oct. 23 11 Boston University 3-3-0 513 8 against No. 1 North Dakota and has five goals in his first seven games. 12 Yale 2-0-0 511 13 • Privitera is tied for fourth in Hockey East and tied for 25th nationally in goal 13 Michigan 4-1-1 414 10 scoring and is just one shy of his freshman year goal total (6). 14 Bowling Green 4-2-1 362 12 15 St. Lawrence 5-2-1 317 16 • The sophomore is riding a three-game goal scoring streak with four tallies in 16 Merrimack 4-1-2 226 17 that span, including one in each game of the Northeastern series.