SAINT MARY'S CARDINALS 

(6-1-0 MIAC, 9-5-0 OVERALL)

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HAMLINE PIPERS

(5-2-0 MIAC, 6-5-0 OVERALL)

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LAST NIGHT:

Jan. 21, 2022

W, 3-2 * Series History

SAINT MARY'S UP NEXT:

Jan. 28, 2022 * Gustavus * 7:00

SMU Ice Arena * Winona, MN

Jan. 29, 2022 * Gustavus * 2:00

Don Roberts Arena * St. Peter, MN

HAMLINE UP NEXT: 

Jan. 28, 2022 * Bethel * 7:00

TRIA Rink * St. Paul, MN

Jan. 29, 2022 * Bethel * 2:00

Bethel Arena * Blaine, MN

• FOR RECORD: The Cardinals head into Saturday’s rematch with Hamline boasting a 9-5-0 overall record, including a 6-1-0 mark in conference play.

• LAST NIGHT: The Cardinals scored three unanswered goals in the third period, erasing a 2-0 HU advantage and giving Saint Mary’s its sixth conference win in seven tries, a 3-2 victory at TRIA Rink in St. Paul, Minn.

• WINNING THE CLOSE ONES: With their 3-2 win over Hamline on Friday, seven of the Cardinals’ nine wins this season have been decided by two goals or less.

• ON THE ROAD AGAIN: Friday’s game against Hamline was the fourth straight road game for the Cardinals, who are 5-3-0 on the road this season. Saint Mary’s heads into Saturday’s rematch with the Pipers at the Saint Mary’s Ice Arena sitting at 4-2-0 on its home ice.

• SCORE GOALS, WIN GAMES: Saint Mary’s has scored 24 goals in its nine wins this season — including a season high four goals in beating both St. Norbert and Worcester State by 4-1 counts. The Cardinals have managed just two goals in their five losses.

• LIGHTING THE LAMP: Kennedy Kraus (Kasson, Minn.) Abigail Painovich (Hinckley, Minn.), and Delaney Wolf (Bismarck, N.D.) scored Saint Mary’s three goals against Hamline Friday night. 

Allie Urlaub (Burnsville, Minn.), Jenna Kurkowski (North Branch, Minn.), and Sidney Polzin (Chippewa Falls, Wis.) share the team lead with three goals each. Wolf, Avrey Simonson (Waupaca, Wis.), Nina Langley (Chaska, Minn.), Kas Kingston (Black Diamond, Alberta), Anna Braun (Mantorville, Minn.), and Morgan Leib (Farmington Heights, Minn.) all own two goals, while Kennedy Kraus, Painovich, Katie Pierpont (Holt, Mich.), Carolyn Chrastka (Franklin Park, Ill.), Carson Sheridan (Waunakee, Wis.), and Ellie Hegdahl (Brookings, S.D.) have scored the Cardinals’ other six goals.

• NEW DAY, NEW ROLES: Langley and Kingston accounted for all four goals in SMU’s sweep of St. Olaf on Dec. 3-4. Langley scored the game-winner with less than three minutes remaining in regulation in the first 2-1 win over Dec. 3, while Kingston netted the game-winner 13 seconds into overtime in the second 2-1 victory the following afternoon.

• JOINING THE CROWD: Painovich’s third-period goal against Hamline Friday evening was the first of her collegiate career — becoming the 10th Cardinal player to net their first collegiate goals this season. She joins Hegdahl, Pierpont, Kingston, Langley, Urlaub, Polzin, Leib, Kurkowski, and Braun.

• TWO FOR NO. 6: Urlaub picked up her first collegiate multiple-goal game, scoring both of SMU’s goals in SMU’s 2-1 win over Saint Benedict on Nov. 20. The two-goal game is Saint Mary’s first since Anne Carmean (Spring Lake Park, Minn.) found the back of the net twice in the Cardinals’ 4-0 win over … Saint Benedict … on March 13, 2021.

• LENDING A HAND: With her two assists against Hamline Friday, Braun moved into a tie for the team lead in assists (3) with Simonson. Urlaub, Wolf, Kennedy Kraus, Sheridan, and Jordan Modjeski (South Lyon, Mich.) all have two assists, while 11 other Cardinals have recorded one helper.

• POINT PRODUCERS: Urlaub (3 G, 2 A) and Braun (2 G, 3 A) lead the Cardinals with five points, one more than Kurkowski (3 G, 1 A), Polzin (3 G, 1 A), Wolf (2 G, 2 A), and Simonson (1 G, 3 A). Kingston (2 G, 1 A), Langley (2 G, 1 A), Leib (2 G, 1 A), Kennedy Kraus (1 G, 2 A), and Sheridan (1 G, 2 A) all own three points.

• THE GAME-WINNER: Both of Leib’s goals against Concordia on Nov. 12-13 were game-winners. Kurkowski shares the team lead with two game-winners, while Urlaub, Langley, Kingston, Pierpont, and Wolf own Saint Mary’s other five game-winners this season.

• MULTIPLE-POINTS: Braun recorded her first collegiate multiple-point night with two assists against Hamline Friday night. … Kurkowski’s three-point game against St. Norbert (2 G, 1 A) on Oct. 29 was the first of her collegiate career, and the three points were the most by a Cardinal in a game since Anne Carmean (Spring Lake Park, Minn.) scored two goals and added an assist against Saint Benedict on March 13, 2021. … Simonson (2 A) and Hegdahl (1 G, 1 A) both posted their first collegiate two-point games against Worcester on Jan. 6. … Kingston added an assist to her first career goal against St. Olaf en route to her first multiple-point game as a Cardinal.

