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Andrew Volkening - Air Force (Senior, Goaltender, Genoa, Ill.) -
Suffered two close losses to 10th-ranked Colorado College on the
road and No. 2 Denver at home...In the two games, had a 1.95
goals-against average and a .937 against two of the best teams in
the nation...Gave up just four goals, one was a power-play goal and
two others came on 2-on-1 rushes.
Ben Meisner - American Int’l (Freshman, Goaltender, Halifax,
Nova Scotia) - Meisner play very well in Saturday’s 3-2 (OT)
win stopping 35 shots, including 24 in the final two periods of
regulation and three in overtime, to claim his fourth victory of
the season.
Michael Penny - American Int’l (Sophomore, Forward, Calgary,
Alberta) - Penny found the back of the net three times Friday
night, leading the Yellow Jackets to a 6-5 victory over Bentley. He
netted two of his goals early in the first period, one of which on
the power-play, to put AIC out to an early 2-0 lead. Penny buried
his third of the night in the second period to complete the natural
hat-trick. His hat-trick was the first for AIC since Jereme Tendler
did it against Bentley on January 12, 2007.
Eric Sefchik - Army (Senior, Forward, Brooklyn, Ohio) - Sefchik
extended his streak of consecutive multiple-point games to four
with a five-point weekend to help Army to two points against Holy
Cross. Sefchik totaled two goals, including a short-handed tally
and posted three assists over the weekend while registered a +3
plus/minus rating. Sefchik scored a short-handed goal and matched
his career best with an even strength goal later in a 4-1 win. He
handed out three assists during the first game of the series, the
third time in his career he has registered three assists. Sefchik
is now the team’s point leader with a team-best 22 assists
and nine goals and has racked up nine points on four goals and five
assists in his last four games.
Preston Shupe - Canisius (Freshman, Forward, Weyburn,
Sasketchewan) - Shupe recorded two points in a weekend sweep over
Connecticut, scoring a goal in the opener and adding an assist in
the finale. On Friday, Shupe sealed the Griffs victory by scoring a
goal with just under four minutes left in regulation in a 3-1 win.
He then helped give Canisius a 2-0 lead in the finale, intercepting
a pass and setting up Vincent Scarsella for a goal. Shupe now has
21 points this season on six goals and 15 assists. He is tied for
first among freshmen in Atlantic Hockey with his 21 points and
ranks 14th nationally among rookies with 0.75 points per game.
Jason Weeks - Canisius (Senior, Forward, Seattle, Wash.) - Weeks
moved atop the Canisius record book and helped the Griffs earn four
points during a weekend sweep over Connecticut. In the
Griffs’ 5-2 win over the Huskies on Saturday, Weeks scored
the game’s first goal, his 50th-career marker. Weeks moved
into sole possession of first place in the program’s Division
I record book with his goal, passing David Deeves, who recorded 49
goals from 1998 to 2002. Weeks also tallied two assists during the
weekend for three points. He registered the primary assist on the
game-winning goal in the opener and then added another in the
finale for two points.
Rob Linsmayer - Holy Cross (Freshman, Forward, Winnetka, Ill.) -
Linsmayer recorded two assists in the series versus Army. On
Friday, he assisted on Holy Cross’ first goal of the contest
in the 5-3 victory, while in the 4-1 loss on Saturday he had an
assist on the Crusaders’ only goal. Linsmayer’s 11
assists lead the team and his 12 points are tied for third.
Luke Miller - Holy Cross (Sophomore, Forward, Andover, Mass.) -
Miller scored two goals in the two-game series with Army. In the
5-3 win on Friday, he scored a power play goal to tie the game at
1-1 in the first period, while on Saturday he netted the
Crusaders’ lone goal of the game in the 4-1 loss. For the
season, Miller has six goals and two assists for eight points. His
six goals are ranked fifth on the team. In 62 career games, he has
12 goals and 11 assists for 23 points.
Grant Blakey - Mercyhurst (Freshman, Forward, Canton, Mich.) -
Blakey finished the weekend with a goal and an assist as the Lakers
dropped both games during their tour of Colorado. Against Denver,
Blakey scored the team’s lone goal in a 4-1 setback. The next
day he assisted on the game’s first goal, a strike by junior
Mike Gurtler with 5:34 elapsed in the first period. Blakey now has
six goals and 12 assists for 18 points.
