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record exposure generaTed for final fivelive Television via fsn, live radio broadcasTs, live inTerneT audio & sTaTisTics creaTe world-wide opporTuniTies for fans To Take in showcase evenT

Exposure of the annual Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five, through Fox Sports North, the league’s official web site (wcha.com), and ever-increasing media coverage, continues to reach new levels. Produced by the Minnesota Wild and the WCHA, television coverage of the Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five by Fox Sports North includes live national broadcasts of all five games, pre-game and post-game shows, and rinkside reporters. FSN reaches more than 3 million homes throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and North and South Dakota and telecasts nearly 2,600 hours of locally produced programming per year. The Emmy Award-winning regional sports network provides comprehensive coverage of the Minnesota Wild, Minnesota Twins , Milwaukee Brewers, Minnesota Timberwolves and Milwaukee Bucks, as well as University of Minnesota and University of Wisconsin athletic events. For more information, visit www.foxsports.com. For 10 straight seasons, the WCHA Final Five has also been audiocast live around the world via the league’s official web site – wcha.com. The broadcasts are handled by Jim Rich, the voice of the league’s radio show ‘This Week in the WCHA’, and Jack Swanson, station manager at KJ102 in Roseau, Minn., while Kevin Falness of the NHL’s Minnesota Wild serves as producer.

The red baron™ wcha final five

aTTendance hisTory • wcha playoff championship/final fivefinal four formaT • 1988-92Year Site Game1 Game2 Game3 Game4 Total/AvgGame1988 St. Paul* 12,270 13,829 12,051 13,657 51,807/12,9521989 St. Paul* 12,271 12,911 12,237 12,813 50,232/12,5581990 St. Paul* 12,316 11,137 10,688 13,704 47,845/11,9611991 St. Paul* 13,476 10,310 9,473 11,028 44,287/11,0721992 St. Paul* 10,094 11,384 9,983 12,618 44,079/11,020FinalFour: 5 Years 60,427 59,571 54,432 63,820 238,250/11,913

final five formaT • 1993-currenTYear Site Game1 Game2 Game3 Game4 Game5 Total/AvgGame1993 St. Paul* 8,848 11,319 9,281 8,832 12,457 50,737/10,1471994 Milwaukee# 12,139 12,381 12,150 12,004 12,693 61,367/12,2731995 St. Paul* 15,464$ 9,719 10,571 9,188 10,966 55,908/11,1821996 Milwaukee# 8,978 11,429 8,401 8,958 9,538 47,304/9,4061997 St. Paul* 9,272 9,528 14,013 9,577 14,317 56,707/11,3411998 Milwaukee# 6,438 6,306 9,452 6,345 10,166 38,707/7,7411999 Minneapolis^ 10,128 6,066 11,311 6,276 8,445 42,226/8,4452000 Minneapolis^ 12,234 8,397 11,520 7,129 10,437 49,717/9,9432001 St. Paul+ 9,966 10,375 18,409 11,299 17,563 67,612/13,5222002 St. Paul+ 13,103 12,438 18,523$ 12,961 18,126 75,151/15,0302003 St. Paul+ 14,305 12,292 17,012 12,509 16,668 72,786/14,5572004 St. Paul+ 14,123 15,022 19,208$ 14,905 19,306$ 82,564/16,5132005 St. Paul+ 15,583 13,132 17,794 14,730 16,507 77,746/15,5492006 St. Paul+ 16,312 16,468 19,353 16,134 19,282$ 87,579/17,5162007 St. Paul+ 16,449 17,511 19,359$ 16,118 19,463$ 88,900/17,7802008 St. Paul+ 19,232$ 16,768 16,967 15,981 17,907 86,855/17,3712009 St. Paul+ 17,611 14,722 17,729 15,254 16,749 82,065/16,413WCHAFinalFive: 17 Years 220,185 203,873 251,053 198,200 250,590 1,123,931/13,223WCHAPlayoffChampionshipAttendance: 22 Years 1,362,181/12,973

* St. Paul Civic Center; # Bradley Center; ^ Target Center; + Xcel Energy Center; Attendance records in bold face; $sellout

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The 2009-10 seasonleague coaches Tab denver as wesTern collegiaTe hockey associaTion favoriTedefending macnaughTon champion norTh dakoTa selecTed second as conference marks 58TH season of compeTiTion; five wcha Teams appear in pre-season naTional poll … du aT no. 2, um no. 6, und no. 8, scsu no. 13, uw no. 15 … umd, cc receive voTes; scsu forward ryan lasch, um forward Jordan schroeder are pre-season wcha co-players of The year; scsu goalTender mike lee named pre-season wcha rookie of The year; 74 naTional hockey league drafT picks on 2009-10 member Team rosTers; 2010 red baron™ wcha final five seT for march 18-20 aT xcel energy cenTer in sainT paul; minnesoTa To hosT 2010 ncaa wesT regional aT xcel energy cenTer; 2010 ncaa men’s frozen four To be held april 8-10 aT ford field in deTroiT

head coaches Tab denver as macnaughTon cup favoriTe in annual grand forks herald wcha pollby Brad Elliott Schlossman, Grand Forks HeraldGrand Forks, N.D. – The Western Collegiate Hockey Association coaches believe the roles will be reversed this year. Denver is the preseason pick to win the league in the 39th annual Grand Forks Herald WCHA preseason coaches poll. The Pioneers gained eight of 10 first-place votes to finish ahead of UND, Wisconsin, Minnesota and St. Cloud State in the poll. The Sioux received the other two first-place votes. “We were fortunate enough not to lose too many players, other than our senior class and Tyler Bozak,” Denver coach George Gwozdecky said. “We have a majority of our team from last year coming back. Once the season begins, who knows? I don’t know how many times the coaches poll has been accurate, but I’d be willing to wager, more times than not, they’ve been wrong. “The monkey is on our back this year.” Indeed, the coaches haven’t always been able to pick the winner. Only twice in the past eight years have they been right. Last season, projected winner Colorado College finished fourth. UND is the defending league champion, but it lost a nine-player senior class that included a former Hobey Baker Award winner. The Sioux have the largest freshman class (10) and smallest senior class (three) in the WCHA, so the second-place projection in the poll surprised coach Dave Hakstol a little bit. “We’re a team that has to answer a lot of questions,” Hakstol said. “We have a lot of players that quickly have to develop into some key roles. Chemistry is such a big factor in this game. We’re going to have to develop chemistry real quick within a team structure. “The league is going to be very good this year. As you look through the league, there are a lot of guys who have the potential to be premier players on the national scene.” Two of those players – St. Cloud State senior Ryan Lasch and Minnesota sophomore Jordan Schroeder – are the co-preseason players of the year as voted by the coaches. Both Lasch and Schroeder received three votes as player of the year. UND senior defenseman Chay Genoway received two votes, while Denver defenseman Patrick Wiercioch and Pioneer forward Rhett Rakhshani both got one vote. Mike Lee, who led Roseau to a Minnesota big-school state championship as a sophomore in 2007, is the WCHA’s preseason rookie of the year. Lee, expected to be the No. 1 goalie at St. Cloud State, received five of 10 first-place votes. Minnesota defenseman Nick Leddy and Minnesota Duluth defenseman Dylan Olsen each got two votes, while Denver defenseman Matt Donovan got one. “I think the poll makes for some interesting talk, but that’s about it,” Gwozdecky said. “Our players will look at it and say, ‘OK.’ They don’t have any bearing on how we play this coming Sunday night, and they don’t have any bearing on the games thereafter. The poll is just where everybody thinks people are when the season begins. “We’ve got to play hard and take care of the little things. In this league, things are so difficult and competitive. There’s such a fine line between success and failure. It’s usually not determined by better talent, but how the talent plays together.” 39thAnnualGrandForksWCHACoachesPre-SeasonPoll Rk Team(firstplacevotes) Points 1 Denver (8) 80 2 North Dakota (2) 70 3 Wisconsin 61 4 Minnesota 58 5 St. Cloud State 55 6 Minnesota Duluth 37 7 Minnesota State, Mankato 34 8 Colorado College 26 9 Alaska Anchorage 20 10 Michigan Tech 9

WCHAPlayeroftheYear: Ryan Lasch, SCSU (3); Jordan Schroeder, UM(3); Chay Genoway, UND (2); Rhett Rakhshani, DU (1); Patrick Wiercioch, DU (1).

WCHARookieoftheYear: Mike Lee, SCSU (5); Nick Leddy, UM (2); Dylan Olsen, UMD (2); Matt Donovan, DU (1).

The 2009-10 campaign marks the 58th in the storied history of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, with

the league owning a record 36 national championships. It will also mark the final season with a membership consisting of 10 teams, as both Bemidji State University and the University of Nebraska-Omaha come on board as the 11th and 12th members for the 2010-11 season. But in the meantime, expect a proverbial dogfght among the league’s 10 member teams for the regular season championship and MacNaughton Cup, a top five regular season finish, the home-ice advantage for the first round of WCHA Playoffs, and one of the five highly-coveted berths in the 2010 Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five at Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul – where the winning team receives the Broadmoor Trophy and the league’s automatic bid to the national tournament. The league’s 10 head coaches selected Denver as the pre-season conference favorite, followed by defending MacNaughton Cup

champion North Dakota, Wisconsin in third place, Minnesota in fourth, St. Cloud State in fifth, defending WCHA Final Five champion Minnesota Duluth in sixth, Minnesota State, Mankato in seventh, Colorado College in eighth, Alaska Anchorage in ninth and Michi-gan Tech in 10th. Following the various conference tourna-ments, it’s on to the four NCAA Regionals for 16 selected teams, who then hope to prevail in the two-game format and proceed on to the 2010 NCAA Men’s Frozen Four, to be held April 8-10 at Ford Field – home of the NFL’s Detroit Lions – in Detroit. In the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Div. 1 Men’s Pre-Season Poll, Denver was ranked No. 2, Minnesota was at No. 5, North Dakota was No. 8, St. Cloud State was No. 13 and Wisconsin was No. 15. Also receiving votes in the pre-season national poll from the WCHA were UMD and CC.

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The 2009-10 seasonalaska anchorage seawolves• The Seawolves will suit up the most seniors since the 2002-03 campaign – seven – as they look to end their UAA career with a winning-record and a berth in the 2010 Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five.• Looking for their 100th game-played mark this season are senior D Nils Backstrom (83), senior D Trevor Hunt (75) and junior F Craig Parkinson (68). Senior F Josh Lunden (101), senior F Kevin Clark (105) and senior D Jared Tuton (103) have already reached 100 games played.• Senior F Josh Lunden will try to break into the top 20 of the all-time career goals scored list at UAA – he is tied for 25th with 39 goals – and has scored the most goals for a Seawolf since the ending of Steve Cygan’s career in 2002.• In net, senior Jon Olthuis needs five wins to break into the top 10 in UAA all-time career wins.• Junior G Bryce Christianson needs a 2.30 GAA or better this season to bypass Gregg Naumenko and lead the all-time single-season GAA list at UAA.• Fifth-year head coach Dave Shyiak should capture his 50th career victory this season.

colorado college Tigers• Of the 28 players on CC’s 2009-10 roster, 15 are either freshmen or sophomores.• The early defection of G Richard Bachman and D Brian Connelly to the pro ranks last spring left CC with additional holes to fill in addition to the graduation of Jake Gannon, Scott McCulloch, Drew O’Connell, Chad Rau and Eric Walsky.• FBill Sweatt, who collected 23 points (12g,11a) in 2008-09, is the team’s top returning scorer and one of nine seniors on the roster.• Senior F Mike Testwuide is CC’s team captain.• Junior F Stephen Schultz, one of only four Tigers to score 10 or more goals last season, also led the team with three game-winners as a sophomore.• CC’s most experienced goaltender is junior Tyler O’Brien, who has appeared in just three games with less than 35:00 of playing time in his two years. Both Joe Howe and Hudson Stremmel are freshmen.• Scott Owens, in his 11th season as head coach, has averaged just under 24 victories at the helm.• Despite winning its fewest games (16) since 1992-93 last season, CC avoided being swept until losing twice to UMD in the WCHA playoffs.• With a school-record 10 ties in 2008-09, the Tigers matched a WCHA and NCAA single-season standard set by Minnesota State in 2002-03.• 25 of CC’s 38 games in 2008-09, including six in which an empty-netter was scored, either ended in ties or were decided by one goal. CC was 11-4-10 in those outings.• CC’s veteran defensive corps includes seniors Kris Fredheim and Nate Prosser, along with junior Ryan Lowery and sophomore Gabe Guentzel.• The Tigers finished 0-11-1 in games in which they trailed entering the third period last season. They were undefeated (12-0-6) when ahead after 40 minutes.

denver pioneers• DU has been picked to win the WCHA in the preseason Grand Forks Herald WCHA Coaches’ Poll

and the Madison.com Media Poll.• F Rhett Rakhshani, D Patrick Wiercioch and G Marc Cheverie were named to the preseason All-WCHA first team in the media poll.• DU is No. 2 in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Preseason Poll.• DU returns 21 letterwinners from last year’s team that finished 23-12-5 overall and second in the WCHA with a 16-8-4 record.• DU returns its top seven scorers, including Anthony Maiani (11-30=41), Rakhshani (15-22=37), Wiercioch (12-23=35), Joe Colborne (10-21=31), Kyle Ostrow (14-14=28), Tyler Ruegsegger (15-11=26) and Luke Salazar (15-10=25).• G Marc Cheverie led DU to its second consecutive NCAA appearance in 2008-09 with a 23-12-5 record, a 2.34 GAA and a .921 Sv%.• DU has won 21 or more games seven straight seasons.• Rhett Rakhshani is the first forward to captain the Pioneers since Mark Rycroft in 1999-2000. Matt Glasser, Ruegsegger and Ostrow are the alternate captains.• Coach George Gwozdecky marks his 16th season at DU. He is 346-217-46 at DU and 496-341-67 all-time in 23 collegiate seasons.• The Pioneers boast a program-high 13 NHL draft picks, including first-rounder Joe Colborne (Boston) and second-rounders Patrick Wiercioch (Ottawa), William Wrenn (San Jose) and Drew Shore (Florida).• FSN Rocky Mountain will television 19 DU hockey games this season, including all four against in-state rival CC.• DU Hockey returns to FM Sportsradio 104.3 the FAN this season.• Denver celebrates it’s 60th Anniversary Season in 2009-10.

