Alaska Anchorage will close its six-game road trip with a pair of games at Niagra this weekend (Jan. 10-11).
Series
Alaska Anchorage and Niagra have met one previous time. The Seawolves defeated the Purple Eagles 4-0 in Anchorage on Oct. 9, 1999.
Coach Shasby
Head coach
Matt Shasby enters his third season leading the Seawolves. The Anchorage, native has a 27-52-6 mark as the UAA bench boss. Shasby will be assisted this season by
Chris Kamal,
Aaron McPheters and
Vincent Pietrangelo.
First Goal
Freshman
Adam Parsons scored his first career goal in last week's loss at No. 4 Western Michigan. The Port Moody, B.C., native recorded his first career point for Alaska Anchorage at Merrimack on Dec. 6.
Point Leader
Freshman
Dimitry Kebreau recorded his team-leading 12th assist of the season last week at No. 4 Western Michigan. The Rock Spring, Md., native leads the team with 17 points (five goals, 12 assists) this season.
Freshmen
The Seawolves top-three goal scores this season are all freshmen.
Ryan Johnson leads the team with nine goals,
Dylan Contreras has seven and
Dimitry Kebreau has five.
Road Wins
Three of Alaska Anchorage's four wins this season have come on the road.
Saturday's
UAA is 3-6-2 on Saturday's and 1-10-1 on the other six days of the week.
Score First
Alaska Anchorage scored first in its first game at No. 4 Western Michigan last week. The game was the fourth time that the Seawolves scored first in a game and lost. UAA is 4-4-2 this season when it scores first and 0-12-1 when their opponent scores first.
Goaltending
Freshman
Tyler Krivtsov has started four of the last five games for the Seawolves. The Santa Clarita, Calif., native has a 3.31 goals against average and an .882 save percentage.
Last Time Out
No. 4 Western Michigan swept Alaska Anchorage in a pair of games (4-1, 5-2) in Kalamazoo last weekend.
Looking Ahead
Alaska Anchorage will host Alaska Fairbanks in game three of the Alaska Airlines Governor's Cup Jan. 18.