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Hoosiers
hockey headed to Illini Ice
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Indiana
coming to take on the Illini |
February
12, 2004 - This weekend brings another Big
Ten schools hockey club to the Big Pond and hopefully
some answers to what's been plaguing the Illini's
play as of late. The team has been struggling in
some areas and hopefully will get things to come
together as the Hoosiers take to the ice and before
heading to the CSCHL playoffs next weekend. The Illini
can't look past the Indiana hockey team that always
seems to play harder when facing the Illini. The
Hoosiers have struggled
some this season and sport a mediocre 14-11-3 record,
but they are currently tied for third place in the
Great
Midwest Hockey League and are ranked 3rd in the Southeast
conference for the ACHA's Division II teams. Indiana
came away with a third place finish at the BigTen
tournament
earlier this season in Fishers, Indiana, in which
the Illini came home with second place, both teams
only losing
to
Penn
State.
In some ways like the Illini, Indiana has had a problem handling the same team
for two consecutive nights, beating them handily
one night and then falling to them the next. If both
teams could figure this issue out, it would make
the run for the championships a little easier. The
Hoosiers will be bringing with them four players
who are all averaging over a point per game, leading
the way are Reed Schafer with 38 points, and David
Ravensberg with 37 points and a plus/minus rating
of +20. Indiana's Richard Young
can also be an enforcer as well as put
points on the board and usually spends as
much time in the box as he does on the
ice and is actually beating our very own Pat Olson's
101 penalty minutes by 20. The Hoosiers have been
splitting their time fairly equally among their three
netminders, and all are fairly equal with just under
ninety percent save percentages and goals against
averages over three, which the Illini will need to
find a way to take advantage of. Both games are at
7:00 pm at the
U of I ice arena this Friday and Saturday nights. |
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