at RIT • Nov. 22-23, 2014 • 7:05 The 2013-14 Saint Season St. Lawrence (6-4-2) at R.I.T. (1-6-2) 6-4-2, 2-2-2 ECAC TV: Time Warner Cable Systems Oct. 5 CARLETON (exh) W, 4-2 Oct. 11 MAINE W, 3-1 Radio: WFLK 95.3 • Greg Lapinski and Wally Johnson Oct. 12 MAINE W, 5-2 Zeebs du Jour Oct. 18 at Ferris State W, 3-2 Friday: Shayne Ferrier, Ryan Sweeney. Lines – Steven Watters, Brendan Lewis Oct. 19 at Ferris State L, 5-3 Saturday: Jim Visconte, Chris Foote. Lines – Adam Bell, Rich Jebo Oct. 25 NORTHEASTERN L, 6-3 Oct. 26 NORTHEASTERN W, 6-4 TIME TO REGROUP: The Saints will hit the road for a four-game non-conference Nov. 1 at Yale* T, 3-3 series, starting with a pair at Atlantic Hockey’s RIT this weekend. SLU is 3-1-2 on Nov. 2 at Brown* T, 3-3 the road thus far this season, including 1-1-0 in non-league action. The Saints Nov. 8 at Harvard* W, 3-1 are coming off a disappointing home weekend in which they were swept by Colgate (5-3) and Cornell (5-2), ending an unbeaten start to the ECAC league Nov. 9 at Dartmouth* W, 8-5 season and being swept on home ice for the first time since Dartmouth took Nov. 15 COLGATE* L, 5-3 both games of a ECAC playoff series in March of 2012. The Saints will take a Nov. 16 CORNELL* L, 5-2 4-2-0 non-league record into the series with the Tigers, the first of four re- Nov. 22 at RIT 7:05 maining non-leaguers. SLU will play at North Dakota Thanksgiving weekend, at Nov. 23 at RIT 7:05 Vermont on Dec. 14 and will host Vermont on Jan. 7 in their final non-league Nov. 29 at North Dakota 7:37 outing of the year. Nov. 30 at North Dakota 7:07 Dec. 6 at Clarkson* 7:00 THE SAINT STAFF: Greg Carvel is in his second season as Saint head coach after Dec. 7 CLARKSON* 7:00 posting one of the best records for a first-year coach in program history a year Dec. 14 at Vermont 7:05 ago. The Saints 18-16-4 mark is the best for a first-year Saint coach since George Jan. 7 VERMONT 7:00 Menard went 18-5-0 in his first season, 1955-56. Carvel was named the second Charles W. Appleton II Head Men’s Hockey Coach in the spring of 2012. A 1993 Jan. 17 BROWN* 7:00 graduate of St. Lawrence and a former Saint hockey captain, he joined the staff Jan. 18 YALE* 7:00 as an assistant coach in the fall of 2011. He is the 13th head coach in program Jan. 24 at Cornell* 7:00 history. Carvel came to the Saints after a 15-year professional hockey coach- Jan. 25 at Colgate* 7:00 ing career that included assisting coach duties with the Ottawa Senators and Jan. 31 UNION* 7:00 Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League, helping both teams reach the Feb. 1 RENSSELAER* 7:00 Stanley Cup finals. He began his professional career as director of hockey oper- Feb. 7 at Princeton* 7:00 ations for the Lowell Lock Monsters of the American Hockey League and joined Feb. 8 at Quinnipiac* 7:00 Anaheim as scouting coordinator in 1999. He added video coaching duties to Feb. 14 DARTMOUTH* 7:00 his title in Anaheim in 2002 and was promoted to assistant coach in 2003. He Feb. 15 HARVARD* 7:00 joined the Senators in 2004. The winner of the ECAC’s Best Defensive Forward Feb. 21 at Rensselaer* 7:00 Award as a senior at St. Lawrence, Carvel graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science and mathematics. He was an Academic All America and a Feb. 22 at Union* 7:00 three-time winner of the Brian McFarlane Award for academic and athletic Feb. 28 QUINNIPIAC* 7:00 accomplishments. He is joined behind the Saint bench by Associate Head Coach Mar. 1 PRINCETON* 7:00 Mike Hurlbut ‘89, a former All America defenseman who was part of two ECAC Mar. 7 ECAC 1st Round 7:00 Championship teams at SLU and had a 14-year professional playing career and Mar. 8 ECAC 1st Round 7:00 assistant coach Kris Mayotte, who played goal for Union and graduated in 2006. Mar. 9 ECAC 1st Round 7:00 Mayotte also has professional playing experience. Mar. 14 ECAC Quartefinals 7:00 Mar. 15 ECAC Quarterfinals 7:00 SAINT SUPPORT STAFF: Aisha Visram, a 2007 graduate