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After playing five of its first eight games on the road, including two consecutive road trips east, Colorado College is home for nine of its next 10 outings starting this week when the 19th-ranked Tigers play host to Bemidji State University on back-to-back nights at the World Arena.

Faceoff is 7:37 p.m. Friday and 7:07 p.m. Saturday.

CC, invigorated by a two-game sweep at the University of Wisconsin last weekend that snapped a three-game losing skid, is 5-3 overall to go with its 2-0 record in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association standings. Bemidji State, idle since tying and winning at the University of Nebraska Omaha on Oct. 26 and 27, is 2-1-1 overall and 1-0-1 in WCHA play.

This week's encounters mark the final regular-season meetings between the teams as members of the same league. The Tigers will leave to help inaugurate the new National Collegiate Hockey Conference in 2013-14 while Bemidji State remains in the WCHA.

They actually have faced each other only 10 times before. Colorado College's slim 5-4-1 edge in the rivalry includes a 5-1 ledger against the Beavers at the CSWA. That is offset by an 0-3-1 mark in Bemidji, where BSU cooled off the Tigers with a series sweep (4-2, 4-1) last February. CC earlier won twice (3-1, 6-4) in the teams' WCHA openers in Colorado Springs a little more than a year ago.

Tiger Bites: CC's leading scorer after eight games is junior defenseman and alternate team captain Eamonn McDermott, whose four assists at Wisconsin gave him eight for the season. He's yet to score a goal but has helped set up two game winners...Junior left wing Alexander Krushelnyski, one of four Colorado College players with four tallies so far in 2012-13, has scored in three consecutive games. It was Krushelnyski who struck just 25 seconds into overtime of last Friday's 5-4 victory at UW, exactly 11 months after he converted on a penalty shot to lift the Tigers to a 4-3 sudden-death triumph over Denver at the World Arena last Dec. 2.