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Bruce M. McLeod Commissioner Carol LaBelle-Ehrhardt Assistant Commissioner of Operations Greg Shepherd Supervisor of Officials Administrative Office Western Collegiate Hockey Association October 8, 2012/For Immediate Release 2211 S. Josephine Street, Room 302 Denver, CO 80210 regular season begins thursday as michigan tech visits p: 303 871-4491. f: 303 871-4770 [email protected] lssu; oct. 12-13 highlights include uaa hosting kendall Doug Spencer hockey classic, Uno hosting ice breaker tourney in kC Associate Commissioner for Public Relations cc entertains clarkson; um hosts michigan state; umd welcomes state; msu Western Collegiate Hockey Association heads to alabama-huntsville; scsu off to new hampshire; uw takes on northern 559 D’Onofrio Drive, Ste. 103 Madison, WI 53719-2096 michigan in green bay; bsu, uno, und host exhibitions; WCHA Media Teleconference p: 608 829-0100. f: 608 829-0200 with Head Coaches set for tuesday, Oct. 9; five wcha teams ranked among top 20 in [email protected] latest uscho.com div. 1 men’s college hockey poll … um no. 2, und no. 4, du no. 7, umd Home of a Collegiate Record 37 no. 13, uw no. 15 … cc, scsu, uno, mtu, msu receive votes Men’s National Championship Teams Since 1951 MADISON, Wis. – The 2012-13 regular season commences this week as nine of the 12 Western Collegiate 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, Hockey Association men’s-member teams participate in non-conference action. 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, Michigan Tech will get things started on Thursday (Oct. 11) evening in a 7:35 pm ET face-off when the 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1974, Huskies visit CCHA-member Lake Superior in the first game of a home-and-home set that will then find 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1997, con’t 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011 Final 2011-12 WCHA Men’s Standings

