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ccording to College Hockey, Inc. there are 86 players on Division I college hockey rosters this season who hail from New York State. That marks the fourth most behind Minnesota (182), Michigan (131) and Massachusetts (103).
BROCKPORT
The Golden Eagles had just three wins with one game remaining in November, but they were all in-conference which put them middle of the pack in the tight early going. Their freshmen were among their best players in goaltender Jared Lockhurst, who missed four games with an ankle injury, but sat second and third in the conference in save percentage and goals against respectively. First year players Jesse Facchini and Shane Cavalieri were right behind defenseman and team scoring leader Mike Hayward. Cavalieri’s five goals had him tied for third among freshman nationally.
BUFFALO STATE
Losing four of their first six conference games had the Bengals looking for answers especially defensively after allowing an average of almost 3.5 goals per against SUNYAC opponents. Upperclassmen were pacing the offense Melligan below team leader and sophomore Nick Melligan (Sanborn). Mike Zanella’s (Ithaca)
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seven goals had him among the top 30 in the country in goals per game. Senior Kyle Whipple (Tonawanda) scored his first goal of the season November 17th against Cortland.
Robert DeGregorio, Atlantic Hockey Commissioner, announced Canisius sophomore, Matthew Grazen (East Amherst), received an additional 7-games suspension as part of the Atlantic Hockey Supplemental Discipline policy for his checking from behind major penalty on Air Force’s junior, George Michalke on Thursday, October 25. He will sit out games November 3-4 vs. Clarkson; November 9 vs. Robert Morris; November 10 vs. RIT; November 16 vs. Niagara and February 15-16 vs. Air Force.
CANISIUS
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Western New York Men’s College Hockey Report by Warren Kozireski
Kyle Gibbons scored just 12 seconds into the game against RIT November 10th, the fastest goal for Canisius to start a contest in school history. The previous standard was 17 seconds, set by Rob Martin against Holy Cross on Nov. 3, 2001. In the same contest, junior Patrick Sullivan (Derby) led the Griffs to their first victory at RIT since 2007 with a personal-best three point night, netting his first career multi-goal game–including the game-winning third-period tally–and adding an assist. Junior defenseman Dustin McKellar netted his first collegiate goal October 20th against Western Michigan in his 37th career game. Former Buffalo Sabres forward Adam Mair, a 12-year veteran of the NHL, has joined the Canisius coaching staff as Director of Player Development. Mair played with four NHL franchises–Toronto (1998-01), Los Angeles (2001-02), Buffalo (200210) and New Jersey (2010-11). He helped three teams advance to conference finals, while helping the Sabres win the Presidents’ Trophy in 2007.
Eric Mueller (Hamburg) netted a hat trick November 17th against Mohawk Valley and freshman Bradley Ferrell (East Amherst) had five points in the same game for the Kats, who were off to a 4-2 start. Matt Malley (North Tonawanda), Matt Shumate (Niagara Falls), Ryan Kaufman (Amherst), Alexander Stahl and Ryan Rogalski (Lancaster) had all eclipsed the point per game mark.
FREDONIA
The Blue Devils came out of the shoot strong with three conference wins over four games, but were struggling through a three game skid and allowing over five goals per game over the trio of contests. Senior Mat Hehr picked up where he left off last season offensively with a team-high four goals through nine games with seven underclassmen right behind him on the team point chart led by freshmen Chad Bennett and Taylor Bourne. Head coach Jeff Merideth was one victory away from 360 career wins. The team has a rescheduled home