#6 Vermont (18-11-5 • 10-8-4 HEA) vs. #11 Maine (11-19-4 • 5-15-2 HEA) > Game 1 Hockey East First Round • March 3, 2017 • 7:05 p.m. • Gutterson Fieldhouse SCHEDULE & RESULTS BROADCAST INFO OVERALL 18-11-5 VIDEO: HockeyEastOnline.TV ($) CONFERENCE 10-8-4 HOME 11-6-1 RADIO: WVMT 620-AM Play-by-Play: Alastair Ingram ROAD 5-5-4 2016-17 Analyst: TBA NEUTRAL 2-0-0 AUDIO: UVMathletics.com/Listen OCTOBER #6 VERMONT #11 MAINE 7 at Clarkson W, 5-2 CATAMOUNTS BLACK BEARS LIVE STATS: UVMathletics.com 8 CLARKSON L, 3-2 18-11-5 (10-8-4 HEA) 11-19-4 (5-15-2 HEA) 21 at #20 Nebraska Omaha T, 4-4 COACHING STAFFS 22 at #20 Nebraska Omaha W, 5-2 LAST TIME OUT LAST TIME OUT 28 #11 MICHIGAN W, 3-0 L, 3-2 vs. Merrimack W, 5-4 vs. Northeastern VERMONT 30 at #16 Northeastern + W, 3-2 Head Coach: Kevin Sneddon (Harvard ‘92) NOVEMBER LEADERS LEADERS Goals Goals Career: 272-334-85 (19th) 4 at #6 UMass Lowell + L, 3-1 Vermont: 222-235-67 (14th) 5 at #6 UMass Lowell + L, 4-2 Bowen (12) Byron (18) 12 at UMass + W, 2-1 Assists Assists Associate Head Coach: 15 DARTMOUTH W, 5-2 Colton (15) Brown (34) Kevin Patrick (Notre Dame ‘92) 18 MAINE + W, 6-2 19 MAINE + T, 2-2 Points Points Associate Head Coach: 25 vs. UMass + # W, 4-2 Colton (26) Byron (40) Kyle Wallack (Springfield ‘97) 26 vs. #3 Quinnipiac # W, 5-1 DECEMBER Goals Against Average Goals Against Average Assistant Coach: 9 #5 BOSTON UNIVERSITY + W, 4-2 Lekkas (2.47) McGovern (2.94) Kyle Reynolds (Vermont ‘15) 10 #5 BOSTON UNIVERSITY + L, 4-0 MAINE 17 #12 UNION L, 7-3 Save Percentage Save Percentage Head Coach: 18 #12 UNION L, 2-1 Lekkas (.912) McGovern (.914) Red Gendron (New England College ‘79) 30 BENTLEY W, 7-1 Career: 49-80-17 (4th) 31 BENTLEY W, 3-1 TEAM STATS TEAM STATS Goals Per Game Goals Per Game Maine: 49-80-17 (4th) JANUARY 3.18 2.97 3 #16 ST. LAWRENCE W, 4-3 Associate Head Coach: 7 NORTHEASTERN + W, 4-3 Goals Against Average Goals Against Average Jay Leach (New Haven ‘79) 13 at Providence + W, 4-3 2.68 3.38 14 at Providence + L, 4-1 Associate Head Coach: 20 UCONN + W, 5-4 Power Play Power Play Ben Guite (Maine ‘00) 27 at UConn + L, 3-1 18.3% (30-164) 18.8% (30-160) Goaltending Coach: FEBRUARY Penalty Kill Penalty Kill Alfie Michaud (Maine ‘99) 3 at #17 Notre Dame + T, 4-4 85.6% (131-153) 79.6% (148-186) 4 at #17 Notre Dame + L, 4-1 OFFICIALS 10 NEW HAMPSHIRE + L, 4-2 Penalty Minutes Penalty Minutes 11 NEW HAMPSHIRE + W, 5-3 11.9 14.4 Referee: Jamie Koharski 17 at #11 Boston College + T, 3-3 Referee: Tom Fyrer 18 at #11 Boston College + T, 2-2 Shots Per Game Shots Per Game Linesman: Jason Williams 24 MERRIMACK + W, 3-1 31.6 29.1 Linesman: Steven Murray 25 MERRIMACK + L, 3-2 MARCH SETTING THE SCENE 3 MAINE 7:05 pm 4 MAINE 7:05 pm • For the second time in the last three seasons, Vermont hosts Maine in the best-of-three 5 MAINE * 4:05 pm Hockey East First Round, this time in the 6-11 matchup at Gutterson Fieldhouse 10-12 HEA Quarterfinals @ TBA • UVM is 11-4-2 in its last 17 games against Maine and took three of four points from the 17-18 HEA Championship ^ TBA Black Bears in Burlington during a regular season series on Nov. 18-19 Home games in ALL CAPS • Two years ago, Jonathan Turk sent the Catamounts into the Hockey East Quarterfinals + Hockey East game | * If necessary @ Campus | ^ TD Garden (Boston, Mass.) with an overtime winner in the decisive Game 3 of the series # Friendship Four (Belfast, Northern Ireland) • Vermont has lost just once in its last five contests (2-1-2) 1 FINAL HOCKEY EAST STANDINGS GAME NOTES CONFERENCE OVERALL SENIOR WEEKEND SPLIT Pts GP Record GP Record • The Catamounts used 27 saves from Stefanos Lekkas and a strong 1. UMass Lowell * 29 22 14-7-1 34 22-9-3 third period to snap Merrimack’s eight-game unbeaten streak in a 3-1 victory last Friday night to open a two-game series 2. Boston University * 29 22 13-6-3 34 21-10-3 • Ross Colton (11) and Brian Bowen (12) had power play goals, while 3. Boston College * 29 22 13-6-3 36 18-14-4 Craig Puffer (9) added an insurance