Men’s Conference Members Conference Only Overall University of Alaska Anchorage Pts GP Record Win% GF- GA GP Record Win% GF- GA 1 40 28 20- 8- 0 .714 88- 57 43 28-14- 1 .663 155- 99 2 Minnesota Duluth 37 28 16- 7- 5 .661 103- 73 41 25-10- 6 .683 147-106 Michigan Technological University 3 Denver 36 28 16- 8- 4 .643 96- 79 43 25-14- 4 .628 139-111 4 North Dakota 33 28 16-11- 1 .589 82- 73 42 26-13- 3 .655 135-108 University of Minnesota Duluth 5 Colorado College 31 28 15-12- 1 .554 95- 86 36 18-16- 2 .528 114-104 Minnesota State University 6 St. Cloud State 28 28 12-12- 4 .500 86- 74 39 17-17- 5 .500 120-104 University of Nebraska Omaha 7 Nebraska Omaha 27 28 11-12- 5 .482 83- 85 38 14-18- 6 .447 106-112 University of North Dakota 8 Michigan Tech 26 28 11-13- 4 .464 85- 87 39 16-19- 4 .462 111-116 St. Cloud State University 9 Bemidji State 25 28 11-14- 3 .446 72- 89 38 17-18- 3 .487 101-109 University of 10 Wisconsin 24 28 11-15- 2 .429 76- 83 37 17-18- 2 .486 105-102 11 Minnesota State 18 28 8-18- 2 .321 73-102 38 12-24- 2 .342 101-129 2013 Red Baron™ WCHA 12 Alaska Anchorage 11 28 5-22- 1 .196 60-111 36 9-25- 2 .278 85-134 Final Five March 21-23 This Week in the WCHA Saint Paul, MN Games for Monday, October 8: Univ. of Lethbridge at Nebraska Omaha (EX), 7:07 pm CT. visit us on the web at: Games for Thursday, October 11: Michigan Tech at Lake Superior (NC), 7:35 pm ET. wcha.com Games for Friday, October 12: Michigan State at Minnesota (NC), 6:07 pm CT; St. Cloud State at New Hampshire wcha.com/mobile (NC), 7:30 pm ET; Minnesota State at Alabama-Huntsville (NC), 7:00 pm CT; * Wisconsin vs Northern Michigan (NC), 7:05 pm CT; Ohio State at Minnesota Duluth (NC), 7:07 pm CT; USA Under-18 Team at North Dakota (EX), 7:37 pm CT; Clarkson at Colorado College (NC), 7:37 pm MT; # Army vs Nebraska Omaha (NC), 9:00 pm CT; & Canisius at Alaska Anchorage (NC), 8:07 pm AT. * (Green Bay, WI); # IceBreaker (Kansas City, MO); & Kendall Hockey Classic (Anchorage, AK) Games for Saturday, October 13: * Notre Dame/Maine vs Nebraska Omaha (NC), 3:30/6:30 pm CT; St. Cloud State at New Hampshire (NC), 7:00 pm ET; # Lake Superior at Michigan Tech (NC), 7:07 pm ET; Minnesota State at Alabama-Huntsville (NC), 7:00 pm CT; & Wisconsin vs Northern Michigan (NC), 7:05 pm CT; Ohio State at Minnesota Duluth (NC), 7:07 pm CT; USA Under-18 Team at Bemidji State (EX), 7:07 pm CT; Clarkson at Colorado College (NC), 7:07 pm MT; Michigan State at Minnesota (NC), 8:07 pm CT; % Air Force at Alaska Anchorage (NC), 7:07 pm AT. * IceBreaker (Kansas City, MO); # Hall of Fame Day; & - Resch Center (Green Bay, WI); % Kendall Hockey Classic WCHA Men’s Release • 100812 the two clubs playing game two of the series on Saturday (Oct. 13) WCHA to Host Media Teleconference with night at 7:07 pm ET at John MacInnes Student Ice Arena in Hough- ton. Men’s Head Coaches on Tuesday, Oct. 9 On Friday and Saturday, Oct. 12-13, Alaska Anchorage will host Air Force ( Association), Alaska (CCHA) and Canisius The Western Collegiate Hockey Association will conduct a season- (AHA) at Sullivan Arena in Anchorage in the 22nd annual Kendall opening teleconference for 2012-13 with 12 conference-member Hockey Classic while Nebraska Omaha hosts the Ice Breaker Tourna- men’s head coaches on Tuesday, October 9 at 11:00 am CT (12 Noon ment at Sprint Center in Kansas City with Army (AHA), Maine (HEA) ET, 10 am MT, 8 am AT). and Notre Dame (CCHA). In two-game non-conference series this The teleconference will include remarks from Commissioner Bruce weekend, Colorado College will entertain Clarkson (ECAC Hockey) McLeod, a playing rules update from Supervisor of Officials Greg at Colorado Springs World Arena, Minnesota takes on visiting CCHA- Shepherd, and a question and answer session with the men’s head member Michigan State at Mariucci Arena, Minnesota Duluth hosts coaches. Each coach will give a brief synopsis of his team for the Ohio State of the CCHA at AMSOIL Arena, Minnesota State travels to 2012-13 season, followed by questions from media members. Alabama Huntsville (independent), St. Cloud State heads to Hockey The schedule (times are approximate) for the Oct. 9 media tele- East Association-member New Hampshire, and Wisconsin suits up conference is: against CCHA-member Northern Michigan at Resch Center in Green 11:00 am CT: Commissioner Bruce McLeod and NCAA Playing Bay. Rules Update, Supervisor of Officials Greg Shepherd In exhibition play this week, Nebraska Omaha entertains University 11:10 am CT: Minnesota coach of Lethbridge on Monday evening, North Dakota hosts the USA Under- 11:17 am CT: St. Cloud State coach Bob Motzko 18 Team on Friday night at , and Bemidji State 11:24 am CT: Michigan Tech Coach skates against the visiting USA Under-18 Team on Saturday evening 11:31 am CT: Wisconsin Coach Mike Eaves at . 11:38 am CT: Nebraska Omaha Coach In the first on-ice activity of 2012-13, ten league-member teams 11:45 am CT: North Dakota Coach competed in a series of exhibition match ups against Canadian-based 11:52 am CT: Bemidji State Coach Tom Serratore opponents. Last Saturday (Oct. 6), host Alaska Anchorage defeated 11:59 am CT: Minnesota Duluth Coach University of Regina 3-1 at McDonald Center in Eagle River, Michigan 12:06 am CT: Minnesota State Coach Mike Hastings Tech won 6-2 over Brock University in Houghton, host Minnesota 12:13 pm CT: Denver Coach blanked University of Lethbridge 7-0, Wisconsin shut out the USA 12:20 pm CT: Colorado College Coach Scott Owens Under-18 Team 5-0 in Madison, and Denver tied University of British 12:27 pm CT: Alaska Anchorage Coach Dave Shyiak Columbia 2-2 (ot) in a game played at Pepsi Center in Denver. On Sunday (Oct. 7), host Colorado College skated past WCHA member team head coaches and staff should phone in to 3-1, Minnesota State downed Lethbridge 7-1 in Mankato, and Bemidji the Tuesday, Oct. 9 teleconference by 10:59 am CT. Coaches and staff State tied visiting Manitoba 3-3. call-in is: 1 888-245-7014. Enter passcode is 729388#. The first WCHA series of 2012-13 will occur Oct. 19-20 when Michi- The call-in number for the media on Tuesday, Oct. 9 is: 973 935- gan Tech hosts defending league champion and preseason favorite 2025. Enter passcode is 729388#. Minnesota. The conference schedule and race for the MacNaughton Cup (regular season championship) again consists of a total of 168 games, with each member team playing 28 WCHA contests. Catch the League’s Weekly Radio Show In this week’s (Oct. 8) USCHO.com Division 1 Men’s College Hockey Poll, five WCHA-member teams were listed among the nation’s top – This Week in the WCHA – at WCHA.com 20, led by Minnesota at No. 2. North Dakota is ranked No. 4 nationally, The Western Collegiate Hockey Association is pleased to once again Denver is No. 7, Minnesota Duluth is No. 13 and Wisconsin is No. 15. provide it’s long-running weekly radio show – This Week in the Five other league clubs received votes in the latest poll, with those WCHA – via wcha.com and to interested media outlets. The show being Colorado College, St. Cloud State, Nebraska Omaha, Michigan will be available each Friday at WCHA.com beginning Oct. 12 and is Tech and Minnesota State. also available for electronic distribution. Hosted by Jim Rich and produced by Kevin Falness of the Radio Network, This Week in the WCHA runs 6-7 minutes and features key moments and highlights from live game broadcasts, Last Week in the WCHA including goals, saves, game-winners, post-game sound clips, a look at upcoming games. Results of Saturday, October 6 Brock Univ. 2 at Michigan Tech 6 (EX) Univ. of Lethbridge 0 at Minnesota 7 (EX) Univ. of Manitoba 3 at North Dakota 5 (EX) * Univ. of British Columbia 2 at Denver 2 ot (EX) USA Under-18 Team 0 at Wisconsin 5 (EX) # Univ. of Regina 1 at Alaska Anchorage 3 (EX) * at Pepsi Center; # at McDonald Center (Eagle River, AK) Results of Sunday, October 7 Univ. of Manitoba 3 at Bemidji State 3 ot (EX) Univ. of Lethbridge 1 at Minnesota State 7 (EX) Univ. of British Columbia 1 at Colorado College 3 (EX) WCHA Men’s Release • 100812 USCHO.com Div. 1 Men’s College Hockey Poll from team and league stats pages, press releases and game stories … Improved mobile press release presentation that now includes , Minn./October 8, 2012 images and the ability for people to share via social media … Im- Rk Team (first place votes) Record Pts Last Week proved mobile game story presentation with images now included 1 Boston College (37) 0- 0-0 978 1 and the ability for embedding potential video. Mobile game stories 2 Minnesota (12) 0- 0-0 948 2 can also now be shared via social media … Significant changes to 3 Michigan (1) 0- 0-0 871 3 mobile box scores with the addition of all game data, including all 4 North Dakota 0- 0-0 837 4 player and team stats. Previous box scores were all text-based. The 5 Cornell 0- 0-0 704 6 new version uses an “accordion” format for accessing different game 6 Massachusetts-Lowell 0- 0-0 680 7 stats categories. These mobile box scores will also be the basis for 7 Denver 0- 0-0 624 8 the live box scores for the coming 2012-13 season and beyond. 8 Miami 0- 0-0 588 9 WCHA.com, the official website of the 61-year-old WCHA, includes 9 Western Michigan 0- 0-0 584 10 TheWCHAShop.com as the league’s on-line merchandise store and 10 Union College 0- 1-0 581 5 WCHA.com/mobile. They are joint ventures of the Western Collegiate 11 Ferris State 0- 0-0 466 11 Hockey Association and SportDesigns.com, featuring a statistical 12 Boston University 0- 0-0 429 13 partnership with CollegeHockeyStats.net. 13 Minnesota Duluth 0- 0-0 404 12 14 Notre Dame 0- 0-0 400 14 October 3, 2012 15 Wisconsin 0- 0-0 242 18 16 Michigan State 0- 0-0 222 16 Grand Forks Herald’s WCHA Coaches Poll 17 Harvard 0- 0-0 179 17 18 Quinnipiac 1- 0-0 126 NR Tabs Minnesota No. 1, UND No. 2 19 Merrimack 1- 0-0 120 NR If the Western Collegiate Hockey Association coaches 20 Maine 0- 1-0 102 15 are correct, Minnesota and North Dakota will be others receiving votes: Colorado College 101, Air Force 93, New Hampshire 64, St. Cloud State 62, Ohio State 20, Nebraska Omaha battling to win the league’s championship in 2012-13 13, Lake Superior 8, Northern Michigan 8, Providence 8, Niagara 7, RIT 7, Northeastern 6, Rensselaer 5, Michigan Tech 4, Yale 4, Minnesota by Brad Elliott Schlossman, Grand Forks Herald State 3, Robert Morris 2. Minnesota is the defending MacNaughton Cup champion. North The USCHO.com Poll consists of 50 voters, including 28 coaches from Dakota is the defending winner. the Division I conferences and 22 beat writers and sports professionals If the Western Collegiate Hockey Association coaches are correct, from across the country. The poll, published weekly by the Associ- those two teams will be battling to win the league’s championship ated Press, is a production of USCHO.com, which provides in-depth in 2012-2013 before departing for new, startup leagues. coverage of college hockey. The Gophers are picked to win the league in the 42nd annual Grand Forks Herald WCHA coaches poll, getting 11 of 12 first-place votes and 121 points. UND, which received the other first-place vote, WCHA Unveils All-New Mobile Website for is picked to finish second with 110 points. Denver (91 points), St. Cloud State (90), Wisconsin (70) and Min- 2012-13 Season at wcha.com/mobile nesota-Duluth (69) round out the top six. “First and foremost, we want to be able to get home ice,” UND The Western Collegiate Hockey Association has announced an all- coach Dave Hakstol said. “To get in that top three, it’s going to be a new mobile website for the 2012-13 season that includes significant long haul. For a team to be in the top three in this league, you’ve got updates and upgrades to the previous platform. to play well early and you’re going to have to be consistent through The WCHA’s men’s and women’s mobile site, which has been the year.” launched at the same url as before (www.wcha.com/mobile) now Minnesota and UND both return significant portions of their rosters includes more visually appealing pages, a better navigation system from last season, when they met in the West Regional championship. and improved mobile box scores among other changes. The pages Minnesota won that matchup and advanced to the Frozen Four. can be viewed on a regular web browser, but are optimized for mobile The Gophers will be led by Nick Bjugstad, who is the WCHA coaches browsers. preseason player of the year. Bjugstad received eight votes for player “We couldn’t be more pleased to announce this all-new WCHA of the year. Bjugstad racked up 25 goals and 42 points in 40 games mobile website to our followers across the country and around the last season, earning first team All-WCHA honors. In the offseason, he world,” said Commissioner Bruce McLeod and Associate Commis- decided to return to Minnesota instead of sign a pro contract with sioner Sara Martin. “The WCHA has presented a significant number of the Panthers. improvements to WCHA.com over the past few seasons and now with Other player of the year votes went to Wisconsin forward Mark this newest mobile development the men’s and women’s leagues will Zengerle (two), Omaha forward Matt White and St. Cloud State for- be at the forefront of providing quick access to all the latest scores, ward Ben Hanowski. box scores, game stories, statistics and press releases with an easier- “Maybe that’s one of the storylines for this season – some of the to-use, more appealing platform.” returning veterans and some of the returning players who were very The many upgrades for 2012-13 that can now be found at www. good in our league last year,” Hakstol said. “They are coming back one wcha.com/mobile include the following: More visually appealing more year to mature and I think it’s going to be a deep league.” league and member team home pages with images included to The WCHA also boasts an impressive crop of rookies. promote the top stories … Better navigation system including easy North Dakota’s Rocco Grimaldi is voted the best of them. links to each member team's home page from a menu at top of each Grimaldi, voted the league’s preseason player of the year last season page … Individual mobile player statistics pages that are accessible as well, was injured in preseason camp, only played four games and WCHA Men’s Release • 100812 received a medical redshirt to return once again as a rookie this Grimaldi as Preseason Rookie of the Year. Grimaldi took a redshirt season. Grimaldi received seven first-place votes. after an injury-ravaged season, and he is again eligible for rookie “We know him so well as a person and know him well as a player,” honors. Hakstol said. “We’re excited to have him contribute on the ice and Teams were scored under a standard system of 12 points for a first- contribute to the team and be a big part of the team. It’s so hard to place vote, 11 for second, and so on. The number listed with each do that when you are injured and out of the lineup for the majority team is the number of points that team averaged per vote. of the season. Our whole team is looking forward to having him back in the lineup.” 94X WCHA Preseason Media Poll Minnesota defenseman Mike Reilly (three votes), Wisconsin forward Predicted Order of Finish Nic Kerdiles and Minnesota-Duluth defenseman Andrew Welinski also 1 Minnesota (24 first place votes) … 11.92 poll average received preseason rookie of the year votes. 2 North Dakota (1) … 10.76 3 Denver … 9.92 42nd annual Grand Forks Herald coaches poll 4 Wisconsin … 7.8 Rk Team, Points (First Place Votes) 5 Minnesota Duluth … 6.88 1 Minnesota, 121 (11) 6 St. Cloud State … 6.84 2 North Dakota, 110 (1) 7 Colorado College … 6.08 3 Denver, 91 8 Nebraska Omaha … 5.48 4 St. Cloud State, 90 9 Michigan Tech … 5.2 5 Wisconsin, 70 10 Minnesota State … 3.6 6 Minnesota Duluth, 69 11 Bemidji State … 2.48 7 Colorado College, 56 12 Alaska Anchorage … 1.04 8 Nebraska Omaha, 51 Michigan Tech, 51 Preseason WCHA Player of the Year: Nick Bjugstad, F, UM (16 10 Minnesota State, 37 votes). Others receiving more than one vote: Erik Haula, F, UM (4); 11 Bemidji State, 31 Mark Zengerle, F, UW (3). 12 Alaska Anchorage, 15 Preseason WCHA Rookie of the Year: Rocco Grimaldi, F, UND (8 1/2 votes). Others receiving more than one vote: Nic Kerdiles, F, UW Preseason WCHA Player of the Year: Nick Bjugstad, F, UM (8); (5); , D, UND (2 1/2); Brady Skjei, D, UM (2); Andy Mark Zengerle, F, UW (2); Matt White, F, UNO (1); Ben Hanowski, F, Welinski, D, UMD (2). SCSU (1). Preseason All-WCHA Team Preseason WCHA Rookie of the Year: Rocco Grimaldi, F, UND Forwards: Nick Bjugstad, UM (20 votes); Mark Zengerle, UW (17); Ben (7); Mike Reilly, D, UM (3); Nic Kerdiles, F, UW (1); Andrew Welinski, Hanowski, SCSU (8). Others receiving more than one vote: Danny D, UMD (1). Kristo, UND (7); Erik Haula, UM (6); Rylan Schwartz, CC (5); , UND (3). September 26, 2012 Defensemen: Joey LaLeggia, DU (20 votes); , SCSU (9). Others receiving more than one vote: Nate Schmidt, UM (7); Wade Minnesota Near Unanimous Pick in 94X Bergman, UMD (3). WCHA Preseason Media Poll : Sam Brittain, DU and Josh Thorimbert, CC (7 1/2 votes Gopher’s nick Bjugstad Runaway Choice for Player of each). Others receiving more than one vote: Juho Olkinuora, DU (3), Joel Rumpel, UW (2). the Year The following media members took part in the 94X Preseason Courtesy Bruce Ciskie, Sports Director, Red Rock Radio Media Poll: David Ahlers, KKAR Radio/University of Nebraska Omaha; Stephen Anderson, Daily Mining Gazette; Andy Baggot, Wisconsin A year after surprising many by winning the WCHA’s MacNaughton State Journal; Tyler Buckentine, USCHO.com; Mike Chambers, Denver Cup championship, the are a nearly- Post; Bruce Ciskie, KZIO Radio/Bulldog Radio Network; Chris Dilks, unanimous pick of WCHA media to win the league again in 2012-13. Western College Hockey; Shane Frederick, Mankato Free Press; John The annual 94X WCHA Preseason Media Poll, released Wednesday, Gilbert, WCHA.com; Kurt Haider, KENI Radio; Mick Hatten, St. Cloud shows the Gophers easily outdistancing the rest of the league. Times; Dirk Hembroff, WKMJ Radio; Jack Hittinger, Bemidji Pioneer; A panel of 25 members of the WCHA media voted on a predicted Ken Landau, 103.9 FM The Eagle Radio; Don Lyons, Leighton Broad- order of finish, along with a handful of individual honors. casting/St. Cloud; Todd Milewski, USCHO.com; Dan Myers, Minnesota Minnesota received a whopping 24 of 25 first-place votes. Defend- Hockey Magazine; Jess Myers, 1500ESPN.com; Joe Paisley, Colorado ing WCHA playoff champion North Dakota had the other first-place Springs/Colorado College; Kevin Pates, Duluth News Tribune; Chris vote and finished a distant second. Denver came in third, followed Peters, of Hockey; Brian Posick, WIBA Radio/Badger by Wisconsin and Minnesota Duluth. St. Cloud State claimed the final Radio Network; Chad Purcell, Omaha World Herald; Brad Schlossman, “home-ice” position in the preseason balloting. Grand Forks Herald; Jay Stickney, 102.3 ESPN Radio. Minnesota junior forward Nick Bjugstad was a runaway choice for 94X is the broadcast home of UMD Bulldog men’s hockey and can the Preseason Player of the Year. He also anchors the media’s second be heard on KZIO-FM (94.1 in the Twin Ports, 104.3 FM in the sur- annual Preseason All-WCHA Team, where he is joined at forward rounding area). by Wisconsin junior Mark Zengerle and St. Cloud State senior Ben Hanowski. The defensemen on the team are Denver’s Joey LaLeggia and Nick Jensen of St. Cloud State. Sam Brittain of Denver and Josh Thorimbert of Colorado College tied for the goaltending nod. For the second straight year, the media chose North Dakota’s Rocco WCHA Men’s Release • 100812 Oct. 1, 2012 WCHA Men’s 2012-13 Schedule highlights Hockey City Classic Individual Tickets Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five March 21-23 at Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul; 168-Game League Slate Opens Oct. 19- now on Sale 20 as Defending MacNaughton Cup Champion Minnesota Tickets Range from $15-$85 for Feb. 17 Soldier Field Visits Michigan Tech; Broadmoor Trophy Winner North Outdoor Hockey Doubleheader Dakota Coming Off Record-Tying Third Straight WCHA Final Five Championship; League Welcomes Mike Hastings as New CHICAGO – Individual tickets for the Hockey City Classic went on sale to the general public at 10 am CT on Monday, Oct. 1. Tickets are Minnesota State Coach; Michigan Tech to Host Great Lakes valid for both games and may be purchased at Ticketmaster.com, by Invitational Outdoors at Comerica Park in Dec. calling 1-800-745-3000 or at Ticketmaster outlets. The Hockey City 27-28; Two Outdoor Games in February to Feature Nebraska Classic will showcase an outdoor college hockey doubleheader at Omaha vs UND in Omaha, Minnesota vs Wisconsin in Chicago; Soldier Field on Feb. 17, 2013. The puck drops at noon CT when Notre NCAA Regionals to be Contested in Grand Rapids, Toledo, Dame faces off against , followed immediately by Manchester and Providence; 2013 NCAA Men’s Frozen Four to Minnesota vs.Wisconsin at approximately 3:30 pm CT. Ticket prices range from $15-$85. For a seating map and pricing be Held April 11-13 at Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh options, please visit: hockeycityclassic.com. The Western Collegiate Hockey Association, marking it’s 61st season of on-ice competition and owning a record 37 NCAA Men’s Frozen USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men’s Four titles since it’s founding in 1951, released it’s men’s composite schedule for 2012-13 on July 26, highlighted by the return of one Div. 1 Preseason College Hockey Poll of college hockey’s most successful post-season tournaments – the Week 1: September 24, 2012 Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five – to Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul Rk Team, Points (1st Place) 2011-12 Record next March 21-23. 1 Boston College, 476 (20) 33-10-1 In addition, the Association welcomes Mike Hastings as the new 2 Minnesota, 476 (12) 28-14-1 head coach at Minnesota State, Michigan Tech will host the annual 3 Michigan, 408 (2) 24-13-4 outdoors at Comerica Park (home of MLB’s 4 North Dakota, 407 26-13-3 ) Dec. 27-28 and there are two more outdoor games in 5 Union College, 295 26-8-7 the month of February as Nebraska Omaha entertains North Dakota 6 Cornell, 233 19-9-7 at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha on Saturday the 9th and Minnesota 7 UMass-Lowell, 221 24-13-1 and Wisconsin hook-up in the Hockey City Classic at Soldier Field in 8 Denver, 220 25-14-4 Chicago on Sunday the 17th. The league’s 168-game conference sched- 9 Miami, 203 24-15-2 ule launches the weekend of Oct. 19-20 as defending MacNaughton 10 Notre Dame, 186 19-18-3 Cup champion Minnesota travels to Michigan Tech, North Dakota 11 Western Michigan, 182 21-14-6 has a shot at becoming the first team to ever win four consecutive 12 Minnesota Duluth, 176 25-10-6 WCHA Final Five crowns, the four NCAA regional tournaments will 13 Boston University, 158 23-15-1 be contested in Grand Rapids, Toledo, Manchester and Providence 14 Ferris State, 123 26-12-5 the weekend of March 29-31, and the 2013 NCAA Men’s Frozen Four 15 Wisconsin, 99 17-18-2 will be played at Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh April 11-13. others receiving votes: Harvard, 58; Maine, 24; Quinnipiac, 24; “We are thrilled about what promises to be a tremendously excit- Michigan State, 19; Colorado College, 19; New Hampshire, 17; Ohio ing season in 2012-13,” said Commissioner Bruce M. McLeod, who State, 17; St. Cloud State, 15; Merrimack College, 7; Providence Col- marks his 19th year at the helm of college hockey’s most historic lege, 6; Yale, 6; Air Force, 3; Northern Michigan, 1; Michigan Tech, and successful league. “Our final campaign together in our current 1. make-up should be one of the best ever. Across the board our teams look improved, there is some great talent back, and there are plenty of highlights throughout the season that will command attention, from the Ice Breaker in Kansas City and the Kendall Hockey Classic in Anchorage in October, to the Great Lakes Invitational at Comerica Park in Detroit in December, to the two outdoor WCHA games in Omaha and Chicago in February and on to the Red Baron WCHA Final Five in March and the NCAA Men’s Frozen Four in Pittsburgh in April. We had four teams earn national tournament berths a season ago, with Minnesota advancing to the Frozen Four, four teams wind up in the nation’s top 10 at the end of the season, we were 51-33- 8 in non-conference play, Jack Connolly (Minnesota Duluth) won the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, Denver’s Joey LaLeggia was the national rookie of the year, we had seven players earn All-American honors and we had a record 110 men’s and women’s student-athletes named as WCHA Scholar-Athletes and a record 150 men’s players earn All-WCHA Academic Team honors. “We also want to extend another special welcome to Mike Hast- ings as the new head coach of the Minnesota State Mavericks,” said McLeod, “and acknowledge the many contributions that Troy Jutting WCHA Men’s Release • 100812 made to both MSU and the league over his long tenure there.” WCHA teams will also be hosting or playing in a number of regular Under the leadership of Commissioner McLeod, who has over the season tournaments this season. Alaska Anchorage will host the past 19 seasons fashioned a thriving partnership between the WCHA, Kendall Hockey Classic at Sullivan Arena Oct. 12-13 and play in the Xcel Energy Center and the NHL’s Minnesota Wild, the annual Red Brice Alaska Rush in Fairbanks Oct. 19-20, Bemidji State plays Baron™ WCHA Final Five has developed into one of college hockey’s in the Ledyard National Bank Classic in Hanover, N.H., Dec. 30-31, most prosperous conference tournaments. Michigan Tech hosts the Great Lakes Invitational at Comerica Park Last season’s Final Five drew a total attendance 73,002 – best at in Detroit Dec. 27-28, Minnesota hosts the Mariucci Classic on Dec. the playoff championship since 2009 and eighth highest in the 20- 29-30, Minnesota Duluth travels to the Florida College Hockey Classic year history of the Final Five – and an average per game crowd of in Estero Dec. 28-29, Minnesota State skates in the UCONN Hockey 14,600. Classic in Storrs on Dec. 29-30, Nebraska Omaha hosts the Ice Breaker The 2013 edition of the Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five will mark the Tournament at Sprint Center in Kansas City Oct. 12-13, and North event’s 13th consecutive year at Xcel Energy Center, where the playoff Dakota plays in the Brice Alaska Goal Rush Oct. 19-20. championship has drawn 923,566 fans in 12 previous appearances Other non-tournament, non-conference match ups by team are: and an average crowd in excess of 15,500 per game. Alaska Anchorage (March 1-2 home-and-home with Alaska Fairbanks “As an Association, we have been tremendously fortunate,” said for the Alaska Airlines Governor’s Cup); Bemidji State (Oct. 19-20 vs McLeod. “This on-going success has not happened by accident but Lake Superior State, Jan. 4-5 vs Western Michigan); Colorado College rather by a lot of hard work and diligence over the past two decades. (Oct. 12-13 vs Clarkson, Oct. 19 at Air Force, Oct. 20 vs UMass-Lowell, The Final Five has been a labor of love for the staffs of the WCHA, Xcel Oct. 23 vs New Hampshire, Oct. 24 vs Yale); Denver (Oct. 19 vs UMass- Energy Center and the Minnesota Wild and together we look forward Lowell, Oct. 20 vs Air Force, Oct. 23 vs Yale, Oct. 24 vs New Hampshire, to making the 2013 Red Baron WCHA Final Five the best yet. Dec. 29 vs Boston University in U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game, Jan. “I also want to acknowlege the great support we have received 4-5 vs Cornell); Michigan Tech (Oct. 11 at Lake Superior State, Oct. from Xcel Energy Center Vice-President and General Manager Jack 13 vs Lake Superior State, Dec. 4 at Northern Michigan, Feb. 12 vs Larson, Minnesota Wild Owner and Governor Craig Leipold, and for- Northern Michigan); Minnesota (Oct. 12-13 vs Michigan State, Oct. 28 mer Minnesota Wild Owner Bob Naegele, Jr., who was a key player in vs Canisius, Nov. 23-24 at Vermont, Jan. 5 vs Notre Dame); Minnesota the Final Five from day one. Another essential part of our continuing Duluth (Oct. 12-13 vs Ohio State, Oct. 18-19 at Notre Dame, March success in marketing the Final Five has been our exclusive television 1-2 vs Alabama-Huntsville); Minnesota State (Oct. 12-13 at Alabama- partnership with FOX Sports North and our many corporate sponsors. Huntsville, Oct. 19-20 vs Rensselaer, Jan. 4-5 vs Providence College); We want to sincerely thank Mike Dimond (Senior Vice President and Nebraska Omaha (Oct. 19-20 vs Northern Michigan, Nov. 23-24 vs General Manager for FOX Sports North) and his entire staff and to Alabama-Huntsville, Dec. 29-30 at Quinnipiac); North Dakota (Nov. also thank Red Baron® as our on-going title sponsor.” 2-3 vs Boston University, Nov. 23-24 at Notre Dame, Jan. 4-5 vs Holy The first on-ice competition for 2012-13 will consist of a series of Cross); St. Cloud State (Oct. 12-13 at New Hampshire, Oct. 19-20 vs exhibition contests between Oct. 6-8 for Alaska Anchorage, Bemidji Alabama-Huntsville, Dec. 27-28 vs Rensselaer, Jan. 4-5 vs Northern State, Colorado College, Denver, Michigan Tech, Minnesota, Minnesota Michigan); and Wisconsin (Oct. 12-13 vs Northern Michigan at Green State, Nebraska Omaha and North Dakota. Bay, Dec. 13-14 vs Alabama-Huntsville, Jan. 18-19 vs Miami, Feb. 24-25 The first regular season action, all non-conference match ups, will vs Penn State). occur Oct. 11-13. Michigan Tech travels to CCHA-member Lake Supe- The quest for the WCHA Playoff Championship and the Broadmoor rior State on Thursday and then hosts the Lakers on Saturday, Alaska Trophy gets underway the weekend of March 15-17 with six first round, Anchorage hosts Air Force, Alaska Fairbanks and Canisius in the Kendall best-of-three series. Those pairings will have the #1 seed hosting the Hockey Classic, St. Cloud State visits New Hampshire, Minnesota State #12 seed, #2 hosting #11, #3 hosting #10, #9 at #4, #8 at #5, and the plays at Alabama-Huntsville, Nebraska Omaha hosts the Ice Breaker #7 seed at the #6 seed. Tournament at Sprint Center in Kansas City with Army, Maine and The six-round playoff winners will then be re-seeded (according Notre Dame, Colorado College entertains Clarkson, Wisconsin takes to their regular season finish) and advance to the 2013 Red Baron™ on Northern Michigan at Resch Center in Green Bay, Minnesota wel- WCHA Final Five, set for March 21-23 at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, comes Michigan State, and Minnesota Duluth entertains Ohio State Minn. North Dakota is a three-time defending Broadmoor Trophy In exhibition play, North Dakota engages the U.S. Under-18 Team in champion. There will be two Final Five games contested on Thursday a single game in Grand Forks on the 12th while Bemidji State hosts at 2:07 pm CT and 7:07 pm CT as the No. 5 seed will play the No. 4 the U.S. Under-18 Team on Saturday the 13th. seed and the and No. 6 seed will play the No. 3 seed. The No. 1 and Competition for the 2012-13 WCHA regular season championship No. 2 Final Five seeds will receive byes on Thursday. On Friday, there and MacNaughton Cup, a 168-game campaign which consists of 28 will be two semi-final match ups at 2:07 pm and 7:07 pm CT, followed league games for each of the league’s 12 member teams, commences by the Broadmoor Trophy championship game on Saturday at 7:07 Oct. 19-20 with one two-game series featuring defending league pm CT. champ Minnesota visiting Michigan Tech. Other WCHA series openers, In 2010, the WCHA unveiled an all-new Broadmoor Trophy at the by member team, are: Alaska Anchorage (Oct. 26-27 at North Dakota), Final Five. The bronze cast trophy, created by Blue Ribbon Trophies Bemidji State (Oct. 26-27 at Nebraska Omaha), Colorado College (Nov. & Awards of Colorado Springs, Colo., is a recreation of the famous 2-3 at Wisconsin), Denver (Oct. 26-27 vs Michigan Tech), Minnesota Broadmoor Hotel, host to numerous past national championships Duluth (Oct. 26-27 vs Wisconsin), Minnesota State (Oct. 26-27 at St. and the former home of Colorado College hockey. There are a total Cloud State), Nebraska Omaha (Oct. 26-27 vs Bemidji State), North of three Broadmoor Trophies. The largest is on display at Xcel Energy Dakota (Oct. 26-27 vs Alaska Anchorage), St. Cloud State (Oct. 26-27 vs Center in Saint Paul, one is a traveling trophy, and one is given to the Minnesota State), and Wisconsin (Oct. 26-27 at Minnesota Duluth). winning team each year as a permanent addition to their display During the course of the 168-game league slate, there are four case. weekends that will feature all 12 teams engaged in league play The four NCAA Men’s Division 1 Regionals will be contested the – Nov. 30-Dec. 1 (six series), Dec. 7-8 (six series), Feb. 8-9 (six series), weekend of March 29-31. On Friday and Saturday, the NCAA Northeast and March 8-10 (six series). Regional will be played at Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, N.H. WCHA Men’s Release • 100812 and the NCAA West Regional will be contested at in Connolly capture the league scoring championship, and Minnesota Grand Rapids, Mich. On Saturday and Sunday, the NCAA East Regional senior Kent Patterson claim the WCHA Goaltending Championship … will be played at Dunkin’ Donuts Center in Providence, R.I. while the Four WCHA teams recorded at least 25 victories overall – Minnesota had NCAA Midwest Regional will be held at Huntington Center in Toledo, 28, North Dakota had 26 and both Minnesota Duluth and Denver had Ohio. 25 … A record 110 men’s and women’s student-athletes were honored The four regional winners will then advance to the 2013 NCAA Men’s as WCHA Scholar-Athletes in 2011-12 … A record number of 150 men’s Frozen Four, which is set for April 11-13 at Consol Energy Center in student-athletes earned All-WCHA Academic Team accolades … The Pittsburgh, Pa. 2012 Red Baron WCHA Final Five, held at Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul from March 15-17, drew a total attendance 73,002 and an average per game crowd of 14,600. The total attendance of 73,002 – including 2011-12 WCHA Men’s Season Highlights crowds of 16,738 on Friday night and 16,838 for the title contest – was the best at the playoff championship since 2009 and was the eighth The Western Collegiate Hockey Association’s campaign of 2011-12 highest in the 20-year history of the Final Five … WCHA alums Mark will be one to remember. And although the league fell short of adding Johnson and were honored by the to it’s record total of 37 men’s national championships won since it’s in October of 2011 with the prestigious Lester Patrick Award, awarded founding in 1951 and defending it’s 2010-11 crown, there were still an for outstanding service to hockey in the United States … Five WCHA abundance of noteworthy team and individual highlights that helped member-team players were honored as national players of the month keep college hockey’s most historic and successful conference among or national rookies of the month by the Hockey Commissioners’ Asso- the best in the sport. ciation (HCA) in 2011-12 … Minnesota goaltender Kent Patterson was Witness the following: the National Player of the Month for October … Minnesota freshman Four WCHA-member teams earned trips to the national tournament forward Kyle Rau was National Rookie of the Month for October … in Denver, Minnesota, Minnesota Duluth and North Dakota … After Minnesota forward Nick Bjugstad was National Player of the Month claiming the NCAA West Regional crown, Minnesota advanced to the for November … Bemidji State freshman goaltender Andrew Walsh NCAA Men’s Frozen Four in Tampa, Fla. along with first-time qualifiers was National Rookie of the Month for December … Denver freshman Ferris State and Union College along with eventual champion Boston defenseman Joey LaLeggia was National Rookie of the Month for January College … The Golden Gophers also prevailed for the league’s regular … In year-end national tournament play, the WCHA was represented at season title and MacNaughton Cup with a 20-8-0 conference mark and the NCAA Men’s Div. 1 Championship tournament by league 40 points … The 12 WCHA-member men’s teams combined for a 51-33-8 and West Regional champion Minnesota, Red Baron WCHA Final Five record and .593 winning percentage against Div. 1 non-conference op- champion North Dakota, defending Frozen Four champion Minnesota ponents … Four WCHA-member teams were ranked among the nation’s Duluth and Denver … The Gophers, winners of five previous national top eight in the final USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men’s Div. 1 championships in 1974, 1976, 1979, 2002 and 2003, made their 20th College Hockey Poll issued on April 9 … they were Minnesota at No. 4, Frozen Four appearance overall and first since 2005 in Columbus, Ohio, Minnesota Duluth at No. 5, North Dakota at No. 6 and Denver at No. 8 … when an all-WCHA national championship round included eventual In the final USCHO.com Division 1 Men’s College Hockey Poll issued on champion Denver, runner-up North Dakota, Minnesota and Colorado April 9, UM was ranked No. 4 nationally, UND was No. 5, UMD was No. 6 College. The Gophers fell to eventual national champion Boston Col- and DU was No. 12. Two other league teams – Colorado College and St. lege by a 6-1 count in one of the two semi-final match ups at the 2012 Cloud State – also received votes … North Dakota skated to a record NCAA Men’s Frozen Four … Minnesota had earned the trip to Tampa third consecutive Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five playoff championship by winning the West Regional at Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul March title and Broadmoor Trophy … UND won all three Final Five games to 24-25, defeating both Boston University, 7-3, and league-rival North become only the third team ever to do so (Minnesota Duluth in 2009, Dakota, 5-2 … Denver fell by one goal to Ferris State, 2-1, on March 23 North Dakota in 2010) … Minnesota Duluth senior forward Jack Connolly in a semifinal at the Midwest Regional at Resch Center in Green Bay. earned both the Hobey Baker Memorial Award and the Lowe’s Senior The FSU Bulldogs went on to capture that regional and advance to the CLASS Award … A resurgence was launched at Michigan Tech under Frozen Four with a 2-1 victory over Cornell on Saturday … Defending first-year WCHA Coach of the Year Mel Pearson, with the Huskies winning national champion Minnesota Duluth came up one victory shy of more games (16) this season than in the previous three combined and reaching the Frozen Four when the Bulldogs fell 4-0 to Boston College earning a highly-coveted berth in the Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five … in the title contest at the Northeast Regional at DCU Center in Worces- Seven league-member team players received All-American acclaim … ter, Mass. Minnesota Duluth advanced to the regional championship West First Team honorees from the WCHA were Minnesota Duluth senior after a 5-2 triumph over Maine in a semifinal … The other regional forward Jack Connolly, Colorado College sophomore forward Jaden victor this season was Union College, as the Dutchmen came out on Schwartz and Wisconsin junior defenseman … Both Con- top at the NCAA East Regional at Webster Bank Arena at Harbor Yard in nolly and Schultz were repeat First Team All-Americans … West Second Bridgeport, Conn. Union skated past Michigan State, 3-1, in a semifinal Team All-American selections were Minnesota sophomore forward Nick and then downed UMass-Lowell, 4-2, in the championship tilt … Over Bjugstad, Minnesota Duluth sophomore forward J.T. Brown, Minnesota 92 games season, WCHA-member teams went a combined 51-33-8 in senior goaltender Kent Patterson and Denver sophomore forward games against other Div.1 conference-member teams. … Denver defenseman Joey LaLeggia was chosen as the National Rookie of the Year … LaLeggia also was the WCHA Rookie of the Year and earned All-WCHA First Team and All-WCHA Rookie Team honors … Post-season individual honors handed out by the WCHA saw Minnesota Duluth senior forward Jack Connolly earn WCHA Player of the Year honors, North Dakota senior goaltender Brad Eidsness chosen as WCHA Outstanding Student-Athlete of the Year, Wisconsin junior defen- seman Justin Schultz named WCHA Defensive Player of the Year for the second straight season, Denver defenseman Joey LaLeggia selected as WCHA Rookie of the Year, Michigan Tech’s Mel Pearson honored as the WCHA Coach of the Year in his first season behind the Huskies’ bench, WCHA Men’s Release • 100812 WCHA Regular Season/MacNaughton Cup Champion: Minnesota 2011-12 Men’s All-WCHA Academic Team WCHA Final Five/Broadmoor Trophy Champion: North Dakota To earn recognition as a member of the All-WCHA Academic Team, NCAA West Regional Champion: Minnesota student-athletes must have completed one year of residency at present NCAA Tournament Qualifers institution, prior to the current academic year, and have a grade Denver, Minnesota, Minnesota Duluth, North Dakota average of at least 3.00 (4.00 scale) for the previous two semesters or Hobey Baker Memorial Award Winner: Jack Connolly, Sr., F, UMD three quarters. Hobey Baker Memorial Award Top 10 Finalists Honorees for 2011-12 were: Alaska Anchorage: Matt Bailey, Brett Jack Connolly, Sr., F, UMD; Justin Schultz, Jr., D, UW Cameron, *Chris Crowell, Tyler Currier, *Alex Gellert, Brad Gorham, Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award Winner: Jack Connolly, Sr., F, UMD Chris Kamal, Curtis Leinweber, Daniel Naslund, Andrew Pickering, Jade HCA National Rookie of the Year: Joey LaLeggia, Fr., D, DU Portwood, *Dusan Sidor, Quinn Sproule, *Scott Warner. Bemidji State: CCM/ACHA Division 1 Men’s All-Americans *Jake Areshenko, *Dan Bakala, David Boehm, Kyle Brodie, *Matt Carlson, West First Team: D - Justin Schultz, Jr., UW*; F - Jack Connolly, Sr., UMD*; *Mathieu Dugas, *Darcy Findlay, *Drew Fisher, *Matt Hartmann, *Brad F - Jaden Schwartz, So., CC. West Second Team: G - Kent Patterson, Hunt, Jeff Jubinville, *Ben Kinne, Garrett Ladd, *Jamie MacQueen, *Aaron Sr., UM; F - Nick Bjugstad, So., UM; F - J.T. Brown, So., UMD; F - Jason McLeod, *Brance Orban, *Brady Wacker, *Shea Walters. Colorado Col- Zucker, So., DU. lege: *Ted Behrend, *Arthur Bidwill, *David Civitarese, *Gabe Guentzel, AHCA Men’s Division 1 Coach of the Year Award Finalists *Tim Hall, *Andrew Hamburg, *Joe Howe, Alexander Krushelnyski, Don Lucia, UM; Mel Pearson, MTU Eamonn McDermott, Archie Skalbeck, *Scott Winkler. Denver: Beau WCHA Player of the Year: Jack Connolly, Sr., F, UMD Bennett, Sam Brittain, *, *Nate Dewhurst, *John Ryder, *Dustin WCHA Outstanding Student-Athlete of the Year: Jackson, Chris Knowlton, *John Lee, David Makowski, Adam Murray, Brad Eidsness, Sr., G, UND Jarrod Mermis, Dan Olszewski, *Shawn Ostrow, *Paul Phillips,*Luke WCHA Defensive Player of the Year: Justin Schultz, Jr., D, UW Salazar, *, Nick Shore, Jason Zucker. Michigan Tech: *Jor- WCHA Rookie of the Year: Joey LaLeggia, Fr., D, DU dan Baker, *Corson Cramer, *Kevin Genoe, Milos Gordic, Blake Hietala, WCHA Scoring Champion: Jack Connolly, Sr., F, UMD *Peter Heinonen, Daniel Holmberg, *Mikael Lickteig, Patrick McCadden, WCHA Goaltending Champion: Kent Patterson, Sr., G, UM Carl Nielsen, *, Chad Pietila, *Josh Robinson, Daniel Sova, WCHA Coach of the Year: Mel Pearson, MTU Brad Stebner. Minnesota: Mark Alt, *Zach Budish, Nate Condon, Jake All-WCHA First Team: G - Kent Patterson, Sr., UM; D - Justin Schultz, Hansen, Seth Helgeson, Justin Holl, *Jake Kremer, Jared Larson, *Nick Jr., UW; D - Joey LaLeggia, Fr., DU; F - Jack Connolly, Sr., UMD; F - Nick Larson, *Taylor Matson, *Kent Patterson, *Nico Sacchetti, Nate Schmidt, Bjugstad, So., UM; F - J.T. Brown, So., UMD. Tom Serratore, Chris Student. Minnesota Duluth: *Jack Connolly, All-WCHA Second Team: G - Kenny Reiter, Sr., UMD; D - Gabe Guentzel, *Aaron Crandall, *Keegan Flaherty, *David Grun, Jake Hendrickson, Luke Sr., CC; D - Nate Schmidt, So., UM; F - Jaden Schwartz, So., CC; F - Drew McManus, *Kenny Reiter. Minnesota State: *Cameron Cooper, *Tyler Shore, Jr., DU; F - Jason Zucker, So., DU. Elbrecht, Evan Karambelas, *Austin Lee, *Evan Mosey, *Joe Schiller. Ne- All-WCHA Third Team: G - Josh Thorimbert, So., CC; D - Nick Jensen, braska Omaha: Bryce Aneloski, Dayn Belfour, *Fredrik Bergman, *Terry So., SCSU; D - , Sr., UND; F - Mark Zengerle, So., UW; F - Brock Broadhurst, *Kyle Ensign, *John Faulkner, Brent Gwidt, Brock Montpetit, Nelson, So., UND; F - Travis Oleksuk, Sr., UMD. James Polk, Zahn Raubenheimer, Johnnie Searfoss, Alex Simonson, Matt All-WCHA Rookie Team: G - Juho Olkinuora, Fr., DU; D - Joey LaLeggia, Smith, Andrej Sustr, Tony Turgeon. North Dakota: *Ben Blood, Taylor Fr., DU; D - Andrew Prochno, Fr., SCSU; F - Kyle Rau, Fr., UM; F - Jean-Paul Dickin, *Brad Eidsness, Derek Forbort, *Mario Lamoureux, *Andrew Lafontaine, Fr., MSU; F - , Fr., UNO. MacWilliam, *Tate Maris, , Derek Rodwell, *, Dillon Simpson. St. Cloud State: Brandon Burrell, *Jordy Christian, Nic 2011-12 WCHA Men’s Scholar-Athletes Dowd, *Jared Festler, Kevin Gravel, *Ben Hanowski, Nick Jensen, *Drew To earn recognition as a WCHA Scholar-Athlete, student-athletes must LeBlanc, *Mike Lee, *Travis Novak. Wisconsin: Tyler Barnes, Chase Drake, have completed at least one year of residency at their present institution Joe Faust, Gavin Hartzog, *Ryan Little, Frankie Simonelli, *Eric Springer, prior to the current academic year and also have a grade-point aver- *Mitch Thompson, Mark Zengerle. age of at least 3.50 (4.0 scale) for each of the previous two semesters * repeat honoree or three quarters, or may qualify if his/her overall GPA is at least 3.50 for all terms at his/her present institution. Honorees for 2011-12 were: Alaska Anchorage: Matt Bailey, Brett Cameron, **Chris Crowell, Andrew Pickering, Jade Portwood, ***Dusan Sidor. Bemidji State: **Jake Areshenko, **Dan Bakala, Kyle Brodie, **Darcy Findlay, **Drew Fisher, Brad Hunt, Jeff Jubinville, Garrett Ladd, Aaron McLeod, **Jamie MacQueen, **Brance Orban, **Brady Wacker. Colorado College: ***David Civitarese. Denver: , Daniel Olszewski, **Shawn Ostrow, **Paul Phillips. Michigan Tech: ***Corson Cramer, **Kevin Genoe, Patrick McCadden, Brad Stebner. Minnesota: Zach Budish, Nate Condon, **Jake Kremer, Nick Larson, Taylor Matson, **Nico Sacchetti. Minnesota Duluth: **Aaron Crandall, Luke McManus, ****Kenny Reiter. Minnesota State: Cameron Cooper, **Tyler Elbrecht, Evan Karambelas, ****Austin Lee, Evan Mosey, ***Joe Schiller. Nebraska Omaha: Bryce Aneloski, **Fredrik Bergman, Terry Broadhurst, Kyle Ensign, Zahn Raubenheimer, Johnnie Searfoss, Alex Simonson. North Dakota: Taylor Dickin, ***Brad Eidsness, Dillon Simpson. St. Cloud State: ***Jordy Christian, Nic Dowd, Kevin Gravel, Ben Hanowski, Nick Jensen, ***Drew LeBlanc, **Mike Lee, ***Travis Novak. Wisconsin: Gavin Hartzog. ****four-time honoree; ***three-time honoree; **two time honoree WCHA Men’s Release • 100812 WCHA Team notebooks • oct. 8, 2012

