University of Minnesota Men's Athletics Media Relations Office Phone: 612.625.4090 • Fax: 612.625.0359 http:jjurww.gophersports. com Weekly Release & Notes/f'elbruary 23, 1998 Hockey Contact: Brad Ruiter f-Mi~;~-~~(i4=is:.O;io:-i4.:of-;i-c~i~~~d~-c-~ii;g;--(i7:ii:3,-i2:io:2)-l SCHEDULE/RESULTS j Friday, February 27 8:35p.m. World Arena Colorado Springs, Colo. ! j Saturday, February 28 8:05 p:m. World Arena Colorado Springs, Colo. j Oct. 10 &vs. Michigan (exhibition) L 2-3 '"-------------·--------·---·-----------------------·-----------------~------.. -------------·-·---·--.l Oct.17 MAINE L 1-6 Series Information of the 1993-94 season. In the 59 meetings pre­ Oct. 18 MAINE W 3-2 Minnesota leads 135-62-6 vious to the 1993-94 season, Minnesota Oct. 24 @Minn-Duluth L 3-5 Last 10 games- CC leads 5-3-2 owned a distinctive 54-5-0 (.915) advantage • Oct. 25 . @Minn-Duluth W 5-1 First meeting- 2/28/47, MN 8-3 Doug Woog is 42-13-2 (.754) in 57 career Oct. 31 NORTH DAKOTA W 6-5 Last meeting- 11/22/97, CC 4-3 (ot) games against the Tigers • the teams have Nov. 1 NORTH DAKOTA L 2-3 Minnesota's longest win streak - .20 played to six ties in 203 meetings, including the 3-3 deadlock last season at Colorado Nov. 7 @Wisconsin W 4-2 Colorado College's longest win streak - 5 Nov. 8 @Wisconsin L 2-3 '90s- MN 21-12-2 Springs • the average margin of victory per Nov. 14 @Alaska-Anchorage L 2-3 '80s - MN 42-6-0 game in the last 14 meetings of the series is '70s- MN 21-16-3 1.86 goals (26 total goals); the margin during Nov. 15 @Alaska-Anchorage L 2-3 '60s- MN 33-7-0 Minnesota's dominance in the '80s was 3.21 Nov. 21 COLORADO COLLEGE L 1-5 '50s- cc 18-15-1 per game Nov. 22 COLORADO COLLEGE L 3-4 (ot) '40s - Tied 3-3-0 Nov. 28 #@Michigan L 3-4 Team Comparisons (1997-98 season) Nov. 30 #@Michigan State L 2-3 Radiofi'V: Both games will be broadcast live Colorado College Minnesota Dec.19 ST.CLOUDSTATE L1-3 by KSTP-AM (1500) and Midwest Sports 33/171 (.193) pp 31/187 (.166) Dec. 20 @St. Cloud State L 1-4 Channel (MSC) 22/132 (.167) WCHA PP 19/132 (.144) Dec. 27 "BROWN W6-3 117/136 (.860) PK 138/162 (.852) 92/107 (.860) WCHA PK 107/122 (.877) Dec. 28 "NORTIIEASTERN L 2-4 Golden Gophers Last Weekend: Minnesota Dec. 30 *HV-71 (exhibition) L 2-10 swept a WCHA series against Alaska­ 5-4-1 LastlO 6-4-0 Anchorage at Mariucci Arena (3-0, 4-2) 2-8-1 vs. current PWR Top 12 4-8-0 Jan.2 MANKATOSTATE W6-2 Jan. 3 MANKATO STATE W 4-3 Tigers Last Weekend: Colorado College Career Scoring vs. Colorado College Jan. 16 DENVER L 2-5 posted an impressive road sweep at St. Player (games) G-A-Pts Jan. 17 DENVER W 5-2 Cloud State (7-4, 3-1) to move into fourth Ryan Kraft (16) 4-11-15 Jan. 23 MINN-DULUTH W 7-1 place in the league standings Casey Hankinson (15) 4-4-8 Jan. 24 MINN-DULUTH W 6-5 Mike Anderson (8) 4-1-5 Jan. 30 @Michigan Tech L 3-5 Earlier This Season vs. Colorado College: Wyatt Smith (10) 4-1-5 Jan. 31 @Michigan Tech L 3-5 Jason Godbout (15) 2-3-5 The Tigers swept the Golden Gophers (5-1, Feb. 6 WISCONSIN W 4-1 4-3 in overtime) in a late-November series at Dave Spehar (6) 2-3-5 Reggie Berg (10) 1-2-3 Feb. 7 &WISCONSIN W 7-0 Mariucci Arena. Colorado College scored Feb. 14 @North Dakota L 2-4 four unanswered goals to break a 1-1 first Bill Kohn (6) 0-3-3 period tie in the Friday night game. The Nate Miller (6) 1-0-1 Feb. 15 @North Dakota L 3-5 Tigers completed the sweep with a come­ Ben Clymer (2) 0-1-1 Feb. 20 ALASKA-ANCHORAGE W 3-0 from-behind win Saturday. Dan Peters tal­ Rico Pagel (4) 0-1-1 Feb. 21 ALASKA-ANCHORAGE W 4-2 lied with 3:01 remaining in the game to tie Mike Lyons (6) 0-1-1 Feb. 27 @Colorado College 8:30 p.m. the score, before K.J. Voorhees netted the Feb. 28 @Colorado College 8 p.m. game winner just :40 into the extra frame • Career Scoring Notes: Smith scored two March 6 @St. Cloud State 7 p.m. Minnesota was held scoreless on the power goals in Minnesota's 3-3 tie at Colorado March7 ST.CLOUDSTATE 7p.m. play for the weekend (0-8), with Colorado Springs last season (2/21/97) • Anderson Mar. 13-15 WCHA PLAYOFFS TBA scored two goals in the 4-3 OT loss at College successful