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Women-in-Hockey Digest Wednesday, February 3 1999 Volume 01 : Number 362
In this issue:
MINNESOTA WOMEN'S HOCKEY
US National Women's Team Announced
Team USA's National Roster
National/Select Teams
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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 08:06:06 -0600
From: "Craig Roberts"
Subject: MINNESOTA WOMEN'S HOCKEY
THIS WEEK--Minnesota will play its third three-game weekend in four weeks as it
hosts Cornell and Minnesota State, Mankato.
The Gophers and Big Red will meet at 7:05 p.m. Friday and Saturday nights while
Minnesota will take on the Mavericks beginning at 3:05 p.m. Sunday.
MINNESOTA RECENTLY--The fourth-ranked Gophers had a 17-game winning streak and a
19-game unbeaten streak snapped over the weekend as they finished third at the
Citizens Bank Border Battle, hosted by New Hampshire.
Minnesota opened tournament play with a 3-0 win over eventual tournament
champion Concordia behind a 30-save effort by Erica Killewald (Troy, Mich./Troy)
and two goals and an assist by Jenny Schmidgall (Edina, Minn./Edina).
That win ran the Gophers winning streak to 17 games but the host Wildcats
snapped that with a 0-0 overtime tie. Both teams received outstanding
goaltending as Killewald stopped 32 shots for her third consecutive shutout
while New Hampshire's Alicia Roberts had 22.
The tie ran the Gophers unbeaten streak to 19 games but that came to a crashing
halt Sunday as the Beatrice Aeros, a AAA senior team from Ontario which boasts
seven national team members on its roster, scored seven goals in the final
period to hand Minnesota a 9-0 loss, its most lopsided loss ever.
CORNELL RECENTLY--The Big Red lost both games on its Rhode Island road trip over
the weekend, falling 3-2 at Providence Friday before dropping a 3-1 decision at
Brown Saturday.
Despite outshooting the Friars 39-25 Friday, Cornell had to come from behind to
tie the game at 2-2 on Colette Bredin's goal at 8:43 of the third period but
Providence got the game-winner just 42 seconds later. Alanna Hayes recorded 22
saves for the Big Red.
Saturday's game was just the opposite as Cornell was outshot 41-12, including
14-3 in the opening period, but the Big Red's Sarah Olivier gave her team a 1-0
lead 6:22 into the game, a lead which they held until Brown knotted the score at
the seven-second mark of the second period. The Bears then scored twice in the
final period to clinch the victory. Hayes stopped 38 shots for Cornell in the
loss.
Carol Mullins is in her first season as the Big Red's head coach after spending
six seasons as the teamÍs assistant. A 1991 graduate of New Hampshire, where she
earned her bachelor of arts degree in geography, Mullins was named UNH's Athlete
of the Year in 1990 after leading the hockey team to the ECAC title while also
claiming the New England collegiate championships in the discus and javelin. She
currently sports a record of 11-9-0.
MSU, MANKATO RECENTLY--The Mavericks swept Minnesota-Duluth at home over the
weekend, taking 11-0 and 4-1 victories from the Bulldogs at the Midwest Wireless
Center.
MSU, Mankato set a school record by going 5-for-7 on the power play Friday.
Michelle Sikich and Cara Samuelson each scored two goals and added two assists
while Jenny Padget made nine saves for her second shutout.
Saturday saw the Bulldogs hold tight to their hosts and the two teams headed
into the third period tied 1-1 but Ryann Gelder helped set up three third-period
goals and Ashleigh Miller had a goal and two assists for the game as MSU,
Mankato raised its record to a season-best 10-11-0. Melissa Jackson had 21 saves
for the Mavericks, who outshot UMD 37-22.
Head coach Todd Carroll is in his first season as a head coach after spending
nine years as a menÍs assistant. A 1986 graduate of St. Olaf, he spent two years
as a graduate assistant at St. Cloud State before returning to his alma mater,
where he spent seven seasons before accepting his current position last year.
Carroll currently sports a 10-11-0 record.
BORDER BATTLE WRAP UP--The first Citizens Bank Border Battle featured some of
the best women's hockey seen outside of international competition.
The defending American and Canadian collegiate champions, New Hampshire and
Concordia, were there along with Minnesota and the Beatrice Aeros, the defending
senior AAA Ontario provincial champions.
