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2006-01-03
WCHA Competition Resumes Jan. 6-7 as North Dakota Visits Alaska
WCHA - 17 hours ago Minnesota State hosts UNO Tuesday; Minnesota to entertain Niagara; SCSU heads to Colgate; UMD to face USA Under-18 Team; No. 1-ranked
UMD will usher in the New Year by hosting the U.S. National Under-18 Team in a Jan. 7 exhibition ... it will mark the first meeting ever between the two clubs ... the U.S. National Under-18 Team is 2-9-1 this season vs NCAA clubs, having defeated Lake Superior College (4-3 on Oct. 8) and Canisius College (5-2 one week later) ... the Bulldogs put the wraps on 2005 by going 1-0-1 against a pair of top 10 nationally-ranked schools at the Florida College Hockey Classic on Dec. 27-28 in Estero, Fla. ... after disposing of No. 9 Maine 4-1 in the tournament semifinals, the Bulldogs and No. 8 Cornell skated to a 1-1 overtime tie the following night ... the Big Red officially was deemed the Florida College Hockey Classic championship after winning the ensuing shootout, 3-2 ... right wing Justin Williams, who figured in on three of the Bulldogs' five goals over the two-day event (he scored once each night and added an assist against Maine) was named to the six-member Florida College Hockey Classic All-Tournament team ... joining him was teammate and fellow senior Isaac Reichmuth, who rejected 44 of 46 shots (a .957 saves percentage) in 125:00 of goaltending work ... UMD has fared quite a bit better on the road (5-4-3) than its has at home (3-6-1) thus far in 2005-06 ... the Bulldogs have been swept in three of their five home series this winter, but are unbeaten in all but two of their last 10 engagements away from the DECC (5-2-3) ... left wing Mason Raymond continues to hold the designation as the WCHA's top-scoring freshman (18 points in league play) and resides in the No. 1 spot on the current UMD point charts as well (8g,14a in 20 outings) ... Raymond, who has held without a goal or an assist the past three outings - the longest pointless drought of his young career, also ranks fifth among all WCHA combatants in points per game (1.42 ppg) and league points ... the Bulldog have yet to lose a game this season when leading (6-0-1) or tied (2-0-3) after the second period of play ... on the flip side, UMD is 0-10-0 when it has headed into the third period behind in 2005-06 ... senior goaltender Isaac Reichmuth, has not allwoed more than three goals in any of his last eight appearances, currently sports the best lifetime goals-against average (2.76) and saves percentage mark (.903) in team history ... the two-time All-WCHA honoree (second team in 2003-04 and third team in 2002-03) is also tied for third in career wins (he's 55-37-14 overall) and needs just five more triumphs to become UMD's all-time leader in that department ... UMD, which is last in the WCHA in penalty-killing efficiency (73.2% against league competition), has nonetheless surrendered only one goal the last 17 times its opponent has gone on the power-play ... the Bulldogs, meanwhile, are mired in an 0-for-24 funk since they last tallied with the extra man (at Colorado College on Dec. 17 and have cashed in on just two of their last 38 power-play opportunities (5.3%) ... sophomore center Matt McKnight, who trails only Mason Raymond in scoring among 2005-06 Bulldogs, has already established a career high for goals (seven) , assists (13) and total points (20) ... the Halkirk, Alberta product currently ranks sixth in the WCHA in league assists with nine ... of the top 17 current WCHA freshmen scoring leaders (league play), no less than five are Bulldogs - Mason Raymond (no. 1), left wing Michael Gergen (no. 5-tie) left wing Andrew Carroll (no. 11), defenseman Jason Garrison (no. 11), and defenseman Matt Niskanen (no. 14), who is spending his Christmas holidays strutting his stuff for the U.S. entry at the 2006 IIHF World Junior Championship in Vancouver, B.C. ... Niskanen, who currently tops all UMD blueliners in scoring (1-8-9), is the 11th Bulldog to the make the U.S. National Junior Team, but the first since 1991 (center Derek Plante) ... senior center Tim Stapleton, who was credited with an assist each night at the Florida College Hockey Classic, is tied for sixth place among WCHA skaters in goals with eight and is fifth in power-play scores with four ... Stapleton, who last winter came up just shy of becoming only the second Bulldog in team history (NCAA I era) to start off his career with three successive 40-point season ... he wound up with 39 points on a career-high 19 goals and 20 assists), now mans the No. 23 spot on the school's all-time scoring list (58-83-141 in 144 games) ... he needs two more points to supplant the No. 21 occupants, 2004 Hobey Baker Memorial Award winner Junior Lessard (2000-04) and All-American center Mark Pavelich (1976-79), and four to move past nine-time National Hockey League All-Star Brett Hull (1984-86), who is 20th ... the Bulldogs have been outscored in all but the third period this season (they hold a slight 19-18 advantage in that frame), but have outshot the opposition by a sizeable margin in every period ... senior defenseman and 2005-06 team captain Steve Czech, who is an impressive plus-42 as a collegian, has now played in 146 of a possible 147 games with the Bulldogs - including the last 101 in a row ... both Czech and freshman right wing Nick Kemp are mired in nine-game pointless slump while sophomore right wing Mike Curry's name hasn't appeared in the scoring summary in any of the past eight outings ... UMD returns to WCHA play on Jan. 13-14 to face Michigan Tech ... beginning with that series, the Bulldogs will be at home for six of their next eight games ... senior right wing Justin Williams, who owns a three-game scoring streak, has already collected more goals (8) and as many points (15) than he did his entire junior year ... the Bulldogs closed out the non-conference portion of its 2005-06 regular season schedule with a 3-4-1 mark, but was unbeaten (3-0-1) since starting out the year with two consecutive losses to both Bemidji State and Vermont ... UMD has not held an opponent scoreless at the DECC since Brant Nicklin turned the trick back on Feb. 28, 1998 (7-0 over UND) - a stretch of some 147 outings ... over that same period of time, the Bulldogs have posted six shutouts on the road including three by senior Isaac Reichmuth and one by junior Josh Johnson.
2005-12-13
FC Scout troop resumes active schedule
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - 44 minutes ago Boy Scout Troop 670 is back on schedule as the troop meets regularly at Divine Redeemer School in Ford City on Tuesdays from 6:30 to 7:30 pm The highlight of
A traffic safety unit is being completed by the troop, along with outdoor plant and animal identifications and a five-mile compass hike during their weekly meetings. Nate Davis, Richard Smail and Chris Karns are serving as den chiefs for Pack 670. Ford City police Officer Ron Klingensmith met with the Scouts to discuss traffic safety in Ford City and vehicle safety concerns.
2005-12-01
Edwards Lifesciences resumes valve study
BusinessWeek - 2 hours ago DEC. 1 10:29 AM ET Edwards Lifesciences Corp., a maker of artificial heart valves, said Thursday that it is restarting a valve study
The company said it received conditional approval from the Food and Drug Administration to enroll 20 patients in a trial to test its percutaneous aortic heart valve, a compressed valve that is inserted using a catheter rather than through open-heart surgery.
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