michigan Tech huskies• Head coach Jamie Russell marks his seventh season needing just three wins to pass Bob Mancini for third in all-time coaching wins at MTU and six to pass Herb Boxer for second. With four WCHA victories, Russell would move into third place in WCHA wins.• A new set of skyboxes was added to the West End of the John MacInnes Student Ice Arena as Michigan Tech continues improving the 38-year-old facility.• The Huskies’ roster features 17 player from the USA, including six from Michigan, and nine from Canada, including four from British Columbia.• Sophomore F Alex MacLeod scored all six of his goals last season on the power-play.• The Huskies return four of their top five point producers from 2008-09 in junior F Jordan Baker, sophomore F Brett Olson, senior D Drew Dobson, and junior D Deron Cousens.• Junior F Jordan Baker led the Huskies in points (27) and goals (16) last season and tied for the lead in PPGs (6), GWGs (2), and SHGs (1). Baker also tripled his offensive output from his freshman year (9 points).• Junior D Deron Cousens more than doubled his freshman numbers (7 points) with 16 points last season.• Sophomore F Brett Olson notched 21 points in 28 games against WCHA opponents last season to lead the Huskies.• Freshman G Kevin Genoe played the last two seasons for the Prince George Spruce Kings, the same squad that produced former Huskies’ netminder Michael-Lee Teslak.• Senior Malcolm Gwilliam will serve as team captain with junior Jordan Baker and sophomore Brett Olson as assistants. Olson is the first sophomore to wear a letter on his jersey since Mat Snesrud in 1998-99.

minnesoTa golden gophers• The Gophers return 20 letterwinners from last year’s squad and bring back 81.4% of their offense.• Minnesota concluded the 2008-09 season with a 2-1 loss to UMD in the play-in game of the WCHA Final Five.• UM is picked fourth in the WCHA preseason polls by both the media and the coaches. The Gophers are also ranked sixth nationally in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls, marking the 10th straight year they have opened the season in the top 10.• Sophomore F Jordan Schroeder has been named the WCHA preseason Player of the Year by both the coaches and the media. Schroeder ranked third nationally in assists and points per game in 2008-09 and was the WCHA Rookie of the Year. Schroeder was the only freshman to rank among the nation’s top 40 scorers and his 45 points marked the 10th-highest single-season total by a freshman in UM history.• The Gophers have eight straight league games to open the season, including series with each of the three teams picked ahead of them in the WCHA preseason poll.• Defensively, the Gophers return all but one player from a unit that allowed just 2.84 goals per game last season.• Junior D Cade Fairchild earned third team All-American honors from Inside College Hockey last

season after ranking third in the country in scoring among defensemen with 33 points in 35 games.• Junior Alex Kangas returns in goal after posting a 2.79 GAA and .901 save percentage in 2008-09.• Special teams were a key component of the 2008-09 squad as UM ranked second in the country with success on 54.7% of their combined special teams situations. The Gophers led the WCHA and ranked fourth nationally on the penalty-kill with a school record 88.8% rate. They were second in the WCHA and eighth nationally on the power-play at 20.1%.• Head coach Don Lucia enters the season ranked fifth among active Div. 1 coaches in victories with a 535-281-74 record in 22 seasons.• UM will have a new face on the bench this year as former Gophers’ standout Grant Potulny has replaced Mike Hastings as assistant coach.• UM’s 17-13-7 record in 2008-09 marked the 10th consecutive year and the 30th time in the past 32 years that the Gophers have been above .500.• Minnesota will host the NCAA West Regional for the second straight year when the event takes place March 26-27 at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.• Of the Gophers’ 26-player roster, 20 players have already been chosen in the NHL draft. The Gophers have four first-round picks on their roster in David Fischer, Patrick White, Nick Leddy and Jordan Schro-eder.

minnesoTa duluTh bulldogs• UMD marks its 66th year of intercollegiate hockey in 2009-10.• The defending WCHA playoff champion Bulldogs return 17 lettermen from a club which posted a 22-13-8 overall record – its best mark since 2003-04 when they went 28-13-4 and advanced to the NCAA Frozen Four – and posted a school-record six-game postseason winning streak before bowing to Miami 2-1 in the NCAA West Region final.• The 22 wins last winter were the second most amassed by a UMD team under the nine-year coach-ing reign of Scott Sandelin (tying 2002-03) while the .605 winning percentage was exceeded only by his 2003-04 team (.667).• UMD welcomes back three of its top four scorers in junior RW and All-WCHA Second Team selection Justin Fontaine (15-33=48), sophomore LW Mike Connolly (13-29=42), a member of the WCHA All-Rookie Team, and sophomore C Jack Connolly (10-19=29). Fontaine, who placed second to MacGregor Sharp for team and WCHA scoring honors in ’08-09, showed a 36-point increase from rookie year output. That one-season scoring improvement was the second largest by a Bulldog in 16 years (Evan Schwabe went from 10 to 57 points between 2002-04). Fontaine ranked first in the WCHA in overall power-play points (27) and in scoring PPGs (11). He also came within two points of claiming the WCHA scoring title (34 points in 28 gp). Mike Connolly concluded his debut season with a bang by accumulating eight points in the final four games. That pushed his season scoring harvest to 42 points – the second most by any NCAA freshman and most by a Bulldog newcomer since 2002-03 when Tim Stapleton paced UMD with that same total. Connolly, UMD’s plus-minus leader in 2008-09 (+11) earned a

a look aT 2009-10 wcha member-Team rosTersA look at WCHA member team rosters for 2009-10 finds a total of 74 NHL Draft picks listed. Minnesota (20), North Dakota (15), Denver (13), Wisconsin (11) and St. Cloud State (7) have the most NHL draftees. Broken down by class, there are 60 seniors, 66 juniors, 71 sophomores and 71 freshmen on team rosters. Colorado College has the most seniors (9), DU and SCSU have the most juniors (10 each), UM has the most sophomores (10), and UND has the most freshmen (10). UND has the fewest number of seniors (3), CC has the fewest number of juniors (3), Alaska Anchorage and DU have the fewest number of sophomores (5 each) and UM and SCSU have the fewest number of freshmen (4 each).Team NHLDrafts Sr Jr So FrAlaska Anchorage 1 7 7 5 8Colorado College 1 9 3 6 9Denver 13 6 10 5 7Michigan Tech – 6 4 9 8Minnesota 20 6 6 10 4Minnesota Duluth 5 4 7 7 8Minnesota State 2 7 5 9 7North Dakota 15 3 5 7 10St. Cloud State 7 5 10 7 4Wisconsin 11 7 9 6 6

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The 2009-10 season2008-09 pre-season pollsusa Today/usa hockey magazine men's college hockey poll(Sept.29,2008/Preseason) (first place votes in parenthesis) 1stPlace Last 2007-08Rk Team Pts Votes Poll Record 1 Miami 457 (4) 2 23-13-5 2 Denver 455 (13) 7 23-12-5 3 Boston University 438 (12) 1 35- 6-4 4 Michigan 384 5 29-12-0 5 Notre Dame 370 (5) 4 31- 6-3 6 Minnesota 270 NR 17-13-7 7 Cornell 254 12 22-10-4 8 NorthDakota 227 13 24-15-4 9 Princeton 223 15 22-12-1 10 Massachusetts Lowell 175 NR 20-16-2 11 Yale 149 10 24- 8-2 12 Boston College 117 NR 18-14-5 13 St.CloudState 106 NR 18-17-3 14 Wisconsin 80 NR 20-16-4 15 Vermont 73 3 22-12-5 others receiving votes: New Hampshire 71, MinnesotaDuluth 64, Ohio State 60, Air Force 43, N. Michigan 31, ColoradoCollege 8, Northeastern 8, Bemidji State 6, Harvard 3, Mercyhurst 3, Niagara 3, St. Lawrence 2.

madison.com wcha media 2009-10 pre-season pollSeptember 29, 2009

PredictedFinalStandings Rk Team 1stPlaceVotes Points 1 Denver 23 248 2 North Dakota 1 205 3 Wisconsin – 190 4 Minnesota 1 186 5 St. Cloud State – 152 6 Minnesota Duluth – 118 7 Colorado College – 101 8 Minnesota State, Mankato – 88 9 Alaska Anchorage – 57 10 Michigan Tech – 30

WCHAPlayeroftheYear: Jordan Schroeder, So., F, UM. WCHARookieoftheYear: Mike Lee, G, SCSU. All-WCHAFirstTeam: F - Jordan Schroeder, So., UM; F - Ryan Lasch, Sr., SCSU; F (tie) - Justin Fontaine, Jr., UMD; Rhett Rakhshani, Sr., DU; D - Patrick Wiercioch, So., DU; Chay Genoway, Sr., UND; G - Marc Cheverie, Jr., DU.VotingPanel: Kevin Allenspach, St. Cloud Times; Roman Augustoviz, Star Tribune; Andy Baggot, Wisconsin State Journal; Mike Chambers, Denver Post; Bruce Ciskie, UMD radio/Fanhouse.com; Chris Dilks, Western College Hockey Blog; Shane Frederick, Mankato Free Press; John Gilbert, WCHA.com; Kurt Haider, UAA radio; Dirk Hembroff, MTU radio; Tim Hennessey, UND radio; Ken Landau, CC radio; Don Lyons, SCSU radio; Todd D. Milewski, USCHO.com; Dan Myers, collegehockeynews.com; Jess Myers, insidecollegehockey.com/USA Hockey Magazine; Joe Paisley, Colorado Springs Gazette; Kevin Pates, Duluth News Tribune; Brian Posick, UW radio; Brad Elliott Schlossman, Grand Forks Herald; Wally Shaver, Minnesota radio; Theresa Spisak, USCHO.com; Jay Stickney, Denver radio; Mike Sullivan, MSU radio; Doyle Woody, Anchorage Daily News.

wcha sporTs .668 winning percenTage indiv. 1 non-conference play since 2000Over the past nine seasons, WCHA-member teams are a collective 440-200-75 in non-conference play vs teams from the five other Div. 1 men’s conferences, for a winning percentage of .668.

2008-09 vsECAC vsHEA vsCCHA vsAHA vsCHA TotalsWCHA 7-4-2 4-7-2 14-10-5 6-1-2 12-3-0 43-25-11 (.615) (.385) (.552) (.778) (.800) (.614)2007-08 vsECAC vsHEA vsCCHA vsAHA vsCHA TotalsWCHA 10-2-1 6-6-2 13-11-5 5-2-2 15-1-0 49-22-10 (.808) (.500) (.534) (.667) (.9375) (.668)2006-07 vsECAC vsHEA vsCCHA vsAHA vsCHA TotalsWCHA 12-4-0 8-9-1 17-6-5 4-0-0 12-5-0 53-24-6 (.750) (.472) (.696) (1.000) (.706) (.675)2005-06 vsECAC vsHEA vsCCHA vsAHA vsCHA TotalsWCHA 9-4-4 8-8-1 17-13-1 1-1-0 9-4-0 44-30-6 (.647) (.500) (.565) (.500) (.692) (.588)2004-05 vs ECAC vsHEA vsCCHA vsAHA vsCHA TotalsWCHA 5-2-3 11-5-2 14- 9-6 7-0-1 8-0-2 45-16-14 (.650) (.667) (.586) (.938) (.900) (.693)2003-04 vsECAC vsHEA vsCCHA vsAHA vsCHA TotalsWCHA 13-4-3 6-5-3 17-9-2 2-0-0 16-1-1 54-19-9 (.725) (.536) (.643) (1.000) (.917) (.713)2002-03 vs ECAC vsHEA vsCCHA vsMAAC vsCHA TotalsWCHA 10-3-1 8-7-1 13-11-3 7-0-2 14-2-1 52-23-8 (.750) (.531) (.537) (.889) (.853) (.675)2001-02 vs ECAC vsHEA vsCCHA vsMAAC CHA TotalsWCHA 13-2-0 12-5-1 10-11-1 0-0-0 16- 4-0 51-22-2 (.867) (.694) (.477) (.000) (.800) (.693)2000-01 vs ECAC vsHEA vsCCHA vsMAAC vsCHA TotalsWCHA 13-1-1 10-7-4 8-11-4 1-0-0 17-0-0 49-19-9 (.900) (.571) (.435) (1.000) (1.000) (.695)

where wcha players come from • 2009-10U.S.Players: 191 (72.1%). CanadianPlayers: 65 (24.5%). Other: 9 (3.4%).PrimarySourceofPlayers: 1. Minnesota, 102 (37.9%); 2. Alberta, 27 (10%); 3. Wisconsin, 19 (14.2%).BreakdownbyStates(24): AK, 8; AL, 1; AZ, 1; CA, 7; CO, 10; CT, 1; FL, 1; IA, 1; IL, 9; MI, 8; MN, 102; MO, 3; ND, 2; NE, 3; NV, 2; NY, 2; OH, 3; OK, 1; PA, 2; TN, 1; VA, 1; VT, 1; WA, 2; WI, 19.BreakdownbyProvinces(9): AB, 27; BC, 17; MB, 7; NB, 1; NS, 1; ON, 5; QC, 1; SK, 5; YT, 1.Breakdown by Other Countries (6): Denmark, 1; Netherlands, 1; Norway, 3; Slovakia, 1; Slovenia, 1; Sweden, 2.

spot on both the WCHA Final Five All-Tournament Team and NCAA West Regional All-Team. Center Jack Connolly, meanwhile, had 29 points to his freshman-year credit meaning the two Connollys rolled up the most points of any UMD rookie tandem (71) since Dan Lempe (64) and future US Olympian Mark Pavelich (19) combined for 83 points in 1976-77.• This year marks the final full season the Bulldogs will call the 43-year old DECC their hockey home as they will move into a new $70-million, 6,800-seat facility a couple hundred feet away in Dec., 2010.• Three hopefuls – sophomores Brady Hjelle and Kenny Reiter, along with rookie Aaron Crandall – will vie for the starting goaltender job left vacant by the departure of 2008-09 All-American junior Alex Stalock to the professional ranks. Stalock patrolled the Bulldog goal for 78 of 79 games and all but 79:55 during the past two seasons. Hjelle, who made one start – a 4-2 win over NCAA Frozen Four participant Bemidji State on Jan. 17, 2009 – is the only member of that trio with any previous regular season playing experience.• UMD sported the WCHA’s best overall power-play unit (21.5%) and team defense (2.28 goals per game) last winter.• Eight freshmen will be part of the UMD roster. That includes D Dylan Olsen, who became the third Bulldog to be chosen in the first round of the NHL draft when Chicago made him the 28th pick overall.

