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MAINE MEN’S ICE HOCKEY UNIVERSITY OF MAINE MEN’S ICE HOCKEY Maine (7-9-3) vs. New Hampshire (8-7-2) December 30, 2016 at 7:00p.m. Manchester, NH - SNHU Arena Orono, Maine - GoBlackBears.com @MAINEICEHOCKEY | MAINE ATHLETIC MEDIA RELATIONS - 5747 MEMORIAL GYM ORONO, ME - [email protected] | 207-949-7108| WWW.GOBLACKBEARS.COM Maine (6-9-3) vs. New Hamp- 2016-17 Schedule shire (8-7-2) (7-9-3; 1-6-1 Hockey East) Manchester, NH | SNHU Arena October 2 vs. St. Francis Xavier Orono, Maine Ex. Radio: 103.9 FM - Dan Hannigan 7 vs. RPI Orono, Maine 5-1 W Live Audio: GoBlackBears.com 8 vs. RPI Orono, Maine 4-2 W 14 vs. Q uinnipiac Orono, Maine 4-3 W Live Stats: GoBlackBears.com 15 vs. Quinnipiac Orono, Maine 3-2 L Live Video: GoBlackBears.com 21 at Miami (OH) Oxford, OH 3-3 T All-Time Series: 66-54-7 Maine 22 at Miami (OH) Oxford, OH 5-0 L First Meeting: 12/15/1979 5-3 Maine 28 at Colgate Hamilton, N.Y. 2-2 T Last Meeting: 12/3/2016 4-3 UNH 29 at Colgate Hamilton, N.Y. 5-3 L November 4 vs. Boston College * Portland, Maine 6-1 L 5 vs. Boston College * Orono, Maine 3-2 L 11 vs. UMass Lowell * Orono, Maine 5-2 W 13 at UMass Lowell * Lowell, Mass. 4-1 L 18 at Vermont * Burlington, VT 6-2L 19 at Vermont * Burlington, VT 2-2 T 26 vs. Brown Portland, Maine 5-1 W MAINE - 2016/17 Stats Goals Assists Points December 2 at New Hampshire * Durham, N.H. 5-1 L D 25 Eric Schurhamer (5-11, Sr.) 1 6 7 3 vs. New Hampshire * Orono, Maine 4-3 L 9 vs. AIC Orono, Maine 5-3 W D 3 Rob Michel (6-2, So.) 4 6 10 10 vs. AIC Orono, Maine 7-2 W 30 at New Hampshire Manchester, N.H. F 11 Mitch Fossier (6-1, Fr.) 8 6 14 January F 21 Cam Brown (5-7, Sr.) 3 17 20 6 vs. Team USA U-18 Orono, Maine 12 at UConn * Bridgeport. CT F 89 Blaine Byron (6-1, Sr.) 9 11 20 14 at UConn * Boston, Mass. 20 at Boston Univ. * Boston, Mass. 21 vs. Boston Univ. * Orono, Maine 27 vs. UMass * Orono, Maine Goalie GAA W-L-T Save % 28 vs. UMass * Orono, Maine 35 Rob McGovern (6-4, So.) 2.87 6-7-3 .913 February 3 at Providence * Providence, R.I. 36 Matt Morris (5-10, RS-Sr.) 4.57 1-2-0 .873 4 at Providence * Providence, R.I. 10 vs. Notre Dame * Portland, Maine 11 vs. Notre Dame * Orono, Maine Head Coach: Red Gendron (New England College ‘79) - Fourth Season 17 at Merrimack * Andover, Mass. 18 at Merrimack * Andover, Mass. School Record: 45-70-16; Career: Same 24 vs. Northeastrn * Orono, Maine 25 vs. Northeastern * Orono, Maine March New Hampshire - 2016/2017 Stats Goals Assists Points 3-5 Friday-Sunday Hockey East Opening Round 10-12 Friday-Sunday Hockey East Quarter-Finals D 2 Matias Cleland (5-11, Sr. ) 1 18 19 17-18 Friday-Saturday Hockey East Semi-Finals 24-26 Friday-Sunday NCAA Regionals D 4 Dylan Maller (6-1, Sr.) 3 6 9 April F 16 Tyler Kelleher (5-6, Sr.) 12 19 31 6-8 NCAA Frozen Four (Chicago, Illinois) F 20 Patrick Grasso (5-7, Fr.) 11 9 20 * - Hockey East Conference Game F 11 Michael McNicholas (5-10, Jr.) 7 9 16 Goalie GAA W-L-T Save % 35 Daniel Tirone (5-11, Jr.) 2.39 8-5-2 .917 41 Adam Clark (6-5, Jr.) 5.47 0-2-0 .828 Head Coach: Dick Umile (New Hampshire '72) - 27th Season School Record: 579-340-105; Career: Same Maine HockeyFive Game Time 20 SoCon - vs. New Champions Hampshire - Alfond • Page Arena 1 - Page 1 MAINE MEN’S ICE HOCKEY Career Numbers Watch Byron ............................... 13 points from 100 A Look at Maine Brown .............................. 13 points from 100 Maine looks to continue momentum after the holiday break as they are coming off a week- end sweep and offensive explosion against the American Internation College Yellow Jackets. Maine was led by Hockey East Rookie of the week and NCAA Star of the Week Freshman Chase Pearsn (Alpharetta, GA.) He combined for 5 goals and an assist in the Black Bears sweep by final scores of 5-3 and 7-2, respectively. Scouting The Black Bears Hockey East Standings HE PTS OVR 1. BC 8-1-1 17 13-6-1 The Black Bears are led in scoring by senior captains Blaine Byron (9g,11a) and Cam 2. UML 6-3-1 13 10-5-3 Brown (3g,17a) who look to continue their quest for 100 points with