Friday, November 10th at No. 8 New Hampshire (7pm)
(Whittemore Center; Durham, N.H.)
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Television: ESPN3/Watch ESPN App, TSN GO (Canada)
Talent: Brendan Glasheen (Play by Play); Pete Webster (Analyst)

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Talent: Bob Ellis (Play by Play); Andy Merritt (Analyst)

Saturday, November 11th vs. No. 13 Northeastern (7pm)
(Tsongas Center; Lowell, Mass.)
JERSEY GIVEAWAY | BLUE OUT
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Television: ESPN3/Watch ESPN App, TSN GO (Canada)
Talent: Ryan Johnston (Play by Play); Jimmy Connelly (Analyst)
Producer: Sebouh Majarian

Commercial Radio:
River Hawk Network: (WCAP 980AM)/UMass Lowell Game Day App
Talent: Bob Ellis (Play by Play); Andy Merritt (Analyst)

Non-Commercial Radio: WUML 91.5 FM
Talent: Connor Capozzi (Play by Play); Brianne Dillon (Analyst)

SCOUTING THE RIVER HAWKS:  UMass Lowell is 4-6-0/1-5-0 after a Hockey East weekend split against Maine.  The River Hawks won the opener, 3-2, but dropped the second game, 6-2.  The River Hawks, coming off a 27-11-3 season, were picked for a second place finish in the Hockey East Coaches' Pre-Season Poll.  Ryan Lohin leads the team in scoring with 11-points.  Kenny Hausinger tops the scoring charts with five-goals, he's second with nine-points.  Fifteen different players have scored goals, eight have more than one.  Tyler Wall and Christoffer Hernberg have split the goaltending responsibilities.  Hernberg has started in five games and played in seven and has a 1.69 GAA and a .940 save percentage.
 
SCOUTING THE WILDCATS:  New Hampshire is 6-1-1/3-0-1 after playing just one game last weekend and shutting out Massachusetts, 3-0, last Saturday night.  The Wildcats opened the season with five straight wins before a loss, a tie and a win brought them to their current record.  They sit atop the Hockey East standings.  The Wildcats went 15-20-5 a year ago and have been picked to finish eighth in the Hockey East Coaches' Pre-Season poll.  Senior forward Michael McNicholas and freshman defenseman Benton Maass lead the team in scoring with ten-points.  Freshman Defenseman Max Gildon tops the goal scoring list with six.  Thirteen different players have scored goals, seven have done so more than once.  Senior goalie Danny Tirone has a 1.98 goals against average and a .936 save percentage.
 
ALL-TIME SERIES VS. NEW HAMPSHIRE:  This is the 121st meeting between the two schools in a series that dates back to 1983.  UNH leads the series 62-43-15, but UML has won 11 of the last fifteen, including four by shutout.  A year ago, UMass Lowell won the regular season series two-games-to-none and then defeated New Hampshire two-games to one in the quarterfinal round of the Hockey East Tournament.  The two teams have met on numerous occasions in the post-season.  UMass Lowell holds an 8-6-0 edge in HEA Tournament play including a 4-0 shutout to earn the 2014 title.  The River Hawks also defeated UNH 2-0, in Manchester, to win the NCAA Northeast Regional final and advance to the Frozen Four in 2013.
 
THIS SEASON VS. UNH:  UMass Lowell and New Hampshire met for a home-and-home series during the season opening weekend.  The River Hawks scored the first goal in each of the two games, but UNH came from behind to sweep the weekend, 4-3 and 3-1.  Six different players scored goals for UNH, twelve had points.  Ryan Lohin assisted on three of the River Hawks four goals.
 
LAST SEASON VS. UNH:  UMass Lowell and New Hampshire met five times during the 2016-17 season.  The River Hawks swept the regular season series winning 2-1 in Durham and 8-2 at the Tsongas Center.  Jake Kamrass had the winner in the opener and two goals in the second meeting.  UMass Lowell won the best-of-three quarterfinal series played in Lowell, two-games-to-one.  The Wildcats took the opener, 3-1, before the River Hawks rebounded with a pair of wins, 3-1 and 8-2.  UMass Lowell scored six goals in the first period of the deciding game.
 
