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SAINTS HOCKEY NOTES..... Game s 18&19: Ledyard Bank Tournament at Dartmouth • Dec. 30-31, 2011 Dec. 30 vs. Merrimack (10-3-2) 4 p.m. • Dec. 31 Holy Cross (8-7-0) or Dartmouth (5-5-1 )TBA HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT TIME: St. Lawrence will play in its 47th in-season 2011-12 Saints Hockey tournament in program history when it joins Merrimack, Holy Cross and 7-10-0, 4-5-0 host Dartmouth for the 2011 Ledyard National Bank Classic at Thompson Oct. 7 FERRIS STATE L, 4-2 Arena in Hanover, Dec. 30-31. St. Lawrence has participated in the Ledyard Oct. 8 FERRIS STATE L, 5-1 Classic or the Auld Lang Syne Tournament at Dartmouth three times...1980, Oct. 12 at Michigan L, 10-3 1996 and 2006 and was the 1996 champion, beating Northeastern 6-5 in game one and Dartmouth 4-3 in the title game. That was the second crown Oct. 15 RIT at Blue Cross Arena L, 6-5 OT in five days for the Saints who won the Pepsi Classic in Grand Rapids on the Nov. 4 UNION* L, 2-0 27th and 28th before travelling to Dartmouth on the 29th. SLU has won 14 Nov. 5 RENSSELAER* W, 2-0 in-season tournament titles including four RPI Invitational crowns. It has Nov. 11 at Princeton* W, 3-2 played in 28 different tournaments including 11 appearances in the ECAC Nov. 12 at Quinnipiac* W, 1-0 OT Holiday Festival in New York City in the 1960s and 1970s. SLU’s first tourna- Nov. 18 DARTMOUTH* L, 3-1 ment appearance was the 1961 ECAC Holiday Festival at Madison Square Nov. 19 HARVARD* W, 4-3 Garden. The Saints and Clarkson co-hosted the North Country Thanksgiving Invitational from 1971 through 1981. Nov. 25 MICHIGAN TECH W, 3-2 Nov. 26 MICHIGAN TECH L, 3-1 LAST TIME OUT: The Saints won their second in a row on Dec. 17 when they Dec. 2 at Cornell* L, 1-0 turned back Vermont 2-1 in Burlington to close pre-holiday play. Senior goal- Dec. 3 at Colgate* L, 6-2 tender Robby Moss was outstanding in the win and kept it a scoreless game Dec. 6 CLARKSON* L, 5-3 through two with some great glove work. While Vermont jumped on top with Dec, 10 Clarkson at Lake Placid W, 4-1 a five-on-three power play goal 3:42 into the third, junior defenseman Jordan Dewey scored his fourth of the year to tie it at 8:20 and senior captain Jake Dec. 17 at Vermont W, 2-1 Drewiske scored the game winner with 3:57 to go, his fifth goal of the season. Dec. 30 Merrimack at Dartmouth 4:00 Moss finished with 24 saves in his first start since early October and second Dec. 31 TBA at Dartmouth TBA start of the season. The Saints were scoreless in one power play opportunity Jan. 6 MINNESOTA STATE 7:00 while Vermont scored on one of four chances. The Saints have now surrendered Jan. 7 MINNESOTA STATE 7:00 just one goal in each of their last two since giving up five (one an empty netter) in a 5-3 loss to Clarkson on Dec. 6. Jan. 13 BROWN* 7:00 Jan. 14 YALE* 7:00 THE SAINT STAFF: The Saints will start the season under the guidance of Jan. 21 at Clarkson* 7:00 coaches Mike Hurlbut and Greg Carvel as Saint head coach Joe Marsh starts Jan. 27 at Rensselaer* 7:00 27th campaign as head coach on an indefinite medical leave to resolve a Jan. 28 at Union* 7:00 chronic arthritic condition which limits his mobility. Marsh has a career Feb. 3 at Yale* 7:00 record of 468-399-72 going into the current season. Associate Head Coach Hurlbut and assistant coach Carvel inherit a young team which made the Feb. 4 at Brown* 7:00 ECAC quarterfinals after a first round upset of Princeton on the road. The Feb. 10 QUINNIPIAC* 7:00 Saints took eventual champion Yale to three games before being eliminated Feb. 11 PRINCETON* 4:00 in the playoffs. Last season’s team went 13-22-5. Hurlbut was a All America Feb. 17 COLGATE* 7:00 defenseman in 1989 who had a 14-year pro hockey career. He was elevated Feb. 18 CORNELL* 7:00 to the associate head coach position when Bob Prier left to become head Feb. 24 at Harvard* 7:00 coach at Princeton. Carvel, a 1993 graduate and former Saint captain has Feb. 25 at Dartmouth* 7:00 joined the staff as an assistant coach following a 15-year career in profes- sional hockey, most recently as an assistant coach with the Ottawa Sena- Mar. 2 ECAC 1st Round 