on just one of 10 attempts Mar. 19-21 WCHA Final Five Milwaukee, Wis. Mariucci Arena earlier this season • Spehar • Minnesota held leads of 2-0 and 3-2 in the Mar. 27-29 NCAA Regional AnnArbor/ Albany second game of the series scored the game-winning goal in the 3-0 win at CC last season (2/22/97) • Kraft had Apr. 2-4 NCAA Championships Boston Last Season At Colorado College: The 1-3--4 in a 7-4 win on 1/21/95 • N. Miller "-Mariucci Classic (at Mariucci Arena) Golden Gophers claimed three of four points scored first career goal on 10/18/96 &-Target Center #-College Hockey Showcase from a February trip to Colorado Springs, using the series to position themselves for a Steve DeBus vs. Colorado College share of the league regular-season title the Date WfL Min GA GAA SV SV% following weekend against Wisconsin • G 11/22/97 L 60:40 4 3.96 26 .867 Steve DeBus has a current shutout string of 11/21/97 L 51:20 4 4.68 21 .840 88:29 at Colorado College after blanking the 2/22/97 w 60:00 0 0.00 27 1.000 Tigers for one of his six career shutouts last 2/21/97 T 65:00 3 2.77 25 .880 February (3-0, 2/22/97) • Minnesota was 10/19/96 L 59:43 2 2.01 16 .889 3-for-15 (.200) on the power play, while 10/18/96 w 60:00 2 2.00 30 .938 Colorado College was 2-for-18 (.111) with 2/10/96 L 57:41 4 4.16 21 .840 the man advantage in the four games last 2/9/96 w 60:00 2 2.00 30 .938 season (home and away) 10/22/95 L 58:38 7 7.18 24 .774 Total 3-5-1 533:02 28 3.15 220 .887 Series Notes: The winning team in the last Games in italics are at Colorado Springs five games of the series has outscored the At Mariucci Arena losing team 10-1 in the third period and 6 games 2-4-0 349:24 18 3.09 144 .889 overtime • Colorado College owns a 10-6-2 At Colorado Springs (.611) edge in the series since the beginning 3 games 1-1-1 183:38 10 3.27 76 .884 #13 Nate Miller CHECKS & POINTS So., 6-2, 199, Anoka, Minn. ..J Lit the lamp for five of his six goals this sea­ t Team Notes t t Individual Notes t son on the road ..J Scored a goal in three straight road games #4 Dylan Mills n:ff' Minnesota has played with 12 for­ Fr., 5-11, 220, Duluth, Minn. #15 Stuart Senden wards and six defensemen just one time ..J Is +4 over the last six games Fr., 6-0, 188, Alexandria, Minn. (Feb. 15 at North Dakota) in its last 19 games ..J Has 1-6-7 at home and 0-3-3 on the road ..J Will miss the remainder of the season with a - only 10 players have played in all32 games separated shoulder (see injury report) this season #5 Ryan Trebil ..J Leads the team by scoring on 17.2 percent of So., 6-1,206, Bloomington, Minn. his shots on goal n:ff' Minnesota forwards and defensemen ..J Leads the team in penalties (31) and is tied for ..J Scored all five of his goals this season at home have missed a total of 95 games and 248 the team lead in penalty minutes (73) ..J Registered seven of his eight points this sea­ practices this season due to injury or illness­ ..J Leads the team in plus/minus in all games son in his last 11 games in contrast, just 53 games and 160 practices (+5) and league contests (+7) were missed all of last season due to injury ..J Has even or positive + /- rating in each of the #17 Wyatt Smith or illness (NOTE: 1997-98 games/practices last 11 games Jr., 5-11, 197, Warroad,. Minn. missed are through Feb. 21 game in addition to ..J Leads the team in scoring (18-18-36) ..J Scored a pair of goals in Friday's 3-0 win over assuming that Miskavich, Anderson, Clymer, #7 Ryan Kraft Sr., 5-9,190, Moorhead,. Minn. Alaska-Anchorage and Senden will miss this week's practices and ..J Leads the team with 10 multiple-point games games) ..J Scored a point in 13 of his last 14 games (6-15-21), and has scored in all10 games since this season his return to the lineup (5-11-16) ..J Totals of 30-29-59 in his last 51 games n:ff' The Golden Gophers are 9-1-0 in their ..J Stands tied for 20th place (Mike Crowley, 37- ..J Has 17 career multiple-point games last 10 home games, but have not won on the 120-157) on the school's all-time scoring list ..J Has 10 home goals and eight road goals this road since a 4-2 win at Wisconsin on Nov.