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ALE HOCKEY YALE HOCKEY QUICK FACTS BULLDOGS HOST UMASS BEFORE HEADING TO BROWN 2009-10 Overall Record: 2-1-2 2009-10 ECAC Hockey: 1-1-2 NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The No. 9 Bulldogs (2-1-2, 1-1-1 ECAC), coming off a Home: 1-0-1 Road: 1-1-1 Neutral: 0-0-0 three-point conference weekend at home, host Hockey East squad No. 11 UMass Athleti cs Director: Tom Beckett (7-2-0, 4-2-0) on Thursday before heading to ECAC Hockey travel partner Malcolm G. Chace Coach: Keith Allain '80 Brown (0-5-1, 0-3-1) for a Saturday night game. Career/Yale Record: 53-40-11 (4th Year) Series Records 2008-09 ECAC & Ivy League Regular Season Champs Yale and UMass have split the six meetings since the fi rst in 1971-72. The ECAC Tournament Champs Minutemen have won the last three. The Elis are 83-67-8 against Brown and have won eight straight. The Bears’ last win was a 3-2 OT game at Providence 2009-10 STAT LEADERS on 10/9/06. Goals: Litt le, 5 Last Meeting With UMass Goals (Career): Backman 60 It was Jan. 14, 1997, in Amherst when the Minutemen erased 1-0 and 3-1 Assists: Kearney, 5 Bulldog leads to hand Yale a 7-4 defeat. UMass scored six of the last seven goals Points: Litt le, 8 while Francois Magnant, Sani Silvennoinen, Matt Cumming and Josh Rabjohns Power Play Goals: Peel & Litt le, 1 tallied for Yale. Dan Choquette made 30 saves in net for the Blue. Short-Handed Goals: Litt le, 1 Game-Winning Goals: Litt le, Mason 1 Last Brown Meeting Penalty Minutes: Kearney & Litt le, 6 The Elis swept Brown last March at home in the conference playoffs, 4-2 and Saves: Rondeau, 96 2-0. Six different Bulldogs scored goals over the two games and Alec Richards Games Played (Career): Arcobello, 102 made 46 saves for the two wins. Massachusetts Minutemen ON THE AIR UMass traded wins with New Hampshire last weekend. David Boehm’s OT goal gave the Minutemen to a 4-3 victory at the Mullins Center on Friday. Casey Streaming Video: yalebulldogs.com Wellman netted the game- tying goal with 11 seconds left in regulation. Goalie Radio: WYBC (AM 1340) / wybc.com Paul Dainton (2.51, .923) made a career-high 42 saves. New Hampshire took the next game 4-2. Will Ortiz and Martin Nolet scored goals for the Minutemen, who are led offensively by James Marcou (3-11-14) and Casey Wellman (5-7-12). YALE SPORTS PUBLICITY Brown Bears Director/Hockey Contact: Steve Conn The Bears, under fi rst-year head coach Brendan Whittet, the former Dartmouth E-Mail: [email protected] assistant, are looking for their fi rst win of the year. Jordan Pietrus leads the team Phone: (203) 432-1455 with four goals while sophomore Mike Clemente (.893, 3.35) has most of the Fax: (203) 432-1454 work in net. Brown is coming off a 4-3 loss to Providence on Nov. 17. USPS Mail: Box 208216 New Haven, CT 06520-8216 Blue Comes Back for 3-3 Tie with Colgate Express Mail: 20 Tower Pkwy Tom Dignard’s third-period goal gave Yale a 3-3 overtime decision against New Haven, CT 06520-8216 Colgate before 2,715 at Ingalls Rink last Saturday. Sophomore Brian O’Neill had Ingalls Rink Press Box: (203) 432-0778 a goal and an assist as the Blue outshot the Raiders 44-22 and came back from Ingalls Rink Main Line: (203) 432-0876 a two-goal defi cit. Freshman goalie Nick Maricic made 19 saves and allowed Athleti cs Website: yalebulldogs.com one extra-man tally. The Bulldogs went 1-for-4 with the man-advantage while Stati sti cians: Billy Garfi eld, Kevin Guarino Charles Long stopped 41 shots, including 16 in the middle frame. Sean Backman had the other Yale goal. Yale Stuns No. 3 Cornell Brendan Mason’s slapshot from the top of the right circle with 4:25 left in the third period broke a 2-2 tie and sent Yale to a 4-2 win over No. 3/4 Cornell before a sellout crowd at Ingalls. The Bulldogs (2- 1-1, 1-1-1 ECAC), on the regular-season home opening night, erased a pair of one-goal defi cits in the fi rst period to win for the fourth straight time against the Big Red. Yale freshman goalie Nick Maricic 2009-10 Yale Men’s Hockey Game