Tigers Travel to No. 4 Minnesota Duluth
Colorado College travels to Minnesota for a weekend series against the No. 4-ranked team in the country, Minnesota Duluth. Both games will begin at 6 p.m. (MT) at Amsoil Arena and broadcast on KRDO NewsRadio 105.5 FM in the Pikes Peak Region. Friday's game will be telecast live on AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain.

Last Weekend
The Tigers lost a pair of games to No. 1-ranked St. Cloud State at Ed Robson Arena ... On Friday, Jami Krannila scored with 1:51 remaining in overtime to lift the Huskies to a 3-2 victory. Krannila scored off his own rebound from the right circle after taking the puck from behind his own net and skating down the right side during the 3-on-3 overtime period. CC goalie Dominic Basse saved Krannila's initial shot, but the puck went right back to him, who put it over Basse's shoulder. It was Krannila's second goal of the night and sixth of the season. Krannila sent the game to overtime with a power-play goal at the 15:35 mark of the third period to even the score at 2-2. The Tigers had rallied to take a 2-1 lead earlier in the final period when Brett Chorske scored his second goal in his second career game, poking home his own rebound on the power play from the right side of the net. Micah Miller opened the scoring at the 7:36 mark of the first period when he took the puck at center ice, skated around a CC defender and beat Basse from the right circle. Jordan Biro evened things up with his team-high fourth goal of the season at the 6:39 mark of the second period. Biro knocked a defender off his feet behind the SCSU net, took a couple steps out from the board and sent the puck past SCSU goalie David Hrenak ... On Saturday, Kevin Fitzgerald had a goal and two assists to lead SCSU to a 4-1 victory. Zach Okabe added a goal and an assist and David Hrenak made 23 saves. The game started ominously for the Tigers when Stanley Cooley was given a faceoff warning, then whistled for delay of game before the puck was dropped. The Tigers killed off the penalty and the teams played evenly for the next 15 minutes until Nolan Walker put the Huskies on the board with 2:22 remaining in the first period. Mason Salquist's shot from the left circle was saved by CC's Dominic Basse (29 saves), but the rebound went right to Walker, who had an open net from the right circle. In the final minute of the period, SCSU's Micah Miller took a lead pass from Fitzgerald and scored shorthanded, his second tally of the weekend for a 2-0 advantage. Jordan Biro continued his hot hand for the Tigers, cutting the lead in half with his team-high fifth goal of the season and third in as many games at the 6:53 mark of the second period. Biro took a cross-ice pass from Matthew Gleason and fired a wrister past Hrenak. The Tigers could not get anything else past Hrenak, or through the Husky defense for that matter. Okabe scored an insurance goal just as a Tiger penalty expired at the 4:43 mark of the third period, then Fitzgerald closed the scoring with a power-play goal with 6:45 left in the game.
 
Up Next
The Tigers are idle until traveling to Omaha for a pair of games against the Mavericks, Dec. 3-4.

For the Record
Colorado College is 2-6-2 and 0-2-0 in the NCHC ... Minnesota Duluth is 6-2-0 and 1-1-0 in league play after splitting a pair of games at Western Michigan last weekend.  

Previous Meetings
The Tigers and Minnesota Duluth have met 196 times, with the Bulldogs holding a 103-83-10 advantage in the series. CC defeated the Bulldogs twice last season, winning 4-1  on Dec. 13 in Omaha, Neb., during the NCHC Pod, and 2-1 in Duluth on Feb. 18.

The Coaches
Kris Mayotte (Union College, '06) is in his first season at the helm of the Tigers. He came to Colorado College after serving two years as an assistant coach at the University of Michigan. Mayotte was an assistant coach for Providence College when the Friars won the NCAA Division I title in 2015 … Scott Sandelin (North Dakota, '86) is in his 22nd season at Minnesota Duluth. He led the Bulldogs to the 2011, 2018 and 2019 national championships and won the Spencer Penrose Award (Division I Coach of the Year) in 2004.
 
Tiger Tales
Jordan Biro posted the first multi-point game of his career (1g,1a) Friday night vs. SCSU ... Biro currently has a career-high three-game point streak ... Matthew Gleason has a career-high four-game point streak ... In the last four games, the line of Gleason, Biro and Stanley Cooley have combined for 16 points (5g,11a) ... Saturday's 4-1 loss vs. St. Cloud State was the first by more than one goal for CC this season, and only the third in 10 games overall that was not a tie or one-goal result ... The Tigers' 10 power-play goals are the most in the first 10 games of a season since the 2018-19 season (10) ... Colorado College is outshooting its opponents, 112-73, in the third period this season, and has outshot its opponent in six of 10 games.

