The Miami Series St. Lawrence (2-2-0) at #11 Miami (3-1-0 2014-15 Schedule Oxford, OH • October 24-25, 2014 2-2-0, 0-0-0 ECAC Radio: WFLK 95.3 • Greg Lapinski Oct. 4 CARLETON (ex) W, 4-0 Zeebs Du Jour: Oct. 10 at RIT L, 5-2 Oct. 11 at Niagara W, 10-2 As Assigned by the National Collegiate Hockey Conference Oct. 17 #4 FERRIS STATE L 3-2 OT Oct. 18 #4 FERRIS STATE W, 2-0 Oct. 24 at Miami (OH) 7:35 EARLY TESTS CONTINUE: The Saints will continue a series of early challenges for Oct. 25 at Miami (OH) 8:05 their young rosters as they travel to Oxford, OH to take on Miami’s Redhawks in a Oct. 31 CLARKSON 7:00 two-game set. The weekend series rekindles after a seven-year hiatus as the Saints Nov. 1 at Clarkson 7:00 make their first appearance in Oxford since 2005-06. It will be the second straight Nov. 7 at Brown* 7:00 set against a ranked team for the Saints and the second time in two seasons that Nov. 8 at Yale* 7:00 they play a team from the NCHC on the road. The Saints split a series at North Dako- Nov. 14 at Colgate* 7:00 ta last season. Nov. 15 at Cornell* 7:00 Nov. 21 PRINCETON* 7:00 GREAT HOME SHOWING: The Saints and Ferris State treated fans to some excellent Nov. 22 QUINNIPIAC* 7:00 end to end hockey in a pair of games at Appleton Arena last weekend, the fourth- ranked Bulldogs winning game one, 3-2 in overtime despite a 44-save night from Dec. 6 CLARKSON* 7:00 Saint rookie goalie Kyle Hayton. Hayton got his revenge in game two as he made Dec. 12 at Vermont 7:05 33 stops for his first collegiate shutout and the Saints rode goals by rookie bluelin- Dec. 13 VERMONT 7:05 er Mitch Eden and senior Pat Doherty to a 2-0 win. It was the first meeting with a Jan. 2 at Northeastern 7:05 ranked team this season and the third win over a top five team in the last two sea- Jan. 3 at Northeastern 7:05 sons. The Saints beat Union, ranked fourth at the time of the game, and Quinnipiac, Jan. 9 CORNELL* 7:00 ranked third, last season. They also had a win over 20th-ranked Northeastern. Jan. 10 COLGATE* 7:00 Jan. 16 at Dartmouth* 7:00 THE SAINT STAFF: Greg Carvel is in his third season as Saint head coach after posting Jan. 17 at Harvard* 7:00 one of the best records for a first-year coach in program history in his rookie season. Jan. 23 YALE* 7:00 The Saints 18-16-4 mark is the best for a first-year Saint coach since George Menard Jan. 24 BROWN* 7:00 went 18-5-0 in his first season, 1955-56. Carvel was named the second Charles W. Appleton II Head Men’s Hockey Coach in the spring of 2012. A 1993 graduate of Jan. 31 at Clarkson* 7:00 St. Lawrence and a former Saint hockey captain, he joined the staff as an assistant Feb. 6 RENSSELAER* 7:00 coach in the fall of 2011. He is the 13th head coach in program history. Carvel came Feb. 7 UNION* 7:00 to the Saints after a 15-year professional hockey coaching career that included Feb. 13 at Quinnipiac* 7:00 assisting coach duties with the Ottawa Senators and Anaheim Ducks of the Nation- Feb. 14 at Princeton* 7:00 al Hockey League, helping both teams reach the Stanley Cup finals. He began his Feb. 20 HARVARD* 7:00 professional career as director of hockey operations for the Lowell Lock Monsters of Feb. 21 DARTMOUTH* 7:00 the American Hockey League and joined Anaheim as scouting coordinator in 1999. Feb. 27 at Union* 7:00 He added video coaching duties to his title in Anaheim in 2002 and was promoted Feb. 28 at Rensselaer* 7:00 to assistant coach in 2003. He joined the Senators in 2004. The winner of the ECAC’s Mar 6-8 ECAC 1st round# 7:00 Best Defensive Forward Award as a senior at St. Lawrence, Carvel graduated with Mar. 13-15 ECAC Quarterfinals# 7:00 a bachelor’s degree in political science and mathematics. He was an Academic All America and a three-time winner of the Brian McFarlane Award for academic and Mar. 20 ECAC Semifinal TBA athletic accomplishments. He is joined behind the Saint bench by Associate Head Mar. 21 ECAC Finals 7:30 Coach Mike Hurlbut ‘89, a former All America defenseman who was part of two Mar. 27-29 NCAA Regionals TBA ECAC Championship teams