UMD BULLDOGS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEN’S HOCKEY Communications Office • Bob Nygaard, Director • University of Minnesota Duluth • Duluth, MN 55812-2496 [email protected] • (218) 726-8191 • umdbulldogs.com • @umdbulldogs January 16, 2018 SURGING BULLDOGS BACK AT AMSOIL ARENA (FINALLY) FOR NCHC SHOWDOWN SERIES WITH NORTH DAKOTA THE PUCK DROPS HERE: The University of Minnesota Duluth will make its first home appearances in seven 2017-18 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH ROSTER weeks this Friday and Saturday (Jan. 19-20) by tak- No. Name Pos. Hgt. Wgt. Yr. Birthdate Hometown (Previous Team/League) ing on the University of North Dakota in a two-game 3 Mikey Anderson D 6-0 200 Fr. 5/25/99 Roseville, Minn. (Waterloo/USHL) National Collegiate Hockey Conference showdown 4 Dylan Samberg D 6-4 215 Fr. 1/24/99 Hermantown, Minn. (Hermantown H.S.) series. The puck drops at 8:08 p.m. on Friday and 7:07 5 Nick Wolff D 6-4 210 So. 7/21/96 Eagan, Minn. (Des Moines/USHL) p.m. the following night at AMSOIL Arena (6,756) in 6 Louie Roehl D 5-10 180 Fr. 4/9/98 Eden Prairie, Minn. (Minnesota Wilderness/NAHL) downtown Duluth. 7 Scott Perunovich D 5-10 170 Fr. 8/18/98 Hibbing, Minn. (Cedar Rapids/USHL) 8 Koby Bender F 6-1 200 Fr. 7/15/97 Cloquet, Minn. (Muskegon/USHL) THE RECORDS: UMD, which is riding a five-game un- 10 Kobe Roth F 5-8 175 Fr. 1/11/97 Warroad, Minn. (Des Moines/USHL) beaten streak (4-0-1), is 11-9-3 overall and 5-7-0-0 11 Avery Peterson F 6-3 210 Sr. 6/20/95 Grand Rapids, Minn. (Nebraska-Omaha/NCHC) in NCHC play (tied for fifth place with the University of 12 Jarod Hilderman D 6-1 200 So. 4/11/97 Kamsack, Saskatchewan (Fargo/USHL) Nebraska Omaha) while North Dakota sports a 12-6-6 13 Joey Anderson F 6-0 195 So. 6/19/98 Roseville, Minn. (U.S. National Under-18 Team) record in all games to go with a 6-4-2-2 NCHC mark 16 Billy Exell F 5-10 180 Jr. 10/4/95 Thunder Bay, Ontario (Minnesota Wilderness/NAHL) (second place). 17 Blake Young F 6-3 215 Sr. 11/2/94 Battleford, Saskatchewan (Battlefords/SJHL) 18 Nick McCormack D 5-11 190 Sr. 9/9/93 Ramsey, Minn. (Brooks/AJHL) HOW THEY RANK: This is how the Bulldogs and North 19 Justin Richards F 5-10 195 Fr. 3/17/98 Columbus, Ohio (Lincoln/USHL) Dakota stacked up in this week’s USCHO.com and 20 Karson Kuhlman (C) F 5-11 190 Sr. 9/26/95 Esko, Minn. (Dubuque/USHL) USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls as well as 21 Matt Anderson D 5-11 205 Fr. 4/11/99 Shakopee, Minn. (Holy Family Catholic H.S.) the Pairwise rankings. 22 Jared Thomas F 6-2 200 Sr. 2/21/94 Hermantown, Minn. (Sioux City/USHL) 23 Nick Swaney F 5-11 180 Fr. 9/9/97 Lakeville, Minn. (Waterloo/USHL) uscho.com USA Today PairWise 25 Peter Krieger F 5-11 190 Jr. 12/9/93 Oakdale, Minn (U. of Alaska/WCHA) UMD No. 14 No. 13 No. 14 26 Jade Miller F 5-10 185 So. 7/1/95 Minto, N.D. (Austin/NAHL) UND No. 7 No. 7 No. 10 27 Riley Tufte F 6-6 220 So. 4/10/98 Ham Lake, Minn. (Blaine H.S.) 28 Sammy Spurrell F 5-11 185 Sr. 10/5/92 Sherwood, Alberta (Spruce Grove/AJHL) ON THE AIR: The two UMD-North Dakota clashes will 32 Hunter Shepard G 6-0 210 So 11/7/95 Cohasset, Minn. (Bismarck/NAHL) be carried live on KDAL-Radio (610 AM and 103.9 36 Ben Patt G 5-10 175 Fr. 5/19/96 Brampton, Ontario (Notre Dame/SJHL) FM) with Bruce Ciskie handling the play-by-play re- 37 Nick Deery G 6-1 185 So. 5/25/94 La Crosse, Wis. (Steinbach/MJHL) sponsibilities and and Bulldog hockey alumnus Kraig 39 Parker Mackay (A) F 5-11 185 Jr. 6/10/94 Irma, Alberta (Spruce Grove/AJHL) Karakas the color commentary. This marks the 50th Head Coach: Scott Sandelin year KDAL has been the radio home for Bulldog hockey. Assistant Coaches: Jason Herter, Brett Larson, Brant Nicklin The broadcast can also be heard at: kdal610.com. Hockey Sports Performance Director: Dr. Susan Hoppe Resident Athletic Trainer: Jordan Ellis Friday’s series opener will be televised nationally on Strength and Conditioning Coach: Anthony Morando the CBS Sports Network with Ben Holden, Dave Star- Equipment Manager: Chris Garner man and Shireen Saski serving as the on-air