Utica, NY (11/5/2013) – The nationally-ranked No. 3/5 Utica College men's hockey team welcomes ECAC West opponents Elmira College and No. 9/9 Hobart College to the Utica Memorial Auditorium this weekend. The Pioneers will take on Elmira on Friday night and Hobart on Saturday night. Both games are scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.
FRIDAY IS BOYSCOUT NIGHT: Calling all Scouts to the Utica Auditorium this Friday night for the Utica College Pioneer's vs. Elmira College men's ice hockey game … Scouts in uniform and with a can of food get into the game for FREE! For more information, contact Rolland at the Scout Service Center, 315.735.4437.
EXPRESS EMPLOYMENT & ARC NEED MORE COWBELL: The first 1,250 fans through the gates will receive a free mini cowbell Saturday night as Express Employment Professionals and Utica College will join forces to benefit The Arc, Oneida-Lewis Chapter … Express Employment Professionals, a staffing agency that develops customized programs designed to improve your work force's productivity, is proud to sponsor this event to benefit The Arc, which serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Oneida and Lewis counties.
BROADCAST INFO: Both of the UC men's hockey games this weekend will be broadcast by WPNR 90.7 FM by play-by-play man Ray Biggs … A live streaming video broadcast of both games can be access for free online by visiting
www.empire8.tv … WPNR's audio can also be accessed online at
https://www.utica.edu/student/activities/organizations/wpnr/listenlive.cfm ... Fans can follow live stats on their computer or mobile device at
http://www.sidearmstats.com/utica/mhockey/
SOCIAL MEDIA: If you can't make it out to the game make sure to follow live updates on the Pioneers official Twitter feed, @UCPioneers … If you are at the game on Twitter, or talking about the game on Twitter, make sure to use #LetsGoUC … You can also "Like" the Pioneers on Facebook at www.facebook.com/UCpioneers.
LAST WEEKEND: The Utica College men's hockey team swept its opening weekend, downing conference opponent Nazareth 3-1 and SUNY Brockport 5-2 … Eight different players scored for Utica … UC started 2-0 for the fourth consecutive season … The Pioneer penalty-kill was outstanding, going a perfect 11-11.
BALANCED SCORING: Eight different Pioneers scored goals on the weekend, proving that UC is loaded with depth at the forward position … Thirteen different players recorded at least one point on the weekend … Senior
Trever Hertz (Jaffray, British Columbia/Quesnel Millionaires (BCHL)) and junior
Mike Baird (Oakville, Ontario/Huntsville (OJHL)) led the way for Utica with three points each, while seniors
Adam Graff (Bear, DE/Syracuse Stars (EJHL)) and
Rob Morton (New Hartford, NY/Merrimack (Hockey East)) chipped in with two points a piece.
ACTIVE LEADING SCORER: Senior
Trever Hertz (Jaffray, British Columbia/Quesnel Millionaires (BCHL)) is the Pioneers active career scoring leader as he turned in his 80th career point in the Pioneers win over Brockprt on Saturday … Hertz ranks fourth all-time at UC with 37 goals and 47 career assists … Tim Coffman '12 is the Pioneers' all-time leading scorer (139 career points), Pioneer Hall of Famer Jimmy Sokol '05 ranks second (129) and recent graduate
Evan Chlanda (Islip, NY/Springfield (EJHL)) '13 ranks third (93) … Utica senior
Jon Gaffney (Dover, NJ/Springfield Blues (NAHL)) ranks fifth all-time with 73 career points … Utica's Louie Educated has 36 career points in the orange and blue and he also chipped in with a 42 point freshman campaign at Nichols for a total of 78 points at the collegiate level.Â
FRESHMAN FITTING IN: Seven different freshmen played for UC on opening weekend … Defenseman
Kevin Kirisits (Buffalo, NY/Brockville (CCHL)) was the only freshman to play in both games …
Zac Lazzaro (Aston, PA/Kenai River (NAHL)) and
Easton Powers (South Lyon, MI/Port Huron (NAHL)) each scored the first collegiate goal in the Pioneers' 5-2 win over Brockport … Goaltender
Marcus Zelzer (Green Bay, WI/Kenai River (NAHL)) made 20 saves against Brockport in his first collegiate win.
OFFENSIVE DEFENSEMAN: Baird tallied three points and sophomore defender
Donny Olivieri (Philadelphia, PA/Bismarck (NAHL)) tallied two points on the weekend … Olivieri, an ECAC West All Conference selection from a year ago, buried a power-play goal in the Pioneers' 3-1 win over Nazareth … Baird made a sensational move on the blue line against Brockport before ripping a shot that was deflected in by
Trever Hertz (Jaffray, British Columbia/Quesnel Millionaires (BCHL)) on Saturday night.
GOOD GOALTENDING: UC senior
Nick Therrien (Rochester, NH/NY Apple Core (EJHL)) and freshman
Marcus Zelzer (Green Bay, WI/Kenai River (NAHL)) split the weekend set last weekend and it should be interesting to see if Head Coach
Gary Heenan continues this trend against Elmira and Hobart … Therrien, an all-conference pick last year, let in one goal against Naz and stopped 29 shots and is expected to start on Friday night …
SCOUTING ELMIRA: Elmira comes to Utica after splitting the opening weekend against ECAC West opponents Neumann and Manhattanville … Jarryd ten Vaanholt leads the Soaring Eagles in points after scoring two goals and adding two assists … Josh Burnell registered three points (1g, 2a) on the weekend … Plattsburgh transfer Max Balaban score a goal and added an assist … Freshman goalie Sal Magliocco played both games for Elmira, stopping 67 of 73 shots.
RECENT MEETINGS AGAINST : The Pioneers won the season series 2-1 against the Soaring Eagles in three wild affairs last season … UC beat Elmira 11-2 early in the season before losing 7-4 the following night … In the final game in Elmira, the Pioneers jumped out to a 5-1 lead … Elmira stormed back but UC held on for the 5-4 victory.
SCOUTING HOBART: Three members of the Hobart College hockey team were recognized by the ECAC West conference office this week … First-year Nick Bingaman was named Rookie of the Week, and sophomore Lino Chimienti was tabbed the Goalie of the Week … Senior Tommy Fiorentino earned a spot on the league's weekly honor roll … The Statesmen, who started the season with a 5-0 win over Manhattanville and a 2-2 overtime tie with then No. 14 Neumann over the weekend, remained at No. 9 in the USCHO.com poll this week … Hobart moved up two spots to No. 9 in this week's D3hockey.com poll.
RECENT MEETINGS: The Pioneers won the season series 2-1 against the Statesmen last season in three pivotal games … UC scraped out a 5-3 road victory at Hobart despite being heavily outshot in the first matchup … Utica welcomed Hobart to the Aud for a decisive two-game set the weekend of Super Bowl Sunday … The fireworks began late in the Friday night game as the teams traded goals twice in the last six minutes … Hobart tied the game with eight seconds left before winning it in overtime … The final game of the season series featured a goaltender duel between Utica's
Nick Therrien (Rochester, NH/NY Apple Core (EJHL)) and Hobart's Nick Broadwater … UC's
Louie Educate (Chicago, IL/Aberdeen (NAHL)) ripped home a one-timer with five minutes remaining to give the Pioneers the important 1-0 victory.
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