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Women-in-Hockey Digest Tuesday, March 2 1999 Volume 01 : Number 381
In this issue:
MINNESOTA WOMEN'S HOCKEY
Canada vs. USA: First Period
Canada vs. USA: Second Period
Canada vs. USA: Final
Game Reports: Canada/USA
USA Hockey Version of 6-1
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 14:50:20 -0600
From: "Craig Roberts"
Subject: MINNESOTA WOMEN'S HOCKEY
THIS WEEK--Minnesota will take part in the Midwest Showdown, hosting one of two
semifinal games. The Gophers, seeded first in the tournament, will face either
fourth-seeded St. Cloud State or fifth-seeded Bemidji State Sunday at 1 p.m.
The Huskies will host the Beavers Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the National Hockey
Center in St. Cloud.
MINNESOTA RECENTLY--The Gophers came away winless in a physical series with
Brown over the weekend, dropping a 2-1 decision to the Bears Friday before
skating to a 1-1 tie Saturday.
The two-game set featured two of the nation's top goalies living up to their
billing as Minnesota's Erica Killewald (Troy, Mich./Troy) and Brown's Ali Brewer
each turned in a pair of stellar performances.
Brewer bested Killewald in the series opener, stopping 28 of 29 shots while
Marcie Deering scored both goals for the Bears, including the game-winner with
3:56 to play in the game. Minnesota's lone goal was a short-handed effort by
co-captain Kris Scholz (Hugo, Minn./Stillwater Area) while Killewald stopped 28
shots.
Saturday night saw the two teams play tentatively through the first 40 minutes,
combining for just 28 shots during two scoreless periods.
The pace of the game picked up in the third period as Minnesota and Brown
combined for 27 shots in the period and the Gophers got on the board first when
Nadine Muzerall (Mississauga, Ontario/Kimball Union Academy) lifted a rebound
over a pile of bodies and past Brewer at 6:54 on the power play.
The Bears got the goal back, however, when Jill Graat picked up a rebound and
scored on a shot through traffic with 5:41 to play in the third period.
Killewald made 29 saves for Minnesota while Brewer turned in another 28-save
performance for Brown.
ST. CLOUD STATE RECENTLY--The Huskies' regular season came to an end Saturday
with an 8-2 loss at Wisconsin-Superior. Sara Ganser, on the power play, and
Kimberly Gubernot scored St. Cloud StateÍs goals while Sondra Diaz-Arntzen
stopped 35 shots.
Kerry Brodt, the older sister of Gopher center Winny Brodt (Roseville,
Minn./Roseville Area) is in her first season as the head coach at St. Cloud
State. A 1995 Husky graduate, Brodt earned four letters in golf and earned
All-American honors in 1992. She sports a career record of 7-11-2.
BEMIDJI STATE RECENTLY--The Beavers' regular season came to an end Saturday with
a 12-0 loss at Minnesota State, Mankato, the second seed in the Midwest
Showdown.
MSU, Mankato scored eight times in the opening period to put the game away
early. The Mavericks held a 42-6 advantage in shots on goal. Bemidji goalie
Janet Hicks and Amber Parks combined for 30 saves.
Ruthann Cantile is in her first season as the Beavers' head coach. A 1996
graduate of Western Michigan, she led the Broncos to the national club
championship as the teamÍs coach last season. In her first year as a varsity
coach, she is 2-19-0.
ABOUT THE MIDWEST SHOWDOWN--The Midwest Showdown features the five Minnesota
schools that will be members of the new Division I womenÍs conference next
season.
The tournament gets underway Wednesday as fourth-seeded St. Cloud State hosts
fifth-seeded Bemidji State at 7 p.m. at the National Hockey Center. Semifinal
action takes place this weekend and gets underway Saturday, at 1:05 p.m., as
second-seeded MSU, Mankato hosts third-seeded Minnesota-Duluth at the Midwest
Wireless Center. Minnesota will host the St. Cloud State/Bemidji State winner
Sunday, beginning at 1 p.m. at Mariucci Arena.
The championship game, pending availability of facilities, is scheduled to take
place at the site of the higher seed, Friday, March 7, at 7 p.m.
AT HER BEST--Minnesota goalie Erica Killewald was on top of her game again this
past weekend. Some of her best performances have come against the best teams in
the nation.
The Gophers have played six games against the four other schools -- Harvard, New
Hampshire, Brown and Northeastern -- ranked in the top five nationally.
Despite just a 1-2-3 record, Killewald has not allowed more than two goals in
any of those six games and has a 1.28 goals against average and a .959 save
percentage versus those four opponents.
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 (Woburn,
Mass./Buckingham, Browne & Nichols) has 13.
