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Norwich Cadets Hockey 2013: The Final Countdown...

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As promised, here is the comprehensive Norwich/Oswego Preview. 1100 words. Enjoy!

Cannot. Wait. For. Friday.

http://norwichathletics.com/sports/mice/2012-13/releases/Norwich-Oswego_Preview_3-12-13

NORTHFIELD, Vt. – The game that has been four years in the making.

Friday’s Storyline: Norwich and Oswego State are each making their fourth straight NCAA Division III Frozen Four appearance, yet they have never met in those four years until Friday. Norwich (24-3-1) punched its ticket to its 11th overall Frozen Four by beating Babson 4-0 for the first time in four tries this season. The Cadets avenged a 2-1 defeat to the Beavers in the ECAC East championship game one week prior. Oswego (24-4-0) qualified for its seventh Frozen Four by edging MCHA champion Adrian 3-2 in overtime on the road in Michigan. The Lakers qualified for the NCAA’s by winning the SUNYAC title with a 4-0 shutout win over archrival Plattsburgh. Like Norwich, Oswego enacted revenge on the Cardinals after dropping both regular season contests to PSU. Both teams are extremely senior-laden. Oswego has 14 seniors on 24-man roster, including its nine top scorers. Norwich has five seniors with four of them in the top five in scoring.

All-Time Series: Norwich and Oswego State have met five times with the first meeting coming in 1978 and resulting in a 5-3 win for the Cadets. NU holds a slim 3-2 lead in the series, highlighted by beating the Lakers 2-1 in the 2003 National Championship game at Kreitzberg Arena. Oswego won the last meeting in the 2007 NCAA Quarterfinals with a 3-0 shutout win over the Cadets at the Campus Center Ice Arena on their way to winning the 2007 National Championship.

Oswego State University Program Highlights

NCAA Division III Champions: 1 (2007)
SUNYAC Champions: 8 (1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1989, 1991, 2003, 2010)
NCAA Tournament Participants: 14 (1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1998, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
NCAA Division III Frozen Four: 7 (1987, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
All-Americans: 22

Norwich University Program Highlights

NCAA Division III Champions: 3 (2000, 2003, 2010)
ECAC East Champions: 10 (1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012)
NCAA Tournament Participants: 14 (1987, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
NCAA Division III Frozen Four: 11 (1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)
All-Americans: 38

About the Coaches: Norwich is led by Mike McShane, who is in his 18th season at the helm of the Cadets’ program. Over his illustrious tenure, McShane has turned NU into a traditional national powerhouse. He has compiled a remarkable 389-102-27 record for a .777 winning percentage. Last season, McShane became just the ninth coach in NCAA college hockey history to record 600 career wins. In 32 total seasons coaching, McShane is 633-320-58. He has won four Ed Jeremiah Awards (National Coach of the Year) and eight ECAC East Coach of the Year awards. Under McShane, the Cadets have never posted a losing season and they have won 20 or more games 13 times.

Oswego is led by Ed Gosek, who is in his 10th year at the helm of his alma mater. The 1983 Oswego State graduate recorded his 200th career coaching victory earlier this season on Jan. 12 in a 4-1 win over his former mentor George Roll and his first-year program Nazareth. He has won two SUNYAC Coach of the Year awards and one Ed Jeremiah National Coach of the Year award in 2007 after leading the Lakers to the program’s first national championship. Gosek has compiled a 211-55-16 in his decade-long tenure, which matches McShane’s .777 winning percentage.

Scouting the Cadets: Norwich is led by its “gold” line of Travis Janke, Colin Mulvey and Tory Allan who have played together in nearly every game this season. Janke leads the squad with 15 goals and 23 assists for 38 points. He became the 47th player in NU men’s hockey history to record 100 career points on Jan. 11 in a 6-1 win over UMass-Boston. Mulvey was named the ECAC East Player of the Year and is a finalist for the Sid Watson Award after leading the Cadets with 19 goals to go along with 18 assists for 37 points. He has also netted nine game-winning goals, which leads all of Division III. Allan has registered 10 goals and 21 assists for 31 points, while also tallying a team-leading five power play goals. Fellow senior forwards Kyle Thomas (12-15-27) and Pier-Olivier Cotnoir (12-12-24) round out the top-five offensive leaders for the Cadets. Junior forward Shane Gorman (8-14-22) has also caught fire as of late, scoring a goal in four of the last five games.

