This Weekend
Colorado College hosts the Miami University RedHawks, Feb. 18-19, at Ed Robson Arena. Friday's game begins at 7:30 p.m., while Saturday's contest is scheduled for a 6 p.m. puck drop. Both contests will be broadcast on AT&T SportsNet, KRDO NewsRadio 105.5 FM/1240 AM and NCHC.tv.  

Last Time Out
Colorado College lost a pair of games at 12th-ranked North Dakota last weekend in Grand Forks ... On Friday, the Tigers scored a pair of power-play goals, but it wasn't enough to overcome a 3-0 deficit and UND won, 3-2, at Engelstad Arena. The Tigers came out on the prowl, putting a pair of shots on net in the first minute and then received a fortunate call early in the contest. A successful challenge by the Tiger coaching staff and review by the officials gave CC a 5-minute power play just eight minutes into the game with a contact to the head major penalty and game misconduct to UND. However, the Fighting Hawks struck first when Judd Caulfield scored a shorthanded goal at the 9:02 mark of the opening frame. CC goalie Dominic Basse kept the home team from doubling its lead when a stopped Caulfield on a clean shorthanded breakaway a few minutes later. UND's special teams kept it up during the rest of the first period as Ethan Frisch scored one second after a CC penalty expired and Riese Gaber scored a power-play goal with a wrist shot from the top of the right circle for a 3-0 lead after 20 minutes. The Tigers clamped down defensively and clawed back in the second period to close the gap to one with a pair of power-play goals of their own. Stanley Cooley notched his third of the year and got CC on the board at the 9:39 mark when he deflected a shot by Nicklas Andrews past Zach Driscoll. Cooley won the draw after an interference call to Nick Portz, then slid to the front of the net and got just enough of Andrews' shot to put it in just five seconds into the power play. Then, at the 14:44 mark, Andrews fired a blast from the blue line that cleanly beat Driscoll seven seconds after Jackson Kunz was whistled for cross checking. CC outshot North Dakota, 18-8, over the final 40 minutes and did not allow a shot on goal during a third-period Fighting Hawk power play ... On Saturday. North Dakota completed the weekend sweep with a 4-0 victory. Zach Driscoll stopped all 23 shots he faced, four different Fighting Hawks scored and Riese Gaber added a pair of assists for UND. Colorado College goalie Dominic Basse saw a lot of pucks early on, as he stopped Gaber, who was all alone in the slot, and Ethan Frisch, who seemed to have an open net from the left circle during UND's first power play. On the Fighting Hawks' second power play of the opening period, Frisch opened the scoring with his second goal of the weekend. During a power play, Frisch collected a rebound off a Gaber shot and Basse save at the left circle. Frisch's initial shot hit the side of the net, but he gathered the puck below the goal line and his second shot went off the post and Basse's pad into the net. North Dakota added a pair of goals in the middle frame. Matteo Constantini scored with a wrister from the left circle during a 2-on-1 rush, then Brent Johnson notched his first career goal after his shot from the right boards flew past a screened Basse for a 3-0 advantage. Jackson Kunz made it 4-0 at the 5:49 mark of the third period. Luke Bast's shot from the right circle was stopped by Basse, but the puck came free in front of the net and Kunz knocked it in.

Up Next
The Tigers head back out on the road to face the 8th-ranked St. Cloud State Huskies, Feb. 25-26, at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center in St. Cloud, Minn.

For The Record
Colorado College is 7-18-3 overall and 4-13-1 in the NCHC, good for seventh place in the league standings ... Miami is 6-20-2 overall and 3-14-1 in league play. The RedHawks sit in eighth place in the NCHC.

Previous Meetings
Colorado College and Miami have met 28 times, with CC holding a 14-11-3 advantage in the series. The Tigers are 6-1-1 in the last eight games against the RedHawks, including a pair of victories, 5-1 and 4-3, in Oxford, Ohio, last month.

The Coaches
Kris Mayotte 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 … Chris Bergeron is in his third 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.

Mayotte Coached Again at World Juniors
Kris Mayotte served as an assistant coach with Team USA at the 2022 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championships. The tournament was canceled on Dec. 29. Team USA was attempting to win secure back-to-back gold medals after defeating Canada in the 2021 final. Mayotte, who was on the staff in 2021, also won gold in 2017 and bronze in 2018 as an assistant coach with Team USA.

Tiger Tales
The Tigers scored multiple power-play goals last Friday for the first time since Jan. 7 (5-1 victory at Miami) ... Nicklas Andrews has 10 points (2g,8a) in his last 10 games ... North Dakota's two shots in the third period on Friday were the fewest allowed by CC in one period since the season opener on Oct. 8 (2 by St. Lawrence in the third period) ... Hunter McKown (10g,5a) and Logan Will (5g,10a) lead the Tigers with 15 points apiece, followed by Stanley Cooley with 14 (2g,12a) and Matthew Gleason (5g,8a) and Andrews (4g,9a) with 13 each.

Scouting the RedHawks
Derek Daschke leads the RedHawks with 20 points (3g,17a), followed by Matthew      Barbolini with 18 (9g,9a) and P.J. Fletcher with 17 (6g,11a). Goalie Ludwig Persson has started 23 games, with a 4.16 goals-against average and .881 saves percentage.  

Youngsters Continue to Score
All but 11 of Colorado College's 65 goals this year have been scored by freshmen or sophomores. Brian Hawkinson (5), Patrick Cozzi (2), Bryan Yoon (1), Noah Prokop (1), Connor Mayer (1) and Hugo Blixt (1) are the upperclassmen to score for the Tigers in '21-22. Sophomores have scored 44 times this season.

Another Tough Schedule
The Tigers are scheduled to play 17 of their 34 regular season games against teams that that are ranked in this week's DCU/USCHO.com Top 20 poll. Colorado College will play four of its last six games of the regular season against teams ranked in this week's Top 10.

Tigers Sign 11 to NLI
Colorado College has signed 11 players to a National Letter of Intent to attend and play hockey at the school in the future. They are: Cade Ahrenholz (F, Omaha Lancers - USHL), Max Burkholder (D, Dubuque Fighting Saints - USHL), Bret Link (F, Fargo Force - USHL), Kaidan Mbereko (G, Lincoln Stars - USHL), Drew Montgomery (F, Tri-City Storm - USHL), Noah Serdachny (F, Salmon Arm Silverbacks - BCHL), Ethan Straky (D, Green Bay Gamblers - USHL), Michael Valdez (F, Springfield Jr. Blues - NAHL), Gleb Veremyev (F, Lincoln Stars - USHL), Evan Werner (F, Youngstown Phantoms - USHL) and Zaccharya Wisdom (F, Cedar Rapids Roughriders - USHL).

Recent Signee Named to Team USA For World Juniors
Kaidan Mberko, who recently signed a National Letter of Intent to attend and play hockey at Colorado College, was named one of the 25 players that represented the United States at the 2022 IIHF World Junior Championships. Mbereko, currently a   goalie for the Lincoln Stars of the USHL, was one of three goalies on Team USA.  

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.  

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.
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CC to Televise 13 Games This Season
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 was televised nationally on CBS Sports Network.