minnesoTa sTaTe mavericks• Geoff Irwin, a Victoria, B.C., native is serving as this year’s MSU team captain. Kael Mouillirat and junior defenseman Channing Boe are assistant captains.• MSU, which is enter its14th season as members of NCAA Div. 1 and 11th year as members of the WCHA, has an all-time record of 694-511-123 (.569).• MSU ranked 15th in the nation in attendance last year with a 4,552 fans per game mark.• Troy Jutting, who is in his 10th year at the MSU men’s hockey coaching helm, owns a career mark of 143-162-144 (.471).• Former men’s assistant coach Eric Means is now the head coach of the MSU women’s hockey program. His replacement is former Bemidji State forward and former Sioux City (USHL) head coach Todd Knott.• Three former Mavericks started the 2009-10 season on NHL-member team rosters in David Backes (St. Louis), Ryan Carter (Anaheim) and Tim Jackman (New York Islanders). D Steven Wagner is with St. Louis’ American Hockey League affiliate in Peoria, forward Jon Kalinski is with Philadelphia’s AHL-affiliate in Adirondack, and Trevor Bruess is with Washington’s AHL-affiliate in Hershey.

norTh dakoTa fighTing sioux• Dave Hakstol, the 2008-09 WCHA Coach of the Year, returns for his sixth season behind the Sioux bench. Hakstol led the Sioux to the NCAA Frozen Four in each of his first four seasons and a WCHA championship last year, his fifth. Associate head coach Cary Eades and assistant coach Dane Jackson, as well as volunteer assistant Scott Koberinski, also return.• Last season’s MacNaughton Cup title marked UND’s 14th WCHA regular season championship, the most among the league’s 10 schools.• Senior D Chay Genoway has been named captain of the Fighting Sioux, while senior forwards Chris VandeVelde and Darcy Zajac will serve as assistant captains. That trio makes up UND’s entire 2009-10 senior class.• UND welcomes back 15 letterwinners from last year’s team that captured the MacNaughton Cup and advanced to the NCAA tournament. Highlighting the returnees are WCHA Defensive Player of the Year and AHCA All-American D Chay Genoway and All-WCHA Third Team G Brad Eidsness.• Senior F Chris VandeVelde, who scored a career-high 35 points last season, is the team’s top returning scorer and is one of nine players who notched at least

10 points in 2009-10.• UND also welcomes to the fold 10 talented fresh-men, including 2008-09 USHL Playoff MVP Michael Cichy and 2008-09 AJHL Rookie of the Year Corban Knight.• In all, UND’s 25-man roster includes 15 NHL draft picks.• The Sioux were ranked No. 2 in the 39th annual Grand Forks Herald WCHA Coaches’ Poll.• D Chay Genoway was named a preseason first-team All-American by InsideCollegeHockey.com.• Freshman Michael Cichy was named to INCH’s preseason All-Rookie team.

sT. cloud sTaTe huskies• SCSU rookie F Ben Hanowski, a graduate of nearby Little Falls HS, set a Minnesota State High School League career scoring record with 405 points during his tenure at Little Falls HS. He was a draft pick of the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.• SCSU enters the 2009-10 season with three players vying for playing time between the pipes in sophomore Nate Hardy, WCHA preseason Rookie of the Year selection Mike Lee, and junior Dan Dunn.• Senior D Garrett Raboin will serve as a team captain for the third consecutive season. He was an alternate captain during his sophomore season, and he will now serve as a team captain for the second consecutive season in 2009-10.• Raboin will be joined in the captain’s chair this season by alternate captain Aaron Marvin, a junior from Warroad, Minn. He is the brother of Gigi Marvin, who skated for UM and is currently a member of the U.S. Women’s National Team.• Junior F Garrett Roe needs just seven points to join the Huskies’ 100-point club. He would become the 22nd player in team history to reach the 100-point plateau since the Huskies moved to the Div. 1 level in 1987-88.• SCSU travels to #1 ranked Miami on Oct. 9-10, for a pair of games. This will be a homecoming of sorts for SCSU coach Bob Motzko, who served as an associate head coach for Miami from 1991-93 and then again from 1994-98.• Mike Ayers, who played college hockey for New Hampshire from 2000 to 2004, will serve as a volunteer goalie coach for the Huskies this season. Ayers was in the nets during UNH’s victory over the Huskies in the 2003 NCAA Northeast Regional at Worcester, Mass.

wisconsin badgers• The 2009-10 season marks the eighth season for Mike Eaves as head coach at Wisconsin (143-111-34). Nine more conference victories will get Eaves into the 100-victory club in league games.• The Badgers boast seven seniors and nine juniors, making the squad an upperclass team for the first time since 2005-06.• The Badgers will play host to the Culver’s Camp Randall Hockey Classic/U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game on Feb. 6, 2010 against Michigan at 5 pm CT. The game, after the UW women play Bemidji State at 2 pm, will take place outdoors inside Camp Randall Stadium.• For the second consecutive season, Wisconsin will skate with five defensemen drafted in either the first or second round of the NHL draft. Junior tri-captain Ryan McDonagh, the 12th pick in the 2007 draft, leads the way.• Tri-captain Ben Street returns to the Badgers for a fifth season after a season-long injury saw him miss all but four games of the 2008-09 season.• Sophomore F Derek Stepan returns as the UW’s leading scorer after his nine-goal, 34-point rookie season.• Tri-captain Blake Geoffrion returns after sharing the team lead in goals last season with 15.

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MADISON, Wis. – The Western Collegiate Hockey Association, marking it’s 58th season of on-ice competition in 2009-10 and owning a record 36 NCAA Men’s Frozen Four titles since it’s founding in 1951, released it’s men’s composite schedule on July 10 highlighted by the appearance of the 2010 Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn., next March 18-20. Under the leadership of Commissioner Bruce M. McLeod, who has built a thriving partnership between the WCHA, Xcel Energy Center and the NHL’s Minnesota Wild, the annual WCHA Final Five has developed into college hockey’s most prosperous conference tournament. 2010 will mark the 10th consecutive season the WCHA Final Five has appeared at Xcel Energy Center, where the event has drawn 721,258 fans in nine previous appearances – an average of 80,140 per tournament and an average crowd of 16,028 per game. “We (WCHA) are tremendously fortunate to have such a special relationship with Xcel Energy Center and Vice-President and General Manager Jack Larson and his entire staff and with the Minnesota Wild and previous Owner Bob Naegele, Jr., current Owner and Governor Craig Leipold, and Vice-President for Communications and Broadcasting Bill Robertson and their staffs” said McLeod. “It has been an on-going labor of love for everyone involved in the league office, Xcel Energy Center and the Minnesota Wild and we all look forward to both continuing and building on this partnership in the future. “The WCHA would also like to acknowledge and thank Mike Diamond and Fox Sports North as our exclusive Final Five television partner and to Red Baron® as our title sponsor.” The 2009-10 campaign will be a historic one of sorts for the WCHA, as it will mark the final season of the Association as a 10 member-team league. On June 26, the WCHA membership voted to admit both Bemidji State University and the University of Nebraska Omaha into the Association family beginning with the 2010-11 season, giving the league 12 member teams. The initial on-ice action of 2009-10, scheduled for the weekend of Oct. 2-4, will consist of a series of exhibi-tion contests involving nine of the league’s 10 teams against Canadian-based opponents. The first regular season action, all non-conference matchups, will occur Oct. 9-11, highlighted by the University of Denver’s 60th Anniversary Season celebration weekend against visiting Vermont and Alaska Anchorage hosting Alaska Fairbanks, Mercyhurst and Michigan in the Kendall Hockey Classic. The race for the 2010 WCHA regular season championship, a 140-game campaign which consists of 28 league games per team, launches the weekend of Oct. 16-17 and concludes March 7. There will be five weekends during the regular season that will feature all ten WCHA-member teams engaged in league competition, with those being Oct. 23-24, Dec. 4-5, Jan. 29-30, Feb. 19-20 and March 5-7. Other non-conference action during the first half consists of Denver playing at Ohio State, St. Cloud State hosting Union College, Minnesota Duluth hosting Clarkson and Wisconsin entertaining New Hampshire, Minnesota hosting Bemidji State, Colorado College entertaining Robert Morris, Minnesota and Wisconsin playing at Michigan and Michigan State, Minnesota State traveling to Bemidji State, Michigan Tech playing at N. Michigan and Minnesota State playing a home-and-home set with Nebraska-Omaha. Over the course of the regular season, WCHA-member teams will also be hosting or playing in a number of tournaments. UAA will play in the Brice Alaska Goal Rush Tournament in Fairbanks; CC will play in the Florida College Hockey Classic at Germain Arena in Estero, Fla., on Dec. 29-30 (Cornell, Maine, Princeton); Denver will host the Wells Fargo Denver Cup at Magness Arena on Jan. 1-2 (Boston College, Nebraska Omaha, St. Lawrence); MTU will host the Great Lakes Invitational at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit on Dec. 29-30 (Michigan, Michigan State, Rensselaer); Minnesota will host the Dodge Holiday Classic at Mariucci Arena on Jan. 2-3 (Bowling Green, Clarkson, Northern Michigan); UMD will play in the Sheraton/TD Banknorth Catamount Cup in Burlington, Vt. on Jan. 2-3 (Vermont, Mercyhurst); UND will host the Subway Holiday Classic at Ralph Engelstad Arena on Nov. 27-28 (Bemidji State, Miami, Ohio State) and will also play in the Shillelagh College Hockey Tournament at Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Ill., on Jan. 1-2 (host Notre Dame, Colgate, Niagara); and Wisconsin will host the Badger Hockey Showdown at the Kohl Center on Jan. 2-3 (Ferris State, Merrimack, Yale). The second half of the season will be dominated by WCHA matchups and highlighted by Wisconsin hosting Michigan outdoors on the afternoon of Feb. 6 in the Culver’s Camp Randall Hockey Classic. The U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game will be preceded by an outdoor WCHA women’s game between the Badgers and Bemidji State. Other non-conference games during the second half will consist of MSU hosting RIT on Jan. 1-2, SCSU hosting Brown on Jan. 2-3, UM entertaining Harvard on Jan. 8-9, MTU hosting N. Michigan on Jan. 12, SCSU playing at Quinnipiac on Jan. 15-16, UND at Cornell on Jan. 22-23, UMD in a home-and-home with Bemidji State on Jan. 22-23, DU entertaining Mercyhurst on Feb. 5 and playing at Air Force on Feb. 6, CC hosting Air Force on Feb. 5 and Mercyhurst on Feb. 6, and UAA going home-and-home with Alaska Fairbanks on Feb. 26-27. The pursuit of the WCHA Playoff Championship and the Broadmoor Trophy will get underway the weekend of March 12-14 with five first round conference playoff series. The top five ranked teams in the final regular season standings will host five best-of-three playoff series. The five first-round playoff winners will then advance to the 2010 Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five, set for March 18-20 at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn. Minnesota Duluth is the defending WCHA playoff and Broadmoor Trophy champion, after the Bulldogs became the first team to ever win all three games at the Final Five. Four NCAA Men’s Div. 1 Regionals will be contested the weekend of March 26-28. Minnesota will host the West Regional at Xcel Energy Center on March 26-27, Rensselaer and ECAC Hockey will host the East Regional on March 26-27 at Times Union Center in Albany, N.Y., the College of the Holy Cross will host the Northeast Regional on March 27-28 at DCU Center in Worcester, Mass., and Notre Dame will host the Midwest Regional on March 27-28 at Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Ind. The four NCAA regional winners will then advance to the 2010 NCAA Men’s Frozen Four, set for April 8-10 at Ford Field in Detroit, Mich. Note: composite 2009-10 WCHA men’s schedule available on pages 207-208.

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wcha membership voTes To admiT bemidJi sTaTe, nebraska omaha inTo associaTion familyTwo new conference members To come on board for 2010-11 seasonJune 26, 2009/MADISON, Wis. – In what will rank among the most significant days in the storied, 58-year his-tory of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, the membership today voted to admit both Bemidji State University and the University of Nebraska Omaha into the Association family beginning with the 2010-11 season. This marks the first expansion of the WCHA since Minnesota State University, Mankato was admit-ted as a 10th member for the 1999-2000 season and eighth time overall the league has expanded since it’s founding in 1951. The admission of Bemidji State and Nebraska Omaha will bring the league membership to 12 teams. The current 10-team membership of the men’s WCHA is comprised of University of Alaska Anchorage, Colorado College, University of Denver, Michigan Technological University, University of Minnesota, University of Min-nesota Duluth, Minnesota State University, Mankato, University of North Dakota, St. Cloud State University and University of Wisconsin. “I am extremely pleased to announce that the WCHA is expanding to twelve teams,” said WCHA Commis-sioner Bruce M. McLeod. “With the addition of Bemidji State University and the University of Nebraska Omaha the WCHA solidifies and positions itself to maintain and expand upon the excellence that is the WCHA. “This is certainly a defining moment for the WCHA and we are proud to add Bemidji State and Nebraska Omaha to our already strong organization. “This is a happy and proud day for me,” continued McLeod. “I’m happy because I think this is such a win-win circumstance for the WCHA, our new members and collegiate hockey in general. I could not be more proud of the way our WCHA members have handled this very complex circumstance and have been able to look beyond their own backyard and do what is best for college hockey and the WCHA. “The WCHA is proud of what they’ve put together in 58 years (2009-10 will be the league’s 58th season) and I think this day will go down as a watershed day. I fully anticipate what we’ve done today will make us even better. I’m excited about the future and can’t wait to get going.” The WCHA is home to a collegiate record 36 national championship teams since it’s founding in 1951, a record 13 Hobey Baker Memorial Award Winners, some 400 players who have gone on to play in the National Hockey League and some 725 NHL Draftees, more than 150 alums who have played on various Olympic hockey teams, and more than 40 players and coaches who have been part of Stanley Cup (NHL) winning clubs. In addition, the WCHA has drawn in excess of 1,500,000 fans in each of the past seven seasons and in excess of 1,000,00 for 16 consecutive years and annually conducts one of college hockey’s premier post-season tourna-ments – the Red Baron™ WCHA Final Five held annually at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn. The Final Five drew 82,065 fans this past March. “The pieces are all falling into place for Bemidji State hockey,” stated BSU Director of Athletics Dr. Rick Goeb. “Beginning with the efforts to elevate our hockey programs to the NCAA Division I level and having the women’s program join the WCHA over 10 years ago, to our partnership with the city to see a world-class venue like the Bemidji Regional Event Center come to fruition, and now the men’s hockey program being approved for membership into the elite conference in all of college hockey. “We want to thank the city of Bemidji, our dedicated fans and the student body who have supported Be-midji State hockey. These outstanding hockey fans and partnerships have made membership into the WCHA a reality.” Said Bemidji State men’s hockey coach Tom Serratore, who took his team to the NCAA Men’s Frozen Four in April of this year, “This is a great day for the Beavers.“ “First, I want to thank the WCHA for this opportunity. It is truly an honor to be a part of the greatest hockey conference at the Division I level and we feel privileged to come along side the other Division I hockey programs in the state of Minnesota as members of the WCHA. “Beaver Hockey reaches far beyond this campus so that makes today’s announcement a dream come true for our alumni, many in the community and many in the region. This is a proud day for all involved with Bemidji State.” Said University of Nebraska Omaha Director of Athletics Trev Alberts, “The WCHA is an outstanding confer-ence with a long history of excellent players and coaches. When we were approached about admission, we took a long look at all aspects of a move to the WCHA. In the end, we felt there were many long-term benefits to our program. We’re excited about becoming a part of the WCHA’s rich tradition of outstanding hockey. “We did not come to this decision lightly,” Alberts continued. “We have had a fruitful ten-year affiliation with the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. It is a very well-run conference, and its member institutions have been outstanding partners. We know the CCHA will continue to thrive after we depart.” “I was happy to hear that we would be joining the WCHA in a year’s time,” said Dean Blais, UNO’s new head coach. “I’m obviously very familiar with the league as both a head coach and assistant coach for 19 years and as a player. It’s a league with a great tradition and excellent coaches, and I’m looking forward to competing against them.” Founded in 1951, the original seven members of the WCHA - then known as the Midwest Collegiate Hockey League - were Colorado College, Denver, Michigan Tech, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Minnesota and North Dakota. In 1953-54, the league changed it’s name to the WIHL, or Western Intercollegiate Hockey League, and then in 1959, the league became known as the WCHA. The first expansion of the league membership occured effective with the 1965-66 campaign, when Min-nesota Duluth became the WCHA’s eighth team. In 1969, the membership rose to nine teams with the addition of Wisconsin for the 1969-70 season. And then in 1971, the WCHA increased its membership to 10 teams with the admittance of Notre Dame for the 1971-72 season. The WCHA remained an Association of 10 teams through the 1980-81 season, when Michigan, Michigan State, Michigan Tech and Notre Dame left the fold to join the CCHA. The WCHA then remained a six team league until 1984-85, when Michigan Tech returned to the Association and the league welcomed Northern Michigan as an eighth member team. In 1990, the WCHA again grew to nine teams with the admittance of St. Cloud State for the 1990-91 campaign and on to 10 teams again when Alaska Anchorage was admitted for the 1993-94 season. In 1997, Northern Michigan opted to leave the WCHA to join the CCHA, again giving the WCHA nine teams before Minnesota State, Mankato joined the family for the 1999-2000 campaign.

