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 October 25, 2017 IT’S OFF TO MAINE THIS WEEKEND FOR NO. 10 BULLDOGS AND FIRST ROAD SERIES OF 2017-18 THE PUCK DROPS HERE: The University of Minnesota Duluth will engage in its first road series of the young 2017-18 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH ROSTER 2017-18 season this Friday and Saturday (Oct. 27- No. Name Pos. Hgt. Wgt. Yr. Birthdate Hometown (Previous Team/League) 28) when the Bulldogs pay a visit to Bangor, Maine 3 Mikey Anderson D 6-0 200 Fr. 5/25/99 Roseville, Minn. (Waterloo/USHL) for a pair of bouts with the University of Maine. The 4 Dylan Samberg D 6-4 215 Fr. 1/24/99 Hermantown, Minn.(Hermantown H.S.) puck drops at 6 p.m. (CT) on Friday and 6:30 p.m. 5 Nick Wolff D 6-4 210 So. 7/21/96 Eagan, Minn. (Des Moines/USHL) the following evening at Alfond Arena (5,125) on the 6 Louie Roehl D 5-10 180 Fr. 4/9/98 Eden Prairie, Minn. (Minnesota Wilderness/NAHL) Maine campus.. 7 Scott Perunovich D 5-10 170 Fr. 8/18/98 Hibbing, Minn. (Cedar Rapids/USHL) 8 Koby Bender F 6-1 200 Fr. 7/15/97 Cloquet, Minn. (Muskegon/USHL) THE RECORDS: UMD, which is an even 2-2-2 in 2017- 10 Kobe Roth F 5-8 175 Fr. 1/11/97 Warroad, Minn. (Des Moines/USHL) 18, went 28-7-7 overall one year ago and finished 11 Avery Peterson F 6-3 210 Sr. 6/20/95 Grand Rapids, Minn. (Nebraska-Omaha/NCHC) second in the final National Collegiate Hockey Confer- 12 Jarod Hilderman D 6-1 200 So. 4/11/97 Kamsack, Saskatchewan (Fargo/USHL) ence standings at 15-5-4-3. Maine, off to a 2-2-0 start 13 Joey Anderson F 6-0 195 So. 6/19/98 Roseville, Minn. (U.S. National Under-18 Team) this season, posted an 11-21-4 record in all games 16 Billy Exell F 5-10 180 Jr. 10/4/95 Thunder Bay, Ontario (Minnesota Wilderness/NAHL) last year, including 5-15-2 mark in Hockey East play 17 Blake Young F 6-3 215 Sr. 11/2/94 Battleford, Saskatchewan (Battlefords/SJHL) (11th place). 18 Nick McCormack F 5-11 190 Sr. 9/9/93 Ramsey, Minn. (Brooks/AJHL) 19 Justin Richards F 5-10 195 Fr. 3/17/98 Columbus, Ohio (Lincoln/USHL) HOW THEY RANK: This is how UMD and Maine stacked 20 Karson Kuhlman (C) F 5-11 190 Sr. 9/26/95 Esko, Minn. (Dubuque/USHL) up in this week’s USCHO.com and USA Today/USA 21 Matt Anderson D 5-11 205 Fr. 4/11/99 Shakopee, Minn. (Holy Family Catholic H.S.) Hockey Magazine polls. 22 Jared Thomas F 6-2 200 Sr. 2/21/94 Hermantown, Minn. (Sioux City/USHL) uscho.com USA Today 23 Nick Swaney F 5-11 180 Fr. 9/9/97 Lakeville, Minn. (Waterloo/USHL) UMD No. 10 No. 11 24 Will Campion D 6-3 205 So. 3/7/95 Seaford, N.Y. (Langley/BCHL) MAINE NR NR 25 Peter Krieger F 5-11 190 Jr. 12/9/93 Oakdale, Minn (U. of Alaska/WCHA) 26 Jade Miller F 5-10 185 So. 7/1/95 Minto, N.D. (Austin/NAHL) ON THE AIR: The two UMD-Maine clashes will be carried 27 Riley Tufte F 6-6 220 So. 4/10/98 Ham Lake, Minn. (Blaine H.S.) on KDAL-Radio (610 AM and 103.9 FM) with Bruce 28 Sammy Spurrell F 5-11 185 Sr. 10/5/92 Sherwood, Alberta (Spruce Grove/AJHL) Ciskie handling the play-by-play responsibilities This 32 Hunter Shepard G 6-0 210 So 11/7/95 Cohasset, Minn. (Bismarck/NAHL) marks the 50th year KDAL has been the radio home 36 Ben Patt G 5-10 175 Fr. 5/19/96 Brampton, Ontario (Notre Dame/SJHL) for Bulldog hockey. The broadcast can also be heard 37 Nick Deery G 6-1 185 So. 5/25/94 La Crosse, Wis. (Steinbach/MJHL) at: kdal610.com. 39 Parker Mackay (A) F 5-11 185 Jr. 6/10/94 Irma, Alberta (Spruce Grove/AJHL) Head Coach: Scott Sandelin Both ends of this weekend’s series will also be tele- Assistant Coaches: Jason Herter, Brett