american international college yellow jackets ice hockey game notes OVERALL: 8-8-2 GAMES 20-21 vs RIT TIGERS Atlantic Hockey: 6-6-2 AIC 2018-19 SCHEDULE OVERALL: 9-9-1 // ATLANTIC HOCKEY: 9-5-1 January 11-12, 2019 10/6 at No. 5 Providence^ L, 1-3 10/12 AT NIAGARA L, 3-4 (OT) LAST TIME THEY MET: 10/13 AT NIAGARA W, 3-1 10/16 vs. Bentley W, 5-4 (OT) November 9-10, 2018 10/18 vs. Bentley T, 4-4 (OT) (RIT 2, AIC 1; RIT 5, AIC 2) 10/26 vs. No. 15 Quinnipiac^ L, 1-4 10/27 at No. 15 Quinnipiac^ L, 2-9 LAST TIME OUT: 11/2 at Canisius L, 2-4 11/3 at Canisius W, 6-1 AIC sank the Sacred Heart Pioneers 6-5 in a midweek matchup at Webster Bank 11/9 at RIT L, 1-2 Arena on Tuesday, January 8...Junior right wing Martin Mellberg scored the 11/10 at RIT L, 2-5 team’s first hat trick in nearly five seasons and added an assist for a career-best 11/16 vs. Air Force W, 5-0 11/17 vs. Air Force W, 4-0 four-point night, while sophomore defenseman Jeff Baum scored his first colle- 11/27 vs. Holy Cross W, 4-3 giate goal, sophomore right wing Tobias Fladeby netted a team-best 10th, and ju- nior center Kyle Stephan tallied for AIC...Four players each notched two assists in 12/1 at Holy Cross W, 4-2 the game: junior defenseman Janis Jaks, sophomore center Chris Dodero, junior 12/29 vs. Robert Morris W, 4-3 12/30 vs. Robert Morris L, 1-3 left wing Blake Christensen, and redshirt freshman left wing Luka Maver...Junior goalkeeper Zackarias Skog made 35 saves, including 12 in the third period. 1/5 vs. No. 2 UMass^ L, 1-6 1/8 at Sacred Heart W, 6-5 The Tigers are coming off of a home-and-home series with their Western New 1/11 VS. RIT 2:05 P.M. 1/12 VS. RIT 1:05 P.M. York counterparts at Niagara University on January 4-5; RIT drew 4-4 in the 1/15 at Sacred Heart 7:05 p.m. Friday night matchup on the road before taking a 2-1 win at home the following 1/17 vs. Holy Cross 7:05 p.m. day...In the game at Dwyer Arena, the teams traded tallies in each of the first two 1/19 at Holy Cross 7:05 p.m. periods, and then each team scored twice in the final ten minutes of regulation, 1/25 at Mercyhurst 7:05 p.m. 1/26 at Mercyhurst 7:05 p.m. with Niagara scoring shorthanded to take a 3-2 lead only to concede a power play goal on the same penalty to Alden Dupuis; the Purple Eagles netted a power 2/1 vs. Niagara 2:05 p.m. play tally of their own, but Will Calverley scored with the extra attacker to tie the 2/2 vs. Niagara 1:05 p.m. game. Dupuis had two scores in the game, while Abbott Girduckis struck once 2/8 at Army 7:05 p.m. 2/9 at Army 7:05 p.m. and dished two assists, including on the tying goal...For as exciting a finish as the 2/15 at Arizona State^ 9:05 p.m. fans saw at Niagara, the end of the game at the Polisseni Center was even more 2/16 at Arizona State^ 9:05 p.m. astounding. Tied 1-1 late in the third, the two teams traded power plays in the 2/28 vs. Sacred Heart 7:05 p.m. waning minutes, and Girduckis deflected a clearing attempt that came to defen- 3/2 vs. Sacred Heart 1:05 p.m. seman Adam Brubacher, who threw the puck toward the net as time was winding down. The puck hit a defenseman in front and deflected in with just 1.4 seconds all times Eastern. left on the clock, sealing the win and sending the Tiger faithful into an orange BOLD indicates home game (all home frenzy. games at MassMutual Center.) ^ indicates nonconference game. by the numbers... returning Number of wins for points for defensem- players on aic in 2017-18, the an Brennan Kapcheck AIC’s roster in most in AIC’s D-I in 2017-18, who was the atlantic hockey 2018-19. history. 22 15 26 rookie of the year aicyellowjackets.com // #aicommitted // #OneHiveOneFamily QUICK FACTS LAST TIME THEY MET: GENERAL INFO RIT took both games of a set at the Polisseni Center earlier this season, winning LOCATION ............................................. Springfield, Massachusetts 2-1 on November 9 and 5-2 on the following night...In the first game, Dupuis FOUNDED ......................................................................................1885 TOTAL ENROLLMENT ................................................................3,387 opened the scoring with a shorthanded goal late in the first; AIC tied the game on Undergraduate Enrollment .......................................................1,424 Graduate Enrollment ..................................................................1,963 a goal by junior center Hugo Reinhardt in the third, but Dupuis set up the eventual PRESIDENT ............................................................... Vincent Maniaci NICKNAME ..................................................................Yellow Jackets winner just shy of three minutes later...In the loss, sophomore goalkeeper Stefano MASCOT ...........................................................................................Rex COLORS ......................................................................Black and Gold Durante recorded 24 saves; he also earned an assist on the lone goal of the game, ARENA .................................................................MassMutual Center RINK SIZE ..................................................................................200x85 dishing the puck to Jaks, who ultimately set up Reinhardt...Both teams were 0-for- RINK CAPACITY .........................................................................6,866 TICKET OFFICE PHONE ........................................... 