St. Cloud State, Minnesota, Denver Remain Unbeaten Heading Into November
Goaltender Wade Dubielewicz has helped Denver off to a 4-0-0 start. |
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Oct. 28, 2001
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MADISON, Wisc. - Three undefeated teams - St. Cloud State (6-0-0), Minnesota (5-0-0) and Denver (4-0-0) - who helped the Western Collegiate Hockey Association occupy five of the top six places in last week's USA Today/American Hockey Magazine Men's College Hockey Poll (Oct. 22), will face tough opposition in league play next weekend as they attempt to improve on their respective season-opening streaks. The (SCSU) Huskies host defending MacNaughton (WCHA) champion North Dakota this Friday (Nov. 2) and Saturday (Nov. 3), the Golden Gophers travel to much-improved Michigan Tech, and the Pioneers take on pre-season WCHA coaches' favorite Colorado College in a home-and-home series. One additional conference series this weekend finds Alaska Anchorage hosting Minnesota-Duluth while in non-conference play, Wisconsin entertains defending national champion Boston College of Hockey East while Minnesota State-Mankato welcomes College Hockey America's University of Findlay.
Heading into the first week of November, WCHA-member teams have combined for a 20-5-1 (.788) non-conference record. And coupled with last season's (2000-01) 69-40-9 (.623) non-conference mark, the Western Collegiate Hockey Association is now 89-45-10 (.653) against outside opponents over the past two seasons combined.
Of Note: In action last weekend, four teams - Denver (7-2, 3-2 vs UAA), Minnesota (8-0, 9-0 vs Colgate), Minnesota-Duluth (4-3 ot, 6-5 vs RPI) and St. Cloud State (7-1, 4-0 vs MSU) - earned two-game sweeps while North Dakota and Wisconsin split.
Among the top individual highlights were... Minnesota G Adam Hauser set a school record with his 8th career shutout on Oct. 26... DU F Lukas Dora had two goals last Friday (Oct. 26) while F Greg Barber and F Connor James had goals each night in the sweep over UAA... St. Cloud State's Mark Hartigan topped the 100 career-point plateau with four assists on the weekend while forwards Mike Doyle and Nate DiCasmirro both had hat tricks last Friday... Wisconsin G Scott Kabotoff stopped 32 of 34 shots on goal Oct. 26 to help the Badgers open their WCHA season with a 3-2 win at defending league champ North Dakota... Minnesota-Duluth F Judd Medak had seven points (3g,4a) in the two-game series sweep of RPI... Minnesota F John Pohl tied a school record with five assists in a 9-0 win over Colgate last Saturday and had seven in the series... UM's Matt Koalska also had 3-3=6 in the sweep.
2001-02 WCHA Standings | |||||||||||||
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| Rk | Team | GP | Record | Pts | GF | GA | | | GP | Record | Pct. | GF | GA |
| 1 | St. Cloud State | 4 | 4-0-0 | 8 | 25 | 6 | | | 6 | 6-0-0 | 1000 | 36 | 9 |
| 2 | North Dakota | 4 | 3-1-0 | 6 | 16 | 9 | | | 7 | 4-3-0 | .571 | 25 | 23 |
| 3 | Denver | 2 | 2-0-0 | 4 | 10 | 4 | | | 4 | 4-0-0 | 1000 | 17 | 7 |
| | MSU-Mankato | 4 | 2-2-0 | 4 | 11 | 19 | | | 6 | 3-3-0 | .500 | 22 | 29 |
| 5 | Wisconsin | 2 | 1-1-0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | | | 4 | 2-2-0 | .500 | 16 | 13 |
| 6 | Minnesota | - | - | - | - | - | | | 5 | 5-0-0 | 1000 | 38 | 8 |
| | Alaska Anchorage | 2 | 0-2-0 | 0 | 4 | 10 | | | 6 | 1-4-1 | .250 | 18 | 27 |
| | Colorado College | 2 | 0-2-0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | | | 4 | 2-2-0 | .500 | 12 | 9 |
| | Michigan Tech | 2 | 0-2-0 | 0 | 5 | 14 | | | 4 | 2-2-0 | .500 | 12 | 17 |
| | Minnesota-Duluth | 2 | 0-2-0 | 0 | 8 | 10 | | | 6 | 4-2-0 | .667 | 26 | 22 |
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