and new alternate captains Aaron McLeod (Sr., F, Ottawa, ON) and Matt alaska anchorage Prapavessis (So., D, Oakville, ON) … Senior Jordan George (F, Madison, WI) opens the 2012-13 campaign as the Beavers’ top returning scorer … He’s The Alaska Anchorage Seawolves commence the 2012-13 regular season posted three consecutive 30-point seasons to open his collegiate career by hosting the 22nd annual Kendall Hockey Classic on Oct. 12-13 … the and netted a career-high 19 goals lat winter … He sits tied for seventh tournament will feature Air Force and Canisius as the visiting teams and on BSU’s Div. 1-era scoring list at 101 points (49g, 52a) … His 49 career Alaska Fairbanks and UAA as the home teams … this is the first time in goals have him seated fourth on BSU’s Div. 1-era goal scoring list … BSU tournament history that all three visiting teams are making repeat trips head coach Tom Serratore is beginning his 12th season at Bemidji State to Anchorage … returns to Kendall after going 0-1-1 in where he has directed the Beavers to a 195-164-41 record (.539), five the 2004 event, while Air Force returns for the fourth time overall and the conference titles and four appearances in the NCAA Div. 1 tournament, second time in three years, following trips in 1999, 2003 and 2010 … for which includes a run to the 2009 Frozen Four … He is a five-time College the fifth straight season, UAF is also back, looking to add to their titles Hockey America coach of the year and a seven-time Spencer Penrose from 2008 and 2009 … the Seawolves will be looking to defend their title finalist, including a runner-up finish in 2009 … Bemidji State finished the after they won last year with a 4-3 overtime victory of St. Cloud State … 2011-12 season with a 17-18-3 overall record and an 11-14-3 mark in WCHA UAA has registered six titles throughout the Classic history and is 21-14-9 play to finish ninth the league standings … The Beavers were bumped overall in tournament play … the last time UAA faces Canisius was on from the first round of the WCHA playoffs by North Dakota, which swept Oct. 15, 2004 – teams tied, 3-3 … the Seawolves lead the all-time record the Beavers from the first round of the playoffs with 4-1 and 4-3 victories against the Golden Griffins, 2-0-1 … against Air Force, the Seawolves before earning a WCHA Final Five title and making an appearance in the lead the all-time series, 13-5-1 … the last meeting against the Falcons NCAA Tournament … The Beavers completed the 2011-12 campaign as was on Oct. 9, 2010 with UAA winning, 3-2 … Eighth-year head coach the WCHA’s best -killing team snuffing out 92 of 109 opponent Dave Shyiak returns 16 players from last season, including the depend- power-play opportunities (.844) in league play … The Beavers return 20 able goaltending combo of juniors Rob Gunderson and Chris Kamal … players for 2012-13, which includes 11 forwards, seven defensemen and Kamal, who backstopped the Seawolves to the 2011 WCHA Final Five as two … Bemidji State welcomes seven new faces in 2012-13 a rookie, registered a 3.46 GAA and an .877 saves percentage last year … … The incoming freshman class includes four forwards, two blue liners junior F Matt Bailey is UAA’s leading returning scorer with 10-7=17 totals, and a goaltender … Fabian Sivnert (Fr., G, Hollviken, Sweden/EJHL-Valley and will be joined by six seniors as the veterans anchors of the team … Jr. Warriors) joins the BSU goaltender corps; James Hansen (Fr., D, Maple senior D Scott Warner was productive on the offensive end with 2-13=15 Grove, MN/ USHL-Waterloo) and Graeme McCormack (Fr., D, , numbers and senior F Jordan Kwas is a dangerous offensive threat, racking ON/BCHL-Nanaimo) will patrol the blue line, while Cory Ward (Fr., F, Las up 14 points last year despite playing in just 21 games … the Seawolves Vegas, NV/NAHL-Aberdeen), Brad Robbins (Fr., F, Murrieta, CA/USHL-Sioux added eight newcomers to their roster, including three Alaskans – Ben City), Markus Gerbrandt (Fr., F, Edmonton, AB/AJHL-Fort McMurray) and Matthews, Bobby Murphy and Hayden Trupp … giving Gunderson and Phil Brewer (Fr., F, Cambridge, ON/OJHL-Burlington) will join the BSU Kamal some competition will be 6-3, 180-pound Michael Matyas in the attacking lines … Sam Rendle (So., D, Grand Rapids, MN) makes a return crease … In exhibition play, the Seawolves faced the University of Re- to the BSU line up this fall after missing nearly a full season due to an gina Cougars on Oct. 6 at the Harry J. McDonald Center in Eagle River, upper body injury … He recorded a goal and three assist in a handful Alaska … in front of 640 fans, the Seawolves picked up their fifth straight of games a year ago, but was granted a media redshirt and will be a exhibition win with a 3-1 defeat of the Cougars … picking up goals for sophomore in 2012-13. UAA was seniors Tyler Currier and Alex Gellert and sophomore D Austin Coldwell … Coldwell, from Vancouver, Wash., also assisted on Currier’s tally in the first … forward Blake Tatchell was the lone rookie record a colorado college point, assisting on Gellert’s game-winning goal … UAA was scoreless on seven power-play attempts, and kept Regina scoreless on four … the Colorado College’s first victory this season will be No. 300 for Scott Ow- Seawolves outshot Regina, 30-14. ens as head coach … He heads into this week’s non-conference series against Clarkson University with a 299-185-43 (.608) record in 13 previ- ous campaigns at the CC helm … The Tigers, who met the University of Bemidji State British Columbia in an exhibition game on Sunday, are unbeaten (9-0-3) in 12 all-time encounters with Clarkson … The teams battled to a pair The Bemidji State men’s hockey team opened its 2012-13 season Sunday of ties (1-1, 2-2) the last time they met, in Potsdam, N.Y., early during the with a 3-3 tie in exhibition play versus University if Manitoba … Freshman 2008-09 season … Excluding 20 exhibitions, CC is 205-89-15 (.688) in Cory Ward (F, LasVegas, NV) and Brad Robbins (F, Murieta, CA) each net- 309 official NCAA outings at the World Arena since opening the venue in ted their first goals in collegiate play in the exhibition, while sophomore January 1998 … Top returning scorer for the Tigers is senior center Rylan Danny Mattson (F, Minneapolis, MN) added the Beavers’ third goal … The Schwartz, whose 40 points (23g, 17a) in 2011-12 ranked second on the tie marked and extension of BSU’s exhibition success extending back team to younger brother and now St. Louis Blues property Jaden’s 41 … seven games to March of 2007 … BSU is now 5-2-3 versus Manitoba in The older Schwartz, who heads into 2012-13 with 106 career points, has exhibition play … The Beavers close the exhibition season with a match struck for 27 of his 39 tallies in his last 38 appearances for CC after scoring up with the USA Under-18 Team Saturday … BSU is 4-1-0 versus the USA only 12 times in his first 77 … He’s factored in on 24 game-winners as a Under-18s all time … Bemidji State officially opens the 2012-13 season Tiger, scoring seven and assisting on 17 … Junior netminder Thorimbert Oct. 19-20 when it hosts Lake Superior State University for a non-con- earned third-team All-WCHA accolades in ’11-12 after posting a league- ference series … The Bemidji State-Lake Superior State series stretches best 12-4-1 (.735) record and .928 saves percentage in conference play back to 1966 and includes four match ups in the NAIA Championship … His overall saves ratio of .924 was the second highest ever at Colorado … The Lakers hold a 21-16-2 record over the Beavers all-time, and a 2- College, trailing only former standout Richard Bachman’s mark of .931 in 1-1 versus BSU since both teams made the move to the NCAA Division 2007-08 … Senior goalie Joe Howe, meanwhile, enters his final season I level … For the second consecutive season Ben Kinne (Sr., F, St. Paul, having backstopped 40 victories during his career at CC … Mike Boivin’s MN) will the BSU men’s hockey squad … He will be assisted by eight goals as a junior in 2011-12 matched the combined total scored second-year alternate captain Jake Areshanko (D, Port Coquitlam, BC) by the rest of Colorado College’s defensemen … Boivin was among nine WCHA Men’s Release • 100812

WCHA team notebooks con’t Copley (North Pole, AK) got the start and worked a first period … Freshman Jamie Phillips (Caledonia, ON) played the second period, different Tigers credited with at last one game winner as CC posted an making 11 saves on 12 shots … Senior Kevin Genoe (Qualicum, BC) saw above-.500 overall record (18-16-2) for the 12th consecutive season … nine shots in the third and stopped eight … Michigan Tech went three With his 10 goals and 10 assists as a sophomore in ‘11-12, left wing Alex- years without an NHL draft pick on the roster until (New ander Krushelnyski was one of seven CC players to reach the 20-points Jersey, fifth round) joined the squad last fall … Now, the Huskies have plateau … Senior right wing Andrew Hamburg returns in 2012-13 after three draftees in the program … Forward Jujhar Khaira and goaltender picking up six (3g, 3a) of his nine points last season in the team’s final Jamie Phillips were both selected in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft … Khaira eight outings … The 26 players on Colorado College’s 2012-13 roster, was selected by the in the third round (63rd overall), including four from Alaska, represent 11 different states, four Canadian while Phillips was picked in the seventh round by the provinces and one European nation (Norway). (190th overall) … Michigan Tech returns the same cast of coaches it had during the 2011-12 season: head coach Mel Pearson (last year’s WCHA Coach of the Year), assistant coaches Bill Muckalt and Damon Whitten and denver volunteer assistant Steve Shields … Both Muckalt and Shields have NHL playing experience … Muckalt played right wing for four different teams No. 7/10 University of Denver opens the 2012-13 season by hosting No. in five years with his most productive season of 16-20=36 coming with 6 UMass Lowell and Air Force on Oct. 19-20 … The Pioneers tied British the in 1998-99 … Shields’ career spanned 12 years Columbia 2-2 in exhibition action on Oct. 6 at Pepsi Center … The game and six different franchises … The goaltender posted career numbers of was held at the home of the due to the Presidential 2.67 goals-against average and .911 save percentage in 246 games played Debate that was held at on Oct. 3 … David Makowski … Tech had an extremely balanced lineup last year as nine players had (Wildwood, MO) and Garrett Allen (Delafield, WI) scored for Denver and eight goals or more – the only team in the nation with that many … Six goaltenders Sam Brittain (, AB) and Adam Murray (Anchorage, of those nine return to the program led by last year’s top two goal scorers AK) combined for 27 saves … Denver outshot the Thunderbirds 47-29, in Ryan Furne (Oakdale, MN) (12 goals) and David Johnstone (11) … Blake but went 0-4 on the power-play … Denver was picked No. 8 in the USA Pietila (10 goals), Jacob Johnstone (Grand Ledge, MI) (nine), Today/USA Hockey Magazine and USCHO.com Preseason Polls and No. (Hancock, MI) (nine) and Milos Gordic (Burnaby, BC) (eight) are the others 3 in the 94X WCHA Preseason Media Poll … The Pioneers have won 23 … The Huskies debuted their new white jerseys in the exhibition game or more games and have advanced to the NCAA Tournament in each vs. Brock … The team replaced all three sets of jerseys in the offseason, of the last five seasons … Head coach George Gwozdecky begins his and will debut the other two as the season progresses. 19th season at Denver, sporting a 573-377-80 career record and 423- 253-59 record at DU … The Pioneers return 18 letterwinners from last year’s 25-14-4 team that advanced to the NCAA Tournament … Junior minnesota center Nick Shore (Denver, CO), sophomore defenseman Joey LaLeggia (Burnaby, BC), junior defenseman Makowski and goaltenders Brittain The defending MacNaughton Cup champion Gophers open the 2012-13 and Juho Olkinuora (Helsinki, Finland) headline the list of returning let- regular season with a two-game series against future Big Ten opponent terwinners … Shore is DU’s top returning scorer, netting 41 points (13g, Michigan State this weekend at Mariucci Arena … Minnesota is 101- 28a) last season … LaLeggia earned National and WCHA Rookie of the 43-12 all-time against the Spartans and 54-15-6 against this weekend’s Year honors after recording 38 points (11g, 27a) … Makowski returns to opponents on home ice … Minnesota cruised to a 7-0 exhibition win the lineup after missing the last 23 games last season with an injury … over Lethbridge last Saturday in the team’s first action of the season … Makowski earned All-WCHA Rookie Team honors after tallying 30 points the Gophers outshot the Pronghorns 65-16 on the night (Minnesota (6g, 24a) as a freshman in 2010-11 … Brittain, Olkinuora and senior Mur- record for shots in a game is 75 against U.S. International on 10/31/81) … ray give Denver superior depth in goal … Brittain was 8-4 with a 2.36 sophomore Christian Isackson tallied a natural hat trick in the exhibition goals-against average and .932 save percentage, while Olkinuora earned win after being held without a point in 11 games as a freshmen … Mark All-WCHA Rookie Team honors with a 9-8-3 mark, 2.18 goals-against aver- Alt, Sam Warning, Ben Marshall and Seth Ambroz each recorded a goal age and .924 save percentage … Murray posted career-bests in wins (8), for the Gophers … Minnesota went 3-for-8 on the power-play in the win goals-against average (2.98) and save percentage (.909) … Defensemen with Isackson’s first two goals coming on a five-minute power-play for (Alton, IL) and Nolan Zajac (Winnipeg, MB), and center the Gophers … 12 different Gophers notched points in the exhibition Quentin Shore (Denver, CO) top the list of six newcomers … Mermis and including six multi-point performances … newcomer Mike Reilly was Shore each scored a goal in the inaugural CCM/USA Hockey All-American one of four Gophers to finish the game with two assists (Travis Boyd, Ben Prospects Game on Sept. 29 in Buffalo, N.Y. Marshall, Erik Haula) … Marshall would tie Isackson for a game-high three points on the night … Michael Shibrowski and combined for a shutout of the pronghorns … Shibrowski earned the starting nod michigan tech and made nine saves in 29:30 of work while Wilcox turned away seven shots in the game’s final 30:30 … Minnesota, the NCAA’s top offensive Michigan Tech opened its 2012-13 campaign with a 6-2 exhibition vic- team last season, has outscored opponents 22-2 in its last four exhibition tory over Brock last Saturday (Oct. 6) … The Huskies will have 16 home games to start a season … the Gophers are coming off a 22-14-1 season games and 34 road dates during its 92nd season of intercollegiate hockey in 2011-12 in which the team earned its 13th WCHA regular season title … Rookie Alex Petan (Delta, BC) scored a hat trick with three goals vs. and returned to the Frozen Four for the 20th time in program history Brock … The 5-8, 155-pound forward netted one goal in each period in (first time since 2004-05) … Minnesota returns 83% of its offensive fire his collegiate debut … Freshmen and sophomores accounted for all six power from last year’s squad including six of the team’s top seven scorers goals … Freshman Jujhar Khaira (Surrey, BC), sophomore Blake Pietila … Haula is the team’s top returner – having led the team with 49 points (Milford, MI) and sophomore David Johnstone (Grand Ledge, MI) each (20g, 29a) in 2011-12… junior Nick Bjugstad (25-17=42) also returns had one goal … Senior Carl Nielsen (Amherst, OH) will serve as team after earning Second Team All-America honors last season … the for- captain in 2012-13 … The 6-4, 225-pound defenseman was an assistant ward enters his junior season as the preseason WCHA Player of the Year captain a year ago … Two other defensemen will be assistant captains (media and coaches) … other notable returners for the Gophers include on this years squad in senior Steven Seigo (Edenwold, SK) and junior sophomore Kyle Rau (18-25=43), junior Nate Schmidt (3-38=41) redshirt Brad Stebner (Fort MacMurray, AB) … All three of Tech’s goaltenders junior Zach Budish (12-23=35) and junior Nate Condon (11-19=30) … saw one period of action in the exhibition game … Rookie Pheonix 15 of Minnesota’s 28 players have been drafted by an NHL organization WCHA Men’s Release • 100812 WCHA team notebooks con’t minnesota State including two first round picks (Bjugstad: 19th overall to Florida in 2009; The Mavericks hosted the University of Lethbridge in exhibition action Brady Skjei: 28th overall to the in 2012) … Skjei is one Sunday and came away with a 7-1 win … Sophomore forward Matt of three Minnesota newcomers to have been drafted (Mike Reilly, Adam Leitner, last year’s leading scorer with 11-18=29, paced the Mavericks in Wilcox) … Minnesota head coach Don Lucia (597-328-83 overall, 318- the victory over the Pronghorns with a goal and three assists … Fresh- 173-54 at Minnesota) will look to become just the ninth coach in NCAA man forward Bryce Gervais had two goals and an assist and sophomore history to hit the 600 win plateau this season … Lucia enters his 14th forward Chase Grant had two assists as MSU outshot Lethbridge 65-10 … season behind the Minnesota bench and his 25th season as an NCAA MSU owns a 9-1-0 all-time mark in games played vs. Canadian schools … head coach … Minnesota opens the 2012-13 season as the preseason Minnesota State opens the 2012-13 campaign this Friday and Saturday No. 1/2 team in the nation and the preseason favorite to win the WCHA with a pair of non-conference road games at Alabama-Huntsville … The (media and coaches polls) … the Gophers tied with defending national Mavericks and the Chargers have played 38 times and the all-time series champion Boston College for first in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine stands 17-17-4 … MSU has won the last five encounters between the two Preseason Poll (9/24/12) after collecting 476 total votes and 12 first-place schools and is unbeaten (7-0-1) in the last eight games vs. UAH … MSU votes) … Minnesota is currently second in the USCHO.com Division 1 Men’s claimed 4-2 and 9-1 wins over the Chargers last season in a pair of games Poll (Oct. 8) with 948 total points and 12 first-place votes … Minnesota played in Mankato … The Mavericks have won their last four season- enters its final year of competition in the Western Collegiate Hockey As- opening games and stand 20-20-3 all-time in season-opening contests sociation before joining the in 2013-14 … Minnesota … The 2012-13 season marks the 44th year for Minnesota State men’s was a founding member of the WCHA in 1951 (then called the Midwest hockey … The Mavericks stand 736-573-134 (.556) all-time in 43 years of Collegiate Hockey League). competition … MSU is entering its 15th year as members of NCAA Div. 1 and are entering its 12th year as members of the Western Collegiate minnesota duluth Hockey Association … Serving as captains for the Mavericks in 2012-13 are senior defenseman Tyler Elbrecht and senior forward Eriah Hayes. The University of Minnesota Duluth will launch its 69th season of intercol- Elbrecht is in his second year as captain, Hayes is in his first … Minnesota legiate hockey this Friday and Saturday by hosting State men’s hockey head coach Mike Hastings (St. Cloud State '93) is in his in a pair of non-conference clashes … This will be only the fourth and first year as head coach of the Mavericks and as a college head coach … fifth meetings between the two schools and the first time the two will Hastings, who was named MSU’s head coach following a three-year stind collide in a two-game series … UMD is 0-2-1 lifetime against the Buckeyes, as associate head coach at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, compiled having faced them once each in Columbus (Dec. 29, 2006), Duluth (Dec. a 529-210-58 mark in a 14-year run as head coach of Omaha of the USHL 19, 1979) and in St. Louis (Dec. 27, 1974) … The Bulldogs return some … MSU retains four players who saw action in all 38 games in 2011-12 17 lettermen from a club which went 25-10-6 overall, placed second in fowards Jean-Paul Lafontaine and Matt Leitner, along with defense- in the WCHA and made its third NCAA Tournament appearance in four men Zach Palmquist and Evan Mosey … Including the last season and years last winter … Scott Sandelin is entering his 13th season as UMD’s the last nine games of his sophomore season in 2010-11, Mosey owns head coach and has a 217-210-58 record to show for it … The 2012-13 the school's longest consecutive consecutive games played streak at 46 UMD roster is comprised of seven seniors, four juniors, six sophomores … Senior forward Eriah Hayes is MSU’s active career scoring leader with and nine freshmen … Sixth-year senior winger Cody Danberg has been 32-28=60 in 112 games played. entrusted with team captain responsibilities for the Bulldogs this season while a pair of fellow seniors – defenseman Drew Olson and winger Keegan Flaherty – will serve as alternates … Sophomore left winger nebraska omaha Caleb Herbert, who ranked eighth among all NCAA rookies in scoring last The Mavericks begin the 2012-13 season on Monday, Oct. 8 when they winter, is the Bulldogs’ top returning point-producer … The Washington host Lethbridge in an exhibition game … The Mavs then travel to Kan- Capitals (NHL) draftee racked up 14 goals and 19 assists for 33 points sas City, Mo. for the Icebreaker Tournament where they will play Army – the second highest output by a UMD newcomer in 16 years (former in the first round on Friday, Oct. 12 and then face either Maine or Notre Winnipeg Jet center Tim Stapleon finished with a team-leading 42 points Dame the following day … The Mavericks are playing their 16th season in 2002-03) … Four of the Bulldogs’ five leading scorers from a year ago of Division 1 hockey this season … Their first season was 1997-98 … The either graduated (three-time All-American and 2011-12 Hobey Baker Mavericks are one win away from the school’s 250th win … They have Memorial Award winner Jack Connolly, All-WCHA third teamer Travis posted an all-time record of 249-273-71 (.480) … They are just seven Oleksuk, and defenseman Brady Lamb) or departed early for the National games way from the 600th in school history … The trip to the Icebreaker Hockey League (sophomore All-American winger J.T. Brown with Tampa in Kansas City will mark the Mavericks’ shortest road trip of the season at Bay) … That quartet accounted for just over half (74) of UMD’s entire goal 180 miles … On the other end of the spectrum, the Mavs will travel to yield (174) last winter and 48% percent of the team’s total points (191 of Houghton, Mich., in November (743 miles), Hamden, Conn., in December 400) … Sophomore Chris Casto, one of six holders from UMD’s 2011-12 (1,324 miles) and Anchorage, Alaska (2,607 miles) in February … Each blue line crew, compiled the best plus-minus rating (+21) of any rookie year, the Mavericks have faced a Canadian university in exhibition play defenseman in the country last winter and the fourth best mark of any … This is their second meeting with Lethbridge, having beaten the point man … Since the start of the 2008-09 season, the Bulldogs have Pronghorns, 2-1, to open the 2009-10 season … They are 14-2-0 all-time gone 95-50-21 and have won 22 or more games in each of the last four in exhibition games with schools from the Great White North and have years (only the second time that has happened in program history) … won eight straight … This is the second time Omaha has appeared in The Bulldogs will take on another Central Collegiate Hockey Associa- the Icebreaker Tournament and the second time the Mavericks will face tion team on Oct. 19-20 when they pay a visit to the University of Notre Army in the tournament … In 2009, the Mavs hosted the annual college Dame before opening its 48th, and final year, of WCHA competition the hockey season opener at the CenturyLink Center Omaha … They beat following weekend against the University of Wisconsin. the Black Knights, 6-4, in the opening round and then held of UMass- Lowell, 4-3, in the championship game … UNO welcomed a freshman class of six players this season including forwards Charlie Adams, Tanner Lane and Aaron Pearce; defensemen Brian Cooper and Nick Seeler; and goaltender Anthony Stolarz … Four of the incoming players played in WCHA Men’s Release • 100812

