▶ RENSSELAER AND UNION • NOV. 9-10, 2012 • THOMPSON ARENA ▶NATIONAL POLLS ▶USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll (Nov. 5, 2012) Rk. Team (1st votes) Record Pts. PR 1 Boston College (48) 6- 1-0 998 1 2 Minnesota 5- 2-0 896 2 3 Denver (1) 5- 1-0 878 3 4 Cornell 3- 0-1 790 6 5 Miami 5- 2-1 765 4 6 North Dakota 3- 2-1 749 5 7 Notre Dame 6- 2-0 702 7 8 Union (1) 5- 1-1 661 10 9 New Hampshire 5- 1-1 625 9 10 Western Michigan 4- 2-0 532 11 11 Boston University 4- 2-0 513 12 12 Michigan 3- 3-1 480 8 13 St. Lawrence 5- 1-0 300 16 14 Harvard 2- 1-0 257 13 15 St. Cloud State 5- 3-0 256 18 16 Northern Michigan 4- 3-1 217 20 17 UMass-Lowell 1- 3-1 169 14 18 Ferris State 3- 3-2 163 19 19 Colorado College 5- 3-0 143 NR 20 Minnesota-Duluth 2- 3-1 120 17 Others Receiving Votes: Dartmouth 102, Providence 35, Northeastern 28,Yale 24, Nebraska-Omaha 23, Merrimack 21, Quinnipiac 15, Holy Cross 9, Alaska 7, Bemidji State 7, Ohio State 4, Minnesota State 3, Niagara 3, Lake Superior 2, Massachusetts 2, Colgate 1. ▶USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine (Nov. 5, 2012) Rk. Team (1st votes) Points PR 1 Boston College (33) 509 1 2 Minnesota 455 2 3 Denver 421 3 4 Cornell 372 5 5 Miami (OH) 361 4 6 North Dakota 351 6 7 Union (1) 297 9 8 Notre Dame 294 8 9 New Hampshire 238 10 10 Western Michigan 200 11 11 Michigan 180 7 12 Boston University 178 12 13 Harvard 67 13 14 St. Lawrence 52 15 15 UMass-Lowell 36 14 Others Receiving Votes: St. Cloud State, 19; Northern Michigan, 15; Ferris State, 14; Dartmouth, 9; Minnesota-Duluth, 6; Colorado College, 4; Providence, 1; Quinnipiac, 1
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14 IVY AND 2 ECAC TITLES
▶ LATE-GAME HEROICS Junior Eric Robinson was back to his old ways of a year ago and leads the team in goals through two games. His first of the year came on the power play late in the contest with Yale. Onetiming home a pretty pass from sophomore Tyler Sikura, Robinson tied the game with just 3:04 remaining. Sikura and classmate Eric Neiley beat the Bulldogs’ Nick Maricic in the shootout to help their team advance. ▶ GOALIES GALORE Known for strong goalies the last four years, the Big Green aren’t as battle tested at the position this year. At least that’s what people thought until this the first two weekends. Junior Cab Morris stopped 18 shots and came up with a key save in the shootout Friday against Yale. Freshman Charles Grant followed up with a 24-save shutout Saturday night against the host Bears for the team’s first win of 2012-13.
▶BY THE NUMBERS TEAM NATL. ECAC Scoring Offense (3.75) 7th 3rd Scoring Defense (1.75) 6th 2nd Scoring Margin (2.00) 4th 3rd Power Play (23.5%) 11th 5th Penalty Kill (93.3%) 4th 3rd Penalty Minutes (8.5) 57th 12th PLAYERS ECAC ▶ Points Per Game Tyler Sikura (1.75) 5th 3rd Eric Robinson (1.50) 9th 6th Matt Linblad (1.25) 32nd 13th ▶ Goals Per Game Eric Robinson (1.25) Tyler Sikura (0.75)
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▶ GREAT START Grant became the first Dartmouth goalie since Wesley Goding ’39 to record a shutout in his first career appearance. Goding accomplished the feat on Dec. 12, 1936 against Columbia in a 9-0 win. There is no record of how many saves Goding had to make to earn the shutout, but like Grant, it also came in the second game of the season (1936-37).
▶ Assists Per Game Tyler Sikura (1.0) Matt Lindblad (0.75) Eric Neiley (0.75)
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▶ FRESHMEN JUMP UP Both Tim O’Brien and Brett Patterson had a productive first weekend in Dartmouth sweaters while in Providence. O’Brien opened up the season scoring less than three minutes into the game with Yale as he beat Maricic with a laser shot coming down the right side of the ice. Not as pretty, but equally as impressive in his determination to score, Patterson pokechecked a loose puck off a Brown defender’s stick and into an open netmouth through a scrum in front.
▶ Power Play Goals Eric Robinson (3)
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▶ Shorthanded Goals Tyler Sikura (1)
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▶ Game-Winning Goals Eric Robinson (3)
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▶ START ME UP O’Brien became the first Dartmouth freshman to score the team’s first goal of a season since Evan Stephens did it on Oct. 28, 2007 at Vermont 3:19 into the second period to open 2007-08. Stephens had some freshman help with assists from classmates Adam Estoclet and Matt Reber. ▶ SIKURA SCREENS Originally credited to junior defenseman Taylor Boldt, Dartmouth’s third goal against Brown was eventually awarded to sophomore center Tyler Sikura with a redirect in the low slot. The goal was his first of the year, but was nearly the exact same play that he scored on McGill during the preseason.
▶ Power Play Points Matt Lindblad (3) Eric Robinson (2) Tyler Sikura (2)
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▶ Defenseman Scoring Andy Simpson (1) Taylor Boldt (1) Mike Keenan (1)
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▶ Freshman Scoring Tim O’Brien (2) Brett Patterson (1)
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▶ Goals-Against Average (Min 33% GP) Cab Morris (1.44) 4th 3rd Charles Grant (0.00) 23rd 6th ▶ Save Percentage (Min 33% GP) Charles Grant (.937) 12th 4th Cab Morris (.933) 17th 6th ▶ Winning Percentage (Min 33% GP) Charles Grant (1.000) 1st 1st Cab Morris (.750) 13th 5th
▶ OPENING-WEEKEND SHUTOUT The 4-0 win at Brown marked just the second time in head coach Bob Gaudet’s tenure that the Big Green have blanked an opponent during the team’s season-opening weekend. The last time it happened was Gaudet’s first season on
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