GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – After concluding the regular season with a sweep against then No. 2 Robert Morris (Ill.) and finding out their National Tournament draw with No. 5 Stony Brook, the Panthers will now focus their attention to the GLCHL Conference Tournament. Davenport will look to defend their tournament title as they defeated Adrian last year in the conference finals. The Panthers will open up tournament play holding the second seed and will play the seventh seed Kent State on Friday at 5:30 p.m. in Rochester, Mich.
Date: February 21-23, 2014
Location: Onyx Ice Arena (Rochester, Mich.)
THE GLCHL TOURNAMENT
The tournament includes all seven teams from the conference and will take place in Rochester, Mich. as Oakland is the host of this year's tournament. The number one seed is Adrian and they will receive a bye into the semifinal round where they will face the winner of four seed Eastern Michigan and five seed Michigan-Dearborn. The Panthers will open the tournament as the second seed and will play Kent State who is the seventh seed. Oakland will host the tournament and is the third seed where they play sixth seed Western Michigan to close out the games on Friday.
If the Panthers defeat Kent State and Oakland defeats Western Michigan, the Grizzlies and Panthers will face each other for the fifth time this season and DU will look to beat Oakland for the first time. If the tournament has no upsets through the first round the Panthers will play Oakland at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday.
The conference tournament will prepare Davenport, Adrian and Oakland for the National Tournament, with playing so many games in a short period, which the three teams will see at nationals if they make a run.
SCOUTING KENT STATE
The Golden Flashes finished the regular season with a 7-26-0-1 record and their conference record was 2-20-1-1.
The offensive leader for the Golden Flashes is TJ West as he leads the team with 19 goals and 33 points. Trevor Handlovitch is the only other Kent State played with double digit goals as he has ten on the season. Bobby Rhue leads the team in assists with 17 and he also tied for second on the team with 24 points.
In goal, Zachary Nowak has received the majority of playing time as he has played in 22 games posting a 5-16-1 record with a 4.49 goals against average and a .88 save percentage.
THE PANTHERS
Davenport finished their regular season with two big wins over Robert Morris (Ill.), and they will look to carry that momentum heading into the conference tournament, where they will look to defend their conference tournament title. Leading the way for the Panthers is
Andrew Frank with 41 points and 23 assists on the season, while
Mason Bohlinger is right behind him with 38 points and is leading the team in goals with 20.
Robert Kleiman,
Phil Wendecker and
Luke McCarthy have also been very lethal offensive options for the Panthers as they are all above 30 points on the season.
Phil Graveline has anchored the backend for the Panthers with a 15-9-0 to go along with a 2.71 goals against average and .91 save percentage.
Matt Kaludis has also stepped up for DU to post a 2.18 goals against average and .92 save percentage.
ACHA RANKINGS:
Preseason Ranking (9/20) 10th
Week 1 (9/27) 11th
Week 2 (10/4) 12th
Week 3 (10/11) 12th
Week 4 (10/18) 12th
Week 5 (10/24) 14th
Week 6 (10/29) 14th
Week 7 (11/5) 15th
Week 8 (11/13) 15th
Week 9 (11/20) 18th
Week 10 (11/27) 16th
Week 11 (12/5) 12th
Week 12 (12/11) 13th
Week 13 (12/17) 13th
Week 14 (1/8) 13th
Week 15 (1/15) 13th
Week 16 (1/22) 12th
Week 17 (1/29) 12th
Week 18 (2/5) 16th
Week 19 (2/12) 12th
Week 20 (2/17) 12th
DI Ice Hockey Contact:
David Gerhart | 616-554-5045 |
dgerhart@davenport.edu
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