UMD BULLDOGS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEN’S HOCKEY Communications Office • Bob Nygaard, Director • University of Minnesota Duluth • Duluth, MN 55812-2496 [email protected] • (218) 726-8191 • umdbulldogs.com • @umdbulldogs January 31, 2018 WEEKEND TRIP TO NCHC-LEADING DENVER NEXT UP FOR NO. 9 BULLDOGS THE PUCK DROPS HERE: The University of Minnesota Duluth will continue on its diet of National Collegiate 2017-18 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH ROSTER Hockey Conference competition this Friday and No. Name Pos. Hgt. Wgt. Yr. Birthdate Hometown (Previous Team/League) Saturday (Feb. 2-3) when the Bulldogs pay a visit to 3 Mikey Anderson D 6-0 200 Fr. 5/25/99 Roseville, Minn. (Waterloo/USHL) Denver, Colo., for a two-game showdown series with 4 Dylan Samberg D 6-4 215 Fr. 1/24/99 Hermantown, Minn. (Hermantown H.S.) the University of Denver. The puck drops at 8:05 p.m. 5 Nick Wolff D 6-4 210 So. 7/21/96 Eagan, Minn. (Des Moines/USHL) (CT) both nights at Magness Arena (6,026). 6 Louie Roehl D 5-10 180 Fr. 4/9/98 Eden Prairie, Minn. (Minnesota Wilderness/NAHL) 7 Scott Perunovich D 5-10 170 Fr. 8/18/98 Hibbing, Minn. (Cedar Rapids/USHL) THE RECORDS: UMD, which is unbeaten in eight of its 8 Koby Bender F 6-1 200 Fr. 7/15/97 Cloquet, Minn. (Muskegon/USHL) last 10 outings (7-2-1), is 14-11-3 overall and an 10 Kobe Roth F 5-8 175 Fr. 1/11/97 Warroad, Minn. (Des Moines/USHL) even 8-8-0-0 in NCHC play (tied for third place with 11 Avery Peterson F 6-3 210 Sr. 6/20/95 Grand Rapids, Minn. (Nebraska-Omaha/NCHC) the University of North Dakota and Western Michigan 12 Jarod Hilderman D 6-1 200 So. 4/11/97 Kamsack, Saskatchewan (Fargo/USHL) University) while Denver sports a 14-6-6 record in 13 Joey Anderson F 6-0 195 So. 6/19/98 Roseville, Minn. (U.S. National Under-18 Team) all games to go with an 8-4-4-3 NCHC mark (first). 16 Billy Exell F 5-10 180 Jr. 10/4/95 Thunder Bay, Ontario (Minnesota Wilderness/NAHL) 17 Blake Young F 6-3 215 Sr. 11/2/94 Battleford, Saskatchewan (Battlefords/SJHL) HOW THEY RANK: This is how the Bulldogs and Pioneers 18 Nick McCormack D 5-11 190 Sr. 9/9/93 Ramsey, Minn. (Brooks/AJHL) stacked up in this week’s USCHO.com and USA Today/ 19 Justin Richards F 5-10 195 Fr. 3/17/98 Columbus, Ohio (Lincoln/USHL) USA Hockey Magazine polls as well as the Pairwise 20 Karson Kuhlman (C) F 5-11 190 Sr. 9/26/95 Esko, Minn. (Dubuque/USHL) rankings. 21 Matt Anderson D 5-11 205 Fr. 4/11/99 Shakopee, Minn. (Holy Family Catholic H.S.) 22 Jared Thomas F 6-2 200 Sr. 2/21/94 Hermantown, Minn. (Sioux City/USHL) uscho.com USA Today PairWise 23 Nick Swaney F 5-11 180 Fr. 9/9/97 Lakeville, Minn. (Waterloo/USHL) UMD No. 9 No. 10 No. 10 25 Peter Krieger F 5-11 190 Jr. 12/9/93 Oakdale, Minn (U. of Alaska/WCHA) DU No. 4 No. 5 No. 4(t) 26 Jade Miller F 5-10 185 So. 7/1/95 Minto, N.D. (Austin/NAHL) 27 Riley Tufte F 6-6 220 So. 4/10/98 Ham Lake, Minn. (Blaine H.S.) ON THE AIR: The two UMD-Denver clashes will be car- 28 Sammy Spurrell F 5-11 185 Sr. 10/5/92 Sherwood, Alberta (Spruce Grove/AJHL) ried live on KDAL-Radio (610 AM and 103.9 FM) with 32 Hunter Shepard G 6-0 210 So 11/7/95 Cohasset, Minn. (Bismarck/NAHL) Bruce Ciskie handling the play-by-play responsibilities. 36 Ben Patt G 5-10 175 Fr. 5/19/96 Brampton, Ontario (Notre Dame/SJHL) This marks the 50th year KDAL has been the radio 37 Nick Deery G 6-1 185 So. 5/25/94 La Crosse, Wis. (Steinbach/MJHL) home for Bulldog hockey. The broadcast can also be 39 Parker Mackay (A) F 5-11 185 Jr. 6/10/94 Irma, Alberta (Spruce Grove/AJHL) heard at: kdal610.com. Head Coach: Scott Sandelin Friday’s series opener will be televised nationally on Assistant Coaches: Jason Herter, Brett Larson, Brant Nicklin the CBS Sports Network with Ben Holden, Dave Star- Hockey Sports Performance Director: Dr. Susan Hoppe man and Shireen Saski serving as the on-air talent. Resident Athletic Trainer: Jordan Ellis Strength and Conditioning Coach: Anthony Morando Saturday’s game will be streammed at: nchc.tv/umd. Equipment Manager: Chris Garner Director of Hockey Operations: