UND drops to 7th in the week's USCHO poll.

UND drops to 6th in this week’s USCHO Poll

USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll

March 18, 2013

	Team	(First Place Votes)	Record	Points	Last Poll
1	Minnesota	(22)	26- 7-5	967	2
2	Quinnipiac	(27)	26- 6-5	958	1
3	Miami		24-10-5	893	3
4	Boston College		22-10-4	820	5
5	Massachusetts-Lowell	( 1)	24-10-2	785	6
6	North Dakota		21-11-7	751	4
7	St. Cloud State		23-14-1	670	8
8	Minnesota State		24-12-3	626	10
9	Notre Dame		23-12-3	578	12
10	New Hampshire		19-11-7	519	7
11	Yale		18-10-3	515	13
12	Western Michigan		19-11-8	408	9
13	Denver		20-13-5	382	11
14	Wisconsin		19-12-7	375	14
15	Niagara		23- 8-5	339	15
16	Providence		17-13-7	269	17
17	Boston University		20-15-2	212	18
18	Union		19-12-5	192	19
19	Rensselaer		18-14-5	91	16
20	Michigan		17-18-3	52	NR
Others receiving votes: Nebraska-Omaha 37, Colorado College 18, Brown 11, Merrimack 10, Alaska 9, Ohio State 9, Robert Morris 2, Connecticut 1, St. Lawrence 1.

College Hockey Stats Net career stats page (check it out)

Point Scoring:                                               GP     PPG    G- A- P

  1   Danny Kristo             North Dakota       SR F      151    1.02   63-91-154

  2   Rylan Schwartz           Colorado College   SR F      150    0.99   54-95-149

  3   Drew LeBlanc             St. Cloud State    SR F      165    0.87   41-102-143

  4   Corban Knight            North Dakota       SR F      155    0.92   50-92-142

  5   Erik Haula               Minnesota          JR F      110    1.08   42-77-119

      Jordan George            Bemidji State      SR F      146    0.82   57-62-119

  7   Mark Zengerle            Wisconsin          JR F      108    1.04   26-86-112

  8   Ben Hanowski             St. Cloud State    SR F      150    0.71   59-47-106

  9   Matt White               Nebraska Omaha     JR F      111    0.88   46-52-98

      Ryan Walters             Nebraska Omaha     JR F      112    0.88   42-56-98

 11   Nick Bjugstad            Minnesota          JR F      105    0.92   53-44-97

 12   Eriah Hayes              Minnesota State    SR F      148    0.64   51-43-94

 13   Zach Budish              Minnesota          JR F      125    0.73   34-57-91

 14   Nick Shore               Denver             JR F      111    0.80   33-56-89

 15   Mike Seidel              Minnesota Duluth   SR W      149    0.58   47-40-87

 16   William Rapuzzi          Colorado College   SR F      145    0.59   39-47-86

 17   Nick Jensen              St. Cloud State    JR D      113    0.73   15-68-83

      Michael Mersch           Wisconsin          JR F      114    0.73   44-39-83

 19   Kyle Rau                 Minnesota          SO F       76    1.04   32-47-79

 20   Nic Dowd                 St. Cloud State    JR F      111    0.70   29-49-78

The College Hockey Stats Net has a page for career statistics page; here is where our guys stand on the list.

UND moves up to 4th in USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll

NCHC logo (by Donn)

I found the new National Collegiate Hockey Conference Logo at www.targetcenter.com/nchc which also has infromation on the 2014 playoff tournament.

UND: The Weekend Ahead: (3/7-3/8)

This weekend, the University of North Dakota travels to Mankato, Minnesota to play the Minnesota State Mavericks in the final WCHA series “ever” between the two teams at the Verizon Wireless Center March 8-9, 2013. This is also, the last series of the regular season.

Matchup: North Dakota (18-9-7, 13-6-7 WCHA) #5 versus #10 Minnesota State Mavericks (21-10-3, 15-10-1 WCHA).

Dates: March 8-9, 2013

Times: March 8: 7:37 p.m. (CT); March 9: 7:07 p.m. (CT)

Radio: UND 96.1 (KQHT-FM) – The Fox.

Webcast: AmericaOneSports.com

TV: *None in North Dakota* (Locally only): Charter 226/826 HD (both nights) Comcast (Saturday only)
Series History: All-Time: UND leads the series, 37-10-7 (.750). UND leads the series 23-6-3 (.766), in Grand Forks, North Dakota. UND leads the series 14-4-4 (.727), in Mankato, Minnesota. North Dakota and Minnesota State have never played on a neutral ice. Series the last 10 games; UND Leads 9-1-0 (.900).