BIG ICE:  The Norm Bazin led River Hawks have played well on "Big Ice."  The River Hawks are 37-11-5 on ice sheets larger than the standard/NHL 200 x 85 during Bazin's six-plus years behind the bench.  They are 11-2-1 on the Olympic, 200 x 100, sheet including a 5-3-0 record at the Whittemore Center. 
 
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION:  These two teams have played each other in nine different buildings, matching the greatest number of venues for UMass Lowell against any one opponent.  UMass Lowell and UNH have faced off at Tully Forum (Billerica, MA), Snively Arena (Durham, NH), Boston Garden (Boston, MA), JFK Coliseum (Manchester, NH), Alfond Arena (Orono, ME), Whittemore Center (Durham, NH), Tsongas Center (Lowell, MA), FleetCenter/TD Garden (Boston, MA) and the Verizon Wireless Arena (Manchester, NH.)  UMass Lowell has also played Maine and Boston College in nine different buildings, but Clarkson tops the list with ten different venues.
 
ABOUT LAST WEEKEND:  UMass Lowell split a pair of games with Maine.  The River Hawks won the opener, 3-2, on a Chris Forney third period goal, but dropped the second game 6-2.
 
A WIN TONIGHT WOULD...:  ...inch UMass Lowell to within a win of the .500 mark.  It would also be a much needed second win in Hockey East action.  The River Hawks opened the season by dropping three in a row for the first time since the 1999-2000 season.  They won their next three, but are 1-3-0 since then.
 
WHO'S NEXT: Saturday night the River Hawks wrap up a Hockey East weekend with a Tsongas Center match up against Northeastern.  It will be the third meeting with Northeastern this season.  The Huskies swept UMass Lowell, 3-1 and 5-4 in overtime, Oct. 27th and 28th.
 
BLUE OUT SATURDAY: Saturday's contest against Northeastern will be the first of two "Blue Out" games at the Tsongas Center this season.  The first 1,500 fans will receive a replica blue jersey.  The hockey club is expected to wear blue uniforms for the game.
 
NEXT WEEKEND: Next weekend UMass Lowell faces UConn in a home-and-home series.  Friday night the teams will meet in Lowell, Saturday afternoon the two will face one another in Hartford.  The River Hawks lead the all-time series 20-10-2, but is 0-4-1 in the last five.
 
HOME SWEET HOME: UMass Lowell is 74-30-12 (a .690 winning percentage) at the Tsongas Center since Norm Bazin took over behind the bench for the 2011-12 season.  The last time the River Hawks had a losing record at home was 2010-11 when the home team went 4-12-0.
 
HOME COOKING: UMass Lowell forward John Edwardh has scored his three goals and five of his seven points at the Tsongas Center this season.  Defenseman Tyler Mueller has scored both of his goals at home and Nick Master has added his four points, all assists, on home ice as well.
 
BACK-TO-BACK:  This is the sixth of 16 weekends during which UMass Lowell will play back-to-back games.  The River Hawks have one sweep to their credit, two splits and also have been swept twice this season.  UMass Lowell is 2-3-0 on the first night, 2-3-0 on the second.  A year ago the River Hawks went back-to-back 18 times.  The River Hawks were 11-6-1 on the first night and 11-5-2 on the second.  UMass Lowell authored seven sweeps and were swept just twice.
 
BY THE CLOSEST OF MARGINS: UMass Lowell is 46-32-21 in one-goal games since the 2011-12 season.  Also, during that time period the River Hawks are 12-10-21 in games decided in overtime.
 
PROTECTING THE LEAD: Since Norm Bazin took over the coaching reins at UMass Lowell, the River Hawks are 118-5-9 when leading after two-periods.  They are also 29-18-9 when the score is tied after two periods.  The River Hawks were 22-1-2 when leading after two periods a year ago.
 
THREE IS THE MAGIC NUMBER: When UMass Lowell scores three or more goals in a game it is 131-19-6, .859 during the last six-plus years.  The River Hawks were 25-3-1 a year ago.  When scoring two goals or less in a game the River Hawks are 25-53-15, .349, since 2011-12.
 
