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Saint Mary's Cardinals   0-3-0 Overall		UW-Eau Claire Blugolds   4-0-0 Overall

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Last Action: The Cardinals saw their season-opening losing streak climb to three straight Friday, as UW-Stevens Point scored single goals in all three periods — the last tally into an empty net with four seconds remaining — en route to a 3-0 nonconference win. … UW-Eau Claire, meanwhile, stayed unbeaten on the season with a 6-0 rout of St. Thomas Friday.

Last Meeting: For the third time in as many games, the Cardinals had the lead, then let it slip away, as UW-Eau Claire rallied from a 3-1 first-period deficit to beat the Cardinals 6-4 in a nonconference game at the SMU Ice Arena a year ago.

All-Time Series Record: Despite last year's loss, the Cardinals still boast a 7-5-3 record against the Blugolds all time.

Cardinal Notes: The Cardinals are now winless in their first three games for the second straight season. SMU 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. … 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. …  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, who surrendered eight power play and two short-handed goals last weekend, gave up another power play tally vs. UW-Stevens Point Friday. …  The Cardinals have now given up five goals in both the second and third periods this season. … Three of SMU's four goals have come in the third period.

Blugold Notes: The Blugolds' 4-0-0 start — which includes wins over St. Scholastica (4-1), Saint John's (3-2), Concordia (5-4) and St. Thomas (6-0) — marks the first time UW-EC has opened the season with three or more wins since the 2003-04 season, when they went 4-0-0. …  Sean Garrity — who led the team in scoring a year ago with 11 goals, 15 assists and 26 points  — has picked up right where he left off, boasting seven points (three goals, four assists) — including a goal and two assists in the Blugolds' win vs. St. Thomas — in UW-EC's first four games. … Garrity scored once in each game last weekend vs. Concordia and Saint John's, with each goal coming in the second minute of the second period. With his goal vs. St. Thomas — also in the second period — Garrity has scored in three straight games, and has posted at least one point in all four games. … Tyler Brigl stopped all 17 shots he faced vs. St. Thomas in recording the shutout. … Brigl has started three of the Blugolds' four games in goal, boasting a 1.00 goals-against-average and a .969 save percentage. … UW-Eau Claire has been outscored 3-1 in the first period, but boasts a 10-2 scoring edge in the second period and a 7-2 advantage in the third. … UW-Eau Claire boasted an 11-16-1 record a year ago, marking the most wins by an Eau Claire team since the 2003-04 season, when the Blugolds went 14-12-1. … The Blugolds knocked off UW-Superior in the first round of the NCHA Tournament a year ago, posting their first-ever NCHA playoff series win. …  The Blugolds have has been picked to finish seventh in the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association (NCHA) Preseason Coaches' Poll.