GoBlackBears.com • 1 QUICK FACTS GENERAL INFORMATION COACHING INFORMATION School: University of Maine Head Coach: Red Gendron (New England College ’79) Location: Orono, Maine 04469 Record at Maine: 38-61-13 (Fourth Season) Founded: 1865 Career Record: Same Enrollment: 11,247 Hockey Office Phone: (207) 581-1106 Nickname: Black Bears Associate Head Coach: Jay Leach (New Haven ’78) Colors: Blue (PMS 289 and 292) and White Associate Head Coach: Ben Guite (Maine ’00) Affiliation: NCAA Division I Goaltender Assistant Coach: Alfie Michaud (Maine ‘99) Conference: Hockey East Hockey Administrative Assistant: Shannon Coiley Facility: Alfond Arena (5,125) Men’s Ice Hockey Trainer/Hockey Operations: Paul Culina, ATC President: Dr. Susan Hunter Equipment Manager: Kevin Ritz Athletic Director: Karlton Creech (North Carolina State) Medical Providers: Mike Rizzo, FNP Athletic Dept. Telephone: (207) 581-1052 Orthopaedic Physicians: Dr. T. McGuire and Dr. Kenneth Morse Senior Associate Director of Athletics: Jack Cosgrove (Maine ‘78) Senior Associate Director of Athletics Lynn Coutts (Maine ‘87) 2016-17 Schedule Assoc. AD /Internal Operations/Facilities: Will Biberstein (Illinois ’96) October Assoc. AD for Development: Seth Woodcock (Maine ’99) 2 vs. St. Francis Xavier Orono, Maine 7 vs. RPI Orono, Maine PROGRAM INFORMATION 8 vs. RPI Orono, Maine First Years of Men’s Ice Hockey: 1922-24; 1977-78 to present 14 vs. Q uinnipiac Orono, Maine Hockey East Championships: Five - 1989, 1992, 1993, 2000, 2004 15 vs. Quinnipiac Orono, Maine NCAA Tournament Appearances: 18 - 1987, ’88, ’89, ’90, ’91, ’92, ’93, 21 at Miami (OH) Oxford, OH ’95, ’99, ’00, ’01, ’02, ’03, ’04, ’05, ’06, ’07, ’12 22 at Miami (OH) Oxford, OH NCAA Frozen Four Appearances: 11 - ’88, ’89, ’91, ’93, ’95, ’99, ’00, 28 at Colgate Hamilton, N.Y. ’02, ’04, ’06, ’07 29 at Colgate Hamilton, N.Y. NCAA Championships: Two - 1993 and 1999 November 4 vs. Boston College * Portland, Maine TEAM INFORMATION 5 vs. Boston College * Orono, Maine 11 vs. UMass Lowell * Orono, Maine 2015-16 Record: 8-24-6 13 at UMass Lowell * Lowell, MA Conference Record/Finish: 5-15-2 / 11 18 at Vermont * Burlington, VT Letterwinners Returning: 15 (8 forwards, 5 defensemen, 2 goalies) 19 at Vermont * Burlington, VT Letterwinners Lost: 11 (7 forwards, 3 defensemen, 1 goalies) 26 vs. Brown Portland, Maine Newcomers: 12 December 2016-17 Captains: Cam Brown (C), Blaine Byron (A), 2 at New Hampshire * Durham, N.H. 3 vs. New Hampshire * Orono, Maine Eric Schurhamer (A) 9 vs. AIC Orono, Maine 10 vs. AIC Orono, Maine ATHLETIC MEDIA RELATIONS INFORMATION 30 at New Hampshire Manchester, N.H. MIH Contact: Kohl Schultz January Cell Phone: 207-949-7108 6 vs. Team USA U-18 Orono, Maine Email: [email protected] 12 at UConn * TBA Assistant Athletic Director 14 at UConn * Boston, Mass. 20 at Boston Univ. * Boston, Mass. for Community Engagement: Tyson McHatten 21 vs. Boston Univ. * Orono, Maine Athletic Media Relations FAX Number: (207) 581-3297 27 vs. UMass * Orono, Maine Alfond Arena Press Row Phone: (207) 581-1049 28 vs. UMass * Orono, Maine Web Site: www.GoBlackBears.com February Mailing Address: University of Maine 3 at Providence * Providence, R.I. Athletic Media Relations 4 at Providence * Providence, R.I. 5747 Memorial Gym 10 vs. Notre Dame * Portland, Maine 11 vs. Notre Dame * Orono, Maine Orono, Maine 04469-5747 17 at Merrimack * Andover, Mass. 18 at Merrimack * Andover, Mass. 24 vs. Northeastrn * Orono, Maine 25 vs. Northeastern * Orono, Maine March 3-5 Friday-Sunday Hockey East Opening Round 10-12 Friday-Sunday Hockey East Quarter-Finals 17-18 Friday-Saturday Hockey East Semi-Finals 24-26 Friday-Sunday NCAA Regionals April 6-8 NCAA Frozen Four (Chicago, Illinois) * - Hockey East Conference Game 2 • 2016-17 Maine Men’s Ice Hockey Black Bears on TV, Radio, Stream PRESS SERVICES: Television Coverage WiFi is provided to media upon request. Rosters, game notes and statistics will be provided prior to the game. The University of Maine men’s ice hockey team will Box scores are available 10 minutes after completion of appear on television numerous times during the 2016- the contest. 