UND vs. UNO - Game One Lines

North Dakota Forward Lines

9 Drake Caggiula–16 Mark MacMillan (A)–15 Michael Parks (A)
17 Colten St. Clair–27 Luke Johnson–8 Nick Schmaltz
28 Stephane Pattyn (C)–13 Connor Gaarder (A)–3 Tucker Poolman
11 Trevor Olson–10 Johnny Simonson–14 Austin Poganski

 North Dakota Defense Pairings

20 Gage Ausmus–2 Troy Stecher
4 Keaton Thompson–24 Jordan Schmaltz
5 Nick Mattson–6 Paul LaDue

North Dakota Goalies  

31 Zane McIntyre
33 Cam Johnson

Omaha-Nebraska Forward Lines

20 Jake Guentzel–14 Dominic Zombo–16 Austin Ortega
13 Jake Randolph–10 Tyler Vesel–25 Justin Parizek
12 David Pope–Avery Peterson–18 Jono Davis
17 Luke Nogard–19 Tanner Lane–9 James Polk

Nebraska-Omaha Defense Pairings

2 Brian Cooper–5 Joel Messner

4 Luc Snuggerud–28 Brian O’Rourke
24 Ian Brady–23 Grant Gallo

Nebraska-Omaha Goalies

31 Ryan Massa

29 Kirk Thompson

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Hakstol Has His Game Face on Already

Did Austin Ortega Give UND Some Bulletin Board Material?

Reading Matthew Semisch's Column this week, it would appear that Austin Ortega offered UND Some bulletin board material. Just for the record, UND went 2-2-0 against the Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks and has a 5-3-0 record over the last eight games against the Mavericks.

Ortega, Mavericks send a message to North Dakota

Speaking of UNO, it appears the Mavericks were trying to make a statement on Saturday during their 4-1 win over Minnesota-Duluth.

They had a point to prove to themselves, too, though. On Friday, UNO found itself up 2-0 in the second period of the Mavericks’ first home game in a month and a half, but the Bulldogs rattled off three unanswered tallies in the third period to nab a 3-2 win.

UMD gained the upper hand early in the rematch when a shot from Kyle Osterberg found the back of the net 4:40 into the game. After that, however, UNO took over and even picked up its game-winning goal through Austin Ortega – his first of two tallies on Saturday – before the opening frame was over.

The Mavericks (7-2-1, 3-1-0) are heading up I-29 later this week to meet up with second-ranked North Dakota. The two-game set in Grand Forks could end up being a defensive struggle between the top and third-best defenses in the NCHC.

Speaking after Saturday’s win over Duluth, though, Ortega took what he felt was an opportunity to send a shot across the bow.

“Tonight we were able to get up on the board; we really showed we’re a scoring team,” Ortega said. “Kind of sending a message to North Dakota that we can score on any goalie out there.”

UND Second in USCHO Poll

November 24, 2014

	Team	(First Place Votes)	Record	Points	Last Poll
1	Boston University	(42)	8- 1-1	988	3
2	North Dakota	( 3)	9- 3-1	889	2
3	Minnesota	( 1)	7- 3-0	825	4
4	Massachusetts-Lowell		8- 2-3	806	5
5	Miami		10- 4-0	764	7
6	Michigan Tech		10- 2-0	748	1
7	Minnesota State	( 3)	9- 3-0	746	9
8	Minnesota-Duluth	( 1)	9- 5-0	615	8
9	Colgate		9- 4-1	575	6
10	Denver		8- 3-0	572	10
11	Nebraska-Omaha		7- 2-1	435	13
12	Boston College		7- 5-0	425	12
13	Vermont		8- 3-1	423	11
14	Quinnipiac		8- 3-1	319	14
15	Bowling Green		10- 3-1	292	18
16	St. Cloud State		5- 6-1	249	16
17	Union		6- 5-1	214	15
18	Harvard		5- 1-2	147	NR
19	Northern Michigan		7- 2-1	141	17
20	Providence		5- 5-1	115	19
Others receiving votes: Robert Morris 96, St. Lawrence 48, Merrimack 30, Yale 17, Penn State 15, Ferris State 4, Notre Dame 2.

