Bowling Green State University Athletics
BGSU Icers To Face Miami In Home-And-Home Series
February 08, 2000 | Ice Hockey
Feb. 8, 2000
The Bowling Green State University hockey team, after splitting this past weekend at Nebraska Omaha (3-4, 3-2), will play a home-and- home series against Miami this weekend. Friday's contest (Feb. 11) in BG starts at 7:35 p.m., while Saturday's rematch against the RedHawks will be the 1,200th non-exhibition contest in BGSU hockey history. Saturday game time in Oxford is 7:05 p.m.
UPCOMING GAMES ...
The Falcons will have four of their final six regular-season games at the BGSU Ice Arena beginning with the Feb. 18-19 home set against Notre Dame. Face-off both nights is slated for 7:35 p.m.
BG will conclude February with a home-and-home series against the Buckeyes of Ohio State. The Feb. 25 contest in Columbus begins at 7:05 p.m., with Saturday's game in BG starting at 7:35 p.m.
Bowling Green will complete the regular-season with a home-and-home series versus Michigan. The March 3 match in BG begins at 7:35 p.m., with the regular-season finale in Ann Arbor starting at 7:05 p.m.
THE COACH ...
Falcon mentor Buddy Powers moved into a tie for 83rd place on the NCAA all-time win list with BG's victory at Nebraska Omaha on Feb. 5. He is tied with Rube Bjorkman (RPI, New Hampshire, North Dakota - 63-78) and trails Walter Nelson (Middlebury, Union - '32-64) by one win. There have been more than 725 NCAA men's collegiate head hockey coaches.
Powers served as head coach at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) for five seasons (1989-90 through 1993-94) prior to being named to his current position at Bowling Green on July 12, 1994. He spent one season as the head coach at Rochester Institute of Technology (1988-89) leading the Tigers to a second-place finish in the Division III national championships.
Powers has a mark of 7-7-3 against Miami, which includes a 5-2-2 slate versus the RedHawks at the BGSU Ice Arena. His mark at Miami's Goggin Ice Arena is 2-5-1.
THE SERIES ...
Bowling Green leads the all-time series against Miami with a 50-18-5 mark. BG won last year's season series (2-0-1), but the RedHawks have won both meetings earlier this season (7-0 on Nov. 6 at Miami, 4-2 on Jan. 8 in BG).
The Falcons have an all-time home record against MU of 29-6-3. BG's record in Oxford stands at 21-12-2, with a series overtime mark of 6-3-5.
PREVIEWING MIAMI ...
Miami improved its overall mark to 12-11-3 with a pair of home wins over Alaska Fairbanks (4-3, 5-4 OT) this past weekend. The RedHawks are in sixth place in the CCHA with a league record of 9-8-3.
Junior forward Pat Leahy (14-16--30) leads Miami in goals, points and short-handed goals (4). Senior forward Dustin Whitecotton (9-21-- 30) is the team-leader in assists. Sophomore forward Evan Cheverie (8- 10--18) and freshman Nick Jardine (9-8--17) round out the top four scorers. Senior Josh Mizerek is MU's top-scoring blueliner with 12 points on three goals and nine assists.
Freshman David Burleigh (10-7-0, 2.74, .884) has seen the majority of time in the RedHawk cage. Seniors Andy Marsch (1-3-2, 3.42, .876) and Ian Olsen (1-1-1, 4.33, .882) have seen limited playing time.
Miami's has scored on 25 of its 160 power-play chances (15.6%), while the penalty killers have stopped 135 of 166 (81.3%).
REVIEWING THE NEBRASKA OMAHA SERIES ...
After falling behind 4-0 in the first 24 minutes of Friday's contest in Omaha, Bowling Green rallied with three second period goals but could not score the equalizer in falling to Nebraska Omaha 4-3.
UNO took advantage of some "puck luck" to open up the 4-0 lead. Dave Noel-Bernier scored 2:52 into the contest from just outside the crease, while Greg Zanon's power-play goal at 14:24 gave UNO a 2-0 advantage. David Brisson's scored with 10.3 seconds remaining in the first period after Noel-Bernier fanned on a one-timed shot. The Mavericks tallied a five-on-three power-play goal at 3:20 of the middle stanza after a cross-ice pass was deflected by a BG defenseman right on to the stick of Jason Cupp.
The Falcons started their rally at 6:27 when Craig Desjarlais poked in a rebound of Grady Moore's blueline shot. Senior center Adam Edinger scored twice in a span of 32 seconds (17:20 and 17:52) late in the second period to pull BG within one at 4-3. Edinger's first goal of the game came after he won an offensive draw back to Moore and deposited a rebound past UNO netminder Kendall Sidoruk. Edinger's 10th of the campaign was assisted by Ryan Murphy, who took a hit in the neutral zone but still managed to make a pass setting up an Edinger breakaway.
Tyler Masters started in goal for BG and made 12 saves on 16 shots in 23:20. Shawn Timm stopped all 14 shots he faced in the final 36 minutes, with UNO's Sidoruk being credited with 31 saves. BG went one-for-six with the man-advantage, while UNO scored on two of its eight power-play chances.
