2015-16 RIT Men’s Ice Hockey RIT vs. Bowling Green Saturday, October 17, 2015 (Blue Cross Arena - 10,556 - Rochester, N.Y.) - 7:05 p.m. Radio Sports Information - 51 Lomb Memorial Drive - Clark Gym A261 - Rochester, NY 14623 Saturday’s game can be heard on WITR 89.7, with Ed Phone: (585) 475-6154 or (585) 475-5598 - Fax: (585) 475-2617 - Website: www.ritathletics.com Trefzger, Chris Lerch, and Scott Biggar bringing you all the action from Blue Cross Arena. Fans can listen Joe Venniro: Executive Director - [email protected] – Stephen Jaynes: Director - [email protected] online at http://witr.rit.edu/ Television Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend... The Tigers All-Time Meetings Between All RIT home games are on Time Warner Sports play a regular season game at Blue Cross Arena the ninth RIT and Bowling Green channel 26. As always, Gene Battaglia and John straight season. It is the seventh straight year that it is the focal DiTullio bring you all the action from the Gene point of Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend. RIT is Date Place Score Polisseni Center. Saturday’s game from Blue Cross gunning to sell the game out for the sixth straight year. Bowling 12/28/86 Syracuse Invite L, 3-4 Arena will be on TWCS-26. 2/4/06 Bowling Green L, 2-3 Green is the first team from the WCHA that is in Rochester for 10/19/07 Ritter Arena L, 3-5 homecoming weekend. Video/Streaming Television 10/10/08 at Bowling Green L, 2-4 All RIT home games and selected road contests will Unbelievable Fan Support at Blue Cross Arena/All-Time at feature video streaming with audio by America Bowling Green leads series 4-0-0 One Network on a subscription basis. For more BCA... RIT expects to sell out Blue Cross Arena for the sixth information, go to http://www.eversport.tv/ice- straight season. RIT also sold out Blue Cross Arena for this hockey/atlantic-hockey. contest last year against Boston College, in 2013 vs. Michigan, Previous Brick City Homecoming and 2012 against Penn State, 2011 vs. St. Lawrence, and 2010 vs. Family Weekend Games at Blue Cross UMass Lowell. RIT is 8-10-1 all-time at Blue Cross Arena, Arena including a 2-5-1 in eight previous Brick City Homecoming 2015-2016 Schedule (0-2-0, 0-0-0 AHC) and Family Weekend contests after losing to Boston College Date Opponent Score 10/27/07 Cornell W, 4-1 last season. RIT will play the University of Connecticut at 10/18/08 St. Lawrence L, 1-2 Date Opponent Time Blue Cross Arena next season. 10/3 UOIT (Exhibition) W, 9-1 10/10/09 Colgate L, 2-3 10/16/10 UMass Lowell T, 4-4 (OT) 10/9 at Clarkson L, 0-6 Last Time at BCA was Memorable... Atlantic Hockey holds 10/15/11 St. Lawrence W, 6-5 (OT) 10/10 at No. 19 St. Lawrence L, 1-5 its annual postseason championship at Blue Cross Arena and 10/20/12 Penn State L, 2-3 10/17 ^ #10 BOWLING GREEN 7:05 p.m. last season, RIT made it one to remember, defeating Canisius 10/12/13 Michigan L, 4-7 10/23 at Colgate 7 p.m. in the semifinal and Mercyhurst in the championship to win 10/18/14 Boston College L, 2-6 10/24 COLGATE 7:05 p.m. the league title at the downtown barn. The Tigers are 6-4 all- 10/30 * at American Int’l 7:05 p.m. time in the postseason at Blue Cross Arena, also winning the league title in 2010. 10/31 * at American Int’l 7:05 p.m. 11/6 * at Army West Point 7:05 p.m. RIT/Bowling Green Connection… Both RIT head coach Wayne Wilson and associate head coach Brian 11/7 * at Army West Point 7:05 p.m. Hills played collegiately at Bowling Green. Hills was a Hobey Baker Finalist in 1983 and is the university’s 11/13 * BENTLEY 7:05 p.m. second all-time leading scorer. Wilson was a captain on the Falcons when they won the 1984 NCAA 11/14 * BENTLEY 7:05 p.m. Division I National Championship. 