UND Second in Buccigross Top 10

BucciMane #cawlidgehawkey Top 10 1 BU 2 NDakota 3 Minnesota 4 Miami 5 Minn St 6 Duluth 7 Lowell 8 Mich Tech 9 Quinnipiac 10 Bowling Green
— John Buccigross (@) November 24, 2014

Not that it really matters all that much, but UND is second in the Buccigross Top 10.

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UND Second In USCHO Poll

USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll
November 17, 2014
1 Michigan Tech (24) 10- 0-0 940 5
2 North Dakota (12) 8- 2-1 916 2
3 Boston University (14) 6- 1-1 913 3
4 Minnesota 7- 3-0 830 1
5 Massachusetts-Lowell 7- 2-2 731 4
6 Colgate 8- 3-1 726 6
7 Miami 8- 4-0 686 7
8 Minnesota-Duluth 8- 4-0 663 13
9 Minnesota State 7- 3-0 574 9
10 Denver 6- 3-0 509 11
11 Vermont 7- 2-1 477 10
12 Boston College 5- 5-0 439 8
13 Nebraska-Omaha 6- 1-1 394 14
14 Quinnipiac 7- 2-1 283 20
15 Union 6- 5-1 249 12
16 St. Cloud State 4- 5-1 248 15
17 Northern Michigan 6- 1-1 205 18
18 Bowling Green 8- 3-1 177 19
19 Providence 4- 5-1 163 16
20 Robert Morris 7- 1-2 108 17

Others receiving votes: Merrimack 61, St. Lawrence 54, Ferris State 53, Harvard 44, Notre Dame 22, Penn State 19, Yale 15, Michigan 1.

The Michigan Tech Huskies are this week’s new number one team. Before we get too excited, the Huskies have amassed their 10-0-0 record, against opponents that have a cumulative record of 19-33-2 (.370).

For comparison sake, I decided to look at the top-ten team’s opponent's cumulative records.

UND 20-35-2 (.370)
UMN 26-28-2 (.482)
BU 24-38-5 (.395)
UML 30-34-4 (.470)
Colgate 31-33-11 (.486)
Miami 36-26-4 (.575)
UMD 38-23-2 (.619)
MSU-M 27-23-4 (.537)
Denver 23-29-1 (.443)

North Dakota vs. Miami - Game Two

UND Forward Lines

16 Mark MacMillan (A)–9 Drake Caggiula–15 Michael Parks (A)
28 Stephane Pattyn (C)–27 Luke Johnson–7 Wade Murphy
21 Brendan O’Donnell–13 Connor Gaarder (A)–17 Colten St. Clair
29 Bryn Chyzyk–10 Johnny Simonson–11 Trevor Olson

UND Defense Pairings

20 Gage Ausmus–2 Troy Stecher
5 Nick Mattson–6 Paul LaDue
4 Keaton Thompson–24 Jordan Schmaltz

UND Goalies

31 Zane McIntyre
33 Cam Johnson
30 Matt Hrynkiw

Miami RedHawk Forward Lines

22 Kevin Morris–26 Justin Greenberg–33 Andrew Schmit
14 Cody Murphy–25 Blake Coleman–42 Conor Lemirande
95 Anthony Louis–9 Sean Kuraly–12 Alex Gacek
10 Alex Wideman–7 Austin Czarnik–11 Riley Barber

Miami Defense Pairings

58 Louie Belpedio–8 Matthew Caito
5 Chris Joyaux–28 Ben Paulides
27 Scott Dornbrock–2 Taylor Richart

Miami Goalies

35 Ryan McKay
1 Jay Williams

Reminder that tonight's game can be seen live on @MidcoSN, FOX College Sports Central, DirecTV (ch. 608-1) and DISH Network (ch. 447).
— North Dakota MHockey (@UNDMHockey) November 15, 2014

Five NCHC Teams in The TopTen of Pairwise Rankings

First I know it’s early, but five of the eight NCHC teams are in the top-10 of the Pairwise Rankings.

Eight UND games on FOX College Sports TV schedule

GRAND FORKS, N.D. – The National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) announced today that 11 NCHC games have been added to the league’s national television schedule on FOX College Sports (FCS) in 2014-15, including seven involving the University of North Dakota.

