Posted Nov 13, 2009; 3:57 AM

St. Norbert hockey preview

Who: UW-Stevens Point (2-3, 0-2) at No. 1 St. Norbert College (4-0-1, 2-0).

When: 7 p.m. today and Saturday.

Where: Cornerstone Community Center, Ashwaubenon.

Webcast: Available at http://www.snc.edu/athletics/ hockey/webcast.htm.

The series/last meeting: St. Norbert leads the all-time series, 31-18-5. The Green Knights took three of four games from the Pointers last year and swept Stevens Point in a Northern Collegiate Hockey Association series on Feb. 20-21.

Green Knights update: St. Norbert jumped to No. 1 in the nation after downing Bethel 8-2 last Friday and tying Hamline 1-1 on Saturday. … Freshman forward Cody Keefer leads the Green Knights in scoring with 11 points (six goals, five assists). … Senior forward Shane Wheeler follows with nine points (five goals and four assists). … Junior goaltender B.J. O'Brien owns a 4-0-1 record with a .084 goals-against average and .959 save percentage. … St. Norbert is 4-for-28 (14.3 percent) on the power play this season and is 26-for-28 (92.9 percent) on the penalty kill.

Pointers update: The Pointers lost to Hamline 6-3 last Friday before beating Bethel 5-4 on Saturday. … Stevens Point has lost its lone two league games this season, getting swept at home by St. Scholastica 4-2 and 2-1 on Oct. 30-31. … Sophomore forward Travis Erstad leads the Pointers in scoring with six points (three goals and three assists). … Junior defenseman Garrett Suter also has six points, registering two goals with four assists. … Junior Thomas Speer is 0-3 with a 3.65 GAA and .884 save percentage. … Stevens Point is 5-for-28 (17.9 percent) on the power play and is 29-for-34 (85.3 percent) on the penalty kill.

Noteworthy: UW-Stevens Point freshman goalie and Green Bay Gamblers alumnus Nick Graves is 2-0 with a 2.70 goals-against average and .864 save percentage this season. Graves, who also played for the Green Bay Junior Gamblers, played with the USHL's Gamblers in 2006-07 and briefly in 2008-09.

— Weston Hodkiewicz, whodkiew@ greenbaypressgazette.com


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