Scouting the Bulldogs
Tanner Laderoute (5g,1a), Blake Biondi (3g,3a) and Noah Cates (2g,4a) lead the Bulldogs with six points apiece. Three other players follow with five points. Ryan Fanti has played in seven of the team's eight games, with a 1.84 goals-against average and .928 saves percentage.  

Another Tough Schedule
The Tigers are scheduled to play 22 of their 34 regular season games, including their next six, against teams that that are ranked in this week's USCHO.com Top 20 poll. In addition, Colorado College is scheduled to play 10 games versus four of the last five national champions (Minn. Duluth (2), Denver and North Dakota).

Youngsters On Fire
All but one of Colorado College's 26 goals this year have been scored by freshmen or sophomores. Patrick Cozzi is the only junior or senior to score for the Tigers in '21-22. Sophomores have scored 17 of the team's last 20 goals. In addition, sophomore Dominic Basse has played every minute in net this season.

Mayotte Coaching World Juniors Again
Kris Mayotte, who collected his first win as a collegiate head coach on Friday, Oct. 22, when the Tigers upset 10th-ranked Boston College, will take some time off from his duties at Colorado College to serve as an assistant coach for Team USA at the 2022 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championships, Dec. 26 - Jan. 5, in Edmonton and Red Deer, Alberta. Mayotte has won a pair of gold medals (2017 and '21) and a bronze (2018) in three stints as an assistant coach with Team USA at the World Junior Championships.

On the Air
All CC games in 2021-22, home and away, will be broadcast live throughout Southern Colorado on KRDO NewsRadio 105.5 and 92.5 FM and 1240 AM, featuring Ken Landau with the play-by-play. The broadcasts also can be heard worldwide via the internet.

CC to Televise 13 Games This Season
Colorado College will televise more games during the 2021-22 hockey season than any other season in program history. The season-opener on Oct. 8 against St. Lawrence University was shown in Colorado Springs and throughout the Southern Colorado region on KRDO NewsChannel 13. Eleven other games will be televised live on AT&T SportsNet, including nine from CC's new home, Ed Robson Arena, while the contest against Omaha on Jan. 28 will be televised nationally on CBS Sports Network.

Yoon and Hawkinson Named Captains for 2021-22 Season
Seniors Bryan Yoon and Brian Hawkinson will serve as co-captains of the Colorado College hockey team for the 2021-22 season. Yoon, a defenseman from Parker, Colo., is the team's active scoring leader with 48 points (5g,43a) in 101 career games. He was selected to the all-College Hockey News Rookie Team and NCHC all-Rookie Team as a freshman after finishing second in the NCHC and third in nation among freshmen with 23 assists. His 26 points (3g,26a) that season were the most by a CC freshman defenseman since Scott Swanson had 48 in 1995-96. Yoon finished second on the team with 16 assists as a sophomore and posted a goal and an assist in 19 games last season. Hawkinson, meanwhile, appeared in 23 games and notched two goals and one assist last season, his first as a Tiger after spending two years at Miami University. The forward from Centennial, Colo., scored 18 points (3g,15a) in 60 games for the RedHawks, including 16 as a freshman, the second-most by a rookie on the team in '18-19.

Three Tigers Have Stanley Cup Genes
Three current CC players, Matt Vernon, Brett Chorske and Danny Weight, each have a father that played in the NHL and won the Stanley Cup. Mike Vernon won a pair of titles with Calgary ('89) and Detroit ('97), while Tom Chorske won with New Jersey in 1995 and Doug Weight with Carolina in 2006.  

Tigers Picked Eighth in NCHC Preseason Poll
Colorado College was picked eighth in the 2021-22 NCHC Preseason Poll.

1.    St. Cloud State – 195 points (20 first-place votes)
2.    Minnesota Duluth – 143 (3)
3.    North Dakota – 142 (1)
4.    Denver – 123 (1)
5.    Omaha - 114
6.    Western Michigan - 105
7.    Miami - 45
8.    Colorado College – 33