Matt Fennell - Mercyhurst (Junior, Defenseman, Melfort,
Sasketchewan) - Fennell had a hand in all three goals in the
Lakers’ 5-3 setback at No. 10 Colorado College on Saturday.
The senior defenseman tallied two power-play goals and added an
assist for three points. After helping out on junior Mike
Gurtler’s ice-breaking marker early in the first period,
Fennell tallied his first of the game in the second to break up a
four-goal run by the Tigers and make the score 4-2. He later added
his second goal with 10 seconds remaining in the third period.
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Here is the tiebreaker for two or more teams:
1. Points head-to-head...2. Goal differential head-to-head...3.
Conference wins...4. Goal differential - conference games...5.
Goals allowed - conference games...6. Goals scored - conference
games.
If three or more teams are tied and all played the same number of
games against one another, you would use the tiebreaker top to
bottom as a mini-conference. If three or more team are tied and all
played an uneven amount of games, we will use the tiebreaker above,
but break the teams up into a mini-mini-conference. If three teams
are tied and one team played two games against the other two, while
the other two faced each other four times, we will break the teams
that played four times and run the tiebreaker to see who would win
that series. Then take the team that won that tiebreaker and pit
them against the team that they played twice to see who would
garner the higher seed. Then you take the final two teams and run
the tiebreaker again to see who gains the next highest seed.
Air Force: Air Force held two of the top 10 teams in the country
to just two goals in each game...AFA fell to 10th-ranked Colorado
College, 2-0, on Friday at the Colorado Springs World Arena...AFA
was shutout for the first time since October 2007, 4-0, at Bentley,
a span of 106 games...AFA took second-ranked Denver into overtime
before losing 2-1...It was Air Force’s first overtime loss of
the season. AFA is now 2-1-6 in nine overtime games this
season...Jacques Lamoureux’s power play goal in the third
period against Denver ended a streak of five periods without a
goal...Lamoureux’s goal was AFA’s only one of the
weekend...Andrew Volkening had a 1.95 goals and a .937 saves
percentage in the two games...Derrick Burnett picked up his 20th
assist of the season on Saturday...AFA had a season-low 20 shots on
Friday vs. CC...AFA had 46 shots vs. Denver on Saturday, the most
Denver has allowed all season and the second most AFA has had all
season...AFA is off this week. The next series is at RIT, Feb.
19-20...AFA’s crowd of 2,901 on Saturday marked the fifth
consecutive and ninth sellout of the season...The shutout was the
17th in the last 23 regular season games at Cadet Ice Arena...AFA
is averaging 2,543 fans in the 2,470 Cadet Ice Arena...AFA’s
average crowd is 103.0 of the arena’s capacity, the fourth
highest in the nation behind RIT, Notre Dame and St. Cloud
State.
American International: The American International College
men’s ice hockey team swept the Bentley Falcons over the
weekend claiming a 6-5 win on Friday night, and a 3-2 overtime
victory in Saturday’s matinee. Sophomore forward Michael
Penny scored three times to lead the Yellow Jackets to their 6-5 in
the series opener. It was the first hat-trick for AIC since Jereme
Tendler did it against Bentley on January 12, 2007. It was also the
Yellow Jackets first time putting six goals on the board since
February 9, 2008 at Bentley. AIC was outshot 28-24 on the night but
held advantages of 13-6 in the first period and 10-9 in the second.
Saturday’s 3-2 (OT) win, was the first come-from-behind
victory of the season, and was their first overtime win since
November 11, 2008. AIC also claimed their first sweep since their
home-and-home with Bentley in February 2008. AIC was outshot 37-33
on the night but held a 10-9 advantage in the first period. The
Yellow Jackets also went 1-2 on the power-play.
Army: The Black Knights stand in sixth place in the league
standings after splitting a series at Holy Cross … Senior
captain Eric Sefchik collected five points over the weekend while
Marcel Alvarez and Cody Omilusik each had three … Sefchik
opened the scoring of Saturday’s win with a short-handed goal
and later scored an even strength tally while handing out three
assists in Friday’s loss. Sefchik tied his career-best with
both of those marks. It marked the third time Sefchik has collected
three assists in his career. Sefchik is now the team’s
leading scorer with nine goals and a team-best 22 assists. He has
at least two points in each of his last four games … Eight
players registered points in Saturday’s 4-1 win, including
Cody Omilusik who had an empty-net goal and an assist. Omilusik is
riding a six-game scoring streak with seven assists and a goal over
that span … Marcel Alvarez had a point in each game with a
goal and assist on Friday and an assist on Sefchik’s
short-handed tally on Friday … Owen Meyer scored twice
during Friday’s loss, his 28th career multiple-point game.