AboutBemidjiStateUniversity:Bemidji State University, located in northern Minnesota’s lake district, oc-cupies a beautiful campus along the shore of Lake Bemidji. Enrolling approximately 5,000 students annually, the University offers more than 65 undergraduate majors and 14 graduate programs encompassing arts, sciences and select professional programs. The University is a member of the Minnesota State College and Universities System and has a faculty and staff of nearly 600. University signature themes include environmental stewardship, civic engagement and global/multicultural understanding. For further information about the University, visit our Web site at: http://www.bemidjistate.edu.

AbouttheUniversityofNebraskaOmaha:The University of Nebraska at Omaha recently celebrated its 100th anniversary during the 2008-2009 school year. UNO, inaugurated in 1968, emerged from the Municipal University of Omaha, established in 1931, which grew out of the University of Omaha founded in 1908. UNO

currently has an enrollment of 14,700 in six different colleges and graduate studies programs located on its urban campus in mid-town Omaha. UNO features 14 athletic teams competing in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association, one of the top Div. II conferences in the country, as well as a Div. I hockey program competing in the CCHA. Maverick athletic teams have claimed national championships in soccer, softball, volleyball and wrestling including the 2009 NCAA Div. II championship in wrestling. For further information about Univ. of Nebraska Omaha, visit: gomavs.unomaha.edu.

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Coming off its best season under head coach Dave Shyiak in 2008-09, Alaska Anchorage returns a squad with

leadership and experience that could make the Seawolves’ 31st season record-breaking and unforgettable. With 16 returning letterwinners, including the program’s most seniors since the 2002-03 season, and 10 newcomers, the Seawolves are shooting for a postseason run in 2009-10. It’s been six seasons since the Seawolves booked a ticket to the Red Baron WCHA Final Five and both the team and fans are due for another trip. After being picked to finish last in the competitive WCHA last year, the Seawolves responded with their fifth-best season since joining the league 16 years ago. “Our staff and players are very much look-ing forward to a successful season,” said 5th-year coach Shyiak, “Our goals and expectations remain the same – keep the Alaska Airlines Governor’s Cup, gain home-ice in the playoffs, and advance to the Final Five. With seven seniors sporting the Green & Gold in 2009-10, UAA will look to them to carry the team to the championships in St. Paul, Minn. “Leadership will play a vital role in our program as we take the next step,” Shyiak added. “We have a large group of seniors who have experienced the battles of the WCHA and understand what it will take to win in this league.” Leading the Seawolves this season is senior defenseman Jared Tuton (Whitehorse, YT, 1-5=6), who sports the “C” after being an assistant captain last season. Backing him up on and off the ice as assistant captains will be senior forward Josh Lunden (Coquitlam, BC, 14-6=20), senior defenseman Nils Backstrom (Stocksund, Sweden, 4-4=8) and senior for-ward Kevin Clark (Winnipeg, MB, 13-18=31). Joining the senior foursome in their last season at UAA are defenseman Trevor Hunt (Maple Ridge, BC, 4-8=12), forward Ken Selby (Winnipeg, MB, 1-1=2) and netminder Jon Olthuis (Neerlandia, AB, 6-9-1). The Seawolves return seven of their top 10 scorers from a year ago and 71% of their point production. On the forward line, Clark, junior Tommy Grant (North Vancouver, BC, 15-10=25), and Lunden, the team’s No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 scorer’s last year, respectively, will likely lead UAA offensively. “Our goal production increased last year and we must continue to build on it this season,” said Shyiak. “Our challenge as a staff will be finding some chemistry with line combinations early in the season as we have to fill a void at the center position. Grant, Lunden and Clark are upperclassmen that will be relied upon to lead us offensively. For us to improve in goal scoring, we will need secondary scoring so we’ll see who steps up and capitalizes on their scoring chances, both 5-on-5 and on the power-play.” On the blueline, the Seawolves will be led by Hunt and their dominant freshman from last year, sophomore Curtis Leinweber (Calgary, AB, 2-10=12). “Once again, I thought our defensive play was one of our strengths as we did a great job

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of limiting our opponents’ scoring chances. I think last year was the first year our program led the WCHA in the fewest shots against, and we must maintain that component of our game. Our ‘D’ is a solid group of puck - movers who are able to use their skating abilities on the big sheet of ice. We still need to improve on manufacturing shots from the point and quicker transition play.” Between the pipes, Olthuis suited up for 17 games, registering 3.43 goals-against average and a .877 save percentage. Joining Olthuis in net is junior Bryce Christianson, who saw action in 23 games last season, posting UAA’s second - best GAA in a single season (2.60), and tallying two shutouts. Christianson recorded a .893 save percentage and an 8-8-4 win-loss mark. “I don’t think anyone will argue that goal-tending must be a strength of your hockey team in order to achieve success. Both Olthuis and Christianson have played enough games to prove they are capable of being a number one goalie in this league. We will need con-sistency at this position for us to move up in the standings,” Shyiak said. The UAA incoming class is comprised of 10 newcomers (seven forwards, three defense-men), including three that hail from the state of Alaska. The Seawolves gathered four freshmen from Canada, one from Minnesota, one from the Netherlands and a native of Sweden. “Our incoming class will give us skating, size, scoring ability and depth. Time will tell what roles they will fill in making the transition to the college game.” The Seawolves’ 2009-10 schedule com-mences with the Kendall Hockey Classic on Oct. 9-10. Joining five-time tournament champion UAA at the 19th edition of the Clas-sic will be Michigan, Mercyhurst and Alaska Fairbanks. The Seawolves will look to defend their title when they play in the second annual Alaska Goal Rush tournament in Fairbanks on Oct. 16-17. They will face Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Robert Morris, respectively. The 17th season of WCHA play for UAA begins Oct. 23-24 as it hosts North Dakota in the first of seven conference series to be played at Sullivan Arena. Also making visits to the 49th State in 2009-10 are Denver, Minnesota State, St. Cloud State, Colorado College, Min-nesota and 2009 WCHA Final Five Champion Minnesota-Duluth. UAA’s conference road series are at Minnesota, Wisconsin, CC, DU, Michigan Tech, SCSU and Minnesota State. For the second straight season the Sea-wolves will face UAF just two times in their annual Alaska Airlines Governor’s Cup series, as the Alaska schools will play a home-and-home series Feb. 26 (at UAA) and Feb. 27 (at UAF). The Seawolves, who have won the Governor’s Cup the last three seasons, are unbeaten in their last 10 games (8-0-2) against the Nanooks. The Seawolves were three wins away from having home-ice advantage in the playoffs last season, and with the right combination of leadership, determination and poise, 2009-10 could be UAA’s best season ever.

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ocToberDate Game Time 2 SAIT POLYTECHNIC @ Wasilla (x) 7:07 pm AT 9 KENDALL HOCKEY CLASSIC Michigan vs Alaska (nc) 5:07 pm AT Mercyhurst vs UAA (nc) 8:07 pm AT 10 KENDALL HOCKEY CLASSIC Mercyhurst vs Alaska (nc) 4:07 pm AT Michigan vs UAA (nc) 7:07 pm AT 16 @ Brice Alaska Goal Rush, Fairbanks UAA vs Rensselaer (nc) 4:35 pm AT Robert Morris vs Alaska (nc) 7:35 pm AT 17 @ Brice Alaska Goal Rush, Fairbanks UAA vs Robert Morris (nc) 4:35 pm AT Rensselaer vs Alaska (nc) 7:35 pm AT 23 NORTH DAKOTA (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT 24 NORTH DAKOTA (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT 30 at Minnesota (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT

november 1 at Minnesota (WCHA) 4:07 pm CT 6 DENVER (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT 7 DENVER (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT 13 at Wisconsin (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT 14 at Wisconsin (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT 20 MINNESOTA STATE (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT 21 MINNESOTA STATE (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT 27 at Colorado College (WCHA) 7:37 pm MT 28 at Colorado College (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT

december 4 ST. CLOUD STATE (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT 5 ST. CLOUD STATE (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT

January 8 at Denver (WCHA) 7:37 pm MT 9 at Denver (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT 15 at Michigan Tech (WCHA) 7:07 pm ET 16 at Michigan Tech (WCHA) 5:07 pm ET 22 COLORADO COLLEGE (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT 23 COLORADO COLLEGE (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT 29 MINNESOTA (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT 30 MINNESOTA (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT

february 5 at St. Cloud State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT 6 at St. Cloud State (WCHA) 5:07 pm CT 19 at Minnesota State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT 20 at Minnesota State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT 26 ALASKA FAIRBANKS (nc) 7:07 pm AT 27 at Alaska Fairbanks (nc) 7:05 pm AT

march 5 MINNESOTA DULUTH (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT 6 MINNESOTA DULUTH (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT

(x) exhibition; (nc) non-conference; (WCHA) conference

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alaska anchorage seawolvesnumerical rosTerNo. Name Pos 4 Kane Lafranchise D 6 Drew Darwitz D 7 Lee Baldwin D 8 Scott Warner D 9 Kevin Clark F 10 Mickey Spencer F 11 Curtis Leinweber D 12 Mitch Bruijsten F 13 Nils Backstrom (DET) D 14 Craig Parkinson F 15 Brad Gorham F/D 16 Tommy Grant F 17 Chris Crowell F 18 Nick Haddad F 19 Ken Selby F 20 Alex Gellert F 21 Josh Lunden F 22 Jared Tuton F 23 Luka Vidmar D 24 Trevor Hunt D 26 Tyler Currier F 27 Sean Wiles F 30 Jon Olthuis G 36 Jade Portwood F 38 Dusan Sidor G 40 Daniel Naslund F 49 Bryce Christianson G

No. Name(Capts)(NHLDraft) Yr Pos Ht Wt S/C Age Hometown/PreviousTeam/League 13 Nils Backstrom (DET) SR D 6-1 203 L 23 Stocksund, Sweden / Djurgardens/J20 Sweden 7 Lee Baldwin FR D 6-4 203 L 21 Victoria, BC / Victoria Grizzlies/BCHL 12 Mitch Bruijsten FR F 6-4 195 L 20 Nijmegen, Netherlands / Sioux City /USHL 49 Bryce Christianson JR G 6-2 195 R 22 Anchorage, AK / Vernon/BCHL 9 Kevin Clark SR F 5-9 171 R 21 Winnipeg, MB / Winnipeg South/MJHL 17 Chris Crowell FR F 6-2 205 R 21 Williams Lake, BC / Vernon Vipers/BCHL 26 Tyler Currier FR F 6-1 198 R 21 Anchorage, AK / Alaska Avalanche/NAHL 6 Drew Darwitz FR D 5-8 165 L 20 Cottage Grove, UM / Fairbanks Ice Dogs/NAHL 20 Alex Gellert FR F 6-1 170 R 20 Kelowna, BC / Cowichan Valley Capitals/BCHL 15 Brad Gorham SO F/D 6-1 195 R 23 Anchorage, AK / Ohio State/CCHA 16 Tommy Grant JR F 6-2 194 L 23 North Vancouver, BC / Westside/BCHL 18 Nick Haddad JR F 6-2 191 L 23 Fairbanks, AK / Fairbanks/NAHL 24 Trevor Hunt SR D 5-10 190 L 23 Maple Ridge, BC / Chilliwack/BCHL 4 Kane Lafranchise JR D 6-1 198 L 21 Edmonton, AB / Spruce Grove/AJHL 11 Curtis Leinweber SO D 5-8 171 L 21 Calgary, AB / Okotoks/AJHL 21 Josh Lunden SR F 6-2 202 L 23 Coquitlam, BC / Chilliwack/BCHL 40 Daniel Naslund FR F 6-3 205 L 20 Nykoping, Sweden / Vasteras/J20 Sweden 30 Jon Olthuis SR G 6-4 200 R 24 Neerlandia, AB / Vernon/BCHL 14 Craig Parkinson JR F 6-0 187 R 23 Victoria, BC / Cowichan Valley/BCHL 36 Jade Portwood SO F 6-3 207 L 21 Victoria, BC / Brooks/AJHL 19 Ken Selby SR F 6-1 187 L 23 Winnipeg, MB / Dauphin/MJHL 38 Dusan Sidor SO G 6-0 166 R 22 Poprad, Slovakia / Alaska/NAHL 10 Mickey Spencer FR F 6-0 189 L 20 Gibbons, AB / Cowichan Valley Capitals/BCHL 22 Jared Tuton SR F 6-1 202 R 24 Whitehorse, YT / Calgary/AJHL 23 Luka Vidmar JR D 6-1 192 R 23 Ljubljana, Slovenia / Chicago/USHL 8 Scott Warner SO D 5-9 180 L 21 Anchorage, AK / Army/Atlantic Hockey 27 Sean Wiles JR F 6-4 211 R 22 Beloit, WI / Tri-City/USHL Captain: Jared Tuton. Asst. Captains: Kevin Clark, Nils Backstrom, Josh Lunden. Head Coach: Dave Shyiak (Northern Michigan ‘93). Career Record (Entering 2009-10): 40-86-19 (.341) (4 Seasons). Record at UAA (Entering 2009-10): 40-86-19 (.341) (4 Seasons). Associate Head Coach: Campbell Blair (Maine ‘91). Assistant Coach: Regg Simon (Alaska Anchorage). Goaltending Coach: Scott Johnson (Minnesota Duluth).