WCHA team notebooks con’t features six newcomers, including five incoming freshmen and one junior transfer … The incoming freshmen include forwards Drake Caggiula, Bryn the United States Hockey League last year (Cooper, Lane, Pearce, Seeler) Chyzyk and Coltyn Sanderson, goalie Zane Gothberg and defenseman while Adams and Stolarz suited up in the North Jordan Schmaltz … Schmaltz was a first-round draft pick of St. Louis in … The Mavericks have seven players who could reach 100 career games June, while Gothberg was taken by Boston in the sixth round of the 2010 played this season … Defenseman Bryce Aneloski leads that pack with draft … The junior transfer is goalie Clarke Saunders, who comes to UND 93, a total that includes 16 games played at Providence College during after two seasons at the University of Alabama-Huntsville … Last season, his freshman year … The others nearing the century mark include John Saunders posted a solid .906 save percentage and an NCAA-leading 34 Faulkner (86), Ryan Walters (76), Brock Montpetit and Michael Young (74), saves per game for a UAH team that went 2-28-1 … UND’s 2012-13 roster Andrej Sustr (72), Johnnie Searfoss (68) and Zahn Raubenheimer (66) … features 14 National Hockey League draft picks, including 2012 1st- Senior Brent Gwidt is the only player on the Mavericks' roster to eclipse that rounder Jordan Schmaltz … The freshman defenseman was taken in the mark, playing in game number 100 on Feb. 24, 2012 against Minnesota first round (25th overall) by the St. Louis Blues … Schmaltz is one of two … Two Mavericks come into the 2012-13 season with impressive games- 1st-round picks on UND’s roster, joining 2010 selection Derek Forbort … played streaks … Both Bryce Aneloski and Matt White have not missed a UND’s other active draft picks include two 2nd-rounders (Rocco Grimaldi, game in their two years at UNO, a span of 77 games … Ryan Walters did ), two 4th-rounders (Mark MacMillan, Dillon Simpson), three not play in the second game of his freshman year but has been a fixture 5th-rounders (Corban Knight, Michael Parks, Derek Rodwell), three 6th- in the lineup since then and has a 75-game streak to start the season … rounders (Zane Gothberg, Nick Mattson, Brendan O’Donnell) and two The 26 student-athletes who make up the Omaha roster this year are, on 7th-rounders (Joe Gleason, Andrew MacWilliam). average, a sizeable bunch … The Mavericks’ average height is 6-1 1/2, and their average weight is 197 1/2 lbs … That’s up from 6-1 and 194 1/2 lbs. from the end of last season … Andrej Sustr is UNO’s tallest player, and the st. cloud State tallest player in Div. 1 college hockey, at 6-8 while Zahn Raubenheimer and Matt White are listed the shortest at 5-10 … Sustr and Tony Turgeon St. Cloud State University men’s hockey will open the 2012-13 season on are UNO’s heaviest players at 225 lbs. apiece while Raubenheimer is the road at New Hampshire on Oct. 12-13 … SCSU will then kick-off its the lightest at 179 … The Mavericks have more drafted players on their home campaign on Oct. 19-20 with a pair of dates at the National Hockey roster than at any time in school history. Eight Mavs have been drafted and Event Center against non-conference rival Alabama Huntsville … by National Hockey League teams including three players taken in the St. Cloud State received votes in both the USCHO.com and USA Hockey 2012 draft … They include: Brian Cooper - Anaheim '12; preseason Div. 1 polls … the Huskies finished the 2011-12 season with a - Anaheim '12; Nick Seeler - Minnesota '11; - Pittsburgh 17-17-5 overall record and a 12-12-4 WCHA record … the Huskies earned '11; Tanner Lane - Winnipeg '10; Bryce Aneloski - Ottawa '10 ; Brent Gwidt home ice in the 2012 WCHA playoffs and advanced to the 2012 Red Baron - Washington '06; and Anthony Stolarz - Philadelphia '12 … Stolarz was WCHA Final Five thanks to a first round sweep of Nebraska Omaha at drafted by the Flyers in the second round, 45th overall, making him the the NHEC … construction is underway on the expansion project at the highest-drafted player in school history … Following the Icebreaker, the National Hockey and Event Center … This project will be highlighted by Mavericks return home to host former CCHA rival Northern Michigan on a new atrium main entrance on the south side of the National Hockey Friday and Saturday, Oct. 19 and 20. and Event Center … The Huskies will continue to use the NHEC during the 2012-13 season, while work is being done on the expansion project … SCSU will return two All-WCHA award winners to its roster in 2012-13 north dakota … Junior defender Nick Jensen gained All-WCHA Third Team notice last winter, while sophomore defender Andrew Prochno was named to the North Dakota will play its second of two exhibition tune-ups this Friday 2012 All-WCHA Rookie Team … senior forward Drew LeBlanc received a when it hosts the U.S. Under-18 Team at Ralph Engelstad Arena … UND medical redshirt for the 2011-12 season and is slated to return to the ice is coming off of a 5-3 exhibition win over visiting Manitoba last Saturday for the Huskies in 2012-13. LeBlanc has 97 career points (29g, 68a) heading (Oct. 6) night … Senior forward Carter Rowney led all players with a goal into the 2012-13 season … another Husky looking to break into SCSU’s and an assist … Forwards Corban Knight, Danny Kristo, Mark MacMillan 100-point Club this winter is senior forward Ben Hanowski, who led the and defenseman Derek Forbort also scored … Junior transfer Clarke Huskies with 23 goals, 20 assists and 43 points last year … In three-years Saunders (Alabama-Huntsville) started the game and stopped seven of at SCSU, Hanowski has charted 45 goals and 37 assists … He is a draft eight shots … He was relieved midway through the second period by pick of the and hails from nearby Little Falls, Minn., freshman Zane Gothberg, who turned aside 10 of 12 Manitoba shots the childhood home of fame aviator Charles Lindbergh … SCSU is ex- … Forwards Rocco Grimaldi, Derek Rodwell and Brendan O’Donnell all pected to return 18 players from its 2011-12 roster … This group includes returned to the lineup after suffering season-ending injuries last year … seven defenders, nine forwards and two goalies … sophomore goalie None of the three reached the scoresheet, although Grimaldi registered a Ryan Faragher is back between the nets for SCSU this year after posting game-high six shots on goal … No other player on either team had more a 2.78 GAA in 2011-12 … As a rookie, Faragher was put into a starting than three shots … Grimaldi, who retained his freshman status after play- spot after Mike Lee went down with an injury after the sixth game of the ing in only two games last year, has been named WCHA Preseason Rookie year … Faragher went on to play in 24 games in 2011-12 and also had a of the Year each of the last two seasons … Rugged senior defenseman .915 save rate … on the topic of Mike Lee, the goalie from Roseau opted Andrew MacWilliam was elected team captain in a vote of his teammates to sign a professional contract at the end of his junior season in 2011-12 earlier this fall … MacWilliam leads all active returning players with 122 … The other SCSU player to depart early was forward David Eddy, who games played … Fellow seniors Corban Knight, Danny Kristo and Carter also signed a pro tender after his third winter in St. Cloud … SCSU coach Rowney will serve as assistant captains … Both MacWilliam and Knight Bob Motzko will begin his 8th season with the Huskies in 2012-13 … His served as assistant captains as juniors last season … Kristo is the leading career record at his alma mater stands at 137-109-34 as he embarks on active scorer in the WCHA with 109 career points in 117 career games … the new season in the Granite City … joining Motzko on the Husky bench Colorado College senior forward Rylan Schwartz is right behind Kristo this winter will be former SCSU defensive standout Garrett Raboin … A with 106 career points … Last season Kristo achieved career highs in every 2010 grad of SCSU, Raboin played pro hockey in Europe over the past offensive category, including points (45) and goals (19) … Knight is on two seasons before taking the assistant coach job at SCSU during the the verge of joining classmate Kristo in UND’s 100-point club … Knight summer of 2012 … The Huskies other assistant coach is Mike Gibbons, has 97 career points in 120 career games and would be the 84th player in who is in his sixth season with the Huskies … KNSI AM 1450/FM 103.3 program history to reach the 100-point plateau … UND’s 2012-13 roster will once carry live broadcasts of all Husky games at home and on the WCHA Men’s Release • 100812

WCHA team notebooks con’t road … Don Lyons will provide the play-by-play along with game analyst Dave Reichel … two of the players on the SCSU roster this winter have Husky roots … Junior defenseman Kevin Gravel is the son of former SCSU forward Jim Gravel (1977-81) and freshman forward Jonny Brodzinski is the son of Husky All-American Mike Brodzinski (1984-87). wisconsin

Wisconsin opens the 2012-13 season with a series at the Resch Center in Green, Bay, Wis., against Northern Michigan on Friday and Saturday … the Badgers played host to the Wildcats to open last season and split the series … Wisconsin will celebrate its 50th year of hockey in the modern era (Since 1963) all season long, dedicating the Kohl Center ice to Bob Johnson on Nov. 2, while later in the season recognizing the 1973 (40 years) and the 1983 NCAA championships (30 years), as well as rolling out honorary game captains at home games … the Badgers will wear a patch on their uniforms during the season and the boards will make mention of the occasion … Wisconsin’s new practice facil- ity, LaBahn Arena, opened 1 … the building officially opens when the UW women’s team skates against Bemidji State on Oct. 19 … La Bahn Arena includes a new locker room complex for the men, and a 200’ by 90’ sheet of ice, among other features … the Badgers will play outdoor hockey this season at the Hockey City Classic on Feb. 17 at Soldier Field in Chicago against Minnesota, while Notre Dame and Miami will also meet as part of a doubleheader … once the game is played, Wisconsin will have competed in three of the four home facilities for NFC North teams ( – Lambeau Field; - ; Chicago Bears – Soldier Field) … the game will mark the third outdoor hockey game for the Badgers since 2006 and the fifth they’ve played at a football stadium since that time … Wisconsin closes out the 2012–13 regular season with a pair of home games at Veterans Memorial Coliseum … the Badgers moved the games to accommodate the 2013 WIAA High School Boys’ Tournament at the Kohl Center … the Badgers played their home games from 1967–98 at the Coliseum, and also played WCHA first round playoff series there in 2001 and 2005 … the Badgers return 83.8 percent of their goal scoring (88 out of 105 goals) and 83.0 percent of their total points (244 out of 294 points) from last season’s team … the Badgers return 15 of their top 16 scorers from last season … junior forward Mark Zengerle (Rochester, NY) returns as Wisconsin’s leading scorer after pacing the Badgers last season with 37 assists and 50 points … his 1.35 points-per-game from last season is the highest for a returning skater in the nation … Zengerle boasts 86 career points through two seasons. He needs 14 points to become the 71st Badger to reach the 100 career point mark … goaltender Joel Rumpel (Swift Current, SK) returns for his sophomore season after posting a school freshmen record three last season. WCHA Men’s Release • 100812 2012-13 WCHA men’s Team Rosters Alaska Anchorage Seawolves 2012-13 Numerical Roster

No. Name (NHL Draft) Yr Pos Height Weight S/C Age Hometown / Last Team 3 Derek Docken SO D 6-0 193 L 22 Northfield, Minnesota / (USHL) 5 Austin Sevalrud FR D 6-0 208 L 21 Calgary, Alberta / (AJHL) 6 Ben Matthews FR D 6-2 216 R 21 Anchorage, Alaska / Prince George Spruce Kings (BCHL) 7 Austin Coldwell SO D 6-0 189 L 22 Vancouver, Washington / (USHL) 8 Scott Warner SR D 5-9 174 L 24 Anchorage, Alaska / Army/Atlantic Hockey 9 Blake Tatchell FR F 5-10 175 L 21 North Battleford, / Battlefords North Stars (SJHL) 10 Brett Cameron JR F 6-2 202 R 22 Spruce Grove, Alberta / Spruce Grove Saints (AJHL) 12 Alex Gellert SR F 6-1 181 R 23 Kelowna, British Columbia / Cowichan Valley Capitals (BCHL) 13 Quinn Sproule JR D 6-0 195 L 22 Hussar, Alberta / Okotoks Oilers (AJHL) 14 Corbin Karl SO D 6-0 200 R 22 Foremost, Alberta / Olds Grizzlys (AJHL) 16 Andrew Pettitt SO F 5-10 170 R 21 Whitehorse, Yukon Territory / (BCHL) 17 Jordan Kwas JR F 5-10 182 R 23 Cochrane, Alberta / Olds Grizzlys (AJHL) 18 Chris Crowell SR F 6-3 205 R 24 Williams Lake, British Columbia / (BCHL) 19 Bobby Murphy FR F 5-10 170 L 21 Anchorage, Alaska / (NAHL) 20 Hayden Trupp FR F 5-8 162 L 20 Anchorage, Alaska / Alexandria Blizzard (NAHL) 21 Matt Bailey JR F 6-1 196 L 21 Oakbank, Manitoba / (USHL) 22 Blake Leask FR D 5-9 175 R 20 Edmonton, Alberta / Bonnyville Pontiacs (AJHL) 23 Kory Roy SO F 5-10 184 L 22 Anchorage, Alaska / Canmore Eagles (AJHL) 26 Tyler Currier SR F 6-2 206 R 24 Anchorage, Alaska / Alaska Avalanche (NAHL) 28 Andrew Pickering JR F 5-11 176 L 23 West Vancouver, British Columbia / (BCHL) 29 Scott Allen SO F 6-3 201 L 22 Edmonton, Alberta / Spruce Grove Saints (AJHL) 31 Michael Matyas FR G 6-3 180 L 20 Calgary, Alberta / Calgary Canucks (AJHL) 33 Rob Gunderson JR G 6-1 190 L 22 Lethbridge, Alberta / Brooks Bandits (AJHL) 35 Chris Kamal JR G 5-10 184 L 23 Alpharetta, Georgia / Alexandria Blizzard (NAHL) 37 Chris Williams FR D 6-2 216 21 Pottstown, Pennsylvania / Powell River Kings (BCHL) 40 Daniel Naslund SR F 6-3 208 L 23 Nykoping, Sweden / Vasteras/J20 Sweden

Head Coach: Dave Shyiak (Northern Michigan University '93). Career Record (Entering 2012-13): 76-152-26 (.350) (7 Seasons). Record at Alaska Anchorage (Entering 2012-13): 76-152-26 (.350) (7 Seasons). Associate Head Coach: Campbell Blair (University of Maine '91). Assistant Coach: TJ Jindra (Notre Dame '07). Goaltending Coach: Scott Johnson (Minnesota Duluth). Manager: Patrick Robertson. Athletic Trainer: Kevin Lechtenberg (University of Iowa '94). 2012-13 Numerical Roster

No. Name (NHL Draft) Yr Pos Height Weight S/C Age Hometown / Last Team 3 James Hansen FR D 6-1 225 L 21 Maple Grove, Minnesota / Waterloo (USHL) 4 David Boehm SR F 5-9 190 R 23 Naples, Florida / UMass 5 Matt Carlson SR D 6-3 231 L 25 Grand Forks, North Dakota / Fairbanks (NAHL) 7 Brance Orban SR F 5-8 165 L 24 Lethbridge, Alberta / Olds (AJHL) 8 Jake Areshenko SR D 6-0 194 L 24 Port Coquitlam, British Columbia / Fargo (USHL) 9 Ben Kinne SR F 6-0 195 L 24 St. Paul, Minnesota / Sioux City (USHL) 11 Graeme McCormack FR D 6-1 194 R 21 Thunder Bay, Ontario / Nanaimo (BCHL) 12 Jeff Jubinville JR F 5-9 176 L 23 Edmonton, Alberta / Wenatchee (NAHL) 13 Cory Ward FR F 5-10 194 R 19 Las Vegas, Nevada / Aberdeen (NAHL) 14 Aaron McLeod SR F 5-9 167 L 24 Ottawa, Ontario / Ottawa (CJHL) (Other) 15 Sam Windle SO D 6-3 218 R 20 Maple Grove, Minnesota / Des Moines (USHL) 16 Danny Mattson SO F 5-10 175 R 21 Minneapolis, Minnesota / Youngstown (USHL) 17 Brad Robbins FR F 5-7 169 R 21 Murrieta, California / Sioux City (USHL) 18 Radoslav Illo (ANA) JR F 5-11 199 L 22 Bystrica, Slovakia / Tri-City (USHL) 19 Tyler Tosunian SO F 5-7 162 R 22 Whittier, California / Pembroke (CJHL) (Other) 20 Sam Rendle SO D 5-10 174 L 22 Grand Rapids, Minnesota / Bismark (NAHL) 21 Matt Hartmann SR F 5-11 190 R 23 Hugo, Minnesota / Topeka (NAHL) 22 Matt Prapavessis SO D 6-1 183 R 21 Oakville, Ontario / Lincoln (USHL) 23 Markus Gerbrandt FR F 5-10 173 L 21 Edmonton, Alberta / Fort McMurray (AJHL) 25 Brady Wacker SR D 5-7 160 R 24 Jansen, Saskatchewan / Humbolt (SJHL) 26 Kyle Brodie JR D 6-1 198 R 21 Northglenn, Colorado / Wenatchee (NAHL) 27 Mitch Cain SO F 6-1 205 R 21 Fort Frances, Ontario / Des Moines (USHL) 28 Jordan George SR F 5-8 160 L 22 Madison, Wisconsin / Topeka (NAHL) 29 Phil Brewer FR F 6-1 186 R 22 Cambridge, Ontario / Burlington (OJHL) 30 Andrew Walsh SO G 6-2 196 L 21 Dawson Creek, British Columbia / Dawson Creek (NAHL) 33 Fabian Sivnert FR G 5-9 169 L 20 Hollviken, Sweden / Valley Jr. Warriors (EJHL) 35 Mathieu Dugas SR G 6-0 180 R 24 L'Assomption, Quebec / Wenatchee (NAHL)

Captain: Ben Kinne. Assistant Captain: Jake Areshenko. Head Coach: Tom Serratore (Bemidji State '87). Career Record (Entering 2012-13): 195-164-41 (.539) (11 Seasons). Record at Bemidji State (Entering 2012-13): 195-164-41 (.539) (11 Seasons). Assistant Coach: Bert Gilling (Minnesota Duluth '99). Assistant Coach: Ted Belisle (Bemidji State '01). Volunteer Assistant Coach: Jeremy Coupal (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute '12). Strength and Conditioning Coach: Joseph Gorshe (Wisconsin-Eau Claire '07. WCHA Men’s Release • 100812

2012-13 WCHA Team Rosters con’t Colorado College Tigers 2012-13 Numerical Roster

No. Name (NHL Draft) Yr Pos Height Weight S/C Age Hometown / Last Team 2 Russell Finch FR D 5-11 192 R 21 Casper, Wyoming / (NAHL) 3 Michael King FR D 6-4 227 R 19 Prince George, British Columbia / Lloydminster Bobcats (AJHL) 4 Joe Marciano SR D 6-2 210 R 22 Alta Loma, California / 5 Aaron Harstad (WPG) SO D 6-1 200 L 20 Stevens Point, Wisconsin / 6 Peter Stoykewych (WPG) SO D 6-3 200 L 20 Winnipeg, Manitoba / Des Moines Buccaneers 7 Eamonn McDermott JR D 5-10 185 R 20 Shaker Heights, Ohio / 10 Cody Bradley FR F 5-10 167 L 18 Tampa, Florida / Dubuque Fighting Saints (USHL) 11 Hunter Fejes (PHX) FR F 6-1 192 L 18 Anchorage, Alaska / Shattuck St. Mary's (Tier1) 12 Archie Skalbeck JR F 5-9 167 L 21 Hopkins, Minnesota / Hopkins HIgh School 13 Rylan Schwartz SR F 5-10 196 L 22 Wilcox, Saskatchewan / 14 Jordan DiGiando SO F 5-9 165 R 21 Gahanna, Ohio / Dubuque Fighting Saints 15 Andrew Hamburg SR F 6-3 203 R 23 Phoenix, Arizona / St. Louis Bandits 16 Alexander Krushelnyski JR F 5-11 173 L 21 Bloomfield Hills, Michigan / 17 Charlie Taft SO F 6-1 187 R 21 Edina, Minnesota / 18 Scott Wamsganz SO F 6-4 200 L 20 Anchorage, Alaska / Dubuque Fighting Saints 19 Michael Morin JR F 5-11 192 L 21 Plymouth, Minnesota / Breck School 20 Ian Young SO D 6-1 195 L 20 City, Texas / Fargo Force 21 Jeff Collett JR F 6-0 185 R 22 Calgary, Alberta / Calgary Royals 22 Peter Maric FR F 5-10 184 L 19 Milwaukee, Wisconsin / Green Bay Gamblers (USHL) 24 Jared Hanson FR F 6-0 188 R 19 Palmer, Alaska / (USHL) 25 Scott Winkler (DAL) SR F 6-3 212 R 22 Asker, Norway / 27 William Rapuzzi SR F 5-11 192 R 22 Anchorage, Alaska / Green Bay Gamblers 28 Mike Boivin SR D 6-1 190 R 21 Delta, British Columbia / 29 Courtney Lockwood SO G 6-0 185 L 22 Breckenridge, Colorado / Springfield Pics 31 Joe Howe SR G 6-0 195 L 22 Plymouth, Minnesota / Waterloo Blackhawks 39 Josh Thorimbert JR G 5-11 195 L 19 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan / Kindersley Klippers

