The Vermont Series 2014-15 Schedule St. Lawrence (8-6-1, 4-3-0) vs. #10 Vermont (11-3-1, 7-3-1) 8-6-1, 4-3-0 ECAC Friday: Gutterson Field House • Saturday: Appleton Arena Oct. 4 CARLETON (ex) W, 4-0 Radio: WFLK 95.3 • Greg Lapinski, Wally Johnson Oct. 10 at RIT L, 5-2 Zeebs Du Jour: Oct. 11 at Niagara W, 10-2 Friday Referees: Andy O’Brien, Kevin Keenan; Lines: Matt Riegert Oct. 17 #4 FERRIS STATE L 3-2 OT Saturday: Referees: Chip McDonald, Kevin Graber, Lines: Jason Shattie, Stephen Drain Oct. 18 #4 FERRIS STATE W, 2-0 THE RIVALRY RESUMES: The Skating Saints and Vermont Catamounts will meet for Oct. 24 at #10 Miami (OH) W, 5-4 the 42nd time in the last 43 years when the two teams play in Burlington on Friday Oct. 25 at #10 Miami (OH) L, 2-1 OT and back in Canton on Saturday. The series began its long-standing run in 1971-72 Oct. 31 CLARKSON T, 2-2 OT with a home and home series against the then Division II independent Catamounts Nov. 1 at Clarkson W, 4-0 and the two teams have played 86 games since the first game of the 1971 set Ver- Nov. 7 at Brown* W, 5-2 mont was a ECAC league rival from 1974-75 through 2004-05 and while the Cats Nov. 8 at Yale* W, 4-0 jumped to Hockey East in 2005-06, the two have continued the rivalry with at least Nov. 14 at #6 Colgate* L, 5-2 one game a year since the switch. The one year the two teams did not play was Nov. 15 at Cornell* W, 4-2 1999-2000 when Vermont suspended its season early in the year. The weekend series Nov. 21 PRINCETON* W, 3-0 starts a string of four straight against Hockey East foes. SLU will open the 2015 por- tion of its schedule at Northeastern Jan. 2-3. Nov. 22 QUINNIPIAC* L, 3-2 OT Dec. 6 CLARKSON* L, 2-1 CLARKSON NABS ONE: Tommy Thompson put St. Lawrence on top early in the Dec. 12 at Vermont 7:05 second period, but Clarkson answered with two in the same stanza and held on for Dec. 13 VERMONT 7:00 a 2-1 win over the Saints in the first league meeting of the season between the two Jan. 2 at Northeastern 7:05 arch rivals in Canton last weekend. The two North Country neighbors are now 1-1-1 Jan. 3 at Northeastern 7:05 in three games this season with the second league meeting slated for Potsdam on Jan. 31. Saint goalie Kyle Hayton made 29 saves while Steve Perry of Clarkson had 21 Jan. 9 CORNELL* 7:00 including a couple of late game-savers. The Saints continued to struggle on the power Jan. 10 COLGATE* 7:00 play, going scoreless in five opportunities. They have come up empty on their last 15 Jan. 16 at Dartmouth* 7:00 power play opportunities. Mike Marnell assisted on the Saint goal against Clarkson in Jan. 17 at Harvard* 7:00 his first game back after missing five due to injury. Jan. 23 YALE* 7:00 Jan. 24 BROWN* 7:00 THE SAINT STAFF: Greg Carvel is in his third season as Saint head coach after posting one of the best records for a first-year coach in program history in his rookie season. Jan. 31 at Clarkson* 7:00 The Saints 18-16-4 mark is the best for a first-year Saint coach since George Menard Feb. 6 RENSSELAER* 7:00 went 18-5-0 in his first season, 1955-56. Carvel was named the second Charles W. Feb. 7 UNION* 7:00 Appleton II Head Men’s Hockey Coach in the spring of 2012. A 1993 graduate of St. Feb. 13 at Quinnipiac* 7:00 Lawrence and a former Saint hockey captain, he joined the staff as an assistant coach Feb. 14 at Princeton* 7:00 in the fall of 2011. He is the 13th head coach in program history. Carvel came to the Feb. 20 HARVARD* 7:00 Saints after a 15-year professional hockey coaching career that included assisting coach duties with the Ottawa Senators and Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey Feb. 21 DARTMOUTH* 7:00 League, helping both teams reach the Stanley Cup finals. He began his professional Feb. 27 at Union* 7:00 career as director of hockey operations for the Lowell Lock Monsters of the American Feb. 28 at Rensselaer* 7:00 Hockey League and joined Anaheim as scouting coordinator in 1999. He added video Mar 6-8 ECAC 1st round# 7:00 coaching duties to his title in Anaheim in 2002 and was promoted to assistant coach Mar. 13-15 ECAC Quarterfinals# 