• SHARING THE WEALTH: The Cardinals have had 15 different players account for their 26 goals, while 18 have recorded at least one assist — and 18 have notched at least one point.

• BETWEEN THE PIPES: Ary Ziakas (Palatine, Ill.) and Jordan Keeley (St. James, Minn.) have shared the goaltending duties this season. Ziakas enters Saturday’s rematch against Hamline with a 2.13 goals-against-average and .912 save percentage, while Keeley has compiled a 3.03 GAA and .901 save %. … Keeley kicked out a career-high 44 Concordia shots in SMU’s 3-1 win over the Cobbers on Nov. 13, while Ziakas made a season-high 33 saves against Concordia on Nov. 19. … Ziakas has collected a team-leading 183 saves, with Keeley close behind with 128 … Ziakas stopped all 12 shots she faced against Johnson & Wales en route to her first shutout of the season and fourth shutout of her collegiate career. 

• FIRST-GOAL ADVANTAGE: The team that has scored first has won 13 of the Cardinals’ 14 games this season — the lone exception, SMU’s come-from-behind 3-2 win over Hamline on Friday. SMU scored first in sweeping Concordia (3-2; 3-2) and St. Olaf (2-1; 2-1), and in beating Saint Benedict (2-1), St. Norbert (4-1), Johnson & Wales (1-0), and Worcester State (4-1); while Saint Benedict, St. Norbert, UW-River Falls, UW-Eau Claire, and UW-Stevens Point scored first in the Cardinals’ four losses.

• PROGRAM FIRSTS: Saint Mary’s nonconference games against Johnson & Wales and Worcester State on Jan. 5-6 marked the first time in program history the schools have met.

• FACING THE NATION’S BEST: The Cardinals’ matchup against No. 3 UW-Eau Claire on Jan. 1 marked the second time this season the Cardinals have faced a team ranked in the top five in the USCHO.com Poll. The Cardinals dropped a 7-0 decision to then-No. 4 UW-River Falls on Nov. 6.

• A YEAR AGO: The Cardinals posted 2-6-2 record during the 10-game  2020-21 season. In their last full season in 2019-20, SMU finished 10-14-3 overall, including a 6-10-2, fifth-place showing in the MIAC. The Cardinals beat St. Thomas (4-2) and dropped a 4-1 decision to Gustavus in the 2020 MIAC Tournament.

• FOR THE RECORD: The Pipers enter their conference rematch against Saint Mary’s on Saturday sitting at 6-5-0 overall, including a 5-2-0 mark in MIAC action.

• LAST NIGHT: Hamline got two goals from Nikki Olund — one in each of the first two periods — but the Pipers surrendered three unanswered goals in the third period in falling to the Cardinals 3-2 at TRIA Rink in St. Paul, Minn.

• MIAC PREFERENCE: The Pipers have been dominant in conference play this season, sporting a 5-2-0 record — the lone losses Friday’s 3-2 loss to Saint Mary’s and a 5-3 loss to Augsburg on Nov. 13 — while outscoring their MIAC foes 26-13. Hamline closed out the nonconference portion of its schedule at 1-3-0, beating UW-Superior 2-0, and falling to UW-Eau Claire (twice) and Adrian (5-0).

• LIGHTING THE LAMP: Sophie Rausch has been a goal-scoring machine for the Pipers, leading the team with nine goals, five more than Olund, and six in front of Cheyenne Abear, Amanda Nylander, and Emme Nelson, who are all tied for third on the team with three goals. … Rausch has scored at least one goal in six of the team’s 11 games — including two goals against St. Catherine on Nov. 19 and three against St. Scholastica on Dec. 3.

• LENDING A HAND: Abear — who assisted on both of Hamline’s goals against Saint Mary’s on Friday — moved into a tie for the team lead in assists (6) with Rausch and Molly Garin. Rae Robert has four helpers, and Jordan Hansen and Lauren Donnellan own three each. … Abear has now recorded three two-assists games this season, while Garin owns two.

• POINT PRODUCERS: Rausch has amassed a team-best 15 points (9 G, 6 A), with Abear (3 G, 6 A) and Garin (2 G, 6 A) sitting second and third with nine and eight points, respectively.

• WINNER, WINNER …: Rausch and Jordan Hansen have each scored two game-winning goals this season, with Emme Nelson and Michaela Arnold accounting for the other two game-winners.

• BETWEEN THE PIPES: McKenna Hulslander and Ava Bailey have shared the goaltending duties this season, with Bailey making six starts and Hulslander five. Hulslander owns a team-leading 1.82 goals-against average and a .941 save percentage in 296:56 minutes, while Bailey boasts a 2.69 GAA and .902 save percentage in 356:38 minutes. … Bailey has stopped a team-high 147 shots, followed closely by Hulslander with 143 saves.

• AS A TEAM: Hamline has scored 31 goals and owns 37 assists for 68 points, including eight power-play tallies. … The Pipers have netted three or more goals in six of their 11 games — including a season-high six goals in shutting out St. Catherine 6-0 on Nov. 20.

• STREAK-SNAPPER: HU’s 4-1 loss to UW-Eau Claire on Dec. 7 snapped the Pipers’ two-game winning streak. Hamline has recorded two, two-game winning streaks this season. On the flip side, HU enters Saturday’s rematch against Saint Mary’s in the midst of its first two-game losing streak.