The Brown-Yale Series 2014-15 Schedule St. Lawrence (4-3-1) at Brown (1-0-0) • Nov. 7 • Meehan Auditorium 4-3-1, 0-0-0 ECAC St. Lawrence at Yale • Nov. 8 • Ingalls Rink Oct. 4 CARLETON (ex) W, 4-0 Radio: WFLK 95.3 • Wally Johnson Oct. 10 at RIT L, 5-2 Zeebs Du Jour: Oct. 11 at Niagara W, 10-2 Brown: Referees: Cameron Lynch, Nate Turner; Lines: Stephen Drain, Jeremy Lemoine Oct. 17 #4 FERRIS STATE L 3-2 OT Yale: Referees: Mike Baker, Marty Hughes; Lines: Mike Emanatian, Stephen Drain Oct. 18 #4 FERRIS STATE W, 2-0 Oct. 24 at Miami (OH) W, 5-4 Oct. 25 at Miami (OH) L, 2-1 OT LET THE LEAGUE BEGIN: St. Lawrence University opens 2014-15 ECAC league com- Oct. 31 CLARKSON T, 2-2 OT petition at Brown and Yale after navigating a challenging early non-league schedule Nov. 1 at Clarkson W, 4-0 with a 4-3-1 mark which included wins over two top-ten ranked teams. Two of the Nov. 7 at Brown* 7:00 three Saint losses have also come against ranked foes and both were in overtime. Nov. 8 at Yale* 7:00 The Saints opened last season’s league schedule with the same pair of opponents Nov. 14 at Colgate* 7:00 and tied both games 3-3. This will be the third straight season that SLU opens with Brown and Yale on the road and the Saints are 0-1-3 in the previous league openers Nov. 15 at Cornell* 7:00 with the two Ivy opponents. The weekend trip to New England starts a four-game Nov. 21 PRINCETON* 7:00 road trip for the Siants, who will play at Colgate and Cornell on Nov. 14-15 before Nov. 22 QUINNIPIAC* 7:00 hosting Princeton and Quinnipiac on Nov. 21-22. Dec. 6 CLARKSON* 7:00 Dec. 12 at Vermont 7:05 A SPECIAL WEEKEND: The Saints and Clarkson squared off in a pair of non-league Dec. 13 VERMONT 7:05 games in a home-and-home set last weekend...and it was a series which brought Jan. 2 at Northeastern 7:05 out the record books. The two teams tied 2-2 in overtime on Friday in a game which Jan. 3 at Northeastern 7:05 featured no penalties for either side...the first time that has happened between Jan. 9 CORNELL* 7:00 Clarkson and St. Lawrence since the 1963 ECAC consolation game. The Saints won Jan. 10 COLGATE* 7:00 Saturday’s rematch 4-0, snapping a six game winless streak against the Knights. Kyle Jan. 16 at Dartmouth* 7:00 Hayton’s 30-save shutout was just the fourth in series history for the Saints and the first in Potsdam since Bill Sloan blanked Clarkson in a 7-0 win in 1953. Jan. 17 at Harvard* 7:00 Jan. 23 YALE* 7:00 THE SAINT STAFF: Greg Carvel is in his third season as Saint head coach after posting Jan. 24 BROWN* 7:00 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 Feb. 13 at Quinnipiac* 7:00 St. Lawrence and a former Saint hockey captain, he joined the staff as an assistant Feb. 14 at Princeton* 7:00 coach in the fall of 2011. He is the 13th head coach in program history. Carvel came Feb. 20 HARVARD* 7:00 to the Saints after a 15-year professional hockey coaching career that included Feb. 21 DARTMOUTH* 7:00 assisting coach duties with the Ottawa Senators and Anaheim Ducks of the Nation- Feb. 27 at Union* 7:00 al Hockey League, helping both teams reach the Stanley Cup finals. He began his professional career as director of hockey operations for the Lowell Lock Monsters of Feb. 28 at Rensselaer* 7:00 the American Hockey League and joined Anaheim as scouting coordinator in 1999. Mar 6-8 ECAC 1st round# 7:00 He added video coaching duties to his title in Anaheim in 2002 and was promoted Mar. 13-15 ECAC Quarterfinals# 7:00 to assistant coach in 2003. He joined the Senators in 2004. The winner of the ECAC’s Mar. 20 ECAC Semifinal TBA Best Defensive Forward Award as a senior at St. Lawrence, Carvel graduated with Mar. 21 ECAC Finals 7:30 a bachelor’s degree in political science and mathematics. He was an Academic All Mar. 27-29 NCAA Regionals TBA America