Saturday, October 31, 2009
MSU vs. Denver, Game 2 notes
Here are the lines and a few notes for tonight's games. I thought I'd put them here so they're available to look at. The live blog will be up as soon as this is done:
MINNESOTA STATE
Mueller-Galiardi-Stewart
Zuck-Harrison-Jokinen
Mouillierat-Sackrison-Hayes
Gaulrapp-Pitlick-Louwerse
Youds-Elbrecht
Boe-Davis
Schiller-Cooper
Murdock
Lee
Murdock gets the start. No big surprise there. ... Canzanello and Thompson are out. Spoke briefly with Jutting and he did not indicate there was an injury issue with those players. "Trying to get better," he said.
DENVER
Rakhshani-Ruegsegger-Colborne
Maiani-Shore-Ostrow
Glasser-Martin-Salazar
Ostrow-Gifford-Vossberg (or Dewhurst)
Wiercioch-Wrnn
Donovan-Lee
Nutini-Brookwell
Murray
Paulgaard
Word is it took 35 stitches to close up the gash on goalie Marc Cheverie's leg. ... Murray was 0-2 in his first two starts this season.
More on the live blog coming soon ...
Backes to appear on 'Today'
Set your DVRs, MSU fans ...
Former Mavericks captain and Olympic hopeful David Backes will appear on the "Today" show on Wednesday morning as part of NBC's 100-day countdown to the winter Olympics in Vancover.
Backes is still considered a candidate for the U.S. team, but it's hard to imagine the St. Louis Blues forward won't make it if the USA Hockey is having him promote the sport.
Backes will be on a segment with former Olympic gold medalists Bill Cleary (1960), Mike Eruzione (1980), Jim Craig (1980) and Steve Janaszak (1980). It sounds like Backes will be giving Meredith Vieira some shooting lessons, too.
More on the event can be found here.
Pios 4, Mavs 3
Quite a hockey game tonight. Minnesota State probably played its best game of the season -- at least its best Friday-night game of the season -- but got no reward, falling 4-3. Austin Lee (31 stops) matched Denver star Marc Cheverie save for save until Cheverie (25 stops) left the game with a cut calf.
The Denver line of Jesse Martin, Matt Glasser and Luke Salazar had three goals, including two in a 2:02 stretch of the third period after Cheverie's injury to give their team a 4-2 lead.
The Mavericks' Eriah Hayes, who had a two-point night, made it a one-goal game with about eight minutes to play, but MSU' couldn't get the equalizer. Freshman goalie Adam Murray stopped seven of eight shots after replacing Cheverie to get his first collegiate win.
Rylan Galiardi and Andy Sackrison had the other MSU goals.
Shots were even 35-35. The only statistical difference was on the power play. Joe Colborne scored one for Denver in the second period but MSU went 0 for 5.
One correction: I had written earlier that MSU had a 10-game winless streak at Denver since 2002-03. It was eight games and now nine games (0-8-1).
Friday, October 30, 2009
Friday morning skate (update)
Good morning. I'm at the MSP airport, waiting to head to snowy Denver (15 inches this week, according to the CNN report on the TVs here) for this weekend's series. I covered Mankato West girls soccer in the state tournament last night, so there's no full Friday-morning reading list right now. For more on that, check out Brad Schlossman's blog at the Grand Forks Herald (he linked to mine last week when that site was down, so it's the least I can do).
However, I will provide a few notes on this weekend's MSU-DU series. The Mavericks are 0-9-1 in their last 10 games at Magness Arena. Is it a small-rink thing? Perhaps, because, over that same stretch, they're 5-1-2 against the Pioneers in Manakto.
Meanwhile, Denver goaltender Marc Cheverie is riding a three-game shutout streak and needs to keep the Mavericks scoreless for 5:24 tonight to break the school record for consecutive shutout minutes.
A few notes on the Mavericks:
As of Wednesday, coach Troy Jutting hadn't decided on his starting goaltender. I assume he has by now. Both Austin Lee and Kevin Murdock are on the trip.
Forward lines will be: Louwerse-Galiardi-Stewart; Zuck-Harrison-Jokinen; Mouillierat-Sackrison-Hayes; Gaulrapp-Pitlick-Thompson. Defensive pairings will be: Boe-Davis; Youds-Elbrecht; Canzanello-Cooper.
Adam Mueller and Joe Schiller are also on the trip.
UPDATE: Apparently, the snowstorm shut down the DU campus, so they're selling student tickets for this weekend's games for just $5, according to the Pios website.
That's all for now. Next time you hear from me, I'll be in Colorado. Be sure to check out the live blog tonight.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
More on Smith's suspension
The Wisconsin State Journal is reporting that Craig Smith's suspension for his hit on Geoff Irwin was indeed handed down by the university and not the WCHA.
Just a little editorial comment by PucKato: I know the league prefers that the schools handle these suspensions. However, after Trevor Bruess and other late-season suspensions, it would seem in order to have a uniform review policy for such matters by the league.
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