2009-0 WCHA MEN’S YEARBOOK WCHA HOCKEY 200 MEN’S YEARBOOK CONTENTS 2 PR & MEDIA iNFOrmATION 5 THIS IS THE WCHA 10 WCHA-MEMBER cAmpUS PROFILES 15 THE RED bARON™ WCHA FINAL fIVE 19 2009-10 SEASON 23 WCHA MEMBER tEAM iNFOrmATION 73 2008-09 sEASON IN REVIEW 97 WCHA HISTORY 109 WCHA SEASON sUmmARIES 121 CHAmpIONSHIPS 151 HONORS & AwARDS 179 WCHA & iNTERNATIONAL hOCKEY 189 WCHA & THE nhl 199 WCHA RECORDS 207 2009-10 WCHA MEN’S cOmpOSITE sCHEDULE Credits: The 2010 WCHA Men’s Yearbook is an official publication of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. Special thanks to team public relations directors Dallas Baldwin (UAA), Dave Moross (CC), Erich Bacher (Denver), Ian Marks (MTU), Jim Strick (UM), Bob Nygaard (UMD), Paul Allan (MSU), Jayson Hajdu (UND), Tom Nelson (SCSU) and Paul Capobianco (UW). Additional thanks for contributions from John Gilbert and Frank Wilson. Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five photography by Bruce Kluckhohn. 2009-0 WCHA MEN’S YEARBOOK WCHA PUBLIC RELATIONS & MEDIA INFORMATION INFORMATION SERVICES The WCHA Public Relations Office serves those wishing to access information on the conference, its member teams and personnel, and student-athletes. Media members and the public have access to many different services under the conference umbrella. The league office strives to assist those interested in obtaining information and focuses its efforts on showcasing the accomplishments of its teams and players. In addition to it’s weekly press release and statistics, the conference provides several other avenues to assist the public and the media in following the WCHA. Information is released on a frequent basis. The conference’s comprehensive weekly news release – featuring news on the upcoming week’s games, conference standings, team schedules and results, game summaries, member team notebooks, team and individual statistics (conference, overall and national leaders), attendance figures, is issued to accredited media in a PDF format on Mondays during the playing season and is also available via the league web site at: wcha.com. Weekend updates are also issued. WCHA Men’s Players of the Week – offense, defense and rookie – are released by the league office on Tues- days by 3:00 pm CT during the regular season. These are also available via the conference web site. WCHA.COM Frozen Four, National Hockey League, International those non-regular stations. The Western Collegiate Hockey Association’s official RADIO & TV POLICIES and USA Hockey merchandise as well as collectibles 1. General Policies d. Working media credentials shall be granted website address is: wcha.com. and historical DVDs. The radio broadcast and telecast facilities and re- for use by that station’s working personnel only. The conference web site is produced through the sources of the Association members shall be utilized e. Home teams will provide two analog phone joint efforts of the league’s public relations office and to advance the highest standards of intercollegiate lines to the visiting team’s regular broadcast sta- CBS College Sports. The WCHA is a part of CBS’s official WCHA PUBLICATIONS athletics and serve the fullest extent and the best tion. home of collegiate athletics on the world wide web The WCHA produces numerous publications each interests and needs of the Association schools. 3. Television Policies at: CBSOnline.com. season, including a conference yearbook, schedule Definitions In all broadcasting and telecasting, the highest Visitors to wcha.com will find information on all & directory booklet, post-season tournament cham- Exhibition: To transmit, distribute, license, subli standards of good taste shall prevail and the reputa- - facets of the league, including press releases, com- pionship program, and year-in-review statistical tion of the schools shall be upheld and defended from cense, telecast, display, exhibit, reproduce, exploit, prehensive league, team and player statistics, playing summary. The annual WCHA Men’s Yearbook, a misuse or misrepresentation in any form. or otherwise use. schedules, game-by-game results and summaries, comprehensive guide to the league and its teams, is Schools shall provide the Association office Broadcast: Method of transmitting television players of the week, feature stories, team-by-team available on-line at wcha.com. with a complete list of radio and television stations signals over-the-air, which are receivable in final data, rosters, ticket information for league champion- (originating and feed stations), sports announcers, usable form by standard, analog or digital television ships, archives, the league’s weekly radio show, and a analysts and producers involved in the broadcast or receiving sets, owned by the general public. comprehensive on-line store. POST-SEASON HONORS The conference office administers annual post-season telecast of hockey games. Non-Standard Television: Method of distribution WCHA.com includes a host of features, including other than Broadcast individual honors, with balloting done near the