Falcons Close 2022 With Series Against Engineers

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – The Bowling Green Falcons (8-12-0, 7-7-0 CCHA) close the 2022 portion of the season with a non-conference series against the RPI Engineers (7-9-1, 2-6-0 ECAC). The teams will start the series at 7:07 p.m. ET on Thursday, Dec. 29. The second game is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 30 at 7:07 p.m. ET. Both games will be played at Slater Family Ice Arena. This is the final regular season non-conference series of the season for Bowling Green. It begins a stretch of six consecutive home games for the Falcons.

How to Follow
Both games will be streamed on FloHockey, found HERE. The games will also be broadcast on 88.1 FM by BGRSO, which can be found online HERE. Use the WBGU Listen Now link, which is found on the right side of the desktop site and the bottom of the mobile site. Live stats for the games can be found HERE. The games will also have live updates on Bowling Green Hockey's official Twitter page, @BGFalconHockey.

Tickets, Parking, and Attendance Information
Tickets for Thursday's game are available for purchase HERE. Parking for Thursday's game can be purchased HERE. Tickets for Friday's game are available for purchase HERE. Parking for Friday's game can be purchased HERE. Friday will be Pediatric Cancer Awareness Night

Falcon Facts

Alex Barber enters the series with 98 career points, totaling 40 goals and 58 assists in his career. The captain ranks second among active NCAA players with 10 career game-winning goals.
Taylor Schneider enters the series with 96 career points, totaling 39 goals and 57 assists in his career. The senior leads all active NCAA players with 166 games played.
Austen Swankler has tallied a point in each of his last ten games, recording seven goals and nine assists for 16 points in this span. He currently leads the team in goals (12), which ranks second in the conference and sixth in the country. He also leads the Falcons in points (23), ranking second in the CCHA and 10^th in the NCAA.
Swankler and Chase Gresock share the team lead in assists at 11. Gresock has 89 career points.
Nathan Burke has five power play goals, ranking first on the team, second in the conference, and ninth in the nation.
Christian Stoever leads the CCHA with a .926 save percentage in conference games. He has 494 saves on the season, the fifth-most in the country.
The Falcons are one of seven teams in the country to rank in the NCAA top-20 in power play percentage (23.8%, 16^th) and penalty kill percentage (82.7%, 19^th).

Opponent Outlook
RPI has not played since Dec. 10, a 6-5 loss to Princeton that saw the Engineers score four power play goals. Jake Gagnon scored two of those goals, bringing his season total to three, which is tied with Jakob Lee for the team lead. Lee leads the team in assists at eight and shares the team lead in points with Ryan Mahshie, with each forward totaling 12. Mahshie leads the team with nine goals this year, including two on the power play. On the backend, the Engineers are led by Jack Agnew, who has eight points and a team-high 25 blocks. Jack Watson has spent nearly 95 percent of the team's minutes in net, registered a .903 save percentage and 2.81 GAA. The Engineers are led by sixth-year head coach Dave Smith, who was an assistant coach at Bowling Green from 2000-02.

Series Info
Last season, the teams opened the year with a series in RPI, which featured a tie and an overtime win for the Falcons. Nathan Burke scored two goals in BGSU's victory, including the game-winner. Mahshie and Rory Herrman each lit the lamp for the Engineers. The all-time series is tied at 9-9-2, with the last four games all going to overtime. Two of those games ended in a tie, with the Falcons and Engineers splitting the other two.

Chalk Talk
On Friday, Dec. 30, Falcon Club members and season ticket holders are invited to a Chalk Talk with Assistant Coach Curtis Carr. The talk will begin at 6:15 p.m. in the Slater Family Ice Arena Center Ice Lounge.

Ty's Take
"We've got 10 of these last 14 games at home. We want to be better at home and win more games at home. It's important that we get off to a good start. It's important that we're disciplined and not taking penalties. Since we've been off, the fewer penalties you take, the better opportunity you have to play more people and not put a bunch a stress on the guys that do a majority of your penalty killing. We want to defend better and be harder to play against."

Coach Eigner's full press conference from Dec. 27 can be found HERE.

Up Next
The Falcons open 2023 with a home series against CCHA opponent Lake Superior State. The series will be played on Jan. 6-7, with both games starting at 7:07 p.m. ET in Slater Family Ice Arena.

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