both being just 13 t3. UNH 5-1-1 11 8-7-2 points away from the century mark. The boys from Alpharetta both had impressive t3. Vermont 5-2-1 11 10-6-2 t3. Notre Dame 5-3-1 11 9-6-2 weekends against the Yellow Jackets with Pearson netting 5 goals and an assist while t6. UConn 4-3-2 10 6-6-6 Fossier notched a goal and an assist in his lone game of the weekend. Fellow fresh- t6. BU 4-2-2 10 10-5-2 man Pat Shea elevated his game providing another spark for the Black Bears, adding t8. Merrimack 1-4-3 5 6-8-3 t8. UMass 2-7-1 5 4-12-2 a goal and 3 assists against AIC. t10. Northeastern 1-6-2 4 6-7-4 t10. Providence 1-4-2 4 7-6-3 Sophomore goaltender Rob McGovern continues to be the man between the pipes for 12. Maine 1-6-1 3 7-9-3 the Black Bears. Thus far through the 2016-2017 campaign, McGovern has amassed a 6-7-3 record, to go along with his .913 save percentage and 2.87 goals against average. Statistical Comparison Maine CATEGORY UNH Scouting The Wildcats 7-9-3 RECORD 8-7-2 3.00 GOALS PER GAME 3.41 3.26 GOALS AGAINST AVG. 2.94 New Hampshire is led by Senior Tyler Kelleher, who not only paces his team, but is -5 SCORING MARGIN +8 4th in the country in scoring, notching 31 points through his first 17 contests. Senior 57 GOALS 58 Captain Matias Cleland has been a force at the blue line as well, and has combined 98 ASSISTS 103 for 1 goal and 18 assists for a total of 19 points. UNH has been a force in league play 29.9 SHOTS PER GAME 30.2 thus far through the 2016-2017 season, amassing a 5-1-1 record, and is among the 16.3 POWER PLAY % 22.1 tops in the devision for both goals for and goals against. Currently the Wildcats have 80.9 PENALTY KILL % 83.1 scored 31 goals against Hockey East opponents, good for second in the league, and 17.1 PENALTY MIN PG 10.7 have only surrendered 17 goals, good for second as well. .903 SAVE % .900 CAT LEADERS The Black Bears will look to solve Junior goaltender Daniel Tirone, who is undefeated Byron (9) GOALS Kelleher (12) against Maine this season. He has compiled an 8-5-2 record on the year coupled with Brown (17) ASSISTS Kelleher (19) his .917 goals against average. Tirone shut out the Black Bears last year in Manches- Two Tied at (20) POINTS Kelleher (31) ter en route to a 7-0 Wildcat victory that saw him make 21 saves on 21 shots. McGovern (6) WINS Tirone (8) McGovern (.913) SAVE % Tirone (.917) Career Games Played Player Games Brown 129 Byron 128 Schurhamer 109 Lacroix 94 Hamilton 93 Vesey 91 Maine HockeyFive Game Time 20 SoCon - vs. New Champions Hampshire - Alfond • Page Arena 2 - Page 2 MAINE MEN’S ICE HOCKEY HEAD COACH RED GENDRON - Fourth season at Maine Red Gendron enters his fourth season as responsibilities included on-ice practice head coach of the University of Maine and video/statistical analysis. The team men’s ice hockey team. He led the Black won the 1995 Stanley Cup after finishing Bears to a mark of 8-24-6 in third second as Eastern Conference finalist in 1994. season at Maine. During the 1993–94 season, he was a tech- nological specialist for the Devils. Gendron coached a pair of Second Team All-American selections in Ben Hutton Gendron came to the University of Maine and Devin Shore. The duo also earned in the fall of 1990, where he was an assis- Hockey East First Team honors and were tant coach for three seasons. His responsi- each selected All-New England as well. bilities included bench coaching, practice Gendron was hired on May 28, 2013 as planning, and coaching the forwards and head coach of the University of Maine power play on one of the best teams in col- men’s ice hockey team. The hiring of Gen- lege hockey history. dron links the success of Maine’s past with the promise of the future. For 11 years, Gendron was a head and as- sistant coach in Vermont and New Hamp- Gendron, who has won two NCAA Hock- shire. ey National Championships and a NHL Stanley Cup as an assistant coach, was Gendron also has international coach- named University of Maine head men’s ing experience. He has guided eight USA ice hockey coach by UMaine President Hockey Teams, including the U.S.