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October 16, 2007

UND Men's Hockey Game Notes

Game 2 ? Fri., Oct. 19, 2007
#1/1 North Dakota (1-0-0 overall)
at
 #4/4 Boston College (1-1-0 overall)
7 p.m. Central Daylight Time
Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Kelley Rink (7,884)

Game 3 ? Sat., Oct. 20, 2007
#1/1 North Dakota (1-0-0 overall)
at
Northeastern (0-0-0 overall)
6 p.m. Central Daylight Time
Boston, Mass.
Matthews Arena (5,900)

UND takes to road: North Dakota (1-0-0 overall) will make its first road trip of the season this weekend, traveling to Boston, Mass., for a Friday game at Boston College (1-1-0 overall) and a Saturday game at Northeastern (0-0-0 overall).

Game against Boston College to be aired on CSTV: Friday's game against Boston College will be televised live nationally on CSTV at 7 p.m. Central time. Mike “Doc” Emrick will call the play-by-play, with Dave Starman providing commentary. UND is 7-2-0 all-time in games televised on CSTV.
 
This will be the third UND game against Boston College to be televised on CSTV. Other UND-BC games on CSTV were on Oct. 17, 2003, when the Sioux defeated BC 6-4 in Grand Forks and Oct. 29, 2004, when BC beat the Sioux 5-3 in Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Series against BC: Overall, UND is 11-9-0 all-time against Boston College. The Eagles have ended North Dakota's season in each of the last two seasons in the semifinals of the NCAA Frozen Four.
 
Last year Boston College beat the Sioux 6-4 at the Frozen Four in Milwaukee, Wis., and in 2006 BC beat UND 6-5 at the Frozen Four in St. Louis, Mo.
 
UND's last win over BC was on March 26, 2005, when the Fighting Sioux beat the Eagles, 6-3, in the NCAA East Region championship game at Worcester, Mass.
 
Friday's game at Boston College will be UND's first at Chestnut Hill, Mass., since Oct. 29, 2004, when BC beat UND 5-3. The Fighting Sioux have played six games previously at BC and are 4-2-0 overall at BC, having lost their last two games there.
 
UND's last win at BC was a 2-1 win on Jan. 14, 1988.

Series against Northeastern: Saturday's game at Northeastern will be North Dakota's first there since Oct. 30, 2004, when the teams played to a 4-4 overtime tie at historic Matthews Arena.
 
UND is 2-2-3 all-time against Northeastern on the Huskies' home ice.
 
The Fighting Sioux are 8-5-3 overall against Northeastern. The teams last faced each other in a two-game series on Oct. 14-15, 2005, in Grand Forks, N.D. The Sioux swept the Huskies that weekend (6-0, 2-1).

UND beats defending national champs: UND opened its season with a 6-0 win over defending NCAA champion Michigan State on Saturday in Grand Forks in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame game.
 
It was the sixth consecutive year that UND has won its season opener.
 
It was UND's first shutout in a season opener since Oct. 8, 2005, when the Sioux shut out Miami 3-0 at the Lefty McFadden Invitational in Dayton, Ohio.

Attendance record at the Ralph: A capacity crowd of 11,738 was on hand Saturday, the largest ever to witness a UND home opener. The previous high to attend a UND opening night game in Grand Forks was on Oct. 5, 2001, when 11,690 attended the first game ever at the new Ralph Engelstad Arena.
 
The capacity crowds at Saturday's game and the Oct. 5, 2001, contest against Minnesota represent the only two opening-night capacity crowds at the new REA.

UND notes:
? UND goalie Jean-Philippe Lamoureux (Sr., Grand Forks, N.D.) stopped all 23 Spartans shots to post his fifth career shutout.
? Lamoureux is now tied with three other former Sioux goalies for third on UND's all-time list for career shutouts.