Larson, Brant Nicklin vised locally on My9 (Channel 6.3; Channel 9 on Hockey Sports Performance Director: Dr. Susan Hoppe Charter, Mediacom, and Dish Network and Channels Resident Athletic Trainer: Jordan Ellis 19 and 519 on Paul Bunyan Cable), which has been Strength and Conditioning Coach: Anthony Morando the Bulldogs’ television home for the last 10 seasons. Equipment Manager: Chris Garner KBJR-TV sports director Zach Schneider will serve as Director of Hockey Operations: Christian Koelling the on-air talent. The two telecasts are available on-line Operations Assistant: Bill Watson at: goblackbears.com/watch Manager: Dale Haagenson THE COACH: Scott Sandelin, is in his 18th season behind the UMD bench where he has compiled a 317-286-84 overall record -- including a 194-126-47 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 2016-17 NCHC Frozen Faceoff Champions • 2016-17 NCAA West Regional Champions • 5 Hobey Baker Memorial Award Winners • 2010-11 NCAA Champions time Spencer Penrose Award honoree as the American Hockey Coaches Association NCAA I Coach of the Year The Numbers on Sandelin (winner in 2003-04, runnerup in 2010-11 and finalist (Overall) (NCHC/ WCHA) last winter), Sandelin has also helped produce a pair of YEAR W L T PCT W L T PCT PLACE Hobey Baker Memorial Award winners (Jack Connolly in 2000-01 7 28 4 .231 3 22 3 .161 10th 2011-12 and Junior Lessard in 2003-04), seven NCAA 2001-02 13 24 3 .363 6 19 3 .268 9th 2002-03 22 15 5 .583 14 10 4 .571 5th All-Americans and 21 All-NCHC/WCHA honorees. In 2003-04 28 13 4 .667 19 7 2 .714 2nd addition, he has seen 16 of his UMD pupils go on to 2004-05 15 17 6 .473 11 13 4 .464 6th do time in the National Hockey League and one take 2005-06 11 25 4 .325 6 19 3 .268 9th part in the Winter Olympic Games (Justin Faulk for 2006-07 13 21 5 .397 8 16 4 .357 9th Team USA in 2014). 2007-08 13 17 6 .444 9 14 5 .411 8th 2008-09 22 13 8 .605 10 11 7 .482 7th 2009-10 22 17 1 .562 16 11 1 .589 4th(T) One year ago, Sandelin and the Bulldogs rolled up a 2010-11 26 10 6 .690 15 8 5 .625 4th 28-7-7 overall record (for a .750 winning percentage 2011-12 25 10 6 .683 16 7 5 .661 2nd -- the second highest figure in club history) and spent 2012-13 14 19 5 .434 10 13 5 .446 9th a school-record 11 weeks occupying the No. 1 spot 2013-14 16 16 4 .500 11 11 2 .500 4th(T) in the USCHO.com poll. They also went unbeaten in 2014-15 21 16 3 .563 12 9 3 .564 5th 2015-16 19 16 5 .538 11 10 3 .520 4th 19 of their final 21 games with one of those setbacks 2016-17 28 7 7 .750 15 5 4 .708 2nd coming to Denver (3-2) in the NCAA national title bout. 2017-18 2 2 2 .500 0 0 0 .000 Totals 317 286 84 .523 192 205 62 .486 During the course of the 2011-12 season, the Bulldogs Lifetime Record vs. Maine: 2-1-0 set a team record by going unbeaten in 17 straight Lifetime Non-Conference Record: 84-46-21 (.626) games and were ranked first in both major weekly polls Lifetime NCHC Record: 49-35-12 (.573) (USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Lifetime Home Record: 160-128-38 (.544) 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, overall) and highest WCHA finish (second place on while experiencing the greatest one-season turnaround strung together a school-record six-game postseason a 19-7-2 mark) since 1992-93. For his efforts, the of any league member that winter. One year earlier, he winning streak before it fell to Miami University 2-1 in Hibbing, Minn., native was chosen the WCHA Coach guided UMD to a 13-24-1 record in all games -- nearly the NCAA West Regional final.