Players to Watch:

North Dakota: Forwards: Corbin Knight (14g-30a—44pts), Danny Kristo (20g-24a—44pts), Rocco Grimaldi (12g-17a—29pts), Mark MacMillan (12g-12a—24pts), Carter Rowney (8g-14a—22pts), Drake Caggiula (6g-8a—14pts). Defense: Dillon Simpson (3g-17a—20pts), Derek Forbort (4g-9a—13pts), Joe Gleason (5g-11a—16pts) Jordan Schmaltz (3g-9a—12pts) Andrew MacWilliam (1g-9a—10pts). Goaltenders: Clarke Saunders 12-6-4, 2.30 GAA, .915 save percentage, Zane Gothberg 6-3-3, 2.53 GAA, .914 save percentage.

Minnesota State Mavericks: Forwards Matt Leitner (15g-25a—40pts), Eriah Hayes (18g-13a—31pts), Jean-Paul Lafontaine (8g-20a—28pts), Zach Lehrke (8g-15—23pts), Defense: Zach Palmquist (5g-16a—21pts) Josh Nelson (5g-8a—13pts), Brett Stern (2g-6a—8pts). Goalies: Stephon Williams 18-8-2, 1.82 GAA, .930 save percentage, Phil Cook 3-2-1, 3.49 GAA, .879 save percentage.

UND Officials Web Page

Minnesota State Web Page

Cross-posted at the Hockey Writers Combine…

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This weekend’s NCAA Division one television schedule (2/22 – 2/24)

Here is this weekend’s National College Hockey television schedule. There is a full slate of college hockey on television again this weekend. Check your television guide for times in your local area. As with any schedules, channels will change and have in the past.

This weekend, there will also be four college hockey games that will be available in Canada, so, for college hockey fans north of the border, you should check your local television guides as well.

For UND hockey fans, this weekend, both games from Denver will be on television. Friday night’s game will be a national broadcast on NBC Sports Network. Saturday night’s game will be on Root Sports, so if your cable company gets Root Sports or if you have the Sports Pack and you have Dish or DirecTV, you will be able to watch Saturday night’s game as well.

Fri.	Feb. 22		New Hampshire at Vermont	NESN	6:00 p.m.	628 / 434
Fri.	Feb. 22		Yale at Quinnipiac	NBC Sports Net.	6:30 p.m.	603 / 159
Fri.	Feb. 22		Notre Dame at Western Michigan	CBS Sports Net.	6:00 p.m.	613 / 158 (C)
Fri.	Feb. 22		Minnesota Duluth at Minnesota	FS North +	7:00 p.m.	657/ 444
Fri.	Feb. 22		North Dakota at Denver	NBC Sports Net.	9:00 p.m.	220/ 159
Sat.	Feb. 23		New Hampshire at Vermont	CBS Sports Net.	6:00 p.m.	613 / 158 (C)
Sat.	Feb. 23		Minnesota Duluth at Minnesota	BTN	7:00 p.m.	610 / 439 (C)
Sat.	Feb. 23		North Dakota at Denver	ROOT Sports	8:00 p.m.	683 / 414
Sun.	Feb. 24		Boston College at Merrimack	CBS Sports Net.	3:00 p.m.	613 / 158 (C)

*NESN = New England Sports Network, FCS = Fox College Sports, FSN+ = Fox Sports North-Plus, NBCSN = NBC Sports Network, DirecTV requires the “Sports Pack” to view the Regional sports Networks, (C) Denotes games available in Canada. All times are Central Standard Time.

Cross posted at the Hockey Writers Combine.

USCHO.com Division I Men's Poll

February 18, 2013

	Team	(First Place Votes)	Record	Points	Last Poll
1	Quinnipiac	(34)	22- 4-4	974	1
2	Minnesota	(15)	20- 6-4	958	2
3	Miami		19- 8-5	889	3
4	Boston College	( 1)	17- 8-3	826	4
5	New Hampshire		16- 8-4	757	5
6	North Dakota		16- 8-6	740	7
7	St. Cloud State		18-11-1	684	8
8	Western Michigan		18- 8-6	657	6
9	Minnesota State		20- 9-3	651	9
10	Denver		15- 9-5	510	11
11	Notre Dame		19-12-1	491	12
12	Massachusetts-Lowell		16- 9-2	410	14
13	Yale		13- 9-3	352	10
14	Nebraska-Omaha		18-12-2	333	16
15	Boston University		14-12-2	299	13
16	Niagara		19- 6-5	243	15
17	Merrimack		14-10-6	230	19
18	Wisconsin		13-10-7	175	18
19	Dartmouth		12- 9-4	130	17
20	Union		15-10-5	97	NR
Others receiving votes: Rensselaer 34, St. Lawrence 20, Providence 19, Ferris State 9, Ohio State 7, Alaska 4, Colgate 1.