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At Yale 11.1 & At Brown 11.2 The 2013-14 Saint Season St. Lawrence (4-2-0) at Yale (1-1-0) • Ingalls Rink 7:00 Friday 4-2-0, 0-0-0 ECAC St. Lawrence (4-2-0) at Brown (2-0-0) • Meehan Auditorium 7:00 Sat. Oct. 5 CARLETON (exh) W, 4-2 Oct. 11 MAINE W, 3-1 Radio: WFLK 95.3 • Wally Johnson Oct. 12 MAINE W, 5-2 Zeebs du Jour Oct. 18 at Ferris State W, 3-2 at Yale: Bryan Hicks, Bob Ritchie: Lines: Glen Cooke, Joe Testa Oct. 19 at Ferris State L, 5-3 at Brown: Mike Baker, Marty Hughes; Lines: Glen Cooke, Joe Testa Oct. 25 NORTHEASTERN L, 6-3 Oct. 26 NORTHEASTERN W, 6-4 LEAGUE OPENERS: The Saints start conference play and a four-game road trip Nov. 1 at Yale* 7:00 with this weekend’s contests at Yale and Brown. The Saints will be on hand Nov. 2 at Brown* 7:00 when Yale unveils its national championship banner to start the season and Nov. 8 at Harvard* 7:00 SLU was the last team to play the Bulldogs in Ingalls Rink as Yale swept SLU on Nov. 9 at Dartmouth* 7:00 its way to the ECAC Hockey semifinals and finals, winning 6-1 and 3-0 against a Nov. 15 COLGATE* 7:00 shorthanded Saint squad in the quarterfinals. Yale swept all four games be- Nov. 16 CORNELL* 7:00 tween the two teams last year with the last Saint win a 4-3 decision in New Nov. 22 at RIT 7:05 Haven on Feb. 3, 2012. Saturday foe Brown is the only ECAC team on the Saint slate to have taken at least one point from SLU in 20 straight seasons. The two Nov. 23 at RIT 7:05 teams tied 3-3 in the Saints’ last visit to Meehan Auditorium with the Saints Nov. 29 at North Dakota 7:37 winning 3-2 in Canton. Nov. 30 at North Dakota 7:07 Dec. 6 at Clarkson* 7:00 THE SAINT STAFF: Greg Carvel is in his second season as Saint head coach after Dec. 7 CLARKSON* 7:00 posting one of the best records for a first-year coach in program history a year Dec. 14 at Vermont 7:05 ago. The Saints 18-16-4 mark is the best for a first-year Saint coach since George Jan. 7 VERMONT 7:00 Menard went 18-5-0 in his first season, 1955-56. Carvel was named the second Jan. 17 BROWN* 7:00 Charles W. Appleton II Head Men’s Hockey Coach in the spring of 2012. A 1993 Jan. 18 YALE* 7:00 graduate of St. Lawrence and a former Saint hockey captain, he joined the staff Jan. 24 at Cornell* 7:00 as an assistant coach in the fall of 2011. He is the 13th head coach in program Jan. 25 at Colgate* 7:00 history. Carvel came to the Saints after a 15-year professional hockey coach- Jan. 31 UNION* 7:00 ing career that included assisting coach duties with the Ottawa Senators and Feb. 1 RENSSELAER* 7:00 Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League, helping both teams reach the Feb. 7 at Princeton* 7:00 Stanley Cup finals. He began his professional career as director of hockey oper- Feb. 8 at Quinnipiac* 7:00 ations for the Lowell Lock Monsters of the American Hockey League and joined Feb. 14 DARTMOUTH* 7:00 Anaheim as scouting coordinator in 1999. He added video coaching duties to Feb. 15 HARVARD* 7:00 his title in Anaheim in 2002 and was promoted to assistant coach in 2003. He Feb. 21 at Rensselaer* 7:00 joined the Senators in 2004. The winner of the ECAC’s Best Defensive Forward Feb. 22 at Union* 7:00 Award as a senior at St. Lawrence, Carvel graduated with a bachelor’s degree Feb. 28 QUINNIPIAC* 7:00 in political science and mathematics. He was an Academic All America and a Mar. 1 PRINCETON* 7:00 three-time winner of the Brian McFarlane Award for academic and athletic Mar. 7 ECAC 1st Round 7:00 accomplishments. He is joined behind the Saint bench by Associate Head Coach Mar. 8 ECAC 1st Round 7:00 Mike Hurlbut ‘89, a former All America defenseman who was part of two ECAC Championship teams at SLU and had a 14-year professional playing career and Mar. 9 ECAC 1st Round 7:00 assistant coach Kris Mayotte, who played goal for Union and graduated in 2006. Mar. 14 ECAC Quartefinals 7:00 Mayotte also