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ECAC Quarterfinals 2014-15 Schedule RENSSELAER (12-24-3) AT ST. LAWRENCE (18-13-3) 18-13-3, 14-7-1 ECAC Best of Three: March 13, 14 and 15(if needed) 7 pm. Oct. 4 CARLETON (ex) W, 4-0 Radio: WFLK 95.3 • Greg Lapinsky, Wally Johnson Oct. 10 at RIT L, 5-2 Zeebs Du Jour: Oct. 11 at Niagara W, 10-2 Friday: Chip McDonald, Kevin Curtis Lines: Mike Emanatian, Jason Shattie Oct. 17 #4 FERRIS STATE L 3-2 OT Saturday: Mike Baker, Scott Whittemore; Lines: Mike Emanatian, Jason Shattie Oct. 18 #4 FERRIS STATE W, 2-0 Sunday: TBA Oct. 24 at #10 Miami (OH) W, 5-4 Oct. 25 at #10 Miami (OH) L, 2-1 OT BIG PRIZE AWAITS: A trip to Lake Placid and the ECAC semifinals awaits the winner of Oct. 31 CLARKSON T, 2-2 OT this weekend’s best of three quarterfinal series between the Saints and Rensselaer. SLU had last weekend off while the Engineers picked up frequent flyer miles at the Best Nov. 1 at Clarkson W, 4-0 Western, taking down eighth seeded Clarkson in three games in the opening round of Nov. 7 at Brown* W, 5-2 the tournament, earning a return trip to the North Country to face the second seed- Nov. 8 at Yale* W, 4-0 ed Saints. SLU is making its third consecutive home playoff appearance, but its first at Nov. 14 at #6 Colgate* L, 5-2 home in the quarterfinals since a sweep of Quinnipiac in 2009. The Saints are looking Nov. 15 at Cornell* W, 4-2 for their first semifinal appearance since 2010. The Saints are making their 41st ECAC tournament appearance and are 64-58-4 all-time in the tournament including 35-8-0 at Nov. 21 PRINCETON* W, 3-0 Appleton Arena. The Saints have made the semifinal round 16 times and have won six Nov. 22 QUINNIPIAC* L, 3-2 OT tournament titles, the most recent in 2001. Dec. 6 CLARKSON* L, 2-1 Dec. 12 at Vermont L, 2-1 A BRIEF POST-SEASON HISTORY: The Saints and Engineers have met five times in the Dec. 13 VERMONT L, 2-0 post-season in the two programs’ history and SLU has won all five meetings. The first was in the 1961 NCAA quarterfinals in Denver with the Saints winning 6-3. The rest Jan. 2 at Northeastern T, 3-3 have all come in the ECAC tournament, but none before the semifinal round. SLU won Jan. 3 at Northeastern L, 4-2 3-1 in the 1964 semifinals; 6-5 in overtime in a 1992 semifinal game in Boston which Jan. 9 CORNELL* W, 3-1 featured both current Saint men’s and women’s head coaches, Greg Carvel and Chris Jan. 10 COLGATE* L, 2-0 Wells in the lineup; 6-3 in the 1999 semifinals at Lake Placid and 2-0 in the 2000 cham- Jan. 16 at Dartmouth* W, 3-2 pionship also in Lake Placid. Jan. 17 at Harvard* W, 5-1 THE SAINTS AT APPLETON IN 14-15: The Saints carry a six-game home ice win streak Jan. 23 YALE* W,3-2 OT into the quarterfinals and are 9-5-1 on the Appleton sheet this season. They have won Jan. 24 BROWN* W, 5-2 seven of eight at home since the start of the new year and have outscored the opposi- Jan. 31 at Clarkson* W, 2-1 tion 44-25. Tommy Thompson and Brian Ward share the home ice scorin glead with 13 Feb. 6 RENSSELAER* W, 3-1 points each, Thompson with seven goals and six assists and Ward with three goals and ten assists. Goalie Kyle Hayton has a 1.58 goals against average and a .947 save percent- Feb. 7 UNION* W, 7-1 age in 15 home games this season. Feb. 13 at Quinnipiac* L, 2-1 Feb. 14 at Princeton* T 1-1 OT THE SAINT STAFF: Greg Carvel is in his third season as Saint head coach after posting Feb. 20 HARVARD* W, 5-1 one of the best records for a first-year coach in program history in his rookie season. Feb. 21 DARTMOUTH* W, 6-3 The Saints 18-16-4 mark is the best for a first-year Saint coach since George Menard went 18-5-0 in his first season, 1955-56. Carvel was named the second Charles W. Feb. 27 at Union* L, 3-2 Appleton II Head Men’s Hockey Coach in the spring of 2012. A 1993 graduate of St. Feb. 28 at Rensselaer* L, 4-3 Lawrence and a former Saint hockey captain, he joined the staff as an assistant coach in Mar. 13 RPI (Quarterfinal 1) 7:00 the fall of 2011. He is the 13th head coach in program history. Carvel