Friday, February 15th vs. No. 13 Providence (7:15 pm)
ROLOSON SHIRSEY GIVEAWAY
(Tsongas Center; Lowell, Mass.)
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Saturday, February 16th at No. 13 Providence (7pm)
(Schneider Arena; Providence, R.I.)
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SCOUTING THE RIVER HAWKS: UMass Lowell is 17-8-2/11-4-2 after last weekend's shutout sweep of Boston College/Massachusetts at the Tsongas Center. The wins pushed the current unbeaten streak to ten, the second longest active streak in the country. The club has won 11 of 14 road games and is 6-5-2 at home. UMass Lowell currently sits in second place in the Hockey East standings, just two points behind Massachusetts, and owns the tiebreaker should the teams end the season with the same number of points. The team is ranked 11th in the latest USA Hockey Magazine Poll and 10th in the USCHO poll. The River Hawks were picked for a seventh place finish by Hockey East Coaches and was placed sixth in the Media Poll. Ryan Lohin leads the team in scoring with 23-points. Eighteen different players have scored goals, seventeen have scored more than once. Lohin and Ryan Dmowski top the list of goal scorers with eleven apiece. Nine players have 11 points or more, four have at least 16. Tyler Wall has started 16 of the team's 27-games and has a 1.77 goals against average and a .933 save percentage. Christoffer Hernberg is 6-0-1 in his last six starts and has a 2.04 GAA and .929 Sv.% over his last eight appearances. Both Wall and Hernberg have multiple shutouts to their credit.
SCOUTING THE FRIARS: Providence is 16-9-5 / 9-7-2 after splitting a pair of games at Maine last weekend. The Friars have scored just one-goal in each of their last four games, but have only lost two (1-2-1). Providence is ranked 13th in both the USA Today Hockey and USCHO polls. The Friars were picked to finish second in the Coaches' Pre-Season Polls and first in the Media Pre-Season Poll. Nineteen different players have scored goals, fifteen have more than one. Scott Conway leads the team with 12-goals, Kasper Björkqvist has eleven. Josh Wilkins tops the point chart with 28. Hayden Hawkey has started 29 of the team's 30 games in nets and has a 1.90 goals against average and a .917 save percentage.
ALL-TIME SERIES vs. PROVIDENCE: This is the 117th meeting between the two schools in a series that dates back to 1982. Providence leads the series 58-47-11. The Friars swept the two-game season series in each of the last two seasons and hold a 7-3-0 edge in the last ten. Providence also has an edge, 12-9-0, since Norm Bazin and Nate Leaman became the respective Head Coaches in 2011-12. The two teams have met in seven different years in the Hockey East Tournament totaling 11 games with UML holding a 7-3-1 edge and moving into the next round five times.
LAST YEAR vs. PROVIDENCE: Providence, a year ago, swept the season series from the River Hawks winning 5-2 in Providence and 3-1 at the Tsongas Center. In the first meeting the Friars scored three times in a span of 1:58 in the third period to overcome a 2-1 deficit. In the second contest Providence broke a 1-1 tie with an Erik Foley goal with 2:01 remaining in the third period. That goal came 42-seconds after the River Hawks had tied the game. The Friars did add an empty net goal.
NORM and NATE: UMass Lowell Head Coach Norm Bazin and Providence Head Coach Nate Leaman took over behind their respective benches nearly seven years ago and since that time have combined for more than 350 wins. Bazin shows a record of 185-95-23 while Leaman is 168-98-37. Leaman holds a slight edge in head to head matches, 12-9-0.
FAMILY FUED: When UMass Lowell and Providence meet the games match brother and against brother. Junior Colin O'Neill plays for UMass Lowell; sophomore Jason O'Neill wears a Providence jersey. Colin leads the family scoring race with 29 (12g, 17a) career points to Jason's 17 (4g, 13a). Colin leads the head-to-head duel with one assist.
