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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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Co-captains lead St. Cloud State to win over RPI
Posted by: Roman Augustoviz Updated: December 29, 2012 - 12:33 AM
No. 16-rated St. Cloud State edged Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2-1 on Friday at the National Hockey Center for a split of their nonconference series.
Ben Hanowski and Drew LeBlanc, the Huskies senior co-captains, each scored a goal in the second period.
Hanowski's goal came on a power play at 12 minutes, 54 seconds and tied the score at 1-1. He tipped in a shot by teammate LeBlanc. It was Hanowski's sixth goal of the season and his 96th career point at SCSU.
LeBlanc, who leads the nation with 22 assists, scored the game-winning goal at 19:37 of the second period. He has six goals now, too. He also has an NCAA-best 28 points and his career point total (125 points) is 11th place on the Huskies' all-time points list.
LeBlanc also owns a nine-game points streak going into the Northern Michigan series on Jan. 4-5 in St. Cloud.
The Huskies (12-8-0), first in the WCHA, lost 4-3 to RPI (5-7-4) on Thursday.
The Engineers, who had won four in a row against SCSU dating back to 2002, took a 1-0 lead in the third minute of play on Matt Tinordi's first goal.
SCSU outshot the Engineers 25-15, which included limiting RPI to just four shots in the third period.The Huskies have outshot their opponent in eight consecutive games and not given up a power-play goal in seven games. RPI was 0-for-2 with a man advantage.
MINNESOTA ST. MANKATO LOSES FORWARD
Junior forward Corey Leivermann of Minnesota State Mankato has decided to leave school and transfer.
Leivermann, a 2008 graduate of Mankato West, was the first native of Mankato to play for the Mavericks, but the problem was he didn't play much.
As a freshman he played in 19 goals and had three goals and four assists for seven points. Last season he had one goal in 21 games. And this season he only played in the first two games against Alabama-Huntsville, a Division I weakling.
The 5-11, 175-pound Leivermann tweeted to a Mankato Free Press reporter that he will transfer to Gustavus Adolphus in nearby St. Peter, Minn. He will be eligible at the Division III program there immediately.
“We appreciate and recognize Corey's contributions to Maverick Hockey during the past two and half years,” Mavericks coach Mike Hastings said, according to a school news release. “We wish him the best as he moves forward in his future endeavors.”
* The Gophers and Bemidji State also lost players at the holiday break. Defensemen Blake Thompson left the Gophers and the Beavers lost a freshman goalie from Sweden.
U.S. WINS IN U17 CHALLENGE PRELIM
Jack Eichel scored two goals and had an assists as the U.S. team rallied to beat Canada's Team Pacific 6-2 in a preliminary game before the Under-17 Hockey Challenge in Drummondville, Quebec. The U.S. team opens the tournament against Canada Ontario on Saturday.
Team Pacific took a 2-0 lead in the opening period. Defenseman Jack Glover, who has committed to the Gophers, started the U.S. rally with a goal at 5:16 of the second period. The U.S. team also scored four other goals in the middle period. Forward Alex Poganski, who has committed to North Dakota but attends St. Cloud Cathedral now, has one of those goals.
The U.S. team outshot the Canadians 36-17.
St. Cloud State surges to top of WCHA
Posted by: Roman Augustoviz Updated: December 17, 2012 - 8:17 AMThe Huskies are only four games above .500 overall and in the WCHA, but No. 17-rated St. Cloud State University is in first place in the conference.
SCSU (11-7-0, 9-5-0 WCHA) won 3-1 over Colorado College (8-10-2, 5-6-0 WCHA) on Saturday at the National Hockey and Event Center to move past Denver, which lost to Bemidji State 5-1 the same night.
The Huskies, off until a nonconference series against RPI on Dec. 37-28 at home, have 18 points, DU and North Dakota are tied for second with 17 apiece.
One reason the Huskies are playing so well is freshman forward Kalle Kossila from Finland. He scored his team-leading 10th goal at 16 minutes, 41 seconds of the first period to give SCSU a 1-0 lead. Kossila has more goals than any other freshman in Division I hockey.
CC tied the score at 1-1 in the seventh minute of the secondf period on Joe Marciano's goal.
Ben Hanowski and Jonny Brodzinski scored goals 1:38 apart in the middle of the second period to give SCSU a 3-1 lead and that's the way the game ended.
The Huskies outshot the Tigers 30-17. SCSU has had more shot than its opponent the past six games.
Senior forward Drew LeBlanc had an assists on Brodzinski's goal to extend his scoring streak to seven games. He has 19 assists, first in the nation.
Sophomore Ryan Faragher stopped 16 shots for the victory; CC goalie Josh Thorimbert had 27 saves.
COMEBACK WIN FIRST NIGHT
The Huskies won 5-3 over Colorado College on Friday after trailing 2-1 at the end of the opening period.
Freshman forward David Morley had two goals in the rally and and Kossila the game-winner in the third period.
Faragher had 22 saves, Joe Howe of CC 24.
