Nov. 12-13, 2010 • 7:07 pm CT • Kohl Center (15,237) • Madison, Wis.
RADIO: 96.1 The Fox (KQHT-FM) • WEBCAST: UWBadgers.com (Saturday only)
TV: See details below

THIS WEEK: North Dakota (5-4-1, 4-2-0 WCHA) kicks off a brief four-game road swing with a WCHA series at Wisconsin (6-2-2, 3-1-2 WCHA) on Friday and Saturday.

The 10th-ranked Fighting Sioux and the 13th-ranked Badgers are part of a three-way tie (with Nebraska Omaha) for second place in the WCHA standings, one point behind first-place Minnesota Duluth.

MEDIA COVERAGE: All Fighting Sioux men's hockey games, home and away, can be heard on 96.1 FM (The Fox) and on stations across the Fighting Sioux Hockey Network. Veteran broadcaster Tim Hennessy is in his 30th season as the voice of the Fighting Sioux. He is joined by color analyst Steve Olson.

Friday's game will be broadcast live on Fox College Sports Central and FSN Wisconsin. Saturday's game will be broadcast live in Wisconsin only on TVW, Charter Xtra and Time Warner Sports.

A video webcast of Saturday's game only will be available at www.UWBadgers.com to those living outside of Wisconsin.

TICKET INFORMATION: Visit www.UWBadgers.com for ticket information for this weekend's series.

ABOUT WISCONSIN: The Badgers are unbeaten in their last five games (3-0-2) and this weekend's series against UND begins a stretch in which UW will play 12 of 14 games at home ... UW picked up three of four points last weekend at Minnesota, winning 6-0 on Friday and tying 3-3 on Saturday ... Freshman forward Mark Zengerle enjoyed a six-point weekend at Minnesota with a pair of three-point games. Zengerle is tied with UMD's Mike Connolly for the WCHA scoring lead with 16 points (3g, 13a). He also leads the league in assists ... Sophomore Justin Schultz is the top-scoring defenseman in the WCHA with 12 points (4g, 8a) ... Junior forward Jordy Murray had three goals against the Gophers and leads the Badgers with eight ... UW leads the WCHA in scoring defense (1.80 goals per game) and power-play (30.9 percent) ... The Badgers are averaging 4.3 goals per game, which ranks third nationally and second in the WCHA.

UW COACHING STAFF: Former Badger forward Mike Eaves (UW '78) is in his ninth year behind the Wisconsin bench and is 177-124-40 (.578).

He guided the Badgers to an NCAA title in 2005-06 and a national runner-up finish last season.

Eaves is assisted by Bill Butters and Gary Shuchuk.

However, UND has won three of its last four trips to the Kohl Center, including a 3-2 overtime victory in the 2008 NCAA Midwest Region final, as well as a 2-1 win on March 6, 2009, that clinched UND's 14th MacNaughton Cup championship.

Senior defenseman Chay Genoway (Morden, Manitoba) leads all active Sioux with six points (1g, 5a) in 12 career games against UW.

UND'S LAST ACTION: The Sioux are coming off of a home split with UMD last weekend, winning 4-2 on Friday before falling 3-2 in overtime on Saturday.

Forwards Derek Rodwell (SHG) (Fr., Taber, Alberta), Evan Trupp (PPG) (Sr., Anchorage, Alaska), Matt Frattin (Sr., Edmonton, Alberta) and Corban Knight (ENG) (So., High River, Alberta) each scored on Saturday while sophomore Aaron Dell (Airdrie, Alberta) earned the win with 14 saves. The Sioux held the Bulldogs to a season-low 16 shots on goal.

UMD's Justin Fontaine scored 58 seconds into overtime on Saturday to salvage the split for the Bulldogs. Trupp scored his second goal (and third point) of the weekend, while freshman Brock Nelson (Warroad, Minn.) scored his first career goal with a power-play tally. Dell, starting consecutive games for the first time in his career, stopped 25 of 28 shots.

RANK AND FILE: Following the split with Minnesota Duluth, UND fell one spot to No. 10 in the latest USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls released on Monday.

The Sioux are ranked No. 8 in this week's INCH Power Rankings.

Please refer to page three for complete poll information.

GENOWAY ON HIS WAY: Senior Sioux captain Chay Genoway (Morden, Manitoba) had three assists last weekend against Minnesota Duluth, giving him 96 career points and leaving him on the verge of becoming only the ninth defenseman in UND history to reach the 100-point plateau. The last player to join that elite club was Curtis Murphy in 1997-98:

Genoway is the leading scorer among active WCHA defensemen. His two assists last Friday were his first points on home ice since Oct. 17, 2009.

Additionally, the fifth-year defenseman has 13 career PPG, tying him for fourth all-time among Sioux rearguards. Nick Naumenko and Bill Himmelright are the school's all-time co-leaders with 20.

With 21 career goals, Genoway needs one more to crack UND's top-10 among defensemen.
Genoway has a goal and five assists in 10 games this season.