AT THE SCHNEIDER ARENA: UMass Lowell has won 24 games at the Schneider Arena, only two enemy buildings have seen UMass Lowell win more often. The River Hawks have 35 wins in the Lawler Arena at Merrimack and 30 wins at Northeastern's Matthews Arena. Twenty-three of the 24 wins at the Schneider Arena have come against Providence, one additional win was against Elmira in 1991 as part of the USAir Tournament hosted by Providence.
IT HAPPENED LAST WEEKEND: River Hawks goaltenders posted back-to-back shutouts against two different opponents to pick up four points and move into second place in the Hockey East standings. Tyler Wall made 28 saves and the River Hawks scored three times in the second period as UMass Lowell defeated Boston College, 3-0, Friday night at the Tsongas Center. Ryan Dmowski opened the scoring with a goal at the 5:47 mark of the second period. Nick Marin, shorthanded, and Ryan Lohin, on the power play, added goals before the period was over. The following night Chris Schutz and Anthony Baxter scored first period goals and Christoffer Hernberg made 31 saves as UMass Lowell topped Massachusetts, 2-0.
CLINCHED: UMass Lowell, earning four-points last weekend, has clinched a spot in the Hockey East playoffs. The spot is far from being determined. The River Hawks can finish anywhere from first to eighth place. It is the 31st time in 35 years that the River Hawks have made the playoffs. They have won the Hockey East Tournament three times.
BACK-TO-BACK ZEROES: UMass Lowell posted consecutive shutouts last weekend for the first time since the 2013-14 season. The River Hawks, with Connor Hellebuyck in nets, shutout Notre Dame and New Hampshire, both 4-0, in the Hockey East Tournament semi-final and championship games.
DIFFERENT GOALIE; SAME RESULT: When UMass Lowell recorded consecutive shutout wins, last weekend, it was the first time that multiple goaltenders, Wall and Hernberg, had played in consecutive shutouts since 2001. UMass Lowell shutout Army, 4-0 on November 24, 2001 using both Cam McCormick and Jimi St. John in nets and then followed that up with a 3-0 shutout at Union on November 28th with McCormick going the distance.
131:36: It has been 131:36 since UMass Lowell last allowed a goal. Northeastern scored at the 8:24 mark of the third period in a UMass Lowell 3-1 win on February 1st. UMass Lowell followed that with shutouts against Boston College and Massachusetts.
CLEAN SHEETS: UMass Lowell goalies have combined for seven shutouts this season. Tyler Wall has four and Christoffer Hernberg has three. Only in 2001-02 did the River Hawks chalk up more shutouts as a team, eight. Cam McCormick had six, Jimi St. John had one and the two goalies combined for an eighth.
STINGY D: UMass Lowell held opponents to one goal or fewer in eight of its last ten games. That stretch includes four shutouts. The River Hawks have a 1.30-goals against average during the ten game span.
TEN IN A ROW - PART I: UMass Lowell's ten-game unbeaten streak is the second longest active winning streak in the country. The River Hawks are 9-0-1 during the streak. Bentley (9-0-2) is unbeaten in eleven.
TEN IN A ROW - PART II: During UMass Lowell's current ten-game unbeaten streak the team has scored 3.33 goals per game and allowed just 1.44 goals per game. During the first 17 games this season the River Hawks showed a 2.76 goals for number and a goals against average of 2.53. They had outscored opponents by just four goals. They have outscored their opponents by 17 goals during the streak. Ryan Dmowski has seven goals, including four game winners, and nine-points during the streak. Ryan Lohin leads the team with ten-points (5g, 5a). He has two game winning goals. The PK success rate was just 79.7% during the first 17 games and is 85.3% in the last nine. The Power Play is at 23.1% during the streak after posting at 16.2% success rate in the first 17 games.
TEN IN A ROW - PART III: This current ten-game unbeaten is the fourth longest unbeaten streak in UMass Lowell's Division I history and the longest since the team went undefeated in eleven games (10-0-1) during the 2012-13 season. The River Hawks had a 12 game (11-0-1) stretch without a loss during the 1995-96 season and a 14 game (11-0-3) run during the 2004-2005 campaign.
AFTER A LOSS: UML has done a good job avoiding any extended losing streak. Six times this season the River Hawks have followed a loss with a win, only twice has the hockey club lost consecutive games and they have not dropped three in a row.
