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Atlantic Hockey Weekly Award Winners for Games Through December 2
Atlantic Hockey Player of the Week
	BRENT OLSON - AIR FORCE Junior, Forward, Baudette, Minn. Scored AFA's first goal of the game, short-handed on Friday for a 1-0 lead as AFA never trailed in the game...Scored AFA's second goal on the power play for a 2-1 lead...Scored AFA's second goal on Saturday even strength...His first goal Friday was AFA's first short-handed goal of the season and the first shortie of his career...Two goals on Friday tied his career high...Three-goal series is a career best.
Atlantic Hockey Goaltender of the Week
	LOUIS MENARD - R.I.T. Sophomore, Goaltender, Chicoutimi, QUE  Menard stopped 57-of-61 shots in the two weekend games, leading the Tigers to a win and a tie at Bentley. On Friday, he stopped 26 shots in the 3-2 win and made 31 saves on Saturday in a 2-2 tie. He is now 5-4-3 this season with a 2.77 goals against average and .909 save percentage.
Atlantic Hockey Rookie of the Week
	EVERETT SHEEN - HOLY CROSS Freshman, Forward, Lethbridge, ALB  Sheen scored three goals in the home-and-home series with Connecticut. On Friday night, he scored the game-winner in the 4-1 victory on the road, while on Saturday he scored Holy Cross' last two goals in the 3-3 tie. Sheen has scored six goals in the last three games as his seven goals so far this season lead the team.
Atlantic Hockey Honor Roll
Andrew Volkening, Air Force (So, G, Genoa, Ill.) - Came on in relief of Ian Harper on Friday and played the final two periods, earning the win...Stopped 10 of 11 shots...Earned the win on Saturday in leading Air Force to its first league sweep of the season...18 saves on 20 shots...Has a record of 9-3-1 this season. Jereme Tendler, American Int'l (Sr, F, Viceroy, SASK) - Tendler scored twice Friday evening as the Jackets dropped a 6-3 decision to the Air Force Falcons. The two goals put him in a tie for the team lead with sophomore Mike McMillan with five goals on the season. Owen Meyer, Army (So, F, Dundee, Ill.) - Scored a goal in each game as Army split a weekend series with Sacred Heart. Meyer leads the team with 11 goals. Cody Omilusik, Army (Fr, F, Traverse City, Mich.) - Scored a pair of goals over the weekend to help Army split a series with Sacred Heart. Anthony Canzoneri, Bentley (Jr, F, Homer Glen, Ill.) - Canzoneri scored the game-tying goal in Saturday's draw with RIT and added an assist in Friday night's game. Joe Calvi, Bentley (Fr, G, New Lenox, Ill.) - Calvi posted a 2.43 goals against average and .940 save percentage in two games last weekend. He stopped 36 shots on Friday night and made a career-high 42 saves to help Bentley to a tie on Saturday. Calvi leads Atlantic Hockey with a .931 save percentage and 2.13 goals against average. Josh Heidinger, Canisius (So, F, Buffalo, N.Y.) - Heidinger helped lead the Griffs to a 4-0 victory over Mercyhurst on Friday. The sophomore scored in his seventh-consecutive Atlantic Hockey contest, recording a goal and an assist. Heidinger posted an assist on the game-winning goal and then scored the team's third goal en route to the victory. Andrew Loewen, Canisius (So, G, Winnipeg, MAN) - Loewen anchored a Canisius defense that led the Griffs to a 4-0 victory over Mercyhurst on Friday. The sophomore recorded 34 saves to earn his first collegiate shutout. Loewen recorded 17 of his 34 saves in the final frame to help the Griffs earn the victory. During the series finale, Loewen stopped 31 shots. Vincent Scarsella, Canisius (Fr, F, Lackawanna, N.Y.) - Scarsella posted two assists in the Griffs' 4-0 victory against Mercyhurst. He found a wide-open teammate in the second period, which led to the game-winning goal. Scarsella also contributed an assist on the team's third goal. Beau Erickson, Connecticut (So, G, Hinton, Iowa) - Erickson made 56 saves, including a point blank save in overtime on Joe Brock Saturday in order to preserve the 3-3 tie. Adam Roy, Holy Cross (Fr, G, Feeding Hills, Mass.) - Roy stopped 49 of 53 shots in the home-and-home series with Connecticut.  