ORONO, Maine — The University of Maine men's hockey team will host the University of Massachusetts Minutemen on Friday, January 25th at 7:35 pm EST. The teams will also do battle on Saturday, January 26th with puck drop set for 7:05 pm EST.

GAME INFORMATION
Game #21: Maine Black Bears vs UMass Minutemen
DATE: Friday, Jan. 25, 2019
TIME: 7:35 p.m. EST
SITE: Alfond Arena – Orono, Maine
2017-18 RECORDS: Maine 8-11-3 (4-5-3 HE), UMass 18-4 (10-2 HE)
GAME NOTES: Maine (PDF)

Game #22: Maine Black Bears at UMass Minutemen
DATE: Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019
TIME: 7:00 p.m. EST
SITE: Alfond Arena – Orono, Maine
GAME NOTES: Maine (PDF)

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About the Black Bears

• Maine and New Hampshire battled to a 4-4 tie on Monday night at the Alfond Arena. It was the third tie in the last five match-ups between the two neighboring states. Brendan Robbins scored two goals, while Chase Pearson and Jakub Sirota each found the back of the net. The goal for Sirota was his first collegiate tally.

• Seven different Black Bears scored in the 7-2 victory at Boston College. It was the first time seven players scored in game for Maine since the 2013-14 season. Jeremy Swayman saved 34 total shots and raised his season total of 30 save games to 11.

• Maine dropped their first Hockey East series of 2019 this past weekend. #12 Northeastern defeated the Black Bears both nights. Jeremy Swayman recorded 39 saves during Friday night's game, as Adam Dawe found the back of the net for this first career collegiate goal.

• Eduards Tralmaks gave the Black Bears their second overtime victory of the 2018-19 season. Chase Pearson, Emil Westerlund, and Rob Michel were the other three goal scores in Maine's 4-3 win over #19 Yale. Jeremy Swayman tallied 32 saves in the home game at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland, Maine.

• Chase Pearson and Tim Doherty led the Black Bears to their first victory of 2019. In the return to the Alfond, Maine scored four goals, three in the second period, and defeated the Tigers of Colorado College, 4-2. Jeremy Swayman turned away 33 shots, as Patrick Shea and Brendan Robbins scored the other two goals.

• Ryan Smith and Eduards Tralmaks guided the Black Bears to a three-point weekend on November 30th and December 1st at Vermont. Smith netted a game winning goal in game one of the series, while Tralmaks tallied two goals of his own in the Saturday stalemate. For his 74 total saves, Jeremy Swayman earned his second Defensive Player of the Week honors of the 2018-19 season.

• Along with his week one Rookie of the Week nod, Jacob Schmidt-Svejstrup was named to the "10 Players in the Spotlight" by NE Hockey Journal.

• Last year's sophomore class finished with 51 assists, good for second overall in Hockey East behind Boston College's sophomores, with Chase Pearson and Mitch Fossier finishing first and second. 

• The four-member Class of 2022 includes Simon Butala, Jacob Schmidt-Svejstrup, Edward Lindelow, and Adam Dawe. 

• The UMaine roster includes three NHL draft picks, with Patrick Shea being selected by the Florida Panthers in 2015, Chase Pearson being drafted by the Detroit Red Wings in 2015, and Swayman being taken in the 2017 draft by the Boston Bruins. 

About the Minutemen

• Massachusetts finished with a record of 17-20-2 last year, ultimately being defeated by Northeastern in the Quarterfinal Round of the Hockey East Tournament.

• The Minutemen return all five of their top five scorers from 2017-18 in John Leanord, Mitchell Chaffee, Cale Makar, Oliver Chau, and Mario Ferraro.

• Matt Murray, who appeared in 24 games last year while going 9-12-2, posted a 2.70 goal against average and a .911 save percentage.

• University of New Hampshire sophomore John Leanord was selected in the 2018 NHL Draft by the San Jose Sharks.

The Series with Massachusetts

• Maine and UMass have squared off 87 times prior to Friday's tilt, with Maine holding an edge of 57-21-9 in the all-time series.

• The Black Bears swept the series last season, skating to a 3-1 win (1/16/18 at Alfond Arena), 3-2 win (1/26/18 at UMass), and a 3-2 win (1/27/18 at UMass).

• Maine and UMass first met on Jan. 26, 1979 at Alfond Arena, with the Black Bears winning 8-3.