2009-10 uaa alphabeTical rosTer

head coach dave shyiak

Dave Shyiak marks his fifth season as head coach of the University of Alaska Anchorage hockey program

in 2009-10. The Shyiak-led Seawolves captured the Alaska Airlines Governor’s Cup for the third consecutive season in 2008-09, while extend-ing their unbeaten streak against intrastate rival Alaska Fairbanks to 10 games (8-0-2). UAA also enjoyed victories over Connecticut, Maine and Mercyhurst for a 13-1-4 record against non-conference teams in the last three seasons combined. During the 2008-09 season, Shyiak led the Seawolves to their best season in the WCHA since 2001-02 by posting a 41% winning-percentage - UAA’s fifth-best conference win-ning-percentage ever. The Seawolves were the most improved team in the WCHA last season, increasing their point tally by 11. UAA finished the regular season with conference victories over every WCHA except Wisconsin and Min-nesota - including sweeping eventual WCHA Final Five champions Minnesota-Duluth on the road. Prior to last season, the Seawolves had gotten increasingly stingier defensively dur-ing Shyiak’s tenure. UAA’s shots allowed per game had dropped each season from 38.7 a game in 2004-2005, the season prior to his arrival, to just 25.8 in 2007-08, including 26.2 shots allowed in conference action - setting a school record for conference play. UAA also set a program-record with its eight overall ties in 2007-08. Shyiak guided the Seawolves to a seven-game improvement in 2006-07 - his second

behind the bench at UAA - while overseeing the first winning season on home ice (9-8-1) in five years. UAA also claimed the Nye Frontier Classic title and Alaska Airlines Governor’s Cup title in 2006-07, marking the first time the Seawolves have accomplished both in the same season. Shyiak’s second season was also highlighted by home sweeps over rival Alaska Fairbanks and league foe North Dakota. Introduced as the fourth head coach in program history on June 14, 2005, Shyiak earned his first-ever head coaching victory with a 6-3 triumph at home over Rensselaer on Oct. 14, 2005. His first WCHA win also occurred on home ice with a 2-0 blanking of Minnesota Duluth on Nov. 19, 2005. Under Shyiak’s guidance the Seawolves have had 40 student-athletes earn recogni-tion on the WCHA Academic All-Conference Team. Prior to coming to UAA, Shyiak was an as-sistant at his alma mater, Northern Michigan University, for 10 seasons, including three as associate head coach. At NMU, Shyiak helped the Wildcats to seven 20-win seasons, six Central Collegiate Hockey Association tournament berths and one NCAA tournament appearance. NMU was a member of the WCHA during his first three seasons as an assistant. Shyiak served as the head coach of the North American Select Team in 2000 and 2001, guiding the squad to silver-medal finishes both seasons at the World ‘Junior A’ Hockey Tournament in Tampere, Finland. Prior to his stint at his alma mater, Shyiak was general manager and head coach of the

Merritt Centennials of the British Columbia Junior Hockey League (1994-95) and head coach of the Kimberley Dynamiters of the Rocky Mountain Junior Hockey League (1993-94). Shyiak led Kimberley to both the regular season title and the playoff title while also garnering Coach of the Year honors. He began his coaching career as a student assistant at NMU under Rick Comley in 1992-93, helping guide the Wildcats to a NCAA berth. A co-captain on NMU’s 1991 NCAA Cham-pionship team, Shyiak also claimed two WCHA

Tournament titles (1989 and 1991) and one WCHA regular-season title (1991) as a player and earned WCHA All-Academic Team ac-colades. He earned a Bachelors of Science in Physical Education from Northern Michigan in 1993 and a Masters degree in Training and Development in Human Performance from NMU in 2007. Shyiak and his wife Lucia are the parents of two sons - Kristian and Sheldon - and one daughter - Isabela.

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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Alaska Anchorage | Overall - 36 GP (14-17- 5 .458) | Conf Only - 28 GP ( 9-14- 5 .411) | Career ------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|----------------## Player POS YR | GP G A PTS PEN/MIN PP SH GW GT | GP G A PTS PEN/MIN PP SH GW GT | GP G A PTS20 Paul Crowder F JR | 35 14 19 33 22/ 44 6 2 2 3 | 27 11 12 23 18/ 36 5 1 1 3 | 107 32 48 80 9 Kevin Clark F JR | 34 13 18 31 35/ 81 4 0 1 0 | 26 9 12 21 26/ 63 3 0 1 0 | 105 28 43 7116 Tommy Grant F SO | 32 15 10 25 27/ 54 2 1 1 0 | 24 12 5 17 20/ 40 1 1 1 0 | 63 20 12 3221 Josh Lunden F JR | 34 14 6 20 13/ 26 6 0 2 1 | 26 10 4 14 11/ 22 4 0 2 1 | 101 39 28 6740 Brian Bales F SR | 34 1 15 16 9/ 26 1 0 0 0 | 26 0 9 9 5/ 10 0 0 0 0 | 46 1 16 1733 Mat Robinson D SR | 35 3 12 15 13/ 37 1 1 0 0 | 27 1 11 12 11/ 33 0 1 0 0 | 143 9 35 4424 Trevor Hunt D JR | 36 4 8 12 19/ 38 4 0 0 0 | 28 4 6 10 16/ 32 4 0 0 0 | 75 4 14 1811 Curtis Leinweber D FR | 22 2 10 12 6/ 12 0 0 1 0 | 21 2 10 12 6/ 12 0 0 1 0 | 22 2 10 1214 Craig Parkinson F SO | 35 7 4 11 15/ 30 2 1 2 0 | 27 4 3 7 12/ 24 0 1 1 0 | 68 14 13 2727 Sean Wiles F SO | 30 3 7 10 10/ 20 0 0 1 0 | 25 3 5 8 8/ 16 0 0 1 0 | 44 3 11 14 4 Kane Lafranchise D SO | 31 3 7 10 7/ 25 1 0 1 0 | 23 2 4 6 6/ 23 0 0 0 0 | 64 6 12 1818 Nick Haddad F SO | 35 3 7 10 17/ 42 0 0 1 0 | 27 3 6 9 12/ 32 0 0 1 0 | 60 3 9 1212 Tyler Moir F FR | 36 1 8 9 10/ 20 0 0 1 0 | 28 0 7 7 8/ 16 0 0 0 0 | 36 1 8 913 Nils Backstrom (DET) D JR | 34 4 4 8 19/ 38 0 0 0 0 | 26 3 3 6 17/ 34 0 0 0 0 | 83 6 15 2122 Jared Tuton F JR | 32 1 5 6 13/ 45 0 0 0 0 | 28 1 5 6 11/ 30 0 0 0 0 | 103 3 12 1523 Luka Vidmar D SO | 30 1 4 5 16/ 32 0 0 0 0 | 22 0 2 2 11/ 22 0 0 0 0 | 60 2 9 1110 Shane Lovdahl D SR | 32 1 4 5 11/ 22 0 0 0 0 | 25 1 4 5 10/ 20 0 0 0 0 | 110 8 25 3336 Jade Portwood F FR | 28 2 2 4 9/ 32 1 0 0 0 | 20 1 1 2 3/ 20 0 0 0 0 | 28 2 2 439 August Aiken F FR | 19 2 0 2 1/ 2 1 0 0 0 | 15 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 | 19 2 0 219 Ken Selby F JR | 23 1 1 2 9/ 18 0 0 1 0 | 17 0 0 0 5/ 10 0 0 0 0 | 43 2 2 4 6 Jeremy Smith D SR | 16 0 1 1 7/ 14 0 0 0 0 | 11 0 0 0 5/ 10 0 0 0 0 | 17 0 1 144 Jeff Carlson D SO | 5 0 0 0 1/ 2 0 0 0 0 | 5 0 0 0 1/ 2 0 0 0 0 | 6 0 0 030 Jon Olthuis G JR | 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 63 0 2 249 Bryce Christianson G SO | 21 0 0 0 1/ 2 0 0 0 0 | 16 0 0 0 1/ 2 0 0 0 0 | 25 0 0 0 Bench | 6/ 12 | 5/ 10 |------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|----------------Alaska Anchorage | 36 95 152 247 296/674 29 5 14 4 | 28 69 109 178 228/519 18 4 9 4 |Opponents | 36 112 189 301 250/543 51 3 17 1 | 28 94 160 254 189/410 44 3 14 1 |------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------## Goaltending (Overall) | GP Minutes GA Saves Shots Save% GAA Record Win% GS SO %Time | Overall49 Bryce Christianson SO | 21 1199:00 52 432 484 .893 2.60 8- 8- 4 .500 20 2 54.7% | +: 508:59 23.2%30 Jon Olthuis JR | 17 980:16 56 398 454 .877 3.43 6- 9- 1 .406 16 0 44.7% | -: 824:42 37.6% Open Net | 14 13:32 4 4 0.6% | E: 859:07 39.2%Alaska Anchorage | 36 2192:48 112 830 942 .881 3.06 14-17- 5 .458 36 2 100.0% |Opponents | 36 2192:48 95 828 923 .897 2.60 17-14- 5 .542 36 0 100.0% |------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------## Goaltending (Conference Only) | GP Minutes GA Saves Shots Save% GAA Record Win% GS SO %Time | Conference Only49 Bryce Christianson SO | 16 899:58 42 332 374 .888 2.80 4- 7- 4 .400 15 0 52.5% | +: 361:29 21.1%30 Jon Olthuis JR | 14 802:42 48 322 370 .870 3.59 5- 7- 1 .423 13 0 46.9% | -: 723:39 42.2% Open Net | 10 10:08 4 4 0.6% | E: 627:40 36.6%Alaska Anchorage | 28 1712:48 94 654 748 .874 3.29 9-14- 5 .411 28 0 100.0% |Opponents | 28 1712:48 69 616 685 .899 2.42 14- 9- 5 .589 28 0 100.0% |------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------## Goaltending (Career) | GP Minutes GA Saves Shots Save% GAA Record Win% GS SO |30 Jon Olthuis JR | 63 3625:45 192 1454 1646 .883 3.18 15-32-10 .351 57 1 |49 Bryce Christianson SO | 25 1382:35 63 513 576 .891 2.73 8-12- 4 .417 24 2 |------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Special Teams (Overall|Conference) | Power Play Penalty Kill Combined PPC/G | Power Play Penalty Kill Combined PPC/GAlaska Anchorage | 29/180 .161 179/230 .778 208/410 .507 5.0 | 18/138 .130 138/182 .758 156/320 .488 4.9Opponents | 51/230 .222 151/180 .839 202/410 .493 6.4 | 44/182 .242 120/138 .870 164/320 .512 6.5------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------Scoring/Shots (Overall|Conference) | 1st 2nd 3rd OT TOT | 1st 2nd 3rd OT SOG | 1st 2nd 3rd OT TOT | 1st 2nd 3rd OT SOGAlaska Anchorage | 20 40 34 1 95 | 257 356 292 18 923 | 13 29 26 1 69 | 194 259 214 18 685Opponents | 34 39 37 2 112 | 294 325 309 14 942 | 26 32 34 2 94 | 225 259 250 14 748Difference | -14 +1 -3 -1 -17 | -37 +31 -17 +4 -19 | -13 -3 -8 -1 -25 | -31 +0 -36 +4 -63------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------Game Averages (Overall|Conference) | G/GM A/GM PTS/G SOG/G PEN/G PIM/G PPG/G | G/GM A/GM PTS/G SOG/G PEN/G PIM/G PPG/GAlaska Anchorage | 2.64 4.22 6.86 25.6 8.2 18.7 0.8 | 2.46 3.89 6.36 24.5 8.1 18.5 0.6Opponents | 3.11 5.25 8.36 26.2 6.9 15.1 1.4 | 3.36 5.71 9.07 26.7 6.8 14.6 1.6Difference | -0.47 -1.03 -1.50 -0.5 +1.3 +3.6 -0.6 | -0.89 -1.82 -2.71 -2.2 +1.4 +3.9 -0.9------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------Situational Records | H:17 5- 8- 4 A:17 7- 9- 1 N: 2 2- 0- 0 | H:14 3- 7- 4 A:14 6- 7- 1 N: 0 0- 0- 0(Overall|Conference) | E1 +: 7 4- 2- 1 -:17 5-10- 2 E:12 5- 5- 2 | E1 +: 5 2- 2- 1 -:15 4- 9- 2 E: 8 3- 3- 2 | E2 +: 8 7- 0- 1 -:12 1-10- 1 E:16 6- 7- 3 | E2 +: 5 4- 0- 1 -:11 1- 9- 1 E:12 4- 5- 3 | Margin 1:14 8- 6 2:10 4- 6 3+: 7 2- 5 | Margin 1:11 7- 4 2: 7 2- 5 3+: 5 0- 5 | First Goal +:15 7- 6- 2 -:21 7-11- 3 | First Goal +:11 5- 4- 2 -:17 4-10- 3---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2008-09 uaa sTaTisTics & game-by-game resulTssepTemberDt Game W-L Score 25 *USA UNDER-18 TEAM (x) L 3-4

ocTober 4 *BRITISH COLUMBIA (x) W 6-2 10 #CONNECTICUT (nc) W 6- 2 11 #NORTHEASTERN (nc) L 2-4 17 & vs Maine (nc) W 3-1 18 & vs Mercyhurst (nc) W 6-4 24 MINNESOTA DULUTH (WCHA) W 4-3 25 MINNESOTA DULUTH (WCHA) T 1-1 ot 31 at Michigan Tech (WCHA) L 2-4

november 1 % at Michigan Tech (WCHA) W 2-1 7 MINNESOTA STATE (WCHA) L 3-5 8 MINNESOTA STATE (WCHA) T 2-2 ot 14 at North Dakota (WCHA) W 3-2 15 at North Dakota (WCHA) L 1-3 21 COLORADO COLLEGE (WCHA) W 4-2 22 COLORADO COLLEGE (WCHA) L 3-4 ot

december 5 at Wisconsin (WCHA) L 2-3 6 at Wisconsin (WCHA) L 2-7 9 WISCONSIN (WCHA) L 2-3 10 WISCONSIN (WCHA) L 3-6

January 16 at Minnesota State (WCHA) W 4-2 17 at Minnesota State (WCHA) L 1-7 23 MICHIGAN TECH (WCHA) T 3-3 ot 24 MICHIGAN TECH (WCHA) T 3-3 ot 30 at Denver (WCHA) L 2-6 31 at Denver (WCHA) W 3-2 ot

february 6 ST. CLOUD STATE (WCHA) L 1-3 7 ST. CLOUD STATE (WCHA) W 2-1 13 at Minnesota (WCHA) T 2-2 ot 14 at Minnesota (WCHA) L 2-4 20 NORTH DAKOTA (WCHA) L 1-2 OT 21 NORTH DAKOTA (WCHA) L 2-6 27 at Alaska (nc) W 1-0 28 ALASKA (nc) W 3-0

march 6 at Minnesota Duluth (WCHA) W 5-4 7 at Minnesota Duluth (WCHA) W 4-3 13 + at Denver (nc) L 2-3 14 + at Denver (nc) L 3-4

Key: * Wasilla, AK; # Kendall Hockey Classic (Anchor-age, AK); & Alaska Goal Rush (Fairbanks, AK); % Hockey Hall of Fame Game; + WCHA First Round; (x) exhibition; (WCHA) conference; (nc) non-con-ference.

