DULUTH, Minn. – The St. Scholastica men's hockey team will take to the road in the second-to-last weekend of the regular season when they face the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point on Friday and second-ranked St. Norbert College on Saturday.
Game Times:
Friday @ UW-Stevens-Point @ 7:00 p.m.
Saturday @ St. Norbert @ 7:00 p.m.
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Last Action:
The Saints split last weekend with a win over UW-Stout and a loss to UW-River Falls. CSS defeated Stout 4-1 on Friday night behind two goals from #Paul Marcoux# and 23 saves from goaltender #Brennan Poderzay#. The Saints would fall to the Falcons the next night 5-3.
St. Scholastica Saints (9-11-1, 4-10-0 NCHA)
The Saints will look to avenge two losses to Point where they were outscored 11-4 in the first two games of the season and will look to take the season series vs. St. Norbert … 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 nine goals … #Jeremy Dawes# is close behind with six goals … #Riley Riddell# has the NCHA lead in assists with 17 and is third in points with 22 … #Patrick Sullivan# has played the majority of the minutes in the net for the Saints this year and has a goals against average of 3.34 … The Saints are 8-1-1 this season when the opponent scores three goals or less, but are just 1-10-0 when teams score more than three goals … The Saints are being outscored in the first two periods, but are outscoring their opponents in the third period and in OT.
UW-Stevens Point Pointers (10-11-0, 6-8-0 NCHA)
The Pointers have won five in a row at home and are 8-10 since they left Duluth earlier in the season … Stevens Point has won five of six and has scored three goals in the five wins and lost 2-1 to No. 2 St. Norbert College … Max Bobrow has the team lead in goals with seven … Garrett Suter is the team leader is assists with nine … Suter also has five goals to give him the team lead in points with 14 … Nick Graves has over 970 minutes between the pipes this year and has a goals against average of 2.40 … The Pointers are averaging 2.95 goals per game and are giving up 2.90 on defense.
Last Meeting: (All-Time vs. UW-Stevens Point: 12-44-3)
The Saints were swept by Pointers earlier in the first two games of the season by a score of 11-4.
#2 St. Norbert Green Knights (17-3-1, 11-2-1 NCHA)
St. Norbert's only two NCHA losses of the year have come against the teams that call the Twin Ports home: CSS and UW-Superior … The second-ranked Green Knights are poised to claim their 12th regular season NCHA title this Friday if they can defeat the Yellowjackets … Brandon Longley has the team lead in goals with 11 … Johan Ryd, Seth Soley and Scott Pulak all share the team lead in assists with 14 … Ryd also has eight goals to give him 22 points, which puts him tied with
Riley Riddell (Wawota, Saskatchewan/Wawota Parkland (UW-River Falls) ) for third in the NCHA … B.J. O'Brien has the NCHA lead in goals against average with 1.76 in over 1000 minutes in net.
Last Meeting: (All-Time vs. St. Norbert: 9-39-3)
CSS split a weekend series in Duluth with St. Norbert earlier in the season.
Patrick Sullivan (Kelowna, British Columbia/Chase Secondary (Fort William-SIJHL) ) stopped 26 of 27 shots, while the offense scored two goals in the final period to complete the comeback over the Green Knights in game two.