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Saint Mary's Cardinals   0-0-0 MIAC / 0-4-0 Overall		Gustavus Gusties   0-0-0 MIAC / 3-1-0 Overall

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Last Action: The Cardinals remained winless in 2008-09, dropping back-to-back nonconference games to UW-Stevens Point (3-0) and UW-Eau Claire (6-2) last weekend. … Gustavus, meanwhile, moved to 3-1-0 on the season with a 6-5 win over UW-Stout and a 6-4 victory over UW-River Falls last weekend.

Last Meeting: The Cardinals and Gusties split their Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference series a year ago, with both teams winning on their home ice. GAC scored four goals in the second period en route to a 6-0 victory in the first game, while SMU got goals from five different players and four assists from Anthony Bohn (Spring Hill, Fla.) en route to a 5-2 victory in the rematch.

All-Time Series Record: With the split, Gustavus improved to 39-30-1 all-time against the Cardinals.

Cardinal Notes: Today's game marks the fifth straight vs. a ranked opponent. SMU's first four games were against No. 15 St. Scholastica, No. 8 UW-Superior, No. 6 UW-Stevens Point and No. 12 UW-Eau Claire. Gustavus comes into tonight's game ranked No. 14 in the latest USCHO.com Poll. … With last weekend's losses to UW-Stevens Point and UW-Eau Claire, the Cardinals' season-opening losing streak climbed to four straight. It marks the second straight season in which SMU opened winless in its first four games — the Cardinals went 0-4-1 to kick off last year's schedule. … Friday's loss to UW-Stevens Point extended SMU's winless streak vs. the Pointers to 15 straight (0-13-2). The Cardinals' last win vs. UW-Stevens Point was an 8-1 victory on Dec. 3, 1993. … Matt Staehely (Shorewood, Ill.) scored both of SMU's goals vs. UW-Eau Claire, giving the SMU junior a team-leading three goals in their first four games. It was also the first two-goal game by an SMU player since David Gross scored twice in the Cardinals' 5-4 win over Augsburg on Feb. 22, 2008. … Staehely also leads the team in points with four, while Mike Glaesmer (Traverse City, Mich.) boasts a team-best three assists. … Scott Pederson (Lake Villa, Ill.) stopped 31 shots in the losing effort Friday. Pederson has now stopped 70 of the 82 shots he's faced in his first two collegiate starts. The SMU freshman kicked out 39 shots in last Saturday's 10-3 loss to UW-Superior. …  Sixteen of the 28 goals allowed by SMU have come on special teams — 12 powerplay goals and four shorthanded tallies. … Three of SMU's six goals have come on the powerplay — including two by Staehely. … The Cardinals have been outscored 10-2 in the second periods and 12-3 in the third. SMU was outscored by a combined 4-0 in the third period vs. UW-Stevens Point and UW-Eau Claire.

Gustie Notes: After opening the season with a 7-5 loss to defending national champion St. Norbert, the Gusties have rattled off three straight wins. … Gustavus has scored six goals in each of its three wins — 6-1 vs. Lake Forest, 6-5 vs. UW-Stout and 6-4 vs. UW-River Falls. … Three of Gustavus' six goals vs. UW-Stout were on the powerplay, while four of GAC's six goals vs. UW-River Falls last Saturday came on special teams — three powerplay goals and one shorthanded tally. … David Martinson scored two goals to lead the Gustie offense vs. UW-Stout, while GAC's six goals vs. UW-River Falls came from six different players. … Martinson has scored a team-leading eight goals in GAC's four games, while also leading the team in points with 10. Four of Martinson's eight goals have come on the powerplay. … Ross Ring-Jarvi has dished out a team-leading six assists and is second to Martinson with seven points. … Twelve players have accounted for GAC's 23 goals, with 16 players collecting at least one point through four games. … Gustavus has outscored its opponents in all three periods — 9-6 in the first, 6-5 in the second and 8-6 in the third.