11/28 at #4 Boston College 4 p.m. 12/4 * ROBERT MORRIS 7:05 p.m. 2015-16 Season Underway/Rough Start to Year… RIT enters Saturday’s game looking for its first win of 12/5 * ROBERT MORRIS 7:05 p.m. the season. Last weekend, the Tigers dropped a pair of non-conference road games, 6-0 at Clarkson, and 5-1 12/11 * NIAGARA 7:05 p.m. at No. 19 St. Lawrence. Garrett McMullen scored RIT’s lone goal on Saturday, while Mike Rotolo made 64 12/12 * at Niagara 7:05 p.m. saves in the two games. Abbott Girduckis picked up his first collegiate point. 1/2 * MERCYHURST 4:05 p.m. 1/3 * at Mercyhurst 7:05 p.m. Tidbits From Last Weekend… The one goal scored last weekend tied the fewest RIT has ever scored in 1/8 * CANISIUS 7:05 p.m. a weekend series, which has been done a handful of times. The 10-goal deficit over the weekend was the 1/9 * CANISIUS 7:05 p.m. largest margin of defeat for RIT in a two-game stretch since moving to Division I in 2005. 1/15 * at Bentley 7:05 p.m. 1/16 * at Bentley 7:05 p.m. About Bowling Green… Bowling Green, who also plays at Canisius on Friday, opened the season last 1/22 * at Sacred Heart 7:05 p.m. weekend. The Falcons swept a home-and-home series against Ohio State, winning by scores of 6-3 and 1/23 * at Sacred Heart 7:05 p.m. 2-0. On Tuesday, the Falcons fell to Western Michigan, 4-1. Matt Pohlkamp leads the Falcons with three 1/29 * HOLY CROSS 7:05 p.m. points on two goals and an assist. Mark Cooper and Kevin Dufour also have two goals, while Brent Tate 1/30 * HOLY CROSS 7:05 p.m. and Pierre-Luc Mercier have a pair of assists. Tommy Burke and Chris Nell each have a win in goal. Nell 2/5 * at Air Force 9:05 p.m. has a 1.50 goals against average and .942 save percentage. The Falcons went 23-11-5 last season, just 2/6 * at Air Force 9:05 p.m. missing a berth in the NCAA Tournament. 2/12 * AMERICAN INT’L 7:05 p.m. 2/13 * AMERICAN INT’L 7:05 p.m. All-Time Series… Bowling Green has won all four previous meetings between the two schools, the last 2/19 * at Niagara 7:05 p.m. coming in 2008. 2/20 * NIAGARA 7:05 p.m. 2/26 * MERCYHURST 7:05 p.m. President Destler’s Orange Hair Challenge… RIT president Bill Destler is challenging members of the 2/27 * at Mercyhurst 7:05 p.m. RIT and Rochester community to fill the Gene Polisseni Center for the regular season home opener on 3/4-6 AHC First Rd (Best of 3) TBA Oct. 24 against Colgate. If the game is a sellout, Dr. Destler will dye his hair orange between the second 3/11-13 AHC Quarterfinal (Best of 3) TBA and third periods. The Polisseni Center holds 4,300. 3/20 ^ AHC Semifinal TBA 3/21 ^ AHC Championship TBA 2015-16 Captains... Seniors Alexander Kuqali, Andrew Miller, and Josh Mitchell and Andrew Miller will serve as captains, while sophomore Brady Norrish is an assistant captain in 2015-16. Both Kuqali and Home Games in BOLD Miller were assistant captains a year ago, while Mitchell and Norrish stepped up into major leadership * - Denotes AHC Contests roles last year. ^ - Game Played at Blue Cross Arena RIT’s Newcomers... RIT added six highly touted freshmen and one sophomore to the mix in 2015-16. 2015-16 By the Numbers Forwards Erik Brown, Abbott Girduckis, Liam Kerins, Gabe Tale of the Tape Record 0-2-0 Valenzuela, and Mark Logan will help add depth and scoring Overall Home 0-0-0 to an offensive unit that was among the national leaders last RIT Stats BGSU Away 0-2-0 season. In goal, Christian Short and Nick Amato will push 0-2-0 2015-16 Record 2-1-0 Neutral 0-0-0 0.50 Goals For 3.00 Overtime 0-0-0 incumbent starter Mike Rotolo for time. 5.50 Goals Against 2.33 After 1st Period/2nd Period All five forwards have seen time this season, with 20.5 Shots For 30.3 When Leading 0-0-0/0-0-0 When Trailing 0-2-0/0-2-0 Girduckis the first to record a point, an assist against St. 37.5 Shots Against 27.7 When Tied 0-0-0/0-0-0 Lawrence on Oct. 10. 0 PPG 0 When Scoring/Allowing 3 PPA 3 < 3 Goals 0-2-0/0-0-0 0 SHG 0 3 Goals 0-0-0/0-0-0 Local Guys Ready to Go... RIT has three players from the 0 SHA 0 4 Goals 0-0-0/0-0-0 Rochester area and one Buffalo area player to start the 12.5 Penalty Mins. 9.3 5+ Goals 0-0-0/0-2-0 0.0% Power-Play 0.0% Back to Back Gm 1/2 0-1-0/0-1-0 2015-16 season.