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Fall,1979: University of Alaska Anchorage hockey is born … UAA defeats Alaska-Fairbanks, 13-3, in the Seawolves’ first collegiate game … all of UAA’s eight collegiate games in its first season were wins over UAF.1982-83: Seawolves recorded their first 20-win season, finishing 20-7-1 overall.March 7, 1983: the first-ever sporting event held at the George M. Sullivan Arena was a hockey game between UAA and the U.S. National Team … the U.S. defeated the Seawolves, 4-3.Fall,1983: Sullivan Arena in downtown Anchorage officially became host to UAA hockey games.Jan.8,1984: a loss to Div. 1 member North Dakota in the championship game of the inaugural First Inter-state Classic tournament ended UAA’s 29-game win streak – which began the previous season.Spring, 1984: Dennis Sorenson and Tim Molle become the first Seawolves to earn first team All-American honors for Div. II/III … Ron Benton and Marc Nokelby are the first UAA student-athletes named second team All-American for Div. II/III.Fall, 1984: UAA Hockey moves up to NCAA Div. 1 status.1986-87: UAA captures the Great West Hockey Conference regular season title.Dec. 18, 1988: Alaska Anchorage wins its first Nissan/Jeep Classic tournament with a double overtime 5-4 victory over visiting Western Michigan.March,1990: Seawolves earned their first-ever bid to the NCAA Div. 1 Men’s Tournament.March15-16,1991: UAA sweeps Boston College, 3-2 and 3-1, in the first round of the NCAA tournament.March,1992:Seawolves make their third consecutive appearance in the NCAA Div. 1 Men’s Tournament.Summer, 1993: University of Alaska Anchorage officially joined the Western Collegiate Hockey As-sociation (WCHA).March,1994: Goaltender Lee Schill becomes the first Seawolf to be named to an All-WCHA team when he earned second team honors.May,1996: Dean Talafous is named the second head coach of Seawolf hockey.Oct.21,1996:Alaska Anchorage Hockey retires jersey No. 79 in honor of Kelvin ‘Brush’ Christiansen, the first coach in the program’s history.March,1999: Goaltender Gregg Naumenko became UAA’s first All-WCHA First Team member and first WCHA Rookie of the Year.March,2001: Dean Talafous’ tenure as head coach at Alaska Anchorage ends.April,2001: John Hill, longtime WCHA assistant coach with CC and Minnesota, is named the third head coach in the history of UAA Hockey.March, 2002: Defenseman Matt Shasby earns All-WCHA Second Team honors … first-year coach John Hill is named one of ten finalists for the Spencer Pen-rose Award, presented by the AHCA to the University Division National Coach of the Year … Hill guides the resurgent Seawolves to a 12-19-5 overall record and a tie for 6th in the WCHA at 10-14-4.March,2003: 11 members of the 2002-03 UAA hockey team earn All-WCHA Academic Team honors in Joe Garvin, Lee Green, John Hopson, Chris King, Vladimir Novak, Kevin Reiter, Morgan Roach, Matt Shasby, Dal-las Steward, Martin Stuchlik and Steve Suihkonen.March12-14,2004: Seawolves win their first-ever WCHA playoff series by taking two of three games from host Wisconsin at the Kohl Center in Madison … UAA wins 3-2 on Friday, falls 4-0 on Saturday, and then comes back for a 4-1 victory on Sunday to clinch the program’s first berth in the Final Five.March18-20,2004: Seawolves make their first-ever appearance in the WCHA Final Five at Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul … UAA defeats CC, 4-1, in the Thursday quarterfinal to advance … on Friday, Alaska Anchorage falls, 4-2, to MacNaughton Cup champion North Dakota … then, in the third place game on Saturday, UAA is defeated 4-2 by UMD to end the Seawolves’ inspiring post-regular season run.June14,2005: Alaska Anchorage athletic director Steve Cobb announces that Dave Shyiak has been

AC: 907. Location: Anchorage, AK 99508. Founded: 1977. Enrollment: 19,486.Nickname: Seawolves. Colors: Green and Gold. Arena: Sullivan Arena (200 x 100). Capacity: 6,251. Press Box Phone: 279-2071. Faculty Representative: Steve Strom (786-6411, afsls1@uaa.alaska.edu). Director of Athletics: Dr. Steve Cobb (786-1225, ansrc@uaa.alaska.edu). HeadCoach: Dave Shyiak (786-1227, andps@uaa.alaska.edu). AssistantCoaches: Campbell Blair (786-1292, ancb@uaa.alaska.edu); Regg Simon (786-6103, anrjs2@uaa.alaska.edu). VolunteerAssistantCoach: Brian Kraft. AthleticTrainer: Kevin Lechtenberg (786-6164, kev@uaa.alaska.edu). EquipmentManager: Patrick Robertson (786-1355, anpdr@uaa.alaska.edu). PublicRelationsDirector: Nate Sagan (786-4625, fax 563-4565, anss@uaa.alaska.edu). UAA Ticket Office: 786-1293 (Mary Beth Wooden, Marybeth@uaa.alaska.edu). WebSite: GoSeawolves.com.

hired as the head coach of the Seawolves’ hockey program … Shyiak, who becomes the fourth head coach in the program’s 26-year history, comes to UAA from Northern Michigan University, where he had been an assistant for 10 seasons, including the past three as the associate head coach.Nov. 4, 2006: Alaska Anchorage earned its 100th all-time WCHA victory with a 2-1 win at home over Wisconsin.2007-08: Alaska Anchorage played the program’s 1,000th all-time game on Feb. 29 at home vs WCHA-rival Minnesota.

uaa Team direcTory

sTrom cobb shyiak blair

simon lechTenberg roberTson baldwin

uaa program milesTones

sullivan arena • home of The seawolves

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colorado collegeTigers

With more than half its roster comprised of freshmen and sophomores, Colorado College will

sport a new look in 2009-10. True, the Tigers also have nine seniors - which should help in terms of leadership - but a number of those “upper classmen” have not played key roles in the past. Toss in a trio of goaltenders whose collective experience at the collegiate level adds up to less than one game, and this fall truly marks the beginning of a new chapter for the program. Scott Owens, who enters his second decade as head coach, is eagerly looking forward to the challenge. “It’s going to be a relatively inexperienced team, there’s no doubt,” Owens said. “Yes, we have some concerns. But that isn’t always a bad thing. Sometimes there’s a certain amount of freshness and newness to it all. It’s going to require a certain patience from the staff as we sort through it and let some of these young players make mistakes as they develop. “For guys who have been waiting for their opportunity, this is their chance to show what they can do. The senior class is large. They’ve been around the program for a long time and they understand what it takes. So, all in all, I think it’s going to be a good season.” Of 28 players on the roster, no fewer than 15 will be in their first or second year at CC. With the exception of Gabe Guentzel, who played in 36 of the team’s 38 outings as a rookie de-fenseman in 2008-09, the sophomores in that group haven’t had much chance to establish themselves. Three forwards – David Civitarese, Nick Dineen and Tim Hall – combined for only one goal and 12 points while averaging 20 appearances apiece a year ago, while blueline specialists Ted Behrend and Arthur Bidwell played just eight games each. Offensively, the Tigers need to replace some healthy production provided by Chad Rau, Eric Walsky and Scott McCulloch, who accounted nearly 36 percent of the team’s 103 goals in ‘08-09. Rau, a two-time All-American and All-WCHA first-team selection, led CC with 18 tallies and 37 points. Walsky collected 36 points, including 24 assists that tied a team high matched by defenseman Brian Connelly. With Connelly also gone after signing a profes-sional contract with the Chicago Blackhawks, Colorado College has lost its top three point producers from a year ago. Hoping to lead the charge in ‘09-10 are senior left wing Bill Sweatt, right wing Mike Testwuide and center Andreas Vlassopoulos. Sweatt, whose blazing speed makes him one of the nation’s most exciting players, enters his final collegiate season with 76 career points (31g,45a) and is destined for a break-through year. Testwuide, who was elected team captain last spring, hopes to regain the scoring touch he enjoyed during his first two campaigns, when he struck for eight and 11 goals, respec-tively. Vlassopoulos, a proven playmaker and special teams artist, aims to make a significant improvement on his career totals of 16 goals and 43 assists. Addison DeBoer, Brian McMillin, Matt Over-man and Dan Quilico round out the group of

The 2009-10 season

bill sweaTT

kris fredheim

senior forwards, while juniors Tyler Johnson and Stephen Schultz are poised to make big strides. Of those six players, only Schultz ever has scored more than six times in a season. He had 10 red lighters in 2008-09. “I think it will be spread out a little more,” said Owens. “We do have a handful of experi-enced guys, but it’s still going to have to evolve … Diversfying it all – getting a lot of guys with nine goals instead of two guys with 18, or something like that – will be important.” The class of nine freshmen, which includes defensemen Mike Boivin, Doug Leaverton and Joe Marciano, also features four promis-ing forwards in Andrew Hamburg, William Rapuzzi, Rylan Schwartz and Scott Winkler. All are veterans of the junior A ranks, and Winkler was a third-round selection of the Dallas Stars in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. Behrend and Bidwill join the three fresh-men in completing a group of nine defense-men headlined by seniors Kris Fredheim and Nate Prosser. Both Fredheim and Prosser have been regulars at the blue line since the their sophomore year after platooning with each other as freshmen. Junior Ryan Lowery already has played in 69 career outings, developing a strong transition game, while Guentzel returns after a very impressive rookie season in which he finished fifth among all Tigers with 17 points (3g,14a). “We should be able to lean on those guys early,” Owens said. “When you look at Fred-heim, Prosser and Lowery, as well as Gabe (Guentzel), who played a lot of minutes last year, it’s a very solid group to help guide us through with our young goaltenders.” And that’s the big unknown heading into ‘09-10 – what to expect between the pipes. With Richard Bachman opting to sign a contract with the Dallas Stars after only two seasons at CC, and Drew O’Connell having graduated in May, junior Tyler O’Brien returns as the team’s only experienced goalie. Excluding exhibitions, however, O’Brien has appeared in only three games as a Tiger, compiling less than 35 minutes of total ice time. He’ll compete for a starting nod against a pair of freshmen out of the USHL – Joe Howe and Hudson Stremmel. “It’s going to be wide open,” said Owens, anticipating the internal competition in net. “We’re going to wait and see how it goes, try to get a look at different people and sort through it. We’ve got a good mix of guys. They just need some experience. “With the little scrap of ice that he’s gotten, O’Brien has played pretty well and it remains to be seen whether he takes another step. Howe is pretty highly touted … he’s mature, has been in the USHL the last two years, and has pretty good size with fundamentally good mechanics. Stremmel comes in with just one year in the USHL, a little bit of a non-traditional hockey background from Reno, Nev., but he’s good size, competes, and is aggressive and athletic.” “From a talent standpoint, we have some nice pieces. There are guys who can play roles. There’s some scoring, some speed, and some playmaking. It’s just a matter of putting it all together.”

