The Ferris State Series • Oct. 18-19 The 2013-14 Saint Season St. Lawrence (2-0-0) at Ferris State (2-1-0) 2-0-0 Ewigleben Arena • Big Rapids, MI • 7:07 each night Oct. 5 CARLETON (exh) W, 4-2 Oct. 11 MAINE W, 3-1 Radio: WFLK 95.3 Wally Johnson Oct. 12 MAINE W, 5-2 Oct. 18 at Ferris State 7:07 Oct. 19 at Ferris State 7:07 Oct. 25 NORTHEASTERN 7:00 Oct. 26 NORTHEASTERN 7:00 Nov. 1 at Yale* 7:00 HITTING THE ROAD: The Saints will make their first road trip of the 2013-14 Nov. 2 at Brown* 7:00 season and it will be a long one as they make the 643 mile trek from Canton to Nov. 8 at Harvard* 7:00 Big Rapids by bus (approximately 11 hours each way) for games three and four Nov. 9 at Dartmouth* 7:00 of the 2013-14 season. Ferris State, now members of the WCHA will be playing Nov. 15 COLGATE* 7:00 its home openers after opening the season with a split at Colgate and a 3-2 win Nov. 16 CORNELL* 7:00 at Mercyhurst on Tuesday night. The Saints opened at home last weekend with Nov. 22 at RIT 7:05 a sweep of the University of Maine, winning 3-1 and 5-2 to run their streak to Nov. 23 at RIT 7:05 four consecutive over the last two seasons against the Black Bears. Nov. 29 at North Dakota 7:37 Nov. 30 at North Dakota 7:07 THE SAINT STAFF: Greg Carvel is in his second season as Saint head coach Dec. 6 at Clarkson* 7:00 after posting one of the best records for a first-year coach in program history a Dec. 7 CLARKSON* 7:00 year ago. The Saints 18-16-4 mark is the best for a first-year Saint coach since Dec. 14 at Vermont 7:05 George Menard went 18-5-0 in his first season, 1955-56. Carvel was named the Jan. 7 VERMONT 7:00 second Charles W. Appleton II Head Men’s Hockey Coach in the spring of 2012. Jan. 17 BROWN* 7:00 A 1993 graduate of St. Lawrence and a former Saint hockey captain, he joined Jan. 18 YALE* 7:00 the staff as an assistant coach in the fall of 2011. He is the 13th head coach in Jan. 24 at Cornell* 7:00 program history. Carvel came to the Saints after a 15-year professional hockey Jan. 25 at Colgate* 7:00 coaching career that included assisting coach duties with the Ottawa Senators Jan. 31 UNION* 7:00 and Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League, helping both teams reach Feb. 1 RENSSELAER* 7:00 the Stanley Cup finals. He began his professional career as director of hockey Feb. 7 at Princeton* 7:00 operations for the Lowell Lock Monsters of the American Hockey League and Feb. 8 at Quinnipiac* 7:00 joined Anaheim as scouting coordinator in 1999. He added video coaching Feb. 14 DARTMOUTH* 7:00 duties to his title in Anaheim in 2002 and was promoted to assistant coach in Feb. 15 HARVARD* 7:00 2003. He joined the Senators in 2004. The winner of the ECAC’s Best Defensive Feb. 21 at Rensselaer* 7:00 Forward Award as a senior at St. Lawrence, Carvel graduated with a bachelor’s Feb. 22 at Union* 7:00 degree in political science and mathematics. He was an Academic All America Feb. 28 QUINNIPIAC* 7:00 and a three-time winner of the Brian McFarlane Award for academic and ath- Mar. 1 PRINCETON* 7:00 letic accomplishments. He is joined behind the Saint bench by Associate Head Mar. 7 ECAC 1st Round 7:00 Coach Mike Hurlbut ‘89, a former All America defenseman who was part of Mar. 8 ECAC 1st Round 7:00 two ECAC Championship teams at SLU and had a 14-year professional playing Mar. 9 ECAC 1st Round 7:00 career and assistant coach Kris Mayotte, who played goal for Union and gradu- Mar. 14 ECAC Quartefinals 7:00 ated in 2006. Mayotte also has professional playing experience. Mar. 15 ECAC Quarterfinals 7:00 Mar. 16 ECAC Quarterfinals 7:00 SAINT SUPPORT STAFF: Aisha Visram, a 2007 graduate of the University of Mar. 21 ECAC Smeifinals TBA Guelph, is in her first season as athletic trainer for the Saint men’s hockey Mar. 22 ECAC Championship TBA team. Mike Elberty, a 1979 St. Lawrence graduate is the strength and condi- tioning coach and Brenden 