Christian Koelling THE COACH: The runnerup for the 2010-11 Spencer Operations Assistant: Bill Watson Penrose Award (American Hockey Coaches Association Manager: Dale Haagenson NCAA I Coach of the Year) and recipient of that honor in 2003-04, Scott Sandelin is in his 18th season behind the UMD bench where he has compiled a 329-295-85 overall record -- including a 205-135-48 mark since the 2008-09 opener. Besides capturing the school’s first NCAA championship seven years ago, his Bulldogs have won 21 or more games in six of the last nine seasons (including last winter) while finishing below the .500 mark just one time over that stretch. Overall, they’ve advanced to seven NCAA tournaments (2004, 2009, 2011,2012, 2015, 2016 and 2017), includ- ing the last three in a row, three NCAA Frozen Fours (2004, 2011 and 2017) and two NCHC Frozen Faceoff tourneys (2016 and 2017, when UMD won it all). Before UMD parted ways with the WCHA following the 2012-13 season, Sandelin had directed his troops to berths in seven of 11 Final Five playoff events. A three time Spencer Penrose Award honoree as the American 2016-17 NCHC Frozen Faceoff Champions • 2016-17 NCAA West Regional Champions • 5 Hobey Baker Memorial Award Winners • 2010-11 NCAA Champions Hockey Coaches Association NCAA I Coach of the Year (winner in 2003-04, runnerup in 2010-11 and finalist The Numbers on Sandelin last winter), Sandelin has also helped produce a pair of (Overall) (NCHC/WCHA) Hobey Baker Memorial Award winners (Jack Connolly in YEAR W L T PCT W L T PCT PLACE 2011-12 and Junior Lessard in 2003-04), seven NCAA 2000-01 7 28 4 .231 3 22 3 .161 10th All-Americans and 21 All-NCHC/WCHA honorees. In 2001-02 13 24 3 .363 6 19 3 .268 9th 2002-03 22 15 5 .583 14 10 4 .571 5th addition, he has seen 16 of his UMD pupils go on to 2003-04 28 13 4 .667 19 7 2 .714 2nd do time in the National Hockey League and one take 2004-05 15 17 6 .473 11 13 4 .464 6th part in the Winter Olympic Games (Justin Faulk for 2005-06 11 25 4 .325 6 19 3 .268 9th Team USA in 2014). 2006-07 13 21 5 .397 8 16 4 .357 9th 2007-08 13 17 6 .444 9 14 5 .411 8th 2008-09 22 13 8 .605 10 11 7 .482 7th One year ago, Sandelin and the Bulldogs rolled up a 2009-10 22 17 1 .562 16 11 1 .589 4th(T) 28-7-7 overall record (for a .750 winning percentage 2010-11 26 10 6 .690 15 8 5 .625 4th -- the second highest figure in club history) and spent 2011-12 25 10 6 .683 16 7 5 .661 2nd a school-record 11 weeks occupying the No. 1 spot 2012-13 14 19 5 .434 10 13 5 .446 9th in the USCHO.com poll. They also went unbeaten in 2013-14 16 16 4 .500 11 11 2 .500 4th(T) 19 of their final 21 games with one of those setbacks 2014-15 21 16 3 .563 12 9 3 .564 5th 2015-16 19 16 5 .538 11 10 3 .520 4th coming to Denver (3-2) in the NCAA national title bout. 2016-17 28 7 7 .750 15 5 4 .708 2nd 2017-18 14 11 3 .554 8 8 0 .500 During the course of the 2011-12 season, the Bulldogs Totals 329 295 85 .524 200 213 62 .486 set a team record by going unbeaten in 17 straight games and were ranked first in both major weekly polls Lifetime Record vs. Denver: 18-39-6 (.333) (USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine) Lifetime NCHC Record: 57-43-12 (.562) for a program-best nine consecutive weeks. In March 2009, UMD became the first play-in game participant to ever claim the Final Five title and, later that spring, strung together a school-record six-game postseason overall) and highest WCHA finish (second place on captured fifth place in the WCHA with a 14-10-4 mark winning streak before it fell to Miami University 2-1 in a 19-7-2 mark) since 1992-93. For his efforts, the while experiencing the greatest one-season turnaround the NCAA West Regional final. In 2003-04, Sandelin, Hibbing, Minn., native was chosen the WCHA Coach of any league member that winter. One year earlier, he 53, turned UMD into a NCAA Frozen Four participant of the Year as well as the national coach of the year guided UMD to a 13-24-1 record in all games -- nearly for the first time in nearly a generation, marshaling by both insidecollegehockey.com and USCHO.com.