At RIT • Oct. 10, 2014 2014-15 Schedule Oct. 4 CARLETON (ex) W, 4-0 At Niagara • Oct. 11, 2014 Oct. 10 at RIT 7:05 Radio: WFLK 95.3 • Greg Lapinski and Wally Johnson Oct. 11 at Niagara 7:00 Oct. 17 FERRIS STATE 7:00 Oct. 18 FERRIS STATE 7:00 Oct. 24 at Miami (OH) 7:35 Oct. 25 at Miami (OH) 8:05 FIRST LOOK (Part 2): The Saints will open their 2014-15 season with non-league Oct. 31 CLARKSON 7:00 road games at RIT and Niagara on Oct. 10-11, getting a first look at RIT’s new Gene Nov. 1 at Clarkson 7:00 Polisseni Center as part of the first NCAA men’s game to be played in that building Nov. 7 at Brown* 7:00 before moving on to Niagara Falls to resume their series with the Purple Eagles, Nov. 8 at Yale* 7:00 meeting Niagara for the first time since playing three games in the 2009-10 season. Nov. 14 at Colgate* 7:00 The Saints return to RIT for the second straight year after splitting a pair in Roch- Nov. 15 at Cornell* 7:00 ester last season. The Saints had a dress rehearsal for the weekend last Saturday, Nov. 21 PRINCETON* 7:00 beating Carleton 4-0 in an exhibition game at Appleton Arena. Nov. 22 QUINNIPIAC* 7:00 Dec. 6 CLARKSON* 7:00 YOUNG ROSTER: With eight freshmen and nine sophomores on the roster, the Saints will be one of the youngest teams in the ECAC and among the youngest Dec. 12 at Vermont 7:05 nationally this season. Eight of the nine defensemen on the Saint roster are either Dec. 13 VERMONT 7:05 freshmen or sophomores and they have four rookies and four sophomores vying for Jan. 2 at Northeastern 7:05 playing time at forward. Newcomer Kyle Hayton joins sophomore Tyler Parks and Jan. 3 at Northeastern 7:05 junior Kyle MacDonald as the Saint goaltenders. Jan. 9 CORNELL* 7:00 Jan. 10 COLGATE* 7:00 THE SAINT STAFF: Greg Carvel is in his third season as Saint head coach after posting Jan. 16 at Dartmouth* 7:00 one of the best records for a first-year coach in program history in his rookie season. Jan. 17 at Harvard* 7:00 The Saints 18-16-4 mark is the best for a first-year Saint coach since George Menard Jan. 23 YALE* 7:00 went 18-5-0 in his first season, 1955-56. Carvel was named the second Charles W. Jan. 24 BROWN* 7:00 Appleton II Head Men’s Hockey Coach in the spring of 2012. A 1993 graduate of Jan. 31 at Clarkson* 7:00 St. Lawrence and a former Saint hockey captain, he joined the staff as an assistant coach in the fall of 2011. He is the 13th head coach in program history. Carvel came Feb. 6 RENSSELAER* 7:00 to the Saints after a 15-year professional hockey coaching career that included Feb. 7 UNION* 7:00 assisting coach duties with the Ottawa Senators and Anaheim Ducks of the Nation- Feb. 13 at Quinnipiac* 7:00 al Hockey League, helping both teams reach the Stanley Cup finals. He began his Feb. 14 at Princeton* 7:00 professional career as director of hockey operations for the Lowell Lock Monsters of Feb. 20 HARVARD* 7:00 the American Hockey League and joined Anaheim as scouting coordinator in 1999. Feb. 21 DARTMOUTH* 7:00 He added video coaching duties to his title in Anaheim in 2002 and was promoted Feb. 27 at Union* 7:00 to assistant coach in 2003. He joined the Senators in 2004. The winner of the ECAC’s Feb. 28 at Rensselaer* 7:00 Best Defensive Forward Award as a senior at St. Lawrence, Carvel graduated with Mar 6-8 ECAC 1st round# 7:00 a bachelor’s degree in political science and mathematics. He was an Academic All Mar. 13-15 ECAC Quarterfinals# 7:00 America and a three-time winner of the Brian McFarlane Award for academic and Mar. 20 ECAC Semifinal TBA athletic accomplishments. He is joined behind the Saint bench by Associate Head Coach Mike Hurlbut ‘89, a former All America defenseman who was part of two Mar. 21 ECAC Finals 7:30 ECAC Championship teams at SLU and had a 14-year professional playing career Mar. 27-29 NCAA Regionals TBA and assistant coach Jared DeMichiel, who is in his first season with the Saints after Apr. 9 NCAA Semifinals (Boston) TBA assisting at Nazareth last season. DeMichiel was an outstanding goaltender for RIT, Apr. 11 NCAA Finals TBA leading that team to the Frozen Four as a senior. *-ECAC Games SAINT SUPPORT STAFF: Aisha Visram, a 2007 graduate of the University of Guelph, #-Best of three series is in her second season as athletic trainer for the