413-787-6610 5 on the man advantage...The following night, the Tigers jumped out to a big lead early, scoring four times in the first 22:16 and ultimately winning 5-2; Erik Brown AIC ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT scored twice and had an assist, GIrduckis chipped in a goal and an assist, and Jake DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS ............................... Matthew Johnson Hamacher potted the other two goals...Skog made 33 saves in 49:14 of relief, ASSOCIATE AD/EXTERNAL ...........................Benjamin Rosenfeld ASSOCIATE AD/COMPLIANCE/SWA ....................Jessica Chapin while Christensen and Dodero scored, with the latter’s goal standing as his first as ASSISTANT AD/BUSINESS OPS ................. Jonathan DeAndrade ASSISTANT AD/FACILIITES ........................................ Paul DeMaria a Yellow Jacket. ASSISTANT AD/EVENT OPS ..........................................Mike Lavato HEAD ATHLETIC TRAINER.............................................. John Culp FACULTY ATHLETICS REPRESENTATIVE ... Jill McCarthy Payne ADVISOR FOR STUDENT-ATHLETE SUCCESS ............ Wole Oke DIRECTOR OF ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS ... Thomas Pool INTERIM COORD. OF ATH. COMMUNICATIONS ............ Seth Dussault SCOUTING THE TIGERS: RIT’s defense is unafraid of the puck, averaging a league-high 14.28 blocked shots HOCKEY STAFF/INFO per game. In part because of that willingness to do whatever it takes to keep the HEAD COACH ..............................................Eric Lang (AIC ‘98, ‘08) .............................................................................................. @ericlang9 puck out, they boast the league’s third-best PK, at 83.3 percent, and have allowed ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH .......Mike Towns (Adrian ‘11, AIC ‘16) ............................................................................................. @townsy25 the fewest goals of any team in the league, conceding just 49 tallies this year... ASSISTANT COACH .........Stephen Wiedler (Southern Maine ‘11) ..................................................................................................@Wieds2 Girduckis has been one of the league’s most dangerous players; his 21 points ties VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT COACH............. Patrick Tabb (AIC ‘03) DIRECTOR OF HOCKEY OPS ...... Mike Finnegan (U. New England ‘16) him for third in the AHC in points with Christensen and Mercyhurst’s Derek Barach, ATHLETIC TRAINER.......................................................... John Culp EQUIPMENT MANAGER ............................................Ben Hodgkins Surprisingly, he has not actually scored a game-winning goal in the 2018-19 cam- COMMUNCIATIONS/BROADCAST ..Seth Dussault (AIC ‘11, ‘15) paign, but he has set up several...Drackett is fourth in the AHC with a .914 SV%, and MEDIA INFO has been one of the league’s most reliable goalkeepers, starting the first 15 games FACEBOOK ............. American International College Ice Hockey TWITTER ...................................................................... @AIC_Hockey on the year for the Tigers and all but one of the 18 to this point. INSTAGRAM ................................................................ @AIC_Hockey HOCKEY CONTACT ................................................... Seth Dussault .................................................................................@AICJacketsVoice Email................................................................seth.dussault@aic.edu Office .............................................................................. 413.654.1425 Cell ...................................................................................413.277.5323 MEMORIES: ATHLETICS: FACEBOOK ..........................................................AIC Yellow Jackets AIC is 1-1-0 against the Tigers at the MassMutual Center; the only two meetings TWITTER ....................................................................... @AICathletics INSTAGRAM ................................................................. @AICathletics in downtown Springfield between the teams came on January 13-14, 2017, where RIT beat AIC 5-0 in the first game before the Yellow Jackets stormed back to win