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE Hernberg WALL: Goalie Chrstoffer Hernberg made 31 saves, last Saturday, to pick up his third shutout of the season, a 2-0 win against Massachusetts. It was the eighth shutout of his career. Hernberg is unbeaten (6-0-1) in his last seven starts dating back to a 5-3 win at BU December 7, 2018. The goalie has a 2.04 GAA and a .929 sv% during that stretch.
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL WALL: Goalie Tyler Wall made 28 saves, last Friday night, to pick up his fourth shutout of the season and the seventh of his career when the River Hawks defeated Boston College 3-0. Wall has given up two or fewer goals in twelve of his sixteen starts. He has thrown shutouts against UConn, Miami and Vermont in addition to Boston College.
IT HAD BEEN A YEAR: Nick Marin's shorthanded marker last Friday night was his first goal in a calendar year, actually a year and two-days. Marin's last goal had come on February 6, 2018 in a 4-0 win against AIC. Last night's goal ended a 20-game scoring stretch.
A WIN TONIGHT WOULD...: ...extend the River Hawks unbeaten streak to eleven games. It, potentially, could move UMass Lowell into a first place tie with Massachusetts in the Hockey East standings.
TONIGHT'S PROMOTION: The first 1,000 fans in attendance will receive a Dwayne Roloson Shirsey T-Shirt, the third of four Alumni T-Shirt giveaway this season. The shirsey is courtesy of DCU.
BOYLE-ING HOT: Former UMass Lowell goalie Kevin Boyle got his first NHL start and made it a memorable one. The Anaheim Ducks goalie made 35 saves in a 1-0 shutout win against Vancouver. Boyle is the first goalie age 26 or older to have a shutout in his first NHL start since Sam St. Laurent (27) of the New Jersey Devils in a 1-0 win against the St. Louis Blues in 1986.
BROWN AND LOHIN: Junior co-captain Ryan Lohin has been named a semifinalist for the prestigious Walter Brown Award. Lohin is one of 20 Div. I players and one of 12 Hockey East players who were named semifinalists for the award presented annually to the best American-born college hockey player in New England. Lohin has posted a team-high 23 points to go along with 11 goals and 12 assists, skating in 23 of 27 contests for the River Hawks to date. The Gridiron Club of Boston will announce the finalists and winner of the 67th Walter Brown Award in March. Joe Gambardella is the only UMass Lowell player to win the award.
HONORS FOR TWO: UMass Lowell goalies, Senior Christoffer Hernberg and Tyler Wall were named the Hockey East Co-Players of the Week after each turned in a shut out performance as the River Hawks knocked off Boston College and Massachusetts this past weekend to extend their undefeated streak to ten. Wall turned aside 28 shots in UMass Lowell's Friday night 3-0 against Boston College and Hernberg made 31 saves in a 2-0 victory over No. 2 in the nation UMass.
HERNBERG HONORS: Senior goaltender Christoffer Hernberg has been named Hockey East Goaltender of the Month. Hernberg, who won the award for the second time in his River Hawk career, posted a 4-0-1 record in five starts for the River Hawks in the month of January, posting a 2.16 GAA and .923 save percentage with one shutout, ranking third and fourth in the league, respectively. Hernberg previously won the award in November of 2017.
IN THE NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT: For the fourth week in a row UMass Lowell has earned a spot in the USCHO poll and for the second time this year made an appearance in the USA Hockey Magazine poll. The River Hawks returned to the rankings when they appeared in the No. 19 slot in the USCHO poll released January 14, 2019, this week the club has moved up to the No. 10 position. UMass Lowell is 11th in the USA Hockey Magazine poll. It had been a while, 28 weeks/polls to be exact since the River Hawks had appeared in one of the national polls. But UMass Lowell is no stranger to the polls, the team had been nationally ranked for 116 consecutive polls between January 7, 2013 and October 23, 2017. UMass Lowell is one of four Hockey East teams currently ranked.