Saint men’s hockey team. Mike Elberty, a 1979 St. Lawrence graduate is the strength and conditioning coach and Brenden McHugh is the video coordinator for the 2012-13 Saints. Wally Johnson is the sports information contact and is in his 39th year of working with the Saint program. He also works with the Saint radio broadcasts during games. THE BREAKDOWN: The 2014-15 Saint roster includes four seniors, six juniors, eight sophomores and nine freshmen. The Saints lost four of their top five scorers from last season and workhorse goaltender Matt Weninger, who played in 132 games during his four seasons including 34 of 38 last year. Of the 18 returnees, seven played in all 38 games last year, and an eighth in 37. The Saints also return junior Tommy Thompson who sat out last season and will have two years of eligibility. THE SAINT CAPTAINS: Senior wing Gunnar Hughes will be the Saint captain this season while classmate Patrick Doherty and junior forward Brian Ward will be the assistant captains. Hughes, an assistant captain last year, follows in the footsteps of his brother George as a two-year captain for the Saints and joins Sean and Kyle Flanagan and Mike and Pete Lappin as the only brothers in SLU hockey history to both captain teams. Hughes scored five goals and had 13 assists last season and has played in 109 career games with 16 goals and 35 assists for 51 points. He has five career game winning goals for the Saints. Doherty, an excellent special teams player, has five power play goals, four shorthanded goals and five game winners among 24 career goals in 111 games. He also has 17 assists for 41 points. Ward had eight goals and nine assists for 17 points in 38 games in his first season of collegiate competition. THE RIT SERIES: The Saints and Tigers will meet for the fourth straight season and for the second time in a row in Rochester when the two teams open their NCAA seasons at the new Polisseni Center on Friday. The two teams split last season, the Saints winning game one 5-3 before RIT took game two 6-4 and the Saints lead the overall series 9-4-0. SLU is 3-3-0 in games played in Rochester, four of them on campus (2-2-0) and two at Blue Cross Arena. THE NIAGARA SERIES: The Saints and Purple Eagles meet for the first time since playing three times in the 2009-10 season with the Saints winning two of the three games. Overall the teams have met eight times since 1998-99 and the Saints hold a slim 4-3-1 series lead. SLU is 3-1-1 in the last five and also 3-1-1 in games played at Niagara. BROTHER ACTS: The Saints will not have a pair of brothers on the roster for the first time in ten years with the graduation of Greg Carey and the departmure of Matt Carey for the NHL after last season. The Saints had gone nine straight seasons with a pair of brothers on the roster. Brothers George and Gunnar Hughes played together for the Saints in 2012-13 and 2011-12, Sean and Kyle Flanagan and Pat and Matt Raley were teammates in 2010-11, Derek and Jared Keller played together from 2007-08 to 2009-10, and Mark and Paul Wallmann played for the Saints from 2004-05 to 2006-07. Other brother acts who have played together for the Saints have included the Lappins...Pete and Tim from 1984-85 to 1988-89 and Mike and Chris in 1990-91 and 1991-92, the Harneys, Jake and Justin from 1996-00, the Muir twins, Mike and Sean from 1998-02, plus Eric and Martin Lacroix in the 1990s, Bill and Mike Gerrie and Dean and Dick Popiel in the 1980s. In six of the brother pairings since 1987, one has been an All Ameri- ca...Greg Carey was a repeat All America and a Hobey Baker “Hobey Hat Trick” finalist last season. Pete Lappin was a two-time All America, Mike Lappin earned All America as a senior as did Justin Harney, Sean Flanagan and George Hughes. Pete and Tim Lappin are third on the all-time scoring list for brothers who have played together with 315 points (Pete 187, Tim 128). NHL CONNECTIONS: Former Saint Rich Peverley (Dallas Stars), Brandon Bollig (Chicago Blackhawks) and Mike McKenna (Columbus Bluejackets) were the only Saints playing in the NHL last season with a number of players playing in the AHL, ECHL or other professional leagues. Peverly hopes to return to action after being sidelined by an irregular heartbeat.