DULUTH, Minn. – The St. Scholastica men's hockey team has its first home Northern Collegiate Hockey Association (NCHA) series of the New Year as the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire comes to Duluth for a pair of games on Friday and Saturday at Mars Lakeview Arena.

Game Times:
Friday @ 7:05 p.m.
Saturday @ 7:05 p.m.

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Last Action:
The Saints split a weekend series with UW-River Falls. CSS won the Friday night game 3-2, while losing to the Falcons 3-1 on Saturday. Four different Saints scored goals on the weekend. #Patrick Sullivan# has 30 saves on Friday night to get the victory.

St. Scholastica Saints (8-8-1, 3-7-0 NCHA)
The Saints remain at .500 on the season after their weekend trip to Wisconsin … The Saints are just two points behind the Blugolds for fourth place in the conference, meaning this weekend's series is pivotal if CSS wants to host a NCHA Peters Cup Quarterfinal series for the third straight year … This will also be the final series weekend in the NCHA as teams will play separate opponents in the final three weekends … The Saints have played three ranked opponents so far in the year and are 2-2-1 in those five games ... #Carter Davis# has the team lead with seven goals … #Alex Valenti# and #Jeremy Dawes# are close behind with six apiece … #Riley Riddell# has the NCHA lead in assists with 14 and is second in points with 19 … Patrick Sullivan (Kelowna, British Columbia/Chase Secondary (Fort William-SIJHL) ) has played the majority of the minutes in the net for the Saints this year and has a goals against average of 3.19.

UW-Eau Claire Blugolds (10-7-0, 4-6-0 NCHA)
The Blugolds are coming off two tough losses to second-ranked St. Norbert College … The Blugolds fell 3-2 on Saturday to the Green Knights … Eau Claire is 7-3 in their last ten games … Kurt Weston has the team lead in goals with nine on the year … Andrew Wilcox has 10 assists to give him the team lead in that category … Jordan Staniger has 16 points via eight goals and eight assists to give him the most points on the team … Weston has six assists to give him 15 points … Brandon Stephenson has logged over 700 minutes between the pipes this year and has a goals against average of 3.08 … The Blugolds are averaging 3.33 goals per game, while giving up 2.8 per game on defense.

Last Meeting: (All-Time vs. UW-Eau Claire: 21-40-6)
The Saints went 2-1 against the Blugolds last season. Each team won their games on the road. The Blugolds won the final game of their series and final regular season game of the year 2-1 in Duluth.