In all, the Gophers' regular group of six has scored 26 goals, led by Kennedy
with 13, and 83 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 WomenÍs 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 Gophers were 11-for-11 killing penalties over the
weekend. The second-ranked penalty killing team in nation, Minnesota has allowed
just two power-play goals in its last 15 games.
During that 15 game stretch, Minnesota had a 10-game streak of not allowing a
power-play goal and has killed 54 of 56 power plays.
THE SERIES--Minnesota is 2-0-0 against St. Cloud State, including one victory
over Huskies' club team last season. The Gophers are 1-0-0 versus Bemidji State.
WHEN LAST WE MET--The Gophers travelled to Bemidji, Nov. 14, for their only
meeting with the Beavers this season. In that game, Minnesota outshot its hosts
68-1, got points from 13 different players, and cruised to a 10-0 victory.
St. Cloud State opened 1999 by coming to Mariucci Arena, Jan. 9, and dropping a
10-0 decision as Jenny Schmidgall had four assists and five points and Nadine
Muzerall scored three goals.
NATIONAL STATISTICS--Minnesota was ranked highly in a number of team statistical
categories last week, as were several Gopher players.
Total points-4. Jenny Schmidgall, 66; t8. Kris Scholz, 44; 11. Nadine Muzerall,
41. Points per game-4. Schmidgall, 2.44; 8. Muzerall, 1.58; 11. Scholz, 1.52.
Total goals-t1. Schmidgall, 32; 8. Muzerall, 23; t20. Scholz, 15. Goals per
game-3. Schmidgall, 1.19; 8. Muzerall, 0.88. Total assists-4. Schmidgall, 34; 6.
Scholz, 29; t10. Brodt, 23; t20. Laura Slominski, Ambria Thomas, 20. Assists per
game-4. Schmidgall, 1.26; 8. Scholz, 1.00; 15. Brodt, 0.85. Power-play goals-t2.
Schmidgall, 9; t7. Muzerall, 7. Short-handed goals-t3. Muzerall, Schmidgall, 2.
Game-winning goals-t2. Muzerall, 5; t13. Schmidgall, Shannon Kennedy, 3.
Goals against average-1. Erica Killewald, 1.18. Save percentage-1. Killewald,
947. Winning percentage-3. Killewald, .850. Shutouts-t2. Killewald, Crystal
Nicholas, 6.
Scoring offense-2nd, 6.00. Scoring defense-1st, 1.14. Scoring differential-2nd,
+4.86. Power play-3rd, 29.1%. Penalty kill-3rd, 90.8%.
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 women's hockey, sporting a 105-85-15 overall record
and a 45-10-6 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. 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
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 22-4-5 in the five-year old building.
GONE POLLING--Minnesota remained second in the U.S. College Hockey Online
coaches poll and fell one spot to fourth 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. 22, 1999)
Team (1st Place Votes) Record Pts LW
1. Harvard (10) 24- 1-0 100 1
2. Minnesota 15- 1-2 88 2
3. New Hampshire 16- 4-5 75 3
4. Brown 17- 4-3 74 5
5. Northeastern 18- 6-2 60 4
6. Dartmouth 14- 6-4 48 7
7. Providence 15- 9-2 45 6
8. Princeton 13-10-1 15 8
Cornell 11-13-0 15 NR
Also receiving votes: None.
American Hockey Magazine/USA Today Poll (Feb. 23, 1999)
Team (1st Place Votes) Record Pts LW
1. Harvard (5) 24- 1-0 25 1
2. Brown 17- 4-3 18 5
3. New Hampshire 16- 5-5 15 2
4. Minnesota 25- 2-2 9 4
5. Northeastern 21- 6-2 7 4
Also receiving votes: None.
UP NEXT--A victory in Sunday's Midwest Showdown semifinal would put Minnesota in
the championship game, tentatively scheduled for Friday, March 12. The site and
time will be announced following this weekend's semifinal games.
THE POWER PLAY--As a team, Minnesota is 33-for-116 (28.4%) on the power play
after going 1-for-6 during the weekend. The Gophers' 113 power plays have
resulted in 178:38 of power-play time and they average a goal every 5:25 while
on the power play. Here are the individual power-play numbers.
Player GP G A Pts SOG Pct.