UND Career Shutouts
1. Karl Goehring (1997-01)  15
2. Jordan Parise (2003-06) 10
3. J.P. Lamoureux (2004-present) 5
 Aaron Schweitzer (1996-98)  5
 Tom Yurkovich (1954-57)  5
 Gerald “Spike” Schultz (1953-55)  5

? Lamoureux made his 26th consecutive start on Saturday, tying Rudy Lindbeck for the fourth-longest starting streak ever by a UND goaltender. Lindbeck's 26 consecutive starts came in the 1950-51 season.
? The only three UND goaltenders to start more games consecutively than Lamoureux and Lindbeck are Al Finkelstein, who started 40 consecutive games in the 1951-52 and 1952-53 seasons, Peter Waselovich, who started 32 in a row in the 1973-74 season and Tom Yurkovich, who started 29 in a row in the 1956-57 season.

Consecutive Starts by a UND Goalie
(Includes streaks over multiple seasons)
1. Al Finkelstein (1951-52 & ?52-53)  40
2. Peter Waselovich (1973-74) 32
3. Tom Yurkovich (1956-57)  29
4. J.P. Lamoureux (2006-current)  26
 Rudy Lindbeck (1950-51) 26

? UND's goals Saturday were scored by six different players.
? The first Fighting Sioux goal, which proved to be the game winner, was scored by junior forward T.J. Oshie (Warroad, Minn.) at 11:38. It was Oshie's 12th career game winner, tying him for fifth with Bryan Lundbohm (1998-01), Bob Joyce (1984-87) and Jim Archibald (1981-85) on UND's all-time list.
? Oshie's goal also was the 98th point (42g, 56a) of his career, leaving him two shy of becoming the 76th UND player to reach the career 100-point plateau.
? Oshie extended his point-scoring streak to six games dating back to last season.
? The second UND goal was scored by 2007 Hobey Baker Memorial Award winner Ryan Duncan (Jr., Calgary, Alberta), who assisted on Oshie's goal. Duncan's two points give him 95 (48g, 47a) for his career.
? Sophomore forward Chris VandeVelde (Moorhead, Minn.) scored his fourth career goal and first ever at Ralph Engelstad Arena.
? Freshman forward Matt Frattin (Edmonton, Alberta) scored his first career goal and also added an assist in his first career game.
? Junior forward Andrew Kozek (Sicamous, B.C.) and sophomore defenseman Chay Genoway (Morden, Manitoba) also scored for the Sioux.
? Defensemen Robbie Bina (Grand Forks, N.D.) and Taylor Chorney (Hastings, Minn.) each had two assists against Michigan State.
? Freshmen forwards Evan Trupp (Anchorage, Alaska) and Brad Malone (Miramichi, N.B.) each had an assist for their first career points.
- U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame inductees Bobby Carpenter, Aaron Broten and John Vanbiesbrouck were introduced hand for the game, along with Jerry MacInnes, the wife of the late John MacInnes, who also was enshrined in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame over the weekend.

Last season in a nutshell: UND is coming a successful 2006-07 season in which it advanced to the NCAA tournament for the 22nd time in school history and NCAA Frozen Four for the third consecutive time and 17th time overall. UND finished last season 24-14-5 overall and 13-10-5 in the WCHA (third).

Milestone watch: UND junior T.J. Oshie (Warroad, Minn.) needs just two points to reach 100 for his career ... Linemate Ryan Duncan (Jr., Calgary, Alberta) needs five points to hit the century mark ... Head coach Dave Hakstol is 21 wins away from 100 for his career ...

Captain Kaip: Senior Rylan Kaip (Radville, Saskatchewan) was named the UND captain by vote of his teammates.

Ice chips: Nineteen letterwinners return from last season's squad, with six freshmen joining the team ... Among the letterwinners returning is reigning Hobey Baker Award winner Ryan Duncan (Jr., Calgary, Alberta), who is only the fifth Hobey Baker Award winner in the 27-year history of the award to return to school. The others were Minnesota goalie Robb Stauber (1988 winner) Maine forward Paul Kariya (1993 winner), Michigan State goalie Ryan Miller (2001 winner) and Colorado College forward Marty Sertich (2005 winner).