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Roman Augustoviz spends Minnesota's winters covering college hockey, specifically the Gophers, and other University of Minnesota sports. During the summer, he writes about the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx, with a dose of U sports sprinkled in. Follow him on Twitter @RomanStrib.
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Two Minnesota State Mankato players earn weekly WCHA honors
Posted by: Roman Augustoviz Updated: December 4, 2012 - 4:50 PM
Minnesota Duluth freshman forward Austin Farley is the offensive player of the week in the WCHA.
The 5-9, 170 Farley is from the hockey hotbed of Niles, Ill. He had three goals and two assists and was a plus-4 as the Bulldogs left Houghton, Mich., with three of a possible four points.
UMD beat Michigan Tech 7-3, then tied the Huskies 4-4. He has seven goals and eight assists for 15 points in 13 games.
He and teammate Tony Cameranesi (6-9-15) are tied for second in the nation in scoring among first-year players. Riley Barber (6-12-18) of Miami is first.
Bulldogs' power play, on which Farley is involved with, was 4-for-12 against Tech.
Three other players nominated for this award were Erik Haula of the Gophers, Josh Archibald of UNO and Scott Winkler of Colorado College -- the Gophers' next opponent.
CO-DEFENSIVE PLAYERS OF WEEK
Sophomore defenseman Brett Stern of Minnesota State Mankato is the co-defensive player of the week. The 6-foot-3, 185 Stern is from Lino lakes. He had a goal and an assist and was a plus-4 as the Mavericks swept Bemidji State 3-0, 6-1.
He also had seven hits and four shots on net.
Stern shared defensive honors with Wisconsin sophomore goalie Landon Peterson who beat Denver 3-1 on Saturday. He stopped 35 of 36 shots. He has a 1.88 goal-against average and a .941 save percentage in conference games.
Also nominated for this award were UNO goalie John Faulker and CC defenseman Mike Boivin.
ROOKIE OF WEEK
Stephone Williams of MSU Mankato is the WCHA's rookie of the week. He stopped 20 shots as the Mavericks beat the Beavers 3-0 on Friday and had 17 saves in a 6-1 win for a sweep on Saturday. He is 4-3-1with a 1.92 gaa and a .932 save percentage.
CC forward Jared Hanson was another nominee for this award.
18 WCHA games involving SCSU or MSU Mankato on Comcast
Posted by: Roman Augustoviz Updated: November 30, 2012 - 1:43 PMComcast cable in the Twin Cities will carry 18 college hockey games the rest of this season involving either St. Cloud State or Minnesota State Mankato.
The first of those game will be tonight, MSU vs. Bemidji State at 7 p.m.
Comcast will air the games on Channel 13 (St. Paul area) and Channel 23 (Minneapolis area). The cable company will pick up the live feed of the games from both St. Cloud State and Minnesota State.
The telecasts from St. Cloud State are provided by the student-run Husky Productions with Twin Cities sports personality Jim Rich doing the play-by-play and former Huskies all-american and NHL veteran Mark Parrish providing color commentary.
Fifteen of the games are WCHA games, three are nonconference. The schedule:
Nov. 30 – MSU vs. Bemidji State – 7 p.m.
Dec. 14 – SCSU vs. Colorado College – 7 p.m.
Dec. 15 – SCSU vs. Colorado College – 7 p.m.
Dec. 27 – SCSU vs. RPI – 6:30 p.m.
Dec. 27 – SCSU vs. RPI – 7 p.m.
Jan. 4 – SCSU vs. Northern Michigan – 7 p.m.
Jan. 5 – MSU vs. Providence – 6:30 p.m.
Jan. 11 – MSU vs. Wisconsin – 7 p.m.
Jan. 12 – MSU vs. Wisconsin – 6:30 p.m.
Jan. 18 – SCSU vs. Denver – 7 p.m.
Jan. 19 – SCSU vs. Denver – 7 p.m.
Feb. 8 – SCSU vs. Minnesota – 7:30 p.m. (FSN feed)
Feb. 9 – SCSU vs. Minnesota – 7 p.m. (FSN feed)
Feb. 15 – MSU vs. Michigan Tech – 7 p.m.
