men's hockey News - July, 2009 Archive

April 10: St. Lawrence University senior defenseman Zach Miskovic was named a first-team All America in voting by the American Hockey Coaches Association.

St. Lawrence University’s 2009-10 men’s ice hockey schedule will include two trips to college hockey’s “west” including an appearance in the Icebreaker Tournament hosted by the University of Nebraska at Omaha to start the official NCAA season.

The Saints will unveil the 2009-10 team in an exhibition game against the University of Toronto on Sunday, Oct. 4 at 4 p.m. at Appleton Arena. They then open NCAA play, joining Nebraska-Omaha, Army and UMass.-Lowell in Omaha for the Icebreaker Oct. 9-10 and play their first official home games with Niagara and RIT visiting Appleton Arena on Oct. 16-17.

The first of three meetings with arch-rival Clarkson will take place in Potsdam on Oct. 24 in a non-league game and the Saints will complete pre-ECAC play with Sacred Heart at Appleton for two games on Oct. 30-31.

SLU opens league play at Princeton and Quinnipiac Nov. 6-7, hosts Union and RPI on Nov. 13-14 and is at Harvard and Dartmouth Nov. 20-21. The Saints will play Maine in Portland in a non-league game on Nov. 29 and will play a back-to-back league series with Clarkson on Dec. 4 and 5, meeting the Knights in Canton on the fourth at 7:30 and playing at Clarkson on the fifth at 7 p.m. First semester play concludes with a game at Vermont on Dec. 12.

Seniors Travis Vermuelen and Derek Keller will be the captains of the 2009-10 St. Lawrence University men’s hockey team and three other players will wear the “A” of assistant captains.

Joining Vermeulen and Keller will be seniors Mike McKenzie and Alex Curran and junior Aaron Bogosian as assistants.

Vermeulen, a center from Centerville, MN,  is coming off his most prolific season offensively after scoring seven goals and assisting on 13 in 39 games as a junior. An outstanding penalty killer, he has four career shorthanded goals and will enter his senior season with 18 goals and 25 assists in 106 career games. He took only three penalties in 39 games in the 2008-09 season.

Derek Keller, a defenseman from Wilkie, SASK, is one of two returning regulars on the blue line for the Saints and is also coming off an outstanding season as a junior. Keller scored his first career goal and finished the season with three goals and five assists for eight points in 33 games. He had a plus-eight plus/minus rating. He has played in 93 career games and has three goals and 16 assists.

McKenzie was the leading scorer for the Saints as a junior with 16 goals and 18 assists for 34 points in 39 games. He was also plus-eight in the plus/minus ratings and should join the 100 point club as a senior as he enters his final collegiate season with 35 goals and 44 assists for 79 points in 104 career games.