and a three-time winner of the Brian McFarlane Award for academic and Apr. 9 NCAA Semifinals (Boston) TBA athletic accomplishments. He is joined behind the Saint bench by Associate Head Apr. 11 NCAA Finals TBA Coach 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 *-ECAC Games and assistant coach Jared DeMichiel, who is in his first season with the Saints after #-Best of three series assisting at Nazareth last season. DeMichiel was an outstanding goaltender for RIT, leading that team to the Frozen Four as a senior. The Tale of The Tape St. Lawrence Brown Yale The Record When: Record 4-3-1/0-0-0 1-0-0/0-0-0 1-0-1/0-0-0 Overall Record: 4-3-1 Offense 3.50 4.00 2.00 At Home: 1-1-1 Defense 2.25 2.00 1.50 On the Road: 3-2-0 Power Play 25.8 0.0 11.1 Neutral: 0-0-0 Penalty Kill 91.4 50.0 100.0 League: 0-0-0 League Home: 0-0-0 Special Teams Net +5 -2 +1 League Away:0-0-0 Pen. Min. Gm. 11.2 19.0 4.0 Non-League: 4-3-1 Non-League Home: 1-1-1 SAINT SUPPORT STAFF: Aisha Visram, a 2007 graduate of the University of Guelph, is in her Non-League Away: 3-2-0 second season as athletic trainer for the Saint men’s hockey team. Mike Elberty, a 1979 St. Non-League Neutral: 0-0-0 Lawrence graduate is the strength and conditioning coach and Brenden McHugh is the video Leading after One: 4-2-0 coordinator for the 2012-13 Saints. Wally Johnson is the sports information contact and is in Trailing after One: 0-1-0 his 39th year of working with the Saint program. He also works with the Saint radio broadcasts Tied after One: 0-0-1 during games. Leading after Two: 4-0-0 Trailing after Two: 0-1-1 THE BREAKDOWN: The 2014-15 Saint roster includes four seniors, six juniors, eight sopho- Tied after Two: 0-2-0 mores and nine freshmen. The Saints lost four of their top five scorers from last season and In Overtime: 0-2-1 workhorse goaltender Matt Weninger, who played in 132 games during his four seasons Scoring First: 4-2-1 including 34 of 38 last year. Of the 18 returnees, seven played in all 38 games last year, and Opp. Scores First: 0-1-0 an eighth in 37. The Saints also return junior Tommy Thompson who sat out last season and Outshooting Opp.: 2-0-0 will have two years of eligibility. Opp. Outshoots SLU: 2-3-1 Shots are Even: 0-0-0 THE SAINT CAPTAINS: Senior wing Gunnar Hughes will be the Saint captain this season Scoring 3 or More: 3-0-0 while classmate Patrick Doherty and junior forward Brian Ward will be the assistant cap- Scoring 2 or Less: 1-3-1 tains. Hughes, an assistant captain last year, follows in the footsteps of his brother George Scoring on the PP: 3-1-0 as a two-year captain for the Saints and joins Sean and Kyle Flanagan and Mike and Pete Allowing a PP Goal: 1-1-0 Lappin as the only brothers in SLU hockey history to both captain teams. Hughes scored five In October: 3-3-1 goals and had 13 assists last season and has played in 109 career games with 16 goals and In November: 1-0-0 35 assists for 51 points. He has five career game winning goals for the Saints. Doherty, an In December: 0-0-0 excellent special teams player, has five power play goals, four shorthanded goals and five In January: 0-0-0 game winners among 24 career goals in 111 games. He also has 17 assists for 41 points. In February: 0-0-0 Ward had eight goals and nine assists for 17 points in 38 games in his first season of colle- In March: 0-0-0 giate competition. On Friday: 1-2-1 On Saturday: 3-1-0 THE BROWN SERIES: Brown has the distinction of being the only team in the ECAC to earn at least one point against the Saints in each of the last 21 seasons. The Bears took three of four points in the regular season last year, a 3-3 tie in Providence and a 5-3 win in Canton, but the Saints swept Brown in a two game ECAC playoff series with a pair of 3-2 wins, the first in double overtime.