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THIS WEEK'S GAME: UW-Stout (1-0-0, 0-0-0 WIAC) turns their attention to a familiar foe they have not met for several years -
Lake Forest College (0-0-0, 0-0-0 NCHA). The Foresters were in the NCHA along with the Blue Devils, but pulled out several years ago for the MCHA. Stout left the NCHA after last season and the MCHA and the NCHA merged to form a new NCHA.
WEBCASTS:Â All UW-Stout home games are scheduled to be broadcast in a live video stream by
Blue Devil Video.
Brady Burzynski and
Josh Halling will be on the call throughout the season.Â
Live Stats should also be available for most home games.
2013-14 BLUE DEVILS (1-0-0, 0-0-0 WIAC): It's a new season, with an old twist. The Blue Devils, along with the other four UW schools, pulled out of the NCHA and will play solely in the five-team Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC). When Stout started playing a varsity program back in the early 1970s, they were a member of only the WIAC. But when Stout returned to varsity status after a nearly 15-year hiatus in 1996, they brought the WIAC back to a five-time league, thereby sponsored by the league, and also joined the NCHA, making that league an eight-team league. The Blue Devils bring a team to the new season where the roster is half new with 14 first year players to the 28-man roster. Stout does return their top scorer in senior forward
Kevin O'Donnell, who scored 12 goals and 12 assists. But they return only three of their top 10 scorers from last year. O'Donnell leads the way.
Zach Vierling scored eight goals and eight assists, while defenseman
Jordan Tredinnick scored four goals and 10 assists. O'Donnell, Vierling and Tredinnick were all key players on the power play. O'Donnell had two power play goals and four assists. Tredinnick had one power play goal and five power play assists, while Vierling had two power play goals and two assists. Stout returns no goalies that saw starting time.
Eric Wobschall saw action in two games for 28 minutes, while
Brad Wohlers was added to the roster at mid-season, but did not see the ice. Wohlers saw ice time in 2001-12. Newcomers
Corey Koop and
Chase Hallander are expected to vie for time between the pipes. |
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2012-13 BLUE DEVILS (10-13-2, 5-13-0 NCHA): After a hot start to the season, Stout finished the 2012-13 season with a 10-15-2 overall record, 5-13-0 in their last season in the NCHA and 2-10-0 in the WIAC. |
2012-13 Statistics
STOUT'S LAST TIME OUT: Kevin O'Donnell scored on a penatly shot with 22 seconds remaining in the overtime period for a 4-3 win over Marian University, Oct. 26. The Sabres scored two goals early in the first period before Stout cut the lead in half when
Matt Millis scored in the first. Marian went out to a 3-1 lead before the period ended. The rest of the game belonged to the Blue Devils.
Logan Maly cut the lead to 3-2 in the second period and O'Donnell tied the score midway through the second. |
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SCOUTING LAKE FOREST COLLEGE (0-0-0, 0-0-0 NCHA): The Foresters were picked to finish sixth in the new NCHA in a preseason poll. Lake Forest finished the 2012-13 season with a 10-12-5 overall record, matching the program's victory total from the two previous years combined.
Jason McAloon led the 2012-13 Foresters with 21 points on seven goals and 14 assists.
Roberto Caparelli scored a team-high eight times and sophomore
Charlie Stein led the squad with 15 assists. Nineteen players on the the team scored at least once and 24 recorded one or more points, including 10 in double figures. The Foresters closed out the season by splitting an MCHA quarterfinal game with MSOE, but closed out the season by losing a 1-0 mini-game. |Â
2012-13 Statistics
THE SERIES: Lake Forest leads the series, 21-16-3, but the teams have not met since Feb. 6, 2009, when Stout captured a 5-1 win. Stout has won the last six meetings between the two teams. Lake Forest's last win over Stout came Feb. 4, 2005, a 6-3 win.
