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Vermont continues a three-game week at home this weekend against the Maine Black Bears in a two-game Hockey East series on Friday (Nov. 18) at 7:05 p.m. and Saturday (Nov. 19) at 4 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at UVMathletics.com/Tickets or by calling 802-656-4410. Live HD video is available for free via CatamounTV.com, and radio coverage begins 30 minutes prior to faceoff on WVMT 620-AM and Catamounts All-Access with Alastair Ingram on the call.

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MILITARY APPRECIATION DAY | Jersey Auction
Vermont will host Military Appreciation Day this Saturday against Maine at 4 p.m and the Catamounts will wear special camouflage jerseys in honor of the event. The team's game-worn camouflage jerseys are currently being auctioned off at UVMathletics.com/Auctions to benefit the Vermont Veterans Fund (VVF). The auction will close at 12 p.m. next Monday (Nov. 21) and bids start at $150 per jersey. A special group rate of $10 per general admission ticket is available for military and their family members for Saturday's game. Tickets can be purchased by calling the UVM Athletic Ticket Office at 802-656-4410.

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 just over a week 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, and online by clicking here.

LAST TIME OUT | CatamounTV Highlights
Senior Mario Puskarich and freshman Ross Colton each scored a pair of goals on Tuesday night as Vermont registered its 50th all-time win over former ECAC rival Dartmouth with a 5-2 victory at Gutterson Fieldhouse. UVM improved to 6-3-1 (2-2-0 HEA) with its second straight win and moved to 7-1-1 in its last nine games against the Big Green. 10 different Catamounts registered at least one point in the non-conference victory. 

Vermont returned to Burlington after a four-game road swing and stormed out to a 4-0 lead just 12 minutes into the opening period. The Catamounts were backed by freshman Stefanos Lekkas, who stopped 32 of the 34 shots he faced to push his record to 5-1-1. Colton notched his first career multi-goal and multi-point games, added an assist, and posted a career-high seven shots on goal.

SCOUTING MAINE
Maine began the season 3-0-0 but is 1-6-2 in its last nine games and split a home-and-home with UMass Lowell last weekend. Senior Blaine Byron leads the team with 12 points on six goals and six assists, while fellow senior Cam Brown has tallied a team-best nine assists and rookie Mitchell Fossier has netted six goals. Sophomore goalie Rob McGovern has started 10 games with a 4-4-2 record, 2.71 goals against average and .921 save percentage.

The Black Bears are operating at 8.7% on the power play and 82.5% on the penalty kill this season. Red Gendron is in his fourth year as the head coach of the Black Bears. He guided BFA St. Albans to four Vermont high school state championships in the 1980's. Last year, Maine finished 8-24-6 overall and 5-15-2 in Hockey East, falling to Northeastern in a pair of overtime games in the opening round of the playoffs.

SERIES HISTORY
Friday marks the 54th meeting of the all-time series, which UVM leads by a narrow 25-24-4 margin. The Catamounts were swept in Orono last November after going 9-1-0 in their previous 10 games against the Black Bears, which included a series-high eight-game winning streak. UVM defeated Maine in a three-game Hockey East First Round series in 2014-15, winning Game 3 by a 3-2 final in overtime. The Game 2 loss was Vemont's first defeat to Maine in Burlington since Dec. 3, 2011 to snap a six-game home win streak.    

WHO'S NEXT
Vermont travels to Belfast, Northern Ireland next week for the second annual Friendship Four. The Catamounts face UMass in a league contest on Friday, Nov. 25 at 11 a.m. (ET), then play either Quinnipiac or St. Lawrence from the ECAC on Saturday, Nov. 26. Game time will be either 11 a.m. or 2:30 p.m. (ET) on Saturday depending on the Friday result.

All four games of the tournament will be televised live on NESN as part of an ASN production. Pre-game radio coverage begins 30 minutes prior to faceoff on WVMT 620-AM and Catamounts All-Access with Alastair Ingram on the call. Ri Ra Irish Pub and Restaurant on Church Street will be hosting the Official Watch Party of the 2016 Friendship Four Tournament being played in Northern Ireland.  

Handy Toyota is the presenting sponsor of the 2016-17 men's hockey season