St. Cloud State
Colgate University
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#6/7 St. Cloud State to host #5/6 Colgate on Oct. 10-11
10/7/2014 1:57:00 PM | Men's Hockey
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BANNER RAISING: St. Cloud State University captured the inaugural regular season championship of the NCHC in 2013-14. To salute this accomplishment, a special championship banner raising ceremony will take place before the game vs. Colgate on Oct. 10 at the HBNHC. The Huskies finished the year with a first place mark of 15-6-3-0 in the always rugged NCHC. SCSU posted 48 league points to win the Penrose Trophy, while North Dakota trailed in second place with 45 points. This marked the second consecutive season that SCSU has won a regular season conference title. In 2013, the Huskies won the WCHA regular season championshp. These are the first two regular season league titles claimed by the Huskies since they moved to the NCAA DI level in 1987-88.
ON THE AIR: KCML Lite 99.9 FM will broadcast all home and away SCSU men's hockey games during the 2014-15 season. Fans can tune into KCML on the web at www.lite999.com. Dan Terhaar, the Voice of the Huskies, and Dave Reichel will provide the call for KCML in 2014-15...select SCSU hockey games will also be broadcast live on KVSC FM 88.1 (www.kvsc.org). KVSC sports director Declan Goff will lead the KVSC broadcast team.
HUSKIES ON TV: Select SCSU home games in 2014-15 will be televised live on Charter Cable channel 823 HD/426 in the St. Cloud area and on Charter markets throughout the region (check your local cable provider for details). Select games will also be televised on Comcast Cable channel 999 in the Twin Cities. Twin Cities sports media personality Jim Rich and former NHL and Husky standout Mark Parrish called the games this season for Husky Productions. Special thanks to Brian Stanley and the rest of the award winning Husky Productions staff for providing top quality programming throughout the season for SCSU fans. Select NCHC games featuring SCSU will be televised on the CBS Sports Network with Ben Holden, Dave Starman and Shireen Saski providing coverage. Selected games will also be televised nationally on Fox Sports North and Fox College Sports. Please check you local guide for the channel location of CBS Sports and Fox Sports.
WATCH ON THE WEB: Fans will have a chance to watch SCSU games on the web (both home and away) with the new NCHC.tv web streaming service. Just visit NCHC.tv and then click on the SCSU channel to get information on how you can subscribe to this great new web streaming service.
TIME CHANGE ON NOV. 1: The Huskies will host the University of Minnesota at the HBNHC on Oct. 31 at 7:37 p.m. On Nov. 1, St. Cloud State will play a 4:07 p.m. game at Mariucci Arena (please note new start time). For complete ticket information on the game at SCSU, please visit www.scsutickets.com or call 1-877-SCSUTIX.
BIG BANG: SCSU gained a big 8-0 victory over Trinity Western last weekend at the HBNHC. In the exhibition game win, Joe Rehkamp posted two goals and one assist to earn the top star honors, while the Huskies outshot the Spartans 62-17. A total of six Huskies had two-or-more points in the contest. The goalie trio of Charlie Lindgren, Rasmus Reijola and Joe Phillippi combined for the shutout and 17 saves...of note, Colgate scored a 7-1 exhibition win over Queen's College on Oct. 4...this marked the first time that SCSU has played an exhibition game vs. Trinity Western...SCSU is now 23-1-2 in action against exhibition game opponents since making the move to the DI level in 1987-88.
COACH OF THE YEAR: .On the topic of league honors, SCSU coach Bob Motzko was selected as the first NCHC Coach of the Year in 2014. This marked the third time in his career that Motzko has been selected as a conference coach of the year. Motzko was named the WCHA Coach of the Year in 2006 and 2007.
THE PROCHNO WATCH: Senior defender Andrew Prochno enters the 2014-15 season with 76 career points and needs just 24 points to join the Huskies' 100-point club. He would be the first defenseman to join the club since Kelly Hultgren had 107 points from 1991-95.
BY THE NUMBERS: SCSU will return 21 letterwinners from its 2013-14 squad. This group of returnees includes three goalies, six defenders and 12 forwards. SCSU lost six letterwinners from last year's squad, which includes one goalie, two defenders and four forwards. SCSU will return seven of its top 10 point producers from last year and it will also return four of its top five point producers from 2013-14. Tops on that list is junior forward Jonny Brodzinski, who led the Huskies with 41 points (21g/20a) and junior forward Kalle Kossila who paced SCSU with 27 assists last winter and was second on the team with 40 points along with Nic Dowd's 40 points.
NEW RECORD: Once again the Huskies set a new record for least penalties and penalty minutes in a season. SCSU has 137 penalties and 304 PIM, which breaks the old record of 151 penalties and 349 PIM set in 2012-13. Of note, SCSU was the fourth least penalized team in the nation last year with an average of 8.0 penalty minutes per game.
NO SOPHOMORE SLUMP: Jonny Brodzinski led the Huskies with 41 points in 2013-14. He tallied 21 goals and 20 assists as a sophomore, which included two game winners and five power play goals. In two years at SCSU, Brodzinski has 43 goals, 31 assists and 74 points. Of note, Mark Hartigan owns the best two year start at SCSU with 49 goals (1999-01) and Jeff Saterdalen is tops at SCSU with 93 points in his first two seasons as a Husky from 1988-90.
NEWS & NOTES: SCSU's 136 goals scored in 2013-14 is 13th best in the team's DI history since 1987-88...SCSU's 22 in 2013-14 wins ranks seventh in the team records...SCSU's power play rate of 25.3% ranked third in the nation and SCSU's ranked fourth in the nation with an average of 3.61 goals per game... after just two seasons of play, junior forward Jonny Brodzinski already has 43 career goals and 74 points...SCSU rookie Patrick Russell posted a goal and an assist in the victory over Trinity Western. He is a resident of Copenhagen, Denmark...junior Jimmy Murray ranked second on the team last year with three game winning goals...the Huskies were ranked #6/7 in this year's Division I preseason men's hockey polls...the Huskies feature four players from Finland on this year's roster - Kalle Kossila, Rasmus Reijola, Nilkas Nevalainen and Mika Ilvonen.
BIG WEEKEND VS. RAIDERS: Last year, Ryan Papa scored two goals in the weekend series at Colgate. Other SCSU notables in that series includes Niklas Nevalainen with 1g/2a in the win on Oct. 26 and Ethan Prow with three helpers in the two games.
ROAD WARRIORS: The Huskies set a new team record in 2013-14 for most road wins in a season. SCSU charted 13 wins at away sites and two wins at neutral sites in 2013-14 for a total of 15 wins away from the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center. SCSU was 7-6-5 in games played at home last year, 13-3-0 on the road and 2-2-0 at neutral sites. The previous road win record was 13 wins during the 2000-01 season.