LAST TIME THEY MET:Â UW-Stout scored four power play goals on their way to 5-1 win in Lake Forest, Ill, Feb. 6, 2009. Paul Henderson scored the first two goals of the game in the season Stout advanced to the semi-finals of the NCAA Division III championship.. |
Story and Box Score
USCHO.com POLL: Neither team is represented in the USCHO.com first poll. UW-Eau Claire is ranked first, while UW-Stevens Point is ranked 13th. UW-River Falls and UW-Superior are receiving votes.
RECORDS AND MILESTONES: Kevin O'Donnell has worked his way onto the UW-Stout all-time career scoring list. His 71 total points (30-41-71) ranks him 23rd and his 41 assists rank him 23rd. Thirty career goals is the cutoff to appear on the UW-Stout all-time goals list.
AWARDS AND HONORS: Kevin O'Donnell was a first team all-WIAC selection last season.Â
Jordan Tredinnick and
Zach Vierling honorable mention all-WIAC.
THE COACHES: UW-Stout:Â
Terry Watkins (208-233-28) is in his 18th season as the head coach of the Blue Devils' varsity program. Watkins spent eight years coaching the club team (104-102-16) as Stout prepared to return to varsity status in 1997. Watkins was the 2006-07 NCHA coach of the year when Stout finished in a three-way tie for first. Watkins had a Hall of Fame career at Stout as a defenseman. Stout won a WIAC title in 2010-11, and an NCHA title during the 2006-07 season. Watkins is closing in on 700 games as the head coach of a UW-Stout hockey team (varsity and club).
Lake Forest College:. The 2013-14 is the third season for
Ryan McKelvie (15-34-5) at Lake Forest and his sixth as a collegiate coach, coaching three years as an assistant at Bemidji State. The Foresters advanced to the MCHA playoffs during both of McKelvie's seasons.
THE CONFERENCES: Stout is a member of the five team Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC). The WIAC is made up of Stout, UW-Eau Claire, UW-Stevens Point, UW-Superior and UW-River Falls. Marian University is a member of the 10-team NCHA, but were a member of the MCHA. Teams in the MCHA include: St. Norbert, St. Scholastica, Adrian, Finlandia, Lake Forest, MSOE, Lawrence, Concordia-Mequon and Northland.
STOUT'S RANKED HISTORY: Stout finished the 2008-09 season as the second ranked team in the USCHO.com poll. With the exception of the Nov. 17, 2008, USCHO.com poll, Stout had been ranked in the top 15 since the Nov. 13, 2006, poll. Stout made their first appearance in the poll on Nov. 27, 2000, when they received one vote, then moved up to 10th the following week. The 2008-09 season ending poll matched Stout's previous high mark of second in the Jan. 29, 2007, poll. Stout opened the 2009-10 season ranked third, their highest-ever season-opening ranking, but fell out of the polls midway through the season and returned to the top 15, Nov. 22, 2010. Stout was in the 2011-12 USCHO.com poll early in the season, dropped out, returned again, but dropped out. Stout returned to the poll after a win over top-ranked St. Norbert, Jan. 18, garnering eight votes in the Jan. 21 poll, effectively ranking the Blue Devils 19th. |
USCHO.com Division III poll
STOUT'S PETERS CUP HISTORY: Since they joined the NCHA for the 1996-97 season, UW-Stout has compiled an overall record of 14-21-3 in Peters Cup games. Upon joining the league, Stout went winless in their first eight playoff series. Since their first victory in 2004-05, Stout is 14-7-1. In recent years, Stout's record is not terrible, but they have not advanced out of the first round for three years. In both the 2009-10 and 2010-11 seasons, Stout went 1-1 on their home ice before losing a mini-game to end their season. Then last year, as the seventh seed, they went 0-1-1 at St. Scholastica to again end their season early. As it pertains to their series this weekend, Stout has not fared well on the road, especially against St. Norbert. The Blue Devils are 4-17-3 in road Peters Cup games and are 0-5-0 against the Green Knights, with each loss coming in De Pere.
UP NEXT: The Blue Devils will host Hamline University, Friday, Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m. and Gustavus Adolphus College, Saturday, Nov. 2 at 7:30 p.m.