has professional playing experience. Mar. 15 ECAC Quarterfinals 7:00 Mar. 16 ECAC Quarterfinals 7:00 SAINT SUPPORT STAFF: Aisha Visram, a 2007 graduate of the University of Mar. 21 ECAC Smeifinals TBA Guelph, is in her first season as athletic trainer for the Saint men’s hockey team. Mar. 22 ECAC Championship TBA Mike Elberty, a 1979 St. Lawrence graduate is the strength and conditioning coach and Brenden McHugh is the video coordinator for the 2012-13 Saints. Wally Johnson is the sports information contact and is in his 39th year of work- ing with the Saint program. He also works with the Saint radio broadcasts during games. The Tale of The Tape The Record When: Overall Record: 4-2-0 St. Lawrence Yale Brown At Home: 3-1-0 Record 4-2-0 1-1-0 2-0-0 On the Road: 1-1-0 Offense 3.83 2.00 4.50 Neutral: 0-0-0 League: 0-0-0 Defense 3.33 3.00 2.00 League Home: 0-0-0 Power Play 23.3% (7/30) 11.1% (1/9) 28.6% (2/7) League Away: 0-0-0 Penalty Kill 79.3% (23/29) 70.0% (7/10) 75.0% (9/12) Non-League: 4-2-0 Comb. Spl. Teams 50.8% 42.1% 57.9% Non-League Home: 3-1-0 Special Teams Net 0 -1 -1 Non-League Away: 1-1-0 Pen. Min. Gm. 12.0 10.0 17.5 Non-League Neutral: 0-0-0 Leading after One: 2-2-0 Trailing after One: 2-0-0 Tied after One: 0-0-0 THE BREAKDOWN: The 2013-14 Saint roster includes seven seniors, four juniors, five Leading after Two: 3-0-0 sophomores and 10 freshmen. The Saints return three of their top five scorers from last Trailing after Two: 0-0-0 season and seven of the top ten. Of the 15 returnees, 13 played at least 31 games a year Tied after Two: 1-2-0 ago. Graduation claimed two defensemen, three forwards and a goaltender. One of the In Overtime: 0-0-0 sophomores, Brian Ward (Dartmouth transfer) is a newcomer giving the Saints 11 new Scoring First: 2-2-0 faces on the roster. That is the largest rookie group since coach Greg Carvel’s rookie sea- Opp. Scores First: 1-1-0 son of 1989-90 and second only to the 1980-81 rookie class which included 15 players in Outshooting Opp.: 4-2-0 coach Mike McShane’s first season as SLU coach. Opp. Outshoots SLU: 0-0-0 Shots are Even: 0-0-0 THE SAINT CAPTAINS: Senior center Kyle Essery will be the Saint captain for 2013-14 Scoring 3 or More: 4-2-0 with senior Jeremy Wick and junior Gunnar Hughes wearing the “A”. Wick was promot- Scoring 2 or Less: 0-0-0 ed to assistant captain midway through last season while Gunnar Hughes follows in the Scoring on the PP: 2-2-0 footsteps of his brother George, who was a two-year assistant captain for the Saints. The Allowing a PP Goal: 2-2-0 Saints have had a junior as a captain or assistant captain in each of the last four years. In October: 4-2-0 In November: 0-0-0 THE YALE SERIES: Yale took four games from the Saints a year ago winning 4-2 in the first In December: 0-0-0 meeting at Ingalls Rin, sweeping the regular season series with a 5-3 win in Canton and then In January: 0-0-0 ending the Saint season with a 6-1, 3-0 quarterfinal sweep against an injury-ravaged SLU In February: 0-0-0 lineup in New Haven. The last Saint win against Yale came 4-3 in overtime on Feb. 3, 2012 as In March: 0-0-0 the Saints took three points from the Bulldogs with a 3-3 tie in Canton and the road win in On Friday: 2-1-0 2011-12. The Saints lead the all-time series between the two teams 60-35-9 since its start in On Saturday: 2-1-0 1951-52. SLU is 29-19-6 in New Haven, 29-14-3 in Canton and 2-2-0 on neutral THE BROWN SERIES: Brown is the only ECAC team to earn at least one point against the Saints in 20 consecutive seasons. The two teams skated to a 3-3 tie in Providence to start ECAC play last season and the Saints won 3-2 in Canton to gain three of four points. The two teams split in 2011-12, each winning on the other’s ice, and Brown swept the 2010- 11 series. SLU leads the all-time series, which started in 1952-53, 39-27-10 with a 20-10-6 mark in Canton, 17-15-4 in Providence and 2-2-0 on neutral ice.