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Brown • Mar. 7-8-9, 2014 The 2013-14 Saint Season 8th seed St. Lawrence (13-17-4, 7-11-4) vs. 9th seed Brown (11-15-3, 8-13-1) 13-17-4, 7-11-4 ECAC Best of three playoff series Oct. 5 CARLETON (exh) W, 4-2 Radio: WFLK 95.3 • Greg Lapinski and Wally Johnson Oct. 11 MAINE W, 3-1 Streaming Video: America One Oct. 12 MAINE W, 5-2 Zeebs du Jour Oct. 18 at Ferris State W, 3-2 Fri.: Referees: Mike Baker, Robert St. Lawrence; Lines: Justin Prusak, Mike Emanatian Oct. 19 at Ferris State L, 5-3 Sat.: Referees: Chip McDonald, Robert St. Lawrence; Lines: Justin Prusak, Mike Emanatian Oct. 25 NORTHEASTERN L, 6-3 Oct. 26 NORTHEASTERN W, 6-4 Nov. 1 at Yale* T, 3-3 LET THE PLAYOFFS BEGIN: St. Lawrence University’s men’s hockey team will host Nov. 2 at Brown* T, 3-3 Brown to open the 2014 ECAC Hockey first round playoffs with the teams meeting Nov. 8 at Harvard* W, 3-1 in a best-of-three series to advance to the quarterfinal round. The Saints earned the Nov. 9 at Dartmouth* W, 8-5 eighth seed with a 5-0 win over Princeton on the final night of the season, while Nov. 15 COLGATE* L, 5-3 Brown went 2-7-0 over its last nine games to fall into ninth. The Bears and Saints will Nov. 16 CORNELL* L, 5-2 meet for the fourth time in the tournament and second time in the opening round, both of which have come at Appleton. The Saints and Bears went three games in the Nov. 22 at RIT W, 5-3 2006 tournament, SLU winning game one 3-2 in overtime, Brown winning game two Nov. 23 at RIT L, 6-4 3-2 and the Saints taking the series with a 5-4 overtime win. The other meetings Nov. 29 at North Dakota W, 5-2 were a 4-2 Brown win in Providence in the 1966 quarterfinals and a 3-0 Brown win Nov. 30 at North Dakota L, 3-2 at Albany in the 2010 third place game. The Saints are making their 41st appearance Dec. 6 at Clarkson* L, 5-4 in the tournament and have a 62-56-4 record in 122 tournament games. They are Dec. 7 CLARKSON* L, 4-3 33-8-0 at Appleton Arena, 8-4-0 in first round games and 25-4-0 in quarterfinals. Dec. 14 at Vermont L, 5-1 Jan. 7 VERMONT L, 4-2 THE SAINT STAFF: Greg Carvel is in his second season as Saint head coach after Jan. 17 BROWN* L, 5-3 posting one of the best records for a first-year coach in program history a year ago. Jan. 18 YALE* L, 4-2 The Saints 18-16-4 mark is the best for a first-year Saint coach since George Menard Jan. 24 at Cornell* T, 4-4 went 18-5-0 in his first season, 1955-56. Carvel was named the second Charles W. Appleton II Head Men’s Hockey Coach in the spring of 2012. A 1993 graduate of Jan. 25 at Colgate* L, 7-3 St. Lawrence and a former Saint hockey captain, he joined the staff as an assistant Jan. 31 UNION* W, 2-1 coach in the fall of 2011. He is the 13th head coach in program history. Carvel came Feb. 1 RENSSELAER* L, 4-3 to the Saints after a 15-year professional hockey coaching career that included Feb. 7 at Princeton* W, 7-1 assisting coach duties with the Ottawa Senators and Anaheim Ducks of the Nation- Feb. 8 at Quinnipiac* W, 3-2 al Hockey League, helping both teams reach the Stanley Cup finals. He began his Feb. 14 DARTMOUTH* L, 3-1 professional career as director of hockey operations for the Lowell Lock Monsters of Feb. 15 HARVARD* T, 2-2 the American Hockey League and joined Anaheim as scouting coordinator in 1999. Feb. 21 at Rensselaer* W, 4-0 He added video coaching duties to his title in Anaheim in 2002 and was promoted Feb. 22 at Union* L, 6-2 to assistant coach in 2003. He joined the Senators in 2004. The winner of the ECAC’s Feb. 28 QUINNIPIAC* L, 8-0 Best Defensive Forward Award as a senior at St. Lawrence, Carvel graduated with Mar. 1 PRINCETON* W, 5-0 a bachelor’s degree in political science and mathematics. He was an Academic All America and a three-time winner of the Brian McFarlane Award for academic and Mar. 7 ECAC 1st Round 7:00 athletic accomplishments. He is joined behind the Saint