2012-13 MEN’S ICE HOCKEY GAME NOTES American International Yellow Jackets (2-3-0, 0-1-0 AHA) vs. RIT Tigers (1-4-0, 0-1-1 AHA) November 2, 2012 - 7:05 p.m. - Olympia Ice Center - West Springfi eld, Mass. November 3, 2012 - 7:05 p.m. - Olympia Ice Center - West Springfi eld, Mass. SETTING THE SCENE: The American International College men’s ice 2012-13 Schedule/Results hockey team hosts a weekend series against Rochester Institute of Technology November 2-3, 2012 at the Olympia Ice Center. Both Date Opponent Time games will start at 7:05 p.m. Oct. 12 Penn State W 3-2 (OT) Oct. 13 Penn State ^ L 3-4 (OT) OCT. 16 HOLY CROSS * L 2-6 ABOUT AIC: The Yellow Jackets entered the weekend with a record OCT. 26 NO. 8 UNION L 0-8 of 2-3-0 overall after falling to eight-ranked Union 8-0 and defeating OCT. 27 ALA.-HUNTSVILLE W, 4-3 Alabama-Huntsville 4-3 last weekend. AIC is 0-1-0 so far in league NOV. 2 RIT * 7:05 P.M. play, dropping a 6-2 decision to Holy Cross in its conference-opener NOV. 3 RIT * 7:05 P.M. October 16. Senior forward Adam Pleskach leads the team in scoring Nov. 6 Quinnipiac 7:00 p.m. with three goals and three assists for six points, while junior forward NOV. 16 BENTLEY * 7:05 P.M. Jon Puskar has a team-best four goals and is second on the team in Nov. 17 Sacred Heart * 7:05 p.m. Nov. 24 Canisius * 4:05 p.m. scoring with fi ve points. Senior defenseman Jeff Ceccacci leads the Nov. 25 Canisius * 4:05 p.m. team with four assists. Senior goalie Ben Meisner is 1-3-0 with a 5.18 Dec. 1 Army * 7:05 p.m. goals against average after getting roughed up against the Dutchmen Dec. 7 Mercyhurst * 7:05 p.m. this past Friday night. Sophomore goalie Chandler Long made 22 Dec. 8 Mercyhurst * 7:05 p.m. stops to beat the Chargers the following night in his only appearance Dec. 29 Connecticut * % 7:30 p.m. of the season, marking the fi rst victory of his collegiate career. Dec. 30 Brown/Minnesota State % TBA JAN. 11 NIAGARA * 7:05 P.M. LAST TIME OUT: AIC bounced back from a tough 8-0 loss to No. 8 JAN. 12 NIAGARA * 7:05 P.M. JAN. 18 ROBERT MORRIS * 7:05 P.M. Union to register a 4-3 win over Alabama-Huntsville, snapping a six- JAN. 19 ROBERT MORRIS * 7:05 P.M. game losing streak to the Chargers and while earning its fi rst win Jan. 25 Connecticut * 7:05 p.m. over UAH as a NCAA Division I program. The Yellow Jackets led 1-0 JAN. 26 CONNECTICUT * 7:05 P.M. after the fi rst period on senior forward Richard Leitner’s fi rst goal of Feb. 1 Air Force * 9:05 p.m. the season, but found themselves tied at two-all midway through Feb. 2 Air Force * 9:05 p.m. the second. Pleskach then scored a pair of goals in a span of two Feb. 8 Army * 7:05 p.m. minutes, one of which was on the power play, to put AIC ahead 4-2 FEB. 9 ARMY * 7:05 P.M. FEB. 15 SACRED HEART * 7:05 P.M. through two periods of play. UAH made it a one-goal game with fi ve Feb. 16 Sacred Heart * 7:05 p.m. minutes remaining in the game, but were unable to get the equalizer. FEB. 22 HOLY CROSS * 7:05 P.M. Feb. 23 Holy Cross * 7:05 p.m. AHA WEEKLY HONORS: Long and Pleskach were placed on the Atlantic MAR. 1 BENTLEY * 7:05 P.M. Hockey Honor Roll after leading the Yellow Jackets to a 1-1 record Mar. 2 Bentley * 7:05 p.m. last week. Long earned his fi rst collegiate victory in net in the Yel- low Jackets’ 4-3 win over Alabama-Huntsville, stopping 22 of the 25 BOLD indicates home contest * indicates Atlantic Hockey contest shots on goal he faced. Pleskach scored two goals and dished out an ^ at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Place; assist in the win over the Chargers. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. % at UConn Hockey Classic; Storrs, Conn. MILESTONE/RECORD WATCH: Pleskach enters tonight’s contest with 89 career points (47 goals, 42 assists), and is now 11 away from be- coming just the second 100-point scorer since the Yellow Jackets became a Division I program. The fi rst was Guillaume Caron, who 2012-13 scored 117 points (61 goals, 56 assists) from 2000-04. Caron’s totals in goals, assists and points are all AIC Division I records. Meisner is closing Atlantic Hockey Standings in on the career saves record. He now has 2,726 career saves and is 191 Pl. Team Pts. AHA Overall away from surpassing Novello’s career 2,916 saves. Chance Thede holds 1. Army 5 2-0-1 2-3-1 the all-time record for career saves, stopping 3,014 shots on goal from 2. Holy Cross 4 2-1-0 3-1-0 1997-2001). 