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2022-23: 1-3-1 Overall

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2022-23: 2-2-0 Overall

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SMU-UWSP * LAST MEETING:

Nov. 5, 2021 * Winona, MN

W, 4-3 * Series History

SAINT MARY’S * LAST ACTION:

Nov. 11, 2022 * Winona, MN

UW-Stevens Point * L, 8-1

UW-SUPERIOR * LAST ACTION:

Nov. 8, 2022 * Blaine, MN

Bethel * W, 1-0

SAINT MARY’S * UP NEXT:

Nov. 18, 2022

Augsburg * 7:05 p.m.

SMU Ice Arena * Winona, MN

Nov. 19, 2022

Augsburg * 7 p.m.

Ed Saugestad Arena * Minneapolis, MN

UW-SUPERIOR * UP NEXT: 

Nov. 18, 2022

UW-River Falls * 7 p.m.

Hunt Arena * River Falls, WI

Nov. 19, 2022

UW-Stout * Superior, WI

Wessman Arena * Superior, WI

SAINT MARY’S CARDINALS SCOUTING REPORT:

• FOR THE RECORD: Saint Mary’s heads into its nonconference game against UW-Superior sitting at 1-3-1 overall, and 1-1-0 in conference play.

• LAST TIME OUT: The Cardinals had no answer for the high-powered UW-Stevens Point offense, as the Pointers erupted for eight goals — including five in the third period — in dealing SMU an 8-1 nonconference setback Friday afternoon at the Saint Mary’s Ice Arena.

• HOME SWEET HOME: Saturday’s game against UW-Superior is the third of four straight home games for the Cardinals, who play six of their first seven contests this season on their home ice — the lone exception, last Friday’s 3-2 loss at Hamline.

• CLOSE CALLS: With their 3-2 loss and 2-1 win over Hamline last weekend, three of SMU’s five games this season have been decided by one goal or less — the third a season-opening 5-5 tie against Lake Forest on Oct. 28. 

• LIGHTING THE LAMP: Bud Winter (St. Louis, Mo.), Laudon Poellinger (La Crescent, Minn.), and Trevor Schroder (Des Moines, Iowa) all share the team lead with two goals each. Jack Campion (Crystal, Minn.), Brendan Westbrook (Pine City, Minn.), Callahan Nauss (Maple Plain, Minn.), Warner Young (Newberry, Mich.), Andrew Froese (Traverse City, Mich.), Colin Tushie (Prior Lake, Minn.), and Kasyn Kruse (Luverne, Minn.) own SMU’s other seven goals.

• 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 SMU’s 5-5 tie vs. Lake Forest on Oct. 28.

• COLLEGIATE FIRSTS: Saint Mary’s has three players who have scored their first goals in a Cardinal uniform this season. Westbrook scored his first SMU goal vs. UW-Stevens Point Friday, while Tushie netted his goal as a Cardinal against Lake Forest on Oct. 29 and Campion delivered his first career goal vs. Hamline on Nov. 5.

• LENDING A HAND: Kellen Tharaldson (Wausau, Wis.) enters Saturday’s matchup against UW-Superior with a team-leading four assists, one more than Tushie and two up on Poellinger and Kruse, while Froese, Winter, Nauss, Young, Brady Lindauer (Cary, Ill.), and Gabe Potyk (Lake Orion, Mich.) all have one helper.

• POINT PRODUCERS: Poellinger, Tharaldson, and Tushie sit atop the team’s points lead with four, followed by Winter and Kruse with three, and Froese, Nauss, Schroder, and Young with two each.

• WEEKLY HONORS: After scoring two goals and adding a pair of assists against Lake Forest on Oct. 28-29, Poellinger was named the MIAC Offensive Player of the Week, the league office announced on Oct. 31.

• BETWEEN THE PIPES: Connor Close (Des Moines, Iowa) and Matt Sankner (Pennington, N.J.) have shared the goaltending duties through five games. Sankner has stopped 100 of the 114 shots he’s faced in three starts en route to a 4.57 GAA and an .877 save percentage, while Close boasts a 4.53 GAA, .855 save % and 53 saves in his two starts. … With his 34-save effort against Lake Forest on Oct. 28 and career-high 39-save showing against UW-Stevens Point on Friday, Sankner has now stopped 30 or more shots seven times in his career. … Close recorded a career-high 36 saves against Lake Forest on Oct. 29.

• 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 on Oct. 28 were the most since SMU netted six against Bethel on March 6, 2021.