The five home games, produced in high-definition by Midco Sports Network (MidcoSN), include games against Miami (Nov. 15), Omaha (Nov. 29), Colorado College (Jan. 24), Denver (Feb. 14) and St. Cloud State (Feb. 28).

Dan Hammer is his third season as the play-by-play voice for UND Athletics while former UND forward Scott Koberinski returns as color analyst. Veteran broadcaster Katie Hale also returns as the ice-level intermission reporter.

UND will also have two road games air nationally on FCS: the Jan. 31 game at Omaha, produced by PBS affiliate Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET1), and the March 7 game at Miami, produced by Time Warner Cable Sports Channel in Ohio.

Today’s announcement increased the number of regular-season UND men’s hockey national broadcasts in 2014-15 to 13, up from seven in 2013-14. This year’s national broadcast schedule also includes six previously-announced games on CBS Sports Network (CBSSN): vs. Minnesota Duluth (Jan. 10), vs. Colorado College (Jan. 23), at Omaha (Jan. 30), at Western Michigan (Feb. 20), vs. St. Cloud State (Feb. 27) and at Miami (March 6).

UND Men’s Hockey National TV Schedule

Date Opponent Network
Nov. 15 Miami FOX College Sports
Nov. 21 SCSU FOX College Sports
Nov. 29 Omaha FOX College Sports
Jan. 10 at Minnesota Duluth CBS Sports Network
Jan. 23 Colorado College CBS Sports Network
Jan. 24 Colorado College FOX College Sports
Jan. 30 at Omaha CBS Sports Network
Jan. 31 at Omaha FOX College Sports
Feb. 14 Denver FOX College Sports
Feb. 20 at Western Michigan CBS Sports Network
Feb. 27 St. Cloud State CBS Sports Network
Feb. 28 St. Cloud State FOX College Sports
March 6 at Miami CBS Sports Network
March 7 at Miami FOX College Sports

Arctic Ice on Tucker Poolman

This is what happens when you don't watch the games and then report on the prospects. Anyone that has watched UND for more than a minute this season knows that Tucker Poolman has been a major cog in UND's defense corps. You have a senior defenseman sitting in the stands and a freshman d-man playing over him.

2013 5th Round (2011 eligible): RD Tucker Poolman; 8 GP, 3G, 0A, 3 PTS, +3, 2 PIM, 15 SOG

Month GP G A PTS PIM
October 5 2 0 2 2

Poolman struggled at first to earn ice time as a freshman, but -with the help of a 20% shooting percentage and some strong play- the young defenceman is starting to earn his keep and gain more responsibilities as time goes on. His performance has been strong, although it must be reminded that this is his Draft+4 season technically. (read the rest of the article here)

UND vs. UW - Game two (Television Info)

UND Forward Lines

28 Stephane Pattyn (C)–27 Luke Johnson–7 Wade Murphy
9 Drake Caggiula–8 Nick Schmaltz–15 Michael Parks (A)
21 Brendan O’Donnell–13 Connor Gaarder (A)–14 Austin Poganski
29 Bryn Chyzyk–10 Johnny Simonson–17 Colten St. Clair

UND Defense Pairings

22 Andrew Panzarella–24 Jordan Schmaltz
20 Gage Ausmus–2 Troy Stecher
4 Keaton Thompson–3 Tucker Poolman

UND Goaltenders

31 Zane McIntyre
33 Cam Johnson

*According to Brad Schlossman, Paul LaDue is out with an undisclosed injury. 

Wisconsin Badgers Forward lines

16 Joseph LaBate–11 Adam Rockwood–24 Jedd Soleway
9 Morgan Zulinick–19 Cameron Hughes–12 Grant Besse
27 Matt Ustaski–13 Ryan Wagner–26 Brad Navin
23 Aidan Cavallini–8 Matt Pappe–3 Corbin McGuire

Wisconsin Badgers Defense Pairings

28 Kevin Schulze–4 Jack Dougherty
5 Chase Drake–10 Jake Linhart
25 Cullen Hurley–7 Keegan Ford

Wisconsin Badgers Goaltenders

33 Joel Rumpel

30 Landon Peterson

Television: Tonight's game is being picked up by Midconet.
Webcast: (Here's a free link to the game). 

North Dakota linechart: pic.twitter.com/vWdnkkAKU7
— North Dakota MHockey (@UNDMHockey) November 9, 2014