came to the Saints Mar. 14 RPI (Quarterfinal 2) 7:00 after a 15-year professional hockey coaching career that included assisting coach duties Mar. 15 RPI (if needed)# 7:00 with the Ottawa Senators and Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League, helping both teams reach the Stanley Cup finals. He began his professional career as director Mar. 20 ECAC Semifinal TBA of hockey operations for the Lowell Lock Monsters of the American Hockey League and Mar. 21 ECAC Finals 7:30 joined Anaheim as scouting coordinator in 1999. He added video coaching duties to his Mar. 27-29 NCAA Regionals TBA title in Anaheim in 2002 and was promoted to assistant coach in 2003. He joined the Apr. 9 NCAA Semifinals (Boston) TBA Senators in 2004. The winner of the ECAC’s Best Defensive Forward Award as a senior at Apr. 11 NCAA Finals TBA St. Lawrence, Carvel graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science and math- ematics. He was an Academic All America and a three-time winner of the Brian McFar- lane Award for academic and athletic accomplishments. He is joined behind the Saint *-ECAC Games bench by Associate Head Coach Mike Hurlbut ‘89, a former All America defenseman #-Best of three series who was part of two ECAC Championship teams at SLU and had a 14-year professional playing career and assistant coach Jared DeMichiel, who is in his first season with the Saints after assisting at Nazareth last season. DeMichiel was an outstanding goaltender for RIT, leading that team to the Frozen Four as a senior. The Tale of The Tape The Record When: St. Lawrence Rensselaer Overall Record: 18-13-3 Record 18-13-3/14-7-1 12-24-3/8-12-2 At Home: 9-5-1 On the Road: 9-8-2 Offense 3.06/3.18 1.95/2.41 Neutral: 0-0-0 Defense 2.06/1.86 3.21/3.00 League: 14-7-1 Power Play 16.7/12.2 12.0/14.8 League Home: 8-3-0 Penalty Kill 86.7/84.9 78.9/78.2 League Away: 6-4-1 Special Teams Net +7/+2 -24/-12 Non-League: 4-6-2 Pen. Min. Per Game 14.2/15.4 12.1/11.0 Non-League Home: 1-2-1 Non-League Away: 3-4-1 Non-League Neutral: 0-0-0 Leading after One: 14-6-2 SAINT SUPPORT STAFF: Aisha Visram, a 2007 graduate of the University of Guelph, is in her Trailing after One: 0-4-0 second season as athletic trainer for the Saint men’s hockey team. Mike Elberty, a 1979 St. Tied after One: 4-3-1 Lawrence graduate is the strength and conditioning coach and Brenden McHugh is the video Leading after Two: 16-2-1 coordinator for the 2012-13 Saints. Wally Johnson is the sports information contact and is in Trailing after Two: 0-8-1 his 39th year of working with the Saint program. He also works with the Saint radio broadcasts Tied after Two: 2-3-1 during games. In Overtime: 1-3-3 Scoring First: 16-7-3 THE BREAKDOWN: The 2014-15 Saint roster includes four seniors, six juniors, eight soph- Opp. Scores First: 2-6-0 omores and nine freshmen. The Saints lost four of their top five scorers from last season Outshooting Opp.: 10-4-1 and workhorse goaltender Matt Weninger, who played in 132 games during his four Opp. Outshoots SLU: 7-9-2 seasons including 34 of 38 last year. Of the 18 returnees, seven played in all 38 games last Shots are Even: 1-0-0 year, and an eighth in 37. The Saints also return junior Tommy Thompson who sat out last Scoring 3 or More: 16-1-1 season and will have two years of eligibility. Scoring 2 or Less: 2-12-2 Scoring on the PP: 9-4-1 THE SAINT CAPTAINS: Senior wing Gunnar Hughes will be the Saint captain this season Allowing a PP Goal: 6-6-1 while classmate Patrick Doherty and junior forward Brian Ward will be the assistant cap- In October: 3-3-1 tains. Hughes, an assistant captain last year, follows in the footsteps of his brother George In November: 5-2-0 as a two-year captain for the Saints and joins Sean and Kyle Flanagan and Mike and Pete In December: 0-3-0 Lappin as the only brothers in SLU hockey history to both captain teams. Hughes scored In January: 6-2-1 five goals and had 13 assists last season and has played in 109 career games with 16 goals In February: 5-3-1 and 35 assists for 51 points.