NEXT WEEKEND: The River Hawks have a home and home series with neighborhood rival Merrimack. Friday the two teams meet in Lowell, Saturday in North Andover. UMass Lowell leads the all-time series 78-40-11. The two split the season series a year ago before Merrimack ended the UML post season in two games.
AT THIS POINT: UMass Lowell has 17 wins through the first 27 games of the season and that appears to be about par for the course during the Norm Bazin Era. It is the fourth time in eight years that the River Hawks had 17 wins at the 27 game mark. In four other years they had 16 wins twice and 15 twice and in Bazin's first season, 2011-12, the team had 19 wins. For the second time in the Bazin Era UMass Lowell has 11 wins in its first 17 Hockey East Games, they've never had more.
THE REST OF THE WAY: UMass Lowell has just 7 games remaining on the regular season schedule. Those 7 games are against four different Hockey East opponents. The four have a combined record of 46-53-16, a .470 winning percentage. The numbers don't change very much once you factor in the number of games versus each opponent, 80-92-30 .470.
HOME SWEET HOME: UMass Lowell is 88-40-14 (a .669 winning percentage) at the Tsongas Center since Norm Bazin took over behind the bench for the 2011-12 season. In 2017-18 the River Hawks were 10-8-0 on home ice. They are 6-5-2 this 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: Ryan Dmowski leads the team with six-goal and 11-points in thirteen home games. Kenny Hausinger has five Tsongas Center goals. Ryan Lohin has ten points in 12 games at the Tsongas Center.
ON THE ROAD: UMass Lowell is 11-3-0, a .786 winning percentage when playing away from the Tsongas Center this season. The eleven wins are the second most in the country and that .786 road winning percentage is third best in the country.
ON THE ROAD, AGAIN: UMass Lowell is 96-55-9, a .628 winning percentage when playing away from the Tsongas Center in the seven-plus years that Norm Bazin has led the program. That .628 winning percentage is the second best in the nation during that period. The River Hawks are 72-44-8, .610, as the road team and 24-11-1, .681, in games played at a neutral site.
ON THE ROAD, AGAIN AND AGAIN: UMass Lowell has won eight in a row on the road. It is their longest road winning streak since taking a school Division I record nine in a row in 2013. The school record is 20 straight road wins set over two seasons beginning in January of 1981 and ending more than a year later.
ROAD WARRIORS: Several River Hawks appear to feel right at home when they are on the road. Ryan Lohin has scored 13 of his 23-points and seven of his 11-goals in ten road games. Connor Sodergren has scored 12 of his 18-points in enemy rinks. Sam Knoblauch has scored seven (3g, 4a) of his eight points this season on the road. Charlie Levesque scored eight of his 12 points and Lucas Condotta has scored all of his seven-points (3g, 4a) in enemy buildings. Kenny Hausinger has seen nine of his 15-points come on the road. Reid Stefanson has accumulated ten of his 13 points away from the Tsongas Center.
MAKING A DIFFERENCE: Ryan Dmowski has eleven game winning goals in his career. That ranks him first in Hockey East and second in the nation among active players. Denver's Jarid Lukosevicius leads the country with 18, Michigan Tech's Jake Lucchini is second with 11. His six game winning goals this season leads the country.
BACK-TO-BACK: This the thirteenth "back-to-back" weekend this season. The River Hawks have 15 on the schedule. UMass Lowell is 8-3-1 on the first night and 7-4-1 on the second. They have four weekend sweeps on the board. The sweeps have come against UConn, Colgate, Vermont and BC/UMass. The River Hawks have not been swept this season. A year ago the team played back-to-back games on 17 weekends and had four sweeps to its credit, eight splits and also were swept five times. UML was 10-7-0 on the first night, 5-12-0 on the second.
IN THE CLUTCH: Ryan Dmowski leads UMass Lowell with nine clutch goals. A "clutch goal" is defined as a goal that either ties the score or gives the team the lead in a hockey game. Seven of Dmowski's nine clutch goals have given UMass Lowell the lead. Connor Wilson is second with four clutch goals. Wilson and Ryan Lohin led the team a year ago with six clutch goals each.
