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Saint Mary's Cardinals   0-1-0 Overall		UW-Stevens Point Pointers   3-0-0 Overall

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Last Action: The Cardinals dropped both games in its season-opening weekend last Friday and Saturday, falling to St. Scholastica 9-1 and UW-Superior 10-3. … UW-Stevens Point, meanwhile, pushed its season-opening winning streak to three straight with a 3-1 win over Concordia and a 5-4 victory over Saint John's last weekend.

Last Meeting: Anthony Bohn (Spring Hill, Fla.) scored his first goal of the season 1:08 into the opening period, but that was the extent of the Cardinals' offense against UW-Stevens Point a year ago, as the Pointers netted three unanswered goals to beat SMU 3-1.

All-Time Series Record: With their 3-1 win a year ago, UW-Stevens Point improved to 14-3-3 all-time. UW-Stevens Point enters tonight's game riding a 14-game unbeaten streak (12-0-2) vs. the Cardinals. SMU's last win vs. the Pointers was an 8-1 victory on Dec. 3, 1993.

Cardinal Notes: SMU's loss to St. Scholastica extended its winless streak in season openers to six (0-4-2), dating back to a 9-3 win over Finlandia to open the 2002-03 season. …  Steve Murphy (Anchorage, Alaska), who netted his first collegiate goal to account for SMU's lone goal vs. St. Scholastica last Friday, added another goal on Saturday vs. UW-Superior. … Anthony Bohn (Spring Hill, Fla.) and Matt Staehely (Shorewood, Ill.) also scored for SMU vs. UW-Superior Saturday. … Mike Glaesmer (Traverse City, Mich.) — a USCHO West Region All-First Year Team selection a year ago — assisted on two of SMU's three goals vs. UW-Superior Saturday. … UW-Superior's 10 goals were the most allowed by the Cardinals since UW-River Falls scored 10 in a 10-2 win on Dec. 12, 2006. … The Yellowjackets' 10 goals also came from 10 different players. … The Cardinals surrendered 100 shots on goal in their first two games combined. SMU goalies Greg Moore (Woodbury, Minn.) and Scott Pederson (Lake Villa, Ill.) each made their first collegiate starts last weekend. Moore stopped 42 shots in the loss vs. St. Scholastica, while Pederson had 39 saves vs. UW-Superior. …  The Cardinals surrendered eight power play and two short-handed goals last weekend. Five of CSS's nine goals game via special teams — three power play goals and two short-handed tallies. UW-Superior, meanwhile, was 5-for-7 on the power play. … The Cardinals gave up four goals in both the second and third periods in both games last weekend. … Three of SMU's four goals have come in the third period.

Pointer Notes: The Pointers come into tonight's game riding a season-opening three-game winning streak, having dispatched of Northland (10-0), Concordia (3-1) and Saint John's (5-4). … Matt Stendahl scored his third goal of the season with three minutes remaining in regulation to give the Pointers' their one-goal win over Saint John's last Saturday. … The Pionters erupted for 75 shots on goal in their season-opening 10-0 win over Northland — including 33 in the third period alone. … The Pointers 10-0 win over Northland was the Pointers' largest margin of victory over an opponent since the 2001-02 season, when UW-SP defeated St. Scholastica 10-0. The last time the Pointers scored 10 goals in a game was a 10-1 win over Saint Mary's in the 2005-06 season. …  The Pointers' 10-0 shutout victory over Northland was their first shutout since a 5-0 win over UW-Eau Claire on Dec. 11, 2007. … The Pointers are 8-1 against MIAC teams dating back to the start of last season. The Pointers defeated Concordia, St. Thomas, Saint Mary's, Gustavus, Hamline and Augsburg. The lone loss was a 5-3, season-opening loss to Saint John's. … Stendahl, Jon Madden and Garrett Suter come into tonight's game leading the team in goals (3), while Nick Bydal and Mike Sand share the team lead in assists (4). Sean Fish and Madden boast a team-leading five points. … Thomas Speer has started all three games in goal for the Pointers and has posted a 1.88 goals-against-average and a .930 save percentage. … UW-Stevens Point has scored seven goals in both the second and third periods, while the Pointers' opponents have netted three of their five goals in the second period. … UW-Stevens Point was been picked to finish fifth in the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association (NCHA) preseason coaches' poll.