Feb. 16 – MSU vs. Michigan Tech – 6:30 p.m.
Mar. 1 – SCSU vs. Michigan Tech – 7 p.m.
Mar. 2 – SCSU vs. Michigan Tech – 6:30 p.m.
Mar. 8 – MSU vs. North Dakota – 7 p.m.
FSN ADDS CLYMER
Ben Clymer, a former Gophers hockey player who played in the NHL for eight seasons, will be a reporter and analyst during FSN's TV coveraage of the Gophers-Nebraska Omaha game on Friday.
Clymer played on Bloomington Jefferson's 1994 state championship team, for the Gophers for two seasons and for Tampa Bay and Washington in the NHL for eight seasons, including 2004-04 when he was on the Lightning's Stanley Cup championship team.
Mavericks sign four hockey players
Posted by: Roman Augustoviz Updated: November 15, 2012 - 3:14 AMMinnesota State has signed four players during the early hockey signing period, which began Wednesday.
They are defensemen Sean Flanagan of Kindersley, Sask. He plays for Salmon Arm of the British Colymbia Hockey League. And Carter Foguth of Fenton, Mich. He plays for Muskegon of the USHL.
Also signing with the Mavs is goalie Cole Huggins of Englewood, Colo. He plays for Coquitlam of the BCHL.
And the fourth new MSU Mankato player is forward Mike Huntebrinker of Chesterfield, Mo. He plays for /Waterloo of the USHL.
Bios on each:
.* Flanagan, 6-1, 175. Age 20. He is in his second season with Salmon Arm after playing for two years with Kindersley SJHL. ... The alternate captain for the Silverbacks has three goals and five assists for eight points in 20 games. ... Named Salmon Arm’s best defenseman for 2011-2012 (8-23--31 in 60 GP)......Selected for Canada West U19 team that played in the 2010 World Junior A Challenge Tournament held in Penticton, B.C.
* Foguth, 6-2, 210. Age 20. Two-time team captain for Muskegon, where he is playing for a third season. ... Has one goal and one assist in 14 games with Muskegon. ... Had one goal and 10 assists in 89 games in the two previous seasons with the Lumberjacks...Product of the Compuware AAA hockey program in Detroit.
* Huggins, 6-0, 180. Age 20. ... Three-year BCHL veteran. In second year with Coquitlam. ... Ranks among league-leading goaltenders in BCHL with 10-5-1 record, 2.25 goals against average and .938 save percentage. ... Played midget hockey for Colorado Thunderbirds AAA.
* Huntebrinker, 5-11, 187. Age 20. ... In second USHL season with Waterloo. ... Has 3-4--7 in four games after collecting 17-17--34 in 54 games in 2011-12 to rank sixth on his team in scoring. .. .Added 4-6--10 in 13 playoff games, helping Waterloo to a runner-up finish in the 2011-12 Clark Cup finals. ... Played midget hockey for St. Louis Jr. Blues AAA.
WCHA: Denver holds on against Minnesota State
Posted by: Roman Augustoviz Updated: November 10, 2012 - 1:45 PMNo. 3 Denver had to battle to beat Minnesota State Mavericks 4-3 Friday in its first road game of the season.
“We’ve had some great, great wins here [at the Verizon Center]; some big wins,” DU coach George Gwozdecky said in a Pioneers' news release. “We’ve also had some tremendously heartbreaking losses as well. Whenever these two teams get together, no matter what year it is, it’s always going to be an interesting game. It’s always going to be topsy-turvy, swings of emotion, and tonight certainly was.”
Only 3,184 fans came to watch those swings. The win gave the Pioneers (6-1-0, 4-1-0) sole possession of first place in the WCHA.
Goals by freshman Nolan Zajac, sophomore Joey LaLeggia and senior Shawn Ostrow put the Pioneers 3-0 early in the second period. But they needed sophomore Daniel Doremus' goal in the third for the game-winner.
Junior goalie Sam Brittain made 33 saves, including a kick-save with six seconds left off a face-off shot from Eriah Hayes that would have tied that score.