Notes THE LAST TIME... A Yale Player…. Scored 5 goals: Gene Scott vs. AIC 3/2/60 Scored 4 goals: Evan Wax vs. UConn 1/25/03 (4-0-4) Scored 3 goals: Sean Backman vs. Cornell 3/21/09 (3-0-3) ALE Scored a SHG: Broc Litt le at Princeton 10/31/09 (5-2 W) Scored an ENG: Brian O’Neill vs. Cornell 11/13/09 (4-2 W) Scored in OT: Kevin Limbert at Colgate 1/24/09 (5-4) Scored on Penalty Shot: Sean Backman vs. Dartmouth 2/18/07 Had PS Stopped: Broc Litt le 12/30/08 vs. Minnesota State, Dan Tormey (3-2 W) HOCKEY Stopped PS: Alec Richards at Cornell 1/19/07 (Tony Ramano, 2-2 OT) Had 5 assists: Bob Brooke vs. Dartmouth 1/26/80 (0-5-5) Had 4 assists: Jeff Hristovski vs. UConn 1/17/04 (0-4-4) Had 3 assists: Denny Kearney at Princeton 10/31/09 (0-3-3) Made 60+ saves: Josh Gartner at Dartmouth 3/5/05 (60) Made 50+ saves: Alec Richards at Union 3/4/06 (57) Made 40+ saves: Ryan Rondeau at Princeton 10/31/09 (40) Made 20 saves in a period: Matt Modelski vs. Princeton 2/3/07 (20, 3rd) Recorded a SHO: Alec Richards vs. Cornell 3/21/09 (27 saves) Whistled for 4 penalti es: Jean-Francois Boucher vs. Holy Cross 10/27/06 Goalie with an Assist: Nick Maricic vs. Cornell 11/13/09 (4-2 W) A Yale Team … Had 60 SOG: at Union 3/4/06 (61, 5 OT) Had 25 SOG in a period: at Dartmouth 1/9/09 (25, 1st) Had 20 SOG in a period: vs. Cornell 11/13/09 (22, 1st) Faced 60 SOG: at Dartmouth 3/5/05 (64) Scored 4+ goals in a period: at Princeton 10/31/09 (4, 3rd) Scored 3 PPG in a Game: vs. Harvard 2/6/09 (4-for-6) Scored 10+ goals in a Game: vs. Cornell 2/6/98 (11-0) Sean Allowed 4 PPG in a Game: at Dartmouth 2/23/08 (4-for-9) Backman Allowed a hat trick: Princeton's Cam MacIntyre at Ingalls 10/26/07 (3) Allowed a SHG: Colgate's David McIntyre 1/24/09 Won in OT: at Colgate 1/24/09 (5-4, Kevin Limbert) Lost in OT: vs. Colgate 3/1/09 (Peter Bogdanich, GWG, 3-2) 2008-09 AWARDS ECAC Player of the Week Dec. 8, Broc Litt le, So, F Feb. 16, Patrick Brosnihan, Sr, F Mar. 3, Mark Arcobello, Jr, F ECAC Rookie of the Week Broc Jan. 12, Brian O'Neill, Fr, F Litt le Mar. 3, Brian O'Neill, Fr, F ECAC Goalie of the Week Feb. 2, Alec Richards, Sr, G Inside Hockey Goalie of the Week Feb. 2, Alec Richards, Sr, G Walter Brown Award Semi-Finalist Sean Backman, Jr, F 2009 Frozen Four Skills Competi ti on Alec Richards, Sr, G All-Conference, All-League, All-Tourney Mark Arcobello, Jr, F: 1st team All-ECAC, 1st All-Ivy Sean Backman, Jr, F: 2nd team All-ECAC, 1st All-Ivy, ECAC All-Tourney, Tourney MVP Tom Dignard, Jr, D: 2nd team All-ECAC, HM All-Ivy, ECAC Student-Athlete of Year Finalist Ryan Donald, Jr, D: ECAC All-Tourney Broc Litt le, So, F: 3rd team All-ECAC, ECAC All-Tourney Brian O'Neill, Fr: F, ECAC All-Rookie Team Alec Richards, Sr, G: 3rd team All-ECAC, 2nd All-Ivy, ECAC All-Tourney 2008-09 ECAC Regular Season and Tournament Champions • 2008-09 Ivy League Champions made 25 saves including 11 in a wild fi nal period. Brian O’Neill had a goal and two assists for the Blue. Bulldog Bites Yale’s last game against a team from Hockey East was the 2009 NCAA East Regional contest (4-1 L) with Vermont. The last regular season meeting was was 11/25/06 at Boston U (2-1 L, OT). Yale’s last win over a HEA squad was 10/28/06, a 4-3 OT win at New Hampshire... The Elis have been outscored in each of the fi rst two periods overall but have a 9-2 advantage in fi nal frames this season… Five different players covering all four classes have scored for Yale this season... Yale, averaging 38 shots per game, has outshot opponents by 36 overall... The Blue is 3-for-26 (11.5%) on the power play this year and has a 76.2 percent success rate on the penalty kill… C.J. Marottolo, the new SHU head coach, was Yale’s top assistant for the last 13 years and helped the Blue to a pair of conference titles. Backman Close to Century Scoring Mark F Sean Backman has 95 career points in 98 games, including 60 goals. Yale’s active career goals leader was named to the College Hockey News (CHN) 2008-09 Pre-Season All-America squad. He was second-team All-ECAC last year after leading his team with 20 goals.