Jenny Schmidgall 29 9 11 20 40 .225
Kris Scholz 31 3 13 16 13 .231
Nadine Muzerall 28 8 4 12 34 .235
Courtney Kennedy 29 4 4 8 25 .160
Emily Buchholz 30 3 5 8 12 .250
Winny Brodt 29 1 7 8 13 .077
Brittny Ralph 30 2 4 6 31 .065
Ambria Thomas 28 1 2 3 7 .143
Laura Slominski 30 1 2 3 6 .167
Shannon Kennedy 29 0 4 4 5 .000
Amber Hegland 31 1 1 2 5 .200
Matty Brekken 9 0 2 2 2 .000
Tai Thorsheim 30 0 1 1 0 .000
Tracy Engstrom 28 0 0 0 11 .000
Angela Borek 30 0 0 0 2 .000
Kelly Olson 26 0 0 0 1 .000
Megan Milbert 17 0 0 0 1 .000
Minnesota 32 33 60 94 208 .159
Opponents 32 9 15 24 122 .074
THE PENALTY--KILL„As a team, Minnesota is 99-for-108 (91.7%) killing penalties
after going 11-for-11 over the weekend, with their opponents having spent 172:02
on the power play, averaging a goal every 19:07. Here are the individual
penalty-kill numbers.
Player GP G A Pts SOG Pct.
Nadine Muzerall 28 2 0 2 5 .400
Jenny Schmidgall 29 2 0 2 7 .273
Courtney Kennedy 29 0 2 2 2 .000
Brittny Ralph 30 1 0 1 3 .333
Kris Scholz 31 1 0 1 2 .500
Winny Brodt 29 0 1 1 2 .000
Tai Thorsheim 30 0 1 1 1 .000
Tracy Engstrom 28 0 1 1 0 .000
Shannon Kennedy 29 0 0 0 4 .000
Laura Slominski 30 0 0 0 3 .000
Ambria Thomas 28 0 0 0 3 .000
Emily Buchholz 30 0 0 0 1 .000
Matty Brekken 9 0 0 0 1 .000
Kelly Olson 26 0 0 0 1 .000
Megan Milbert 17 0 0 0 1 .000
Minnesota 31 6 5 11 36 .167
Opponents 31 1 1 2 11 .091
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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: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:41:19 -0800
From: "Phil & Debbie Cottrell"
Subject: Canada vs. USA: First Period
Live on TSN:
Canada 2, USA 0
Schuler and St. Louis scored for Canada.
Belliveau in goal for USA, Small for Canada.
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 17:32:09 -0800
From: "Phil & Debbie Cottrell"
Subject: Canada vs. USA: Second Period
Canada 4, USA 0
Wickenheiser and Drolet for Canada, late in the period.
Canada seemingly in full control (but remember that 7-4 score in Nagano).
Belliveau looked weak, though USA had some moments, Small playing very well
for Canada. Shots in the first were 12-10 USA.
Phil
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 18:25:01 -0800
From: "Phil & Debbie Cottrell"
Subject: Canada vs. USA: Final
TSN Challenge:
Canada 6, USA 1
Third Period: Goyette (terrific singlehanded effort) and Drolet for Canada,
Granato for the USA.
An exhibition in name only. Physical game, the main story was the superior
goaltending of Canada, and the special teams. USA was 0/6 on the powerplay,
Canada was 2/3.
Players of the Game:
USA- Katie King
Canada- Sammi Jo Small
Phil
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 22:01:12 -0800
From: "Phil & Debbie Cottrell"
Subject: Game Reports: Canada/USA
Canada 6 USA 1
TSN Challenge
BRAMPTON, ON -- The inaugural TSN Challenge was held tonight, featuring a
rematch of last year's Olympic final rivals, Canada and USA. This game
serves as a warm-up for the 1999 World Championship, starting in 7 days in
Espoo, Finland.
Tonight's game featured the squads who will face off in Finland, and was an
important game for both teams. Canada was staked to an early lead on goals
by Laura Schuler, a temporary injury replacement, and France St-Louis, the
oldest member of the team. Schuler played in tonight's game after injuries
to Vicky Sunohara and Lori Dupuis, although she is not scheduled to travel
with the team to Finland.
The second period saw goals by Hayley Wickenheiser and Nancy Drolet.
Drolet's came on Canada's only power play of the first two periods. Although
being outshot 23-18, Canada dominated most of the first and second periods,
with Sami Jo Small standing tall in the Canadian net.
The third period opened with Cammi Granato's strong rush and subsequent
goal, but it was too little too late. Danielle Goyette added another, after
fending off an Team USA defender and flicking the puck over the oustretched
pad of Erin Whitten, who came in to replace Belliveau at the start of the
third period.
Team Canada's next games will be on March 4 and 6, in Stockholm, Sweden,
against the Swedish National Women's Team in two Pre-Competition games
before the start of the World Championship.
Women's hockey: Canada clobbers top-ranked U.S. team
NEIL STEVENS
BRAMPTON, Ont. (CP) - The United States may be the top-seeded team for the
women's world hockey championship starting next week, but Canada showed
Monday night why it is confident of winning a fifth consecutive global
title.
Nancy Drolet scored two goals and Laura Schuler, France St-Louis, Hayley
Wickenheiser and Danielle Goyette added one each in a 6-1 drubbing of the
Olympic champions.
