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Saint Mary's Cardinals   1-9-1Overall		St. Norbert Green Knights   12-4-0 Overall

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Last Action: The Cardinals, who had been off since Dec. 5-6 — when they dropped both ends of a two-game conference series to defending MIAC regular-season champion Hamline — returned to action Friday, falling to Lake Forest 5-2. … St. Norbert, meanwhile, locked horns with St. Thomas Friday night, and it was the Tommies who came out on top, scoring twice in the third period to beat the Green Knights 3-2.

A Year Ago: Matt Boyd broke in alone on SMU goalie Dan Smith and beat the senior goalie three minutes into the five-minute OT period, as St. Norbert escaped with a 3-2 victory over the Cardinals a year ago in DePere, Wis. #A.J. Woodward (Lenexa, Kan.) assisted on both SMU goals in the losing effort.

All-Time Series Record: The Cardinals own a 13-9-0 overall record vs. the Green Knights, but St. Norbert has won the last seven meetings, outscoring SMU 45-14.

Cardinal Notes: With their loss to Lake Forest Friday, the Cardinals have now dropped three straight.. … Andy Roberts (Rochester, Minn.) and Alex North (Faribault, Minn.) accounted for SMU's two goals vs. the Foresters. … North's tally vs. Lake Forest was his first collegiate goal. … Robert's first-period tally, which accounted for all the scoring in the opening 20 minutes Friday, marked the first time this season that SMU has scored first. … Scott Pederson (Lake Villa, Ill.) stopped 34 of the 39 shots he faced Friday evening. … Two of Lake Forest's five goals were shorthanded. SMU has now surrendered eight shorthanded goals through 11 games. … Mike Glaesmer (Traverse City, Mich.) recorded his first collegiate four-goal game in SMU's 7-6 overtime loss to the Pipers on Dec. 6. It was the first four-goal game by a SMU player since Nov. 1, 2002, when Al Schumacher tallied four goals in SMU's season-opening 9-3 win over Finlandia. … Steve Murphy (Anchorage, Alaska) boasts a team-leading five goals, one more than Glaesmer and Matt Staehely (Shorewood, Ill.)… Anthony Bohn (Spring Hill, Fla.), meanwhile, boasts a team-best nine assists and 10 points. … SMU's six goals vs. Hamline on Dec. 6 were the most scored in a losing effort since the 1998-98 season, when the Cardinals dropped an identical 7-6, overtime decision to Bethel. … The Cardinals' 7-6 loss to Hamline was their third overtime game of the season. SMU is now 1-1-1 in overtime games, having beaten (6-5) and tied (3-3) Concordia on Nov. 21-22. …  The 7-6 loss vs. Hamline was also the first OT loss since falling to St. Norbert 3-2 on Jan. 11, 2008. …  Eight of SMU's 11 games have been against nationally ranked opponents. SMU's first four games were nonconference games against No. 15 St. Scholastica, No. 8 UW-Superior, No. 6 UW-Stevens Point and No. 12 UW-Eau Claire, while their conference-opening opponent, Gustavus, was ranked No. 14 in the latest USCHO.com Poll, and Hamline is currently ranked No. 13. … Pederson and Greg Moore (Woodbury, Minn.) have combined for 421 saves in 11 games (.873 save percentage), as the Cardinals have been outshot 482-287. …  Twenty-eight of the 61 goals allowed by SMU have come on special teams — 20 power play goals and eight shorthanded tallies. … The Cardinals have been outscored 20-6 in the first period, 21-11 in the second period and 19-7 in the third.
 
Green Knight Notes: The defending NCAA Division III national champion Green Knights — currently ranked No. 4 in the latest USCHO.com Poll — had their 37-game unbeaten streak snapped with a 4-3 loss to UW-Superior on Nov. 22. The streak was the longest in any division of NCAA hockey since 1986 and the only streak in the top nine all-time since 1996. … St. Norbert has been ranked in the USCHO.com Division III Poll for 130 consecutive weeks. During the 130-week stretch of being ranked, St. Norbert has been No. 1 for 40 weeks. St. Norbert was rated No. 1 in the 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2008 final polls. … St. Norbert boasts a 66-7-3 record against Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference competition since Tim Coghlin took over the Green Knights' helm in 1993. Two of the losses came in a sweep at Saint Mary's in Coghlin's first year of 1993-94. Since then, the Green Knights are 66-5-3 against the MIAC. The losses came in a 4-3 decision at St. John's on Nov. 24, 2000 and a pair of losses to St. Thomas in the 2004-05 season. … Senior forward Steven Sleep has skated in 101 consecutive games, not missing a game since Nov. 25, 2005 at UW-Stevens Point. In all, Sleep has appeared in 110 of a possible 111 career games. The NCAA Division III record for consecutive games played by a skater is 109, set by Bethel's Garrett Strot from 1984 to 1987. … St. Norbert is unbeaten in its last 212 games when scoring five goals or more with a 207-0-5 mark since a 7-5 loss to Bemidji State in De Pere on Jan. 12, 1996. The Green Knights had an 85-game winning streak snapped when scoring five or more goals when they tied UW-Superior 5-5 on Dec. 3, 2004. …  A.J. Gale posted his first collegiate hat trick against MSOE on Jan. 3, and now has a team-high 13 goals and 22 points. … Shawn Wheeler has seven goals and nine assists (16 points), while Nick Tabisz has five goals and a team-high 11 assists. … B.J. O'Brien and Blake Baslor have shared the goaltending duites for the Green Knights. O'Brien is 7-1 overall with a 2.22 goals-against-average and a .916 save percentage, while Baslor is 5-3 with a 2.32 GAA and a .900 save percentage.