Coming Up
Colorado College travels to Oxford, Ohio, for a weekend series against the Miami University RedHawks, Nov. 11-12. Friday's game is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. (MT). Live streaming and live stats links for the game can be found on the CC Hockey schedule page at CCTigers.com.

Getting Started
This season marks the 84th year of varsity ice hockey at Colorado College and 10th season as a member of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference. CC was a charter member of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (1951-52) for 62 seasons before joining the NCHC with seven other schools prior to the 2013-14 campaign.

How To Watch / Listen
This weekend's games will be broadcast in the Colorado Springs area and Southern Colorado on KRDO NewsRadio 105.5 FM / 95.5 FM / 1240 AM with the 'Voice of the Tigers' Ken Landau, and streamed live on NCHC.tv.  

Last Time Out
The Tigers split a pair of games against #19 Minnesota Duluth last weekend at Ed Robson Arena ... On Friday, Stanley Cooley and Noah Laba each scored twice and Kaidan Mbereko posted his first career shutout to lead CC to a 5-0 victory. Hunter McKown opened the scoring with his national-leading sixth power-play goal just 4:14 into the contest. He fired a shot from the top of the left circle that deflected off the shoulder of UMD goalie Zach Stejskal and into the net. Cooley notched the first of his career-high two tallies at 7:17 when Tyler Coffey took a shot from the right circle that Stejskal saved, but Cooley was right on the doorstep for the rebound. Cooley then scored a power-play goal at 9:45 with another rebound goal, this time off a shot by Matthew Gleason. Laba continued his hot start with his second two-goal effort of the '22-23 campaign. He made it 4-0 with just over five minutes to play and chased Stejskal from the game after stealing the puck along the left boards, cutting in front of the net and putting the puck in the net. Laba scored the game's final goal at the 15:02 mark of the second period after another UMD turnover in its own zone. Coffey collected his second assist of the night on the play. Mbereko was outstanding in his fourth career start, stopping a career-high 34 shots, including a game-high seven by Ben Steeves ... On Saturday, Mbereko made 32 saves but the Bulldogs edged CC, 3-1. Owen Gallatin had a goal and an assist and Derek Daschke added a pair of assists. The Tigers jumped out to a 1-0 lead as Bryan Yoon scored his first goal of the season at the 12:09 mark of the first period. On the power play, Yoon took a pass from Hunter McKown and fired a shot from the point that went over the right shoulder of UMD goalie Matthew Thiessen. Steeves evened the score at 1-1 at the 7:08 mark of the second period with a power-play goal of his own. Gallatin found Steeves with a cross-ice pass and Steeves put the puck into an open net before Mbereko could slide into position. Gallatin, who had six shots on goal, one less than teammate Blake Biondi, scored the game winner with just 1:41 left in the third period. Trying to make a pass from the goal line to the front of the net, the puck bounced off the pad of Mbereko and went between his legs into the net. Biondi closed out the scoring with an empty-net goal with 36 seconds remaining.

The Coaches
Kris Mayotte is in his second 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. In addition, he has won a pair of gold medals and a bronze in four stints as an assistant coach with Team USA at the World Junior Championships … Chris Bergeron is in his fourth season as head coach at his alma mater. He served as head coach at Bowling Green for the previous nine seasons after 10 years as an assistant coach at Miami.

Up Next
The Tigers return home for a weekend series against the country's No. 4-ranked team,  St. Cloud State, Nov. 18-19, at Robson Arena.

Previous Meetings
Colorado College and Miami have met 30 times, with CC holding a 16-11-3 advantage in the series. The Tigers are 8-1-1 in the last eight games against the RedHawks, including a season sweep last year, winning all four games againt Miami.

Tiger Tales
Colorado College won its first four home games for the first time since the 2011-12 season ... Hunter McKown leads the nation with six power-play goals ... Noah Laba (6g,4a) and Bryan Yoon (1g,9a) lead the team with 10 points ... Laba leads the NCHC and is tied for third in the nation among freshmen with six goals ... Yoon is tied for sixth in the NCHC and tied for eighth in the nation with nine assists ... CC had posted consecutive shutouts at home for the first time since Nov. 18 (5-0) and Nov. 19 (3-0), 2005 vs. Michigan Tech ... Kaidan Mbereko's shutout last Friday was the first by a Colorado College freshman since Alex LeClerc blanked Merrimack, 3-0, on Dec. 28, 2016.  

