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Women-in-Hockey Digest Thursday, February 25 1999 Volume 01 : Number 378
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MINNESOTA WOMEN'S HOCKEY
Free Clinic
Brampton Tourney
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:21:10 -0600
From: "Craig Roberts"
Subject: MINNESOTA WOMEN'S HOCKEY
THIS WEEK--Minnesota will look to build on its seven-game winning streak this
weekend when it hosts Brown University for a two-game. The Gophers and Bears
face off at 7:05 p.m. both nights at Mariucci Arena.
MINNESOTA RECENTLY--The Gophers won a pair of defensive battles over the
weekend, defeating Providence 1-0 Saturday and 5-1 Sunday.
In spite of a 37-save effort by Friar goalie Sara DeCosta, Minnesota got a
first-period goal from Nadine Muzerall (Mississauga, Ontario/Kimball Union
Academy) and a 15-save shutout effort from Erica Killewald (Troy, Mich./Troy) to
garner the victory Friday.
After Muzerall put the Gophers on top with 4:02 to play in the opening period,
the teams battled to a standstill. DeCosta stopped 31 shots after the goal,
including 19 in the second period when Minnesota had a 19-1 advantage in shots
on goal.
Saturday, the Gophers scored a pair of early goals with Jenny Schmidgall (Edina,
Minn./Edina) and Courtney Kennedy (Woburn, Mass./Buckingham, Browne & Nichols)
putting Minnesota on top 2-0 in the first nine minutes but DeCosta kept her team
in the game, making 16 saves during the second period when Providence closed the
gap to 2-1 on Myia Yates' power-play goal at 10:05.
The scored remained that way until the game's final eight minutes when
Schmidgall and Kennedy sandwiched goals around a marker by Winny Brodt
(Roseville, Minn./Roseville Area) to put the game away.
BROWN RECENTLY--The Bears snapped out of two-game losing streak, which saw them
fall two places in the national rankings, with 7-0 and 10-0 wins at home over
Maine.
Ali Brewer posted her 10th and 11th shutouts of the season, a total which leads
the nation, combining to stop 29 shots in the two-game series.
Friday, Jordan Jiskra and Kristy Zamora paced Brown with two goals and two
assists each as the Bears outshot their guests 54-20.
Brown bombed Maine again Saturday with a 73-shot barrage. Zamaro led the way
with a goal and an assist while Jill Graat and Carly Regnier had two assists
each.
Head coach Digit Murphy is in her 10th season behind the BearsÍ bench. A 1983
graduate of Cornell, she was a two-time captain and four-time All-Ivy League
pick with the Big Red. She was the Ivy League MVP in 1981 and led her team to
league titles in 1980 and 1981.
During her tenure at Brown, she was won a pair of Ivy League titles and three
ECAC regular season titles. Last season, the Bears won their first-ever ECAC
playoff championship and, for her efforts, Murphy was named the Women's Hockey
News national coach of the year. She currently sports a 157-67-19 career record.
JANUARY ATHLETE OF THE MONTH„Sophomore goalie Erica Killewald was named
Minnesota Women's Athletics Athlete of the Month for January after posting a
5-1-1 record, including four shutouts, along with a 1.34 goals against average
and a .934 save percentage.
On back-to-back nights, Jan. 29-30, Killewald shut out both the defending
Canadian and American collegiate champions. She handed Concordia a 3-0 defeat by
stopping 30 shots and followed that with a 32-save effort in a 0-0 tie with New
Hampshire. Coupled with her shutout of Wilfrid Laurier a week earlier, she had a
shutout streak of 201:24.
In 1999, she has a 10-1-1 record with six shutouts to go along with a 1.05 GAA
and a .952 save percentage.
RECORDS ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN--Rookie sensation Jenny Schmidgall is starting to
write her own section in the Minnesota record book, hitting a pair of major
marks over the weekend while breaking another.
She tied the school records for goals (32) and assists (34) in a season, set
last year by Nadine Muzerall and Kris Scholz (Hugo, Minn./Stillwater Area)
respectively, while breaking MuzerallÍs record for points in a season with 66.
She also tied the record for shots on goal (158) and already owns the record for
power-play goals (9). Schmidgall has also either tied or set single-game school
records for goals (4, 11/15 at Minnesota-Duluth), assists (4, 1/9 vs. St. Cloud
State), points (5, three times) and shots on goal (12, 12/19 vs. Alberta).