SCSU BY THE NUMBERS
* The Huskies have won three games in a row and five of their last seven. ... They are in the middle of a 10-game homestead. Their next six are at home. Their next WCHA series, against Denver on Jan. 18-19, caps the homestand.
* In overall games, SCSU is third among WCHA teams in scoring, averaging 3.44 goals per game, and fifth in defense, gving up 2.50. ... They are averaging only 10.1 penalty minutes a game, fewest in the conference.
* The Huskies' special teams are in the middle of the conference. SCSU's power play is seventh, at 18.5 percent, its penalty kill is fifth, at 83.9 percent. ... They have scored 24 goals in the third period -- tied for second in the league -- and given up just 13.
* Drew Leblanc (5-19-24) is tied for second in WCHA scoring in all games, whil teammate Nic Dowd (9-14-23) is tied for fourth. Four of Dowd's goal have been game-winners.
* Faragher is ninth in goals-against average at 2.38 and eighth in save percentage at .911.
St. Cloud State signs five, including two Minnesotans
Posted by: Roman Augustoviz Updated: November 30, 2012 - 4:10 PMSt. Cloud State has signed five hockey players, according to a recent Huskies news release, including goalie Charlie Lindgren of Lakeville and defensemen Jimmy Schuldt of Minnetonka.
The 6-1, 181-pound Lindgren plays for Sioux Falls of the USHL. He is 8-3-1 with a 2.66 goals-against average and a .904 save percentage in 12 games. He also played for the Stampede last season.
In 2011-12, Lindgren played in 33 games for the Stampede with a 3.33 goals against average and a .907 save rate.
Schuldt, 5-11, 195 pounds, plays for Minnetonka High School. This fall in the Upper Midwest High School Elite League for Team Southwest he had one goal and 13 assists in 23 games.
The Huskies also signed two Canadian forwards, Michael Buonincontri of Montreal, Quebec and Daniel Tedesco of Maple, Ontario, and defenseman Ben Storm of Calumet, Mich.
The 6-1, 202-pound Buonincontri is in his second season of play with the Smith Falls Bears of the Central Canada Hockey League. He has 14 goals and 12 assists for the Bears in 17 games.
Tedesco, 5-10, 185 pounds, plays for the Toronto Lakeshore Patriots of the Ontario Junior Hockey League. In 20 games played during the 2012-13 season, Tedesco has already scored seven goals and 15 assists for Toronto Lakeshore.
Storm, 6-6, 213 pounds, has two assists in 11 games for Muskegon of the USHL.
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.
SCSU, already strong up front, gets captain back
Posted by: Roman Augustoviz Updated: November 26, 2012 - 12:26 AMSt. Cloud State, tied for second in the WCHA standings with the Gophers, could be a team to watch.
The Huskies got captain Ben Hanowski, a senior forward, back last weekend and he had a goal and two assists as SCSU split with Minnesota Duluth. He had missed five games with an injury.
UMD won the first game 2-1 at Amsoil Arena, its home rink. The Huskies won the second 5-1.
Hanowski, who always seems to play well against the Gophers, now has four goals and four assists for eight points this season and 90 in his career.
He adds depth to a talented group of forwards.
Junior Nic Dowd has eight goals and nine assists for 17 points. He is sixth nationally and first in the WCHA in goals and points. Dowd also has four game-winning goals; the team record is five in a single season.
Senior forward Drew LeBlance has five goals and 10 assists for 15 points, second on the team.
SCSU freshman forward Kalle Kossila from Finland had two more goals against UMD and has 10 points; he is averaging one point per game. Joey Benik, another high-scoring freshman, is still recovering from a broken leg suffered on the first day of practice.
The Huskies have outscored its opponents 42-28 this season. They are fourth in the WCHA in scoring, averaging 3.50 goals per game. They have scored 14 goals in every period.
In Saturday win in Duluth, the Huskies were three for five on the power play while UMD was one for four and gave up a short-handed goal to SCSU.
St. Cloud State plays at Alasaka Anchorage this weekend, but after that will have a 10-game homestand, starting with Nebraska Omaha. Colorado College, RPI, Northern Michigan and Denver will be the other teams coming to the National Hockey Center.
The Gophers play St. Cloud State in only one series, Feb. 8-9 in the Granite City.
Upcoming sked
Games Friday
Nebraska Omaha at Minnesota, 7:07 pm
Minnesota Duluth at Michigan Tech, 6:07 pm
Bemidji State at Minnesota State, 7:37 pm
North Dakota at Colorado College (WCHA), 8:37 pm
Wisconsin at Denver, 9:07 pm
St. Cloud State at Alaska Anchorage, 10:07 pm
Games Saturday
Nebraska Omaha at Minnesota, 7:07 pm
Minnesota Duluth at Michigan Tech, 6:07 pm
Bemidji State at Minnesota State, 7:07 pm
North Dakota at Colorado College, 8:07 pm
Wisconsin at Denver (WCHA), 8:07 pm
St. Cloud State at Alaska Anchorage, 10:07 pm
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