OFFENSE FROM DEFENSE: UMass Lowell leads Hockey East in goals from the defense with nine in the team's first ten games.  Only three teams in the country have more goals from the defense.  Their 27-points from the blue line is second in the league and sixth in the country.  Six different defensemen have scored goals, two, Tyler Mueller, Mattias Goransson and Chris Forney have two.  Mueller leads River Hawk defensemen with seven-points.
 
HOCKEY EAST WIN #1: UMass Lowell picked up its first Hockey East league win of the season last Friday night.  The win came in the River Hawks fifth league game, the longest season opening league drought since Norm Bazin took over behind the River Hawk bench in 2011-12.  It was the longest wait for the first league win since the 2004-05 season when they lost five in a row to start the Hockey East season and after two ties picked up their first Hockey East win in their eighth league game.
 
WINNING ANYWAY:  Last Friday night was the first time this season that UMass Lowell won a game in which it's opponent scored first.  The River Hawks are 1-4-0 when the opponent scores first.  A year ago UMass Lowell was 6-6-1 when allowing the first goal of the game.
 
GOING TO THE BOX, OR NOT:  UMass Lowell has spent less time, on average, in the penalty box than any other team in Hockey East.  The River Hawks have been whistled 48 times for an average of 9.60 minutes per game.  New Hampshire is the fourth least penalized team spending 11.75 minutes in the box per game. 
 
TWO MEN DOWN, BUT NOT OUT:  UMass Lowell played two men short on four different occasions in October 28th contest at Northeastern and the PK Unit came through with flying colors.  The River Hawks played at a five-on-three disadvantage for a total of five-minutes and 10-seconds but kept their opponents off the scoreboard.  On the season the penalty killers are 30-for-36, 83.3%.  They've killed off 15 of 17 over the last four games, 88.2%.
 
SCORING WHEN DOWN A MAN:  UMass Lowell scored a shorthanded goal in consecutive games Northeastern and Maine.  Ryan Lohin scored during the penalty kill October 28th at Northeastern and Colin O'Neill added a shorty last Friday night.  The River Hawks are one of four Hockey East Teams with two shorthanded goals this season.
 
OFF THE NATIONAL STAGE: UMass Lowell is not nationally ranked.  The streak came to an end with the polls released on October 30, 2017.  It was the first time since December of 2012 that the team did not earn a spot in the polls.  The River Hawks had been nationally ranked, in either the USCHO or the USAHockey Magazine poll, for 119 consecutive weeks.  The stretch began when UMass Lowell appeared at #20 in the USCHO Poll on January 7, 2013.  Of those 119 weeks, more than two-thirds, 83, have been spent in the top ten.  The streak was the second longest in the country.  The longest streak also came to an end the same week when Boston College disappeared from the rankings after 209 weeks.  The longest current active streak is Boston University at 106 weeks.
 
WHEN RANKED TEAMS VISIT: UMass Lowell saw its 17 game (12-0-5) unbeaten streak against nationally ranked teams at the Tsongas Center come to an end October 27th with the 3-1 loss to 20th ranked Northeastern.  The streak was their longest since the USCHO poll began in 1997.  Before last Friday, their last home loss to a ranked team on Feb. 6, 2015, when they were beaten by third ranked BU, 5-2.
  
AMONG THE NATIONAL LEADERS: UMass Lowell goalie Christoffer Hernberg is seventh in the nation in goals against average, 1.69, and fourth in save percentage, .940.  Hernberg has started five and appeared in seven of the River Hawks ten games this season and leads Hockey East in both categories.  Forward Ryan Lohin is tied for fifth, nationally, in assists with nine.  He leads Hockey East is assists and is third in the league with 11-points.
 
GETTING THE FIRST ONE: Freshman forward Connor Sodergren picked up his first collegiate goal in October 27th 3-1 loss to Northeastern.  Sodergren found the back of the net in the third period with a shot from the left faceoff circle.  Ryan Dmowski had the lone assist.
 
GETTING THE FIRST ONE-PART II: It took 11 games over three seasons, but junior defenseman Avni Berisha found the back of the net for the first time in his career October 28th against Northeastern.  The goal, which was the first point of his collegiate career, tied the score at a goal apiece in a game that Northeastern eventually won in overtime.
 