Meyer now has 60 career goals and is tied for fifth with Dain
Prewitt of Bentley among the league’s all-time leading
scorers. Meyer also moved up Army’s scoring chart and is now
tied with Mike Palone for 35th with 123 career points … Army
has scored seven short-handed goals this season … Pat
Copeland collected his third assist of the season on Saturday
… Freshman Mike Santee returned to the line-up Saturday
after missing 14 games and picked up an assist … Kyle
Maggard scored his fifth goal on the season during Saturday’s
win, his first career game-winning goal. Maggard has three goals in
his last four games … Army will return to Tate Rink for a
two-game series against league-leading RIT … Four of
Army’s final six games are against teams ahead of the Black
Knights in the standings.
Bentley: Bentley suffered a pair of one goal defeats over the
weekend to American International. In the first game on Friday, the
Falcons’ rally from 6-1 down in the second period came up
just short. After AIC’s Michael Penny scored his third goal
of the game at 4:07 of the second period, Bentley’s Jamie
Nudy cut the deficit to 6-2 at 9:00. The Falcons scored three times
in the third period, with freshman Jordy Trottier, sophomore Herbie
Kent and senior Marc Menzione scoring. Menzione’s goal came
with 2:34 to play, but Bentley couldn’t find the tying goal.
Bentley dropped Saturday’s game 3-2 in overtime, its second
overtime loss of the season. It was the Falcons’ first
overtime game since Nov. 28 against Lake Superior State, and it
dropped their record to 0-2-3 in overtime games. Menzione’s
goal on Friday was the 100th point of his career and 43rd career
goal. He’s the 16th player in school history to reach the
100-point milestone and the fourth to do it solely at the Division
I level. In the program’s Division I history, Menzione is
fourth in points, third in goals and fourth in assists. After
finishing its six-game road trip, Bentley will play its first home
game in four weeks when they host Holy Cross on Friday in the first
game of a home-and-home series. It will be the first meeting of the
season between the two teams.
Canisius: Canisius swept a pair of games at Connecticut during the
weekend, winning the opener, 3-1, and the finale, 5-2. Canisius
improves to 11-8-3 in Atlantic Hockey play and moves to within one
point of fourth place in the league standings and two points within
third place. Senior Jason Weeks became the program’s Division
I all-time leading scorer in Saturday’s game, netting his
50th career goal. Weeks passed the previous standard of 49, set by
David Deeves from 1998 to 2002. Weeks has also added 56 career
assists for 106 points, the fourth-most in school history. Junior
Cory Conacher once again led the Griffs offense during the weekend,
posting four points on a goal and three assists. The junior now
leads the country with 42 points this season and with 1.62 points
per game. Conacher, who registered his 13th and 14th multi-point
games of the season, is just the second Griff in the
program’s Division I history to record 40 points in a single.
Chris Duggan holds the school record with 48 points during the
1998-99 season. Conacher is also just six points shy of becoming
the first Canisius junior to record his 100th career point. Senior
Josh Heidinger, who was named a finalist for the NCAA Frozen Four
Skills Challenge, added two helpers during the weekend and now has
114 career points. Heidinger is just one point shy of second in
school history (Duggan) and just five tallies shy of the school
record (Deeves). Senior goaltender Andrew Loewen anchored the
Canisius defense, posting a goals against average of 1.51 and a
save percentage of .945 during the two-game sweep. Canisius and
Mercyhurst will play in a key home-and-home series this weekend
with just one points separating the two rivals in the league
standings. Earlier in the season, the Griffs earned their
first-ever sweep over the Lakers in the series history.
Connecticut: Last weekend, the Huskies hosted Canisius on February
5 and 6. In Friday night’s matchup, Canisus was the first
team to get on the board when they capitalized on a power play
opportunity in the first. In the second, the Griffs added to their
total extending their lead to two goals. In the third, however, the
Huskies cut the lead in half when they capitalized on a
five-on-three opportunity to notch their lone goal of the night.