He made 22 saves and allowed one goal in the 4-1 win at UConn on Friday, while he stopped 27 shots and allowed three goals in the 3-3 tie on Saturday. Roy is now 3-3-2 on the season. Kerry Bowman, Mercyhurst (Sr, F, Leamington, ONT) - Bowman registered his first two goals of the season (including the game-winner) and second career two-goal game in Saturday's 5-2 win over Canisius. His only other two-goal effort occurred at American International College January 15, 2005, when he also tallied the game-winner in a 6-3 verdict. One of his goals was shorthanded, the second of his career and first since his sophomore season. Dan Bremner, Mercyhurst (Fr, F, Sarnia, ONT) - Bremner collected his first collegiate goal on his only shot on goal Saturday. His goal was the first goal of the game and gave the Lakers a lead they would never relinquish. It was Bremner's fifth game of his career. Matt Lundin, Mercyhurst (Jr, G, Apple Valley, Minn.) - Lundin picked up the Lakers' first win at home this season with a 5-2 win Saturday over visiting Canisius. He stopped a combined 54 of 60 shots against the Griffs in a 1-1 weekend. Simon Lambert, R.I.T. (Sr, F, Ste. Therese, QUE) - Lambert tallied two goals and an assist as RIT earned three out a possible four points at Bentley this weekend. On Friday, Lambert tallied a goal and an assist in RIT's 3-2 win over the Falcons. It was Lambert's 100th game of his collegiate career. On Saturday, his goal early in the first period gave RIT the 1-0 lead, as the Tigers held on for a 2-2 tie. Lambert leads the Tigers with 17 points and is tied for the team lead with eight goals and nine assists. Erik Boisvert, Sacred Heart (So, F, Drummondville, QUE) - Boisvert scored two goals in SHU's weekend split with Army. He had the game winning goal in Saturday's win over Army. The sophomore has now registered one point in seven of his last eight games. Stefan Drew, Sacred Heart (Jr, G, Oakbank, MAN) - Drew made 57 saves in two games against Army to help the Pioneers to a split. The weekend included double digit saves in three of six periods. After making 30 saves in a losing effort Friday, Drew came back and stopped 27 shots, inlcudig 24 in the final two periods, to earn a victory on Saturday. Bear Trapp, Sacred Heart (Jr, F, Balcarres, SASK) - Trapp figured in on three of SHU's six goals on the weekend, tallying three assists in the series with Army. He had one helper on Friday and added two more on Saturday. Trapp has now registered a point in four straight games and seven of his last eight contests.
Atlantic Hockey Team Notes
Air Force: AFA earns first league sweep of the season and moved into first place...AFA's four-game unbeaten streak is tied as the fifth-longest in the nation...AFA is now 14-0 all-time vs. AIC and 6-0 all-time at AIC...AFA out-shot AIC, 72-35 in the series...Eric Ehn has a seven-game scoring streak and has nine points in his last four games...Josh Frider has seven points in his last four games...Michael Mayra had a career-best three assists on Friday...Derrick Burnett had a career-high two assists on Friday...Freshman Owen Kelly scored the first goal of his career with a shortie on Saturday. The goal also was the eventual game -winner...Senior left-winger Josh Print played his first game of the season after missing the first 13 games with an injury...AFA moved up to eighth in the nation in scoring, averaging 3.35 goals per game...The Falcons scored a season-high four PPG on Friday and five in the series...AFA scored on 41.7 percent of its power plays vs. AIC (5-for-12)...In the last three games, AFA has eight power play goals. The Falcons had just five power play goals in the first 12 games...AFA has held its opponents to an average of just 17 shots per game in the last six games...Eric Ehn had four points on the weekend and now has 140 career points in 122 games. He is now 14th in career scoring at the Academy and has the most points in school history in Division I games...AFA hosts Canisius next week...The teams split four games last season and split the series at each site. American International: The American International College ice hockey squad dropped a pair of contests to the Air Force Falcons over the weekend. Jereme Tendler scored twice on Friday evening. It was the first multi goal game for Tendler since January 12th of last season when he tallied a hat-trick in a 6-1 win over Bentley. He is now tied with sophomore Mike McMillan for the team lead with five goals. The Jackets registered three power-play goals, improving on just two man advantage scores prior to the weekend. They posted one power-play goal Friday night when David Turco scored and two on Saturday via Chad Richardson and Chris Bolognino goals. AIC nabbed former Connecticut Husky Brian Burns as their new volunteer-assistant coach. He replaces Patrick Tabb who is now the head coach of the Springfield Falcons Junior B Team. AIC has three home match-ups coming up, first this Tuesday against Connecticut, followed by a pair against RIT over the weekend. Army: The Black Knights split a weekend series with Sacred Heart, winning at home and losing on the road. Four different players scored in a 4-2 win at Tate Rink on Friday while Army lost 4-2 on Saturday ... Sophomore Owen Meyer and freshman Cody Omilusik each scored a goal in both