“I thought we started out reckless on the power-play, and Sam Brittain made some great saves to ‘save our bacon,’ so to speak,” Gwozdecky said.
The Mavericks (3-4-1, 1-4-0) got goals late in the middle period, at 15:43 and 17:16, from Jean-Paul Lafontaine and Hayes to close within 3-2.
For the Pioneers’ final goal, Ostrow, from behind the net, threw the puck up to Doremus, alone above the near hash mark. He then snapped a wrister that beat goaltender Stephon Williams just below the cross bar to make it 4-2. It was the only shot on goal DU had in the third period when they were outshot 13-1.
Lafontaine' second goal at 18:09 cut the Pioneers’ lead to one goal again.
The Mavericks used two goals. Phil Cook was pulled after the Pioneers' third goal. He had nine saves in 23:28. Stephon Williams had seven saves the rest of the second period, none in the third.
MSU probably deserved a better fate than a loss.
Three stars of the game were Lafontaine of MSU, Ostrow and Nolan Zajac of DU.
MSU Mankato's top returning scorers not scoring goals
Posted by: Roman Augustoviz Updated: October 31, 2012 - 2:23 PMThe Gophers plays Minnesota State Mankato this weekend in a home and home series.
The Mavericks are off to a 2-2-2 start after being swept by St. Cloud State last weekend in two 5-1 games. The scores were the same, but the games not.
On Friday at the National Hockey Center, St. Cloud State took a 3-0 lead in the first period. On Saturday, it was a 1-0 game into the third period when the Huskies scored two quick goals in the third period.
Hopes were high in Mankato for this team, loaded with young, promising forwards. But two of them are not scoring goals.
Matt Leitner, a sophomore center from Los Alamitos, CA., led the Mavericks in assists and points last season. He had 11 goals, 18 assists and 29 points. But in six games so far, he has one goal and five assists for six points.
Jean-Paul LaFontaine was a member of the WCHA all-rookie team last season and tied for the team lead in goals and was second in points. He had 13 goals -- eighth on the power play -- 15 assists and 28 points. He has one assist this season. He was the left wing on the Mavericks' second line in their last game.
LaFontaine's uncle Pat was an NHL Hall of Famer, he played for both New York teams and Buffalo. So he has the blood lines.
Another intriguing prospect up front is freshman Teddy Blueger, from Riga, Latvia. He has one goal and two assists and is a plus-4. Pittsburgh took him in the second round of the 2012 NHL draft.
The two goals last weekend MSU scored were both by senior defenseman Evan Mosey, one was short-handed.
First-year head coach Mike Hastings was the associate head coach at Nebraska Omaha the past three seasons and before that was a Gophers assistant for one season. ... Eight of his 27 players are from Minnesota.
* The Gophers lead the all-time series with MSU 30-7-6, but the Mavericks were on a 5-1-0 roll until losing twice to the Gophers last season.
* The Mavericks have outshot opponents 218-169. Last weekend the Huskies had a 28-23 edge in shots the first night, the Mavericks outshot SCSU 38-30 the second. ... MSU has outscored opponents 10-8 in the third period.
* Special teams is one problem area for Hastings. Opponents are eight for 28 on the power play, or 28.6 percent. Too high. The Mavericks are four for 27 with a man advantage, 14.8 percent. Too low.
* Leitner's wings are sophomore Chase Grant, who has three goals and two assists, and freshman Bryce Gervais, who has one assist. Gervais was a teammate of Gophers Mike and Ryan Reilly on the Penticton Vees in the BCHL last season. The Vees won the Junior A national title in Canada.
WISCONSIN FORWARD HURT
Wisconsin freshman Nic Kerdiles was given permission to play for the under-18 U.S. national development team even though he was under NCAA suspension for 10 games for violating amateur rules.
That looked like a big positive for him. Well, it has not turned out so well. Kerdiles played against the Gophers in a 2-2 overtime tie, but sprained one of his knees the next night in an exhibition game against the University of St. Thomas. So he won't be skating for a while but probably should be ready when the Badgers play at Denver on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 and his suspension is lifted.
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