PUTTING THE D IN THE O: The UMass Lowell defense corps has become a significant contributor to the River Hawk offense during the last 19 games. After scoring just one-goal and adding ten-assists during the first eight games of the season the blueliners have contributed 11-goals and 45-points to the offense in the last 19 games. During that stretch the River Hawks have averaged 3.16-goals per game after averaging 2.38-goals per game during the first eight contests of the year. The eleven goals is the third most by a Hockey East defense since November 9. The UMass Lowell defense corps is fourth in Hockey East in both goals and points. A year ago the UMass Lowell defensemen were among the highest scoring in the nation with 26-goals and 89-points.
YOUTH MOVEMENT: The UMass Lowell freshmen class has been key to the River Hawk offense. The group, with 20-goals and 56-points, is second in scoring of the four classes. The class is third in Hockey East in goals and points. Reid Stefanson, with 13-points (6g, 7a), is the top scoring River Hawk freshmen.
FLUXUATIONS IN THE POWER GRID: The UMass Lowell power play has been on on-again off-again proposition. The River Hawks have scored with the man advantage in four of their last five games are 4-for-18, 22.2%, during that stretch. The PP Unit has a 17.4% success rate for the season.
PENALTY KILLING?: The UMass Lowell penalty killing unit has been playing some of its best hockey after a rough stretch. The PK unit has killed 32 of the last 37 shorthanded situations, an 86.5% success rate. Prior to that eight game run the River Hawks had allowed six power play goals in a five game stretch. The PK success rate has now climbed to 82.2 on the season.
DOMINATING THE DOT: UMass Lowell is dominating at the faceoff circle. The River Hawks have won 863 of 1,642 puck drops, a winning percentage of 52.6%, second best in Hockey East. Top performances have come from Charlie Levesque, Lucas Condotta and Nick Master. Condotta has won 130 of 228, 57.0% and Levesque has won 175 of 314 draws, 55.7%. Master has won 182 of 344 puck drops, 52.9%. Master won 24 of 34 faceoffs last weekend.
GETTING IN THE WAY: UMass Lowell is fourth in Hockey East in blocked shots per game. The River Hawks have blocked 317 shots in 27-games this season, an average of 11.74 shots blocked per game. Defenseman Mattias Göransson leads the team with 47 blocks. He is sixth in Hockey East.
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES: UMass Lowell forward Connor Sodergren has four-goals and eighteen-points in 27-games. A year ago Sodergren did not get to 18. He finished the year with four goals and ten points. His fourth goal and tenth point came in his 32nd, the team's 35th, game. Defenseman Mattias Göransson has also surpassed last year's totals. Göransson has four goals and 16 points. A year ago he finished with four-goals and 13-points. Forward Chris Schutz has three-goals and seven points. A year ago he had just picked up the first two points of his collegiate career.
WHEN TWO IS ENOUGH: Five times this season UMass Lowell has won games when scoring fewer than three-goals. That is something the River Hawks rarely did a year ago. The hockey club defeated R I T, 2-1, on October 12th, beat Maine, 1-0, on November 3rd, defeated Massachusetts, 2-1, on January 4th and KO'd Vermont 2-0 January 19th and shutout Massuchsetts, 2-0, last Saturday. UMass Lowell is 5-5-1 this season when scoring two-goals or fewer, they were 2-14-0 a year ago.
BY THE CLOSEST OF MARGINS: UMass Lowell is 55-41-23, .559, in one-goal games since the 2011-12 season. The team is 4-5-2 this year in one-goal games. The River Hawks played 12 one-goal games a year ago. The results were split down the middle 6-6-0.
THREE IS THE MAGIC NUMBER: When UMass Lowell scores three or more goals in a game it is 153-23-7, .855 during the last seven-plus years. The River Hawks were 15-4-0, last season, and were 25-3-1 two years ago. When scoring two goals or less in a game the River Hawks are 29-71-16, .319, since 2011-12.
PROTECTING THE LEAD: Since Norm Bazin took over the coaching reins at UMass Lowell, the River Hawks are 141-9-9 when leading after two-periods. They are also 32-20-9 when the score is tied after two periods. The River Hawks were 12-2-0 when leading after two periods during the 2017-18 season and were 22-1-2 when leading after two periods two years ago. They are 12-2-0 this season.