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 broad- casts during games. The Tale of The Tape The Record When: Overall Record: 2-0-0 St. Lawrence Ferris State At Home: 2-0-0 Record 2-0-0 2-1-0 On the Road: 0-0-0 Offense 4.00 3.33 Neutral: 0-0-0 Defense 1.50 2.33 League: 0-0-0 Power Play 14.3% (1x7) 13.3% (2x15) League Home: 0-0-0 League Away: 0-0-0 Penalty Kill 88.9% (8x9) 78.6% (11x14) Non-League: 2-0-0 Comb. Spl. Teams 56.2% 44.8% Non-League Home: 2-0-0 Special Teams Net 0 -1 Non-League Away: 0-0-0 Pen. Min. Gm. 10.0 11.3 Non-League Neutral: 0-0-0 Leading after One: 1-0-0 Trailing after One: 1-0-0 Tied after One: 0-0-0 THE BREAKDOWN: The 2013-14 Saint roster includes seven seniors, four juniors, five Leading after Two: 2-0-0 sophomores and 10 freshmen. The Saints return three of their top five scorers from last Trailing after Two: 0-0-0 season and seven of the top ten. Of the 15 returnees, 13 played at least 31 games a year Tied after Two: 0-0-0 ago. Graduation claimed two defensemen, three forwards and a goaltender. One of the In Overtime: 0-0-0 sophomores, Brian Ward (Dartmouth transfer) is a newcomer giving the Saints 11 new Scoring First: 1-0-0 faces on the roster. That is the largest rookie group since coach Greg Carvel’s rookie sea- Opp. Scores First: 1-0-0 son of 1989-90 and second only to the 1980-81 rookie class which included 15 players in Outshooting Opp.: 2-0-0 coach Mike McShane’s first season as SLU coach. Opp. Outshoots SLU: 0-0-0 Shots are Even: 0-0-0 THE SAINT CAPTAINS: Senior center Kyle Essery will be the Saint captain for 2013-14 with Scoring 3 or More: 2-0-0 senior Jeremy Wick and junior Gunnar Hughes wearing the “A”. Wick was promoted to as- Scoring 2 or Less: 0-0-0 sistant captain midway through last season while Gunnar Hughes follows in the footsteps Scoring on the PP: 1-0-0 of his brother George, who was a two-year assistant captain for the Saints. The Saints Allowing a PP Goal: 1-0-0 have had a junior as a captain or assistant captain in each of the last four years. In October: 2-0-0 In November: 0-0-0 HOME OPENERS: The Saints are 4-0-0 under Greg Carvel in home openers after their In December: 0-0-0 sweep of Miane last weekend. In the last 11 seasons the Saints are 14-3-3 on the first In January: 0-0-0 home weekend of the season. In February: 0-0-0 In March: 0-0-0 OPENERS PERIOD: Last season’s 4-3 overtime win at Western Michigan in the season On Friday: 1-0-0 opener was the first Saint game one win in five seasons. SLU is 8-10-3 on the first week- On Saturday: 1-0-0 end of the season in the last 11 years. The sweep of Maine was the first opening weekend sweep for the Saints since a pair of wins against Merrimack at Appleton Arena to open the 1999-2000 season. THE FERRIS STATE SERIES: The Saints and Bulldogs will play for the eighth and ninth times when the two teams meet in Big Rapids this weekend and Ferris State has the upper hand in the series. The Bulldogs swept the Saints in Canton to open the 2011-12 campaign, 4-2 and 5-1 and lead the all-time series 6-1-0. The lone Saint win was a 5-4 victory in the Catamount Classic at Vermont in 2008. Ferris State is 3-0-0 on home ice against the Saints, sweeping a series in 2009-10 4-2 and 3-0. SLU AND THE WCHA: The Ferris State series are the only games on the Saint schedule this season against the WCHA and the first against a WCHA team since a 2010 home series against Michigan Tech. Ferris State is in its first season in the new WCHA after the demise of the CCHA at the end of last season. Ferris State joins former CCHA members Bowling Green, Lake Superior State, Northern Michigan and Alaska, Alabama Huntsville (independent last year) and former WCHA members Alaska Anchorage, Bemidji State, Michigan Tech and Minnesota State to make up the new WCHA. BROTHER ACTS: The arrival of Matt Carey gives the Saints a brother act in the lineup for the ninth straight season and bodes well for older brother Greg.