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 April 1, 2018 UMD AND OHIO STATE TO COLLIDE THURSDAY IN NCAA FROZEN FOUR SEMIFINAL CLASH AND THEN THERE WERE FOUR: The University of Minnesota Duluth will make its second NCAA Frozen Four appear- 2017-18 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH ROSTER ance in as many years this Thursday (April 5) when it No. Name Pos. Hgt. Wgt. Yr. Birthdate Hometown (Previous Team/League) takes on the Ohio State University in the semifinals 3 Mikey Anderson D 6-0 200 Fr. 5/25/99 Roseville, Minn. (Waterloo/USHL) at 5 p.m. at the Xcel Energy Center (18,568) in St. 4 Dylan Samberg D 6-4 215 Fr. 1/24/99 Hermantown, Minn. (Hermantown H.S.) Paul, Minn. The University of Notre Dame and the 5 Nick Wolff D 6-4 210 So. 7/21/96 Eagan, Minn. (Des Moines/USHL) University of Michigan will hit the ice later that night 6 Louie Roehl D 5-10 180 Fr. 4/9/98 Eden Prairie, Minn. (Minnesota Wilderness/NAHL) (8:30 p.m.) in the other first round matchup with the 7 Scott Perunovich D 5-10 170 Fr. 8/18/98 Hibbing, Minn. (Cedar Rapids/USHL) two winners meeting for college hockey’s top prize on 8 Koby Bender F 6-1 200 Fr. 7/15/97 Cloquet, Minn. (Muskegon/USHL) Saturday at 6:30 p.m. 10 Kobe Roth F 5-8 175 Fr. 1/11/97 Warroad, Minn. (Des Moines/USHL) 11 Avery Peterson F 6-3 210 Sr. 6/20/95 Grand Rapids, Minn. (Nebraska-Omaha/NCHC) THE RECORDS: Winners of nine of its last 12 games, 12 Jarod Hilderman D 6-1 200 So. 4/11/97 Kamsack, Saskatchewan (Fargo/USHL) UMD is 23-16-3 overall and finished third in the final 13 Joey Anderson F 6-0 195 So. 6/19/98 Roseville, Minn. (U.S. National Under-18 Team) National Collegiate Hockey Conference standings at 16 Billy Exell F 5-10 180 Jr. 10/4/95 Thunder Bay, Ontario (Minnesota Wilderness/NAHL) 13-11-0-0 while Ohio State owns a 26-9-5 record in 17 Blake Young F 6-3 215 Sr. 11/2/94 Battleford, Saskatchewan (Battlefords/SJHL) all games and went 14-8-2-1 in Big Ten play (second 18 Nick McCormack D 5-11 190 Sr. 9/9/93 Ramsey, Minn. (Brooks/AJHL) place). Notre Dame reigned as both the 2017-18 Big 19 Justin Richards F 5-10 195 Fr. 3/17/98 Columbus, Ohio (Lincoln/USHL) Ten regular season (17-6-1-1) and playoff champions 20 Karson Kuhlman (C) F 5-11 190 Sr. 9/26/95 Esko, Minn. (Dubuque/USHL) and is 27-9-2 is on the year. Michigan (22-14-3 over- 21 Matt Anderson D 5-11 205 Fr. 4/11/99 Shakopee, Minn. (Holy Family Catholic H.S.) all) took third in the Big Ten with an 11-10-3-2 mark. 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) HOW THEY RANK: This is how this year’s NCAA Frozen 25 Peter Krieger F 5-11 190 Jr. 12/9/93 Oakdale, Minn (U. of Alaska/WCHA) Four participants stacked up in the latest USCHO.com 26 Jade Miller F 5-10 185 So. 7/1/95 Minto, N.D. (Austin/NAHL) and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls as well 27 Riley Tufte F 6-6 220 So. 4/10/98 Ham Lake, Minn. (Blaine H.S.) as the PairWise rankings. 28 Sammy Spurrell F 5-11 185 Sr. 10/5/92 Sherwood, Alberta (Spruce Grove/AJHL) 32 Hunter Shepard G 6-0 210 So 11/7/95 Cohasset, Minn. (Bismarck/NAHL) uscho.com USA Today PairWise 36 Ben Patt G 5-10 175 Fr. 5/19/96 Brampton, Ontario (Notre Dame/SJHL) UMD No. 11 No. 3 No. 12 37 Nick Deery G 6-1 185 So. 5/25/94 La Crosse, Wis. (Steinbach/MJHL) OSU No. 5 No. 2 No. 4 39 Parker Mackay (A) F 5-11 185 Jr. 6/10/94 Irma, Alberta (Spruce Grove/AJHL) UND No. 2 No. 1 No. 2 UM No. 10 No. 4 No. 8 Head Coach: Scott Sandelin Assistant Coaches: Jason Herter, Brett Larson, Brant Nicklin ON THE AIR: All of UMD’s Frozen Four games this week- Hockey Sports Performance Director: Dr. Susan Hoppe end will be carried live on KDAL-Radio (610 AM and Resident Athletic Trainer: Jordan Ellis 103.9 FM) and/or the DUKE (102.5 FM)with Bruce Equipment Manager: Chris Garner Ciskie handling the play-by-play responsibilities and Director of Hockey Operations: Christian Koelling Bulldog hockey alumnus Kraig Karakas the color com- Operations Assistant: Bill Watson