DUDE, WE'VE GOT A DELL!: Sophomore G Aaron Dell (Airdrie, Alberta) started both games last week against Minnesota Duluth, the first time in his collegiate career he has started consecutive games.

With seven appearances this season, Dell has already surpassed the five he made as a freshman. He is 4-3-0 with a 2.78 goals against average and .877 save percentage.

KILL OR BE KILLED: This weekend's series will feature a matchup between Wisconsin's WCHA-leading power-play (30.9 percent) and a Sioux penalty kill unit that has gone 12-for-13 (.923) over the last four games.

The Sioux killed nine of 10 Minnesota Duluth power-plays last weekend, including a perfect 6-for-6 effort in Saturday's 3-2 overtime loss.

UND's penalty kill percentage is up to 82.0 percent on the season, which ranks sixth in the WCHA.

FRATT PARTY: Senior forward Matt Frattin (Edmonton, Alberta) scored his team-leading eighth goal of the season (GWG) last Friday against Minnesota Duluth and now has 18 goals in his last 23 games dating back to Feb. 13.

Frattin is tied for second in the WCHA in goals (eight), power-play goals (four) and game-winning goals (two).

SOPHOMORE SKID: Sophomore forward Danny Kristo (Eden Prairie, Minn.) has yet to light the lamp (three assists) through the first 10 games of the season.

However, Kristo scored just one goal in his first 11 games as a freshman before going on to win WCHA Rookie of the Year honors with 15 goals and 36 points in 41 games.

KID BROCK: Freshman forward Brock Nelson (Warroad, Minn.) scored his first career goal last Saturday against Minnesota Duluth, notching a power-play tally with 1:21 left in the first period of a 3-2 overtime loss.

Nelson also had an assist one night earlier, and went 12-for-18 (66.7%) on faceoffs in the series.

A 2010 first-round draft pick of the New York Islanders, Nelson has three points (1g, 2a) in his last four games after opening the year with one assist in his first six games.

FANTASTIC FOUR: The magic number through the first 10 games has been four goals.

UND is 4-0-1 this season when scoring four or more goals and 1-4-0 when failing to reach that plateau.

EIDS WIDE SHUT: Junior goalie Brad Eidsness' (Chestermere, Alberta) enters the week with 86 career apperances between the pipes, tying him with Mike "Lefty" Curran (1965-68) for sixth all-time at UND. Toby Kvalevog (1993-97) is the program's all-time leader with 121 career games played:

Eidsness is also just one win from becoming only the seventh Sioux goalie to win 50 career games.

Eidsness did not play in either game last week against Minnesota Duluth, the first time in his collegiate career has gone back-to-back games without playing.

HEX MARKS THE SPOT: In his two-plus seasons with the Fighting Sioux, junior forward Brett Hextall (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) has emerged as arguably UND's most indispensible power-play weapon.

UND's power-play has converted on 20.5 percent of its chances (99-for-484) in Hextall's 86 career games.

In 10 games without Hextall, the Sioux power-play has clicked at just 8.9 percent (5-for-56), including a 6.5 percent (3-for-46) mark last season.

Hextall's 14 career power-play goals lead all active Sioux.

SIOUX-PER MARIO: The Sioux are 8-0-0 all-time when junior forward Mario Lamoureux (Grand Forks, N.D.) scores a goal.

Nearly one-third of Lamoureux's career goals (three out of 10) have been game-winners.

Lamoureux has yet to light the lamp this season, notching a pair of assists in 10 games.

GWG? GAME-WINNING GREGOIRE: When junior forward Jason Gregoire (Winnipeg, Manitoba) scored the game-winning goal in UND's 3-1 win over No. 12 Alaska on Oct. 9, it was his 11th career winner, tops among active Sioux.

It also landed Gregoire among UND's all-time leaders in game-winning goals, where he joins some select company:
Gregoire's seven game-winners last season tied him for the fifth-most in UND single-season history. He was UND's leading goal scorer in 2009-10 with 20.

In 10 game this season, Gregoire has three goals and five assists.

FAMOUS DAVE: With 158 career wins under his belt, UND head coach Dave Hakstol is the third winningest coach in the storied history of Fighting Sioux hockey.

Only Gino Gasparini (392 wins, 1978-94) and Dean Blais (262, 1994-04) have won more games at UND than Hakstol, the 2008-09 WCHA Coach of the Year.

Hakstol enters this weekend's series with 96 career WCHA wins, which also ranks fourth all-time at UND.

Hakstol is a five-time finalist for the Spencer Penrose Award and has guided the Sioux to six NCAA appearances, four NCAA Frozen Fours, two WCHA regular season championships and two WCHA Final Five titles.

UND's 30 WCHA and NCAA playoff wins in Hakstol's first six seasons are six more than any other WCHA school.

