ECAC Hockey ECAC Hockey Regular Season Tournament Champions Champions 1988 // 2000 // 2007 1962 // 1988 // 1989 1992 // 2000 // 2001 @SkatingSaints @slumenshockey 2018-19 St. Lawrence Men’s Hockey Game Notes Beth Spadaccini // Assistant Sports Information Director (Men’s Hockey Contact) // [email protected] // Office: 315-229-5566 • Cell: 315-323-0650 THE MATCHUPS Friday: St. Lawrence Saints vs. Air Force Falcons Saturday: St. Lawrence vs. Western Michigan/UConn Friday, January 4 (8:30, 11:30 ET) // Saturday, January 5 (TBD) T-Mobile Arena • Las Vegas, Nevada Live Stats: collegehockeystats.net Video (Both Days): https://bdglobal.inplayer.com/ice-vegas/index.html Radio: WQTK 92.7 FM, WLFK 95.3 FM Talent: Greg Lapinski (Play-by-play) 2018-19 LEADING SCORERS QUICK HITS GOALS • St. Lawrence comes into the weekend with a 3-12-1 overall record, with wins over Holy Cross, Minnesota (OT) and Clarkson, to date. • The Saints last played on December 7-8, as they split a home-and-home ECAC Hockey weekend with rival Clarkson. • St. Lawrence won 4-2 in the Friday matchup at Appleton Arena with goals from Ted McGeen, Ryan Garvey, David Jankowski and Michael Laidley. Daniel KEENAN SUTHERS (4) Ederer, Gilmour & Jankowski tied with 3. Mannella made a career-high 48 saves for the Saints to earn his first win of the season. ASSISTS • In the Saturday game, Clarkson shut out St. Lawrence 3-0. • This weekend’s games will be the final non-conference matchups of the season for the Saints. TOURNAMENT TALK CARSON GICEWICZ (6) ZACH RISTEAU (5) TED MCGEEN (5) • St. Lawrence is 2-0-2 in tournament play under Charles W. Appleton III POINTS Head Coach Mark Morris. • The Saints finished 0-0-2 against Quinnipiac and Massachusetts at the Friendship Four Tourmanent in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the 2016-17 season and went 2-0-0 to win the Catamount Cup during 2017-18 with wins over host Vermont and UMass Lowell in Burlington, Vermont. CARSON GICEWICZ (8) KEENAN SUTHERS (7) ON NHL ICE Ederer, Gilmour, Laidley & McGeen tied with 5. • This weekend’s games will be the first for St. Lawrence in an NHL rink since 2018-19 Leadership Group January 7, 2006, when the Saints fell to Clarkson, 6-2, in what was then - Captains - known as the Corel Centre (now Canadian Tire Centre) - home of the Ottawa Senators - in Ottawa, Ontario. VEGAS-BORN SAINTS • St. Lawrence has had two Las Vegas natives come through the program ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY INFORMATION Carson Gicewicz Dylan Woolf Location ................................................Canton, N.Y. 13617 Men’s Hockey Coach ........Mark Morris (Colgate ’81) - Assistant Captains - Founded ........................................................................... 1856 Career Record, College ...................... 334-208-52 Enrollment......................................................................2,528 Career Record, Professional .............338-224-66 President................................................Dr. William L. Fox Associate Head Coach ......................Mike Hurlbut ’89 Director of Athletics ............................... Bob Durocher Assistant Coach ..........Matt Deschamps (Maine ’05) Colors ...................................................Scarlet and Brown Student Assistant Coach ................. R.J. Gicewicz ’19 Affiliation .......................................................NCAA DI/DIII Dir. of Hockey Operations.............................Kyle Pettit Conference ..................................................ECAC Hockey Volunteer Goalie Coach ................................Eric Salvail Rink (Capacity) .................... Appleton Arena (3,200) Athletic Trainer ..............................................Matt Salmen 2018-19 Record .................3-12-1, 1-4-1 ECAC Hockey Captain .............................................Carson Gicewicz ’20 Michael Ederer Michael Laidley 2017-18 Record ..............8-27-2, 3-18-1 ECAC Hockey Captain ....................................................... Dylan Woolf ’21 First Intercollegiate Season ..............................1925-26 Assistant Captain ..............................Michael Ederer ’19 ECAC Hockey Championships ..................................... 6 Assistant Captain .............................Michael Laidley ’19 NCAA Tournament Appearances ...............................16 PB 1 in its history - both in recent years: Joe Sullivan ‘18, who captained the Saints last season, and Ross McMullan ‘16. THE SAINTS’ • Sullivan currently plays to the Manchester Monarchs (ECHL), while Mc- Mullan spent the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons with the Wheeling Nailers RECORD WHEN (ECHL). (2018-19) ABOUT AIR FORCE (RV) • Air Force enters the weekend 10-7-1 overall and is coming off a 1-0-1 Overall Record .................. 3-12-1 weekend against Bemidji State at home, as the Falcons earned a 3-3 tie At Home ............................... 2-3-1 on Saturday night before doubling up the Beavers 6-3 on Sunday. On the Road ......................1-8-0 • The Falcons are led by senior forward Matt Feno who has 12 points on Neutral .................................. 