2014-15 RIT Men’s Ice Hockey RIT vs. No. 19 Robert Morris Friday, Feb. 20, 2015 (Gene Polisseni Center - 4,300 - Rochester, N.Y.) - 7:05 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, 2015 (Gene Polisseni Center - 4,300 - Rochester, N.Y.) - 7:05 p.m. Radio Sports Information - 51 Lomb Memorial Drive - Clark Gym A261 - Rochester, NY 14623 This weekend’s games can be heard on WITR 89.7, with Ed Trefzger, Scott Biggar, and Chris Lerch Phone: (585) 475-6154 or (585) 475-5598 - Fax: (585) 475-2617 - Website: www.ritathletics.com bringing you all the action from the Gene Polisseni Joe Venniro: Executive Director - [email protected] – Stephen Jaynes: Director - [email protected] Center. Fans can listen online at http://witr.rit.edu/ Television Back Home to Close Out Regular Season... The Tigers play Last 10 Meetings Between All RIT home regular season games are on Time their final four regular season games at the Gene Polisseni RIT and Robert Morris Warner Sports channel 26. As always, Gene Center. This weekend, league leader Robert Morris, ranked Battaglia and John DiTullio bring you all the No. 19 nationally, comes to town for a pair of games. Date Place Score action from the Gene Polisseni Center. Saturday’s 2/17/12 Ritter Arena T, 2-2 (OT) game will be aired via tape delay on TSN2 in Saturday’s Game to Be Aired on TSN2 in Canada... 2/18/12 Ritter Arena T, 2-2 (OT) Canada, starting at 9:30 p.m. Canadian television network TSN has added to its U.S. college 10/25/12 Ritter Arena L, 4-6 hockey schedule for the second half of the season and will air 2/8/13 at Robert Morris L, 0-3 Video/Streaming Television Saturday’s game via tape delay at 9:30 p.m. 2/9/13 at Robert Morris W, 4-3 All RIT home games and selected road contests will 11/9/13 at Robert Morris W, 4-2 feature video streaming with audio by America Tigers Look to Move Up in the Atlantic Hockey Standings/ 2/7/14 Ritter Arena T, 2-2 (OT) One Network on a subscription basis. For more May Not Have to Leave Rochester... RIT wraps up the 2/8/14 Ritter Arena L, 1-5 information, go to http://www.eversport.tv/ice- regular season with four straight home games over the next hockey/atlantic-hockey. 10/31/14 at Robert Morris L, 3-6 two weekends. The Tigers are currently fifth in the league 11/1/14 at Robert Morris L, 2-4 standings with 27 points, just three points out of fourth and four out of second place. Robert Morris leads the conference 2014-2015 Schedule (12-13-5, 11-8-5 AHC) with 37 points and needs just two points to clinch the regular season crown. If the season were to end today, RIT would be the No. 5 seed in the AHC Tournament, get a bye in the first round, but travel to play Date Opponent Time No. 4 Canisius in a best of three quarterfinal series from March 13-15. If RIT finishes in the top-four, this 10/4 BROCK (Exhibition) W, 5-2 could be the final time RIT leaves this season until the NCAA Tournament. 10/10 ST. LAWRENCE W, 5-2 10/11 CLARKSON L, 1-3 Last Weekend... RIT recorded a split last weekend at Holy Cross, falling 3-1 on Friday and winning 2-0 10/18 ^ #7 BOSTON COLLEGE L, 2-6 on Saturday. On Friday, Brandon Thompson scored a first period goal, while Mike Rotolo made 23 saves. 10/24 * at Air Force W, 5-1 The following evening, Brad McGowan and Mark Golberg scored second period goals, while Jordan Ruby stopped all 16 shots he faced for his third career shutout, winning the Holy Cross Homecoming Trophy. 10/25 * at Air Force L, 3-4 (OT) The 16 shots allowed tied a season-low for RIT. 10/31 * at Robert Morris L, 3-6 11/1 * at Robert Morris L, 2-4 Garbowsky Joins 100-Point Club... Matt Garbowsky became the seventh player in RIT’s Division I 11/7 * HOLY CROSS T, 3-3 (OT) history to reach 100 career points, doing so on Feb. 14 at Holy Cross. He has 43 goals and 57 career assists. 