FEELING A DRAFT: UND 2010-11 roster includes 16 players who have been drafted by National Hockey League teams. The group includes goalie Brad Eidsness (Buffalo), defensemen Ben Blood (Ottawa), Derek Forbort (Los Angeles), Joe Gleason (Chicago) Derrick LaPoint (Florida) and Andrew MacWilliam (Toronto), and forwards Brett Bruneteau (Washington), Mike Cichy (Montreal), Matt Frattin (Toronto), Jason Gregoire (New York Islanders), Brett Hextall (Phoenix), Corban Knight (Florida), Danny Kristo (Montreal), Brad Malone (Colorado), Brock Nelson (New York Islanders) and Derek Rodwell (New Jersey).

A total of 26 Sioux have been drafted during the tenure of seventh-year head coach Dave Hakstol, including first-rounders Forbort (Los Angeles, 2010), Nelson (New York Islanders, 2010), Jonathan Toews (Chicago, 2006), T.J. Oshie (St. Louis, 2005), Brian Lee (Ottawa, 2005) and Joe Finley (Washington, 2005).

ALL IN THE FAMILY: UND's 2009-10 roster features four players who have had family members previously play for the Fighting Sioux: defenseman Chay Genoway (Sr., Morden, Manitoba) and forwards Mario Lamoureux (Jr., Grand Forks, N.D.), Brett Hextall (Jr., Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Brock Nelson (Fr., Warroad, Minn.).

Genoway's brother, Colby, was a forward at UND from 2002-05 and scored 81 points in 115 career games. He played professionally in the Czech Republic and Finland last season.

Lamoureux's family ties to the program are extensive. His brother, Jean-Philippe, was a goalie at UND from 2004-08 and is the school's all-time co-leader in goals against average (2.14). His father, Pierre, was a goalie for the Sioux from 1979-82 and was a member of UND's 1982 NCAA championship team. Another brother, Pierre-Paul, is in his second year on UND's coaching staff as an assistant video coordinator, while twin sisters Jocelyne and Monique are sophomore forwards on the Fighting Sioux women's hockey team. Additionally, mother Linda was a swimmer at UND.

Hextall's great uncle, Dennis, was a forward at UND from 1964-66 and scored 101 career points in 63 career games. Hextall's hockey bloodlines extend to his father (Ron), grandfather (Bryan Jr.) and great grandfather (Bryan Sr.), each of whom enjoyed lengthy NHL careers. His father, Ron, is currently the assistant general manager of the Los Angeles Kings.

Nelson had two uncles and one great uncle don the Kelly Green and White. Uncle Dave Christian played at UND from 1977-79 and won Olympic gold with the United States' famed "Miracle on Ice" team in 1980 before going on to play in more than 1,000 career NHL games with Winnipeg, Washington, Boston, St. Louis and Chicago. Another uncle, Eddie Christian, played for the Sioux from 1980-84. Nelson's great uncle, Gordon "Ginny" Christian played at UND from 1947-50 and won Olympic silver with the United States in 1956.

FOREVER SIOUX: Every member of UND's coaching staff and support staff is a graduate of the University of North Dakota.

Head coach Dave Hakstol (1989-92), associate head coach Cary Eades (1978-82), assistant coach Dane Jackson (1988-92) and volunteer assistant Karl Goerhing (1998-2001) each played for the Fighting Sioux.

Additionally, director of hockey operations Pat Swanson (2002), athletic trainer and strength coach Mark Poolman (1992), team physician Dr. Greg Greek and media relations director Jayson Hajdu (2000) are also UND graduates.

PRO-FILES: Eleven former Sioux standouts have seen action in the National Hockey League in 2010-11: Jason Blake (Anaheim Ducks), Mike Commodore (Columbus Blue Jackets), Matt Greene (Los Angeles Kings), David Hale (Ottawa Senators), Brian Lee (Ottawa Senators), T.J. Oshie (St. Louis Blues), Zach Parise (New Jersey Devils), Matt Smaby (Tampa Bay Lightning), Drew Stafford (Buffalo Sabres), Jonathan Toews (Chicago Blackhawks), Travis Zajac (New Jersey Devils).

Toews captained the Blackhawks to a Stanley Cup championship last season, while also leading Canada to a gold medal at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, where he was named the tournament's top forward.

Commodore, Greene and Parise all serve as assistant captains for their respective teams.

An additional five former Sioux are currently in the NHL coaching ranks: reigning Jack Adams Trophy winner Dave Tippett (head coach, Phoenix Coyotes), Brad Berry (assistant coach, Columbus Blue Jackets), James Patrick (assistant coach, Buffalo Sabres), Steve Peters (video coach, Phoenix Coyotes) and Rick Wilson (assistant coach, Minnesota Wild). A sixth coach, Edmonton Oilers head coach Tom Renney, graduated from UND but did not play for the Sioux.

Also of note:

Former Sioux defenseman, Brad Bombardir, is the director of player development for the Minnesota Wild.

Former Sioux assistant coach Don Boyd is the
Columbus Blue Jackets' assistant general manager.

Former Sioux forward Troy Murray is the radio color analyst for the Chicago Blackhawks.

Ron Hextall, father of current Sioux forward Brett Hextall, is the vice president/assistant general manager of the Los Angeles Kings.