of the University of Mar. 16 ECAC Quarterfinals 7:00 Guelph, is in her first season as athletic trainer for the Saint men’s hockey team. Mar. 21 ECAC Smeifinals TBA Mike Elberty, a 1979 St. Lawrence graduate is the strength and conditioning Mar. 22 ECAC Championship TBA coach and Brenden McHugh is the video coordinator for the 2012-13 Saints. Wally Johnson is the sports information contact and is in his 39th year of work- ing with the Saint program. He also works with the Saint radio broadcasts during games. The Tale of The Tape The Record When: St. Lawrence RIT Overall Record: 6-4-2 At Home: 3-3-0 Record 6-4-2 1-6-1 On the Road: 3-1-2 Offense 3.75 2.22 Neutral: 0-0-0 Defense 3.50 3.67 League: 2-2-2 Power Play 25.5 25.0 League Home: 0-2-0 Penalty Kill 75.4 76.9 League Away:2-0-2 Combined Sp. Teams 50.9 50.6 Non-League: 4-2-0 Special Teams Net 0 +1 Non-League Home: 3-1-0 Non-League Away: 1-1-0 Pen. Min. Gm. 13.3 11.7 Non-League Neutral: 0-0-0 Leading after One: 3-2-2 Trailing after One: 2-1-0 Tied after One: 1 1-0 THE BREAKDOWN: The 2013-14 Saint roster includes seven seniors, four juniors, five Leading after Two: 5-0-0 sophomores and 10 freshmen. The Saints return three of their top five scorers from last Trailing after Two: 0-1-0 season and seven of the top ten. Of the 15 returnees, 13 played at least 31 games a Tied after Two: 1-3-2 year ago. Graduation claimed two defensemen, three forwards and a goaltender. One In Overtime: 0-0-2 of the sophomores, Brian Ward (Dartmouth transfer) is a newcomer giving the Saints Scoring First: 3-3-1 11 new faces on the roster. That is the largest rookie group since coach Greg Carvel’s Opp. Scores First: 2-2-1 rookie season of 1989-90 and second only to the 1980-81 rookie class which included 15 Outshooting Opp.: 5-3-0 players in coach Mike McShane’s first season as SLU coach. Opp. Outshoots SLU: 1-1-2 Shots are Even: 0-0-0 THE SAINT CAPTAINS: Senior center Kyle Essery will be the Saint captain for 2013-14 Scoring 3 or More: 6-3-2 with seniors Jeremy Wick and Justin Baker and junior Gunnar Hughes wearing the “A”. Scoring 2 or Less: 0-1-0 Wick was promoted to assistant captain midway through last season while Gunnar Scoring on the PP: 3-4-2 Hughes follows in the footsteps of his brother George, who was a two-year assistant Allowing a PP Goal: 4-4-2 captain for the Saints. The Saints have had a junior as a captain or assistant captain in In October: 4-2-0 each of the last four years. Baker was named an assistant prior to the start of league In November: 2-2-2 play in November. In December: 0-0-0 In January: 0-0-0 THE R.I.T. SERIES: The Saints and RIT have played regularly since RIT’s ascention to In February: 0-0-0 Division I in 2005-06 and will meet for the third straight year, but just the second In March: 0-0-0 time ever in RIT’s on-campus arena when they square off this weekend. The series On Friday: 3-2-1 first started in 1982-83 when then Division III RIT visited Canton for the first time On Saturday: 3-2-1 and lost 5-3. The Saints also won at home in 1983-84 and 1987-88. The first Tiger win in the series was a memorable 66-save performance by RIT goalie Jocelyn Guil- mond in a 3-2 decision. T.J. Trevelyan outshot the Tigers 16-15 in that one and the rest of the Saints piled on 52 more shots, but the Tigers were the winner. The Saints bounced back the next night to win 6-3 and have a 1-1 all-time record in Frank Ritter Arena. The Saints won four straight in the series from 2006-07 through 2009-10 with RIT taking a 6-5 deicision at the Blue Cross Arena in overtime in 2011-12. The two teams split at Appleton last year, each winning 4-3 games with the Saint win the 1,000th in SLU program history. The Saints lead the series 8-3-0 with a 6-1-0 record at home, a 1-1-0 record at Ritter and a 1-1-0 record at neutral sites. BROTHER ACTS: The arrival of Matt Carey gives the Saints a brother act in the lineup for the ninth straight season and bodes well for older brother Greg.