Coming Up
Colorado College returns home to face No. 4/5 St. Cloud State, Nov. 18-19, at Ed Robson Arena. The first game of the series is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 18, beginning at 7:30 p.m. 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
Friday's game will be televised live on AT&T SportsNet with Josh Howe and Kyle Huson on the call, 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 went 1-0-1 last weekend against the Miami RedHawks in Oxford, Ohio ... On Friday, Matthew Gleason scored and Kaiden Mbereko had 22 saves in a 1-1 draw. Ryan Beck scored the only goal in the shootout to claim the extra point in the NCHC standings. Both goalies were spectacular during the 65 minutes of regulation and 3-on-3 overtime. Miami's Ludwig Persson finished with 35 saves, including 17 in the second period. Mbereko, meanwhile, made nine of his 22 saves in the third period, including a couple to help kill off a five-minute penalty when Danny Weight was whistled for contact to the head with 6:40 left in regulation. Red Savage opened the scoring with a shorthanded breakaway goal at the 6:37 mark of the first period. Gleason evened the score with his second of the year at 13:31 of the middle period. After Miami's Artur Turansky was called for hooking, the Tigers took advantage and scored their third power-play goal of the season on the road. Nicklas Andrews slid down the right side and sent a centering pass into the crease that Gleason pushed past Persson. The Tigers put five shots on Persson during the five-minute 3-on-3 period but couldn't capitalize ... On Saturday, Tyler Coffey and Hunter McKown each scored a power-play goal and Mbereko allowed just one goal for the second consecutive game in a 2-1 victory. Coffey opened the scoring with his third goal of the season at the 14:12 mark of the first period. With the Tigers on the power play, Gleason sent the puck to the net where it was deflected by Stanley Cooley across the crease to Coffey, who had an open net past Miami goalie Ludwig Persson. Speaking of power-play goals, McKown scored his nation-leading seventh of the season with just 36 seconds left in the middle period. Beck's shot from the right circle was saved by Persson, but the rebound glanced off Gleb Veremyev in front of the net right to McKown, who had his own open net from the bottom of the left circle. Mbereko was outstanding throughout the weekend, but no more than in the third period on Saturday as the Tigers were outshot 15-2 during the frame. The only goal he gave up was to Hampus Rydqvist just 36 seconds into the final frame, but the freshman from Aspen, Colo., kept the other 14 Miami shots out of the net.    

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 … Brett Larson is in his fifth season as head coach at St. Cloud State after spending three seasons as an assistant coach at Minnesota Duluth. He also was an assistant with the Bulldogs from 2008-11 and helped UMD win the NCAA Division I national title in 2011 and again in 2018. Larson led St. Cloud State to the NCAA Division I Championship game in 2021, falling to UMass, 5-0, in the final.

Up Next
The Tigers are idle over Thanksgiving weekend and will travel to Minnesota Duluth for a weekend series at Amsoil Arena, Dec. 2-3.

Previous Meetings
The Tigers and St. Cloud State have met 119 times, with the Huskies holding a 60-50-9 advantage in the series. Colorado College is 0-8-1 in the last nine games since sweeping the Huskies in St. Cloud early in the 2019-20 campaign. The Tigers are 23-34-3 against SCSU at home and have not defeated the Huskies in Colorado Springs since Feb. 22, 2013.

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).

Tiger Tales
After going 1-0-1 last weekend, the Tigers have a nine-game unbeaten streak (7-0-2) against Miami and are 9-1-2 in the last 12 games vs. the RedHawks ... Saturday's game was CC's first road win this season and the first when scoring less than four goals ... Hunter McKown leads the nation with seven power-play goals ... Four Tigers, McKown (7g,3a), Noah Laba (6g4a), Stanley Cooley (4g,6a) and Bryan Yoon (1g,9a), top the team's scoring list with 10 points ... Laba is tied for fourth in the NCHC among freshmen with six goals ... Colorado College is second in the NCHC and seventh in the nation in power-play percentage (27.0%).

Mbereko Collects NCHC Honor ... Again
For the second week in a row, freshman Kaidan Mbereko was named the KJ Branding Goaltender of the Week by the National Collegiate Hockey Conference after posting a 1-0-1 record against Miami. Mbereko, from Aspen, Colo., allowed just two goals and collected 56 saves during the weekend. In Friday's 1-1 tie, Mbereko had 22 saves and did not allow Miami to score in the shootout. He then equaled his career high on Saturday with 34 saves, including 29 in the final two periods as the Tigers defeated Miami, 2-1. For the weekend, Mbereko had a .966 save percentage and 0.96 goals-against average.

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

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.