Captain: William Rapuzzi. Assistant Captains: Joe Marciano, Rylan Schwartz, Eamonn McDermott. Head Coach: Scott Owens (Colorado College '79). Career Record (Entering 2012-13): 299-185-43 (.608) (13 Seasons). Record at Colorado College (Entering 2012-13): 299-185-43 (.608) (13 Seasons). Assistant Coach: Joe Bonnett (Western Michigan '93). Assistant Coach: Eric Rud (Colorado College '97). Volunteer Assistant Coach: Terry Kleisinger (Wisconsin '84). Strength and Conditioning Coach: Scott Caulfield (Castleton State College '00). 2012-13 Numerical Roster

No. Name (NHL Draft) Yr Pos Height Weight S/C Age Hometown / Last Team 1 Sam Brittain (FLA) JR G 6-1 215 L 20 Calgary, Alberta / Canmore Kodiaks (AJHL) 2 (NYI) SO D 6-4 205 R 19 St. Louis, Missouri / (USHL) 4 Josiah Didier (MTL) SO D 6-2 215 R 19 Littleton, Colorado / Cedar Rapids RoughRiders(USHL) 6 Dakota Mermis FR D 5-11 185 L 18 Alton, Illinois / Green Bay Gamblers (USHL) 7 Paul Phillips (CHI) SR D 5-11 200 R 21 Darien, Illinois / Cedar Rapids RoughRiders (USHL) 8 Nolan Zajac FR D 5-11 180 L 20 Winnepeg, Alberta / Omaha Lancers (USHL) 9 Gabe Levin FR F 5-7 160 L 20 Marina del Rey, California / Fairbanks Ice Dogs (NAHL) 10 David Makowski JR D 6-1 205 R 23 Wildwood, Missouri / Green Bay Gamblers (USHL) 11 Chris Knowlton SR F 5-10 185 R 22 Colorado Springs, Colorado / Des Moines Buccaneers (USHL) 12 Ty Loney SO F 6-3 195 R 20 Valencia, Pennsylvania / Youngstown Phantoms (USHL) 14 Larkin Jacobson SO F 6-1 215 R 21 Sioux City, Iowa / (NAHL) 16 Zac Larraza (PHX) SO F 6-2 200 L 19 Scottsdale, Arizona / USNTDP (NTDP) 17 Garrett Allen FR F 5-11 165 R 20 Delafield, Wisconsin / Des Moines Buccaneers (USHL) 19 Daniel Doremus SO F 6-0 200 R 20 Aspen, Colorado / Sioux Falls Stampede (USHL) 21 Joey LaLeggia (EDM) SO D 5-9 180 L 20 Burnaby, British Columbia / Penticton Vees (BCHL) 22 Jarrod Mermis JR F 5-8 165 L 22 Alton, Illinois / Lincoln Stars (USHL) 23 Nick Shore (LOS) JR F 6-0 195 R 20 Denver, Colorado / USNTDP (NTDP) 25 Matt Tabrum SO F 5-10 185 R 21 Colorado Springs, Colorado / Omaha Lancers (USHL) 26 Shawn Ostrow SR F 5-10 185 R 22 Calgary, Alberta / Camrose Kodiaks (AJHL) 27 Quentin Shore FR C 6-1 185 R 18 Denver, Colorado / USNTDP (NTDP) 30 Zack Hope SR G 5-7 150 L 22 Barrington Hills, Illinois / The Hill School (NEPSIHA) 31 Juho Olkinuora SO G 6-2 200 L 21 Helsinki, Finland / Sioux Falls Stampede (USHL) 33 Adam Murray SR G 6-2 185 L 21 Anchorage, Alaska / USNTDP 39 Grant Arnold FR F 6-1 215 R 21 Centennial, Colorado / Green Bay Gamblers (USHL)

Captain: Paul Phillips. Assistant Captains: Chris Knowlton, Shawn Ostrow, Nick Shore. Head Coach: George Gwozdecky (Wisconsin '78). Career Record (Entering 2012- 13): 573-377-80 (.595) (26 Seasons). Record at Denver (Entering 2012-13): 423-253-59 (.616) (18 Seasons). Associate Head Coach: Steve Miller (St. Mary's '88). Assistant Coach: David Lassonde (Providence '84). Assistant Coach: David Tenzer (New York University '84). Volunteer Assistant Coach: Matty Thomas (Navy '05). WCHA Men’s Release • 100812

2012-13 WCHA Team Rosters con’t Michigan Tech Huskies 2012-13 Numerical Roster

No. Name (NHL Draft) Yr Pos Height Weight S/C Age Hometown / Last Team 3 Brad Stebner JR D 6-4 210 L 22 Fort McMurray, Alberta / Fort McMurray (AJHL) 5 Justin Fillion SO D 5-11 180 R 22 Prince George, British Columbia / Victoria (BCHL) 6 Steven Seigo SR D 6-0 185 R 22 Edenwold, Saskatchewan / Bonnyville (AJHL) 7 Jujhar Khaira (EDM) FR F 6-3 195 L 18 Surrey, British Columbia / Prince George (BCHL) 8 Jacob Johnstone JR F 6-0 190 R 22 Grand Ledge, Michigan / Sioux Falls (USHL) 9 Dennis Rix JR F 6-0 190 R 23 Grande Prairie, Alberta / Grande Prairie (AJHL) 10 Tanner Kero SO F 5-11 175 L 20 Hancock, Michigan / Fargo (USHL) 11 Daniel Holmberg JR F 6-4 215 L 22 Nykoping, Sweden / Linkopings (J-20 Super Elite) 12 Ryan Furne JR F 6-2 215 R 22 Oakdale, Minnesota / Green Bay (USHL) 13 Aaron Pietila SR W 6-0 195 L 24 Brighton, Michigan / Traverse City (NAHL) 14 Chad Pietila SR F 5-11 195 R 23 Brighton, Michigan / Northern Michigan 15 David Johnstone SO F 5-11 175 R 20 Grande Ledge, Michigan / Indiana (USHL) 17 Mikael Lickteig SR W 6-0 185 R 25 Little Falls, Minnesota / Alexandria (NAHL) 18 C.J. Eick FR F 5-7 160 L 20 Appleton, Wisconsin / Green Bay (USHL) 19 Blake Pietila (NJD) SO F 5-11 190 R 19 Brighton, Michigan / USNTDP 20 Blake Hietala SO F 5-10 180 R 22 Houghton, Michigan / Melfort (SJHL) 21 Tommy Brown SR D 5-9 180 L 23 Prince Albert, Saskatchewan / Melfort (SJHL) 22 Malcolm Gould FR F 5-11 175 R 19 North Vancouver, British Columbia / Chilliwack (BCHL) 23 Alex Petan FR F 5-8 155 R 20 Delta, British Columbia / Coquitlam (BCHL) 24 Daniel Sova JR D 6-4 225 R 22 Cottage Grove, Minnesota / Waterloo (USHL) 25 Carl Nielsen SR D 6-4 225 R 24 Lorain, Ohio / (NAHL) 26 Jimmy Davis SO D 6-0 185 R 19 Caledonia, Michigan / East Kentwood High School 28 Milos Gordic JR C 6-5 210 R 23 Burnaby, British Columbia / Langley (BCHL) 29 Walker Hyland FR D 5-11 185 R 20 Woodbury, Minnesota / Alberni Valley (BCHL) 30 Jamie Phillips (WPG) FR G 6-3 175 L 19 Caledonia, Ontario / Toronto (OJHL) 31 FR G 6-3 175 L 20 North Pole, Alaska / Des Moines (USHL) 33 Patrick Anderson FR F 5-11 190 R 21 Bismarck, North Dakota / New Mexico (NAHL) 34 Riley Sweeney SO D 6-1 190 R 20 Delta, British Columbia / Surrey (BCHL) 35 Kevin Genoe SR G 5-11 165 L 22 Qualicum Beach, British Columbia / Prince George (BCHL)

Captain: Carl Nielsen. Assistant Captains: Steven Seigo, Brad Stebner. Head Coach: Mel Pearson (Michigan Technological University '81). Career Record (Entering 2012- 13): 16-19-4 (.462) (1 Season). Record at Michigan Tech (Entering 2012-13): 16-19-4 (.462) (1 Season). Assistant Coach: Bill Muckalt (Michigan '98). Assistant Coach: Damon Whitten (Michigan State '01). Goaltending Coach: Steve Shields (Michigan '94). Athletic Trainer: Brian Brewster (Nebraska Omaha '00). Minnesota Golden Gophers 2012-13 Numerical Roster

No. Name (NHL Draft) Yr Pos Height Weight S/C Age Hometown / Last Team 1 Michael Shibrowski JR G 6-1 187 L 21 Andover, Minnesota / Des Moines Buccaneers (USHL) 2 Brady Skjei (NYR) FR D 6-2 197 L 18 Lakeville, Minnesota / USNDTP (NTDP) 3 Blake Thompson SO D 6-3 216 R 21 Eden Prairie, Minnesota / (USHL) 4 Seth Helgeson (NJD) SR D 6-4 215 L 21 Faribault, Minnesota / Sioux City Musketeers (USHL) 5 Mike Reilly FR D 6-0 174 L 19 Chanhassen, Minnesota / Penticton Vees (BCHL) 6 Jake Parenteau JR D 5-10 196 L 23 Shafer, Minnesota / Alaska Avalanche (NAHL) 7 Kyle Rau (FLA) SO F 5-8 173 L 19 Eden Prairie, Minnesota / Sioux Falls Stampede (USHL) 9 Ryan Reilly FR F 5-7 168 L 21 Chanhassen, Minnesota / Penticton Vees (BCHL) 10 Ben Marshall (DET) SO D 5-9 183 L 20 Mahtomedi, Minnesota / Omaha Lancers (USHL) 11 Sam Warning SO F 5-9 181 L 20 Chesterfield, Missouri / Cedar Rapids - USHL 12 Justin Holl (CHI) JR D 6-3 190 R 20 Tonka Bay, Minnesota / Minnetonka (USHS) 14 Tom Serratore JR F 6-0 185 L 23 Colorado Springs, Colorado / Youngstown Phantoms (USHL) 15 A.J. Michaelson FR F 5-11 200 L 18 Apple Valley, Minnesota / Waterloo Black Hawks (USHL) 16 Nate Condon (COL) JR F 6-0 198 L 22 Wausau, Wisconsin / Fargo Force (USHL) 17 Seth Ambroz (CLB) SO F 6-2 210 R 19 New Prague, Minnesota / Omaha Lancers (USHL) 18 Christian Horn FR F 5-11 178 R 19 Plymouth, Minnesota / Benilde-St. Margaret's (USHS) 19 Erik Haula (MIN) JR F 5-11 190 L 21 Pori, Finland / Omaha Lancers (USHL) 20 Mark Alt (CAR) JR D 6-3 205 R 20 St. Paul, Minnesota / Cretin-Derham Hall (USHS) 21 Connor Reilly FR F 5-11 174 L 21 Chanhassen, Minnesota / Penticton Vees (BCHL) 22 Travis Boyd (WSH) SO F 5-11 190 R 19 Hopkins, Minnesota / USNDTP (NTDP) 23 Jared Larson JR F 6-2 195 L 23 Apple Valley, Minnesota / Fairbanks Ice Dogs (NAHL) 24 Zach Budish (NSH) JR F 6-3 214 R 21 Edina, Minnesota / Edina (USHS) 26 Christian Isackson (BUF) SO F 6-2 190 R 20 Pine City, Minnesota / Sioux Falls Stampede (USHL) 27 Nick Bjugstad (FLA) JR F 6-6 220 R 20 Blaine, Minnesota / Blaine (USHS) 29 Nate Schmidt JR D 6-0 195 L 21 St. Cloud, Minnesota / Fargo Force (USHL) 30 Matt LaPrade FR G 6-4 200 20 Chanhassen, Minnesota / Bay State Breakers (EJHL) 31 Ryan Coyne FR G 6-0 190 19 Plymouth, Minnesota / (NAHL) 32 Adam Wilcox FR G 6-0 186 19 South St. Paul, Minnesota / Tri-City Storm (USHL)

Captain: Zach Budish. Assistant Captains: Seth Helgeson, Nick Bjugstad. Head Coach: Don Lucia (Notre Dame '81). Career Record (Entering 2012-13): 597-328-83 (.633) (25 Seasons). Record at Minnesota (Entering 2012-13): 318-173-54 (.633) (13 Seasons). Assistant Coach: Grant Potulny (Minnesota '04). Associate Head Coach: Mike Guentzel (Minnesota '87). Goaltending Coach: Justin Johnson (Minnesota '05). Strength and Conditioning Coach: Cal Dietz (Findlay '96). WCHA Men’s Release • 100812

2012-13 WCHA Team Rosters con’t Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs 2012-13 Numerical Roster

No. Name (NHL Draft) Yr Pos Height Weight S/C Age Hometown / Last Team 4 Derik Johnson SO D 6-0 195 L 22 Bloomington, Minnesota / Penticton (USHL) 4 Willie Corrin FR D 6-2 200 L 21 International Falls, Minnesota / Fargo (USHL) 5 Chris Casto SO D 6-3 210 R 20 Stillwater, Minnesota / Lincoln (USHL) 7 (ANA) FR D 6-1 200 R 19 Duluth, Minnesota / Green Bay (USHL) 8 Drew Olson (CLB) SR D 6-0 200 L 22 Brainerd, Minnesota / Omaha (USHL) 10 Dan DeLisle (CHI) SR W 6-5 230 L 22 Arden Hills, Minnesota / Totino-Grace 11 Austin Farley FR W 5-9 170 L 18 Niles, Illinois / Fargo (USHL) 13 Tony Cameranesi (TOR) FR C 5-10 180 R 19 Maple Grove, Minnesota / Waterloo (USHL) 14 Keegan Flaherty SR W 6-0 195 R 22 Duluth, Minnesota / Fargo (USHL) 15 Jake Hendrickson SR C 5-10 180 R 22 Savage, Minnesota / Sioux City/USHL 16 Tim Smith JR D 6-0 200 L 22 Superior, Wisconsin / Indiana (USHL) 17 Mike Seidel SR W 5-10 175 R 24 Darrien, Illinois / Cedar Rapids (USHL) 18 Joe Basaraba (FLA) JR W 6-3 195 R 20 Fort Frances, Ontario / Shattuck-St. Mary's School 19 Max Tardy (STL) JR C 6-0 195 R 21 Duluth, Minnesota / Tri-City (USHL) 20 Cody Danberg SR W 6-0 190 L 25 Canwood, Saskatchewan / Nanaimo (BCHL) 21 Caleb Herbert (WSH) SO W 6-0 195 R 20 Bloomington, Minnesota / Sioux City (USHL) 22 Luke McManus SO D 6-1 200 L 22 Apple Valley, Minnesota / Tri-City (USHL) 23 Austyn Young FR W 5-11 185 L 18 South St. Paul, Minnesota / Sioux Falls (USHL) 24 Charlie Sampair FR C 6-1 190 L 18 White Bear Lake, Minnesota / Hill Murray H.S. 25 Justin Crandall SO W 5-11 185 R 20 Lakeville, Minnesota / Omaha (USHL) 26 Adam Krause SO W 6-2 210 R 21 Hermantown, Minnesota / Sioux City (USHL) 27 Cal Decowski FR C 5-9 180 L 20 Andover, Minnesota / Des Moines (USHL) 28 Wade Bergman SR D 5-9 165 L 22 Calgary, Alberta / Olds (AJHL) 30 Alex Fons FR G 6-1 190 R 20 Minnetonka, Minnesota / Fairbanks (NAHL) 31 Aaron Crandall JR G 6-1 195 L 22 Lakeville, Minnesota / Des Moines/USHL 36 Matt McNeely FR G 6-3 200 R 19 Burnsville, Minnesota / Cedar Rapids (USHL)

Captain: Cody Danberg. Assistant Captains: Drew Olson, Keegan Flaherty. Head Coach: Scott Sandelin (University of North Dakota '86). Career Record (Entering 2012- 13): 217-210-58 (.507) (12 Seasons). Record at Minnesota Duluth (Entering 2012-13): 217-210-58 (.507) (12 Seasons). Assistant Coach: Jason Herter (University of North Dakota '05). Assistant Coach: Derek Plante (University of Minnesota Duluth '09). Assistant Coach: (University of Minnesota Duluth '90). Athletic Trainer: Dr. Susan Hoppe (University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire '99). Strength and Conditioning Coach: Blake Palmer (University of Northern Iowa '08). Minnesota State Mavericks 2012-13 Numerical Roster

No. Name (NHL Draft) Yr Pos Height Weight S/C Age Hometown / Last Team 2 Josh Nelson JR D 6-0 180 R 23 Wisconsin Rapids,, Wisconsin / Fairbanks (NAHL) 4 Nick Buchanan FR D 6-3 205 L 21 Victoria, British Columbia / Penticton (BCHL) 7 Zach Palmquist SO D 5-11 175 L 21 So. St. Paul, Minnesota / Waterloo (USHL) 8 Max Gaede (SJS) SO F 6-3 200 R 20 Woodbury, Minnesota / Sioux City (USHL) 9 Bryce Gervais FR F 5-10 175 L 20 Battleford, Saskatchewan / Penticton (BCHL) 10 Mat Knoll SO D 6-0 180 R 22 Edmonton, Alberta / Spruce Grove (AJHL) 11 Corey Leivermann JR F 5-11 175 R 22 Mankato, Minnesota / Fargo (USHL) 12 Jean-Paul Lafontaine SO F 5-10 172 L 20 Oxford, Michigan / Green Bay (USHL) 14 Taylor Hendon FR F 6-3 195 L 21 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma / Texas (NAHL) 15 J.P. Burkemper JR F 6-3 190 L 21 St. Louis, Missouri / Fargo (USHL) 16 Tyler Elbrecht SR D 6-4 210 L 23 Edwardsville, Illinois / St. Louis (NAHL) 17 Evan Mosey SR D 5-11 185 R 23 Downers Grove, Illinois / Wenatchee (NAHL) 18 Matt Leitner SO F 5-9 170 L 21 Los Alamitos, California / Fargo (USHL) 19 Zach Lehrke JR F 5-8 170 R 22 Park Rapids, Minnesota / Cedar Rapids (USHL) 20 Charlie Thauwald SO F 6-3 225 R 21 Rochester, Minnesota / Fairbanks (NAHL) 21 Chase Grant SO F 5-11 195 L 23 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma / Fargo (USHL) 22 Johnny McInnis JR F 6-1 200 R 23 Boston, Massachusetts / Okotoks (AJHL) 23 Teddy Blueger (PIT) FR F 5-11 165 L 18 Riga, Latvia / Shattuck (PREP) 24 Brett Knowles FR F 5-11 181 L 21 Vanderhoof, British Columbia / Cowichan Valley (BCHL) 25 Eriah Hayes SR F 6-4 210 R 24 La Crescent, Minnesota / Waterloo (USHL) 26 Dylan Margonari FR F 6-1 190 L 20 Greensburg, Pennsylvania / Youngstown (USHL) 27 Brett Stern SO D 6-3 185 L 20 Lino Lakes, Minnesota / Green Bay (USHL) 28 Jon Jutzi FR D 6-2 190 L 21 Tavistock, Ontario / Powell River (BCHL) 29 Eli Zuck SR F 6-0 190 L 23 Anchorage, Alaska / Tri-City (USHL) 30 Phil Cook SR G 6-3 195 L 24 Wheaton, Illinois / Fairbanks (NAHL) 31 Evan Karambelas SO G 6-3 210 L 23 Fort St. John, British Columbia / Topeka (NAHL) 35 FR G 6-2 190 R 19 Fairbanks, Alaska / Sioux Falls (USHL)

Captain: Tyler Elbrecht. Head Coach: Mike Hastings (St. Cloud State '93). Career Record (Entering 2012-13): 0-0-0. Record at Minnesota State (Entering 2012-13): 0-0-0. Associate Head Coach: Darren Blue (Minnesota State '96). Assistant Coach: Todd Knott (Bemidji State '02). WCHA Men’s Release • 100812

2012-13 WCHA Team Rosters con’t Nebraska Omaha Mavericks 2012-13 Numerical Roster

No. Name (NHL Draft) Yr Pos Height Weight S/C Age Hometown / Last Team 2 Brian Cooper (ANA) FR D 5-11 187 L 18 Anchorage, Alaska / Fargo (USHL) 3 Andrej Sustr JR D 6-8 200 R 21 Plzen, Czech Republic / Youngstown (USHL) 4 Tony Turgeon JR D 6-4 228 L 23 Grand Forks, North Dakota / Waterloo (USHL) 7 Michael Young JR D 6-3 213 L 23 Calgary, Alberta / Flin Flon (SJHL) 8 Jaycob Megna SO D 6-6 200 L 19 Northbrook, Illinois / Muskegon (USHL) 9 James Polk SO F 6-0 181 L 20 New York, New York / Penticton (BCJHL) 10 Alex Simonson JR F 6-2 201 R 22 Grand Forks, North Dakota / Chicago (USHL) 11 Nick Seeler (MIN) FR D 6-2 192 L 19 Eden Prairie, Minnesota / Des Moines/Muskegon (USHL) 12 Brock Montpetit JR F 5-11 189 R 22 Somerset, Wisconsin / Waterloo (USHL) 13 Zahn Raubenheimer JR F 5-10 176 R 23 Smoky Lake, Alberta / Grand Prairie (AJHL) 14 Dominic Zombo SO F 5-11 182 L 21 Ballwin, Missouri / Sioux Falls (USHL) 15 Josh Archibald (PIT) SO F 5-10 170 R 19 Brainerd, Minnesota / Brainerd High School 16 Joe Krause SO F 5-10 180 L 23 Hermantown, Minnesota / Fairbanks (NAHL) 17 Ryan Walters JR F 6-0 188 L 21 Rosemount, Minnesota / Des Moines (USHL) 18 Charlie Adams FR F 6-1 189 R 20 Mahtomedi, Minnesota / Austin (NAHL) 19 Tanner Lane (WPG) FR F 6-3 184 L 20 Detroit Lakes, Minnesota / Omaha/Fargo (USHL) 21 Matt White JR F 5-10 185 L 23 Whittier, California / Omaha (USHL) 22 Andrew Schmit SO F 6-4 225 R 21 Grafton, Wisconsin / Lincoln (USHL) 23 Johnnie Searfoss JR F 6-0 185 L 22 Colleyville, Texas / Fargo (USHL) 24 Bryce Aneloski (OTT) SR D 6-2 207 R 22 Pekin, Illinois / Cedar Rapids (USHL) 25 Brent Gwidt (WSH) SR F 6-2 224 L 24 Minocqua, Wisconsin / Indiana (USHL) 27 Aaron Pearce FR F 6-0 192 L 20 Mississauga, Ontario / Waterloo (USHL) 28 Brian O'Rourke SO D 6-0 185 L 21 St. Louis, Missouri / Green Bay (USHL) 29 Dayn Belfour SO G 6-0 193 L 23 Morden, Manitoba / Fargo (USHL) 30 John Faulkner SR G 6-1 207 L 24 Sarnia, Ontario / Sarnia (WOHL) 33 Anthony Stolarz (PHI) FR G 6-6 220 L 18 Jackson, New Jersey / Corpus Christi (NAHL)

Head Coach: Dean Blais (Minnesota '73). Career Record (Entering 2012-13): 317-165-47 (.644) (13 Seasons). Record at Nebraska Omaha (Entering 2012-13): 55-50-14 (.521) (3 Seasons). Assistant Coach: Steve Johnson (North Dakota '88). Assistant Coach: Troy Jutting (Minnesota State '87).‑ North Dakota 2012-13 Numerical Roster