Cammi Granato was the only American to get a puck past Sami Jo Small.
The teams fly to Europe Tuesday night. The world tournament begins next
Monday in Espoo, Finland, when the Americans play Russia and the
second-seeded Canadians take on Switzerland. The Americans are ranked No. 1
on the strength of their win over Canada in the 1998 Olympic final.
Canada has won all four previous women's world tournaments, beating the
United States in the final each time. Coach Daniele Sauvageau’s players want
to atone for the Olympic loss by making it five in a row.
Schuler opened the scoring at 4:10 of the first period when she beat
goaltender Laurie Belliveau with a backhander under the crossbar from 10
feet. Cassie Campbell set Schuler up with a pass out of a corner.
St-Louis planted a wrist shot in a top corner of the American net from the
right-wing faceoff circle at 5:52 after taking a pass from Nathalie Rivard.
Canada was outshot 12-10 but took a 2-0 lead into the first intermission.
Wickenheiser played despite bruising her back in a fall into the end boards
during practice Sunday.
"It feels better," she said after testing herself in the morning practice.
"I’ll skate (Monday night)."
She made it 3-0 at 17:58 of the second period. Jayna Hefford flew down the
right wing with the puck, was forced wide by the defence, and slid a drop
pass out front as she passed the net. Wickenheiser cooly knocked the puck
into the open side of the net.
Drolet scored her first of the night at 19:12 on a power play, beating
Belliveau with a slider from a bad angle.
The Americans outshot Canada 11-8 but were down 4-0 at the second
intermission. Erin Whitten started the third in Belliveau’s place.
Goyette made it 5-0 at 10:00 of the third. Drolet fed a breakaway pass and
Goyette knocked a dribbler past Whitten as she was being slashed by a
defender.
Granato got one back at 10:26, stickhandling out of a corner before beating
Small, and Drolet closed out the scoring with 4:03 left off a Wickenheiser
pass.
Final shots were 31-24 in favour of the U.S.
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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 17:41:06 -0800
From: "Phil & Debbie Cottrell"
Subject: USA Hockey Version of 6-1
1999 U.S. Women's National Team Falls To Canada, 6-1, In Pre-World
Championship Exhibition Game
(BRAMPTON, Ont., March 1, 1999) - Forward Cammi
Granato (Downers Grove, Ill.) scored the lone goal for the 1999 United
States Women's National Team in a 6-1 exhibition game loss to Team Canada
here Monday night.
Granato took a feed from defenseman Chris
Bailey (Marietta, N.Y.) and slipped the puck past Canadian goaltender
Sami-Jo Small at 10:26 of the third period to make the score 5-1. Forward
Nancy Drolet added the last Canadian goal at 15:57 of the third period to
make the final score 6-1.
Drolet tallied a game-high three points (2-1)
for Canada and teammate Hayley Wickenheiser chipped in one goal and one
assist.
U.S. goaltender Laurie Belliveau (Manchester,
Mass.) turned aside 18 shots in the first two periods of exhibition action,
while Erin Whitten (Glens Falls, N.Y.) recorded four saves in the third
stanza. Small stopped 30 shots to record the victory for Canada.
Both teams are preparing for the 1999
International Ice Hockey Federation Women's World Championship, to be held
March 8-14 in Espoo and Vantaa, Finland. Team USA will open IIHF Women's
World Championship play March 8 against Russia at 4:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. EST).
USA 0 0 1 --
1
Canada 2 2 2 -- 6
First Period -- Scoring: 1, CAN, Schuler
(Campbell, Botterill), 4:10. 2, CAN, St-Louis (Rivard), 5:52. Penalties:
Rivard, CAN (interference), 6:14; Brisson, CAN (interference), 10:06.
Second Period -- Scoring: 3, CAN, Wickenheiser
(Smith, Hefford), 17:58. 4, CAN, Drolet (Benoit), 19:12 (pp). Penalties:
Brisson, CAN (body checking), 1:01; Wickenheiser, CAN (roughing), 5:03;
Brisson, CAN (interference),14:14; Bailey, USA
(body checking), 18:26.
Third Period -- Scoring: 5, CAN, Goyette
(Drolet, Benoit), 10:00. 6, USA, Granato (Bailey), 10:26. 7, CAN, Drolet
(Wickenheiser), 15:57. Penalties: Wickenheiser, CAN (tripping), 3:03;
Coehlo, USA (body checking), 13:49; Bailey, USA (hooking), 15:13.
Goaltenders: USA, Belliveau (18 shots, 14
saves), Whitten - at the beginning of the third period (6 shots, 4 saves).
CAN, Small, (31 shots, 30 saves).
Shots On Goal: USA 12-11-8-31. CAN 10-8-6-24.
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