mentary. This marks the 50th year KDAL has been the Manager: Dale “Hoagie” Haagenson radio home for Bulldog hockey. The broadcast can also be heard at: kdal610.com. ESPN2 will air Thursday’s two semifinal bouts with Saturday’s title game can be seen on ESPN. John Buccigross (play-by-play), Barry Melrose (analyst) and Quint Kessenich (rinkside) are the on-air talent. All three telecasts are also available live on WatchESPN. In addition, Westwood One Radio will provide a feed to over 120 affiliates around the country, on Sirius/ XM, College Sports Nation-channel 84, Tune In Radio and streamed live on westwoodonesports.com and ncaa.com. Its broadcast team will consist of Brian Tripp (play-by-play), Pat Micheletti (analyst) and Shireen Saski (rinkside). 2016-17 and 2017-18 NCAA West Regional Champions • 5 Hobey Baker Memorial Award Winners • 2010-11 NCAA Champions THE COACH: The runnerup for the 2010-11 Spencer Penrose Award (American Hockey Coaches Associa- The Numbers on Sandelin tion NCAA I Coach of the Year) and recipient of that (Overall) (NCHC/WCHA) honor in 2003-04, Scott Sandelin is winding down YEAR W L T PCT W L T PCT PLACE his 18th season behind the UMD bench where he has 2000-01 7 28 4 .231 3 22 3 .161 10th compiled a 338-300-85 overall record -- including a 2001-02 13 24 3 .363 6 19 3 .268 9th 2002-03 22 15 5 .583 14 10 4 .571 5th 91-55-18 mark since the 2014-15 opener. Besides 2003-04 28 13 4 .667 19 7 2 .714 2nd capturing the school’s first NCAA championship seven 2004-05 15 17 6 .473 11 13 4 .464 6th years ago, his Bulldogs have won 21 or more games in 2005-06 11 25 4 .325 6 19 3 .268 9th seven of the last 10 seasons (including this winter and 2006-07 13 21 5 .397 8 16 4 .357 9th in 2016-17) while finishing below the .500 mark just 2007-08 13 17 6 .444 9 14 5 .411 8th 2008-09 22 13 8 .605 10 11 7 .482 7th one time over that stretch. Overall, they’ve advanced to 2009-10 22 17 1 .562 16 11 1 .589 4th(T) eight NCAA tournaments (2004, 2009, 2011,2012, 2010-11 26 10 6 .690 15 8 5 .625 4th 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), including the last four in a 2011-12 25 10 6 .683 16 7 5 .661 2nd row (a program record),four NCAA Frozen Fours (2004, 2012-13 14 19 5 .434 10 13 5 .446 9th 2011, 2017 and 2018) and three NCHC Frozen Fa- 2013-14 16 16 4 .500 11 11 2 .500 4th(T) ceoff tourneys (2016 , 2017 -- when UMD won it all 2014-15 21 16 3 .563 12 9 3 .564 5th 2015-16 19 16 5 .538 11 10 3 .520 4th -- and 2018). Before UMD parted ways with the WCHA 2016-17 28 7 7 .750 15 5 4 .708 2nd following the 2012-13 season, Sandelin had directed 2017-18 23 16 3 .583 13 11 0 .542 3rd his troops to berths in seven of 11 Final Five playoff Totals 338 300 85 .526 205 216 62 .489 events. A three time Spencer Penrose Award honoree as the American Hockey Coaches Association NCAA Lifetime Record vs. Ohio State: 3-3-0 (.500) Lifetime NCHC Record: 62-46-12 (.567) I Coach of the Year (winner in 2003-04, runnerup in Lifetime NCAA Tournament Record: 15-6-0 (.714) 2010-11 and finalist last winter), Sandelin has also Lifetime NCAA Frozen Four Record: 3-2-0 (.600) helped produce a pair of Hobey Baker Memorial Award Lifetime Xcel Energy Center Record: 13-9-1 (.675) winners (Jack Connolly in 2011-12 and Junior Les- sard in 2003-04), seven NCAA All-Americans and 23 All-NCHC/WCHA honorees. In addition, he has seen -- the second highest figure in club history) and spent games and were ranked first in both major weekly polls 19 of his UMD pupils go on to do time in the National a school-record 11 weeks occupying the No. 1 spot (USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine) Hockey League and two take part in the Winter Olym- in the USCHO.com poll. They also went unbeaten in for a program-best nine consecutive weeks. In March pics (Justin Faulk for Team USA in 2014 and Mason 19 of their final 21 games with one of those setbacks 2009, UMD became the first play-in game participant Raymond for Team Canada in 2016).