After the Gophers 3-0 win over the Stingers to open the tournament Friday, the
Aeros defeated the host Wildcats 5-3. Saturday, Concordia turned around to beat
the Aeros 6-1 while Minnesota and New Hampshire skated to their second tie of
the season. Sunday, the Aeros put themselves in first place briefly in the
tournament standings with their 9-0 rout of the Gophers but the Stingers
clinched the title with a 4-1 win over New Hampshire.
Tournament MVP Corinne Swirsky recorded a natural hat trick in Concordia's 6-1
win over the Aeros and tallied four goals in the game. The remainder of the
all-tournament team featured forwards Jenny Schmidgall of Minnesota, Cindy
Cryderman of the Aeros and Michelle Thornton of New Hampshire. On defense were
Amy Coehlo of Concordia and Nicki Luongo of New Hampshire and the goalie was the
Stinger's Jessika Audet.
THE CENTURY MARK--With a goal and an assist Friday, Nadine Muzerall
(Mississauga, Ontario/Kimball Union Academy) reached the 100-point mark for her
career in just 45 games.
Muzerall's 21st goal of the season, at 10:04 of the opening period, was her
fifth game-winner of the season and the sixth time in 19 games she has notched
the game's first goal. It also extended her career-best point-scoring streak to
15 games.
BETTER BY THE BUNCH--With her three-point effort Friday, Jenny Schmidgall
recorded her 14th multiple-point game of the season. She has scored three points
five times, four points five times and five points three times.
HANGING THE COLLAR--Before allowing four goals in nearly 44 minutes of work
Sunday, Erica Killewald has posted three consecutive shutouts.
She shutout Wilfrid Laurier, 10-0, Jan. 22 before hanging a 3-0 loss on
Concordia and then tying New Hampshire 0-0.
Killewald had not allowed a goal in 201:24 before giving up Cindy Cryderman's
short-handed breakaway goal at 6:37 of the first period Sunday.
REPRESENTING THEIR COUNTRY--First-year center Jenny Schmidgall and sophomore
blueliner 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 third period.
After a two-day respite, the U.S. again fell to Canada, Dec. 14, 4-3 in a
shootout before closing out play with a 4-3 win over Finland.
Schmidgall, who played in the 1998 Olympics, and Brodt, a member of the 1996
U.S. Women's Select Team, were chosen from the USA Hockey Women's Festival for
the national team and were joined by Gopher head coach Laura Halldorson, who
served as the team's assistant coach.
NATIONAL STATISTICS--Minnesota was ranked highly in a number of team statistical
categories last week, as were several Gopher players.
Total points-1. Jenny Schmidgall, 51; 5. Nadine Muzerall, 35; 10. Kris Scholz,
32. Points per game-1. Schmidgall, 3.00; 5. Muzerall, 2.06; 10. Scholz, 1.68;
18. Laura Slominski, 1.41. Totals goals„1. Schmidgall, 24; 3. Muzerall, 20; t16.
Amber Hegland, 13; t17. Scholz, 12. Goals per game„2. Schmidgall, 1.41; 3.
Muzerall, 1.18; 19. Hegland, 0.68. Total assists„2. Schmidgall, 27; t4. Scholz,
20; t10. Winny Brodt, 17; t13. Slominski, 16; t18. Muzerall, 15. Assists per
game„3. Schmidgall, 1.59; t8. Scholz, 1.05; 10. Brodt, 1.00; t11. Slominski,
0.94; 16. Muzerall, 0.88; t17. Shannon Kennedy, 0.82. Power-play goals„t2.
Schmidgall, Muzerall, 7; t17. Scholz, Courtney Kennedy 3. Short-handed goals„t2.
Muzerall, 2. Game-winning goals„t2. Muzerall, 4; t15. Schmidgall, S. Kennedy, 2,
Emily Buchholz 2.
Goals against average„1. Crystal Nicholas, 0.55; 5. Erica Killewald, 1.36. Save
percentage„3. Nicholas, .938; 4. Killewald, .937. Winning percentage„1.
Nicholas, 1.000; 3. Killewald, .875. Shutouts-2. Nicholas, 4; t7. Killewald, 2.