17 season. WVII ABC7 & Fox 22 will broadcast seven games, with most of the games also shown on WPME 35 PARKING: in Portland. Select games are also streamed nationally Press are to park in the Dunn lot, the highlighted on Fox College Sports. In the booth for televised games parking area pictured here. is Dan Hannigan who enters his 22nd season covering Maine hockey. Alongside Hannigan is Mike Tuell as a color analyst. Tuell has been a referee for a number of years, and is currently a Hockey East official observer. Radio All University of Maine Hockey games are carried live over the air by “The Voice of Maine,” WVOM 103.9 FM in Bangor, Maine. Games will also be heard on the Black Bear Sports Network, which includes WLOB 1310 AM in Portland, WFAU 1280 AM in Augusta, WCME 96.7 FM in Augusta, WRKD 1450 AM in Rockland, WIGY 97.5 FM in Skowhegan and WSYY 1240 AM in Millinocket. Games are also streamed online at GoBlackBears.com. Dan Hannigan returns to handle play-by- NCAA Information play duties for his 22nd season. He has called many memorable moments in Maine hockey history, including the overtime game-winner in the 1999 National NCAA Media Information Championship game. Joining Hannigan in the booth for Mark Bedics, NCAA Statistics Coordinator most games will be Bangor Daily News beat writer Larry Email: [email protected] Mahoney. Mahoney has been covering the Black Bears for over 30 years. For select tv games, John Shields fills in for 2017 Sites and Dates Hannigan as the play-by-play announcer. West Regional - Fargo, N.D. March 24-25 Streaming EastRegional - Providence, R.I. March 24-25 The official athletics site of the University of Maine Northeast Regional - Manchester, is GoBlackBears.com. All Black Bear home games are N.H. March 25-26 streamed live online for free, fans can also following along with live stats and audio also free of charge. Midwest Regional - Cincinnati, Ohio March 25-26 CREDENTIALS: Frozen Four - United Center, Chicago, Illinois - April 6 and 8 All credential requests should be directed to Kohl Schultz. Credentials can be picked up at the will-call booth at the main entrance of Alfond Arena. The University of Maine Athletic Media Relations Office reserves the right to refuse a credential, or access to coaches or players, to any party it deems not a bona fide media entity. Hockey East Information Visiting radio stations that require a phone line must contact the UMaine Athletic Media Relations Office. Hockey East PHOTOGRAPHY: Media Information Photographers (both still and video) are permitted to Brian Smith shoot from the platform corners of the rink. Director of INTERVIEWS: Communications |Office: All requests for interviews, either in person or via phone, (781) 245-2122 must be made through Kohl Schultz 207-581-4158. Cell: (339) 227-2988 | [email protected] There will be no player interviews on game-day prior to post-game interviews Post-game interviews will be 2017 Championship Dates conducted 10 minutes after the game, behind section AA Hockey East Championship - March 17 & 18 TD Garden Boston, in the press conference room. Visiting team will conduct Massachusetts press conference first. GoBlackBears.com • 3 HEAD COACH RED GENDRON - Fourth season at Maine Red Gendron enters his fourth season as tice and video/statistical analysis. The head coach of the University of Maine team won the 1995 Stanley Cup after men’s ice hockey team. He led the Black finishing as Eastern Conference finalist in Bears to a mark of 8-24-6 in his third sea- 1994. During the 1993–94 season, he was son. a technological specialist for the Devils. Gendron coached a pair of Second Team Gendron came to the University of Maine All-American selections in Ben Hutton in the fall of 1990, where he was an assis- and Devin Shore. The duo also earned tant coach for three seasons. His responsi- Hockey East First Team honors and were bilities included bench coaching, practice each selected All-New England as well. planning, and coaching the forwards and Gendron was hired on May 28, 2013 as power play on one of the best teams in head coach of the University of Maine college hockey history. men’s ice hockey team. The hiring of Gen- dron links the success of Maine’s past with For 11 years, Gendron was a head and as- the promise of the future. sistant coach in Vermont and New Hamp- shire. Gendron, who has won two NCAA Hockey National Championships and a NHL Stan- Gendron also has international coach- ley Cup as an assistant coach, was named ing experience. He has guided eight USA University of Maine head men’s ice hockey Hockey Teams, including the U.S. National coach by UMaine President Paul Ferguson Junior Team on three occasions. and Director of Athletics Steve Abbott. Gendron Info At Bellows Free Academy in Vermont, he 4 Gendron’s first college hockey coach- guided squads to four state champion- COLLEGE ing experience was with the Black Bears, ships in the 1980s. Gendron earned three New England College ‘79 where he assisted Coach Shawn Walsh NHL championship rings as a coach and with the 1993 NCAA Division I National has twice had his name engraved on the Championship team. Stanley Cup. He was an assistant coach 4CAREER NOTEBOOK for the New Jersey Devils when they cap- In his 34-year coaching career, Gendron tured the Stanley Cup in 1995, and was 3 Currently in third season as head coach at Maine has worked with championship teams at an assistant and head coach, respectively, 3 all levels.