\nAaron Clarke, Wheeling (ECHL) — on IR
\nJoey Olson, Mon Valley (MAHL)<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nWayne State<\/b>
\nJason Bloomingburg, Corpus Christi (CHL)
\nA.J. Bozoian, Corpus Christi (CHL)
\nBilly Collins, Muskegon (IHL)
\nNate Higgins, Port Huron (IHL)
\nTyler Kindle, Fresno (ECHL)
\nMark Nebus, Port Huron (IHL)
\nNathan Rosychuk, Rocky Mountain (CHL)
\nTravis Rycroft, Utah (ECHL)<\/p>\nNiagara and Robert Morris Each Win One<\/h4>\n
Niagara senior captain Matt Caruana reached the 100 career-point milestone Friday night with two goals as Niagara shut out Robert Morris 4-0, on the road.<\/p>\n
Caruana became the ninth member of the illustrious group.<\/p>\n
“It is a huge honor to reach the 100-point mark,” said Caruana. “A lot of great players are part of the club and I couldn’t have made it there without the help of my teammates.”<\/p>\n
Juliano Pagliero recorded his third career shutout in the win, making 45 saves on the night.<\/p>\n
Sophomore defenseman Jim Burichin also scored his first collegiate goal in the win and Ted Cook scored his first goal since Oct. 13 at Holy Cross.<\/p>\n
“It was another great road effort for the team and I am very pleased for Matt Caruana reaching 100 points,” said Burkholder. “Again, he played like a senior captain. Juliano Pagliero played absolutely perfect tonight.”<\/p>\n
Thanks to three power-play goals, Robert Morris came back and defeated Niagara, 4-2, Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Ryan Cruthers scored twice and Sean Berkstresser and David Boguslawski also scored for RMU.<\/p>\n
Cook and Les Reaney tallied for NU.<\/p>\n
Robert Morris goalie Christian Boucher stopped 21 shots and Pagliero made 37 saves.<\/p>\n
The Colonials went 3-for-8 on the power play, while Niagara went 1-for-11. <\/p>\n
“What a great weekend of hockey,” Schooley said. “Both teams played well and competed hard. On Friday, we were the victims of their scorers being opportunistic and some great goaltending. On Saturday, our scorers contributed and our special teams were outstanding. As I said, it was a very good hockey weekend.”<\/p>\n
Robert Morris returns to action on Friday as it hosts Ohio State at the Mellon Arena in the second game of the second annual Pittsburgh College Hockey Showcase. The first game is RMU’s club team against Washington & Jefferson.<\/p>\n
“We are extremely excited to play at Mellon Arena,” said Schooley. “This is a great showcase for our hockey program and for our university. Anytime you can play in an NHL building and associate your program with a big-name university it is a win-win for Robert Morris hockey.<\/p>\n
“The Buckeyes have a tremendous amount of talent and skill. They beat a very good Wisconsin team earlier this season that we lost to so it should be a big challenge for our veteran team. Ohio State has six NHL draft choices and two local Pittsburgh players so they should be excited to play in an NHL facility. It will be another challenging weekend for our program.”<\/p>\n
Niagara, meanwhile, looks to extend its 20-game home unbeaten streak (18-0-2) against Sacred Heart. The streak is the seventh-longest in NCAA history.<\/p>\n
“The streak didn’t get looked at too much last year,” Pagliero said in the Niagara Gazette<\/i>. “People are turning their heads a little now and saying, ‘Who is this team and why are they so tough to play at home?’ We’re still establishing ourselves. And this is a good way to kick in the door a little bit.”<\/p>\nBeavers Beat, Tie Huntsville<\/h4>\n
Bemidji State took three points from UAH last weekend down in Huntsville.<\/p>\n
Bemidji State goaltender Matt Climie stopped 36 shots en route to his second consecutive and ninth career shutout in a 2-0 win Friday night. Climie joins BSU alums Blaine Comstock (1967-71) and Jim Scanlon (1978-82), who sit atop the BSU all-time shutouts list with nine apiece.<\/p>\n
UAH goalie Blake MacNicol made 36 stops in front of 3,000-plus fans at the Von Braun Center.<\/p>\n
Travis Winter and junior Matt Francis (first NCAA goal, no goals in two years at St. Cloud State) scored for the Beavers.<\/p>\n