Canisius retook a two goal lead later in the period to finish the
game with a 3-1 victory. On Saturday, Canisius scored two goals in
the first period and another two in the second, taking a 4-0 lead
before the Huskies were able to get on the board in the third
period. UConn scored a couple of quick goals at 8:22 and 10:48 to
cut the lead in half, but with the goalie pulled, Canisius tacked
on an empty net goal to solidify the victory. Nine different
Huskies recorded a point on the 0-2 weekend.
Holy Cross: The Crusaders return to action when they conclude
their two-game regular season series with Atlantic Hockey opponent
Connecticut on Tuesday, Feb. 9, at the Hart Center at 7:00 p.m.
Earlier this season on Nov. 24, Holy Cross defeated the Huskies by
a 5-0 score in Worcester. On Saturday, Feb. 13, the Holy Cross
men’s hockey program will host “Pink The Rink” at
the HartCenter during its game versus Bentley at 7:00 p.m. The team
will be wearing a special edition pink jersey to show its support
for breast cancer awareness. The jerseys will be auctioned off
throughout the game with all proceeds going to the Levine Cancer
Center in Worcester. Also a limited amount of special edition
“Pink The Rink” t-shirts will be available for
purchase. There will be 28 game jerseys available to bid on during
the silent auction with a minimum bid of $200.00 for each jersey.
The auction will start at 6:00 p.m. David Joy (Class of 1974)
generously donated the jerseys so all of the proceeds from the
auction of the jerseys will go to the Levine Cancer Center. A
ceremonial puck drop will feature Holy Cross professors and breast
cancer survivors Kathy Kiel (Economics) and Helen Freear-Papio
(Modern Languages and Literature). The jersey numbers that will be
available in the auction are #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #11,
#12, #14, #15, #17, #18, #19, #20, #21, #22, #24, #26, #27, #28,
#29, #30, #32, #33, #35 and #44. Holy Cross, who has only averaged
2.1 goals scored per game this season, has scored 15 goals over the
last four contests for a 3.8 goals per game average. The Crusaders,
who have not played Bentley yet this season, will meet the Falcons
four of the last six games of the regular season. The Crusaders are
14-61 (.230) over the last 14 games while on the power play. The
Crusaders are 2-5-5 (.375) at home so far this season. Last season
Holy Cross went 7-8-2 (.471) at the Hart Center. Holy Cross has a
296-188-33 (.604) all-time record at the Hart Center since it
started playing there in 1975-1976. The Crusaders have already
played in seven overtime games this season with a 0-2-5 (.357)
record in those games. The five ties are tied for the third most
ties in a season at the school as the record is seven set in the
2007-2008 season. The most overtime games played in a single-season
at Holy Cross was last season when the Crusaders played 10 and went
2-3-5 (.450) in those games. Since the 2006-2007 season and 136
total games, the Crusaders have played 33 overtime contests with a
2-9-22 (.394) record as .243 percent of their games have gone to
overtime. The Crusaders are 5-9-0 (.357) on its opponent’s
home ice this season. Last season, HC compiled a 5-12-3 record in
away games. Sophomore Luke Miller scored a goal in each game versus
Army. For the season, he has six goals and two assists for eight
points. His six goals are ranked fifth on the team. Junior Jordan
Cyr leads the team with 17 points, while he is tied for the
team-lead with eight goals and is second with nine assists.
Freshman Rob Linsmayer, who had two assists in the series with
Army, leads the team with 11 assists. Also his 12 points are tied
for third. Junior Everett Sheen and senior Brodie Sheahan are tied
for the team-lead with eight goals. Sheen is also second in points
with 16 and Sheahan is tied for third with 12 points. Freshman
goalie Thomas Tysowsky’s 629 saves this season rank fifth on
the Holy Cross Division I single-season list. He has a .913 save
percentage and a 2.40 goals against average. Holy Cross will host
the 2010 NCAA Men’s Hockey Division I Northeast Regional. The
dates are Saturday and Sunday, March 27-28 at the DCUCenter in
Worcester. The semifinals will be at 1:30 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. on
March. 27, while the finals will be at 5:30 p.m. on March 28. All
three games will be on ESPNU. HC held the event for the first time
in 2008.