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ocToberDate Game Time 3 CALGARY (x) 7:37 pm MT 9 NORTHEASTERN (nc) 7:37 pm MT 10 NORTHEASTERN (nc) 7:07 pm MT 16 at Wisconsin (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT 17 at Wisconsin (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT 23 MICHIGAN TECH (WCHA) 7:37 pm MT 24 MICHIGAN TECH (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT

november 6 MINNESOTA DULUTH (WCHA) 7:37 pm MT 7 MINNESOTA DULUTH (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT 13 at Minnesota State (WCHA) 7:37 pm CT 14 at Minnesota State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT 20 ROBERT MORRIS (nc) 7:37 pm MT 21 ROBERT MORRIS (nc) 7:07 pm MT 27 ALASKA ANCHORAGE (WCHA) 7:37 pm MT 28 ALASKA ANCHORAGE (WCHA) 7:05 pm MT

december 4 DENVER (WCHA) 7:37 pm MT 5 at Denver (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT 11 at St. Cloud State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT 12 at St. Cloud State (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT 29 @ Florida College Classic, Germain Arena, Estero, FL Maine vs Princeton (nc) 4:05 pm ET CC vs Cornell (nc) 7:35 pm ET 30 @ Florida College Classic, Germain Arena, Estero, FL Third Place Game (nc) 4:05 pm ET Championship Game (nc) 7:35 pm ET

January 8 at Minnesota Duluth (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT 9 at Minnesota Duluth (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT 15 WISCONSIN (WCHA) 7:37 pm MT 16 WISCONSIN (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT 22 at Alaska Anchorage (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT 23 at Alaska Anchorage (WCHA) 7:07 pm AT 29 ST. CLOUD STATE (WCHA) 7:37 pm MT 30 ST. CLOUD STATE (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT

february 5 AIR FORCE (nc) 7:37 pm MT 6 MERCYHURST (nc) 7:07 pm MT 19 at Minnesota (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT 20 at Minnesota (WCHA) 7:07 pm CT 26 NORTH DAKOTA (WCHA) 7:37 pm MT 27 NORTH DAKOTA (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT

march 5 at Denver (WCHA) 7:37 pm MT 6 DENVER (WCHA) 7:07 pm MT

(x) exhibition; (nc) non-conference; (WCHA) conference

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No. Name(Capts)(NHLDraft) Yr Pos Ht Wt S/C Age Hometown/PreviousTeam 3 Ted Behrend SO D 5-11 180 L 19 Oregon, WI / Oregon HS 2 Arthur Bidwill SO D 5-10 175 R 22 Fontana, WI / Fairbanks Ice Dogs 28 Mike Boivin FR D 6-1 175 R 19 Delta, BC / Nanaimo Clippers 11 David Civitarese SO F 6-2 210 R 20 Calgary, AB / Okotoks Oilers 20 Addison DeBoer SR F 6-0 190 R 21 Spring Lake Park, MN / Spring Lake Park HS 22 Nick Dineen SO F 5-10 185 R 20 Omaha, NE / Sioux Falls Stampede 7 Kris Fredheim (VAN) SR D 6-2 195 R 22 Campbell River, BC / Notre Dame Hounds 10 Gabe Guentzel SO D 6-0 185 L 21 Woodbury, MN / Sioux Falls Stampede 23 Tim Hall SO F 5-8 170 L 19 Sewickley, PA / Ohio Junior Blue Jackets 16 Andrew Hamburg FR F 6-2 190 R 20 Phoenix, AZ / St. Louis Bandits 31 Joe Howe FR G 5-11 190 L 19 Plymouth, MN / Waterloo Blackhawks 17 Tyler Johnson JR F 5-9 168 R 20 Cloquet, MN / Cloquet HS 6 Doug Leaverton FR D 6-4 218 R 20 Painesville, OH / Cedar Rapids Roughriders 24 Ryan Lowery JR D 5-11 188 R 21 Inverness, IL / Lincoln Stars 4 Joe Marciano FR D 6-1 195 R 19 Alta Loma, CA / Omaha Lancers 9 Brian McMillin SR F 6-2 200 R 21 Roseau, MN / Roseau HS 1 Tyler O’Brien JR G 6-2 187 L 21 Stowe, VT / St. Paul’s School 18 Matt Overman SR F 5-10 175 R 22 Bloomington, MN / Sioux Falls Stampede 15 Nate Prosser SR D 6-2 210 R 23 Elk River, MN / Sioux Falls Stampede 12 Dan Quilico SR F 5-8 160 R 23 Thousand Oaks, CA / Trail Smoke Eaters 27 William Rapuzzi FR F 5-11 180 19 Anchorage, AK / Green Bay Gamblers 14 Stephen Schultz JR F 5-11 175 R 22 Westbury, NY / Lincoln Stars 13 Rylan Schwartz FR F 5-10 182 L 19 Wilcox, SK / Notre Dame Hounds 33 Hudson Stremmel FR G 6-0 180 L 18 Reno, NV / Chicago Steel 21 Bill Sweatt (CHI) SR F 6-0 193 L 21 Elburn, IL / U.S. National Under-18 25 Mike Testwuide SR F 6-3 220 R 22 Vail, CO / Waterloo Black Hawks 19 Andreas Vlassopoulos SR F 6-0 190 L 22 Los Angeles, CA / U.S. National Under-18 5 Scott Winkler (DAL) FR F 6-3 211 R 19 Asker, Norway / Cedar Rapids Roughriders

Head Coach: Scott Owens (Colorado College ‘79). Career Record (entering 2009-10): 239-133-35 (.630) (10 seasons). Record at CC (entering 2009-10): 239-133-35 (.630) (10 Seasons). Assistant Coach: Joe Bonnett (Western Michigan ‘93). Assistant Coach: Jason Lammers (SUNY Gen-eseo ‘98). Volunteer Assistant Coach: Terry Kleisinger (Wisconsin ‘84). Strength and Conditioning Coach: Greg Infantolino (Union College ‘04).

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Already a decade into his tenure as head coach at Colorado College, Scott Owens has reserved a special niche in

the annals of Tiger Hockey, having won more games than any of his 12 predecessors in the program’s 70-year history. The math speaks for itself. Ten seasons, 239 victories and .630 winning percentage. Not to mention three regular-season championships in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and six appearances in the NCAA tournament, including a trip to the Frozen Four in 2005. Oh, yeah. Don’t forget 15 All-America selections, two Hobey Baker Award winners and five WCHA Scholar-Athletes in each of the last two years. Who ever could dispute that Owens is a perfect fit at the CC helm? His teams have averaged almost 24 victo-ries per year since he accepted the position. The 31 triumphs in 2004-05 and 28 in 2007-08 represent the program’s second and sixth highest totals ever. It’s no mere coincidence that the Tigers have kept a firm foothold among college hockey’s elite, while atten-dance figures at the Colorado Springs World Arena continue to rank among the nation’s best. True, Owens has compiled an impressive list of coaching credentials spanning more than two decades. But when he returned to campus in April 1999 after four successful seasons in the Junior “A”-level United States Hockey League, he also brought with him an intimate familiarity with the college that few other individuals could possibly possess. A 1979 graduate with a bachelor’s degree

in business administration, Owens lettered for four seasons as a goaltender with the Tigers. He later spent four campaigns (1991-95) as a member of the Colorado College coaching staff, serving as recruiting coordinator and playing a key role in the program’s revival in the mid ‘90s. He was promoted to associate head coach for the final two years of that stay. Before

leaving to become head coach and general manager of the Des Moines Buccaneers in 1995, he had helped lead CC to its first of five consecutive appearances in the NCAA playoffs as well as two of three straight regular-season championships in the WCHA. He understands the school, its students and its athletes. Having experienced, as a player and a coach, what works and what doesn’t at Colorado College, he knows exactly what the ingredients of success for the hockey program have been. He’s at home in the community, and his achievements everywhere he’s been are testimony to his ability to motivate play-ers. In his four years at Des Moines, Owens posted an overall record of 179-76-9 and winning percentage of .695, including a record-setting 62-12-1 (.833) mark in 1998-99 when the Buccaneers claimed the USHL’s regular-season and playoff titles. Also national Junior “A” champions a year earlier, they came within one victory of repeating the feat in 1999 when they finished as runner-up to Detroit Compuware. In 18 seasons combined, as a head coach in the USHL and at Colorado College, he’s won 567 games. Prior to his first return to CC in 1991, Owens spent six years as general manager (1984-90) and head coach (1986-90) of the USHL’s Madison Capitols, followed by one season (1990-91) as an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin. A native of Madison, he guided the Capitols to four consecutive appearances (1987-90) in the National Junior

numerical rosTerNo. Name Pos 1 Tyler O’Brien G 2 Arthur Bidwill D 3 Ted Behrend D 4 Joe Marciano D 5 Scott Winkler (DAL) F 6 Doug Leaverton D 7 Kris Fredheim (VAN) D 9 Brian McMillin F 10 Gabe Guentzel D 11 David Civitarese F 12 Dan Quilico F 13 Rylan Schwartz F 14 Stephen Schultz F 15 Nate Prosser D 16 Andrew Hamburg F 17 Tyler Johnson F 18 Matt Overman F 19 Andreas Vlassopoulos F 20 Addison DeBoer F 21 Bill Sweatt (CHI) F 22 Nick Dineen F 23 Tim Hall F 24 Ryan Lowery D 25 Mike Testwuide F 27 William Rapuzzi F 28 Mike Boivin D 31 Joe Howe G 33 Hudson Stremmel G

“A” Tournament. His four-year coaching record there was 149-97-9, including a 41-18-3 mark in 1989-90, the club’s best ever. He was voted USHL General Manager of the Year in 1986-87 and 1997-98, as well as the league’s Coach of the Year in 1987-88. The 53-year-old Owens, who coached the South at ‘86 and ‘87 U.S. Olympic Festivals, also spent five years as a player, assistant coach and youth program coordinator for the Kempten Ice Hockey Club in Kempten, West Germany, after graduating from CC in 1979. He appeared in 50 games for the Tigers during his collegiate playing career, backstop-ping 12 victories as the team’s No. 1 goalie his senior season in 1978-79. He attended and played hockey at Madison’s Memorial High School under coach Bill Howard, another former CC goaltender. Owens then played one season for the St. Cloud (Minn.) Blues of the Mid-West Junior League. He also represented the United States at the 1975 Junior World Championships, competing against teams from Canada, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Russia and Sweden. He and his wife, Sally, were married on New Year’s Eve, 2001. He has two stepsons, Evan and Sean, ages 24 and 21.

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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Colorado College | Overall - 38 GP (16-12-10 .553) | Conf Only - 28 GP (12- 9- 7 .554) | Career ------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|----------------## Player POS YR | GP G A PTS PEN/MIN PP SH GW GT | GP G A PTS PEN/MIN PP SH GW GT | GP G A PTS14 Chad Rau (TOR) C SR | 38 18 19 37 3/ 6 7 0 1 3 | 28 13 15 28 2/ 4 6 0 0 2 | 159 73 67 14022 Eric Walsky F SR | 38 12 24 36 12/ 24 5 0 2 0 | 28 10 17 27 6/ 12 4 0 2 0 | 130 30 48 7811 Brian Connelly D JR | 38 3 24 27 23/ 46 3 0 0 0 | 28 2 19 21 16/ 32 2 0 0 0 | 114 8 55 6321 Bill Sweatt (CHI) LW JR | 37 12 11 23 14/ 28 2 0 0 0 | 27 8 8 16 12/ 24 2 0 0 0 | 104 31 45 7610 Gabe Guentzel D FR | 36 3 14 17 21/ 42 3 0 0 0 | 27 2 11 13 19/ 38 2 0 0 0 | 36 3 14 1728 Stephen Schultz W SO | 35 10 4 14 19/ 38 5 0 3 0 | 26 8 4 12 11/ 22 4 0 2 0 | 56 14 7 2126 Scott McCulloch (CHI) LW SR | 27 7 6 13 13/ 29 5 2 1 0 | 22 6 5 11 12/ 24 4 2 1 0 | 156 47 30 7715 Nate Prosser D JR | 38 5 8 13 21/ 61 3 0 0 0 | 28 4 6 10 17/ 53 3 0 0 0 | 98 8 28 3619 Andreas Vlassopoulos C JR | 31 3 9 12 18/ 36 1 0 0 0 | 21 2 7 9 10/ 20 1 0 0 0 | 97 16 43 5917 Tyler Johnson C/W SO | 36 6 3 9 16/ 32 3 0 2 0 | 27 5 2 7 13/ 26 2 0 1 0 | 76 11 11 2225 Mike Testwuide RW JR | 36 4 5 9 10/ 20 0 0 1 0 | 27 4 3 7 7/ 14 0 0 1 0 | 98 23 17 40 2 Cody Lampl F/D SR | 16 3 5 8 12/ 43 1 0 0 0 | 14 3 5 8 10/ 28 1 0 0 0 | 86 6 14 20 9 Brian McMillin C/W JR | 35 6 1 7 7/ 14 0 0 2 0 | 26 4 1 5 5/ 10 0 0 2 0 | 97 9 5 1418 Matt Overman F JR | 28 4 3 7 10/ 20 0 0 0 0 | 21 4 3 7 8/ 16 0 0 0 0 | 52 6 5 11 7 Kris Fredheim (VAN) D JR | 32 2 5 7 20/ 40 0 0 1 0 | 22 0 3 3 15/ 30 0 0 0 0 | 89 4 12 1624 Ryan Lowery D SO | 37 1 6 7 12/ 35 0 0 1 0 | 28 1 4 5 11/ 33 0 0 1 0 | 69 2 9 11 5 Addison DeBoer W JR | 35 3 3 6 10/ 20 0 1 2 0 | 26 3 3 6 9/ 18 0 1 2 0 | 98 9 11 2020 Nick Dineen F FR | 24 0 6 6 6/ 15 0 0 0 0 | 18 0 3 3 5/ 10 0 0 0 0 | 24 0 6 623 Tim Hall F FR | 22 1 2 3 6/ 12 0 0 0 0 | 14 0 0 0 3/ 6 0 0 0 0 | 22 1 2 316 David Civitarese F FR | 14 0 3 3 1/ 2 0 0 0 0 | 10 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 | 14 0 3 3 4 Jake Gannon D SR | 31 0 3 3 22/ 44 0 0 0 0 | 24 0 3 3 19/ 38 0 0 0 0 | 135 1 11 1230 Richard Bachman (DAL) G SO | 35 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 | 27 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 | 70 0 6 6 1 Tyler O’Brien G SO | 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 3 0 0 012 Dan Quilico W JR | 4 0 0 0 1/ 2 0 0 0 0 | 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 16 0 0 031 Drew O’Connell G SR | 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 24 0 2 2 3 Ted Behrend D FR | 8 0 0 0 2/ 4 0 0 0 0 | 6 0 0 0 1/ 2 0 0 0 0 | 8 0 0 027 Arthur Bidwill D FR | 8 0 0 0 3/ 6 0 0 0 0 | 5 0 0 0 2/ 4 0 0 0 0 | 8 0 0 0 Bench | 4/ 8 | 3/ 6 |------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|----------------Colorado College | 38 103 167 270 286/627 38 3 16 3 | 28 79 125 204 216/470 31 3 12 2 |Opponents | 38 103 169 272 300/677 32 6 12 7 | 28 82 135 217 218/499 25 4 9 5 |------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------## Goaltending (Overall) | GP Minutes GA Saves Shots Save% GAA Record Win% GS SO %Time | Overall30 Richard Bachman (DAL) SO | 35 2073:28 91 962 1053 .914 2.63 14-11-10 .543 35 3 88.8% | +: 801:31 34.3%31 Drew O’Connell SR | 6 225:01 10 74 84 .881 2.67 2- 1- 0 .667 3 0 9.6% | -: 658:31 28.2% 1 Tyler O’Brien SO | 2 29:21 0 11 11 1.000 0.00 0- 0- 0 --- 0 0 1.3% | E: 876:12 37.5% Open Net | 13 8:24 2 2 0.4% |Colorado College | 38 2336:14 103 1047 1150 .910 2.65 16-12-10 .553 38 4 100.0% |Opponents | 38 2336:14 103 1064 1167 .912 2.65 12-16-10 .447 38 0 100.0% |------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------## Goaltending (Conference Only) | GP Minutes GA Saves Shots Save% GAA Record Win% GS SO %Time | Conference Only30 Richard Bachman (DAL) SO | 27 1603:20 73 765 838 .913 2.73 12- 8- 7 .574 27 2 93.2% | +: 632:18 36.7%31 Drew O’Connell SR | 3 96:59 7 33 40 .825 4.33 0- 1- 0 .000 1 0 5.6% | -: 470:49 27.4% 1 Tyler O’Brien SO | 1 15:33 0 5 5 1.000 0.00 0- 0- 0 --- 0 0 0.9% | E: 618:07 35.9% Open Net | 9 5:22 2 2 0.3% |Colorado College | 28 1721:14 82 803 885 .907 2.86 12- 9- 7 .554 28 2 100.0% |Opponents | 28 1721:14 79 729 808 .902 2.75 9-12- 7 .446 28 0 100.0% |------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------## Goaltending (Career) | GP Minutes GA Saves Shots Save% GAA Record Win% GS SO |30 Richard Bachman (DAL) SO | 70 4176:15 156 1845 2001 .922 2.24 39-20-11 .636 70 7 |31 Drew O’Connell SR | 24 1179:03 60 454 514 .883 3.05 10- 8- 0 .556 18 3 | 1 Tyler O’Brien SO | 3 34:56 0 15 15 1.000 0.00 0- 0- 0 --- 0 0 |------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Special Teams (Overall|Conference) | Power Play Penalty Kill Combined PPC/G | Power Play Penalty Kill Combined PPC/GColorado College | 38/237 .160 192/224 .857 230/461 .499 6.2 | 31/173 .179 146/171 .854 177/344 .515 6.2Opponents | 32/224 .143 199/237 .840 231/461 .501 5.9 | 25/171 .146 142/173 .821 167/344 .485 6.1------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------Scoring/Shots (Overall|Conference) | 1st 2nd 3rd OT TOT | 1st 2nd 3rd OT SOG | 1st 2nd 3rd OT TOT | 1st 2nd 3rd OT SOGColorado College | 28 44 30 1 103 | 368 392 373 34 1167 | 22 31 25 1 79 | 254 262 265 27 808Opponents | 30 40 32 1 103 | 364 382 369 35 1150 | 22 33 26 1 82 | 282 301 277 25 885Difference | -2 +4 -2 +0 +0 | +4 +10 +4 -1 +17 | +0 -2 -1 +0 -3 | -28 -39 -12 +2 -77------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------Game Averages (Overall|Conference) | G/GM A/GM PTS/G SOG/G PEN/G PIM/G PPG/G | G/GM A/GM PTS/G SOG/G PEN/G PIM/G PPG/GColorado College | 2.71 4.39 7.11 30.7 7.5 16.5 1.0 | 2.82 4.46 7.29 28.9 7.7 16.8 1.1Opponents | 2.71 4.45 7.16 30.3 7.9 17.8 0.8 | 2.93 4.82 7.75 31.6 7.8 17.8 0.9Difference | +0.00 -0.05 -0.05 +0.4 -0.4 -1.3 +0.2 | -0.11 -0.36 -0.46 -2.8 -0.1 -1.0 +0.2------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------Situational Records | H:21 11- 6- 4 A:17 5- 6- 6 N: 0 0- 0- 0 | H:14 7- 4- 3 A:14 5- 5- 4 N: 0 0- 0- 0(Overall|Conference) | E1 +:15 9- 3- 3 -:15 3- 8- 4 E: 8 4- 1- 3 | E1 +:13 7- 3- 3 -:10 2- 5- 3 E: 5 3- 1- 1 | E2 +:18 12- 0- 6 -:11 0-10- 1 E: 9 4- 2- 3 | E2 +:12 8- 0- 4 -: 8 0- 7- 1 E: 8 4- 2- 2 | Margin 1:10 8- 2 2: 8 4- 4 3+:10 4- 6 | Margin 1: 8 6- 2 2: 6 3- 3 3+: 7 3- 4 | First Goal +:19 12- 3- 4 -:19 4- 9- 6 | First Goal +:15 9- 3- 3 -:13 3- 6- 4---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2008-09 cc sTaTisTics & game-by-game resulTsocToberDt Game W-L Score 6 ALBERTA (x) W 5-2 10 ALABAMA-HUNTSVILLE (nc) W 1-0 11 ALABAMA-HUNTSVILLE (nc) W 5-3 17 MICHIGAN TECH (WCHA) W 2-0 18 MICHIGAN TECH (WCHA) W 4-2 24 at Clarkson (nc) T 1-1 ot 25 at Clarkson (nc) T 2-2 ot 31 at Denver (WCHA) T 2-2 ot

