ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University of Minnesota men's hockey team hits the road for the second game of their two-game Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference series against Hamline on Saturday. Game time is slated for 7 p.m. at Oscar Johnson Arena.
 
The Matchup:
• Saint Mary's Cardinals (6-3-0 MIAC, 10-6-2 Overall) vs. Hamline Pipers (4-4-1 MIAC, 7-7-3 Overall)
 
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Last Night:
• The Cardinals scored three unanswered goals, erasing Hamline's 1-0 first-period lead and dealing the Pipers a 3-1 MIAC setback at the Saint Mary's Ice Arena  | Recap
 
Saint Mary's vs. Hamline—A Year Ago:
• January 22, 2016 * St. Paul, Minn.: Brandon Zurn had two goals and Charlie Adams added a goal and two assists—in the first period—and the duo combined for four goals and six assists in leading the Pipers to a 6-5 overtime win over the Cardinals at Oscar Johnson Arena | Recap
• January 23, 2016 * Winona, Minn.: The Cardinals limited the high-scoring Pipers to just three goals—half of the six they tallied in HU's 6-5 overtime win a day earlier—and made the most of their own offensive opportunities en route to a 5-3 victory at the Saint Mary's Ice Arena | Recap
 
Up Next:
• Saint Mary's: The Cardinals square off against Augsburg in a pair of conference games next weekend. Saint Mary's heads to the Auggies' Ed Saugestad Rink in Minneapolis, Minn., for a 7 p.m. matchup on Friday, before returning home to face the Auggies in the 7 p.m. rematch at the Saint Mary's Ice Arena.
 
Scouting The Saint Mary's Cardinals:
2016-17 Roster | 2016-17 Statistics | 2016-17 Schedule
• Friday's game against Hamline was one of just three remaining home games for the Cardinals, who play five of their final seven contests away from the Saint Mary's Ice Arena. … With Friday's 3-1 win over Hamline, the Cardinals have now won three of their last four—and five of their last seven. … With their 3-1 win over Hamline, the Cardinals improved to 8-0-0 when holding their opponent to two goals or less. … Saint Mary's last two losses have both been 6-5 overtime decisions. … Seth Kamrass (Peachtree Corners, Ga.), Chad Cesarz (Jackson, Mich.) and Nick Albergo (Elmhurst, Ill.) scored the Cardinals' three goals against Hamline Friday evening. … Cesarz has now scored four goals in the Cardinals' last three games—having scored twice in Saint Mary's 4-2 win over UW-Stevens Point on Jan. 13, and adding another vs. UW-Stout the following day. … Saint Mary's boasts six players who have recorded multiple-goal games this season—led by Cesarz and Jay Heinle (York, Pa.), who have each achieved the feat twice. Bob Kinne (St. Paul, Minn.), Kelvin Walz (Woodbury, Minn.), and Albergo are the other three. … Cesarz, Albergo and Heinle own five career-multiple-goal games, while Kinne has four. Walz's two-goal effort against UW-River Falls on Nov. 5 was the first multiple-goal game of his career. … With his first-period assist on Kinne's goal against UW-Stout last Saturday, Martin Gruse (Trenton, Mich.) reached the 100 career-point milestone. Gruse added a third-period goal and heads into Saturday's rematch against Hamline with 101 career points. … 
 