BG scored three unassisted goals in a span of 4:58 midway through the opening period and held on for a 3-2 triumph Saturday at Nebraska Omaha.
Sophomore blueliner Grady Moore tied the school record for goals in a period by defenseman by scoring BG's first two markers. His first goal came during a four-on-four situation at the 8:19 mark. After Maverick David Brisson scored at 9:10 to tie the game at one, Moore scored his team-leading fifth power-play goal to put the Falcons in front for good.
Junior left wing Ryan Murphy tallied his first game-winning goal of the season at 13:17 of the opening period when he went coast-to-coast and beat UNO goalie Rodney McLeod for his sixth of the campaign.
Brisson scored his second of the game, and third of the weekend, 2:02 into the middle period but Falcon goalie Shawn Timm held the Mavericks off the scoreboard the final 37:58. Timm made 22 saves in the final 40 minutes and finished the game with 28 stops. McLeod, who was pulled for Kendall Sidoruk after BG took its 3-1 lead, turned aside nine Falcon shots. Sidoruk stopped all 17 shots he faced.
Both teams had six power-play opportunities with BG scoring the lone man-advantage marker.
FALCON NOTES ...
Senior wing Craig Desjarlais, who began the year with mono, scored his first goal since Oct. 23 in Friday's contest stopping his 19-game goalless streak.
Sophomore defenseman Grady Moore tied the school record for goals in a period by a blueliner with his two first period goals on Saturday. This was the 22nd time in school history a backliner had two goals in a period. Four defensemen have recorded hat trick in BG history (John Mavity, John Gibb, Scott Paluch and Rob Blake), but none scored all three goals in a period.
After scoring five goals in the first period of its first 16 CCHA league games (one goal each in five games), Bowling Green has had first period outbursts of four goals (Jan. 28 vs. Northern Michigan) and three goals (Feb. 4 at Nebraska Omaha). The Falcons have scored four goals in a period in four conference games this year (Oct. 29-30 vs. Alaska Fairbanks, Nov. 26 at Lake Superior, and Jan. 28 vs. Northern Michigan).
BG is two CCHA victories away from 400. The Falcons all-time regular-season CCHA mark stands at 398-286-44.
BG senior center Adam Edinger had two goals in a 32 second span late in the second period on Friday's game in Omaha. Moore and junior left wing Ryan Murphy combined to score three times in 4:58 in Saturday's first period.
The Falcon power play went one-for-six each night against the Mavericks increasing its streak of consecutive games with a power-play goal to six. BG has scored at least one man-advantage marker in 10 of its last 11 contests.
Junior netminder Shawn Timm stopped 42 of 44 Omaha shots over the weekend to lower his goals-against average to 2.51 and raise his save percentage to .919.
Senior defenseman B.J. Adams, who leads all Falcon skaters in overall plus/minus (+5), will move into 10th place on BG's all-time penalty minute list with his next infraction. Adams total of 278 penalty minutes is one behind Greg Parks (279) and six behind Scott Paluch (284).
CCHA STATISTICAL COMPARISON...
In terms of overall statistics, Bowling Green is tied-for-sixth in team offense (3.00 gpg), while Miami is fourth (3.15 gpg). In team defense, the Falcons are ninth (3.38 gpg), with the RedHawks ranked eighth (3.12 gpg). BG's power play is ninth (15.4%), while MU's power play is eighth (15.6%). The Falcon penalty killing is fifth (85.3%), with the RedHawks ranked 10th (81.4%).
BG's Tyler Masters is 16th in goals-against average (3.18), with Miami's David Burleigh ranked 11th (2.74). Shawn Timm would be 10th (2.51) if he had enough minutes to qualify. Masters is sixth in saves (482), while Burleigh is 10th (366). Burleigh is tied-for-third in shutouts (3), while Masters is tied for fifth (2).
Miami's top two scorers (Dustin Whitecotton and Pat Leahy) are tied for fifth in overall scoring with 30 points. Sophomore forward Greg Day is BG's top scorer with 22 points, which places him in a tie for 19th. Sophomore defenseman Grady Moore is tied-for-second in blueline scoring with WMU's David Cousineau with 19 points. Michigan's Jeff Jillson leads all defensemen with 28 points.
Leahy is tied-for-fifth in goals (14), while Day is tied-for-16th (11). Whitecotton is fifth in assists (21), Leahy is tied-for-seventh (16) and junior wing Ernie Hartlieb is tied-for-10th (15). Evan Cheverie is tied- for-seventh in game-winning goals (3), while BG's Austin de Luis and Greg Day, along with Miami's Gregor Krajnc and Nick Jardine are tied- for-17th with two game-winners.
BG's Grady Moore is tied-for-first among CCHA blueliners with five power-play goals. Miami's has four players (Nick Jardine, Evan Cheverie, Dustin Whitecotton and Mike Glumac) with four power-play goals each.