HERNBERG SPARKLES: It was 40 games between starts for goalie Christoffer Hernberg, but the junior has turned in series strong starts.  He picked up his second collegiate victory in UMass Lowell's 5-2 win against Omaha and followed that up with a pair of wins against Clarkson and St. Lawrence and added a win against Maine.  The St. Lawrence win saw Hernberg make 27 saves and pick up his first career shutout, 5-0.  The wins were the first for Hernberg since January 29, 2016 when he beat Arizona State 4-1 making 19 saves.
 
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES: Forward Kenny Hausinger has gotten off to a quick start scoring five goals and nine points in the River Hawks first ten games.  Last year, Hausinger had just one-point, a goal, after ten games.  That is far ahead of the pace he set last year.  Hausinger did not score his ninth point of the 2016-17 season until his 25th game February 3rd against Northeastern.
 
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES-Part II: Forward Ryan Lohin has picked up nine-assists and eleven points in just his ten games this season.  A year ago Lohin picked up his ninth assist of the season on January 14th at UMass, his 23rd game of the year.  A year ago Lohin had only one goal and five assists through the first ten games of the season.
  
ON THE ROAD: UMass Lowell is 81-42-10, a .647 winning percentage when playing away from the Tsongas Center in the six-plus years that Norm Bazin had led the program.  The River Hawks are 57-32-9, .628, as the road team and 24-10-1, .700, in games played at a neutral site.
 
ROAD WARRIORS: UMass Lowell forwards Ryan Lohin and Kenny Hausinger appear to be comfortable on foreign ice.  Four of Hausinger's five goals and seven of his nine-points have come on the road.  Eight of Lohin's ten-points (1g, 9a)) have come on the road.
 
SEEN IT ALL AND COUNTING: UMass Lowell Head Athletic Trainer Artie Poitras is the longest serving hockey athletic trainer with one team and the second longest serving in the country.  Poitras has been on the bench, in his role as athletic trainer, for 37 years since starting his UMass Lowell career in 1981.  He has been witness to a National Championship, three Hockey East Tournament Titles and ten NCAA Tournament visits.  The athletic trainer has worked 1,356 games including 1,289 Division I games.  He has missed only one game.  Poitras is working on a consecutive games streak that has now reached 880.
 
GETTING OFF TO A GOOD START:  UMass Lowell has scored first in five of its ten games this season.  That has not always translated into a win.  The River Hawks have only won three of those five games.
 
STINGY STARTS:  UMass Lowell has allowed only six first period goals in ten games this season, an average 0.60 goals per gamer. That puts the River Hawks 12th in the country and fourth in Hockey East.
 
NON-CONFERENCE, NO PROBLEM: UMass Lowell has more than held its own in non-conference play over the last six-plus years.  UMass Lowell is 73-25-6 (.731) in non-conference games since the 2011-12 season.  The River Hawks are 19-7-3 against ECAC teams since Norm Bazin took over behind the River Hawk bench.
 
51ST SEASON OF UMASS LOWELL HOCKEY: This is the 51st season of hockey at UMass Lowell. The program began with the 1967-68 season. That first team went 7-7-1. After winning three Division II National Championships the program moved to Division I as an Independent for the 1983-84 season and joined Hockey East for its inaugural season of 1984-85. The River Hawks are 854-706-116 all time with a winning percentage of .544 and 594-586-109 record (.503) as a Division I program.
 
CLUTCH AND IMPORTANT GOALS: John Edwardh continues to perform in the clutch.  Two of his three goals this season are defined as "clutch" either tying the score or giving the River Hawks the lead.  He led UMass Lowell in clutch goals last season with 13.  Twelve of Edwardh's 19-goals gave UML the lead; another tied the score meaning that 68.4% of his goals were scored in clutch situations. Kenny Hausinger, Connor Wilson, Jake Kamrass and Ryan Lohin, also, have two clutch goals this season.
 
BONUS TIME - NO BONUS: It has been a while since UMass Lowell won a game in overtime.  The River Hawks' last OT win came on March 26, 2016 when they defeated Yale, 3-2, in the NCAAs.  UML is 0-2-3 in OT since then.
 