0-1-0 eight goals and four assists, as well as senior defenseman Matt Koch League .................................... 1-4-1 who has 12 points on a team-high 12 assists. League Home ........................1-1-1 • Head Coach Frank Serratore is in his 22nd season at Air Force and League Away .................... 0-3-0 enters the weekend with a 389-342-82 record with the Falcons and 438- 434-91 career record in college hockey. Non-League ........................2-8-0 • Air Force is top-10 in both penalty kill (4th - 89.6%) and combined spe- Non League Home .......... 1-2-0 cial teams (7th - 55.6%), while also ranking 18th in power play percent- Non-League Away .......... 1-5-0 age at 20.3%. Non-League Neutral ....... 0-1-0 • Senior Billy Christopoulos has played 14 of 18 games for Air Force this Leading After One .......... 1-0-0 season and comes into the weekend with a 8-5-1 record, 2.40 goals Trailing After One ............. 1-8-1 against and .912 save percentage. Tied After One.................. 1-4-0 THE SERIES WITH THE FALCONS Leading After Two ......... 2-0-0 • Friday’s game will be the sixth between the Saints and Falcons, as St. Trailing After Two ........... 0-11-0 Lawrence leads the all-time series 4-1-0. Tied After Two ...................... 1-1-1 • The teams first faced off during the 1971-72 season and last played In Overtime .......................... 1-0-1 during the 1978-79 season, with St. Lawrence earning a 4-3 win on neu- Scoring First ....................... 2-1-0 tral ice. Opp. Scores First .............. 1-11-1 ABOUT NO. 17 WESTERN MICHIGAN Outshooting Opp. ........ 0-0-0 • Western Michigan enters Friday’s game on a six-game unbeaten streak Opp. Outshoots SLU ...... 2-12-1 - tied for fourth-longest among Division I men’s teams - with a 5-0-1 Shots Are Even ................ 1-0-0 record during that stretch. Scoring 3 or More ............ 3-1-0 • Like the Saints, the Broncos have not played since December 7-8, when Scoring 2 or Less ............ 0-11-1 they went 1-0-1 at home against then- No. 4 Minnesota Duluth, posting a Scoring on the PP ........... 2-2-1 3-2 win on Friday and tying 1-1 on Saturday. The Broncos won Saturday’s shootout 1-0. Allowing a PP Goal ..........1-8-0 • The Broncos are 9-6-1 overall heading into Ice Vegas. Scoring Shorthanded ..... 1-0-0 • Sophomore Josh Passolt and senior Colt Conrad are tied with a team- Allowing a SH Goal .........2-2-0 high 18 points, while Passolt and junior Hugh McGing lead the team with In October .......................... 1-5-0 10 goals. Conrad’s 12 assists also lead the team to date. In November ..................... 1-6-0 • Trevor Gorsuch has played in 11 of the Broncos 16 games so far this In December ......................... 1-1-1 season and has a 7-2-1 record with a 2.13 goals against and .927 save In January ......................... 0-0-0 percentage. In Feburary ...................... 0-0-0 • The Broncos are coached by Andy Murray who is in his eighth season with the team in 2018-19 and currently holds a 127-122-35 record. In March ............................ 0-0-0 On Tuesday ........................0-0-0 THE SERIES WITH THE BRONCOS On Thursday .................... 0-0-0 • Should the Saints and Broncos play each other on Saturday, it would On Friday ........................... 3-4-0 be the 11th meeting of the series and third on neutral ice. On Saturday ...................... 0-8-1 • Western Michigan holds a slight 5-4-1 edge in the series, which dates On Sunday .........................0-0-0 back to the 1987-88 season. • The teams last met during the 2012-13 season for a two-game set at Western Michigan and split the weekend. The Saints won the first game 4-3 in overtime, while the Broncos prevailed 3-2 in the second. • Two of the last three meetings in the series have gone to overtime. ABOUT UCONN • The Huskies played one game since the holiday break, beating No. 18 Yale 3-1 at the Whale on New Year’s Eve and snapping a seven-game losing streak dating back to November 16. • UConn is 6-11-1 entering this weekend’s games. • The Huskies are led by senior Karl El-Mir who has 15 points on nine goals and six assists. Jachym Kondelik is second with a goal and a team- high 13 assists for 14 points, while Alexander Payusov has a team-best 10 2 3 2018-19 goals along with three helpers for 13 points. • Adam Huska has played in 13 of UConn’s 18 games to date and enters SCHEDULE & RESULTS the weekend with a 4-7-1 record, 2.84 goals against average and a .915 3-12-1, 1-4-1 ECAC HOCKEY save percentage. • El-Mir is tied for second in Division I with a pair of shorthanded goals OCTOBER 6 OTTAWA (Exhibition) .......... L, 3-1 already this season. The Huskies have four shorthanded goals as a team 12 @ Maine ..........................................L, 3-1 entering the weekend. 13 @ Maine ..........................................L, 4-1 • UConn is coached by Mike Cavanaugh who is in his sixth season in 19 HOLY CROSS.......................W, 4-3 2018-19 and holds a career coaching record of 72-100-26. 20 WISCONSIN .......................... L, 7-1 26 @ Michigan .................................