end Two games will be selected from each member automated standings, automated team and player of the regular season and voting by league-member institution for national television exposure. The a. Cable statistics – in both overall and league formats, live coaches, players, sports information directors and Commissioner will have exclusive priority on one of b. Satellite scoreboards, automated league and member-team media who cover league-member teams. those games. The selection of games will be based c. Internet schedules, automated results, comprehensive box Post-season awards are then announced at the on institutional contractual availability. As current d. Developing technology in the field scores, and WCHA.TV. To access WCHA.TV, just click on annual WCHA Awards Banquet, held in conjunction institution contracts expire, the two game Association 4. Internet Broadcasts the ‘WCHA.TV - Multimedia’ bar that is located in the with the annual WCHA Final Five. component needs to be included in future contract Internet broadcasts will be allowed to be telecast live, upper right corner of the lead page at wcha.com. agreements. under the following conditions. The WCHA Shop (wcha.sportdesigns.com) where - 2. Radio Policies a. When the system (service) can protect (black visitors can shop for both conference and member out) the home institutions DMA by Zip Code. If the THIS WEEK IN THE WCHA RADIO SHOW a. Each Association school shall assess radio team merchandise, is produced in conjunction Marking it’s 12th consecutive season, college hockey’s rights charges for both home and away games to system cannot provide this service, the broadcast will with SportDesigns.com. The league’s on-line store first weekly conference radio show, This Week in their regular station and/or stations. be allowed only on a delayed basis. (Internet Broadcast features a full line of member team merchandise, the WCHA, is an inside audio look at the league, not to begin until conclusion of the game.) b. No rights fee shall be assessed by a host school NHL merchandise, international hockey merchandise, it’s teams and players. The producer and host of the to a visiting Association school’s regular stations (a b. If the game is not being telecast, there are no and Frozen Four gear. Another recent addition to The five- to seven-minute program is longtime college maximum of two). Internet restrictions. WCHA Shop are DVDs, which include a number of hockey voice Jim Rich and is distributed by Jim Rich c. Radio broadcasts by visiting school’s non- 5. Start Time, Intermission & Time-Out Policies national tournament/championship games involving and Kevin Falness. regular stations must be approved by both athletic The following policies are effective for all Association WCHA teams dating back to 1992. ‘This Week in the WCHA‘ is a 22-week long radio directors. The host school will determine the fee for regular season home games. CBSOnline.com, the host for the WCHA’s official show focusing on one of college hockey’s premier web site (wcha.com), consists of the www.CBSonline. leagues. The program provides complete and com- com web site and its network of more than 160 official prehensive coverage of the week’s action with audio athletic sites for top colleges, universities, and athletic highlights, interviews with conference administrators, LiVE WEB AND MOBILE SCOREBOARDS AVAILABLE AT WCHA.COM conferences and associations. league-member coaches and players, and standings and statistics. New shows are available each Thursday throughout the regular season. The WCHA, in conjuction with Tim Danehy (collegehockeystats.net) and Dan Parkhurst COLLEGEHOCKEY STATS.NET The weekly show, which is emailed to the flagship (SportDesigns.com), is pleased to offer live game scoreboards for both its men’s and women’s The WCHA is again part of a comprehensive inter- stations of WCHA-member teams, is also available leagues. The new scoreboards are available on the league’s official website, wcha.com, and net-based collegiate hockey statistical service in for distribution to other interested radio stations by 2009-10 that can be acessed via wcha.cstv.com or also accessible from your web-enabled mobile phone. contacting the league’s public relations office at 608 collegehockeystats.net. The live website stats platform can be accessed on game days from the home page at WCHA. 829-0100. This Week in the WCHA is also available Visitors to this user-friendly service will find com- com. The live box scores come directly from feeds at game sites. With multiple leagues using through the league web site at wcha.com. plete and up-to-date team-by-team and individual the same live stats platform, even many non-conference road games will be included in the statistics, league standings, team-by-team rosters, new live scoreboard. team-by-team schedules and results, complete box WCHA PLAYOFFs • fIRST ROUND At WCHA.com, located just above the WCHA standings, visitors will find a graphic for “Live scores, national team and individual leaders, and historical archives.