Kinne enters Saturday's game at Hamline leading the team in goals (11)—one more than Cesarz—and points (19). … Kinne has scored a goal in five of the Cardinals' last seven games—and in 10 of the team's 18 contests this season. … Kinne had a hand in five of the Cardinals' seven goals against St. Thomas on Jan. 6-7. The senior scored twice­—including forcing overtime with 16 seconds remaining in regulation—and added an assist in the 6-5 OT loss on Jan. 6, before assisting on Saint Mary's first goal, and scoring the game-winner midway through the second period, in the 2-1 win a day later. … Kinne scored at least one goal in all three games against the Tommies, having also added the game-tying goal with 25 seconds remaining in regulation in the teams' 3-3 tie at the MIAC Hockey Showcase. … Walz owns a team-high 11 assists, one more than both Gruse and Albergo. … Gruse is second to Kinne in points with 15—the pair are two of eight Cardinals who have recorded 10 or more points this season. Walz (14), Albergo (14), Cesarz (13), Heinle (13), Jared Johnson (Hartland, Wis. / 11), and Taylor Portner (Andover, Minn. / 11) are the others. … Walz, who has recorded an assist in four of the team's last six games, picked up assists on three of the Cardinals' five goals in their 5-0 Dec. 11 win over Aurora—it was his first career three-assist game. … Walz became the third Cardinal to record a three-assist game this season, joining Albergo and Gruse, who each picked up assists on three of Saint Mary's five goals vs. UW-River Falls on Nov. 5. It was the fourth time in his collegiate career Gruse has had a three-assist night, while Albergo's was his first. … Saint Mary's 62 goals have come from 17 different players—including collegiate firsts from Kamrass, Andrew Cummings (Anchorage, Alaska), Dylan Robertson (Darien, Ill.), Kyle Meeh (Fenton, Mo.), Alex DiBacco (Darien, Ill.) and Joey Mavrin (Lockport, Ill.). … Twenty different players have accounted for Saint Mary's 86 assists. … Johnson scored on a first-period penalty shot against MSOE on Nov. 22—it was the Cardinals' first since Jesse Polk scored on a penalty shot during the 2007-08 season. … Aaron Davis (Mound, Minn.) finished with 21 saves against Hamline Friday for his fourth win in six starts in goal this season. … Davis made 28 saves against UW-River Falls on Nov. 5 en route to his first win in a Cardinal uniform. … Phil Heinle (York, Pa.) finished with 66 saves in the Cardinals two games last weekend: 38 saves—including 20 in the third period—in Saint Mary's 4-2 win over UW-Stevens Point on Jan. 13, and 28 in the Cardinals' 6-5 OT loss to UW-Stout the following day. … Heinle's 38 saves against UW-Stevens Point last Friday equaled his season high—the senior also stopped 38 shots against Bethel on Nov. 12. … Heinle made 25 saves against St. Olaf on Nov. 19 en route to his first shutout of the season—and fourth of his career. … Davis heads into Saturday's rematch with Hamline owning a team-best 2.33 goals-against-average and .908 save percentage, with Heinle close behind with a 3.03 GAA and .894 save percentage. … Jake Hebda (Firestone, Colo.)—making his first start of the season—stopped all 12 shots he face against Aurora on Dec. 11 in recording his first collegiate shutout. … Saint Mary's game against No. 3 UW-Stevens Point on Jan. 13 marked the Cardinals' third straight game against a nationally ranked team—Saint Mary's split with No. 15 St. Thomas the previous weekend, falling 6-5 in overtime and winning 2-1. … With their Jan. 13 game against UW-Stevens Point, the Cardinals have faced a defending national champion three times in the last six seasons, going 2-1. Along with their 4-2 win over the Pointers—last season's national champs—the Cardinals beat national St. Norbert 3-2 during the 2011-12 season, while falling to the then-two-time defending national champion Green Knights 12-2 the following year. … With their 2-1 win over league-leading and 15^th-ranked St. Thomas on Jan. 7, the Cardinals have now had six of their last seven games against the Tommies decided by one goal or less, including all three this season—a 6-5 OT loss and 2-1 win last weekend, and a 3-3 tie at the season-opening MIAC Hockey Showcase. … Saint Mary's 6-5 loss to UW-Stout on Jan. 14 marked the fifth time this season the Cardinals have gone into overtime this season—having opened the year with a 3-3 tie against St. Thomas and a 3-2 OT loss to Concordia at the MIAC Hockey Showcase, before battling UW-Eau Claire to a 3-3 deadlock on Nov. 4 and falling to St. Thomas 6-5 on Jan. 6. … With their 6-5 loss to UW-Stout on Jan. 14, Saint Mary's is now 0-4-4 in its last eight overtime games. The Cardinals' last OT win was a 4-3, double-overtime victory over Concordia in the 2015 MIAC Playoffs. … Eight of the Cardinals' 16 games this season have been decided by one goal or less. … The Cardinals are 8-0-0 when holding their opponent to two goals or less, while going 2-6-2 when their opponent scores three or more goals. … The Cardinals have scored first in 11 of their 18 games this season—including eight of their 10 wins. … Saint Mary's has outscored its opponents 23-14 in the first period, while holding 21-17 and 18-15 scoring edges in the second and third periods, respectively. … The Cardinals, who had their five-game winning streak snapped with a 5-2 loss to Milwaukee School of Engineering on Nov. 22, snapped a season-high three-game losing streak with their 7-2 win over Aurora on Dec. 10. … Saint Mary's loss to Concordia on Dec. 2 snapped their conference-opening four-game winning streak. The Cardinals' four straight wins to open the conference was the first time since the 1997-98 season that Saint Mary's has opened MIAC play 4-0-0. … The Cardinals' 3-3 tie against UW-Eau Claire on Nov. 4 marked the second straight meeting between the two teams that has ended in a 3-3 deadlock.
 