Scouting the Lakers: On paper, Oswego State’s top line of Paul Rodrigues, Jon Whitelaw and Luke Moodie matches Norwich’s top trio and maybe even then some. Rodrigues garnered SUNYAC Player of the Year honors after leading the Lakers with 15 goals and 30 assists for 45 points. Moodie is one of the nation’s most prolific goal scorers with a team-high 22 goals. The big power forward also tops the Lakers in power-play tallies (nine) and game-winning goals (five). Whitelaw, the 2012 SUNYAC Player of the Year and Second Team All-American from a year ago missed six games due to injury. He has still registered 10 goals and 20 assists for 30 points. The trio has combined for a staggering 403 points in their illustrious careers. The Lakers’ offensive arsenal doesn’t stop there though as they have four more players with 10 or more goals and nine more players with 15 or more points. Chris Ayotte (13-10-23) and Chris Muise (10-23-33) each rank tied for second on the Lakers’ deadly fifth-ranked power play unit. Chris Brown (7-24-31) is also over the 30-point mark and ranks second on the team in helpers.

Goaltending: The projected matchup in goal pits Norwich junior Chris Czarnota against Oswego State senior Andrew Hare. Czarnota picked up his third shutout of the season in the quarterfinal win over Babson after making 16 saves. He is 13-1-1 on the year with a 1.46 goals against average and a .920 save percentage. Czarnota earned ECAC East Honorable Mention team recognition has only lost twice in his Norwich career in 26 starts. Hare has been the Lakers’ unquestioned No. 1 goalie for the past two seasons and has amassed an impressive 45-15-2 career mark. This season, Hare is 20-4-0 with a 1.73 goals against average and a .936 save percentage to go along with six shutouts. He was named to the SUNYAC All-Conference Third Team.

By the Numbers:

SCORING OFFENSE-
Norwich: 4.04 (6th)
Oswego: 4.86 (2nd)

SCORING DEFENSE-
Norwich: 1.57 (1st)
Oswego: 1.75 (3rd)

PENALTY MINUTES PER GAME-
Norwich: 8.6 minutes (69th)
Oswego: 11.6 minutes (57th)

POWER PLAY-
Norwich: 17.5 percent (51st)
Oswego: 27.2 percent (5th)

PENALTY KILL-
Norwich: 84.3 percent (21st)
Oswego: 85.5 percent (17th)
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I expect nothing less than a spirited effort from the boys tomorrow. I'll be on-line listening/watching and sending all my good vibs to the team....GO CADETS!!!
 
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The Real Georgia Peach said:
I expect nothing less than a spirited effort from the boys tomorrow. I'll be on-line listening/watching and sending all my good vibs to the team....GO CADETS!!!
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Me too. I just hope it doesn't go to OT, because then I'll miss the end.
 
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On the air from Lake Placid! Enjoy the game, everyone.
 
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Thanks for the memories Cadets, good luck to all the seniors and see the rest of you next season. It's been a fun year for all of us spectators.
 
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Super bummed. Not only did Norwich lose, but my D-1 team lost tonight as well (UNH). Oh well. Hopefully next season will be a good one for both teams.

Norwich forever.

ESSAYONS!!!
 
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NUCC93 said:
Super bummed. Not only did Norwich lose, but my D-1 team lost tonight as well (UNH). Oh well. Hopefully next season will be a good one for both teams.

Norwich forever.

ESSAYONS!!!
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The Wildcats have two more chances to advance to the Garden.
 
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We have been among the NC fans for some years, here in Placid and in places like Minneapolis . We always seem to meet NC fans who are classy and who appreciate fine hockey. Not a small feat by some standards today .
 
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It was a great season. In the end, two flaws that we could see and hoped wouldn't bite us did.

1. Inexperience on D. We knew the losses on D from last year were significant, and all season long there were too many rookie mistakes of defensemen making bad passes in the D-zone or failing to cover the point. We managed to survive those kinds of errors most of the time, but against a quality opponent, those kinds of errors will put you in a hole, and they did yesterday. We all saw it, and hoped it would improve, but ultimately it was costly. Give the guys another year and things will be different - that's the nature of the game. You can't make those kinds of mistakes against a quality opponent - and as much as I really don't like Oswego, they are a quality team. give them their credit

2. Power Play problems. I have no idea what that was all about and why the Power Play went into the slump that they had, but I almost dreaded having the opponents take a penalty because nothing good was happening on the PP except letting the opponents get a lift for killing the penalty, or even worse allowing a SHG. It seemed to happen when Cotnoir got hurt, and even after he returned there was no rhythm on the PP. Norwich had a couple of chances against Oswego, and not converting at least one of them was a big problem.

