Team Notes: Colgate Opens Weekend at Mass.-Lowell

The following article appeared October 21 on the Colgate Web site.

After playing a pair of games against nationally-ranked Nebraska Omaha at home, Colgate returns to the road to square off with another nationally-ranked foe in UMass-Lowell, Friday evening at Tsongas Arena.  Opening face-off is set for 7 p.m.  This single-game meeting will be 17th time the two institutions have played one another.  The Raiders will be in search of their first win in Lowell since 1990. It will be Colgate's first non conference game in Massachusetts since it last travelled to Lowell back in 2004.  After the game with the River Hawks, Colgate rests one day and then will host its second exhibition of the year as the US National Under 18 team comes to Starr Rink for a Sunday afternoon contest.  This is the first time on record NTDP U18 will compete against the Raiders.

MEET THE HEAD COACH: Don Vaughan is in his 17th year at the helm of the Colgate Raiders.  The 1984 graduate of St. Lawrence enters the campaign as the program's all-time winningest coach with a 270-254-61 mark.  On February 16, 2008, he became the all-time winningest coach with his 252nd victory as Colgate blanked Union 8-0.  On November 11, 2007, the President of Colgate, Rebecca S. Chopp, announced the creation of the Donald F. Vaughan Endowed Coaching Chair for Men's Hockey.

SERIES RECORD: UMass Lowell holds a 9-7-0 all-time advantage in the all-time series dating back to the 1988-89 season.  Colgate will attempt to snap a five game winless skid against the River Hawks in Lowell.  After winning 6-4 on October 26, 1990, UMass-Lowell has won five straight over the Raiders in its home barn.  Colgate has had the upper hand though in recent years in winning the last two meetings 6-2 in 2005 and 2-1 last year.  The River Hawks have outscored the Raiders by a combined score of 70-62.  Colgate is 2-3 against UML in one goal games and the two have gone into overtime twice in the all-time series, both prevailing once in a multi-overtime affair.  On December 28, 1990, the River Hawks, known as the Chiefs back in the day, downed Colgate 4-3 in four overtimes - one of the longest games in Raider history.  Colgate returned the favor four years later with a 4-3 win in double overtime.  Both overtime games were played in Syracuse.

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