The Ferris State Series St. Lawrence (1-1-0) vs. #4/6 Ferris State (1-0-0) 2014-15 Schedule Appleton Arena • October 17-18, 2014 1-1-0, 0-0-0 ECAC Radio: WFLK 95.3 • Greg Lapinski and Wally Johnson Oct. 4 CARLETON (ex) W, 4-0 Zeebs Du Jour: Oct. 10 at RIT L, 5-2 Oct. 11 at Niagara W, 10-2 Joe Carusone, Kyle Allen Lines: Jason Shattie, Jayson Selbert Friday: Oct. 17 FERRIS STATE 7:00 Saturday: Kevin Graber, Will Harrop; Lines: Jason Shattie, Matt Luther Oct. 18 FERRIS STATE 7:00 Oct. 24 at Miami (OH) 7:35 THE HOME OPENERS: The Saints will continue a challenging first month schedule Oct. 25 at Miami (OH) 8:05 when they take on Ferris State in a Friday-Saturday series to open the 2014-15 Oct. 31 CLARKSON 7:00 home schedule. The Bulldogs are ranked fourth in the USCHO poll and sixth in the Nov. 1 at Clarkson 7:00 USA Today-US Hockey Magazine poll after opening their season with a 4-3 win over Nov. 7 at Brown* 7:00 Michigan. The Saints will follow this weekend’s home set with a trip to 11th ranked Nov. 8 at Yale* 7:00 Miami (Ohio) for a pair before closing the month with non-leaguers against arch-ri- Nov. 14 at Colgate* 7:00 val Clarkson...at Appleton on Oct. 31 and in Potsdam on Nov. 1. The Saints are 4-0 Nov. 15 at Cornell* 7:00 in the last two years on their home opening weekend, but the competition was not Nov. 21 PRINCETON* 7:00 quite to the level of Ferris State. The last time the Saints lost on opening weekend at Nov. 22 QUINNIPIAC* 7:00 Appleton, Ferris State swept the series, 4-2 and 5-1 in 2011-12. Dec. 6 CLARKSON* 7:00 REASONABLE START: While the Saints lost their NCAA season opener 5-2 at RIT on Dec. 12 at Vermont 7:05 Friday night, they bounced back with a 10-2 blowout of Niagara on Saturday, scoring Dec. 13 VERMONT 7:05 the most goals by a Saint team since a 10-1 win over Yale in Feburary of 1996. Six Jan. 2 at Northeastern 7:05 goals came from defensemen in the game, two each from Gavin Bayreuther and Ben Jan. 3 at Northeastern 7:05 Masella and singles by Chris Martin and Nolan Gluchowski. Kyle Hayton played both Jan. 9 CORNELL* 7:00 games in goal for the Saints and made 23 saves against Niagara for his first collegiate Jan. 10 COLGATE* 7:00 win. Jan. 16 at Dartmouth* 7:00 Jan. 17 at Harvard* 7:00 THE SAINT STAFF: Greg Carvel is in his third season as Saint head coach after posting Jan. 23 YALE* 7:00 one of the best records for a first-year coach in program history in his rookie season. Jan. 24 BROWN* 7:00 The Saints 18-16-4 mark is the best for a first-year Saint coach since George Menard went 18-5-0 in his first season, 1955-56. Carvel was named the second Charles W. Jan. 31 at Clarkson* 7:00 Appleton II Head Men’s Hockey Coach in the spring of 2012. A 1993 graduate of Feb. 6 RENSSELAER* 7:00 St. Lawrence and a former Saint hockey captain, he joined the staff as an assistant Feb. 7 UNION* 7:00 coach in the fall of 2011. He is the 13th head coach in program history. Carvel came Feb. 13 at Quinnipiac* 7:00 to the Saints after a 15-year professional hockey coaching career that included Feb. 14 at Princeton* 7:00 assisting coach duties with the Ottawa Senators and Anaheim Ducks of the Nation- Feb. 20 HARVARD* 7:00 al Hockey League, helping both teams reach the Stanley Cup finals. He began his Feb. 21 DARTMOUTH* 7:00 professional career as director of hockey operations for the Lowell Lock Monsters of Feb. 27 at Union* 7:00 the American Hockey League and joined Anaheim as scouting coordinator in 1999. Feb. 28 at Rensselaer* 7:00 He added video coaching duties to his title in Anaheim in 2002 and was promoted Mar 6-8 ECAC 1st round# 7:00 to assistant coach in 2003. He joined the Senators in 2004. The winner of the ECAC’s Mar. 13-15 ECAC Quarterfinals# 7:00 Best Defensive Forward Award as a senior at St. Lawrence, Carvel graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science and mathematics. He was an Academic All Mar. 20 ECAC Semifinal TBA America and a three-time winner of the Brian McFarlane Award for academic and Mar. 21 ECAC Finals 7:30 athletic accomplishments. He is joined behind the Saint bench by Associate Head Mar. 27-29 NCAA Regionals TBA Coach Mike Hurlbut ‘89, a former All America defenseman who was part of two Apr. 9 NCAA Semifinals (Boston) TBA ECAC Championship teams at SLU and had a 14-year professional playing career Apr. 11 NCAA Finals TBA and assistant coach Jared DeMichiel, who is in his first season with the Saints after assisting at Nazareth last season. DeMichiel was an outstanding goaltender for RIT, *-ECAC Games leading that team to the Frozen Four as a senior. #-Best of three series THE TALE OF THE TAPE The Record When: Overall Record: 1-1-0 St. Lawrence Ferris State At Home: 0-0-0 Record 1-1-0 1-0-0 On the Road: 1-1-0 Offense 6.00 4.00 Neutral: 0-0-0 Defense 3.50 3.00 League: 0-0-0 Power Play 42.9 33.3 League Home: 0-0-0 Penalty Kill 90.0 100.0 League Away:0-0-0 Non-League: 1-1-0 Special Teams Net +5 +2 Non-League Home: 0-0-0 Pen. Min. Per Game 11.0 12.0 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: 1-0-0 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 his 39th year of working with the Saint program. He also works with the Saint radio broadcasts Leading after Two: 1-0-0 during games. Trailing after Two: 0-1-0 Tied after Two: 0-0-0 THE BREAKDOWN: The 2014-15 Saint roster includes four seniors, six juniors, eight sopho- In Overtime: 0-0-0 mores and nine freshmen. The Saints lost four of their top five scorers from last season and Scoring First: 1-0-0 Opp. Scores First: 0-1-0 workhorse goaltender Matt Weninger, who played in 132 games during his four seasons Outshooting Opp.: 1-0-0 including 34 of 38 last year. Of the 18 returnees, seven played in all 38 games last year, and Opp. Outshoots SLU: 0-0-0 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: 0-1-0 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: 1-1-0 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: 0-1-0 Ward had eight goals and nine assists for 17 points in 38 games in his first season of colle- On Saturday: 1-0-0 giate competition. THE FERRIS STATE SERIES: The Saints and Bulldogs will play a two-game series for the third time in the last four years when Ferris State visits Appleton Arena for this weekend’s match- ups. The Saints split at Ferris last year, winning game one 3-2, but dropping a 5-2 decision to the Bulldogs in the rematch. Ferris State swept the series the last time it was in Canton, winning 4-2 in game one and 5-1 in game two. Overall Ferris State leads the series 7-2-0 with the only other Siant win a 5-4 decision in 2008-09 at the Catamount Cup in Burlington. BROTHER ACTS: The Saints will not have a pair of brothers on the roster for the first time in ten years with the graduation of Greg Carey and the departmure of Matt Carey for the NHL after last season.