As for next year, the big 5 forwards Mulvey, Cotnoir, Janke, Thomas, and Allan will leave a huge offensive hole, so there are gonna be some big skates to fill. Good luck to Oswego and I hope everybody in Northfield has a wonderful spring.
 
NUProf said:
It was a great season. In the end, two flaws that we could see and hoped wouldn't bite us did.

1. Inexperience on D. We knew the losses on D from last year were significant, and all season long there were too many rookie mistakes of defensemen making bad passes in the D-zone or failing to cover the point. We managed to survive those kinds of errors most of the time, but against a quality opponent, those kinds of errors will put you in a hole, and they did yesterday. We all saw it, and hoped it would improve, but ultimately it was costly. Give the guys another year and things will be different - that's the nature of the game. You can't make those kinds of mistakes against a quality opponent - and as much as I really don't like Oswego, they are a quality team. give them their credit

2. Power Play problems. I have no idea what that was all about and why the Power Play went into the slump that they had, but I almost dreaded having the opponents take a penalty because nothing good was happening on the PP except letting the opponents get a lift for killing the penalty, or even worse allowing a SHG. It seemed to happen when Cotnoir got hurt, and even after he returned there was no rhythm on the PP. Norwich had a couple of chances against Oswego, and not converting at least one of them was a big problem.

As for next year, the big 5 forwards Mulvey, Cotnoir, Janke, Thomas, and Allan will leave a huge offensive hole, so there are gonna be some big skates to fill. Good luck to Oswego and I hope everybody in Northfield has a wonderful spring.
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Janke will be back (jr). Forkey will not (st).
 
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joecct said:
The Wildcats have two more chances to advance to the Garden.
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I know, but given their play the second half of the season I'm not expecting much. Glad they won tonight and we'll see if they can make it to the Garden, but it's been the same old script year after year. Oh well.
 
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Congratulations to Norwich and Nicholas Poulin for again having he player with the highest gpa from all the frozen ice final four teams!!! Igor Martinez won two in a row, and now Nick does. Charlie or Derek, is this 4 times in 5 years or something like that??

A big accomplishment nonetheless!!!
 
jerrynu26 said:
Congratulations to Norwich and Nicholas Poulin for again having he player with the highest gpa from all the frozen ice final four teams!!! Igor Martinez won two in a row, and now Nick does. Charlie or Derek, is this 4 times in 5 years or something like that??

A big accomplishment nonetheless!!!
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One slight correction. It's four in a row but Igor won in 2010 and 2012 while Alex Dubois won in 2011. Nic in 2013 makes 4.

A great accomplishment none the less!
 
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jerrynu26 said:
Congratulations to Norwich and Nicholas Poulin for again having he player with the highest gpa from all the frozen ice final four teams!!! Igor Martinez won two in a row, and now Nick does. Charlie or Derek, is this 4 times in 5 years or something like that??

A big accomplishment nonetheless!!!
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Highest gpa? Is that the Highest Goal & Penalty Average? ;)
 
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norm1909 said:
Highest gpa? Is that the Highest Goal & Penalty Average? ;)
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Larry, while I generally enjoy the sarcasm in your posts on the boards, I think a discussion congratulating a player for their high GPA is a special thing that needs no jokes to make it an enjoyable conversation. After all, Poulin, by virtue of his GPA, was undoubtedly the most successful STUDENT-Athlete in Lake Placid. DIII Sports care about an exercise in teamwork, competitiveness, and improvement upon and use of key skills, and that whole experience is a great part of the educational process for all of these young men. Clearly, Poulin is appropriately using the opportunity to exceed academic expectations with an eye toward securing his future.

Of these four teams that were in Lake Placid, the Student-Athlete who graduates with his degree, uses that degree to find a job, and then applies the skills he learned both as a student and as an athlete to excel in that position... he is the REAL winner. I just hope that all 105 student-athletes rostered on these 4 teams, including the 36 seniors between them, manage to do that.
 
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