ORONO, Maine — The University of Maine men's hockey team will host the Boston University Terriers on Saturday, March 9th at 7:30 pm EST. It is the final regular season home game for the Black Bears.
GAME INFORMATION
Game #34: Maine Black Bears vs Boston University Terriers
DATE: Saturday, March 9, 2019
TIME: 7:30 p.m. EST
SITE: Alfond Arena - Orono, Maine
2018-19 RECORDS: Maine 14-15-4 (10-9-4 HE), BU 14-15-4 (12-8-3 HE)
GAME NOTES: Maine (PDF)
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About the Black Bears
• In their final road game of the 2018-19 regular season, the University of Maine Black Bears were defeated by the #2 University of Massachusetts Minutemen, 6-0. With the loss, Maine can finish no higher than 6th place in Hockey East. The teams who finish the season in 5th to 8th place will receive a road conference play-off series.
• Playing host to Boston College, Maine only needed two goals each night to defeat the Eagles. For his two 30+ save efforts, Jeremy Swayman received Defensive Player of the Week honors. Eduards Tralmaks scored a regulation game winner Friday night, while Mitchell Fossier tallied the overtime game winner on Saturday.
• With four conference points on the line, the Black Bears earned three at Merrimack College this past weekend. Two third period goals propelled Maine to a tie Friday night, while four tallies from four different skaters guided the Black Bears to a victory in the final game of the season series with the Warriors.
• Maine won their third game against a team ranked in the top 20 when they defeated #11/#12 Providence on Saturday night, 3-1. Brendan Robbins, Chase Pearson, and Mitch Fossier were the goal scorers for the Black Bears. It was the 11th match-up of the 2018-19 season against a top 20 opponent.
• Mitch Fossier led Maine to a two point weekend at UNH with five total points. His two goals and two assists helped the Black Bears defeat the Wildcats Saturday night, 5-3. Brady Keeper continued his hot streak with another two point series.
• The Black Bears went 1-1 against #2 UMass in the Alfond on Jan. 25 & 26. Three power play goals and 53 saves propelled the Black Bears to a Hockey East victory over #2 Minutemen on Jan. 26. Alexis Binner and Emil Westerlund each tallied a goal and an assist, while the 50+ saves earned Swayman his third conference award of the season.
• 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.
• 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 Terriers
• Boston University finished with a record of 22-14-4 last year, ultimately being defeated by Michigan, in the NCAA National tournament. BU also won the Hockey East conference tournament.
• The Terriers return three of their top five scorers from 2017- 18 in Dante Fabbro, Bobo Carpenter, and Shane Bowers.
• Jake Oettinger, who appeared in 38 games last year while going 21-13-4 with four shutouts, posted 2.45 goal against average and a .915 save percentage.
• Three Terriers were drafted in the 2017-18 NHL Draft. Brady Tkachuk, Joel Farabee, and Jake Wise were all selected, while Tkachuk and Jordan Greenway left Boston University to pursue professional contracts.
The Series with the Terriers
• Maine and BU have squared off 130 times prior to Saturday's contest, with BU holding an edge of 65-52-13 in the all-time series.
• The teams played a three games last season, with the Black Bears topping the Terriers, 5-2, at Alfond Arena on Nov. 17 before heading to Portland and Cross Insurance Arena the next night, falling, 7-0. Maine took the third game of the season, 3-0, at Boston University on Jan. 6.
• The Black Bears and Terriers first met during the 1923-24 season, with the Black Bears taking that contest, 4-2.
• Last season, the squads played a home-and-home series, with the Terriers taking their Jan. 20 home contest, 4-1, and also edging out the Black Bears at Alfond Arena, 3-1, on Jan. 21.
• Maine held an 11-game winning streak against the Terriers from Oct. 31, 1986 to Nov. 10, 1989.
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.
75+ Career Points
• Chase Pearson and Mitch Fossier have both surpassed the 70 career point mark.
• Fossier has tallied 27 goals and 57 assists for a total of 84 points.
• Pearson has found the back of the net 36 times, while he has dished out 41 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 8th in the nation with 27 assists. In the conference, Mitchell is first overall.
• Chase Pearson ranks 29th nationally with his 15 goals. The captain also is part of the top three goal scorers in Hockey East.
• As a team, the Black Bears killed penalties at a 84.03% 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 beggining November 18th, December 2nd, January 28th, and February 25th. On March 1st, Swayman was named the Hockey East Goaltender of the month, his first of the campaign. The sophomore has earned five 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
• 18 times this season and 17 times last season that Jeremy Swayman finished with 30-plus saves.
• On Jan. 26, he recorded 53 saves against #2 UMass. The 53 stops were a season and career high for the sophomore as he led the Black Bears to a 4-3 win over the #2 Minutemen.
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.
Ten-or-More
• With this past weekend in the books, Maine now has nine different players with 10 or more points.
• Fossier and Pearson lead the way with 31 and 25 points, respectively.
• Of those nine players, two are defensemen, one is a freshman, one is a senior, and three are NHL draft picks.
Ranked Opponents
• Maine's 4-3 win over #2 UMass marked the first victory over a Top 3 team in two years.
• The Black Bears defeated then #3 Quinnipiac 4-3 in overtime on October 14, 2016.
• Mitchell Fossier scored the game winning goal for his squad, while Patrick Shea found the back of the net to tie the game at three. Rob Michel assisted on the game-winning, Fossier goal.
Second Period Goals
• The Black Bears have tallied 32 total second period goals in the 33 games this season.
• 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, 2018, 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 vs #2 UMass on Jan. 25 and 26, Jeremy Swayman registered 38 saves in a 2-4 lose on Friday and another 53 saves in a 4-3 win on Saturday for a weekend total of 91.
• It marked the first time (excluding last season for Swayman) since at least the 1985-86 season that a Black Bear goaltender registered 91 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.
Three Games, Three 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.
• In the final game of February, Mitchell Fossier beat the BC goaltender for Maine's third OT game winner of the season.
• The two game winners (excluding his own) 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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