Friday, November 13th vs. Maine (7:15 p.m.)
(Tsongas Center: Lowell, Mass.)
VETERANS APPRECIATION NIGHT | SCOUT NIGHT
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River Hawk Network: (WCAP 980AM, WSMN 1590AM, TuneIn Radio App)
Talent: Bob Ellis (Play by Play); Jim Connelly (Analyst)

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Talent: Zack Tretheway (Play by Play); James Shirton (Analyst);
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Sunday, November 15th at Maine (5 p.m.)
(Alfond Arena; Orono, Maine)
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Talent: Tom Caron (Play by Play); Billy Jaffe (Analyst)

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River Hawk Network: (900AM, 1250AM, WCAP 980AM, WSMN 1590AM)
Talent: Bob Ellis (Play by Play)

Quotes from Coach Norm Bazin
Bazin on Maine
"There are several things that concern me about Maine; they're tenacious, they cycle well, they've got great team speed and they're well coached.  They've played some great opponents, they're desperate for wins and they will provide every bit as much of a challenge as we have faced all year."
 
Bazin on Playing Sunday at the Alfond Arena
"When you look at the rink, it's kind of oval and everything filters to the back of the net, actually everything filters to the net.  It's a wonderful old arena that provides a lot of excitement.  You look at the Tsongas Center; we feel it's one of the best venues in college hockey.  Both teams are going to have an advantage when they play at home and that's the way it should be."
 
Bazin on goalie Kevin Boyle
"He's doing a great job this year, let's face it, he's come in with certainly a new level of poise he's come up great in big situations, the team feels very comfortable playing in front of him, it's probably reassuring for the D corps and the forwards."
 
 
Senior Goalie Kevin Boyle on Maine and playing at the Alfond Arena
"You try not to think of it, home or away, you try to keep an even keel no matter where you're playing.  There's definitely an incentive when you go on the road, it's kind of a different game, a different atmosphere, more hostile.  Maine is an extremely fun place to play, they have a great team and it should be a good weekend."
 
Senior Goalie Kevin Boyle on his play this season
"It's more of a team thing; the team's playing really well.  If I let up three goals, they come out and score five or six.  They're keeping everything to the outside; they're making my job really easy they're letting me see everything.  My job is to make the first save and if there's a rebound they're doing a great job clearing it out too, so it's more about them."

SCOUTING THE RIVER HAWKS: UMass Lowell is ranked 5th in both the USCHO poll and the USA Hockey Magazine poll and has been nationally ranked for 72 consecutive weeks. The River Hawks are 6-1-2 (2-0-2, HEA) through nine games after sweeping Vermont, 5-3 and 1-0, last weekend.  Thirteen different players have scored goals, Senior Adam Chapie leads the team with four.  Chapie, Junior Joe Gambardella (2g, 5a) and sophomore C.J. Smith (2g, 5a) lead the team in scoring with seven points each. Senior goalie Kevin Boyle has started all nine games for the River Hawks and has a 1.42 GAA and a .949 Sv%.   
 
SCOUTING THE BLACK BEARS: The University of Maine is 0-6-3 (0-2-0, HEA) after dropping a pair of games, 3-0 and 2-0, to Boston College last weekend.  The Black Bears were picked tenth in the Hockey East Pre-Season Coaches' Poll.  Seven different players have scored goals for Maine with Will Merchant topping the list with three.  Cam Brown leads the club in scoring with four points (1g, 3a.)  Goalies Rob McGovern and Matt Morris have split the goaltending chores.  McGovern carries a 2.13 GAA and a .934 Sv% into tonight's contest, Morris is at 3.27/.913.
 
LAST TIME OUT:  UMass Lowell defeated Vermont, 1-0, to complete a weekend sweep of the Catamounts.  Adam Chapie's first period power play goal proved to be the only marker in the contest as goalie Kevin Boyle made 32 saves to earn his second shutout of the season and the fifth of his River Hawk career.
 
ALL-TIME SERIES VS. MAINE: UMass Lowell and Maine have met 118 times in the past dating back to 1978.  UMass Lowell won that first meeting, 5-1.  The Black Bears hold a 78-34-6 edge in the series including a 14-3-0 advantage in Hockey East Tournament meetings.  The River Hawks have a 7-4-1 edge in the 12 meetings since Norm Bazin took over the River Hawk program. 
 
FRIDAY THE 13TH, NOT SO BAD:  Superstition suggests that Friday the 13th brings bad luck, but that has not necessarily been the case for the UMass Lowell hockey program.  The River Hawks have an 11-3-3 record when playing on the day feared by many and 4-0-1 at home.  The last time UMass Lowell played on a Friday the 13th, March 13, 2015, they defeated Notre Dame, 5-0, in the Hockey East Tournament Quarterfinal opener.
 
UMASS LOWELL VS. OTHER CONFERENCES: Five of UMass Lowell's first seven games this season were against non-conference opponents.  The River Hawks have taken three of four from the NCHC after sweeping a two game set from Colorado College and splitting two games with Minnesota-Duluth.  UMass Lowell also defeated ECAC member RPI, 3-0, in the season opener.  The River Hawks will not play another non-conference opponent until Nov. 28th when they will face either Brown or Colgate as part of the Friendship Four Tournament in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
 
ON THE NATIONAL STAGE!: UMass Lowell is ranked fifth in both the USCHO Poll and the USA Hockey Magazine Poll.  It is the second week in a row that the River Hawks have been in the top five in both polls and it was the first time the team has been ranked in the Top Five in both polls since January 19, 2015 when they came in at number five in both polls.  UMass Lowell is 17-12-5 when ranked in the Top Five in the USCHO poll.  The River Hawks have been nationally ranked, in either the USCHO or USA Today poll, for 72 consecutive weeks.  The stretch began when UMass Lowell appeared at #20 in the USCHO Poll on January 7, 2013.  Of those 72 weeks more than half, 44, have been spent in the top ten.
 