Scouting The Hamline Pipers:
2016-17 Roster | 2016-17 Statistics | 2016-17 Schedule
• Friday's game at Saint Mary's was the third straight road game for the Pipers, who fell to 4-3-3 away from Oscar Johnson Arena this season with the 3-1 loss. … With Friday's loss to Saint Mary's, the Pipers are now 1-6-1 in their last eight games. … Hamline's 1-1 tie against Concordia on Jan. 13 snapped the Pipers' five-game losing streak, while HU's 4-2 win a day later put an end to its six-game winless streak (0-5-1). … The Pipers have now played six overtime games this season—including three in their last six contests. HU is 1-2-3 in those six contests, with the lone win a 4-3 victory over UW-Superior on Nov. 22. … Brandon Reinholz scored Hamline's lone goal in Friday's 3-1 loss at Saint Mary's. … Reinholz has now scored in back-to-back games, having also netted one of the Pipers' four goals in their 4-2 win over Concordia on Jan. 14. … Hamline's six goals in their last three games have come from five different players. … Russ Jordan heads into Saturday's rematch against Saint Mary's leading the team in goals (13) and points (22). … Mitch Hall owns a team-leading 17 assists, while Brandon Wahlin (14) and Mitch McPherson (13) have also dished out 10 or more helpers this season. … HU boasts five players with 10 or more points this season—Jordan (22), Hall (21), Wahlin (20), McPherson (16), and Jesse Kessler (13). … Seven of Jordan's team-high 12 goals have come on the power play. … Jordan also owns a team-best three game-winning goals. … Justin Qvale—who made 73 saves in the Pipers' two games against Concordia last weekend—finished with 25 saves against Saint Mary's Friday. … Qvale enters Saturday's second game against Saint Mary's having started 13 of the team's 17 games in goal, compiling a 2.77 goals-against-average and a .912 save percentage. … John Selle-Hanson has started HU's other five games in goal, posting a 2.99 GAA and a .904 save percentage. … Qvale stopped a career-high 47 shots in the Pipers 1-1 tie against Concordia on Jan. 13. … Qvale has now made three starts against the Cobbers in Moorhead, Minn., stopping 103 of the 106 shots he's faced—including a 30-save shutout in the first round of the MIAC playoffs a year ago. … The Pipers have scored four or more goals in nine of their 17 games—including in all seven wins this season. … Hamline has outscored its opponents 13-6 in the first period and 20-17 in the third, but the Pipers have been outscored 25-20 in the game's middle period. … The Pipers have scored first in 11 of their 17 games, going 6-3-2. HU is 1-4-1 when its opponent scores first.