The Tigers try to rediscover their winning formula and pick up some valuable points in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference standings this week when they travel to Minnesota for a two-game NCHC series against No. 2-ranked St. Cloud State University.

Faceoff is 7:37 p.m. CT Friday and 7:07 p.m. and CT Saturday on the Olympic-size sheet of ice at the newly renovated National Hockey Center (5,371 seating capacity). Saturday's game will be telvised live throughout Southern Colorado on KXTU SoCo CW.

The teams meet again later this season in Colorado Springs.

CC, 1-4-1 in league play after tying (1-1) and losing (2-1) to the University of Denver in a home-and-home league series on Nov. 8 and 9, dropped to 1-7-1 overall with Tuesday's 3-1 non-conference defeat to in-town rival Air Force at the World Arena.

St. Cloud State, meawhile, swept a non-league series (10-0, 4-3) at the University of Alabama-Huntsville last weekend to improve to 8-1-1 overall. The Huskies are 3-1 in conference play.

Friday's series opener marks the 88th meeting between the Tigers and SCSU. Colorado College leads the all-time rivalry by a 46-35-6 margin and is 20-14-4 in 38 previous encounters in St. Cloud despite falling twice (5-3, 3-1) there last December. CC had either won or tied six (4-1-2) of its previous seven appearances at the National Hockey Center before that, dating back to the 2006-07 campaign. The teams split at the World Arena in late February of last season.

Tiger Bytes: Forward Trey Bradley of Tampa, Fla., and defenseman Teemu Kivihalme of Savage, Minn., have inked national letters of intent to play for Colorado College in the future. Bradley, the younger brother of sophomore center Cody Bradley, had 19 points (9g,10a) in his first 18 games as a rookie with the Wenatchee Wild of the North American Hockey League. Kivihalme, a 2013 fifth-round (120th overall) draft pick of the NHL's Nashville Predators, had four points (1g,3) in eight outings for the USHL's Fargo Force after helping Team USA win a gold medal at the recent World Junior Challenge ... Freshman goalie Tyler Marble, who suffered an injury in CC's 8-4 exhibition victory over the United States Under-18 Team on Oct. 12, underwent surgery to repair a tear in his shoulder last week and essentially will miss the rest of the season ... Saturday's telecast will be available to viewers on a variety of stations including Comcast Channel 7 in Colorado Springs and Pueblo (as well as Channel 4 in Trinidad). Fans also can tune in to DirecTV, DISH and over-the-air on Channels 57 and 21.2; Bresnan Cable Channel 12 for Canon City, La Junta and Walsenburg; Baja Broadband Channel 15 on Fort Carson; and Peterson Broadband Channel 7 on Peterson Air Force Base.