11/8 * HOLY CROSS L, 1-2 Garbowsky, a two-time AHC Player of the Week, leads Division I with 503 face-off wins, is tied for second 11/14 * at Canisius T, 3-3 (OT) with 21 goals, and is tied for fourth with 40 points. Garbowsky has had a hand on 46.5 percent (40-of-86) 11/15 * at Canisius W, 3-0 of RIT’s goals this season, highest in the nation. He had 18 points during a 10-game point-scoring streak from Oct. 18 to Nov. 21. The 10-game streak was one shy of the school record. He has 10 multiple-point 11/21 * SACRED HEART W, 5-1 outings this season, including 11 points over his last five games (6-5-11). Garbowsky scored his first 11/22 * SACRED HEART L, 1-2 career hat-trick and the seventh of RIT’s Division I era in a 3-3 tie at Canisius on Nov. 14. He tied a 11/29 at Yale L, 0-2 career-high with four points in a 5-1 win over Sacred Heart on Nov. 21 and 5-2 victory against Bentley on 12/12 * NIAGARA W, 4-1 Jan. 24. Garbowsky has at least a point in 22 games this season, fourth most in Division I. 12/13 * at Niagara T, 1-1 (OT) 1/2 ! vs. #9 UMass Lowell L, 3-7 Earlier This Year/All-Time vs. Robert Morris… The Tigers and Colonials met earlier in the season on 1/3 ! vs. #8 Minnesota L, 2-3 (OT) Oct. 30-Nov. 1, with Robert Morris winning both games by scores of 6-3 and 4-2. Robert Morris leads the all-time series between the two schools, 8-4-4. RIT is 1/9 *AMERICAN INT’L T, 3-3 (OT) 1-2-3 all-time against the Colonials in Rochester. Tale of the Tape 1/10 *AMERICAN INT’L W, 3-2 Matt Garbowsky is RIT’s active leading scorer against the Overall 1/16 * at Sacred Heart W, 4-1 Colonials, with eight points on a goal and seven assists in RIT Stats Robert Morris 1/17 * at Sacred Heart W, 3-1 nine games. Josh Mitchell has two goals and five assists for 12-13-5 Record 20-5-5 1/23 * at Bentley L, 1-2 seven points in eight games. In net, Jordan Ruby is 2-3-0 with 2.87 Goals For 3.67 a 3.42 goals against average and .915 save percentage against 2.57 Goals Against 2.37 1/24 * at Bentley W, 5-2 33.9 Shots For 35.1 1/30 * ARMY L, 2-4 Robert Morrs, while Mike Rotolo is 0-2-1 with a 4.36 goals against average and .876 save percentage. 27.8 Shots Against 32.7 1/31 * ARMY W, 4-1 15 PPG 26 2/6 * at Niagara W, 7-3 15 PPA 17 About Robert Morris… Robert Morris is the No. 18 team in 4 SHG 5 2/7 * NIAGARA T, 4-4 (OT) the USCHO.com Division I national poll. The Colonials can 1 SHA 5 2/13 * at Holy Cross L, 1-3 clinch the Atlantic Hockey Regular Season Crown with one 13.5 Penalty Mins. 10.8 2/14 * at Holy Cross W, 2-0 point this weekend, as they are 17-3-4 in league play and is 12.6% Power-Play 21.5% 2/20 * #19 ROBERT MORRIS 7:05 p.m. 20-5-5 overall. Cody Wydo leads the team and is tied for 89.3% Penalty-Kill 86.1% 2/21 * #19 ROBERT MORRIS 7:05 p.m. seventh nationally in scoring with 39 points on 18 goals and 53.0% Face-Offs Won 50.0% 21 assists. Zac Lynch is right behind with 35 points on 15 2/27 * MERCYHURST 7:05 p.m. goals and 20 assists. The Colonials are the fourth highest Conference Games Only 2/28 * MERCYHURST 7:05 p.m. scoring team in the nation, out-scoring their opponents, RIT Stats Robert Morris 3/6-8 AHA First Round (best-of-3) TBA 110-71. In goal, Penfield native Terry Shafer and Dalton Izyk 11-8-5 Record 17-3-4 3.04 Goals For 4.00 3/13-15 AHA Quarters (best-of-3) TBA have split time. Shafer is 9-2-4 with a 2.02 goals against 2.25 Goals Against 2.33 3/20 ^ AHA Semifinal TBA average and .933 save percentage, while Izyk is 11-3-0 with a 36.2 Shots For 35.1 3/21 ^ AHA Championship 7:05 p.m. 2.61 goals against average and .924 save percentage. The 25.9 Shots Against 31.9 Colonials are 37-11-8 over their last 56 games dating back to 13 PPG 22 the start of the 2014 calendar year. 8 PPA 15 Home Games in BOLD 4 SHG 5 * - Denotes AHA Contests Battle of Hobey Baker Candidates... RIT’s Matt Garbowsky 1 SHA 4 ^ - Game Played at Blue Cross Arena and Robert Morris’ Cody Wydo are the two leading 14.4 Penalty Mins.