About Head Coach Red Gendron
• Red Gendron, who enters his sixth year behind the bench of the Black Bears, has won two NCAA Hockey National Championships and a NHL Stanley Cup as an assistant coach.
• He assisted head coach Shawn Walsh with the UMaine 1993 NCAA Division I National Championship team.
• Before being named the head coach of the Black Bears, Gendron was associate head coach at Yale University; the Bulldogs earned the 2013 NCAA Division I National Championship.
• Prior to Gendron's two seasons at Yale, from 2005-11, he was an assistant coach at the University of Massachusetts.
• Gendron spent 11 seasons in professional hockey with the New Jersey Devils organization.

Past 18 Games

• Chase Pearson and Mitch Fossier have combined for 33 points over the past 18 games.

• Pearson has scored 10 goals and assisted on seven others over the previous 18 games.

• Fossier has found the back of the net one time, while he has dished out 15 assists.

Early Season Accolades

• Freshman Jacob Schmidt-Svejstrup and has earned two regional achievements.

• After his opening weekend efforts, Schmidt-Svejstrup earned the Rookie of the Week award passed out by Hockey East.

• The New England Hockey Journal also recognized the Sweden native with a spot on the "10 Players in the Spotlight".

On the National Stage

• Mitchell Fossier currently sits 6th in the nation with 19 assists. In the conference, Mitchell is tied for first.

• Chase Pearson ranks 15th national with his 12 goals. The goal the captain scored Monday against UNH propelled him into the top three goal scorers in Hockey East.

• As a team, the Black Bears killed penalties at a 84.31% clip, which is good enough for 16th in the nation.

It's Worth Noting from 2017-18…

• Jeremy Swayman's 16 wins mark the most by a Maine freshman goaltender since Ben Bishop went 21-8-2 in his rookie 2005-06 season.

• Sophomore Eduards Tralmaks was tied for sixth in the league in rookie scoring (11-14—25).

• Sophomore Brady Keeper finished third in the league for rookie defensemen scoring (6-16—22).

• Maine had 13 players in double-digit scoring and has received goals from 19 different players, assists from 21 and points from 21.

• Maine scored a goal in all three periods in nine games last season.

Career Weekly Honor(s) for Swayman
• Jeremy Swayman was named the Hockey East defensive player of the week ending November 18th and December 2nd. Swayman has earned two awards during the 2018-19 season.

• The Anchorage, Alaska native was named the Hockey East Pro Ambitions Rookie of the Week on March 5, his sixth weekly award of last season, the most in Hockey East.

• Swayman was the only player last season to have earned at least one Rookie, Player and Defensive Player of the Week award.

• He was named the league's Defensive Player of the Week on Feb. 1 and was Co-Defensive Player of the Week on Jan. 22.

• Two other times last season he was named the rookie of the week (1/8; 11/20) and on Dec. 11 he was named the league's Player of the Week.

Thirty-or-More

• 11 times this season and 17 times last season that Jeremy Swayman finished with 30-plus saves.

• From Dec. 2 in a 6-2 win over Vermont to a 2-2 tie with UNH on Jan. 19, he made at least 30 stops in eight-straight games.

Solid Sophomore Campaign
• Mitchell Fossier (12-22—34) was eighth in Hockey East in scoring, one of the three underclassmen in the top 10.

• The Alpharetta, Ga. native scored two game-winning goals last season and assisted on three others – including both in Maine's opening round playoff series sweep of UNH.

• Fossier had 12 multiple-point games on the season and had a stretch of three-straight from Jan. 8-13 and his 15 assists on the road lead the conference.

• He lead the team in goals (12) and assists (22).

Seven Different Goal Scorers
• Maine had seven different players score a goal in their win at Boston College on January 16th. 

• It was the first time since Dec. 2013 that the Black Bears had seven goals from seven different skaters.

• Emil Westerlund, Tim Doherty, Jacob Schmidt-Svejstrup, Eduards Tralmaks, Daniel Perez, Jack Quinlivan, and Patrick Shea all found the back of the net at BC.

Border Battle, cont.

• Maine's 4-3 overtime win at New Hampshire on Feb. 14 gave the Black Bears last season's series with a 1-0-2 record.

• The win also marked Maine's first overtime road win since a 3-2 victory at Vermont on Oct. 30, 2010.

• It was Maine's eighth ever overtime win against the Wildcats in 18 overtime tilts (8-2-8).

Overtime!

• Maine's 4-3 overtime win over New Hampshire on Feb. 14 marked the first time in program history that Maine had played four-straight overtime games.

• The Black Bears were 2-2-0 in that four-game stretch, topping UNH and Merrimack (4-3) but falling to Providence (3-2) and Merrimack (3-2).