talent. Director of Hockey Operations: Christian Koelling Operations Assistant: Bill Watson My9 (Channel 6.3; Channel 9 on Charter, Mediacom, Manager: Dale Haagenson and Dish Network and Channels 19 and 519 on Paul Bunyan Cable), which has been the Bulldogs’ televi- sion home for the last 10 seasons, will air Saturday’s matchup. KBJR-TV sports director Zach Schneider will serve as the on-air talent. Saturday’s telecast will be videostreamed at: nchc.tv/umd THE COACH: The runnerup for the 2010-11 Spencer Penrose Award (American Hockey Coaches Association NCAA I Coach of the Year) and recipient of that honor in 2003-04, Scott Sandelin is in his 18th season behind the UMD bench where he has compiled a 326-293-85 overall record -- including a 202-133-48 mark since the 2008-09 opener. Besides capturing the school’s first NCAA championship seven years ago, his Bulldogs have won 21 or more games in six of the last nine seasons (including last winter) while finishing below the .500 mark just one time over that stretch. Overall, they’ve advanced to seven NCAA tournaments (2004, 2016-17 NCHC Frozen Faceoff Champions • 2016-17 NCAA West Regional Champions • 5 Hobey Baker Memorial Award Winners • 2010-11 NCAA Champions 2009, 2011,2012, 2015, 2016 and 2017), includ- ing the last three in a row, three NCAA Frozen Fours The Numbers on Sandelin (2004, 2011 and 2017) and two NCHC Frozen Faceoff (Overall) (NCHC/WCHA) tourneys (2016 and 2017, when UMD won it all). YEAR W L T PCT W L T PCT PLACE Before UMD parted ways with the WCHA following the 2000-01 7 28 4 .231 3 22 3 .161 10th 2012-13 season, Sandelin had directed his troops to 2001-02 13 24 3 .363 6 19 3 .268 9th 2002-03 22 15 5 .583 14 10 4 .571 5th berths in seven of 11 Final Five playoff events. A three 2003-04 28 13 4 .667 19 7 2 .714 2nd time Spencer Penrose Award honoree as the American 2004-05 15 17 6 .473 11 13 4 .464 6th Hockey Coaches Association NCAA I Coach of the Year 2005-06 11 25 4 .325 6 19 3 .268 9th (winner in 2003-04, runnerup in 2010-11 and finalist 2006-07 13 21 5 .397 8 16 4 .357 9th last winter), Sandelin has also helped produce a pair of 2007-08 13 17 6 .444 9 14 5 .411 8th 2008-09 22 13 8 .605 10 11 7 .482 7th Hobey Baker Memorial Award winners (Jack Connolly in 2009-10 22 17 1 .562 16 11 1 .589 4th(T) 2011-12 and Junior Lessard in 2003-04), seven NCAA 2010-11 26 10 6 .690 15 8 5 .625 4th All-Americans and 21 All-NCHC/WCHA honorees. In 2011-12 25 10 6 .683 16 7 5 .661 2nd addition, he has seen 16 of his UMD pupils go on to 2012-13 14 19 5 .434 10 13 5 .446 9th do time in the National Hockey League and one take 2013-14 16 16 4 .500 11 11 2 .500 4th(T) part in the Winter Olympic Games (Justin Faulk for 2014-15 21 16 3 .563 12 9 3 .564 5th 2015-16 19 16 5 .538 11 10 3 .520 4th Team USA in 2014). 2016-17 28 7 7 .750 15 5 4 .708 2nd 2017-18 11 9 3 .543 5 7 0 .417 One year ago, Sandelin and the Bulldogs rolled up a Totals 326 293 85 .523 197 212 62 .484 28-7-7 overall record (for a .750 winning percentage -- the second highest figure in club history) and spent Lifetime Record vs. North Dakota: 25-33-4 (.435) a school-record 11 weeks occupying the No. 1 spot Lifetime NCHC Record: 54-42-12 (.556) Lifetime Home Record: 162-131-38 (.547) in the USCHO.com poll. They also went unbeaten in 19 of their final 21 games with one of those setbacks coming to Denver (3-2) in the NCAA national title bout. of the Year as well as the national coach of the year the previous winter with the Fargo-Moorhead Express During the course of the 2011-12 season, the Bulldogs by both insidecollegehockey.com and USCHO.com. In of the American Hockey Association. He capped off set a team record by going unbeaten in 17 straight 2002-03, Sandelin’s charges went 22-15-5 overall and his four-year playing career at North Dakota in 1985- games and were ranked first in both major weekly polls captured fifth place in the WCHA with a 14-10-4 mark 86 by being named one of 10 finalists for the Hobey (USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine) while experiencing the greatest one-season turnaround Baker Memorial Award.