• WORKING OVERTIME: The Cardinals’ 5-5 tie against Lake Forest on Oct. 28 was their fourth OT contest over the past two seasons.

• SCORING FIRST: Saint Mary’s opponents have scored first in four of the Cardinals’ first five games. SMU is 0-1-0 when scoring first, while going 1-3-1 when its opponent scores first. … The Cardinals were 6-1-0 when netting the game’s first goal a year ago, while going 2-13-1 when their opponent nets the game’s first goal.

• BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: It was a tale of late-game heroics in last weekend’s conference-opening series against Hamline. HU scored two goals in the game’s final 3:33 en route to a 3-2 win over the Cardinals, with SMU turning the tables in the rematch, scoring twice in a 33-second span in the final two minutes of regulation en route to a 2-1 victory.

• BY THE NUMBERS: Saint Mary’s has scored five goals in both the first and third periods, while tallying three second-period goals. On the flip side, SMU’s opponents own five first-period goals, eight second-period tallies and 10 goals in the third period. … SMU and UW-Stevens Point combined for just five penalties on Friday — three on the pointers and two on the Cardinals.

UW-SUPERIOR YELLOWJACKETS SCOUTING REPORT:

• FOR THE RECORD: The Yellowjackets head into their fifth straight nonconference game on Saturday against Saint Mary’s sitting at 2-2-0 overall.

• LAST TIME OUT: C.J. Walker scored the game’s only goal late in the third period and Dylan Meilun stopped all 29 shots he faced, as the Yellowjackets climbed to the .500 mark with a 1-0 nonconference win over Bethel at Bethel Arena in Blaine, Minn., Friday evening.

• HOME SWEET HOME: After playing their first three games at home, Saturday’s matchup against Saint Mary’s is the second of three consecutive road contests for the Yellowjackets.

• TOUGH START: Two of UW-Superior’s first three games this season were against nationally ranked opponents. The Yellowjackets kicked off the season with a 7-3 loss to defending national champion and No. 1-ranked Adrian, and, after beating Concordia 5-4, UW-Superior fell to fifth-ranked Augsburg 5-2 on Tuesday.

• AGAINST THE MIAC: Saturday’s game against Saint Mary’s is the fourth straight matchup against teams from the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. UW-Superior has already faced Concordia (W, 5-4), Augsburg (L, 5-2), and Bethel (W, 1-0). The Yellowjackets also have MIAC foes St. Scholastica, Gustavus (twice), and Hamline on their schedule.

• NOT-SO-CLOSE CALLS: The Yellowjackets have been outscored 12-5 in its two losses this season, allowing a season-high seven goals in a 7-3 loss to Adrian, while surrendering five goals in a 5-2 setback against Augsburg. UW-Superior netted a season-high five goals in edging Concordia 5-4 and added a single goal in Friday’s 1-0 win over Bethel.

• LIGHTING THE LAMP: MacGregor Sinclair heads into Saturday’s showdown against Saint Mary’s leading the team with three goals, one more than Walker and Colton Friesen. Bradley Stonnell, Matt Francois, Chris Ishmael, and Reed Stark have all netted one goal.

• LENDING A HAND: Charles Martin has collected assists on four of the Yellowjackets’ 11 goals this season. Stonnell, Zach Bannister, Troy Quinn, and Sam Sterne are all sitting second on the team with two helpers. … Martin has at least one assist in three of UW-Superior’s four games this season, including a two-assist effort against Adrian on Nov. 4.

• POINT PRODUCERS: Martin enters Saturday’s game at Saint Mary’s leading the Yellowjackets with four points, followed by Walker, Stonnell and Sinclair with three, and Bannister, Quinn, Sterne, Francois, and Friesen with two each. 

• BETWEEN THE PIPES: Meilun and Myles Hektor have shared the goaltending duties this season. Meilun boasts a 2.08 goals-against-average and .934 save percentage in two starts (173:27 minutes), while Hektor has compiled an 8.21 GAA and.735 save % in two starts (65:48 minutes). … Meilun has made 85 saves — including a season-high 29 in shutting out Bethel on Friday — with Hektor chipping in 25. 

• BY THE NUMBERS: The Yellowjackets are averaging 28.3 shots-per-game, while their opponents are sitting at 31.5 spg. … UW-Superior is 4-for-16 on the power play (25.0 %). … UW-Superior has scored 11 goals in its first four games — including three in the first and second and five in the third. On the flip side, the Yellowjackets have allowed 16 goals — six in the first and third, and four in the second.