Scoring offense„1st, 6.84. Scoring defense„2nd, 1.11. Scoring margin„1st, +5.74.
Power play„1st, 36.6%. Penalty kill„5th, 89.2%.
THE SERIES--The Gophers are 1-0-0 versus Cornell and 2-0-0 versus Minnesota
State, Mankato.
Minnesota defeated Cornell, 3-2, in the teams' only previous meeting, Nov. 30,
1997, at the Princeton Thanksgiving Invitational.
The Gophers have defeated the Mavericks twice this season, 11-1 in the
season-opener, Oct. 30, in Mankato, and 8-1 at home, Nov. 20.
WHEN LAST WE MET--Minnesota's victory over Cornell in last season's Princeton
Thanksgiving Invitational clinched the tournament title.
After falling behind 1-0 and being outshot 9-1 in the first period, the Gophers
stormed back, outshooting the Big Red 29-6 over the final 40 minutes. Yet, it
wasn't until the 2:12 mark of the final period when Brittny Ralph (Brooklyn
Center, Minn./Brooklyn Center) tied the game but Kelley Boutin gave Cornell a
2-1 lead with 7:18 to play.
Nadine Muzerall and Ambria Thomas (Fairbanks, Alaska/West Valley) hooked up for
Minnesota's final two goals as Muzerall got the tying goal 38 seconds after
Boutin's goal and Thomas tallied the game-winner with 14 seconds left in the
game.
The Gophers outshot MSU, Mankato 41-6 and downed the Mavericks 8-1 in their last
meeting. Nadine Muzerall recorded her first hat trick of the season and Tracy
Engstrom (Willmar, Minn./Willmar) added two goals. Cara Samuelson tallied
Mankato's lone goal of the game while Jenny Padget made 33 saves.
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
nation's premier coaches in womenÍs hockey, sporting a 98-84-14 overall record
and a 39-9-5 mark at Minnesota.
She began her head 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
Writers' 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 and also served as an assistant for the
U.S. Women's Select team that competed 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
Minnesota's home until the new women's 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 17-3-4 in the five-year-old building.
ON THE AIR--A pair of Gopher games will be aired live by Midwest Sports Channel
this season.
The first telecast was Minnesota's clash with Harvard, Nov. 5, in the opening
game of the All-American East-West Challenge.
The second will be part of a doubleheader with the Minnesota men's team on Feb.
20. The women's game gets underway at 2:30 p.m. as the Gophers take on
Providence, to be followed by the men's clash with St. Cloud State at 7:05 p.m.
Veteran broadcaster Frank Mazzocco will handle play-by-play duties while former
Minnesota North Star Tom Reid does the color commentary.
ON THE AIR, PART II--Eight Gopher games will be carried by KKMS-980 AM radio
this season, beginning Nov. 27 with the Princeton Thanksgiving Invitational.
KKMS broadcast the Nov. 27-28 games from Princeton's Hobey Baker Rink and also
carried the Concordia and New Hampshire games this past weekend at the Citizens
Bank Border Battle at the Whittemore Center in Durham, N.H.
Additionally, KKMS will carry four home games, including two of this weekend's
games. The remaining schedule features: Cornell, Feb. 5; Minnesota State,
Mankato, Feb. 7; Providence, Feb. 21; and Brown, Feb. 26.
Tom Witschen will call all of the play-by-play action with former Gopher
volleyball standout Sarah Pearman handling the color commentary.
GONE POLLING--Minnesota fell one spot in the U.S. College Hockey Online poll to
third and maintained its number four spot in American Hockey Magazine/USA Today
poll last week. Harvard remained in the top spot in both polls.
U.S. College Hockey Online Poll (Jan. 25, 1999)
Team (1st Place Votes) Record Pts LW
1. Harvard (9) 16-1-0 99 1
2. New Hampshire 14-1-4 86 3
3. Minnesota (1) 8-1-1 83 2
4. Brown 10-2-3 72 4
5. Princeton 10-5-1 57 5
6. Providence 10-4-2 51 6
7. Northeastern 12-4-2 36 8
8. Dartmouth 8-6-4 26 7
Others receiving votes: Cornell 10.
USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Poll (Jan. 26, 1999)
Team (1st Place Votes) Record Pts LW
1. Harvard (5) 16-1-0 25 1
2. New Hampshire 14-1-4 20 3
3. Brown 10-2-3 14 2
4. Minnesota 17-1-1 11 4
5. Princeton 11-5-1 5 NR
Others receiving votes: None.
UP NEXT--The Gophers are on the road for the final time next weekend when they
play Augsburg and Minnesota State, Mankato.
The Auggies will host Minnesota Feb. 13, beginning at 7:05 p.m., a game which
will be carried on KKMS-980 AM as a part of AugsburgÍs broadcast package.
Sunday, the Gophers head south to face the Mavericks for the fourth and final
time this regular season. Game time at the Midwest Wireless Center is slated for
4:05 p.m.
THE POWER PLAY--As a team, Minnesota is 26-for-84 (31.0%) on the power play
after going 0-for-13 in New Hampshire. The Gophers' 84 power plays have resulted
in 124:16 of power-play time and they average a goal every 4:47 while on the
power play. Here are the individual power-play numbers.
Player GP G A Pts SOG Pct.
Jenny Schmidgall 20 7 10 17 28 .250
Kris Scholz 22 3 10 13 10 .300
Nadine Muzerall 20 7 4 11 22 .318
Emily Buchholz 21 2 4 6 10 .200
Winny Brodt 20 1 5 6 9 .111
Courtney Kennedy 20 3 2 5 17 .176
Brittny Ralph 21 1 3 4 15 .067
Shannon Kennedy 20 0 3 3 4 .000
Laura Slominski 21 1 1 2 4 .250
Matty Brekken 9 0 2 2 2 .000
Amber Hegland 22 1 0 1 2 .500
Tai Thorsheim 21 0 1 1 0 .000
Ambria Thomas 19 0 1 1 5 .000
Tracy Engstrom 22 0 0 0 9 .000
Angela Borek 21 0 0 0 2 .000
Kelly Olson 17 0 0 0 1 .000
Megan Milbert 12 0 0 0 1 .000
Minnesota 22 26 46 72 141 .215
Opponents 22 7 12 19 81 .108
THE PENALTY KILL--As a team, Minnesota is 69-for-76 (90.8%) killing penalties,
after going 11-for-11 at New Hampshire, with their opponents having spent 120:50
on the power play, averaging a goal every 17:16. Here are the individual
penalty-kill numbers.
Player GP G A Pts SOG Pct.
Nadine Muzerall 20 2 0 2 5 .400
Jenny Schmidgall 20 1 0 1 4 .250
Brittny Ralph 21 1 0 1 2 .000
Courtney Kennedy 20 0 1 1 1 .000
Tracy Engstrom 22 0 1 1 0 .000
Shannon Kennedy 20 0 0 0 3 .000
Laura Slominski 21 0 0 0 2 .000
Ambria Thomas 19 0 0 0 3 .000
Kris Scholz 22 0 0 0 1 .000
Emily Buchholz 21 0 0 0 1 .000
Tai Thorsheim 21 0 0 0 1 .000
Winny Brodt 20 0 0 0 1 .000
Matty Brekken 9 0 0 0 1 .000
Kelly Olson 17 0 0 0 1 .000
Megan Milbert 12 0 0 0 1 .000
Minnesota 22 4 2 6 27 .148
Opponents 22 1 1 2 7 .143
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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: 02 Feb 99 19:02:37 PST (Tue)
From: Chuck Collins
Subject: US National Women's Team Announced
I'm either early or late on this. I have not seen anyone else mention it
here, so here's the story:
http://www.usahockey.com/natteams/women/020299women.htm
Some new names, some old names, including the return of Erin Whitten.
- - Chuck Collins
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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 00:47:30 -0500
From: "Kenneth R. Veze"
Subject: Team USA's National Roster
Team USA has announced the national team roster for the upcoming WWHC in
Finland. It can be seen at:
http://www.usahockey.com/natteams/women/natlroster.htm
One question if anyone knows. What happened to Laurie Baker? I can't
believe someone with her qualities would have been cut from this team.
Anyone have any idea why she's not there??
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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 09:48:56 EST
From: email@hidden
Subject: National/Select Teams
Can somebody please explain what the difference is between the US Select Team
and the US National Team?
Thanks.
Jill
# 77 Brooklyn Blades
# 77 LI Hurricanes
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