Bemidji State fired 24 shots on goal during the second period, just four shots shy of a BSU school mark set versus Lake Forest in 1994.<\/p>\n
“Blake was outstanding,” UAH head coach Danton Cole said in the Huntsville Times<\/i>. “He kept us in the game.” <\/p>\n
Saturday afternoon, Matt Sweazey had a power-play goal and a shorthanded goal to help the Chargers to a 3-3 tie.<\/p>\n
Peluso, Winter and Chris McKelvie scored for the Beavers, with McKelvie’s tying the game for good at 15:47 of the second period.<\/p>\n
Joe Federoff tallied UAH’s other goal.<\/p>\n
“We battled hard again; that’s a good team over there,” Cole said in the Times<\/i>. “I’m happy with scoring three goals.”<\/p>\n
Climie and MacNicol each made 21 saves.<\/p>\n
UAH takes a break from action next weekend before heading to Troy, N.Y., for the 57th Annual RPI Holiday Tournament on Thanksgiving weekend. The Chargers’ first game features a rematch of their NCAA opening-round double-overtime thriller with Notre Dame.<\/p>\n
Wayne State Gets First Win of Season<\/h4>\n
Lake Superior State and Wayne State came into Friday night’s game with just a single win between them. The Lakers came away with a 3-2 win over the Warriors in front of a pro-Lake Superior State crowd at the now-heated Michigan State Fairgrounds Coliseum. <\/p>\n
Junior Bryan Olds scored his first career goal in the loss. Olds stole the puck in his own end and went nearly the length of the ice untouched before putting a shot off the far post and in.<\/p>\n
Tylor Michel added a goal with 10 seconds left with WSU goalie Brett Bothwell on the bench.<\/p>\n
Bothwell finished with 17 saves.<\/p>\n
“We’re fighting the puck and squeezing our sticks too hard,” Wayne State head coach Bill Wilkinson said. “We played two periods and were right there. We’ve had our scoring opportunities, but we’re just snakebitten. It’s definitely not for lack of effort.”<\/p>\n
Wilkinson added that nonconference games loom large in the grand scheme of things.<\/p>\n
“Any time you play a team outside your conference, those are all big games,” he said. “You want to get that recognition for not only your team, but for your league. I think it’s bigger for us playing them than it is for them to come here and play lowly Wayne State. We want to go out and prove ourselves.”<\/p>\n
Saturday was retribution of sorts as Wayne State snapped its season-opening seven-game skid with a 2-1 victory.<\/p>\n
All three goals in the game came on power plays, one in each period. Jon Grabarek and Jared Katz scored for Wayne State.<\/p>\n
Freshman goaltender Kyle Funkenhauser made 24 saves, 20 of which came in the last 40 minutes, to earn his first collegiate win. <\/p>\n
For the first time this season Wayne State opened the scoring, as Grabarek took a cross-ice feed from Jeff Caister and fired a shot from the right circle past LSSU goalie Brian Mahoney-Wilson at the 16:56 mark of the first period.<\/p>\n
Shots on goal went in LSSU’s favor, 25-17, including a 12-1 difference in the third period. <\/p>\n
Lake Superior State head coach Jim Roque chimed in with his thoughts on what he saw out of the Warriors, a team he said still has lots to play for.<\/p>\n
“I think at times the players might get too individualistic out there and want to do it all themselves,” said Roque. “But Bill’s done a good job with that team. I would imagine it’s hard to keep the players motivated, but Bill’s done a good job. If a kid truly loves hockey and truly loves to play, then he won’t just quit.”<\/p>\n
Wayne State will host Bemidji State this weekend for their first home CHA series.<\/p>\n
New York Native Dowd Commits to NU<\/h4>\n
Forward Brian Dowd is coming home to play college hockey at Niagara.<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old Williamsville, N.Y., native currently has a power-play goal and seven points along with a plus-4 rating with the United States Hockey League’s Chicago Steel through 10 games this season.<\/p>\n
Williamsville is about 30 minutes southeast of Monteagle Ridge.<\/p>\n
CHA Update<\/h4>\n
Anything new to report on the future of the CHA after this season? <\/p>\n
Nope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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