at SLU and had a 14-year professional playing career Apr. 9 NCAA Semifinals (Boston) TBA and assistant coach Jared DeMichiel, who is in his first season with the Saints after Apr. 11 NCAA Finals TBA assisting at Nazareth last season. DeMichiel was an outstanding goaltender for RIT, leading that team to the Frozen Four as a senior. *-ECAC Games #-Best of three series THE TALE OF THE TAPE The Record When: Overall Record: 2-2-0 St. Lawrence Miami At Home: 1-1-0 Record 2-2-0 3-1-0 On the Road: 1-1-0 Offense 4.00 3.00 Neutral: 0-0-0 Defense 2.50 1.75 League: 0-0-0 Power Play 28.6 33.3 League Home: 0-0-0 League Away:0-0-0 Penalty Kill 95.2 72.2 Non-League: 2-2-0 Special Teams Net +5 -1 Non-League Home: 1-1-0 Pen. Min. Per Game 11.0 14.2 Non-League Away: 1-1-0 Non-League Neutral: 0-0-0 SAINT SUPPORT STAFF: Aisha Visram, a 2007 graduate of the University of Guelph, is in her Leading after One: 2-1-0 second season as athletic trainer for the Saint men’s hockey team. Mike Elberty, a 1979 St. Trailing after One: 0-1-0 Lawrence graduate is the strength and conditioning coach and Brenden McHugh is the video Tied after One: 0-0-0 coordinator for the 2012-13 Saints. Wally Johnson is the sports information contact and is in Leading after Two: 2-0-0 his 39th year of working with the Saint program. He also works with the Saint radio broadcasts Trailing after Two: 0-1-0 during games. Tied after Two: 0-1-0 In Overtime: 0-1-0 THE BREAKDOWN: The 2014-15 Saint roster includes four seniors, six juniors, eight sopho- Scoring First: 2-1-0 mores and nine freshmen. The Saints lost four of their top five scorers from last season and Opp. Scores First: 0-1-0 workhorse goaltender Matt Weninger, who played in 132 games during his four seasons Outshooting Opp.: 2-0-0 including 34 of 38 last year. Of the 18 returnees, seven played in all 38 games last year, and Opp. Outshoots SLU: 0-2-0 an eighth in 37. The Saints also return junior Tommy Thompson who sat out last season and Shots are Even: 0-0-0 will have two years of eligibility. Scoring 3 or More: 1-0-0 Scoring 2 or Less: 1-2-0 THE SAINT CAPTAINS: Senior wing Gunnar Hughes will be the Saint captain this season Scoring on the PP: 1-1-0 while classmate Patrick Doherty and junior forward Brian Ward will be the assistant cap- Allowing a PP Goal: 0-1-0 tains. Hughes, an assistant captain last year, follows in the footsteps of his brother George In October: 2-2-0 as a two-year captain for the Saints and joins Sean and Kyle Flanagan and Mike and Pete In November: 0-0-0 Lappin as the only brothers in SLU hockey history to both captain teams. Hughes scored five In December: 0-0-0 goals and had 13 assists last season and has played in 109 career games with 16 goals and In January: 0-0-0 35 assists for 51 points. He has five career game winning goals for the Saints. Doherty, an In February: 0-0-0 excellent special teams player, has five power play goals, four shorthanded goals and five In March: 0-0-0 game winners among 24 career goals in 111 games. He also has 17 assists for 41 points. On Friday: 0-2-0 Ward had eight goals and nine assists for 17 points in 38 games in his first season of colle- On Saturday: 2-0-0 giate competition. THE MIAMI SERIES: The Saints and Redhawks will play a two-game set for the first time since the 2004-05 season and will meet for the first time since 2006-07 when they square off in Oxford this weekend. Miami won the last meeting between the two teams 4-3 in Canton while the two squads skated to a 1-1 tie in SLU’s last visit to Oxford. Overall, Miami leads the series, which started in 1994-95, 6-5-1. Miami is 4-1-1 on home ice, the lone Saint win coming in game two of a 1997-98 series while the Saints are 3-2-0 in Canton and won 3-1 in the Lefty McFadden Classic in Toledo to open the 2003-04 season. BROTHER ACTS: The Saints have a pair of brothers on the roster for the 10th straight year as while Greg Carey graduated and Matt Carey departed for the pros after last season, step-brothers Christian Horn and Patrick Steinhauser join the squad this season.