GETTING OFFENSIVE--Last season, Emily Buchholz (Waupun, Wis./Waupun) led the
Gophers' defense with 12 assists. This season, three of the team's blueliners
have reached that total.
Brittny Ralph (Brooklyn Center, Minn./Brooklyn Center) leads the Minnesota
defense with 16 assists while Buchholz has 14 and Courtney Kennedy has 13.
In all, the Gophers' regular group of six has scored 26 goals, led by Kennedy
with 13, and 82 points.
ABOUT TO IMPLODE--Depth has been the biggest strength of the Minnesota team this
year, especially when it comes to scoring.
Last season, the Gophers had six players top the 10-goal mark and seven reached
20 points. This year, 10 players have reached double figures in goals and 11
have broken the 20-point barrier.
Minnesota's top nine forwards have all reached the 10-goal and 20-point marks,
including five who have recorded at least 20 assists to date.
TAKING A BREAK--When the U.S. Women's National Team heads to Finland, for the
World Championships, March 8-14, Jenny Schmidgall will be accompanying the team.
Schmidgall will miss the Midwest Showdown, March 7 and 12, but will be available
if the Gophers are invited to the American Women's College Hockey Alliance
championship game, March 26-27.
This will be Schmidgall's second tour of duty with the national squad. Last
year, she was a member of the team that claimed the gold medal at the Winter
Olympics. She scored two goals and five points at the Olympic games and tallied
nine goals and 21 points in 30 games for the season.
REPRESENTING THEIR COUNTRY--First-year center Jenny Schmidgall and sophomore
center Winny Brodt played for the U.S. Women's Select Team at the Three Nations
Cup in Finland, Dec. 10-15.
Canada grabbed a 2-1 win over the United States, Dec. 10, in the tourney opener,
but the U.S. rebounded the next day with a 3-2 win over Finland as Schmidgall
assisted on the game-tying goal and then scored the game-winner 56 seconds into
the final period.
After a two-day respite, the U.S. again fell to Canada, Dec. 14, 4-3 in a
shootout before closing play with a 4-3 win over Finland.
NATURAL BORN KILLERS--The power-play goal scored by Providence Sunday was just
the second in 13 games allowed by the Gophers, who ranked second in penalty
killing nationally heading into the weekend.
During that 13 game stretch, Minnesota had a 10-game streak of not allowing a
power-play goals and has killed 44 of 46 power plays.
THE SERIES--Minnesota is 0-2-0 again Brown, having lost twice on the Bears' home
ice last season.
WHEN LAST WE MET--Despite a 27-24 advantage in shots on goal, the Gophers were
unable to overcome a sterling effort by Ali Brewer and a pair of goals by Jordan
Jiskra in a 2-1 Brown victory, in Providence, R.I., Jan. 17, 1999.
Ambria Thomas (Fairbanks, Alaska/West Valley) scored Minnesota's lone goal,
tying the game at 1-1 at 3:06 of the second period, while Erica Killewald had 21
saves.
NATIONAL STATISTICS--Minnesota was ranked highly in a number of team statistical
categories last week, as were several Gopher players.
Total points--2. Jenny Schmidgall, 63; 6. Kris Scholz, 43; 11. Nadine Muzerall,
38; t20. Winny Brodt, 32. Points per game--4. Schmidgall, 2.52; 9. Scholz, 1.59;
10. Muzerall, 1.58. Total goals--t1. Schmidgall, 30; 7. Muzerall, 22; t15.
Scholz, 15. Goals per game--3. Schmidgall, 1.20; 7. Muzerall, 0.92. Total
assists--4. Schmidgall, 33; 5. Scholz, 28; t9. Brodt, 23; t13. Laura Slominski,
Ambria Thomas, 20. Assists per game--4. Schmidgall, 1.32; t7. Scholz, 1.04; 10.
Brodt, 0.92; 16. Thomas, 0.83; t17. Slominski, 0.80. Power-play goals--t2.
Schmidgall, 9; t6. Muzerall, 7; t20. Courtney Kennedy, 4. Short-handed
goals--t3. Muzerall, Schmidgall, 2. Game-winning goals--t2. Muzerall, 5; t12.
Schmidgall, Shannon Kennedy, 3.
