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10/27/2011 11:48:00 AM | Men's Ice Hockey
Game 1 - Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 - 7 p.m.
Dartmouth Big Green (0-0, 0-0 ECAC) vs.
Brown Bears (0-0, 0-0 ECAC)
Location: Thompson Arena (4,500) - Hanover, N.H.
All-Time Series: 70-63-8
Last Meeting: 2/4/11 at Brown
Streak: Dartmouth - 5-0-1
Last Dartmouth Win: 2/4/11, 3-0 (Road)
Live Stats • Live Video ($$$) • Dartmouth Notes • Brown Notes
Game 2 - Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011 - 7 p.m.
Dartmouth Big Green (0-0, 0-0 ECAC) vs.
No. 6/10 Yale Bulldogs (0-0, 0-0 ECAC)
Location: Thompson Arena (4,500) - Hanover, N.H.
All-Time Series: 87-103-13
Last Meeting: 2/5/11 at Yale
Streak: Yale - 7-0-0
Last Dartmouth Win: 2/23/08, 7-2 (Home)
Live Stats • Live Video ($$$) • Dartmouth Notes • Yale Notes
Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 - 4 p.m.
Princeton (0-0-0) vs. Yale (0-0-0)
Princeton Notes • Yale Notes • Live Stats
Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011 - 4 p.m.
Princeton (0-0-0) vs. Brown (0-0-0)
Princeton Notes • Brown Notes • Live Stats
MARKETING: At the Yale game, Dartmouth will host "Haunted Hockey" where kids dressed up in a Halloween costume can purchase a ticket for just $1.
Sunday, Oct. 30 - From 1- 2 p.m. fans are encouraged to come to the annual Skate with the Big Green. This will be your first chance for autographs from the 2011-2012 Big Green. The event is FREE and open to the public! Fans are encouraged to bring their own skates as there will be no rentals at Thompson Arena.
HANOVER, N.H. - The Dartmouth men's hockey team will begin its 2011-12 season this weekend with the Ivy Shootout Friday and Saturday evenings. The two-day classic-style format will feature the Big Green hosting Brown Friday night at 7 p.m. and Yale Saturday at 7 p.m. Princeton is the fourth team and will play alternating opponents at 4 p.m. on both days.
Thompson Arena will play host to the weekend after Yale's Ingalls Rink was the site for last season's Ivy Shootout.
It will mark the beginning of the season for all four teams this weekend as the six Ivy League teams in ECAC Hockey have yet to play a regular season game in 2011-12.
THE
SHOOTOUT
Four of the six Ivy League teams will be in Hanover
this weekend for the Ivy Shootout. Princeton and Yale will get things underway
Friday at 4 p.m. before Dartmouth and Brown play the second game of the day,
set for a 7 p.m. start time. Saturday will feature the Tigers and Bears in the
4 p.m. matchup, while the Big Green and Bulldogs skate in the final game of the
weekend, Saturday with puck drop tentatively scheduled for 7 p.m.
SCOUTING
BROWN
The Bears
finished the 2010-11 season ninth in the ECAC Hockey standings (8-12-2). The
team lost its top scorer from a season ago as former team captain and 2011 Ivy
League Player of the Year Harry Zolnierczyk (16g/15a - 31pts) now wears the
sweater of the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers.
- The Bears were picked 11th in the media poll and
12th in the coaches' preseason poll.
- Brown got the season started with a 2-0 exhibition
win over Waterloo. Senior Jeff Buvinow and freshman Massimo Lamacchia each had
a goal and an assist in the win, while senior goaltender Mike Clemente had 20
saves in earning the shutout.
- Forward Jack Maclellan earned a spot on the coaches'
preseason all-conference team after finishing tied for the team lead with 31
points (14g/17a) last season.
- Brown has not beaten Dartmouth since completing the
season sweep of 2007-08 on Feb. 22 with a 5-4 win in Hanover. The Bears are
0-5-1 against the Big Green since that game.
SCOUTING
YALE
- The Bulldogs come to Hanover ranked No. 10 in the
USCHO poll and No. 6 in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll despite not
having played a game yet this season. Yale even received a first-place vote in
the USA Today rankings. INCH.com also has the Bulldogs the highest of the three
in its power rankings, sitting at No. 4 this week.
- Finished second in the ECAC standings during the
regular season (17-4-1)
- Yale has been one of the top teams in the nation the
last few years and claimed an ECAC Tournament championship last season with a
6-0 win over Cornell in the title game.
- The Bulldogs advanced all the way to the East
Regional after beating Air Force, 2-1, in overtime before falling to eventual
National Champion Minnesota Duluth, 5-3, in Bridgeport.
- The team lost nine players from a season ago,
including goaltender Ryan Rondeau, who was named the Most Outstanding Player of
the ECAC Hockey Tournament.
- Selected first in both preseason polls, Yale will
have two of the league's top players returning to the lineup this season in senior
Brian O'Neill (20g/25a - 45pts) and junior Andrew Miller (11g/32a - 43pts).
Both were named members of the media and coaches' preseason all-conference
teams in September.
- Despite outshooting Waterloo and holding a 1-0 lead
after one period in its preseason scrimmage last Friday night, the Bulldogs
fell, 2-1, on home ice.
- Yale swept the season series with the Big Green in
2010-11 (7-3, 4-2) and has won the last seven meetings between the two teams.
MELLO
MAN
Senior goaltender James Mello (Rehoboth, Mass.) will
start the season as the No. 1 goaltender for the Big Green and was named to
both the media and coaches' preseason all-conference team. As a junior, Mello
posted a record of 17-9-3 and a goals-against mark of 2.21and was named the
ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Week three times.