No. Name (NHL Draft) Yr Pos Height Weight S/C Age Hometown / Last Team 2 Andrew MacWilliam (TOR) SR D 6-2 230 L 22 Calgary, Alberta / Camrose (AJHL) 4 Derek Forbort (LOS) JR D 6-4 218 L 20 Duluth, Minnesota / U.S. Under-18 5 Nick Mattson (CHI) SO D 6-1 185 L 20 Chanhassen, Minnesota / Indiana (USHL) 7 Danny Kristo (MTL) SR F 5-11 185 R 22 Eden Prairie, Minnesota / Omaha (USHL) 8 Dan Senkbeil SO D/F 6-4 218 L 21 Fremont, California / Alaska (NAHL) 9 Drake Caggiula FR F 5-10 175 L 18 Pickering, Ontario / Stouffville (OJHL) 10 Corban Knight (FLA) SR F 6-2 200 R 22 High River, Alberta / Okotoks (AJHL) 11 Derek Rodwell (NJD) JR F 6-2 195 R 22 Taber, Alberta / Okotoks (AJHL) 13 Connor Gaarder SO F 5-10 187 R 21 Edina, Minnesota / Coulee Region (NAHL) 15 Michael Parks (PHI) SO F 6-0 200 R 20 St. Louis, Missouri / Cedar Rapids (USHL) 16 Mark MacMillan (MTL) SO F 6-0 168 L 20 Penticton, British Columbia / Penticton (BCHL) 17 Colten St. Clair FR F 5-11 180 R 19 Gilbert, Arizona / Fargo (USHL) 18 Dillon Simpson (EDM) JR D 6-2 200 L 19 Edmonton, Alberta / Spruce Grove (AJHL 19 Rocco Grimaldi (FLA) FR F 5-6 170 R 19 Rossmoor, California / U.S. Under-18 20 Joe Gleason (CHI) SR D 5-9 180 R 22 Edina, Minnesota / Des Moines (USHL) 21 Brendan O'Donnell (TBL) SO F 6-0 185 L 20 Winnipeg, Manitoba / Penticton (BCHL) 22 Andrew Panzarella SO D 6-1 200 R 22 Washington, District of Columbia / Waterloo (USHL) 24 Jordan Schmaltz FR D 6-2 190 R 18 Verona, Wisconsin / Green Bay (USHL) 25 Mitch MacMillan JR F 5-11 190 L 22 Penticton, British Columbia / Alberni Valley (BCHL) 26 Coltyn Sanderson FR F 6-2 175 L 21 Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan / Weyburn (SJHL) 27 Carter Rowney SR F 6-2 208 R 22 Sexsmith, Alberta / Grande Prairie (AJHL) 28 Stephane Pattyn SO F 6-0 208 L 21 Ste. Anne, Manitoba / Portage (MJHL) 29 Bryn Chyzyk FR F 6-0 185 L 19 Virden, Manitoba / Fargo (USHL) 31 Zane Gothberg FR G 6-2 198 L 20 Thief River Falls, Minnesota / Fargo (USHL) 33 Clarke Saunders JR G 6-2 207 L 23 Brockville, Ontario / Brockville (CCHL) 35 Tate Maris SR G 5-9 172 L 23 Denver, Colorado / Bozeman (NPHL)

Captain: Andrew MacWilliam. Assistant Captains: Danny Kristo, Corban Knight, Carter Rowney. Head Coach: Dave Hakstol (North Dakota '96). Career Record (Entering 2012-13): 213-105-30 (.655) (8 Seasons). Record at North Dakota (Entering 2012-13): 213-105-30 (.655) (8 Seasons). Assistant Coach: (North Dakota '02). Assistant Coach: Dane Jackson (North Dakota '92). Volunteer Assistant Coach: (North Dakota '01). Athletic Trainer: Mark Poolman (North Dakota '92). Manager: Andy Rannells (Minnesota Duluth '09). WCHA Men’s Release • 100812

2012-13 WCHA Team Rosters con’t St. Cloud State Huskies 2012-13 Numerical Roster

No. Name (NHL Draft) Yr Pos Height Weight S/C Age Hometown / Last Team 2 Jarrod Rabey SO D/F 6-2 237 R 20 Rockton, Illinois / Indiana-USHL 4 Taylor Johnson SR D 5-10 160 R 22 White Bear Lake, Minnesota / Green Bay Gamblers - USHL 7 Kevin Gravel (LOS) JR D 6-4 200 L 20 Kingsford, Michigan / Sioux City-USHL 8 Cory Thorson JR F 6-2 200 L 22 Crystal, Minnesota / Owatonna-NAHL 9 Joey Benik FR F 5-10 170 L 20 Andover, Minnesota / Penticton (BCHL) 10 Ben Hanowski (PIT) SR F 6-2 195 L 21 Little Falls, Minnesota / Little Falls H.S. 11 Kalle Kossila FR F 5-10 167 L 19 Kauniainen, Finland / Blues U20 (Other) 12 FR D 5-11 180 R 19 Sauk Rapids, Minnesota / Des Moines (USHL) 13 David Morley FR F 5-7 170 R 22 Richmond Hills, Ontario / Victoria-BCHL 14 Nick Jensen (DET) JR D 6-1 193 R 22 Rogers, Minnesota / Green Bay-USHL 16 Jimmy Murray FR F 5-7 165 L 20 Darien, Illinois / Omaha (USHL) 17 Joey Holka SO F 6-3 190 R 22 Phoenix, Arizona / Penticton-BCHL 18 Garrett Milan SO F 5-6 160 L 21 Whistler, British Columbia / Penticton-BCHL 19 Drew LeBlanc SR F 6-0 195 L 23 Hermantown, Minnesota / Chicago - USHL 20 Brandon Burrell JR D 6-0 195 L 22 Brooklyn Park, Minnesota / Wenatchee-NAHL 21 Brooks Bertsch SO F 5-10 185 R 22 Dubuque, Iowa / Dubuque-USHL 22 Jonny Brodzinski FR F 6-1 200 R 19 Ham Lake, Minnesota / Fargo (USHL) 23 T.J. Belisle FR F 5-11 180 L 20 Andover, Minnesota / Minnesota (MnJHL) 26 Nic Dowd (LOS) JR F 6-2 196 R 22 Huntsville, Alabama / Indiana-USHL 27 Nick Oliver (NSH) SO F 6-2 200 L 21 Roseau, Minnesota / Fargo-USHL 28 Andrew Prochno SO D 5-11 185 L 20 Minnetonka, Minnesota / Sioux Falls-USHL 29 Ryan Faragher SO G 6-2 205 L 22 Fort Frances, Ontario / Bismarck-NAHL 33 Joe Phillippi SO G 5-8 170 L 22 Shoreview, Minnesota / Fairbanks-NAHL 35 Rasmus Reijola FR G 6-3 200 L 19 Espoo, Finland / Blues U20 (Other) 37 Joe Rehkamp SO F 5-11 180 R 21 Plymouth, Minnesota / Waterloo-USHL 40 Tim Daly SO D 5-11 190 R 20 Maple Ridge, British Columbia / Langley-BCHL

Head Coach: Bob Motzko (St. Cloud State University '87). Career Record (Entering 2012-13): 137-109-34 (.550) (7 Seasons). Record at St. Cloud State (Entering 2012- 13): 137-109-34 (.550) (7 Seasons). Assistant Coach: Mike Gibbons (Bemidji State '81). Assistant Coach: Garrett Raboin (St. Cloud State '10). Goaltending Coach: Dave Rogalski (St. Mary's (MN)). Athletic Trainer: Bryan DeMaine (University of Mary '00). Manager: Jeremiah Minkel (St. Cloud State '99). 2012-13 Numerical Roster

No. Name (NHL Draft) Yr Pos Height Weight S/C Age Hometown / Last Team 2 Spencer Bell FR F 6-2 185 R 18 Maple Grove, Minnesota / Maple Grove High School (USHS) 5 Chase Drake JR D 6-1 185 L 22 Mosinee, Wisconsin / Sioux City (USHL) 7 Tyler Barnes JR F 6-0 190 R 22 Eagan, Minnesota / Waterloo (USHL) 8 Matt Paape SO F 5-9 185 L 21 Appleton, Wisconsin / Sioux City (USHL) 9 Mark Zengerle JR F 5-11 180 R 23 Rochester, New York / Salmon Arm (BCHL) 12 Keegan Meuer JR F 5-10 180 R 23 Madison, Wisconsin / Waterloo (USHL) 13 Gavin Hartzog JR D/F 6-3 215 R 22 Pewaukee, Wisconsin / Fargo (USHL) 14 Jefferson Dahl JR F 5-9 175 R 23 Eau Claire, Wisconsin / Youngstown (USHL) 15 Morgan Zulinick FR F 5-11 185 L 18 Kamloops, British Columbia / Salmon Arm (BCHL) 16 Joseph LaBate (VAN) SO F 6-4 200 L 19 Eagan, Minnesota / Academy of Holy Angels H.S. 17 Nic Kerdiles (ANA) FR F 6-1 190 L 18 Irvine, California / USA Hockey NTDP (NTDP) 18 Sean Little JR F 5-11 180 R 21 Fond du Lac, Wisconsin / Green Bay (USHL) 19 Jake McCabe (BUF) SO D 6-1 205 L 18 Eau Claire, Wisconsin / USA Hockey NTDP 20 Ryan Little SR F 5-11 185 L 24 Fond du Lac, Wisconsin / Green Bay (USHL) 21 Brendan Woods (CAR) SO F 6-3 215 L 20 Yorba Linda, California / Muskegon (USHL) 22 Eddie Wittchow (FLA) FR D 6-4 205 L 19 Burnsville, Minnesota / Waterloo (USHL) 23 Derek Lee SR F 5-10 175 R 22 North Vancouver, British Columbia / Victoria (BCHL) 24 Joe Faust (NJD) JR D 5-11 205 R 20 Bloomington, Minnesota / Bloomington-Jefferson H.S. 25 Michael Mersch (LOS) JR F 6-1 215 L 20 Park Ridge, Illinois / USA Hockey NTDP 26 Brad Navin (BUF) SO F 6-3 200 L 20 Waupaca, Wisconsin / Waupaca H.S. 27 Frankie Simonelli JR D 5-10 200 R 20 Bensenville, Illinois / USA Hockey NTDP 28 Kevin Schulze FR D 5-10 165 L 19 White Bear Lake, Minnesota / Omaha (USHL) 30 Landon Peterson SO G 6-0 185 L 22 Oregon, Wisconsin / Alaska (NAHL) 31 Adam Miller FR G 5-10 170 L 20 Long Grove, Illinois / Jersey (EJHL) 33 Joel Rumpel SO G 6-3 185 L 21 Swift Current, Saskatchewan / Penticton (BCHL) 55 John Ramage (CGY) SR D 6-0 205 R 21 St. Louis, Missouri / USA Hockey NTDP

Captain: John Ramage. Assistant Captains: Ryan Little, Derek Lee, Frankie Simonelli. Head Coach: Mike Eaves (Wisconsin '78). Career Record (Entering 2012-13): 209- 156-44 (.565) (10 Seasons). Record at Wisconsin (Entering 2012-13): 209-156-44 (.565) (10 Seasons). Assistant Coach: Bill Butters (University of Minnesota '86). Assis- tant Coach: Gary Shuchuk (University of Wisconsin '90). Volunteer Assistant Coach: Jeff Sanger (Colorado College '02). Strength and Conditioning Coach: Jim Snider (Wisconsin-La Crosse '00). Athletic Trainer: Andy Hrodey (University of Illinois '96). WCHA Men’s Release • 100812 Final 2011-12 WCHA Team Statistics • All Games

Scoring Offense: Games Goals G/GM Combined Special Teams: Totals PCT 1 Minnesota 43 155 3.60 1 Bemidji State 148/265 55.8 2 Minnesota Duluth 41 147 3.59 2 Denver 190/361 52.6 3 Denver 43 139 3.23 3 Alaska Anchorage 145/276 52.5 4 North Dakota 42 135 3.21 4 Minnesota 194/377 51.5 5 Colorado College 36 114 3.17 5 North Dakota 177/351 50.4 6 St. Cloud State 39 120 3.08 6 Minnesota State 178/353 50.4 7 Michigan Tech 39 111 2.85 7 Michigan Tech 164/328 50.0 8 Wisconsin 37 105 2.84 St. Cloud State 140/280 50.0 9 Nebraska Omaha 38 106 2.79 9 Nebraska Omaha 143/290 49.3 10 Bemidji State 38 101 2.66 10 Colorado College 139/288 48.3 Minnesota State 38 101 2.66 11 Minnesota Duluth 182/378 48.1 12 Alaska Anchorage 36 85 2.36 12 Wisconsin 139/299 46.5

Scoring Defense: Games Goals G/GM Special Teams Net: PPF SHA PP PPA SHF SH NET 1 Minnesota 43 99 2.30 1 Minnesota 43 4 +39 37 7 -30 +9 2 North Dakota 42 108 2.57 2 North Dakota 40 5 +35 32 5 -27 +8 3 Denver 43 111 2.58 3 Nebraska Omaha 25 3 +22 26 10 -16 +6 4 Minnesota Duluth 41 106 2.59 4 Colorado College 36 11 +25 27 5 -22 +3 5 St. Cloud State 39 104 2.67 Denver 38 6 +32 32 3 -29 +3 6 Wisconsin 37 102 2.76 Michigan Tech 30 3 +27 30 6 -24 +3 7 Bemidji State 38 109 2.87 7 Minnesota State 34 3 +31 36 7 -29 +2 8 Colorado College 36 104 2.89 8 St. Cloud State 32 3 +29 31 3 -28 +1 9 Nebraska Omaha 38 112 2.95 Wisconsin 33 4 +29 33 5 -28 +1 10 Michigan Tech 39 116 2.97 10 Bemidji State 25 3 +22 24 2 -22 0 11 Minnesota State 38 129 3.39 11 Minnesota Duluth 40 2 +38 41 1 -40 -2 12 Alaska Anchorage 36 134 3.72 12 Alaska Anchorage 25 5 +20 28 2 -26 -6

Penalty Minutes: Games PIM PIM/G Scoring by Periods: 1st 2nd 3rd OT Total 1 Minnesota State 38 571 15.0 1 Minnesota 44 53 56 2 155 2 Denver 43 639 14.9 2 Minnesota Duluth 38 54 53 2 147 3 Wisconsin 37 516 13.9 3 Denver 41 54 38 6 139 4 Minnesota Duluth 41 569 13.9 4 North Dakota 41 52 42 0 135 5 Minnesota 43 595 13.8 5 St. Cloud State 43 35 41 1 120 6 Michigan Tech 39 532 13.6 6 Colorado College 31 45 36 2 114 7 Nebraska Omaha 38 516 13.6 7 Michigan Tech 46 28 33 4 111 8 Alaska Anchorage 36 485 13.5 8 Nebraska Omaha 30 35 39 2 106 9 North Dakota 42 526 12.5 9 Wisconsin 29 37 39 0 105 10 Colorado College 36 444 12.3 10 Bemidji State 31 40 29 1 101 11 St. Cloud State 39 460 11.8 Minnesota State 31 27 42 1 101 12 Bemidji State 38 411 10.8 12 Alaska Anchorage 24 40 19 2 85

Power Play: Totals SHA PCT Goals Allowed by Periods: 1st 2nd 3rd OT Total 1 Colorado College 36/158 11 22.8 1 Minnesota 22 48 27 2 99 2 Minnesota 43/189 4 22.8 2 Wisconsin 27 30 41 4 102 3 St. Cloud State 32/141 3 22.7 3 Colorado College 31 37 33 3 104 4 North Dakota 40/182 5 22.0 St. Cloud State 35 32 33 4 104 5 Denver 38/177 6 21.5 5 Minnesota Duluth 38 34 32 2 106 6 Bemidji State 25/118 3 21.2 6 North Dakota 36 42 29 1 108 7 Wisconsin 33/160 4 20.6 7 Bemidji State 30 40 39 0 109 8 Minnesota Duluth 40/195 2 20.5 8 Denver 32 44 34 1 111 9 Minnesota State 34/173 3 19.7 9 Nebraska Omaha 35 41 33 3 112 10 Alaska Anchorage 25/128 5 19.5 10 Michigan Tech 43 31 41 1 116 11 Michigan Tech 30/164 3 18.3 11 Minnesota State 44 42 40 3 129 12 Nebraska Omaha 25/146 3 17.1 12 Alaska Anchorage 45 47 42 0 134

Penalty Kill: Totals SHF PCT 1 Bemidji State 123/147 2 83.7 2 Denver 152/184 3 82.6 3 Nebraska Omaha 118/144 10 81.9 4 Michigan Tech 134/164 6 81.7 5 Alaska Anchorage 120/148 2 81.1 6 North Dakota 137/169 5 81.1 7 Minnesota 151/188 7 80.3 8 Minnesota State 144/180 7 80.0 9 Colorado College 103/130 5 79.2 10 St. Cloud State 108/139 3 77.7 11 Minnesota Duluth 142/183 1 77.6 12 Wisconsin 106/139 5 76.3 WCHA Men’s Release • 100812 Final 2011-12 WCHA Player Statistics • All Games

Point Scoring: GP PPG G- A- P 1 Jack Connolly Minnesota Duluth SR C 41 1.46 20-40-60 2 Travis Oleksuk Minnesota Duluth SR C 41 1.29 21-32-53 Drew Shore Denver JR F 42 1.26 22-31-53 4 Mark Zengerle Wisconsin SO F 37 1.35 13-37-50 5 Erik Haula Minnesota SO F 43 1.14 20-29-49 6 J.T. Brown Minnesota Duluth SO W 39 1.21 24-23-47 Brock Nelson North Dakota SO F 42 1.12 28-19-47 8 Jason Zucker Denver SO F 38 1.21 22-24-46 9 Danny Kristo North Dakota JR F 42 1.07 19-26-45 10 Justin Schultz Wisconsin JR D 37 1.19 16-28-44 11 Ben Hanowski St. Cloud State JR F 39 1.10 23-20-43 Kyle Rau Minnesota FR F 40 1.07 18-25-43 13 Nick Bjugstad Minnesota SO F 40 1.05 25-17-42 14 Jaden Schwartz Colorado College SO LW 30 1.37 15-26-41 Nick Shore Denver SO F 43 0.95 13-28-41 Nate Schmidt Minnesota SO D 43 0.95 3-38-41 17 Rylan Schwartz Colorado College JR C 35 1.14 23-17-40 Matt White Nebraska Omaha SO F 38 1.05 17-23-40 Corban Knight North Dakota JR F 39 1.03 16-24-40 20 Jake Hansen Minnesota SR F 43 0.88 16-22-38 Joey LaLeggia Denver FR D 43 0.88 11-27-38 22 Terry Broadhurst Nebraska Omaha JR F 38 0.95 16-20-36 23 Zach Budish Minnesota SO F 43 0.81 12-23-35 24 Jared Festler St. Cloud State SR F 39 0.87 15-19-34 25 Caleb Herbert Minnesota Duluth FR W 41 0.80 14-19-33 Carter Rowney North Dakota JR F 42 0.79 18-15-33 27 Nick Jensen St. Cloud State SO D 39 0.82 6-26-32 28 Jordan George Bemidji State JR F 38 0.82 19-12-31 Jayson Megna Nebraska Omaha FR F 38 0.82 13-18-31 Brady Lamb Minnesota Duluth SR D 41 0.76 9-22-31 31 Michael Mersch Wisconsin SO F 37 0.81 14-16-30 Brett Olson Michigan Tech SR C 39 0.77 10-20-30 Mike Seidel Minnesota Duluth JR W 41 0.73 17-13-30 Luke Salazar Denver SR F 42 0.71 12-18-30 Nate Condon Minnesota SO F 43 0.70 11-19-30 36 Matt Leitner Minnesota State FR F 38 0.76 11-18-29 Andrew Prochno St. Cloud State FR D 38 0.76 5-24-29 David Johnstone Michigan Tech FR F 39 0.74 11-18-29 39 Jean-Paul Lafontaine Minnesota State FR F 38 0.74 13-15-28 Jordan Baker Michigan Tech SR W/C 39 0.72 10-18-28 41 Nick Dineen Colorado College SR C 34 0.76 14-12-26 Gabe Guentzel Colorado College SR D 36 0.72 4-22-26 Tyler Barnes Wisconsin SO F 37 0.70 11-15-26 Shea Walters Bemidji State SR F 38 0.68 12-14-26 Brad Hunt Bemidji State SR D 38 0.68 5-21-26 46 Mike Boivin Colorado College JR D 33 0.76 8-17-25 Travis Novak St. Cloud State SR F 36 0.69 12-13-25 Ryan Walters Nebraska Omaha SO F 38 0.66 10-15-25 David Eddy St. Cloud State JR F 39 0.64 9-16-25 50 Scott Winkler Colorado College JR RW 31 0.77 7-17-24 Eriah Hayes Minnesota State JR F 36 0.67 13-11-24 Ryan Furne Michigan Tech SO F 39 0.62 12-12-24 Nic Dowd St. Cloud State SO F 39 0.62 11-13-24 Blake Pietila Michigan Tech FR F 39 0.62 10-14-24 55 Zach Lehrke Minnesota State SO F 35 0.66 13-10-23 Aaron McLeod Bemidji State JR F 38 0.61 9-14-23 Mark MacMillan North Dakota FR F 42 0.55 7-16-23 Taylor Matson Minnesota SR F 43 0.53 8-15-23 59 Brance Orban Bemidji State JR F 37 0.59 9-13-22 Ben Kinne Bemidji State JR F 38 0.58 10-12-22 Steven Seigo Michigan Tech JR D 39 0.56 5-17-22 Michael Parks North Dakota FR F 42 0.52 12-10-22 Mark Alt Minnesota SO D 43 0.51 5-17-22 64 Ty Loney Denver FR F 36 0.58 10-11-21 Ben Blood North Dakota SR D 42 0.50 3-18-21 Shawn Ostrow Denver JR F 43 0.49 11-10-21 67 Alexander Krushelnyski Colorado College SO LW/RW 36 0.56 10-10-20 Joseph LaBate Wisconsin FR F 37 0.54 5-15-20 Bryce Aneloski Nebraska Omaha JR D 38 0.53 6-14-20 70 Chris Knowlton Denver JR F 30 0.63 12- 7-19 Michael Dorr Minnesota State SR F 36 0.53 8-11-19 Frankie Simonelli Wisconsin SO D 37 0.51 5-14-19 Alex MacLeod Michigan Tech SR W 38 0.50 8-11-19 Zach Palmquist Minnesota State FR D 38 0.50 6-13-19 Nick Mattson North Dakota FR D 42 0.45 6-13-19 76 Scott Kishel Minnesota Duluth SR D 35 0.51 3-15-18 Joe Schiller Minnesota State SR F 38 0.47 3-15-18 Wade Bergman Minnesota Duluth JR D 41 0.44 3-15-18 Dillon Simpson North Dakota SO D 42 0.43 2-16-18 80 Radoslav Illo Bemidji State SO F 30 0.57 7-10-17 Curtis Leinweber Alaska Anchorage SR F/D 33 0.52 9- 8-17 Andrej Sustr Nebraska Omaha SO D 33 0.52 4-13-17 Matt Bailey Alaska Anchorage SO F 34 0.50 10- 7-17 Brock Montpetit Nebraska Omaha SO F 35 0.49 6-11-17 Jacob Johnstone Michigan Tech SO F 36 0.47 9- 8-17 WCHA Men’s Release • 100812