november 2 DENVER (WCHA) W 3-2 7 NORTH DAKOTA (WCHA) L 1-3 8 NORTH DAKOTA (WCHA) W 7-4 14 at Minnesota State (WCHA) L 1-2 15 at Minnesota State (WCHA) W 4-3 21 at Alaska Anchorage (WCHA) L 2-4 22 at Alaska Anchorage (WCHA) W 4-3 ot 28 at Air Force (nc) L 1-4 29 COLGATE (nc) W 3-2

december 5 MINNESOTA DULUTH (WCHA) T 1-1 ot 6 MINNESOTA DULUTH (WCHA) L 4-7 13 at Minnesota (WCHA) L 1-4 14 at Minnesota (WCHA) W 1-0 19 SACRED HEART (nc) T 2-2 ot 20 SACRED HEART (nc) W 7-0

January 9 MINNESOTA STATE (WCHA) W 5-2 10 MINNESOTA STATE (WCHA) L 1-3 16 at Wisconsin (WCHA) L 1-6 17 at Wisconsin (WCHA) W 4-3 23 ST. CLOUD STATE (WCHA) T 4-4 ot 24 ST. CLOUD STATE (WCHA) L 1-6

february 6 at Michigan Tech (WCHA) T 2-2 ot 7 at Michigan Tech (WCHA) W 4-1 13 DENVER (WCHA) T 3-3 ot 15 USA UNDER-18 TEAM (x) L 2-3 20 MINNESOTA (WCHA) W 4-3 21 MINNESOTA (WCHA) W 5-3 28 at North Dakota (WCHA) T 4-4 ot

march 1 at North Dakota (WCHA) L 3-4 ot 7 at Denver (WCHA) T 1-1 ot 13 #MINNESOTA DULUTH (nc) L 1-4 14 #MINNESOTA DULUTH (nc) L 1-3

Key: # WCHA First Round; (x) exhibition; (WCHA) conference; (nc) non-conference.

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AC: 719. Location: Colorado Springs, CO 80903. Founded: 1874. Enrollment:1,960. Colors: Black and Gold. Nickname: Tigers. Arena: Colorado Springs World Arena (200 x 100). Capacity: 7,343. PressBoxPhone: 540-6520. FacultyRepresentative: Ralph Bertrand (389-6402, rbertrand@coloradocollege.edu). DirectorofAthletics:Ken Ralph (389-6475, ken.ralph@coloradocollege.edu). HeadCoach: Scott Owens (389-6480, sowens@coloradocollege.edu). AssistantCoaches: Joe Bonnett (389-6479, jbonnett@coloradocollege.edu); Jason Lammers (jason.lammers@colora-docollege.edu); Terry Kleisinger (Volunteer Goaltending Coach). StrengthCoach:Greg Infantolino (632-6722, ginfantolino@nsca-lift.org). EquipmentManager: Spud Hamilton (477-2184, spud.hamilton@coloradocollege.edu). AthleticTrainer: Jason Bushie (389-6488, jason.bushie@coloradocollege.edu). PublicRelationsDirector:Dave Moross (389-6755, fax 389-6256, dmoross@coloradocollege.edu). World Arena TicketOffice: 576-2626. WebSite: cctigers.com.

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1948: in cooperation with the Broadmoor Hotel, CC sponsors the first NCAA Championship.1949-50: Tigers capture program’s first NCAA title.1951-52: Tigers are league (WCHA) champions.1954-55: Tigers capture their second conference title.1956-57: CC captures both WCHA and NCAA champion-ships … Tigers win 27 games overall, a school record that stands until 1994-95.1963-64: CC wins the title at the Brown Invitational.1971-72: F Doug Palazzari finishes the season with 57 points in WCHA play, third highest total in league history behind UM’s John Mayasich (78, 1953-54) and Michigan’s Red Berenson (68, 1961-62) … Tigers defeat Denver, 9-7, at DU Arena for the first time in 15 years … CC also beats Denver, 9-6, on Broadmoor ice in the 100th all-time meeting between the two schools.1973-74: F Doug Palazzari ends his four-year collegiate career as CC’s all-time leading scorer (226 points) and is named WCHA MVP … Palazzari also earns first team All-WCHA and All-American honors for the second time.1974-75: CC finishes 23-14-0 overall … Jim Warner is WCHA Freshman of the Year and joins goaltender Eddie Mio as second-team All-WCHA selections.1977-78: Tigers upset Minnesota and Denver on the road in the WCHA playoffs and then advance to an NCAA playoff game vs Bowling Green … F Greg Whyte sets two CC season records with 54 assists and 82 points.1978-79: F Dave Delich breaks Greg Whyte’s single-season CC scoring record with 84 points and ends his career with 111-174–285, the latter two representing school records that still stand … Delich is named to three different all-star teams after winning the WCHA scoring title with 70 points.1979-80: Tigers earn a home playoff berth after finishing third in the WCHA with a 16-13-1 record.1980-81: CC stuns Wisconsin (eventual NCAA champ), 11-4, in the second game of their first-round WCHA playoff series to win the total-goals series at Madison, 13-12 … Tigers also upset Minnesota, 9-7, in final game of the season but lose their second round playoff series by total goals.1986-87: Tigers upset Denver in the opening round of WCHA playoffs … CC is eliminated from post-season action the following weekend, losing to UND in total goals, but not before handing the Fighting Sioux a 2-1 loss in the second game of the series at Grand Forks … the Sioux go on to win the NCAA title, with CC being the only team in the nation to beat them twice.1991-92: a second-half rampage earns CC fourth place and home ice in the WCHA playoffs, where the Tigers beat UMD twice in triple overtime and take a record of 18-16-5 to the WCHA Playoff Championship in St. Paul, Minn.1993-94: CC wins the WCHA championship and Mac-Naughton Cup on the final night of the regular season … senior D Shawn Reid earns first team All-America honors … Don Lucia is named both WCHA and Div. 1 National Coach of the Year.1994-95: Tigers win their second consecutive WCHA title and MacNaughton Cup, finish second in the conference playoffs, and earn a bid to the NCAA tournament … F Jay McNeill becomes the program’s first Hobey Baker Award finalist … CC winds up with 30 victories overall, smashing a school record that had stood for 38 years.1995-96: CC reaches the national championship game after winning an unprecedented third consecutive WCHA regular season crown … F Peter Geronazzo becomes CC’s second Hobey Baker finalist and joins G Ryan Bach as first team All-Americans … eight Tigers earn All-WCHA honors and the team’s 33 victories shatter the school record again.1996-97: after tying for 4th in the WCHA, CC earns an at-large NCAA playoff bid … Tigers upset New Hampshire and Clarkson at the East Regional, advancing to the Frozen Four for the second consecutive season.1997-98: Tigers open the new Colorado Springs World Arena at mid-season, then go on a late rampage that produces a third-place finish in the WCHA and a 4th consecutive berth in the NCAA tournament … CC defeats Clarkson at the East Regional before bowing to BC in the national quarterfinals.1998-99: CC completes its first full season at the new Colorado Springs World Arena, winning its last nine games there, and earns its fifth consecutive NCAA playoff bid after finishing second in the WCHA … Tigers beat St. Lawrence at the West Regional before falling to Michigan State in the national quarterfinals … F Brian Swanson and D Scott Swanson are named first team All-Americans.1999-2000: Tigers and CSWA learn they will serve as co-hosts for the NCAA West Regional in 2004, when the national tournament returns to Colorado Springs

after a 35-year absence.2000-01: CC advances to the NCAA quarterfinals with a 3-2 (2 ot) victory over SLU at the East Regional in Worcester … F Mark Cullen is named second-team All-America.2001-02: Tigers earn their 7th NCAA tournament bid in the last eight years, and 15th overall, then reach the national quarterfinals again with a 2-0 triumph over Michigan State at the West Regional in Ann Arbor … F Mark Cullen receives All-America recognition for the second time after being honored as the WCHA Student-Athlete of the Year.2002-03: CC produces its first-ever winner of the Hobey Baker Memorial Award in junior forward and WCHA Player of the Year Peter Sejna, as well as a school-record four All-Americans in F Noah Clarke, G Curtis McElhinney, D Tom Preissing and Sejna … Tigers win their 7th WCHA regular-season title, reach the NCAA quarterfinals yet again, and finish with 30 victories.2003-04: Tigers upset higher-seeded Denver in their first round WCHA Playoff series at DU’s Mag-ness Arena.2004-05: Tigers capture a share of the WCHA regular season championship and MacNaughton Cup with Denver … F Marty Sertich is named WCHA Player of the Year and D Mark Stuart is WCHA Defensive Player of the Year … after an appearance at the WCHA Final Five in Saint Paul, CC wins the NCAA Midwest Regional in Grand Rapids, downing both Colgate and Michigan, to advance to the 2005 NCAA Frozen Four in Colum-bus, where they fall to the Pioneers, 6-2, in a national semi-final … junior F Marty Sertich is named the 2005 Hobey Baker Memorial Award winner, while Sertich, F Brett Sterling, D Mark Stuart and G Curtis McElhinney are all named First Team All-Americans.2005-06: The Tigers capture the Great Lakes Invitational at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit on Dec. 30 with a 6-3 victory over Michigan State … CC also defeated Michigan, 6-1, in a GLI semi-final on Dec. 29.2007-08: While skating to its sixth regular-season title in last 15 years, CC produces three All-Americans and first-team All-WCHA selections in freshman Richard Bachman (G), senior Jack Hillen (D) and junior Chad Rau (F) … Bachman becomes just the second player ever to be voted both WCHA Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year … he also is named national Rookie of the Year by the Hockey Commissioners’ Association … Hillen is honored as WCHA Defensive Player of the Year … despite losing their last three games, including a 3-1 decision to Michigan State on their home ice at the NCAA West Regional, the Tigers post 28 victories overall including 21 in league play.

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