AN IMPRESSIVE DEBUT: Freshman defenseman Croix Evingson made his collegiate debut a memorable one.  The Anchorage, Alaska native scored on a breakaway after stepping out of the penalty box to give UMass Lowell a 3-0 lead in October 14th game against Omaha.  The goal proved to be the eventual game winner in a 5-2 victory.  Evingson also picked up an assist on the River Hawks first goal.
  
The NHL and UML:  Six former River Hawks have earned spots on National Hockey League opening night rosters.  One, defenseman Chad Ruhwedel, is currently with the defending Stanley Cup Champion Pittsburgh Penguins.  Forward Scott Wilson is now with the Detroit Red Wings.  Christian Folin is manning the back line for Los Angeles.  Defenseman Ron Hainsey has taken his game to Toronto.  Goalies Connor Hellebuyck and Carter Hutton are protecting the nets for Winnipeg and St. Louis respectively.
 
The NHL and UML-PART II:  Former River Hawk goalies Connor Hellebuyck and Carter Hutton have been putting up impressive numbers in the early going in the NHL.  Hellebuyck defending the nets for the Winnipeg Jets is 8-0-0-2 with a 2.12 GAA and a .936 Sv.%.  Hutton is undefeated in three starts for St. Louis with a 1.67 GAA and a .950 save percentage.
 
The NHL and UML-Part III:  Three current River Hawks have been drafted by National Hockey League teams.  Forward Ryan Lohin and goalie Tyler Wall were selected in the 2016 draft.  Wall was grabbed by the New York Rangers on the sixth round and Lohin by Tampa Bay in the seventh round.  Freshman defenseman Croix Evingson was chosen by Winnipeg in the seventh round of the 2017 draft.
 
100 GAMES CLUB: Three members of the UMass Lowell hockey team have played at least 100 games in their collegiate careers.  Tyler Mueller (128), John Edwardh (111) and Chris Forney (110) have all reached the century mark.  Mueller is tenth in the country among active players in games played and number one in Hockey East.   Tommy Panico and Nick Master with 89 games played are next on the list.
 
ATTENDANCE LEADERS: UMass Lowell led Hockey East in average attendance, a year ago, drawing 5,542 per game.  It was the second consecutive year that the River Hawks topped the leader board.  The club closed out the 2016-17 regular season with crowds of 6,000 or better in each of its last six home games.  Prior to this stretch UMass Lowell had never had more than three-consecutive home games with crowds of more than six-thousand.  The River Hawks averaged nearly 900 more people than its nearest competitor.  UMass Lowell is currently first in Hockey East in attendance this season drawing an average of 5,049 per game through first five home contests.
 
PLUS-81: UMass Lowell Head Coach Norm Bazin is 81 games over .500 behind the River Hawk bench in six-plus seasons and that has moved the program above the .500 mark for the first time in the school's 35-year Division I history.  UMass Lowell is 594-587-109 since beginning Division I play in 1983-84.  Bazin is 155-73-21 in Lowell.
 
SUCCESS IS THE NORM: Norm Bazin is in his seventh season at UMass Lowell with a 155-74-21 record (.662) in 250 games. He owns a 193-105-28 mark (.636) in 326 games now in his tenth season as a collegiate head coach, including three seasons at Hamilton College. Bazin is the sixth head coach in program history and the fifth Div. I boss.  He recorded his 100th career coaching victory on Nov. 23, 2013 vs. Notre Dame at the Tsongas Center and his 100th behind the River Hawk bench on October 9, 2015. He is also the fastest to the 100-win mark in school history. Bazin's 150th UML win came against Boston College in the 2017 Hockey East Championship Game.  His first UMass Lowell win came against Minnesota State, 4-2, on October 14, 2011. Bazin is a three-time Hockey East Coach of the Year and was named the 2013 Spencer Penrose Award Winner as the Division I Coach of the Year. Bazin has led the River Hawks to five NCAA tournament appearances, three Hockey East Tournament Championships (2013, '14, '17) and one Frozen Four appearance (2013).