Defense: Over the past seven-plus seasons, UMass Lowell has allowed just 2.25 goals per game and has a .920 save percentage. Those number are among the best in the country. Only two teams, (Quinnipiac 2.19 and Cornell 2,22), have a better goals against average and just one, (Denver .921) has a higher save percentage.
ON TARGET: UMass Lowell has scored on 10.3% of its shots on goal during the nearly eight years that Norm Bazin has been behind the bench. Only three teams show greater accuracy during that seven-plus season period of time. St. Cloud tops the lists at 11.1%. Boston College and Northeastern are at 10.6% and 10.4% respectively.
BEFORE AND AFTER THE BREAK: UMass Lowell, during the Norm Bazin Era, has a better winning percentage after the winter break than before it. The River Hawks are 74-43-12, .620, before the break and 111-52-11, .670, after the break. BUT, the numbers can be misleading. In five of the previous seven years the team had a slightly better winning percentage during the first half of the season.
A GOOD START: UMass Lowell has allowed just 15 first period goals 27 games into the season. That's an average of 0.56 goals per first period. That ranks UMass Lowell sixth in the nation and only one Hockey East team has better numbers. UMass has allowed 0.48 first period goals, a total of 13 in 27 games. The River Hawks have outscored opponents 24-15 in the first period. That goal differential, +9, is the third highest in Hockey East.
THE FINAL THIRD: Twenty-seven games into the season and the River Hawks have outscored their opponents 31-goals to 22 in the third period of play. The plus-9 is third best in Hockey East and is 13th in the country. That continues a trend seen a year ago. UML outscored opponents by 15-goals in the third period during the 2017-18 season. That was the sixth highest goal differential in the country.
THE 2019 SENIOR CLASS: The five-member UMass Lowell senior class has accumulated a record of 86-48-10, a .632 winning percentage. The class ranks second in Hockey East in wins and third in winning percentage. The class which includes forwards Ryan Dmowski, Connor Wilson and Nick Master and defenseman Avni Berisha and goalie Christoffer Hernberg has won one HEA regular season title, a tournament championship, four in-season tournaments and made two appearances in the NCAA tournament. The class ranks sixth in wins among UML teams. The 2016 senior class tops the list with 100 victories.
THE CENTURY CLUB: Four members of the UMass Lowell roster have played more than 100 games in their collegiate careers and a fifth will join that club tonight. Nick Master leads the group with 138 games in a River Hawk uniform. Connor Wilson (123), Ryan Dmowski (120) and Ryan Lohin (100) joined the club earlier this season. Next on the list are Mattias Göransson (99), Colin O'Neill (98) and Kenny Hausinger (95). A year ago UMass Lowell had six players on the roster with more than 100 games played in their collegiate careers.
76 GAMES: UMass Lowell forward Colin O'Neill has skated in 76 consecutive games. That is the longest active consecutive games streak on the River Hawk roster. O'Neill's streak began February 4, 2017, his freshman season, in an 8-2 win against UNH. Ryan Dmowski is second on the consecutive games list with 60 and Charlie Levesque is third with 55. Ryan Lohin, who had not missed a game in his collegiate career, saw his consecutive games streak end at 81 when he was sidelined with an injury earlier this season. Michael Kapla is the River Hawk record holder with 161 consecutive games played.
ATTENDANCE NUMBERS: After leading Hockey East in average home attendance for the last three years, UMass Lowell is looking to do it again. UMass Lowell holds a slight edge over Massachusetts, 4,985 to 4,816. The River Hawks averaged 4,876 fans per game a year ago. During the last three years an average of 5,339 fans have filled the Tsongas Center nightly to watch UMass Lowell play.
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. He has worked more games than anyone else in any capacity. 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. He has worked more games The athletic trainer has worked 1,409 games including 1,342 Division I games. He has missed only one game. Poitras is working on a consecutive games streak that has now reached 933. He is the only trainer in College Hockey to work games at both Northern Arizona and Arizona State.