TOP
HEAVY
The Dartmouth roster will feature nine seniors in
2011-12. Leading the way will be alternate captain Doug Jones (Marietta, Ga.).
Jones is the Big Green's top returning scorer from a season ago with 29 points
(8g/21a). His 21 assists as a junior led the team last year, while his 13
against ECAC opponents were also a team best.
TALENTED
NEWCOMERS
- Head coach Bob Gaudet knew he had a talented
freshman class this season, but the preseason tilts with Western Ontario and
Norwich solidified that point as the newcomers combined to score 12 points over
the two games. Tyler Sikura (Aurora, Ontario) and Jesse Beamish (Mississauga,
Ontario) scored third-period goals against the Mustangs Friday night to help
the team to a 4-2 exhibition win.
- Against Norwich, the freshmen class combined to
score seven of the team's eight points, including all three goals. Eric Neiley
(Warminster, Pa.) got the scoring started with a first-period tally from
Charlie Mosey (Prior Lake, Minn.) and Beamish, before Brandon McNally (Saugus,
Mass.) added two in the third. Sikura assisted on both third-period goals from
McNally.
DEFENSIVE
DEPTH
- One thing that was shown this weekend was the Big
Green's depth at defense. The team dressed eight d-men for both games to give
more players ice-time in the preseason.
- Junior Mike Keenan (South Weymouth, Mass.) and
senior Connor Goggin (Glen Ellyn, Ill.) will most likely be the top pair on the
blueline for Dartmouth this season, but senior alternate captain Jim Gaudet
(Etna, N.H.) and sophomore Taylor Boldt (Niwot, Colo.) are a solid second pair.
Keenan and Goggin logged 32 games together last season, while Gaudet and Boldt
also lined up with one another for 32 games.
- Keenan and Goggin figure to factor in to more
offensive output, while Gaudet and Boldt are strong players in their defensive
zone, playing considerable time on the penalty kill over the weekend.
- Senior transfer Dan Nycholat (Calgary, Alberta.) and
6-foot-2, 210-pound sophomore Nick Lovejoy (Orford, N.H.) add a veteran
presence to the defensive core.
- The freshmen duo of Rick Pinkston (Trenton, Mich.)
and Andy Simpson (Chesterfield, Mo.) also made an impression in their first
weekend of action, combining to post a +2 rating and seeing considerable time
against both opponents.
COACHING
MILESTONE APPROACHES
- Head Coach Bob Gaudet is just one win shy of 300 in
his career between stints at Brown and Dartmouth. Gaudet had 93 wins in nine
seasons as the Bears' head coach before returning to his alma mater for the
1997-98 season. Since that year, he has gone 206-196-50 in 14 seasons behind
the Big Green bench. All-time, Gaudet is 299-338-81 in 718 games as a head
coach over 23 seasons.
- Gaudet could become the 14th active coach with 300
career wins with a victory Friday or Saturday night. Colgate's Don Vaughn sits
at 298 career wins and will play Niagara twice this weekend looking for his
300th-career win as well.
PROGRAM
MILESTONE APROACHING
Dartmouth begins the 2011-12 season with 994 wins in
106 seasons of play. With just six more victories, the Big Green will reach the
1,000-win plateau for the program. As it stands right now, Dartmouth's all-time
record is 994-1,060-106.
NCAA
TOURNAMENT HOPES
The Big Green's 2010-11 season ended with a 5-3 win
over Colgate in the ECAC Hockey Consolation Game in Atlantic City. Dartmouth
would like to advance one step further and earn a berth in the NCAA Tournament
for the first time since making the Frozen Four back in the 1979-80 season when
current head coach Bob Gaudet was the starting netminder; a gap of 31 years.
CAPTAINS
Keenan will don the "C" this season for the Big Green. The junior was selected
as the captain following last season by a vote of his peers. Jones, Gaudet and
Connor Goggin will all wear the "A" as alternate captains.
SOPHOMORE
POWER PLAY
Second-year forward Matt Lindblad (Winnetka, Ill.)
made a splash as a freshman in 2010-11, finishing fourth on the team with 28
points (13g/15a). As a freshman, Lindblad was only named the League's Rookie of
the Week once time (Nov. 30), but was one of the top players in the nation with
the man-advantage, scoring seven power-play goals.
FAMILY
AFFAIR
Dartmouth features two pairs of brothers and a father-son
combination this season.
- Senior Connor Goggin and brother junior Mark Goggin
(Glen Ellyn, Ill.) will suit up together for the first time in two years after
Mark missed all of last season recovering from various injuries.
- Senior Nick Walsh (Shannonville, Ontario) and junior
Dustin Walsh (Shannonville, Ontario) make up the second pair of brothers on the
Big Green. Both scored 10 goals last season, while Dustin just edged out his
older brother with 20 points to Nick's 17.
- Senior defender and alternate captain Jim Gaudet
will play one final season for his father, head coach Bob Gaudet, in a Big
Green sweater. Jim also played two seasons alongside older brother Joe Gaudet
'10 during his first two years at Dartmouth.
SIZEABLE
ROSTER
There is no doubt that Dartmouth will be one of the
bigger teams in the ECAC this season as the roster boasts 29 players, most of
considerable height and weight. The average weight on the 29-man roster in just
a shade under 200 pounds at 198.3, while the average height of the 2011-12 Big
Green is 6'-1.5".
FOLLOW
THE BIG GREEN ALL YEAR
The Dartmouth men's hockey team will be live on the
air all season on WFRD 99.3 FM. Chris Garrett will be on the call all season,
handling the play-by-play duties. Fans can also follow along with live stats
and a video stream of home games ($) on DartmouthSports.com.
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