7:00 tors. Mike Elberty ‘79, who has worked with the team the last few years in Mar. 3 ECAC 1st Round 7:00 conditioning is now an assistant coach while Paul Schonfelder, who played Mar. 4 ECAC 1st Round 7:00 professionally from 2002-07 is the Saints volunteer goaltending coach, while Mar. 9 ECAC Quarterfinals 7:00 Brenda Crawford is the athletic trainer. Mar. 10 ECAC Quarterfinals 7:00 Mar. 11 ECAC Quarterfinals 7:00 Mar. 16 ECAC Semifinals TBA Mar. 17 ECAC Championship TBA The Zeebs du Jour Mar. 23-24 NCAA East & West Regional Referees: Chip McDonald, Todd Whittemore; Lines: Brett Reed, Brad LeBlanc Game two: TBA Mar. 24-25 NCAA Northeast & Midwest Apr. 5 NCAA Semifinals Apr. 7 NCAA Championship The Tale of The Tape The Record When: Overall Record: 7-10-0 St. Lawrence Merrimack Holy Cross Dartmouth At Home: 3-6-0 Record 7-10-0 10-3-2 8-7-0 5-5-1 On the Road: 3-3-0 Offense 2.18 2.93 2.87 2.55 Neutral: 1-1-0 Defense 3.18 1.73 3.20 2.82 League: 4-5-0 Power Play 16.5 19.0 23.9 05.7 League Home: 2-3-0 League Away: 2-2-0 Penalty Kill 77.0 86.6 79.7 78.3 Non-League: 2-5-0 Pen. Min. Gm. 14.5 20.5 12.3 10.1 Non-League Home:1-3-0 Non-League Away: 1-1-0 Non-League Neutral: 1-1-0 Leading after One: 4-0-0 Trailing after One: 0-7-0 THE BREAKDOWN: The 2011-12 Saint roster includes seven seniors, six juniors, nine Tied after One: 3-3-0 sophomores and six freshmen on its 28-man list. Two of the seniors are goaltenders: Leading after Two: 5-0-0 Robby Moss and Joe Spadaccini, four are fowards: captain Jacob Drewiske, Max Mobley, Trailing after Two: 0-8-0 Rick Carden and Mark Armstrong, and one is a defenseman, Pete Child. The junior class Tied after Two: 2-2-0 includes forward and captain Kyle Flanagan, who has 63 points in two prior seasons and In Overtime: 1-1-0 is the leader in career points on the roster, goaltender David Grilk and four defensemen: Scoring First: 5-2-0 assistant captain George Hughes, Jordan Dewey, Matt Dyer and Mac Stratford, who played Opp. Scores First: 3-7-0 forward last year, but will return to the blue line as a junior. The sophomore class includes Outshooting Opp.: 1-4-0 media pre-season all star Greg Carey plus Nic Vangog, Sean Logue, Jeremy Wick and Kyle Opp. Outshoots SLU: 6-5-0 Essery up front, blueliners Riley Austin, Justin Baker and Pat Raley and goaltender Matt Scoring 3 or More: 4-3-0 Weninger. Newcomers include forwards Patrick Doherty, Tommy Thompson, Chris Martin, Scoring 2 or Less: 3-7-0 Gunnary Hughes, Justin Bruckel and defenseman Nelson Armstrong. Scoring on the PP: 2-6-0 Allowing a PP Goal: 3-9-0 THE SAINT CAPTAINS: Senior Jacob Drewiske will be joined by juniors Kyle Flanagan and In October: 0-4-0 George Hughes as the Saint captains for the upcoming season. Drewiske was an assistant In November:5-3-0 captain last season while Flanagan, whose brother Sean was an assistant captain last In December: 2-3-0 season, is one of 10 players in program history to wear the “C” as a junior. Shawn Fensel In January: 0-0-0 and Erik Anderson were the most recent in 2008 and 2004. Flanagan is the first Saint to In February: 0-0-0 wear the “C” from Canton since current coach Greg Carvel in 1992-93. Chris Wells), cur- In March: 0-0-0 rent Saint women’s coach, was a captain in 1991-92 and Paul Flanagan, Syracuse women’s On Tuesday: 0-1-0 coach and Kyle’s uncle, was captain in 1979-80. Hughes is the games-played leader On Thursday: 0-1-0 among the defensemen, entering his junior season with 81. On Friday: 2-4-0 On Saturday: 5-4-0 THE SAINTS VS. MERRIMACK: 1st meeting: 1966-67, last meeting: W 3-1 in Canton, 10.23.99, series: SLU 14-1-0. Current streak: SLU 6 straight. Last Merrimack win: 3-2 at Merrimack, 1/24/87. THE SAINTS VS. DARTMOUTH: 1st meeting; 1949-50, last meeting: L, 3-1 11.18.11 in Canton. series: SLU 50-28-2; at Apple- ton Arena: 28-7-2; at Dartmouth: 20-20-0. Current streak: Dartmouth 5 straight. Last Saint win: 7-2 in Canton, 2.21.09 THE SAINTS VS. HOLY CROSS: 1st meeting:2000-01, last meeting: w, 5-1 10.20.00 at Orono, ME; Series: SLU 1-0-0 SPECIAL TEAMS: The Saint power play was two for seven on the power play with the seventh chance lasting just one sec- ond on a call at 19:59 in the game against Clarkson.