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86 Mitch Bruijsten Alaska Anchorage JR F 32 0.50 8- 8-16 Michael Young Nebraska Omaha SO D 37 0.43 4-12-16 Tanner Kero Michigan Tech FR F 39 0.41 9- 7-16 Sam Warning Minnesota FR F 39 0.41 6-10-16 Joe Basaraba Minnesota Duluth SO W 40 0.40 7- 9-16 91 Cam Reid St. Cloud State SO F 22 0.68 6- 9-15 Milos Gordic Michigan Tech SO C 29 0.52 8- 7-15 Eric Scheid Alaska Anchorage FR F 30 0.50 6- 9-15 Scott Warner Alaska Anchorage JR D 32 0.47 2-13-15 William Rapuzzi Colorado College JR RW 35 0.43 3-12-15 Josh Archibald Nebraska Omaha FR F 36 0.42 10- 5-15 Johnny McInnis Minnesota State SO F 37 0.41 8- 7-15 Brent Gwidt Nebraska Omaha JR F 38 0.39 6- 9-15 Joe Gleason North Dakota JR D 41 0.37 0-15-15 100 Jordan Kwas Alaska Anchorage SO F 21 0.67 4-10-14 Austin Coldwell Alaska Anchorage FR D 33 0.42 2-12-14 Eli Zuck Minnesota State JR F 35 0.40 4-10-14 Jarrod Rabey St. Cloud State FR D 37 0.38 6- 8-14 Cory Thorson St. Cloud State SO F 39 0.36 6- 8-14 Seth Helgeson Minnesota JR D 43 0.33 5- 9-14 John Lee Denver SR D 43 0.33 3-11-14 107 Beau Bennett Denver SO F 10 1.30 4- 9-13 Brett Cameron Alaska Anchorage SO F 31 0.42 5- 8-13 Daniel Naslund Alaska Anchorage JR F 32 0.41 5- 8-13 Derek Forbort North Dakota SO D 35 0.37 2-11-13 Justin Crandall Minnesota Duluth FR W 37 0.35 6- 7-13 Justin Jokinen Minnesota State SR F 38 0.34 3-10-13 Matt Prapavessis Bemidji State FR D 38 0.34 1-12-13 Daniel Sova Michigan Tech SO D 39 0.33 3-10-13 Ben Marshall Minnesota FR D 41 0.32 4- 9-13 Chris Casto Minnesota Duluth FR D 41 0.32 2-11-13 117 Drew LeBlanc St. Cloud State SR F 10 1.20 2-10-12 David Makowski Denver SO D 20 0.60 2-10-12 Jake McCabe Wisconsin FR D 26 0.46 3- 9-12 Johnnie Searfoss Nebraska Omaha SO F 31 0.39 3- 9-12 Scott Mayfield Denver FR D 42 0.29 3- 9-12 122 Derek Lee Wisconsin JR F 17 0.65 4- 7-11 Derek Docken Alaska Anchorage FR D 31 0.35 1-10-11 Taylor Johnson St. Cloud State JR D 33 0.33 2- 9-11 Jamie MacQueen Bemidji State SR F 36 0.31 5- 6-11 Keegan Meuer Wisconsin SO F 37 0.30 7- 4-11 Brady Wacker Bemidji State JR D 37 0.30 4- 7-11 Mario Lamoureux North Dakota SR F 39 0.28 4- 7-11 Keegan Flaherty Minnesota Duluth JR W 41 0.27 7- 4-11 Jake Hendrickson Minnesota Duluth JR C 41 0.27 5- 6-11 Justin Holl Minnesota SO D 43 0.26 3- 8-11 132 Alex Hudson Nebraska Omaha SR F 16 0.62 4- 6-10 Mickey Spencer Alaska Anchorage JR F 17 0.59 7- 3-10 Eamonn McDermott Colorado College SO D 27 0.37 2- 8-10 Jade Portwood Alaska Anchorage SR F 29 0.34 4- 6-10 Jeff Collett Colorado College SO RW 31 0.32 5- 5-10 Ryan Little Wisconsin JR F/F 31 0.32 3- 7-10 Connor Gaarder North Dakota FR F 33 0.30 4- 6-10 Brendan Woods Wisconsin FR F 34 0.29 5- 5-10 Brad Gorham Alaska Anchorage SR D/F 35 0.29 2- 8-10 David Civitarese Colorado College SR C/W 36 0.28 8- 2-10 Quinn Sproule Alaska Anchorage SO D 36 0.28 3- 7-10 Brad Stebner Michigan Tech SO D 37 0.27 3- 7-10 John Ramage Wisconsin JR D 37 0.27 3- 7-10 Evan Mosey Minnesota State JR D 38 0.26 2- 8-10 Riley Sweeney Michigan Tech FR D 39 0.26 0-10-10 Dustin Jackson Denver SR F 42 0.24 2- 8-10 148 Danny Mattson Bemidji State FR F 24 0.38 3- 6- 9 Scott Allen Alaska Anchorage FR F 28 0.32 3- 6- 9 Andrew Hamburg Colorado College JR RW 29 0.31 4- 5- 9 Brooks Bertsch St. Cloud State FR F 30 0.30 5- 4- 9 Sam Mellor Alaska Anchorage FR F 33 0.27 4- 5- 9 Jefferson Dahl Wisconsin SO F 35 0.26 4- 5- 9 Travis Boyd Minnesota FR F 35 0.26 1- 8- 9 Matt Paape Wisconsin FR F 36 0.25 4- 5- 9 Dennis Rix Michigan Tech SO F 38 0.24 4- 5- 9 Jake Areshenko Bemidji State JR D 38 0.24 3- 6- 9 David Boehm Bemidji State JR F 38 0.24 3- 6- 9 Paul Phillips Denver JR D 40 0.23 1- 8- 9 160 Dakota Eveland Colorado College SO LW 22 0.36 3- 5- 8 Tim Hall Colorado College SR LW/C 34 0.24 5- 3- 8 Jeff Jubinville Bemidji State SO F 36 0.22 1- 7- 8 Kevin Gravel St. Cloud State SO D 37 0.22 1- 7- 8 Daniel Doremus Denver FR F 38 0.21 4- 4- 8 Jake Parenteau Minnesota SO D 39 0.21 2- 6- 8 Seth Ambroz Minnesota FR F 41 0.20 5- 3- 8 David Grun Minnesota Duluth SR W 41 0.20 3- 5- 8 Drew Olson Minnesota Duluth JR D 41 0.20 1- 7- 8 169 Bryce Reddick Michigan Tech SR W 25 0.28 4- 3- 7 Mike Louwerse Minnesota State SR F 28 0.25 3- 4- 7 Max Gaede Minnesota State FR F 30 0.23 3- 4- 7 Cameron Cooper Minnesota State SR D 31 0.23 2- 5- 7 Adam Mueller Minnesota State SR F 34 0.21 3- 4- 7 WCHA Men’s Release • 100812 2011-12 WCHA Player Statistics con’t

Carl Nielsen Michigan Tech JR D 37 0.19 1- 6- 7 Max Tardy Minnesota Duluth SO C 41 0.17 2- 5- 7 Stephane Pattyn North Dakota FR F 42 0.17 4- 3- 7 Andrew MacWilliam North Dakota JR D 42 0.17 2- 5- 7 178 Brendan O'Donnell North Dakota FR F 17 0.35 5- 1- 6 Corbin Karl Alaska Anchorage FR D 23 0.26 3- 3- 6 Jordy Christian St. Cloud State SR F 24 0.25 2- 4- 6 Tyler Elbrecht Minnesota State JR D 25 0.24 1- 5- 6 Tyler Currier Alaska Anchorage JR F 29 0.21 2- 4- 6 Aaron Harstad Colorado College FR D 29 0.21 0- 6- 6 Nate Dewhurst Denver SR F 30 0.20 3- 3- 6 Jarrod Mermis Denver SO F 31 0.19 3- 3- 6 Josh Nelson Minnesota State SO D 32 0.19 1- 5- 6 Sam Zabkowicz St. Cloud State SR D 33 0.18 1- 5- 6 Brad Navin Wisconsin FR F 36 0.17 3- 3- 6 189 Derik Johnson Minnesota Duluth FR D 11 0.45 1- 4- 5 Mitch Cain Bemidji State FR F 12 0.42 1- 4- 5 Mitch MacMillan St. Cloud State SO F 14 0.36 0- 5- 5 J.P. Burkemper Minnesota State SO F 17 0.29 2- 3- 5 Chad Pietila Michigan Tech JR F 17 0.29 1- 4- 5 Justin Fillion Michigan Tech FR D 18 0.28 1- 4- 5 Alex Gellert Alaska Anchorage JR F 25 0.20 1- 4- 5 Zac Larraza Denver FR F 26 0.19 1- 4- 5 Darcy Findlay Bemidji State SR F 31 0.16 2- 3- 5 Archie Skalbeck Colorado College SO C/W 31 0.16 1- 4- 5 Joe Marciano Colorado College JR D 35 0.14 2- 3- 5 Jaycob Megna Nebraska Omaha FR D 35 0.14 2- 3- 5 Eric Springer Wisconsin SR D 35 0.14 1- 4- 5 Joe Faust Wisconsin SO D 37 0.14 2- 3- 5 Kenny Reiter Minnesota Duluth SR G 38 0.13 0- 5- 5 204 Sam Rendle Bemidji State SO D 10 0.40 1- 3- 4 Dan DeLisle Minnesota Duluth JR W 19 0.21 2- 2- 4 Nico Sacchetti Minnesota SR F 24 0.17 4- 0- 4 Nick Larson Minnesota SR F 24 0.17 3- 1- 4 Garrett Milan St. Cloud State FR F 28 0.14 2- 2- 4 John Ryder Denver SR D 30 0.13 0- 4- 4 Joey Holka St. Cloud State FR F 34 0.12 2- 2- 4 Nick Oliver St. Cloud State FR F 34 0.12 2- 2- 4 Drew Fisher Bemidji State SR F 38 0.11 3- 1- 4 Andrew Panzarella North Dakota FR D 40 0.10 0- 4- 4 214 Ian Young Colorado College FR D 10 0.30 0- 3- 3 Aaron Pietila Michigan Tech JR W 12 0.25 1- 2- 3 Andrew Pettitt Alaska Anchorage FR F 12 0.25 0- 3- 3 Gavin Hartzog Wisconsin SO F 12 0.25 0- 3- 3 Mark Pustin Alaska Anchorage SO F 15 0.20 3- 0- 3 Joe Rehkamp St. Cloud State FR F 18 0.17 2- 1- 3 Matt Smith Nebraska Omaha SR D 22 0.14 1- 2- 3 Tim Smith Minnesota Duluth SO D 22 0.14 0- 3- 3 Patrick McCadden Michigan Tech SO F 23 0.13 1- 2- 3 Peter Stoykewych Colorado College FR D 26 0.12 0- 3- 3 Adam Krause Minnesota Duluth FR W 28 0.11 0- 3- 3 Zahn Raubenheimer Nebraska Omaha SO F 29 0.10 1- 2- 3 Kyle Ensign Nebraska Omaha SR D 29 0.10 0- 3- 3 Dan Senkbeil North Dakota FR D 30 0.10 0- 3- 3 Dominic Zombo Nebraska Omaha FR F 32 0.09 2- 1- 3 Sean Little Wisconsin SO F 33 0.09 2- 1- 3 Tom Serratore Minnesota SO F 37 0.08 3- 0- 3 Josiah Didier Denver FR D 41 0.07 0- 3- 3 232 Rocco Grimaldi North Dakota FR F 4 0.50 1- 1- 2 Blake Thompson Minnesota FR D 5 0.40 0- 2- 2 Kyle Brodie Bemidji State SO D 10 0.20 1- 1- 2 Mikael Lickteig Michigan Tech JR W 10 0.20 0- 2- 2 Charlie Taft Colorado College FR RW/LW 13 0.15 0- 2- 2 Tyler Tosunian Bemidji State FR F 14 0.14 1- 1- 2 Luke McManus Minnesota Duluth FR D 14 0.14 0- 2- 2 Andrew Schmit Nebraska Omaha FR F 18 0.11 1- 1- 2 Derek Rodwell North Dakota SO F 19 0.11 1- 1- 2 Kory Roy Alaska Anchorage FR F 22 0.09 0- 2- 2 Ryan Faragher St. Cloud State FR G 23 0.09 0- 2- 2 Taylor Dickin North Dakota SO F 24 0.08 1- 1- 2 Josh Thorimbert Colorado College SO G 24 0.08 0- 2- 2 Mat Knoll Minnesota State FR D 25 0.08 1- 1- 2 Tony Turgeon Nebraska Omaha SO D 26 0.08 0- 2- 2 Tim Daly St. Cloud State FR D 32 0.06 0- 2- 2 Matt Tabrum Denver FR F 33 0.06 0- 2- 2 249 Cody Danberg Minnesota Duluth SR W 1 1.00 0- 1- 1 Wes McLeod Alaska Anchorage SO D 5 0.20 0- 1- 1 Andrew Pickering Alaska Anchorage SO F 6 0.17 1- 0- 1 Charlie Thauwald Minnesota State FR F 7 0.14 0- 1- 1 Joe Miller Minnesota SR F 10 0.10 1- 0- 1 Scott Wamsganz Colorado College FR LW/RW 15 0.07 0- 1- 1 Mike Lee St. Cloud State JR G 16 0.06 0- 1- 1 Brett Stern Minnesota State FR D 19 0.05 0- 1- 1 Rob Gunderson Alaska Anchorage SO G 20 0.05 0- 1- 1 Arthur Bidwill Colorado College SR D/D 20 0.05 0- 1- 1 Corey Leivermann Minnesota State SO F 21 0.05 1- 0- 1 Jason Clark Wisconsin SO F 21 0.05 0- 1- 1 Chris Crowell Alaska Anchorage JR F 24 0.04 0- 1- 1 WCHA Men’s Release • 100812 2011-12 WCHA Player Statistics con’t

Austin Lee Minnesota State SR G 24 0.04 0- 1- 1 Matt Carlson Bemidji State JR D 25 0.04 0- 1- 1 Dan Bakala Bemidji State SR G 28 0.04 0- 1- 1 James Polk Nebraska Omaha FR F 28 0.04 0- 1- 1 Sam Windle Bemidji State FR D 32 0.03 1- 0- 1 North Dakota JR G 33 0.03 0- 1- 1 Josh Robinson Michigan Tech SR G 35 0.03 0- 1- 1 Kent Patterson Minnesota SR G 43 0.02 0- 1- 1

Goal Scoring: GP GPG G 1 Brock Nelson North Dakota SO F 42 0.67 28 2 Nick Bjugstad Minnesota SO F 40 0.62 25 3 J.T. Brown Minnesota Duluth SO W 39 0.62 24 4 Rylan Schwartz Colorado College JR C 35 0.66 23 Ben Hanowski St. Cloud State JR F 39 0.59 23 6 Jason Zucker Denver SO F 38 0.58 22 Drew Shore Denver JR F 42 0.52 22 8 Travis Oleksuk Minnesota Duluth SR C 41 0.51 21 9 Jack Connolly Minnesota Duluth SR C 41 0.49 20 Erik Haula Minnesota SO F 43 0.47 20

Assist Scoring: GP APG A 1 Jack Connolly Minnesota Duluth SR C 41 0.98 40 2 Nate Schmidt Minnesota SO D 43 0.88 38 3 Mark Zengerle Wisconsin SO F 37 1.00 37 4 Travis Oleksuk Minnesota Duluth SR C 41 0.78 32 5 Drew Shore Denver JR F 42 0.74 31 6 Erik Haula Minnesota SO F 43 0.67 29 7 Justin Schultz Wisconsin JR D 37 0.76 28 Nick Shore Denver SO F 43 0.65 28 9 Joey LaLeggia Denver FR D 43 0.63 27 10 Jaden Schwartz Colorado College SO LW 30 0.87 26 Nick Jensen St. Cloud State SO D 39 0.67 26 Danny Kristo North Dakota JR F 42 0.62 26

Power Play Points: GP PPG G- A- P 1 Jack Connolly Minnesota Duluth SR C 41 0.73 9-21-30 2 Nate Schmidt Minnesota SO D 43 0.65 3-25-28 3 Erik Haula Minnesota SO F 43 0.58 8-17-25 4 Travis Oleksuk Minnesota Duluth SR C 41 0.59 9-15-24 5 Rylan Schwartz Colorado College JR C 35 0.60 11-10-21 Mark Zengerle Wisconsin SO F 37 0.57 3-18-21 7 Jaden Schwartz Colorado College SO LW 30 0.67 5-15-20 Nick Shore Denver SO F 43 0.47 5-15-20 9 Jason Zucker Denver SO F 38 0.50 9-10-19 Drew Shore Denver JR F 42 0.45 11- 8-19

Short-Handed Points: GP PPG G- A- P 1 Matt White Nebraska Omaha SO F 38 0.13 4- 1- 5 Nate Condon Minnesota SO F 43 0.12 4- 1- 5 3 Michael Dorr Minnesota State SR F 36 0.11 3- 1- 4 4 Michael Young Nebraska Omaha SO D 37 0.08 1- 2- 3 Ryan Walters Nebraska Omaha SO F 38 0.08 2- 1- 3 Jayson Megna Nebraska Omaha FR F 38 0.08 2- 1- 3 Danny Kristo North Dakota JR F 42 0.07 1- 2- 3 Taylor Matson Minnesota SR F 43 0.07 1- 2- 3 9 Jeff Collett Colorado College SO RW 31 0.06 1- 1- 2 Cameron Cooper Minnesota State SR D 31 0.06 0- 2- 2 Andrej Sustr Nebraska Omaha SO D 33 0.06 0- 2- 2 Tim Hall Colorado College SR LW/C 34 0.06 1- 1- 2 Zach Lehrke Minnesota State SO F 35 0.06 2- 0- 2 Jefferson Dahl Wisconsin SO F 35 0.06 1- 1- 2 Travis Novak St. Cloud State SR F 36 0.06 2- 0- 2 Jacob Johnstone Michigan Tech SO F 36 0.06 1- 1- 2 Mark Zengerle Wisconsin SO F 37 0.05 2- 0- 2 Michael Mersch Wisconsin SO F 37 0.05 1- 1- 2 David Boehm Bemidji State JR F 38 0.05 1- 1- 2 Terry Broadhurst Nebraska Omaha JR F 38 0.05 1- 1- 2 Justin Jokinen Minnesota State SR F 38 0.05 0- 2- 2 Brett Olson Michigan Tech SR C 39 0.05 1- 1- 2 Riley Sweeney Michigan Tech FR D 39 0.05 0- 2- 2 Brock Nelson North Dakota SO F 42 0.05 1- 1- 2 Ben Blood North Dakota SR D 42 0.05 0- 2- 2

Game-Winning Goals: GP G 1 Drew Shore Denver JR F 42 7 2 Kyle Rau Minnesota FR F 40 6 Travis Oleksuk Minnesota Duluth SR C 41 6 Brock Nelson North Dakota SO F 42 6 5 Jaden Schwartz Colorado College SO LW 30 4 Nick Dineen Colorado College SR C 34 4 Jordan George Bemidji State JR F 38 4 Ryan Walters Nebraska Omaha SO F 38 4 J.T. Brown Minnesota Duluth SO W 39 4 Erik Haula Minnesota SO F 43 4 WCHA Men’s Release • 100812 2011-12 WCHA Player Statistics con’t

Defenseman Scoring: GP PPG G- A- P 1 Justin Schultz Wisconsin JR D 37 1.19 16-28-44 2 Nate Schmidt Minnesota SO D 43 0.95 3-38-41 3 Joey LaLeggia Denver FR D 43 0.88 11-27-38 4 Nick Jensen St. Cloud State SO D 39 0.82 6-26-32 5 Brady Lamb Minnesota Duluth SR D 41 0.76 9-22-31 6 Andrew Prochno St. Cloud State FR D 38 0.76 5-24-29 7 Gabe Guentzel Colorado College SR D 36 0.72 4-22-26 Brad Hunt Bemidji State SR D 38 0.68 5-21-26 9 Mike Boivin Colorado College JR D 33 0.76 8-17-25 10 Steven Seigo Michigan Tech JR D 39 0.56 5-17-22 Mark Alt Minnesota SO D 43 0.51 5-17-22

Freshman Scoring: GP PPG G- A- P 1 Kyle Rau Minnesota F 40 1.07 18-25-43 2 Joey LaLeggia Denver D 43 0.88 11-27-38 3 Caleb Herbert Minnesota Duluth W 41 0.80 14-19-33 4 Jayson Megna Nebraska Omaha F 38 0.82 13-18-31 5 Matt Leitner Minnesota State F 38 0.76 11-18-29 Andrew Prochno St. Cloud State D 38 0.76 5-24-29 David Johnstone Michigan Tech F 39 0.74 11-18-29 8 Jean-Paul Lafontaine Minnesota State F 38 0.74 13-15-28 9 Blake Pietila Michigan Tech F 39 0.62 10-14-24 10 Mark MacMillan North Dakota F 42 0.55 7-16-23

Goals Against Average: Minutes GA GAA 1 Juho Olkinuora Denver FR 1236:05 45 2.18 2 Mike Lee St. Cloud State JR 968:32 36 2.23 3 Kent Patterson Minnesota SR 2557:19 99 2.32 4 Josh Thorimbert Colorado College SO 1328:51 52 2.35 5 Kenny Reiter Minnesota Duluth SR 2319:48 94 2.43 6 Joel Rumpel Wisconsin FR 1524:40 63 2.48 7 Ryan Massa Nebraska Omaha FR 1086:13 47 2.60 8 Dan Bakala Bemidji State SR 1590:22 70 2.64 9 Aaron Dell North Dakota JR 1799:52 80 2.67 10 Ryan Faragher St. Cloud State FR 1384:23 64 2.77 11 Josh Robinson Michigan Tech SR 1970:34 93 2.83 12 John Faulkner Nebraska Omaha SR 961:35 47 2.93 13 Austin Lee Minnesota State SR 1385:25 71 3.07 14 Chris Kamal Alaska Anchorage SO 1041:22 60 3.46 15 Joe Howe Colorado College JR 827:51 48 3.48 16 Phil Cook Minnesota State JR 879:46 52 3.55 17 Rob Gunderson Alaska Anchorage SO 963:05 58 3.61 Minimum 33% of Team Minutes Played

Save Percentage: Saves GA Pct 1 Mike Lee St. Cloud State JR 477 36 .930 2 Juho Olkinuora Denver FR 547 45 .924 3 Josh Thorimbert Colorado College SO 631 52 .924 4 Joel Rumpel Wisconsin FR 711 63 .919 5 Ryan Faragher St. Cloud State FR 685 64 .915 6 Ryan Massa Nebraska Omaha FR 497 47 .914 7 Dan Bakala Bemidji State SR 718 70 .911 8 Kenny Reiter Minnesota Duluth SR 960 94 .911 9 Austin Lee Minnesota State SR 717 71 .910 10 Josh Robinson Michigan Tech SR 930 93 .909 11 Kent Patterson Minnesota SR 966 99 .907 12 Aaron Dell North Dakota JR 717 80 .900 13 Phil Cook Minnesota State JR 407 52 .887 14 John Faulkner Nebraska Omaha SR 367 47 .886 15 Joe Howe Colorado College JR 360 48 .882 16 Chris Kamal Alaska Anchorage SO 429 60 .877 17 Rob Gunderson Alaska Anchorage SO 386 58 .869 Minimum 33% of Team Minutes Played

Winning Percentage: W- L- T Pct 1 Kenny Reiter Minnesota Duluth SR 23- 9- 6 .684 2 Kent Patterson Minnesota SR 28-14- 1 .663 3 Aaron Dell North Dakota JR 18-10- 2 .633 4 Josh Thorimbert Colorado College SO 13- 8- 1 .614 5 Mike Lee St. Cloud State JR 8- 6- 2 .562 6 Juho Olkinuora Denver FR 9- 8- 3 .525 7 Josh Robinson Michigan Tech SR 15-14- 4 .515 8 Joel Rumpel Wisconsin FR 12-12- 2 .500 9 Ryan Massa Nebraska Omaha FR 7- 8- 2 .471 10 Phil Cook Minnesota State JR 7- 8- 0 .467 11 Dan Bakala Bemidji State SR 11-13- 2 .462 12 Ryan Faragher St. Cloud State FR 9-11- 3 .457 13 Joe Howe Colorado College JR 5- 8- 1 .393 14 John Faulkner Nebraska Omaha SR 5- 9- 2 .375 15 Rob Gunderson Alaska Anchorage SO 5-10- 2 .353 16 Austin Lee Minnesota State SR 5-16- 1 .250 17 Chris Kamal Alaska Anchorage SO 4-13- 0 .235 Minimum 33% of Team Minutes Played WCHA Men’s Release • 100812 2012-13 WCHA Players of the Week 2012-13 WCHA Men’s Attendance Red Baron® WCHA Offensive Player of the Week Alaska Anchorage • Sullivan Arena (6,251) Date Player, Year, Position, Team (Opponent/s) Dates Total Game Average High Oct. 16: 1 640* 640* 640* * exhibition on 10/6 vs Regina held at McDonald Center in Eagle River Red Baron® WCHA Defensive Player of the Week Date Player, Year, Position, Team (Opponent) Bemidji State • Sanford Center (4,373) Dates Total Game Average High Oct. 16: 1 2,265* 2,265* 2,265* * home exhibition on 10/7 vs Manitoba Red Baron® WCHA Rookie of the Week Date Player, Year, Position, Team (Opponent) Colorado College • World Arena (7,380) Oct. 16: Dates Total Game Average High 1 3,241* 3,241* 3,241* * home exhibition on 10/7 vs British Columbia