Goals against average--1. Crystal Nicholas, 0.94; 2. Erica Killewald, 1.25.
Save percentage--1. Killewald, .946; t10. Nicholas, .905. Winning percentage--1.
Nicholas, 1.000; 3. Killewald, .833. Shutouts--2. Nicholas, 6; 3. Killewald, 5.
Scoring offense--2nd, 6.22. Scoring defense--1st, 1.19. Scoring
differential--t1st, +5.04. Power play--2nd, 30.8%. Penalty kill--2nd, 91.5%.
THE COACH--Now in her second season behind the Minnesota bench and ninth season
as a college head coach, Laura Halldorson has established herself as one of the
nationÍs premier coaches in womenÍs hockey, sporting a 105-84-14 overall record
and a 45-9-5 mark at Minnesota.
She began her coaching career at Colby College, where she led the White Mules,
one of only two non-Division I schools at the time in the 12-team Eastern
Collegiate Athletic Conference, to a 12-9-1 overall record in 1995-96, earning
ECAC Co-Coach of the Year honors as well as being named the New England Hockey
WritersÍ Coach of the Year. While at Colby, she also recruited and coached ECAC
Player of the Year Meaghan Sittler.
At the national level, she was the assistant coach for the gold medal-winning
team at the 1998 U.S. Olympic Festival. In December, she will serve as an
assistant for the U.S. National team that competes in the Three Nations Cup in
Finland.
A native of Plymouth, Minn., and a 1981 graduate of Wayzata High School,
Halldorson played four years at Princeton, where she was a co-captain and
all-conference performer while leading the Tigers to three Ivy League titles.
She graduated from Princeton in 1985 with a degree in psychology.
A member of the 1987 U.S. National Women's Team and three national club
championship teams with the Minnesota Checkers, Halldorson returned to her alma
mater in 1987 to begin her collegiate coaching career as an assistant.
IT'S HOME--The home of Gopher Women's Hockey is Mariucci Arena (9,700). One of
the finest college hockey facilities in the country, Mariucci Arena will be
MinnesotaÍs home until the new womenÍs hockey facility, scheduled to open in the
fall of 2000, is completed.
Known as one of the toughest arenas in the nation on visiting teams, the Gophers
are 22-3-4 in the five-year old building.
ON THE AIR--Eight Gopher games will be carried by KKMS-980 AM radio during the
regular season.
KKMS broadcast the Nov. 27-28 games from Princeton's Hobey Baker Rink at the
Princeton Thanksgiving Invitational and also carried the Concordia and New
Hampshire games, Jan. 29-30, during the Citizens Bank Border Battle at the
Whittemore Center in Durham, N.H.
The schedule also includes four home games, the last of which will be Saturday's
game with Brown, which will be carried live beginning at 7 p.m. with Pete Wagner
calling the play-by-play action.
GONE POLLING--Minnesota remained second in the U.S. College Hockey Online
coaches poll and moved up a spot to third in the American Hockey Magazine/USA
Today poll last week. Harvard maintained its top ranking in both polls.
U.S. College Hockey Online Poll (Feb. 15, 1999)
Team (1st Place Votes) Record Pts LW
1. Harvard (10) 22-1-0 100 1
2. Minnesota 13-1-2 86 2
3. New Hampshire 14-3-5 81 3
4. Northeastern 17-5-2 69 5
5. Brown 15-4-3 64 4
6. Providence 14-7-2 45 6
7. Dartmouth 12-6-4 40 7
8. Princeton 13-8-1 29 8
Also receiving votes: Cornell 6.
American Hockey Magazine/USA Today Poll (Feb. 16, 1999)
Team (1st Place Votes) Record Pts LW
1. Harvard (5) 22-1-0 25 1
2. New Hampshire 14-4-5 19 3
3. Minnesota 23-2-2 13 4
4. Northeastern 20-5-2 10 5
5. Brown 15-4-3 8 2
Also receiving votes: None.
UP NEXT--Minnesota received the top seed for the Midwest Showdown and will host
a first-round semifinal, Sunday, March 7, game against either St. Cloud State or
Bemidji State.
Those two teams meet Wednesday, March 3, at 7 p.m. in St. Cloud's National
Hockey Center. The winner adavances to the championship game, Friday, March 12,
at the site of the highest seeded team, beginning at 7:05 p.m.