QUICK START: This is just the third time, in their Division I history, that UMass Lowell has been tagged with just one loss through its first nine games.  A year ago the River Hawks did not pick up their second loss until their eleventh game (7-1-2 through ten games.)  This year's 6-1-2 start matches the 1995-96 season.  That team went on to finish 26-10-4 and go to the NCAA Tournament.  The 1981-82 ULowell Chiefs hold the school record winning their first 19 games and finished 31-4-0.
 
KEVIN BOYLING HOT: UMass Lowell goalie Kevin Boyle has given up no more than two goals in seven of nine starts.  In five of those starts he has allowed one goal or less.  Boyle has two shutouts and has allowed three goals just twice.   The senior has a 1.42 GAA and a .949 Sv%.
 
AMONG THE LEADERS: UMass Lowell goalie Kevin Boyle is among the Hockey East and national leaders in almost all goaltending categories.  Boyle tops the league charts in minutes played (548:33) and saves (244.) He sits second in goals against average (1.42,) save percentage (.949) and shutouts with two.  Boyle is in the top five nationally in minutes, saves, GAA, shutouts and wins with six.  His save percentage places him seventh in the country.
 
CIRCLE OF DOMINANCE: UMass Lowell has the ninth best face-off win percentage in college hockey (54.1%) and the second best in Hockey East.  The River Hawks have won 321 of 593 puck drops.   Entering tonight's contest senior center Michael Fallon is the top face-off man winning 60.7% (71-48) of draws.  Junior Evan Campbell has a 77-54 (58.8%) edge while freshman Nick Master (68 of 124, 54.8%) is also over the .500 mark.
 
POWERING UP: UMass Lowell has scored power play goals in three consecutive games after ending an 0-for-17 man advantage slump.  The River Hawks went one-for-six on the power play in Saturday's 1-0 win at Vermont.  The River Hawks have scored power play goals in five different games, all victories, and are 8-for-39 (20.5%) on the season.
 
PENALTY KILLING: Playing shorthanded has been no disadvantage for the UMass Lowell hockey club.  The River Hawks have the 11th ranked penalty unit in the country with a 90.3% success rate (28-for-31.)  UMass Lowell was successful in their first 19 man down situations this season.
 
STAYING OUT OF THE BOX: UMass Lowell is the second least penalized team in Hockey East averaging just 8.4-penalty minutes per game.  That number places the River Hawks as the 10th least penalized team in the country.  Maine, averaging a ten minutes more (19.9-minutes) per game is the second most penalized team in Hockey East and third most penalized in the country.
 
BY THE SLIMMEST OF MARGINS: Six of UMass Lowell's first nine games this season have been decided by one-goal.  The team is 3-1-2 in those games and 33-19-15 since Norm Bazin took over the program for the 2011-12 season.  
 
WHEN ONE IS ENOUGH: When UMass Lowell defeated Vermont, 1-0, last Saturday night it was the tenth time in the school's hockey history that it had won a 1-0 game.  It was the fourth 1-0 win in as many seasons and it was also the third time that Vermont was the victim since 2009.
 
Date                     Opponent                                                Goalie           Goal Scorer
Feb. 12, 1977       vs. Williams                              Doyle, 29 saves                  Yeadon
Nov. 10, 2001      at New Hampshire            McCormick, 30 svs.                   Strome
Nov. 16, 2001      vs. UMass Amherst            McCormick, 24 svs.                McGrane
Jan.  4, 2004        at UMass Amherst                Davidson, 27 svs.                    Godoy
Feb.  8, 2007        vs. Northeastern                   Hamilton, 10 svs.                     Kinley
Feb. 21, 2009       at Vermont                               Hutton, 21 svs.            Worthington
Mar. 23, 2013      vs. Boston University        Hellebuyck, 36 svs.                      Arnold
Nov. 22, 2013      vs. Notre Dame                  Hellebuyck, 40 svs.                       Buco
Feb. 28, 2014       at Vermont, OT                  Hellebuyck, 25 svs.                      Houk
Nov. 7, 2015        at Vermont                                  Boyle, 32 svs.                    Chapie
 
ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER: UMass Lowell has been limited to just one goal four times this season but that has resulted in just one loss.  The River Hawks are 1-1-2 when held to just one goal.
 
CONSECUTIVE GAMES SAME OPPONENT: UMass Lowell is playing the same opponent in consecvutive games for the fourth time this season.  The River Hawks are 2-1-1 in the first game and 3-0-1 in the second game after sweeping Vermont last weekend. UMass Lowell and Maine have not played consecutive games since the River Hawks swept Maine in the Hockey East playoffs in 2013.
 
I CAN SEE FOR MILES AND MILES AND MILES: The UMass Lowell hockey team is spending an inordinate amount of time on the road this season, especially during the first half of the year.  By season's end the River Hawks will have logged 11,469.56 miles thanks in large part to trips to Minnesota-Duluth, Pittsburgh and Belfast, Northern Ireland to take part in the Friendship Four Tournament.  Most of the travelling, 10,747.76 miles, takes place during the first half of the schedule.  The longest individual trip in School history was the 1994 journey to play in the Great Alaska Faceoff Tournament in Fairbanks in 1994.  The round-trip totaled more than eight-thousand miles.