games. Both of Meyer's goals came on the power play while Omilusik scored a short0-handed goal Saturday and an even strength goal on Friday ... Luke Flicek and Zach McKelvie also had points in both games with an assist in each contest ... Eric Sefchik handed out two assists on Friday ... Meyer leads the team with 11 goals and is tied for the team point lead with 20. Flicek has a team and conference best 14 assists ... The Black Knights are idle until Dec. 29 when they play Connecticut in the UConn/Toyota Classic. Army will play the Huskies in a conference game and then play either Brown or Ferris State the second day. Bentley: Bentley picked up one point this weekend with a Saturday night 2-2 draw against RIT after falling on Friday night by a 3-2 margin ... Freshman goaltender Joe Calvi leads Atlantic Hockey with a 2.13 goals against average and .931 save percentage ... Both of those numbers would be Bentley single-season records ... Junior Jeff Gumaer tallied a goal and an assist this weekend to move into sole possession of fifth place among Bentley's Division I career scoring leaders with 67 points ... Gumaer already holds the Bentley Division I goal-scoring record which he added to this weekend with his 40th career goal ... This week, Bentley hosts Sacred Heart on Wednesday and visits Massachusetts-Lowell on Saturday ... The Falcons beat the Pioneers, 3-1, on Nov. 6 in Watertown ... Bentley has never beaten a Hockey East team, including going 0-2 against the River Hawks with the last meeting coming in the 2004-05 season. Canisius: The Griffs split a pair of games with the Mercyhurst Lakers, winning, 4-0, on Friday and losing the finale, 5-2. The two teams were meeting for the 49th and 50th time in the series history. Canisius has played Mercyhurst more than any other opponent in the program's history. A total of 1,168 fans attended the Griffs 4-0 victory against Mercyhurst, the second-highest total for a Canisius game at the Buffalo State Sports Arena. More than a 1,000 fans have attended a Canisius game at the arena on four occasions, with two of them coming this year. The Griffs rank fourth in Atlantic Hockey in attendance, averaging 1,150 fans in its two home games. Sophomore Andrew Loewen led the Griffs to victory during the opener. The Winnipeg, Manitoba native stopped all 34 shots in goal, including 17 in the third period, to earn his first collegiate shutout. Loewen is the first Griff to post a shutout since Dan Giffin on Feb. 24, 2006. Sophomore Carl Hudson scored the game-winning goal on the power play. The score was the third for Hudson on the power play this season and the 11th of his career. His 11 power play goals rank sixth in the school's Division I record book. Hudson has scored 11 of his 14 career goals (78.6 percent) on the power play. He ranks seventh in Atlantic Hockey with three power-play goals and fifth in scoring among defensemen with eight points. Sophomore Josh Heidinger also posted a goal and an assist during the game, ending an impressive month of November. Heidinger scored one goal in all seven Atlantic Hockey games during the month and posted multiple points on four occasions. He ranks seventh in the league with 14 points and fourth with seven goals. Freshman Vincent Scarsella posted two assists in the Griffs victory. The rookie is tied for the Atlantic Hockey lead for points among freshmen with 10 points. During the finale, senior Greg Brown scored for the Griffs. Brown, who played in his 100th career game on Friday, tallied his first score of the season. Redshirt sophomore Ryan Klusendorf posted an assist during the game. Klusendorf, who missed most of his first two seasons due to injury and played in only three games, recorded his first point Oct. 22, 2005. Canisius continues Atlantic Hockey play next weekend with two games at Air Force.Connecticut: Despite Holy Cross recording three power play goals on Saturday, the penalty kill continues to be a highlight for the Huskies. UConn has now killed 63 out of 73 power plays, a success rate of 86 percent. That ranks as 21st in the nation. They had been as high as sixth in the nation before this weekend. On the other side, the power play is something UConn will continue to attempt to improve on, as they are 5 for 53 this year on the power play, which ranks 54th in the nation. Sean Erickson's eight assists has him on the national top 50 list. His average of 0.67 assists per game ranks a tie for 45th among all Division I hockey players. His 42 total assist puts him in a tie for 8th all-time on UConn's career Division I assist leaders. AIC is UConn's last opponent before the Huskies take a 25 day break for exams and holidays. Connecticut beat the Yellow Jackets 