Mbereko Collects NCHC Honor
Kaidan Mbereko was named the KJ Branding Goaltender of the Week by the NCHC after splitting a pair of games against 19th-ranked Minnesota Duluth. Mbereko collected a career-high 34 saves in Friday's 5-0 victory over the Bulldogs, including 10 while short-handed to help kill all five UMD power plays. In the second game of his first career back-to-back starts, Mbereko had 32 saves, including 27 in the final two periods in a 3-1 loss to UMD. For the weekend, he had a 1.02 goals-against average and .971 saves pct.

Another Tough Schedule
The Tigers are scheduled to play 18 of their 34 regular-season games against teams that competed in the 2022 NCAA Division I Hockey Championships, including 12 against five of the last six national champions (Denver, Minnesota Duluth and North Dakota).

Leadership for 2022-23 Season
Graduate student Bryan Yoon and junior Logan Will are the team co-captains for Colorado College this season, while junior Hunter McKown and sophomore Stanley Cooley are serving as alternate captains. Yoon, a defenseman from Parker, Colo., returns to the CC squad for a fifth season in '22-23 and served as team captain last year. Will, from Ames, Iowa, tied for second on the team with 18 points (6g,12a) in '21-22.

Tigers Picked Sixth in NCHC Preseason Poll
Colorado College was picked eighth in the 2022-23 NCHC Preseason Poll.
1.    Denver – 180 points (19 first-place votes)
2.    North Dakota – 160 (4)
3.    Minnesota Duluth – 136
4.    St. Cloud State – 115
5.    Western Michigan - 86
6.    Colorado College – 64
7.    Omaha - 59
8.    Miami - 28

Eight Newcomers on '22-23 Roster
Colorado College added eight newcomers to the roster for the upcoming season. They are: Cade Ahrenholz (F, Omaha Lancers - USHL), Ryan Beck (F, Dubuque Fighting Saints - USHL), Nikolai Charchenko (D, Minot Minotauros - NAHL), Noah Laba (F, Lincoln Stars - USHL), Kaidan Mbereko (G, Lincoln Stars - USHL), Noah Serdachny (F, Salmon Arm Silverbacks - BCHL), Ethan Straky (D, Green Bay Gamblers - USHL), and Gleb Veremyev (F, Lincoln Stars - USHL).

Three Tigers on Team USA at World Juniors
Kris Mayotte, Hunter McKown and Kaidan Mbereko represented the United States at the 2022 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championships. The tournament, which was originally canceled on Dec. 29, 2021, due to COVID-19 issues, was played August 9-20 in Edmonton, ALB. Mayotte served as an assistant coach with Team USA for the fourth time, while Mbereko was Team USA's starting goaltender and McKown made his first appearance at the WJC.

Second Season at Robson Arena
Never in the storied history of Colorado College Tiger Hockey had the team played its home games on campus. Thanks to the generosity of donors, including former CC hockey player Ed Robson '54, along with the vision of former President Jill Tiefenthaler and the Board of Trustees, that changed on October 8, 2021, when the Tigers and St. Lawrence battled in the first regular-season game at Ed Robson Arena. Colorado College ranked No. 1 in the nation last season with percentage of attendance vs. capacity, at 104.5 percent. The capacity of Robson Arena is 3,407 and CC averaged an attendance of 3,559.

CC to Have 14 Games Televised This Season
11 of Colorado College's 34 games will be televised live on AT&T SportsNet, including 10 from Ed Robson Arena, while the Princeton game on New Year's Eve will be broadcast live in Colorado Springs and throughout the Southern Colorado region on KRDO NewsChannel 13. Road games at Air Force on Saturday, Oct. 29, and Denver on Friday, March 3 will be televised on Altitude 2 and CBS Sports Network, respectively.