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2022-23: 0-0-1 Overall

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2022-23: 0-0-1 Overall

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SMU-LF * LAST NIGHT:

Oct. 28, 2022 * T, 5-5 (ot)

Series History

SAINT MARY’S * UP NEXT:

Nov. 4, 2022

Hamline * 7 p.m.

TRIA Rink * St. Paul, MN

Nov. 5, 2022

Hamline * 7:05 p.m.

SMU Ice Arena * Winona, MN

LAKE FOREST * UP NEXT: 

Nov. 1, 2022

Aurora * 7 p.m.

Alumni Arena * Lake Forest, IL

SAINT MARY’S CARDINALS SCOUTING REPORT:

• FOR THE RECORD: Saint Mary’s, who closed out 2021-22 sitting at 8-14-1 overall, including a 5-7-0 in conference play, are sitting at 0-0-1 after one game this season.

• LAST TIME OUT: Bud Winter (St. Louis, Mo.) scored two goals to pace a five-goal Saint Mary’s attack, as the Cardinals battled Lake Forest to a 5-5 deadlock in the teams’ season-opener Friday evening at the Saint Mary’s Ice Arena.

• HOME SWEET HOME: Saturday’s game rematch with Lake Forest is the second of six home games among the Cardinals’ first seven contests — the lone road game, next Friday’s conference-opening matchup at TRIA Rink in St. Paul, Minn., against Hamline.

• LIGHTING THE LAMP: Winter scored two goals and Laudon Poellinger (La Crescent, Minn.), Andrew Froese (Traverse City, Mich.), and Trevor Schroder (Des Moines, Iowa) accounted for the other three. … Gabe Potyk (Lake Orion, Mich.) closed out his freshman season leading the team with seven goals last season.

• DOUBLING UP: It took the Cardinals 22 games before they had a player record a two-goal game last season. It took less than two periods this season, as Winter netted two of SMU’s first three goals in Friday’s 5-5 tie vs. Lake Forest.

• LENDING A HAND: Colin Tushie (Prior Lake, Minn.) recorded the first two assists of his collegiate career against Lake Forest on Friday, while Poellinger, Kasyn Kruse, and Kellen Tharaldson also had helpers against the Foresters. … Brady Lindauer (Cary, Ill.) closed out the 2021-22 campaign with a team-best 11 assists.

• POINT PRODUCERS: Winter, Poellinger, and Tushie all share the team lead with two points, one more than Froese, Schroder, Kruse, and Tharaldson.

• BETWEEN THE PIPES: Matt Sankner (Pennington, N.J.), who closed out his freshman campaign boasting a 2.83 goals-against-average and .910 save percentage in 15 appearances (752:15), made 34 saves against the Foresters on Friday night. … Sankner has now stopped 30 or more shots six times in his career — including a career-best 35 saves twice.

• PITCHING A SHUTOUT: Sankner kicked out all 31 shots he faced in the Cardinals’ 4-0 win over Bethel on Feb. 19, 2022 en route to his first collegiate shutout. The 4-0 win was also Saint Mary’s first shutout victory of the season.

• BIG OFFENSIVE NIGHT: The Cardinals’ five goals against Lake Forest were the most since SMU netted six against Bethel on March 6, 2021.

• WORKING OVERTIME: The Cardinals’ 5-5 tie against Lake Forest on Friday was their fourth OT contest over the past two seasons.

• A YEAR AGO: The Cardinals made their fifth appearance in the MIAC Playoffs since 2002 — and their first since 2019 — a year ago, falling to Saint John’s 5-1. … Saint Mary’s which has also appeared in the conference tournament in 2017, 2015, and 2004 — reached the MIAC championship game in 2015, falling to Hamline 4-2.

LAKE FOREST FORESTERS SCOUTING REPORT:

• FOR THE RECORD: The Foresters, coming off a 7-18-2 season a year ago, head into their rematch against Saint Mary’s on Saturday sitting at 1-0-0 on the year.

• LAST TIME OUT: David Cohen scored two goals, as the Foresters kicked off the 2022-23 season with a 5-5 overtime tie against Saint Mary’s Friday evening at the SMU Ice Arena in Winona, Minn.

• UPS AND DOWNS: After opening the 2021-22 season with a sweep of Saint Mary’s, the Foresters went 1-5-1 in their next seven games, before recording its second two-game winning streak with a sweep of Finlandia. Over their final 17 games, however, Lake Forest managed just three wins, slumping to the end with a 3-13-1 showing.

• LIGHTING THE LAMP: David Cohen scored two of Lake Forest’s five goals against Saint Mary’s on Friday, while Colin Bella, Tyler Nielsen, and Drew Shields accounted for the other three.

• LENDING A HELPING HAND: Justin Ross picked up assists on two of Lake Forest’s five goals vs. Saint Mary’s on Friday, with Matteas Derraugh, Jared Gerger, Scotty Nicholson, and Drew Shields also collecting helpers.

• POINT PRODUCTION: Cohen and Ross share the team lead with two points, followed by Bella, Derraugh, Gerger, Nicholson, Nielsen, and Shields all sitting with one point.

• BETWEEN THE PIPES: Carson Poulin, who made nine starts among his 11 games between the pipes last season — posting a 4.65 goals-against-average and .870 save percentage — made 33 saves against Saint Mary’s on Friday.

• RANKED OPPONENTS: The Foresters played eight games against teams that were nationally ranked at the time of their meeting. Lake Forest lost twice to both No. 9 Aurora (4-0, 5-2) and No. 7 St. Norbert, while dropping all four meetings with No. 1-ranked and national champion Adrian (7-4, 8-3, 2-1, 3-1). 

• BY THE NUMBERS: Fourteen of Lake Forest’s last 28 games have been decided by one goal or less. The Foresters are 3-8-3 in those 14 contests. … Lake Forest has now netted four or more goals nine times in the last two seasons — including a season-high 10-goal effort in a 10-3 drubbing of Finlandia on Dec. 4. On the flip side, the Foresters allowed four or more goals in a game 14 times over that same span, including allowing seven goals three times, as well as a season-high eight in falling to No. 1 Adrian 8-3 on Jan. 22.