ROBERT MORRIS MEN’S HOCKEY Robert Morris University (7-8-1, 6-5-1 AHA) vs. [RV] American International College (7-7-1, 7-4-1 AHA) Game #17 // MassMutual Center // Springfield, Mass. // Friday, Dec. 29, 2018, 7:05 p.m. Head Coach | Derek Schooley Associate Head Coach | Kody Van Rentergem Assistant Coach | Michael Gershon Hockey Ops | Luke Regner SCHEDULE KNOW BOBBY MO OPPOSITION RESEARCH DATE OPPONENT TIME/RESULT HEADLINE NEWS HEADLINE NEWS Oct. 7 (Sun.) BROCK (Exh.) W 4-2 Returning from a rare three-week semester American International hasn’t played since Dec. ------------------------------------------------------------------ break, the Colonials step back onto game ice 1, but the Yellow Jackets have won four in a Oct. 12 (Fri.) #20 BOWLING GREEN W 3-2 Oct. 14 (Sun.) @ #20 Bowling Green L 0-6 this weekend. Having given up just seven goals row to rise to a second-place tie in the Atlantic Oct. 19 (Fri.) ARMY WEST POINT* T 2-2 in their past six games, four of them wins, the Hockey standings. They boast the best home Oct. 20 (Sat.) ARMY WEST POINT* L 2-5 Colonials will play 13 of their final 18 regular- record (4-1-1) in the AHA, with their only loss Oct. 26 (Fri.) R.I.T.* W 3-0 season games away from the RMU Island Sports in Springfield coming against No. 5 Quinnipiac Oct. 27 (Sat.) R.I.T.* L 1-2 (OT) Nov. 2 (Fri.) NIAGARA* W 3-1 Center, starting with Saturday’s tilt against a in late October. With 15 points in the standings, Nov. 3 (Sat.) NIAGARA* L 2-4 surging American International team. AIC is tied with Niagara and Army for second, Nov. 9 (Fri.) @ #8 Penn State L 2-7 three back of Air Force and two ahead of RMU. Nov. 10 (Sat.) #8 PENN STATE L 6-11 LAST TIME OUT Nov. 23 (Fri.) MERCYHURST* W 3-1 Nov. 24 (Sat.) Mercyhurst* W 7-1 In its final game before the break, RMU suffered LAST TIME OUT Nov. 30 (Fri.) @ Sacred Heart* L 1-2 its second shutout defeat of the season, falling American International wrapped a home-and- Dec. 1 (Sat.) @ Sacred Heart* W 2-1 (OT) 2-0 to Holy Cross on Dec. 8 to split the series home sweep of Holy Cross with a 4-2 win in Dec. 7 (Fri.) HOLY CROSS* W 2-0 with the Crusaders. Junior goalie Francis Marotte Worcester on Dec. 1. Junior Blake Christensen Dec. 8 (Sat.) HOLY CROSS* L 0-2 Dec. 29 (Sat.) @ American Int’l* 7:05 continued his sparkling form despite the defeat, recorded the late game-winner, giving him his Dec. 30 (Sun.) @ American Int’l* 3:05 allowing two or fewer goals for the 11th time in sixth goal and team-best 15th point. Sophomore Jan. 4 (Fri.) Brown ^ TBD 16 starts and the sixth game in a row. RMU has goalie Zackarias Skog stopped 26 shots for his Jan. 5 (Sat.) St. Cloud State OR split five of its first eight series this season. fourth victory in seven starts. Union $ TBD Jan. 11 (Fri.) BENTLEY* 7:05 Jan. 12 (Sat.) BENTLEY* 4:05 HISTORY LESSON HISTORY LESSON Jan. 18 (Fri.) @ Canisius* 7:35 The Colonials have an all-time record of 19-5-3 American International has sponsored men’s Jan. 19 (Sat.) @ Canisius* 4:35 against the Yellow Jackets, with all but four of varsity hockey since 1948, joining NCAA Division Jan. 25 (Fri.) @ Air Force* 9:05 Jan. 26 (Sat.) @ Air Force* 7:05 those 27 matchups occurring in AHA play. Last I in 1998. Last year’s record of 15-20-4 was the Feb. 1 (Fri.) SACRED HEART* 7:05 year, RMU played a road series against American program’s best in 20 years of D-I play, and the Feb. 2 (Sat.) SACRED HEART* 4:05 International for the first time in four years, Jackets’ eighth-place finish in AHA matched Feb. 15 (Fri.) @ Holy Cross* 7:05 splitting a pair at the MassMutual Center. Overall, their best ever. After taking over for the retired Feb. 16 (Sat.) @ Holy Cross* 5:05 Feb. 22 (Sat.) @ R.I.T.* 7:05 the Colonials are on a 11-2-2 run against the Gary Wright in 2016, third-year coach Eric Lang Feb. 23 (Sun.) @ R.I.T* 7:05 Jackets dating back to the 2012-13 season. has a 30-47-13 record at his alma mater. March 1 (Fri.) @ Mercyhurst* 7:05 March 2 (Sat.) MERCYHURST* 7:05 DETAILS, DETAILS DETAILS, DETAILS March 8-10 AHA First Round TBD Head Coach: Derek Schooley (15th season) Head Coach: Eric Lang (Third season) March 15-17 AHA Second Round TBD Captains: Brandon Watt, Alex Tonge, Luke Lynch Captains: Shawn McBride, Hugo Reinhardt, Joel Kocur March 22 AHA Semifinal TBD Point Leaders: Tonge 16, Lynch 13, Eric Israel 11, Point Leaders: Blake Christensen 15, Kyle March 23 AHA Championship TBD Daniel Mantenuto 9, Justin Addamo 8 Stephan 12, Brennan Kapcheck 11, Reinhardt 10 * Atlantic Hockey Association (AHA) game Goal Leaders: Tonge 7, Lynch/Addamo/Nick Goal Leaders: Tobias Fladeby 8, Christensen 6, ^ Three Rivers Classic at Lemieux Sports Complex Prkusic 4, Nick Lalonde/Mantenuto 3 Luka Maver/Darius Davidson 5 $ Three Rivers Classic at PPG Paints Arena Goaltending: Francis Marotte (16 GP/GS, 7-7-1, Goaltending: Zackarias Skog (9 GP/7 GS, 4-4-0, .897, .911 SV%, 2.69 GAA, 2 SHO) 2.80), Stefano Durante (8 GP/GS, 3-3-1, .868, 3.16) Home games bold and ALL CAPS All times Eastern and p.m. 2017-18 Record: 18-20-3, 14-14-3 AHA (7th of 2017-18 Record: 15-20-4, 11-13-4 AHA (8th of 11 teams; lost in AHA final to Air Force) 11 teams; lost in AHA quarters to Canisius) ROBERT MORRIS | DIVISION I RANKINGS | AMERICAN INT’L 2.44 (T-42 of 60)..................................GOALS PER GAME.........................................3.13 (17) 2.94 (T-36)...................................GOALS ALLOWED PER GAME................................3.07 (T-40) 28.6 (36)..........................................SHOTS PER GAME..........................................26.7 (T-46) 30.9 (40)...................................SHOTS AGAINST PER GAME......................................25.9 (11) 52.4% (19)...........................................FACEOFF RATE............................................52.4% (21) 16.9% (35)........................................POWER PLAY RATE.........................................14.3% (49) 84.8% (16).......................................PENALTY KILL RATE.........................................77.4% (47) 3 (T-9)...........................................SHORTHANDED GOALS..........................................0 (T-51) 14.3 (10)............................................PIMs PER GAME.............................................12.1 (26) 13.2 (23)...........................................BLOCKS PER GAME............................................9.9 (55) #ColonialPride QUICK FACTS MUSKET SHOTS UNIVERSITY INFORMATION TIME FOR A COMEBACK LOCATION Moon Township, Pa. With his overtime goal Dec. 1 at Sacred Heart, Louria moved into a first-place tie among FOUNDED 1921 active Division I players with three career sudden-death strikes. The win marked the only ENROLLMENT 5,413 time so far this season RMU has won after trailing through two periods. They are 1-8-1 in CONFERENCE Atlantic Hockey such situations, with the only other point gained Oct. 19 in a tie with Army. NICKNAME Colonials WHO YOU CALLIN’ SHORT? COLORS Blue, White, Red After going the first nine games of the season without a shorthanded goal, the Colonials FACILITY Colonials Arena have scored three in their past seven games. Lynch has two of those, giving him five CAPACITY 1,589 for his career; that’s the third-most among active Division I players. Classmate Daniel PRESIDENT Dr. Christopher Howard Mantenuto tossed in his first career shorty on Nov. 23 at Mercyhurst. ATHLETIC DIRECTOR Marty Galosi (interim) RISE OF THE UNDERCLASS MEDIA INFORMATION Fifteen of RMU’s 39 goals have been scored by underclassmen, with six freshmen netting WEBSITE rmucolonials.com their first NCAA goals: Justin Addamo, Geoff Lawson, Nick Lalonde, Aidan Spellacy, Grant FACEBOOK RMUMHockey Hebert and Kip Hoffmann. Sophomore Nick Prkusic has four goals, tying him with Addamo TWITTER @RMUMHockey for second-most on the team. Eight of the 10 freshman skaters have at least one point. INSTAGRAM @RMUMHockey SNAPCHAT RMUhockey 11TH CENTURY CONTACT Matt Gajtka Senior winger Alex Tonge is the 11th Colonial to reach 100 points for his NCAA career. Marshall ‘07 Tonge, who has 114 points entering the weekend, has risen to No. 7 on RMU’s all-time [email protected] scoring list. Tonge has passed Denny Urban ‘11, David Friedmann ‘16, Scott Jacklin ‘15 and Daniel Leavens ‘17 this season. Tonge is three points short of Greg Gibson ‘16 for sixth. MEN’S HOCKEY STAFF A CLASSIC TWIST HEAD COACH Derek Schooley Robert Morris will once again host the annual Three Rivers Classic, with Brown, St. Cloud Western Michigan ‘94 State and Union joining for the seventh edition of the holiday tournament. This year, the 15th Season first day of the event will take place in Cranberry at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex, 238-233-62 (Career) with the championship and third-place games returning to PPG Paints Arena as usual. ASSISTANT COACH Kody Van Rentergem FRANKLY SPEAKING SUNY-Fredonia ‘12 Francis Marotte has made quite the impact in two-plus years at Robert Morris, as he holds Seventh Season down lofty positions in the program’s record books. Entering the weekend, the junior Mike Richter Award nominee has the Colonials’ all-time best goals-against average (2.42), their ASSISTANT COACH Michael Gershon second-best save percentage (.921), the second-most shutouts (7) and the third-most SUNY-Brockport ‘09 wins (41). He’s two wins from tying Terry Shafer ‘16 for the most in RMU history and one Fourth Season shutout from matching Shafer’s mark. HOCKEY OPERATIONS Luke Regner RISING TO THE OCCASION Wisconsin ‘17 RMU’s opening-night defeat of No.