4-2 in Storrs on October 19 to open the 2007-08 season. Holy Cross: Holy Cross' 31.2 power play percentage is ranked first in the nation. The Crusaders are 20-64 on power play opportunities, including a 3-5 performance at Providence (10/20), a 3-7 performance at Mercyhurst (10/26), a 3-8 performance against Army (11/4) and a 3-8 performance against Connecticut (12/1). Sophomore Ryan Driscoll's five power play goals are tied for sixth in the country. Freshman Everett Sheen has scored six goals in the last three games as his seven goals so far this season lead the team. Senior Dale Reinhardt has at least one point in nine of the 12 games this season, while sophomores Brodie Sheahan and Rob Forshner have earned at least one point in eight of the 12 games. The Crusaders will host Hockey East member Merrimack on December 4. Holy Cross has won three out of its last four games against teams from Hockey East. This season the Crusaders won at Providence by a score of 6-4 on October 20, 2007. Last season, the Crusaders fell to Northeastern, 7-2, on December 30, 2006, while they defeated Merrimack, 2-1, on October 24, 2006. Two seasons ago the Crusaders earned a 3-2 win at UMass-Amherst on October 21, 2005. Holy Cross has an all-time record of 22-75-0 against teams currently in Hockey East. Between the first and second period of the game against UConn on December 1, Holy Cross honored the eight members of the men's hockey team that are in the Holy Cross Varsity Club Hall of Fame with an on ice recognition. The following members of the Hall of Fame are Larry Murphy `70, Gerry Curley `81, Jim Stewart `79, Joe Lunny `86, Glenn Graves `77, Bill Bellerose `77, Dean Casagrande `83 and Matt Muniz `87. Mercyhurst: Head coach Rick Gotkin picked up his 350th career win Saturday as Mercyhurst snapped a four-game winless streak which included two overtime losses and an overtime tie. After being blanked for the second time this season Friday at Canisius, 12 different players recorded points in Saturday's 5-2 win over the Golden Griffins. Senior Kerry Bowman recorded the second two-goal game of his career and tallied the second shorthanded goal of his career. Junior defenseman Kirk Medernach also scored shorthanded. It was his 3rd career goal and second goal in his last three games. The Lakers have scored 4 shorthanded goals this season. They had only two in all of 2006-07. Freshman Dan Bremner scored his first collegiate goal Saturday. Freshman Mike Gurtler scored Saturday and has two goals in his last three games. With the weekend split against Canisius, the Lakers lead the all-time series 29-14-7. Saturday's win at home was the team's first this season in five games (1-2-2). Mercyhurst will take next weekend off before hosting AIC December 14 and 15 to close the 2007 portion of the campaign. Rochester Institute of Technology: The Tigers began their 10-game, 54-days between home games swing with a win and a tie at Bentley over the weekend. RIT is riding a five-game unbeaten streak (2-0-3). Freshman Andrew Favot made his first collegiate goal count, as it was the game-winner on Friday. In overtime on Saturday, freshman Sean Murphy had appeared to score the game-winner, as the red light went on, but the referee waved off the goal. Senior Simon Lambert has six goals in his last six games. He leads the Tigers with eight goals, nine assists and 17 points this season. He also played in his 100th career game on Friday. The Tigers ended November with a 4-3-3 mark. It is the first time RIT has recorded three ties in a month since January, 1998. The Tigers played five overtime games in November, most in the program's history. December was the month where RIT started to make its run towards the Atlantic Hockey regular season title a year ago. RIT entered play in December 2006 with a 4-5-2 mark. The Tigers went 5-1 last December en route to a 12-3-0 run through the end of January. Goaltender Louis Menard went 4-2-3 with a 2.36 goals against average and .922 save percentage in November. RIT travels to AIC for a pair of games this weekend. The Tigers have never lost to the Yellow Jackets, with an 8-0-1 all-time mark. RIT won all four meeting between the two clubs last season, outscoring AIC 25-7 in the four contests. Sacred Heart: The Pioneers split a weekend series with first place Army, losing the opener at Tate Rink before rebounding to Saturday in Milford. Sophomore Nick Johnson and junior Bear Trapp each had three points while sophomore Erik Boisvert scored two goals. Johnson has now registered a point in nine straight games while Boisvert and Trapp have tallied a point in seven of eight games. The Pioneers travel to Bentley Wednesday night in their only game of the week.