3. Air Force 3 1-0-1 1-2-2 4. Bentley 2 1-0-0 2-2-0 Niagara 2 1-0-0 2-2-3 ABOUT RIT: The Tigers enter the weekend with an overall record of just 1-4- Robert Morris 2 1-1-0 2-2-0 0 for the season, opening the season with a 5-4 win at Michigan before 7. Canisius 1 0-0-1 1-4-1 dropping four in a row. RIT dropped the second game to the Wolverines 8. Sacred Heart 1 0-2-1 0-4-1 9. AMERICAN INT’L 0 0-1-0 2-3-0 7-2 and the fell to Penn State (3-2), Robert Morris (6-4) and Colgate (6-3). RIT 0 0-1-0 1-4-0 Senior forward Jeff Smith leads the team in scoring with four goals and Connecticut 0 0-1-0 0-2-1 four assists for eight points, while junior forwards Ben Lynch and Adam Mercyhurst 0 0-1-0 0-2-1 Mitchell are tied for second with four points each. Lynch has one goal with three assists, and Mitchell has two goals with two assists. Junior 2012-13 Atlantic Hockey goalie Josh Watson is 1-2-0 in net with a 4.36 goals against average, while sophomore goalie Jordan Ruby is 0-2-0 with a 6.52 goals against Preseason Coaches Poll average. Pl. Team FPV Points 1. Air Force 8 112 ABOUT THE SERIES: RIT leads the all-time series with AIC 19-3-1 and has 2. Niagara 3 101 won four in a row against the Yellow Jackets. The Tigers swept the regular 3. Mercyhurst 89 4. Bentley 87 season series against the Yellow Jackets last season by scores of 3-1 and RIT 87 4-2 after sweeping AIC out of the playoffs in 2010. The two teams split 6. Holy Cross 74 the regular season series in 2010-11 at the Olympia, with RIT taking the 7. Connecticut 65 opener 4-0 and the Yellow Jackets taking game two 6-2. 8. Robert Morris 1 61 9. Canisius 38 10. Army 30 NEXT UP: The Yellow Jackets travel to Quinnipiac Tuesday, November 6 11. AMERICAN INT’L 20 for a 7 p.m. non-conference contest with their former conference rival. 12. Sacred Heart 19 AIC will then play its fi nal home game of 2012 November 16 at 7:05 p.m. 2012-13 against Bentley at the Olympia Ice Center. Atlantic Hockey Weekly Honors HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: 2012-13 marks the 15th season for AIC as a NCAA Divi- sion I program, and is the 65th season all-time. Chandler Long - So., G, Point Lookout, N.Y. Atlantic Hockey Honor Roll - Oct. 29 RECORD SETTING SHUTOUTS: Meisner entered the 2011-12 season tied for the most career shutouts at AIC and on November 5 made that record his own Ben Meisner - Sr., G, Halifax, N.S. after blanking Robert Morris 2-0. He career total now stands at six following the Yellow Jackets’ 3-0 win at Brown November 22. New England Hockey Journal Player of the Week - Oct. 18 RECORD SETTING EIGHT SECONDS: The two short-handed goals scored by Atlantic Hockey Honor Roll - Oct. 15 freshman forward Brandon Fagerheim (Calgary, Alb.) and junior forward Adam Pleskach (Beausejour, Man.) in AIC’s 7-4 win over Sacred Heart October 28, 2011 Chris Porter - Fr., F, Stoufville, Ont. were the fastest two goals scored by a single team in Atlantic Hockey history and Atlantic Hockey Honor Roll - Oct. 15 the 10th fastest scored by a team in NCAA history. Jon Puskar - Jr., F, Grosse Ile, Mich. THAT WAS A FIRST: AIC’s 3-0 win at Brown November 22, 2011 marked the pro- Atlantic Hockey Honor Roll - Oct. 22 gram’s fi rst-ever win over an ECAC Hockey member program. THE CAPTAINS: Senior forward Adam Pleskach has been elected team captain for the 2012-13 season after serving as an assistant captain last season. Senior defenseman Chris Markiewicz was elected an assistant captain for the second straight season, while junior forward Blake Peake was elected an assistant captain for the fi rst time. PRESEASON PICK: The head coaches of Atlantic Hockey picked the Yellow Jackets to fi nish 11th of the league’s 12 teams.