bench by Associate Head Mar. 8 ECAC 1st Round 7:00 Coach Mike Hurlbut ‘89, a former All America defenseman who was part of two Mar. 9 ECAC 1st Round 7:00 ECAC Championship teams at SLU and had a 14-year professional playing career Mar. 14 ECAC Quartefinals 7:00 and assistant coach Kris Mayotte, who played goal for Union and graduated in 2006. Mar. 15 ECAC Quarterfinals 7:00 Mayotte also has professional playing experience. Mar. 16 ECAC Quarterfinals 7:00 Mar. 21 ECAC Semifinals TBA SAINT SUPPORT STAFF: Aisha Visram, a 2007 graduate of the University of Guelph, Mar. 22 ECAC Championship TBA is in her first season as athletic trainer for the Saint men’s hockey team. Mike Elber- ^-Central Standard Time ty, a 1979 St. Lawrence graduate is the strength and conditioning coach and Bren- den McHugh is the video coordinator for the 2012-13 Saints. Wally Johnson is the sports information contact and is in his 39th year of working with the Saint program. He also works with the Saint radio broadcasts during games. The Tale of The Tape The Record When: St. Lawrence Brown Overall Record: 13-17-4 Record 13-17-4/7-11-4 11-15-3/8-13-1 At Home: 5-10-2 Offense 3.29/3.18 2.45/2.18 On the Road: 8-7-3 Neutral: 0-0-0 Defense 3.56/3.55 2.79/2.82 League: 7-11-4 Power Play 27.7/27.7 15.9/14.8 League Home: 2-8-1 Penalty Kill 73.4/69.4 75.8/76.7 League Away: 5-3-3 Special Teams Net +1/-2 -10’=7 Non-League: 6-6-0 Combined Special Teams 50.5/48.2 46.8/46.1 Non-League Home: 3-2-0 Pen. Min. Per Game 12.7/13.4 13.2/13.9 Non-League Away: 3-4-0 Non-League Neutral: 0-0-0 Leading after One: 6-3-2 Trailing after One: 3-11-1 Tied after One: 4-3-1 THE BREAKDOWN: The 2013-14 Saint roster includes seven seniors, four juniors, five soph- Leading after Two: 12-2-0 omores and 10 freshmen. The Saints return three of their top five scorers from last season Trailing after Two: 0-11-2 and seven of the top ten. Of the 15 returnees, 13 played at least 31 games a year ago. Tied after Two: 2-4-2 Graduation claimed two defensemen, three forwards and a goaltender. One of the sopho- In Overtime: 0-0-4 mores, Brian Ward (Dartmouth transfer) is a newcomer giving the Saints 11 new faces on Scoring First: 8-6-1 the roster. That is the largest rookie group since coach Greg Carvel’s rookie season of 1989- Opp. Scores First: 4-12-3 90 and second only to the 1980-81 rookie class which included 15 players in coach Mike Outshooting Opp.: 10-8-1 McShane’s first season as SLU coach. Opp. Outshoots SLU: 2-8-3 THE SAINT CAPTAINS: Senior center Kyle Essery will be the Saint captain for 2013-14 with Shots are Even: 1-1-0 seniors Jeremy Wick and Justin Baker and junior Gunnar Hughes wearing the “A”. Wick was Scoring 3 or More: 12-9-3 promoted to assistant captain midway through last season while Gunnar Hughes follows in Scoring 2 or Less: 1-8-1 the footsteps of his brother George, who was a two-year assistant captain for the Saints. Scoring on the PP: 9-12-4 The Saints have had a junior as a captain or assistant captain in each of the last four years. Allowing a PP Goal: 7-15-3 Baker was named an assistant prior to the start of league play in November. In October: 4-2-0 In November: 4-4-2 THE BROWN SERIES: Brown has the distinction of being the only team in the ECAC In December: 0-3-0 to earn at least one point against the Saints in each of the last 21 seasons. The In January: 1-4-1 Bears took three of a possible four points this season as the two teams tied 3-3 in In February: 3-4-1 Providence and Brown won 5-3 in Appleton. The Saints won the last playoff series In March: 1-0-0 against the Bears 2-1 in 2006 with two of the three games going overtime. Brown On Tuesday: 0-1-0 won the last playoff meeting between the two 3-0 in the 2010 third place game. On Friday: 8-6-2 SLU leads the all-time series, which started in 1952-53, 39-28-11 with a 20-11-6 mark in On Saturday: 5-10-2 Canton, 17-15-5 in Providence and 2-2-0 on neutral ice.