Mercyhurst: Mercyhurst concluded its non-conference slate with
losses to No. 2 Denver, 4-1, and No. 10 Colorado College,
5-3…The Lakers now stand at 12-16-2 overall entering into
this weekend’s home-and-home series with
Canisius…Freshman Grant Blakey recorded two points on the
weekend, including his sixth goal of the season against
second-ranked Denver…Senior Matt Fennell recorded a
season-high three points against No. 10 Colorado College, scoring
two power-play goals and adding an assist…Junior Ryan
Zapolski went 0-1-0 on the weekend, suffering his lone loss against
No. 2 Denver. He made 44 saves against the Pioneers and 20 with no
goals allowed in relief of sophomore Max Strang against
CC…The Lakers are now 0-3 against Denver and 0-2 against
Colorado College…Mercyhurst returns to AHA play this weekend
against Canisius…The Golden Griffins took two from MC
earlier this season, prevailing 6-4 in Erie before posting a 4-3
victory in Buffalo…Mercyhurst leads the all-time series,
33-18-9.
Rochester Institute of Technology: RIT holds a three-point lead in
the Atlantic Hockey Standings after a win and a loss last weekend
on the road at Sacred Heart. On Friday, the Tigers snapped Sacred
Heart’s 12-game unbeaten streak by defeating the Pioneers,
5-2. It was exactly a year to the day when Sacred Heart came to RIT
and snapped the Tigers 11-game winning streak. In Friday’s
win, Andrew Favot recorded a career-best four points on two goals
and two assists. Tyler Brenner scored twice and added an assist,
while Cameron Burt added three helpers. On Saturday, four different
Tigers scored. Scott Knowles and Chris Haltigin each had a goal and
an assist, while Burt dished out two helpers. Burt has eight points
(2-6-8) over his last three games. Favot has 11 points (4-7-11)
over his last six games, while Brenner has six goals and nine
points during the same time frame. The Tigers have at least four
goals in each of their last games (26 goals during that span).
Favot has at least 30 points for the second straight season. RIT
has four players with at least 20 points, and 13 with at least 10
points this season. The Tigers were 4-for-14 on the power-play this
weekend. RIT leads Atlantic Hockey and is seventh defensively in
all of Division I, allowing just 2.36 goals per game. RIT senior
defenseman Dan Ringwald is one of 10 finalists for the 2009-10
Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award in the hockey division. To be
eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an
NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas
of excellence – classroom, character, community and
competition. Visit http://www.seniorclassaward.com/ to vote for
Ringwald. RIT senior goaltender Jared DeMichiek is the lone Tiger
and one of three netminders eligible to compete for the Eastern
team at the 2010 NCAA Frozen Four Skills Challenge in April. Voting
for the NCAA Frozen Four Skills Challenge begins on Monday,
February 1, and will run until Noon on Monday, February 15. Visit
http://www.ncaa.com/frozenfourskillschallenge/index.html to vote
for DeMichiel. The Tigers return to action this weekend, as they
travel to play Army, Division I’s hottest team. RIT is 2-0
against Army this season, having defeated the Pioneers 6-1 on Nov.
6 and 2-1 on Nov. 7. The Tigers lead the all-time series between
the two schools, 5-2-3. RIT is 2-1-1 all-time at Army.
Sacred Heart: The Pioneers finished the weekend with a series
split at home against the RIT Tigers…The Tigers snapped
SHU’s nation leading 12 game unbeaten streak Friday night
with a 5-2 decision…Matt Gingera (Winnipeg, MB) and Erik
Boisvert (Drummondville, QC) lit the lamp for Sacred Heart but the
Pioneers struggled going 1-for-11 on the power play…The
difference in the series opener would be on special teams as RIT
earned three goals of their own with the man
advantage…Friday night the Pioneers took season highs in
both penalties (13) and penalty minutes (34)…Sacred Heart
would rebound in the series finale as they avoided a season sweep
at the hands of RIT with a 5-4 victory…Freshman goaltender
and reigning HCA National Rookie of the Month Steven Legatto
(Kelowna, BC) saved his best saves of the weekend for last as he
made several spectacular saves down the stretch to preserve the one
goal win for Sacred Heart…The Pioneers now sit in third
place in the Atlantic Hockey standings as they take on AIC this
weekend in a home and home series.
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