MEN'S HOCKEY NOTEBOOK
Vermont plays the first of three home games this week on Tuesday night (Nov. 15) as former ECAC rival Dartmouth travels to Gutterson Fieldhouse for a 7:05 p.m. faceoff. Live HD video is available for free via CatamounTV.com, and radio coverage begins at 6:30 p.m. on WVMT 620-AM and Catamounts All-Access with Alastair Ingram and Tom Child on the call. Tickets are available at UVMathletics.com/Tickets.

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PROMOTIONS
Tuesday is Lenny's Shoe and Apparel Night with UVM hosting an on-ice intermission promotion to win Carhartt Gear and a table in the lobby with branded Carhartt premium items.

NEW AUDIO STREAMING | Listen Live
This season, Catamount men's hockey fans can access a brand new free home for live audio streaming through Catamounts All-Access. The WVMT 620-AM audio feed of every home and road game will air live at the link above with pre-game coverage beginning 30 minutes prior to faceoff. The new audio streams are accessible on all desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices.

FRIENDSHIP FOUR T-SHIRT
With less than two weeks remaining before Vermont competes in the 2016 Friendship Four tournament in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the UVM Bookstore has a Friendship Four T-shirt for sale. The shirt is available for purchase at the main bookstore at the Davis Center, at the Gutterson store on gamedays starting on Tuesday, and online by clicking here.

CAT STATUS
UVM is off to a 5-3-1 start through nine games and has an even 2-2-0 mark in Hockey East play for fourth place in the standings. The Catamounts are just outside the top-20 in this week's USCHO.com poll and sit 22nd overall. Craig Puffer leads the squad with four goals and seven points, while Kevin Irwin and Max Daigle are tied for the team-lead with four assists apiece. Rookie goaltender Stefanos Lekkas ranks seventh in the country with a 1.68 goals against average and eighth with a .930 save percentage. UVM plays 11 of its next 13 games at Gutterson Fieldhouse. 

LAST TIME OUT
Rookie Matt Alvaro's third goal of the season with 5:14 left in the third period pushed Vermont past UMass 2-1 on Saturday night in Hockey East action to close out a four-game road trip at the Mullins Center. The Catamounts extended their unbeaten streak against the Minutemen to nine games (8-0-1). UVM limited UMass to just 14 shots on goal, the lowest total allowed by Vermont in a single game since Jan. 2, 2010 against Alabama Huntsville. Rob Darrar netted his third goal of the season in the first period, while Lekkas stopped all but one shot he faced for his fourth win in five starts. 

SCOUTING DARTMOUTH
The Big Green enters Tuesday at 2-1-2 (1-1-2 ECAC) through five games. Dartmouth fell to Quinnipiac 6-3 on the road last Friday and tied Princeton 2-2 on Saturday. Rookie Cam Strong leads the team with three goals and four points, while fellow freshman Will Graber has tallied a team-high three assists. Junior goalie Devin Buffalo has played every minute in net with a 2.13 goals against average and a .925 save percentage. Bob Gaudet is in his 20th year as the head coach in Hanover and is 19 wins shy of 300 in his Dartmouth career.

SERIES HISTORY
UVM is looking for its 50th all-time win against Dartmouth on Tuesday in the 79th meeting between the former ECAC rivals. Vermont owns the advantage in the series with Dartmouth at 49-23-6, including a 25-7-3 edge at Gutterson. The Catamounts are 6-1-1 in their last eight games against the Big Green and posted a 1-0 shutout last year in Burlington on Martin St. Louis Night. Number 8 was raised to the Gutterson rafters and Brendan Bradley won the game with a goal late in the second period.

WHO'S NEXT
UVM hosts Maine in a two-game league series on Friday (Nov. 18) at 7:05 p.m. and Saturday (Nov. 19) at 4 p.m. The Saturday game is Military Appreciation Night with a special $10 group rate on general admission tickets for military members and their families. Tickets are available at UVMathletics.com/Tickets. 

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