goal in the third period 4. Notre Dame * 28 22 12-6-4 34 19-10-5 • Brett Seney’s top shelf backhander with 6:28 left in the third on 5. Providence # 27 22 12-7-3 34 20-9-5 Saturday held up as the game-winner as the Warriors responded 6. Vermont # 24 22 10-8-4 34 18-11-5 with a 3-2 win on Vermont’s Senior Night to earn a split 7. Merrimack # 22 22 8-8-6 34 14-14-6 • Jarrid Privitera and Brady Shaw had the goals for the Catamounts, 8. Northeastern # 21 22 9-10-3 34 16-13-5 who out-shot Merrimack 33-23 on the night 9. UConn 20 22 8-10-4 34 12-14-8 • UVM closed the weekend 3-for-6 on the power play 10. New Hampshire 18 22 7-11-4 34 12-17-5 11. Maine 12 22 5-15-2 34 11-19-4 REGULAR SEASON RECAP 12. UMass Amherst 5 22 2-19-1 34 5-27-2 • The Catamounts registered their highest regular season league fin- ish (sixth) since 2009 when they were tied for third * Clinched first round bye | # Clinched first round home ice • Vermont posted double-digit Hockey East wins for the third time in the last four seasons, doing so for the first time since winning double-digit league games five straight years from 2005-09 CATS IN THE POLLS • UVM went 8-3-1 vs. the bottom six teams and 2-5-3 vs. the top five • The Catamounts faced a ranked team 16 times and posted a 6-6-4 POLL USCHO USA HOCKEY record in those matchups Sept. 26 RV NA • Vermont had a seven-game unbeaten streak (6-0-1) and a five- Oct. 3 NA -- game winning streak during the regular season Oct. 10 RV -- Oct. 17 -- -- PUT A BOW ON IT Oct. 24 RV -- • Brian Bowen was named the Warrior Hockey East Player of the Oct. 31 19 RV Week on Feb. 20 after a four-point weekend at Boston College Nov. 7 RV -- • The Littleton, Massachusetts native scored three goals and added Nov. 14 RV -- an assist in a pair of comeback ties against the first-place Eagles Nov. 21 20 RV • The forward leads the team with 12 goals, scoring four times in his Nov. 28 14 14 last four games, and ranks tied for second with 24 points Dec. 5 12 12 • In 14 games since the turn of the New Year, he ranks fourth in the Dec. 12 11 10 league with 10 goals and 11th with 17 points Dec. 19 13 14 • Bowen is tied for 11th in Hockey East with a team-high six PPG Jan. 2 13 13 • Was a point-per-game player during regular season league play Jan. 9 12 12 Jan. 16 12 13 CLASS OF 2017 Jan. 23 11 13 • Vermont’s senior class is tied for fourth all-time in the Division I Jan. 30 12 13 era of the program (1974) in wins by a single class with 75 Feb. 6 15 14 • The class is just four wins from climbing into second all-time and Feb. 13 16 RV can tie the Class of 1989 for third with a victory tonight Feb. 20 15 RV • Led by future NHL standouts Martin St. Louis, Eric Perrin, and Tim Feb. 27 14 RV Thomas, the Class of 1997 is the winningest class with 83 victories • The 10 members of the Class of 2017 are tied in fourth place with the Class of 2009, who went to the NCAA Frozen Four as seniors CAT STATS • Here’s how the class stacks up during the DI era: STAT HEA NCAA RANK CLASS WINS KEY SENIORS G/GM 6 17 1. 1997 83 Eric Perrin, Martin St. Louis GAA 7 24 2. 1998 78 Jason Hamilton, Justin Martin PP 6 29 3. 1989 76 Ian Boyce, Kyle McDonough PK 3 11 4. 2017 75 Brendan Bradley, Mario Puskarich PIM 8 43 2009 75 Viktor Stalberg, Dean Strong 6. 2008 74 Joe Fallon, Mark Lutz 2010 74 Brayden Irwin, Colin Vock 8. 1996 73 Steve McKell, Dale Patterson 2 SERIES HISTORY GAME NOTES VERMONT vs. MAINE IT’S A ME, MARIO! • With a pair of goals Feb. 11 vs. UNH, co-captain Mario Puskarich MEETING: 57th became Vermont’s first 50-goal scorer in more than 20 years ALL-TIME: 26-24-6 • J.C. Ruid ‘97, the linemate of Martin St. Louis and Eric Perrin, was HOME: 12-10-3 the last Catamount to notch 50 during the 1995-96 season AWAY: 11-9-3 NEUTRAL: 3-5-0 • Mario also became the 43rd member of the program’s 100-point club on New Year’s Eve in a win over Bentley LAST 10 MEETINGS (6-3-1) • He was the first Catamount to reach the century mark since his former linemate Chris McCarthy on Feb.