2011-12 Dartmouth Men’s Hockey Games 1 & 2 - Ivy Shootout Dartmouth Varsity Athletics Communications Assistant Director / Men’s Ice Hockey Contact: Pat Salvas [email protected] Office: (603) 646-9340 / Cell: (603) 718-5962 Press Box: (603) 646-1131 2011-12 SCHEDULE This Weekend OCTOBER (0-0-0, 0-0-0 ECAC, 0-0-0 Ivy) 22 WESTERN ONTARIO (Exhibition) W, 4-2 Game 1 - Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 - 7 p.m. 23 NORWICH (Scrimmage) W, 3-1 Dartmouth Big Green (0-0, 0-0 ECAC) vs. 28 BROWN# 7:00 p.m. Brown Bears (0-0, 0-0 ECAC) 29 No. 6/10 YALE# 7:00 p.m. Location: Thompson Arena (4,500) - Hanover, N.H. All-Time Series: 70-63-8 Last Meeting: 2/4/11 at Brown NOVEMBER Streak: Dartmouth - 5-0-1 4 QUINNIPIAC* 7:00 p.m. Last Dartmouth Win: 2/4/11, 3-0 (Road) 5 PRINCETON*^ 7:00 p.m. 11 COLGATE* 7:00 p.m. Game 2 - Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011 - 7 p.m. 12 CORNELL*^ 7:00 p.m. Dartmouth Big Green (0-0, 0-0 ECAC) vs. 18 at St. Lawrence* 7:00 p.m. No. 6/10 Yale Bulldogs (0-0, 0-0 ECAC) 19 at Clarkson* 7:00 p.m. Location: Thompson Arena (4,500) - Hanover, N.H. 25 HARVARD*^ 7:00 p.m. All-Time Series: 87-103-13 27 at Vermont 4:00 p.m. Last Meeting: 2/5/11 at Yale Streak: Yale - 7-0-0 Last Dartmouth Win: 2/23/08, 7-2 (Home) DECEMBER 11 SACRED HEART 4:00 p.m. 30 HOLY CROSS% 7:00 p.m. Big Green Quick Notes: 31 Consolation/Championship% 4:00/7:00 p.m. • Dartmouth was 1-1 in last season’s Ivy Shootout (New Haven, Conn.) JANUARY • Big Green are 5-6 in season openers since 2000-01 6 at Rensselaer* 7:30 p.m. • Picked No. 5 in ECAC Coaches’ Poll/ No. 4 by Media Poll 7 at Union* 7:00 p.m. • Senior G James Mello Preseason All-ECAC Team (Coaches and Media) 14 New Hampshire (at Verizon Wireless Arena) 7:00 p.m. • Ranked No. 15 in INCH.com’s “The Great 58” 20 at Cornell*^ 7:00 p.m. • Bob Gaudet is one win away from becoming the 14th active coach with 300 wins 21 at Colgate* 7:00 p.m. 27 BROWN*^ 7:00 p.m. • The Big Green are six (6) wins shy of 1,000 in program history (994-1,060-106) 28 YALE*^(Eddie Jeremiah Celebration) 7:00 p.m. 31 at Harvard*^ 7:00 p.m. How They Match Up - 2010-11 totals FEBRUARY Dartmouth Brown Yale 3 at Princeton*^ 7:00 p.m. Goals .................................................. 111 ............................ 83 ........................... 151 4 at Quinnipiac* 7:00 p.m. Goals Against ................................ 87 ............................ 107 ............................74 10 UNION* 7:00 p.m. 11 RENSSELAER* (Alumni Game) 7:00 p.m. GAA ....................................................2.53 ..........................3.40 .........................2.03 17 at Yale*^ 7:30 p.m. Points ................................................. 286 ........................... 222 .......................... 405 18 at Brown*^ 7:00 p.m. Streak ................................................ W1 ............................ L2 .............................L1 24 CLARKSON* 7:00 p.m. Home ...............................................10-5-3 .......................4-6-2 ......................17-1-1 25 ST. LAWRENCE* 7:00 p.m. Away .................................................6-6-0 .......................4-9-3 .......................8-5-0 MARCH Neutral ............................................3-1-0.........................2-1-0 .......................3-1-0 2-4 ECAC First Round (Campus Sites) TBA Leader: 9-11 ECAC Quarters (Campus Sites) TBA 16 ECAC Semis (Atlantic City, N.J.) TBA Points ......................................... Fleming (31) .............. Two (31) ..............O’Neill (46) 17 ECAC Finals (Atlantic City, N.J.) TBA Goals ..........................................Estoclet (16) ....... Zolnierczyk (16) .......O’Neill (20) 23-25 NCAA Regionals TBA Assists ......................................... Jones (21) ...........Maclennan (17) ......... Miller (33) APRIL PIM .............................................Stephens (49) ..... Zolnierczyk (128) ....... Cahill (64) 5 & 7 NCAA Frozen Four (Tampa, Fla.) TBA GW .............................................. N.Walsh (3) .........Zolnierczyk (3) ............Two (4) Wins ............................................. Mello (17) ............ Clemente (8) ........ Rondeau (27) * - ECAC Hockey Game ^ - Ivy League Game Broadcast Information # - Ivy Shootout Radio: WFRD 99.3 FM Play-by-Play: Chris Garrett % - Ledyard National Bank Classic HOME GAMES IN BOLD Live Stats and Video Streaming: DartmouthSports.com facebook.com/DartmouthHockey Twitter.com/Dartmouth_MIH DartmouthSports.com Games 1 & 2 - Brown and Yale - Oct. 28-29, 2011 THE SHOOTOUT SCOUTING YALE Four of the six Ivy League teams will be in Hanover this • The Bulldogs come to Hanover ranked No. 10 in the weekend for the Ivy Shootout. Princeton and Yale will get USCHO poll and No. 6 in the USA Today/USA Hockey things underway Friday at 4 p.m. before Dartmouth and Magazine poll despite not having played a game yet this Brown play the second game of the day, set for a 7 p.m. season. Yale even received a first-place vote in the USA start time. Saturday will feature the Tigers and Bears in the Today rankings. INCH.com also has the Bulldogs the 4 p.m. matchup, while the Big Green and Bulldogs skate in highest of the three in its power rankings, sitting at No. 4 the final game of the weekend, Saturday with puck drop this week. tentatively scheduled for 7 p.m. • Finished second in the ECAC standings during the regular season (17-4-1) SCOUTING BROWN • Yale has been one of the top teams in the nation the last • The Bears finished the 2010-11 season ninth in the ECAC few years and claimed an ECAC Tournament championship Hockey standings (8-12-2). The team lost its top scorer last season with a 6-0 win over Cornell in the title game. from a season ago as former team captain and 2011 Ivy • The Bulldogs advanced all the way to the East Regional League Player of the Year Harry Zolnierczyk (16g/15a – after beating Air Force, 2-1, in overtime before falling to 31 pts) now wears the sweater of the NHL’s Philadelphia eventual National Champion Minnesota Duluth, 5-3, in Flyers. Bridgeport. • The Bears were picked 11th in the media poll and 12th in • The team lost nine players from a season ago, including the coaches’ preseason poll. goaltender Ryan Rondeau, who was named the Most • Brown got the season started with a 2-0 exhibition win Outstanding Player of the ECAC Hockey Tournament. over Waterloo. Senior Jeff Buvinow and freshman Massimo • Selected first in both preseason polls, Yale will have Lamacchia each had a goal and an assist in the win, while two of the league’s top players returning to the lineup senior goaltender Mike Clemente had 20 saves in earning this season in senior Brian O’Neill (20g/25a – 45pts) the shutout. and junior Andrew Miller (11g/32a – 43pts). Both were • Forward Jack Maclellan earned a spot on the coaches’ named members of the media and coaches’ preseason all- preseason all-conference team after finishing tied for the conference teams in September. team lead with 31 points (14g/17a) last season. • Despite outshooting Waterloo and holding a 1-0 lead • Brown has not beaten Dartmouth since completing the after one period in its preseason scrimmage last Friday season sweep of 2007-08 on Feb. 22 with a 5-4 win in night, the Bulldogs fell, 2-1, on home ice. Hanover. The Bears are 0-5-1 against the Big Green since • Yale swept the season series with the Big Green in 2010- that game. 11 (7-3, 4-2) and has won the last seven meetings between the two teams. 2011-12 ECAC Standings ECAC OVERALL GP Pts Record Win % GF GA GP Record Win % GF GA Last 10 Streak Quinnipiac 0 0 0-0-0 0.000 0 0 8 6-2-0 0.750 35 16 6-2 Won 1 Clarkson 0 0 0-0-0 0.000 0 0 6 4-1-1 0.750 23 11 4-1-1 Won 4 Colgate 0 0 0-0-0 0.000 0 0 5 3-1-1 0.700 15 12 3-1-1 Tied 1 Union 0 0 0-0-0 0.000 0 0 5 2-0-3 0.700 21 9 2-0-3 Won 1 Rensselaer 0 0 0-0-0 0.000 0 0 5 1-4-0 0.200 6 13 1-4 Lost 3 Brown 0 0 0-0-0 0.000 0 0 0 0-0-0 0.000 0 0 0-0 - Cornell 0 0 0-0-0 0.000 0 0 0 0-0-0 0.000 0 0 0-0 - Dartmouth 0 0 0-0-0 0.000 0 0 0 0-0-0 0.000 0 0 0-0 - Harvard 0 0 0-0-0 0.000 0 0 0 0-0-0 0.000 0 0 0-0 - Princeton 0 0 0-0-0 0.000 0 0 0 0-0-0 0.000 0 0 0-0 - Yale 0 0 0-0-0 0.000 0 0 0 0-0-0 0.000 0 0 0-0 - St. Lawrence 0 0 0-0-0 0.000 0 0 4 0-4-0 0.000 11 25 0-4 Lost 4 www.DartmouthSports.com 2 Games 1 & 2 - Brown and Yale - Oct. 28-29, 2011 MELLO MAN 2011-12 Quick Facts Senior goaltender James Mello will start the season as the Location ...................................................................... Hanover, N.H. No. 1 goaltender for the Big Green and was named to both Founded........................................................................................1769 the media and coaches’ preseason all-conference team. Enrollment .................................................................................4,200 As a junior, Mello posted a record of 17-9-3 and a goals- against mark of 2.21and was named the ECAC Hockey Nickname .........................................................................