Bowling Green State University Athletics
BG Icers Look To Bounce Back From Loss At Miami
December 29, 1999 | Ice Hockey
Nov. 8, 1999
The Bowling Green State University hockey team road trip continues this weekend with a two-game set at Michigan State on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 12-13. Both games at Munn Arena begin at 7:05 p.m. with Friday's contest being the FOX Sports Net Detroit CCHA Game of the Week telecast. Josh Lewin will handle play-by-play duties with Billy Jaffe serving as color commentator along with Shireen Saski.
UPCOMING GAMES ...
The Falcons next home action will be on Nov. 19-20 when the Ferris State Bulldogs come to the BGSU Ice Arena for a pair of CCHA contests. Face-off both nights is at 7:35 p.m.
Bowling Green concludes November with a two-game series at Lake Superior on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 26-27. BG completes its first half schedule with a home-and-home series with Michigan on Dec. 3-4.
THE COACH ...
Falcon mentor Buddy Powers has compiled a 5-10-2 mark against Michigan State including a 2-6-0 record at Munn Ice Arena.
THE SERIES ...
Bowling Green trails in the all-time series against Michigan State with a 22-47-7 mark. MSU won last year's season series with a 2-0-1 mark outscoring the Falcons 12-4. BG has recorded an 8-24-3 mark in games played at Munn Ice Arena.
From Dec. 15, 1990 through Jan. 19, 1996, Bowling Green went 0-7-2 in East Lansing, but since then the Falcons are 2-3.
PREVIEWING UPCOMING OPPONENT ...
Michigan State extended its winning streak to eight games with two wins at Alaska Fairbanks (5-1, 3-0) last weekend. The Spartans have not lost since Oct. 9 (4-1 at Colorado College in the U.S. College Hockey Faceoff Classic).
MSU has not allowed more than two goals in a game since the season opener at CC, and has allowed a grand total of two goals in its last six games, while recording four shutouts.
During its eight-game winning streak, Michigan State has scored first in every game, has never trailed, and Shawn Horcoff has a point in each game (4-13--17).
Adam Hall leads MSU in goals (9), power-play goals (4) and is second in points (11). Damon Whitten is second in goals (5) and is tied-for-third in points (9) with Rustyn Dolyny (2-7--9).
The Spartan goaltending duo of Ryan Miller (4-0-0, 0.67, .972) and Joe Blackburn (4-1-0, 1.55, .926) are facing only 22 shots per game, while MSU is averaging nearly 32 shots on goal per contest.
MSU's power-play has converted on 13 of 45 opportunities (28.9%), while the penalty killing unit has stopped 52 of its opponents 55 man-advantage chances (94.5%).
LOOKING BACK AT LAST WEEKEND ...
Bowling Green suffered a 7-0 setback at Miami on Saturday in its lone contest last weekend. The RedHawks Jeremy Bautch scored the first goal of the contest and added two more unassisted goals in the third period for the hat trick. Pat Leahy chipped in with two short-handed markers, while freshman netminder David Burleigh stopped all 21 Falcon shots.
BG rookie goaltender Tyler Masters stopped 18 of 23 shots in the first 40 minutes, while junior Shawn Timm, in his first action of the season, turned aside eight of Miami's 10 third period shots.
FALCON TIDBITS ...
Every Falcon skater with at least three games played has a point this season.
Sophomore defenseman Grady Moore has been on the ice for 12 of BG's 22 goals this year.
Falcon junior defenseman Louis Mass has taken over with active lead for most games without a goal at 47. Mass' last lamp-lighter came on Feb. 20, 1998, at Western Michigan.
Senior forward Brad Newman saw his first action of the year in Saturday's loss at Miami.
Saturday's shutout loss in Oxford marked only the second time in 72 games against Miami that BG had been held off the scoresheet. MU's only previous blanking of the Falcons came on Nov. 15, 1996, also at Goggin Ice Arena by a 4-0 score.
Bowling Green is 3-0-0 when it has at least 30 shots on goal in a contest, and 0-4-0 in games with less than 30 shots on goal.
The Falcons have allowed at least one power-play goal in every game this season.
BG is 3-1-0 when it scores a power-play goal and 0-3-0 when it does not score with the man-advantage.
The Falcons have only scored the first goal of a game once this year, and have a 2-4-0 mark when opponents score first.
Bowling Green, the only school to be a member of the CCHA every year since its inception, has claimed the most regular- season titles (seven) of any school (MSU is second with six), while the Spartans lead in playoff titles (eight) with BG and Lake Superior tied-for-second (five apiece).
RADIO COVERAGE ...
Bowling Green fans can catch all Falcon games -- home or away -- on WBGU radio (88.1 FM). Entering his final weekend calling Falcon hockey is play-by-play announcer Bartt Davis (BGSU, '95). Splitting time as color commentators are Steve Mears and Dave Crane.
BG hockey games can also be heard through the internet at http://www.webradio.com/wbgu or through TEAMLINE by calling 1-800-846-4700 with access code 3396, then entering a credit card number. To access TEAMLINE internationally just direct dial 330-374-6300.