THE POWER PLAY--As a team, Minnesota is 32-for-110 (29.1%) on the power play
after a 0-for-4 on the weekend. The Gophers' 110 power plays have resulted in
167:45 of power-play time and they average a goal every 5:15 while on the power
play. Here are the individual power-play numbers.
Player GP G A Pts SOG Pct.
Jenny Schmidgall 27 9 11 20 39 .231
Kris Scholz 29 3 12 15 13 .231
Nadine Muzerall 26 7 4 11 28 .250
Courtney Kennedy 27 4 4 8 25 .160
Emily Buchholz 28 3 5 8 11 .273
Winny Brodt 27 1 7 8 12 .083
Brittny Ralph 24 2 4 6 27 .074
Ambria Thomas 26 1 2 3 7 .143
Laura Slominski 28 1 2 3 6 .167
Shannon Kennedy 27 0 3 3 5 .000
Amber Hegland 29 1 1 2 5 .200
Matty Brekken 9 0 2 2 2 .000
Tai Thorsheim 28 0 1 1 0 .000
Tracy Engstrom 26 0 0 0 11 .000
Angela Borek 28 0 0 0 2 .000
Kelly Olson 24 0 0 0 1 .000
Megan Milbert 17 0 0 0 1 .000
Minnesota 29 32 58 91 195 .164
Opponents 29 9 15 24 109 .083
THE PENALTY-KILL--As a team, Minnesota is 89-for-98 (90.8%) killing penalties
after going 3-for-4 on the weekend, with their opponents having spent 156:38 on
the power play, averaging a goal every 17:24. Here are the individual
penalty-kill numbers.
Player GP G A Pts SOG Pct.
Nadine Muzerall 26 2 0 2 5 .400
Jenny Schmidgall 27 2 0 2 7 .273
Courtney Kennedy 27 0 2 2 1 .000
Brittny Ralph 28 1 0 1 3 .333
Tracy Engstrom 26 0 1 1 0 .000
Shannon Kennedy 27 0 0 0 4 .000
Laura Slominski 28 0 0 0 3 .000
Ambria Thomas 26 0 0 0 3 .000
Kris Scholz 29 0 0 0 1 .000
Emily Buchholz 28 0 0 0 1 .000
Tai Thorsheim 28 0 0 0 1 .000
Winny Brodt 27 0 0 0 1 .000
Matty Brekken 9 0 0 0 1 .000
Kelly Olson 24 0 0 0 1 .000
Megan Milbert 17 0 0 0 1 .000
Minnesota 29 5 3 8 33 .152
Opponents 29 1 1 2 8 .125
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Craig Roberts, University of Minnesota
Assistant Sports Information Director
Check out the Gophers on the Web at http://www.gophersports.com
Or call the Diet Coke Gopher Sports Hotline at (612) 626-STAT
GO GOPHERS!
For women's college hockey statistics go to:
http://www.gophersports.com/sportsNews/press_release.asp?news_id=273
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:58:19 -0500
From: "Deathe, Barbara - DC"
Subject: Free Clinic
The Chesapeake Bay Lightning Women's Ice Hockey Club is sponsoring a Free
Ice Hockey Skills Clinic for Girls/Women on Sunday March 21 at 1:50 p.m. at
The Gardens Ice House in Laurel, MD. No experience is necessary. Full
equipment is required. Skate rental will be available through the rink.
For more information please send an email to email@hidden or check
out our webpage at http://www.angelfire.com/md/CBLightning/
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 16:18:43 -0900
From: Lyle Anderson
Subject: Brampton Tourney
I was hoping someone on the list could give me some contact info for the
folks that organize the Brampton Tournament.
Perhaps they have a web page?
please reply to email@hidden.
Thanks, Lyle
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:50:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Susanica Tam
Subject: WIH...hi....
To whom it may concern:
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 08:58:30 -0800
From: email@hidden (Megan Bryant)
Subject: Re: Brampton Tourney
Brampton Canadettes Girls Hockey Assoc.
Largest womens hockey tournament in the world
April 1-4, 1999
Contact: Mr. Paul Driver at 905-454-0582
or write to:
Brampton Canadettes Girls Hockey Assn.
20 Heddon Court
Brampton, Ontario
L6Z 4H3
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andria/prov/on/brampton
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M. Bryant
"C'est en forgeant qu'on devient forgeron."
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