They used to call this kind of thing cleaning out the notebook, and The Blagr thinks that's still a thing, so here goes after UAA's wild 3-3 tie at Maine on Saturday night, backstopped by Olivier Mantha's 46 saves (and you can read all about that online here in the story that shows, if nothing else, The Blagr has been around longer than dirt).
In any event, today was UAA coach Matt Thomas' 39th birthday. "I'm alive,'' Thomas laughed after a wickedly back-and-forth game.
-- Hudson Friesen, Chase Van Allen and Tad Kozun each entered the penalty box for the first time all season tonight in Orono, Maine. That leaves defenseman Derek Docken and center Matt Anholt as the only Seawolves regulars -- meaning they have played in all five games -- who have yet to be penalized. I like to think of them as the Byng Boys.
-- Dylan Hubbs scored short-handed tonight and both his goals this season are shorties. If you are wondering -- and, really, how could you not -- the program record for short-handed goals in a season is five by Dan Gasperlin in 1983-84.
-- With a helper tonight, Van Allen leads UAA in points with 1-6--7 totals, one point shy of his output last season (eight assists) as a freshman. He has at least one point in five of six games.
-- Scott Allen's power-play goal tonight, which tied the game in the third period, gives him the team lead in goals (3) and power-play goals (2). He owns 3-2--5 totals.
-- Austin Coldwell, coming off a six-goal, 19-point season last campaign as a junior, had a goal tonight to give him 2-2--4 totals in six games. He's also a team lead-tying +4, as if rookie D Jarrett Brown.
-- Allen leads the club with 15 shots on goal, Blake Tatchell has 13, and Hubbs and Anholt have 12 each.
-- Allen, a senior, is UAA's leading active points producer with 35-29--64 totals in 103 games. Second is Tatchell, a junior center, with 17-44--61 totals in 80 career games.