7:00 in 2003. He joined the Senators in 2004. The winner of the ECAC’s Best Defensive For- ward Award as a senior at St. Lawrence, Carvel graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Mar. 20 ECAC Semifinal TBA political science and mathematics. He was an Academic All America and a three-time Mar. 21 ECAC Finals 7:30 winner of the Brian McFarlane Award for academic and athletic accomplishments. He Mar. 27-29 NCAA Regionals TBA is joined behind the Saint bench by Associate Head Coach Mike Hurlbut ‘89, a former Apr. 9 NCAA Semifinals (Boston) TBA All America defenseman who was part of two ECAC Championship teams at SLU and Apr. 11 NCAA Finals TBA had a 14-year professional playing career and assistant coach Jared DeMichiel, who is in his first season with the Saints after assisting at Nazareth last season. DeMichiel was an outstanding goaltender for RIT, leading that team to the Frozen Four as a *-ECAC Games senior. #-Best of three series The Tale of The Tape The Record When: St. Lawrence Vermont Overall Record: 8-6-1 Record 8-6-1 11-3-1 At Home: 2-3-1 Offense 3.27 3.47 On the Road: 6-3-0 Defense 2.13 1.67 Neutral: 0-0-0 Power Play 17.2 21.8 League: 4-3-0 Penalty Kill 87.7 94.6 League Home: 1-2-0 Special Teams Net +4 +8 League Away: 3-1-0 Non-League: 4-3-1 Pen. Min. Per Game 17.5 8.8 Non-League Home: 1-1-1 Non-League Away: 3-2-0 Non-League Neutral: 0-0-0 SAINT SUPPORT STAFF: Aisha Visram, a 2007 graduate of the University of Guelph, is in her second season as athletic trainer for the Saint men’s hockey team. Mike Elberty, a 1979 St. Leading after One: 6-2-0 Lawrence graduate is the strength and conditioning coach and Brenden McHugh is the video Trailing after One: 0-3-0 coordinator for the 2012-13 Saints. Wally Johnson is the sports information contact and is in Tied after One: 2-1-1 his 39th year of working with the Saint program. He also works with the Saint radio broadcasts Leading after Two: 7-1-0 during games. Trailing after Two: 0-3-1 Tied after Two: 1-2-0 THE BREAKDOWN: The 2014-15 Saint roster includes four seniors, six juniors, eight soph- In Overtime: 0-3-1 omores and nine freshmen. The Saints lost four of their top five scorers from last season Scoring First: 7-3-1 and workhorse goaltender Matt Weninger, who played in 132 games during his four Opp. Scores First: 1-3-0 seasons including 34 of 38 last year. Of the 18 returnees, seven played in all 38 games last Outshooting Opp.: 4-1-0 year, and an eighth in 37. The Saints also return junior Tommy Thompson who sat out last Opp. Outshoots SLU: 3-5-1 season and will have two years of eligibility. Shots are Even: 1-0-0 Scoring 3 or More: 7-0-0 THE SAINT CAPTAINS: Senior wing Gunnar Hughes will be the Saint captain this season Scoring 2 or Less: 1-6-1 while classmate Patrick Doherty and junior forward Brian Ward will be the assistant cap- Scoring on the PP: 4-1-0 tains. Hughes, an assistant captain last year, follows in the footsteps of his brother George Allowing a PP Goal: 3-2-0 as a two-year captain for the Saints and joins Sean and Kyle Flanagan and Mike and Pete In October: 3-3-1 Lappin as the only brothers in SLU hockey history to both captain teams. Hughes scored In November: 5-2-0 five goals and had 13 assists last season and has played in 109 career games with 16 goals In December: 0-1-0 and 35 assists for 51 points. He has five career game winning goals for the Saints. Doherty, In January: 0-0-0 an excellent special teams player, has five power play goals, four shorthanded goals and In February: 0-0-0 five game winners among 24 career goals in 111 games. He also has 17 assists for 41 In March: 0-0-0 points. Ward had eight goals and nine assists for 17 points in 38 games in his first season of On Friday: 3-3-1 collegiate competition. On Saturday: 5-3-0 THE VERMONT SERIES: Vermont was won three straight in the series between the two teams including two in a row at Appleton Arena. The Saints’ last win was a 2-1 decision in Burlington in December of 2011. Overall, the Saints lead the series 47-37-3 with a 28-17-1 advantage in games played in Canton.