• Maine  played nine overtime games last season, but the program record for extra time tilts in a season is 11 (2001-02; 2012-13). 

Second Period Goals

• The Black Bears have tallied 22 total second period goals in the 22 games this season. With the three scored this past Wednesday, Maine continues to find success in the second frame.

• Maine had notched 27 goals on the road in the second period to lead the league and sat third nationally in 2017-18.

• The Black Bears scored in the second period in their first 13 straight road games, until that streak came to an end on Feb. 14 at UNH last season.

• Maine's 47 second period 2017-18 goals overall was second in the conference behind Northeastern (53) and ninth in the country.

• Following the trend of last season, the 2018-19 Black Bears have second six second period goals over four games.

Five-or-More
• In eight games last season, the Black Bears scored at least five goals.

• In wins over Vermont (6-2) and Quinnipiac (7-4, 5-3) Maine scored five-or-more goals in three-straight games for the first time since a three-game stretch during the 2006-07 season against Bemidji State (7-1, 6-3) and North Dakota (6-2). 

Blanking BU
• With Maine and Jeremy Swayman shutting out BU, 3-0, on Jan. 6, it marked the fifth-ever shutout for the Black Bears in the 130-game series with the Terriers.

• The only other time a Maine freshman goaltender blanked BU was on Feb. 21, 1997, when now-assistant coach Alfie Michaud made 20 saves in a 3-0 win at Alfond Arena. 

The Puck Stops Here
• In Maine's two-game set at Quinnipiac on Dec. 8 and 9, Jeremy Swayman registered 50 saves in a 7-4 win on Friday and another 45 saves in a 5-3 win on Saturday for a weekend total of 95.

• It marked the first time since at least the 1985-86 season that a Black Bear goaltender registered 95 saves on the weekend, as Al Loring did it with 60-save and 35-save performances at North Dakota (game-by-game statistics not available prior to the 1981-82 season).

• It was the highest single-weekend save total since current assistant coach Alfie Michaud made 93 saves (51, 42) in January 1998.

• The last Maine goaltender to make 50 saves in a game was Matt Morris during a game against Providence on Feb. 5, 2016.

Monthly League Honors

• Goaltender Jeremy Swayman was named the Hockey East Pro Ambitions Rookie of the Month for January after going 4-2-2 with 2.34 goals against average, .928 save percentage and his first career shutout in a 31-save performance in a 3-0 win over BU.

• Swayman was first among conference rookies in save percentage and goals against average on the month.

• Doherty finished December with eight points on four goals and four assists, with the points placing him tied for third in the league and first among rookies.

• Swayman was runner-up for Goaltender of the Month in December after going 3-0-1 in four starts and posting a 2.70 goals against average and a .934 save percentage.

Two Games, Two Overtime Game Winners
• On Nov. 30 at Vermont, Maine won in overtime when Ryan Smith found the back of the net 1:52 into the extra period.

• Eduards Tralmaks tallied the Black Bears second overtime winner of the 2018-19 season. His goal came with 00:48 left in the frame. 

• The two game winners were scored by different Black Bears, but Mitchell Fossier was credited with an assist on each of the overtime goals.

Swayman Earns Bronze at WJC

• Jeremy Swayman was named to the U.S. National Junior Team roster for the 2018 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Junior Championship and took home a bronze.

• Swayman was one of three goaltenders on the final 23-player roster, joining BU's Jake Oettinger and BC's Joseph Woll.

• The last Maine player to skate for the U.S. at the IIHF World Junior Championships was Greg Moore in 2004 while goaltender Jimmy Howard was on the roster in 2003, along with Moore.

• Joining Swayman at the WJC was Jacob Schmidt-Svejstrup of Denmark.

Clark Cup MVPs
• Freshman Eduards Tralmaks was named the 2017 Clark Cup Most Valuable Player after tallying 12 points on 10 goals and two assists in 14 playoff games – and leading the Chicago Steel to the Tier 1 National Championship.
• Tralmaks – whose 10 goals tied for most all-time in Clark Cup playoff history – becomes the third Clark Cup MVP to become a Black Bear.
• Goaltender Matt Morris '17 was bestowed the honor after leading the Dubuque Fighting Saints to the title in 2011.
• Former Black Bear goaltender Matt Lundin earned the award with the Sioux Falls Stampede in 2007.

Feeling the Draft?
• The 2017-18 UMaine roster includes three NHL draft picks, including two in 2015.
• In 2015, Patrick Shea was selected by the Florida Panthers while Chase Pearson went to the Detroit Red Wings.
• In 2017, Jeremy Swayman went to the Boston Bruins in the fourth round.

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