Denver • Magness Arena (6,025) Dates Total Game Average High 1 2,251* 2,251* 2,251* * home exhibition on 10/6 vs British Columbia held at Pepsi Center, Denver

Michigan Tech • John MacInnes Student Ice Arena (4,128) Dates Total Game Average High 1 2,688* 2,688* 2,688* * home exhibition on 10/6 vs Brock

Minnesota • Mariucci Arena (10,000) Dates Total Game Average High 1 7,823* 7,823* 7,823* * home exhibition on 10/6 vs Lethbridge

Minnesota Duluth • AMSOIL Arena (6,726) Dates Total Game Average High – – – –

Minnesota State • Verizon Wireless Center (4,832) Dates Total Game Average High 1 1,222* 1,222* 1,222* * home exhibition on 10/7 vs Lethbridge

Nebraska Omaha • CenturyLink Center Omaha (15,959) Dates Total Game Average High – – – –

North Dakota • Ralph Engelstad Arena (11,634) Dates Total Game Average High 1 10,477* 10,477* 10,477* * home exhibition on 10/6 vs Manitoba

St. Cloud State • National Hockey & event Center (5,371) Dates Total Game Average High – – – –

Wisconsin • Kohl Center (15,325) Dates Total Game Average High 1 7,501* 7,501* 7,501* * home exhibition on 10/6 vs USA Under-18 Team

wcha Season Totals Dates Total Game Average High 9 38,108* 4,234* 10,477*

* includes 9 exhibition games; ^ sellout WCHA Men’s Release • 100812 2012-13 WCHA Men’s Composite Schedule & results

October Date Game Time Date Game Time Fri/26 Colorado College @ Cornell (NC) 7:00 pm ET Sat/6 Brock Univ. 2 @ Michigan Tech 6 (EX) 7:07 pm ET Wisconsin @ Minnesota Duluth (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT U.S. Under-18 Team 0 @ Wisconsin 5 (EX) 8:07 pm CT U.S. Under-18 Team @ Minnesota (EX) 7:07 pm CT Univ. of Lethbridge 0 @ Minnesota 7 (EX) 7:07 pm CT Minnesota State @ St. Cloud State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Univ. of Manitoba 3 @ North Dakota 5 (EX) 7:07 pm CT Bemidji State @ Nebraska Omaha (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Univ. of British Columbia 2 @ Denver 2 ot (EX) 7:07 pm MT Alaska Anchorage @ North Dakota (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Univ. of Regina 1 @ Alaska Anchorage 3 (EX) 7:07 pm AT Michigan Tech @ Denver (WCHA) 7:37 pm MT @ McDonald Center, Eagle River, AK Sat/27 Colorado College @ Cornell (NC) 7:00 pm ET Sun/7 Univ. of Manitoba 3 @ Bemidji State 3 ot (EX) 5:07 pm CT Wisconsin @ Minnesota Duluth (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Univ. of Lethbridge 1 @ Minnesota State 7 (EX) 5:07 pm CT Minnesota State @ St. Cloud State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Univ. of British Columbia 1 @ Colorado College 3 (EX) 6:07 pm MT Bemidji State @ Nebraska Omaha (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Mon/8 Univ. of Lethbridge @ Nebraska Omaha (EX) 7:07 pm CT Alaska Anchorage @ North Dakota (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Thur/11 Michigan Tech @ Lake Superior State (NC) 7:05 pm ET Michigan Tech @ Denver (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT Fri/12 St. Cloud State @ New Hampshire (NC) 7:00 pm ET Sun/28 Canisius @ Minnesota (NC) 1:07 pm CT Minnesota State @ Alabama-Huntsville (NC) 7:00 pm CT Wisconsin @ Northern Michigan (NC) 7:00 pm CT November @ Resch Center, Green Bay, WI Date Game Time Michigan State @ Minnesota (NC) 6:07 pm CT Fri/2 Nebraska Omaha @ Michigan Tech (WCHA) 7:07 pm ET Ohio State @ Minnesota Duluth (NC) 7:07 pm CT Colorado College @ Wisconsin (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT U.S. Under-18 Team @ North Dakota (EX) 7:37 pm CT Minnesota State @ Minnesota (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT @ Boston University @ North Dakota (NC) 7:07 pm CT Sprint Center, Kansas City, MO St. Cloud State @ Denver (WCHA) 7:37 pm MT Maine vs Notre Dame (NC) 6:00 pm CT Sat/3 Nebraska Omaha @ Michigan Tech (WCHA) 7:07 pm ET Army vs Nebraska Omaha (NC) 9:00 pm CT Colorado College @ Wisconsin (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Clarkson @ Colorado College (NC) 7:37 pm MT Minnesota @ Minnesota State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT KENDALL HOCKEY CLASSIC @ Boston University @ North Dakota (NC) 7:07 pm CT Sullivan Arena, Anchorage, AK St. Cloud State @ Denver (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT Air Force vs Alaska Fairbanks (NC) 5:07 pm AT Fri/9 North Dakota @ St. Cloud State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Canisius vs Alaska Anchorage (NC) 8:07 pm AT Denver @ Minnesota State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Sat/13 St. Cloud State @ New Hampshire (NC) 7:00 pm ET Bemidji State @ Colorado College (WCHA) 7:37 pm MT Minnesota State @ Alabama-Huntsville (NC) 7:00 pm CT Minnesota @ Alaska Anchorage (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT Lake Superior State @ Michigan Tech (NC) 7:07 pm ET Sat/10 North Dakota @ St. Cloud State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Wisconsin @ Northern Michigan (NC) 7:00 pm CT Denver @ Minnesota State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT @ Resch Center, Green Bay, WI Minnesota Duluth @ Nebraska Omaha (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Ohio State @ Minnesota Duluth (NC) 7:07 pm CT Bemidji State @ Colorado College (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT Michigan State @ Minnesota (NC) 8:07 pm CT Minnesota @ Alaska Anchorage (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT ICE BREAKER TOURNAMENT @ Sun/11 Minnesota Duluth @ Nebraska Omaha (WCHA) 2:07 pm CT Sprint Center, Kansas City, MO Fri/16 Michigan Tech @ Bemidji State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Third Place Game (NC) 3:30 pm CT Wisconsin @ Minnesota (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Championship Game (NC) 6:30 pm CT Minnesota Duluth @ North Dakota (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT U.S. Under-18 Team @ Bemidji State (X) 7:07 pm CT Denver @ Colorado College (WCHA) 7:37 pm MT Clarkson @ Colorado College (NC) 7:07 pm MT Sat/17 Michigan Tech @ Bemidji State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT KENDALL HOCKEY CLASSIC @ Wisconsin @ Minnesota (WCHA) 8:07 pm CT Sullivan Arena, Anchorage, AK Minnesota Duluth @ North Dakota (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Canisius vs Alaska Fairbanks (NC) 4:07 pm AT Colorado College @ Denver (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT Air Force vs Alaska Anchorage (NC) 7:07 pm AT Fri/23 Minnesota @ Vermont (NC) 7:05 pm ET Thur/18 Minnesota Duluth @ Notre Dame (NC) 7:05 pm ET North Dakota @ Notre Dame (NC) 7:00 pm ET Fri/19 Minnesota @ Michigan Tech (WCHA) 7:07 pm ET Minnesota State @ Wisconsin (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Minnesota Duluth @ Notre Dame (NC) 7:05 pm ET Alaska Anchorage @ Bemidji State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Lake Superior State @ Bemidji State (NC) 7:37 pm CT St. Cloud State @ Minnesota Duluth (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Alabama-Huntsville @ St. Cloud State (NC) 7:37 pm CT Alabama-Huntsville @ Nebraska Omaha (NC) 7:37 pm CT Rensselaer @ Minnesota State (NC) 7:37 pm CT Yale @ Denver (NC) 7:37 pm MT Northern Michigan @ Nebraska Omaha (NC) 7:37 pm CT New Hampshire @ Colorado College (NC) 7:37 pm MT UMass-Lowell @ Denver (NC) 7:37 pm MT Sat/24 Minnesota @ Vermont (NC) 7:05 pm ET Colorado College @ Air Force Academy (NC) 7:00 pm MT North Dakota @ Notre Dame (NC) 7:00 pm ET BRICE ALASKA GOAL RUSH @ Minnesota State @ Wisconsin (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT , Fairbanks, AK Alaska Anchorage @ Bemidji State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT North Dakota vs Alaska Anchorage (NC) 5:05 pm AT St. Cloud State @ Minnesota Duluth (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Merrimack vs Alaska Fairbanks (NC) 8:05 pm AT Alabama-Huntsville @ Nebraska Omaha (NC) 7:07 pm CT Sat/20 Minnesota @ Michigan Tech (WCHA) 7:07 pm ET New Hampshire @ Denver (NC) 7:07 pm MT Lake Superior State @ Bemidji State (NC) 7:07 pm CT Yale @ Colorado College (NC) 7:07 pm MT Alabama-Huntsville @ St. Cloud State (NC) 7:07 pm CT Fri/30 Minnesota Duluth @ Michigan Tech (WCHA) 7:07 pm ET Rensselaer @ Minnesota State (NC) 7:07 pm CT Nebraska Omaha @ Minnesota (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Northern Michigan @ Nebraska Omaha (NC) 7:07 pm CT Bemidji State @ Minnesota State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Air Force Academy @ Denver (NC) 7:07 pm MT Wisconsin @ Denver (WCHA) 8:07 pm MT UMass-Lowell @ Colorado College (NC) 7:07 pm MT North Dakota @ Colorado College (WCHA) 7:37 pm MT BRICE ALASKA GOAL RUSH @ St. Cloud State @ Alaska Anchorage (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT Carlson Center, Fairbanks, AK Merrimack vs Alaska Anchorage (NC) 4:05 pm AT North Dakota vs Alaska Fairbanks (NC) 7:05 pm AT WCHA Men’s Release • 100812

2012-13 Composite Schedule con’t Date Game Time Mon/31 LEDYARD NATIONAL BANK CLASSIC @ Thompson Arena, Hanover, NH December Bemidji State vs Dartmouth/UNH (NC) 4/7 pm ET Date Game Time BSU/Massachusetts vs New Hampshire (NC) 4/7 pm ET Sat/1 Minnesota Duluth @ Michigan Tech (WCHA) 7:07 pm ET Nebraska Omaha @ Minnesota (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Bemidji State @ Minnesota State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT January Wisconsin @ Denver (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT Date Game Time North Dakota @ Colorado College (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT Fri/4 Western Michigan @ Bemidji State (NC) 7:37 pm CT St. Cloud State @ Alaska Anchorage (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT Northern Michigan @ St. Cloud State (NC) 7:37 pm CT Tue/4 Michigan Tech @ Northern Michigan (NC) 7:35 pm ET Providence College @ Minnesota State (NC) 7:37 pm CT Fri/7 Michigan Tech @ Wisconsin (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Holy Cross @ North Dakota (NC) 7:37 pm CT Bemidji State @ Minnesota Duluth (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Colorado College @ Nebraska Omaha (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Nebraska Omaha @ St. Cloud State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Cornell @ Denver (NC) 7:37 pm MT Alaska Anchorage @ Minnesota State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Wisconsin @ Alaska Anchorage (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT Denver @ North Dakota (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Sat/5 Western Michigan @ Bemidji State (NC) 7:07 pm CT Minnesota @ Colorado College (WCHA) 7:37 pm MT Northern Michigan @ St. Cloud State (NC) 7:07 pm CT Sat/8 Michigan Tech @ Wisconsin (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Providence College @ Minnesota State (NC) 7:07 pm CT Bemidji State @ Minnesota Duluth (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Holy Cross @ North Dakota (NC) 7:07 pm CT Nebraska Omaha @ St. Cloud State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Colorado College @ Nebraska Omaha (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Alaska Anchorage @ Minnesota State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Cornell @ Denver (NC) 7:07 pm MT Denver @ North Dakota (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT Wisconsin @ Alaska Anchorage (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT Minnesota @ Colorado College (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT Tue/8 Notre Dame @ Minnesota (NC) 7:07 pm CT Thur/13 Alabama-Huntsville @ Wisconsin (NC) 7:07 pm CT Fri/11 Michigan Tech @ Minnesota Duluth (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Fri/14 North Dakota @ Michigan Tech (WCHA) 7:07 pm ET Alaska Anchorage @ Minnesota (WCHA) 8:07 pm CT Alabama-Huntsville @ Wisconsin (NC) 7:07 pm CT Wisconsin @ Minnesota State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Denver @ Bemidji State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Colorado College @ North Dakota (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Colorado College @ St. Cloud State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Nebraska Omaha @ Denver (WCHA) 8:07 pm MT Minnesota State @ Nebraska Omaha (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Sat/12 Michigan Tech @ Minnesota Duluth (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Minnesota Duluth @ Alaska Anchorage (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT Alaska Anchorage @ Minnesota (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Sat/15 North Dakota @ Michigan Tech (WCHA) 7:07 pm ET Wisconsin @ Minnesota State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Denver @ Bemidji State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Colorado College @ North Dakota (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Colorado College @ St. Cloud State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Nebraska Omaha @ Denver (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT Minnesota State @ Nebraska Omaha (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Fri/18 Bemidji State @ Michigan Tech (WCHA) 7:07 pm ET Minnesota Duluth @ Alaska Anchorage (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT Miami @ Wisconsin (NC) 7:07 pm CT Thur/27 GREAT LAKES INVITATIONAL @ North Dakota @ Minnesota (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Comerica Park, Detroit, MI Denver @ St. Cloud State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Western Michigan vs Michigan State (NC) TBA pm ET Minnesota Duluth @ Colorado College (WCHA) 7:37 pm MT Michigan vs Michigan Tech (NC) TBA pm ET Minnesota State @ Alaska Anchorage (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT Rensselaer @ St. Cloud State (NC) 7:07 pm CT Sat/19 Bemidji State @ Michigan Tech (WCHA) 7:07 pm ET Fri/28 GREAT LAKES INVITATIONAL @ Miami @ Wisconsin (NC) 7:07 pm CT Comerica Park, Detroit, MI North Dakota @ Minnesota (WCHA) 5:07 pm CT Third Place Game (NC) TBA pm ET Denver @ St. Cloud State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Championship Game (NC) TBA pm ET Minnesota Duluth @ Colorado College (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT FLORIDA COLLEGE HOCKEY CLASSIC @ Minnesota State @ Alaska Anchorage (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT Germain Arena, Estero, FL Fri/25 Alaska Anchorage @ Wisconsin (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Minnesota Duluth vs Maine (NC) TBA pm ET Nebraska Omaha @ Bemidji State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Ferris State vs Cornell (NC) TBA pm ET Minnesota State @ Minnesota (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Rensselaer @ St. Cloud State (NC) 7:07 pm CT St. Cloud State @ North Dakota (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Sat/29 FLORIDA COLLEGE HOCKEY CLASSIC @ Sat/26 Alaska Anchorage @ Wisconsin (WCHA) 8:07 pm CT Germain Arena, Estero, FL Nebraska Omaha @ Bemidji State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Third Place Game (NC) TBA pm ET U.S. Under-18 Team @ Minnesota Duluth (X) 2:07 pm CT Championship Game (NC) TBA pm ET Minnesota @ Minnesota State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT UCONN HOCKEY CLASSIC @ St. Cloud State @ North Dakota (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum, Storrs, CT Minnesota State vs Brown (NC) 4:05 pm ET American International vs UConn (NC) 7:15 pm ET February Date Game Time Nebraska Omaha @ Quinnipiac (NC) 12:00 pm ET Fri/1 St. Cloud State @ Bemidji State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT MARIUCCI CLASSIC @ Mariucci Arena, Minneapolis, MN Denver @ Minnesota Duluth (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Boston College vs Alabama Huntsville (NC) TBA pm CT Wisconsin @ North Dakota (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Air Force vs Minnesota TBA pm CT Michigan Tech @ Nebraska Omaha (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Boston University @ Denver (NC) 7:07 pm MT Colorado College @ Alaska Anchorage (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game Sat/2 St. Cloud State @ Bemidji State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Sun/30 LEDYARD NATIONAL BANK CLASSIC @ Denver @ Minnesota Duluth (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Thompson Arena, Hanover, NH Wisconsin @ North Dakota (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Bemidji State vs Massachusetts (NC) 4:00 pm ET Michigan Tech @ Nebraska Omaha (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Dartmouth vs New Hampshire (NC) 7:00 pm ET Colorado College @ Alaska Anchorage (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT UCONN HOCKEY CLASSIC @ Fri/8 Alaska Anchorage @ Michigan Tech (WCHA) 7:07 pm ET Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum, Storrs, CT Winter Carnival Third Place Game (NC) TBA pm ET Bemidji State @ Wisconsin (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Championship Game (NC) 7:15 pm ET Minnesota State @ Minnesota Duluth (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Nebraska Omaha @ Quinnipiac (NC) 12:00 pm ET Minnesota @ St. Cloud State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Sun/30 MARIUCCI CLASSIC @ Mariucci Arena, Minneapolis, MN North Dakota @ Nebraska Omaha (WCHA) 6:37 pm CT Alabama Huntsville vs Air Force (NC) TBA pm CT Colorado College @ Denver (WCHA) 7:37 pm MT Boston College vs Minnesota (NC) TBA pm CT WCHA Men’s Release • 100812

2012-13 Composite Schedule con’t Date Game Time Sat/16 2013 WCHA PLAYOFFS • 1st Round • Best-of-Three Date Game Time #12 Rank @ #1 Rank TBA Sat/9 Alaska Anchorage @ Michigan Tech (WCHA) 5:07 pm ET #11 Rank @ #2 Rank TBA Winter Carnival #10 Rank @ #3 Rank TBA Bemidji State @ Wisconsin (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT #9 Rank @ #4 Rank TBA Minnesota State @ Minnesota Duluth (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT #8 Rank @ #5 Rank TBA Minnesota @ St. Cloud State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT #7 Rank @ #6 Rank TBA North Dakota @ Nebraska Omaha (WCHA) 4:07 pm CT Sun/17 2013 WCHA PLAYOFFS • 1st Round • Best-of-Three @ TD Ameritrade Park, Omaha, NE #12 Rank @ #1 Rank TBA Denver @ Colorado College (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT #11 Rank @ #2 Rank TBA Tue/12 Northern Michigan @ Michigan Tech (NC) 7:07 pm ET #10 Rank @ #3 Rank TBA Fri/15 Minnesota @ Wisconsin (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT #9 Rank @ #4 Rank TBA Minnesota Duluth @ Bemidji State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT #8 Rank @ #5 Rank TBA Michigan Tech @ Minnesota State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT #7 Rank @ #6 Rank TBA Nebraska Omaha @ Alaska Anchorage (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT Thu/21 2013 RED BARON™ WCHA FINAL FIVE Sat/16 Minnesota Duluth @ Bemidji State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT @ Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul, MN Michigan Tech @ Minnesota State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT #5 Seed vs #4 Seed 2:07 pm CT Nebraska Omaha @ Alaska Anchorage (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT #6 Seed vs #3 Seed 7:07 pm CT Sun/17 Minnesota vs Wisconsin (WCHA) 3:37 pm CT Fri/22 2013 RED BARON™ WCHA FINAL FIVE Hockey City Classic @ Soldier Field, Chicago, IL @ Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul, MN Thur/21 U.S. Under-18 Team @ Nebraska Omaha (EX) 7:37 pm CT Semi-Final #1: TBA vs TBA 2:07 pm CT Fri/22 Minnesota Duluth @ Minnesota (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Semi-Final #2: TBA vs TBA 7:07 pm CT North Dakota @ Denver (WCHA) 8:07 pm MT Sat/23 2013 RED BARON™ WCHA FINAL FIVE St. Cloud State @ Colorado College (WCHA) 7:37 pm MT @ Xcel Energy Center, Saint Paul, MN Sat/23 Minnesota Duluth @ Minnesota (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Broadmoor Trophy Championship Game 7:07 pm CT North Dakota @ Denver (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT Fri/29 NCAA NORTHEAST REGIONAL @ St. Cloud State @ Colorado College (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT Verizon Wireless Arena, Manchester, NH Sun/24 Penn State @ Wisconsin (NC) 7:07 pm CT Host: University of New Hampshire Mon/25 Penn State @ WIsconsin (NC) 7:07 pm CT Semifinal TBA pm ET Semifinal TBA pm ET NCAA WEST REGIONAL @ March Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, MI Date Game Time Host: University of Michigan Fri/1 Denver @ Minnesota (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Semifinal TBA pm CT Alabama-Huntsville @ Minnesota Duluth (NC) 7:07 pm CT Semifinal TBA pm CT Michigan Tech @ St. Cloud State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Sat/30 NCAA EAST REGIONAL @ Bemidji State @ North Dakota (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Dunkin’ Donuts Center, Providence, RI Wisconsin @ Nebraska Omaha (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Host: Brown University Minnesota State @ Colorado College (WCHA) 7:37 pm MT Semifinal TBA pm ET Alaska Anchorage @ Alaska Fairbanks (NC) 7:05 pm AT Semifinal TBA pm ET Alaska Airlines Governor’s Cup NCAA MIDWEST REGIONAL @ Sat/2 Denver @ Minnesota (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Huntington Center, Toledo, OH Alabama-Huntsville @ Minnesota Duluth (NC) 7:07 pm CT Host: Bowling Green State University Michigan Tech @ St. Cloud State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Semifinal TBA pm CT Bemidji State @ North Dakota (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Semifinal TBA pm CT Wisconsin @ Nebraska Omaha (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT NCAA NORTHEAST REGIONAL @ Minnesota State @ Colorado College (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT Verizon Wireless Arena, Manchester, NH Alaska Fairbanks @ Alaska Anchorage (NC) 7:07 pm AT Championship Game TBA pm ET Alaska Airlines Governor’s Cup NCAA WEST REGIONAL @ Fri/8 Colorado College @ Michigan Tech (WCHA) 7:07 pm ET Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, MI St. Cloud State @ Wisconsin (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Championship Game TBA pm CT @ Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Madison, WI Sun/31 NCAA EAST REGIONAL @ Minnesota @ Bemidji State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT Dunkin’ Donuts Center, Providence, RI Nebraska Omaha @ Minnesota Duluth (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Championship Game TBA pm ET North Dakota @ Minnesota State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT NCAA MIDWEST REGIONAL @ Alaska Anchorage @ Denver (WCHA) 7:37 pm MT Huntington Center, Toledo, OH Sat/9 Colorado College @ Michigan Tech (WCHA) 7:07 pm ET Championship Game TBA pm CT St. Cloud State @ Wisconsin (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT @ Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Madison, WI 7:07 pm CT Minnesota @ Bemidji State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT April Nebraska Omaha @ Minnesota Duluth (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Date Game Time North Dakota @ Minnesota State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT Thu/11 2013 NCAA MEN’S FROZEN FOUR Sun/10 Alaska Anchorage @ Denver (WCHA) 12:00 pm MT @ Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh, PA Semifinal #1 4:30 pm ET • end of regular season • Semifinal #2 8:00 pm ET Sat/13 2013 NCAA MEN’S FROZEN FOUR Date Game Time @ Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh, PA Fri/15 2013 WCHA PLAYOFFS • 1st Round • Best-of-Three National Championship Game 7:00 pm ET #12 Rank @ #1 Rank TBA #11 Rank @ #2 Rank TBA Schedule Key #10 Rank @ #3 Rank TBA All Association-member home games faceoff at either :07 or :37 after the hour; #9 Rank @ #4 Rank TBA (WCHA) conference; (NC) non-conference; (EX) exhibition; #8 Rank @ #5 Rank TBA tournaments/special events in CAPS #7 Rank @ #6 Rank TBA