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Still tingling from an exciting and emotional sudden-death victory over its archrival last Friday night, Colorado College resumes action at home this week against a team it competed against six times in four different cities during the 2010-11 season.
The Tigers, ranked No. 6 in the latest national polls, play host to the University of Alaska Anchorage in a two-game WCHA series at the World Arena.
Faceoff is 7:37 (MT) Friday and 7:07 p.m. Saturday.
With its recent 4-3 overtime triumph over the University of Denver, a
replay of which will air as a
CBS Sports Network Encore Presentation at 2:30 pm (MT) Saturday, Dec. 10, CC improved to 8-4 overall and 6-4 in league play.
Alaska Anchorage is 5-9-2 overall but just 2-9-1 in the WCHA after losing twice (5-2 and 4-1) at home to the University of North Dakota last week.
While fourth-place Colorado College is 21-3 in 24 previous encounters against UAA at the World Arena, the Seawolves have managed to claim an overtime victory in each of their last two visits – on Nov. 29, 2009 (3-2) and Nov. 26, 2010 (4-3).
Friday's series opener marks the 72nd all-time contest between the squads in a rivalry that started on Jan. 5, 1984. CC leads the overall series by a 51-17-3 margin after beating the Seawolves, 4-2, in the play-in game of the WCHA Final Five last March. In addition to its sudden-death victory at the CSWA last November, Alaska Anchorage also swept the Tigers (4-1 and 2-1) at Sullivan Arena in mid-January and dropped a 4-3 decision to them at a tournament in Fairbanks the first month of the '10-11 season.
Tiger Bites: Nick Dineen,
Tim Hall,
Joe Howe,
Eamonn McDermott,
Michael Morin and
Archie Skalbeck volunteered to have their
heads shaved last Sunday (Dec. 4) at a fundraiser for 10-year-old Garrett Niles. A member of the squirt-level Terminators team from the Woodland Park Hockey Association, NIles recently was diagnosed with stage-3 lymphoma cancer. The event, held at Edge Salon and Spa, helped generate more than $8,000 in donations toward his family's anticipated medical bills.
