MEN'S HOCKEY NOTEBOOK
UVM travels down I-89 and returns to the ice after Thanksgiving to face former ECAC rival Dartmouth on Saturday night (Nov. 25) at Thompson Arena in the 80th meeting of the series at 7 p.m. The game will streamed live on ESPN3 and the WatchESPN app by logging in through your cable provider. Pre-game radio coverage begins at 6:30 p.m. on WVMT 620-AM and CatamounTV.com with Alastair Ingram and Bob Snow on the call. 

PRE-GAME RECEPTION
All Catamount fans are invited to join the UVM Alumni Association for a pre-game reception from 4:30-6 p.m. at Jesse's (224 Lebanon St., Hanover, NH 03755). Light appetizers and a cash bar will be provided. Fans attending the game on Saturday can donate a new, unwrapped toy to the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth (CHaD) as part of the Big Green's annual toy drive.

RELATED LINKS
Video | Audio | Live Stats | Game Notes (.pdf)

MOVEMBER CAMPAIGN | Donate
The men's hockey team is growing mustaches for Movember to raise money and awareness for men's health issues such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health and suicide prevention. To donate online to the team or to an individual player, please visit go.uvm.edu/movember. Fans who donate at least $25 and use the phrase "Go Cats Go" in the "include a message with your donation" section will be entered to win four (4) tickets to the Brown game on Saturday, Dec. 9 at 7:05 p.m. or a stick signed by the entire team. 

SCOUTING THE BIG GREEN
Dartmouth is 2-4-0 on the year and 2-3-0 in ECAC play, having played the lowest number of total games in Division I. The Big Green is 0-4-0 on the road but 2-0-0 in its only games played at Thompson Arena this season. Dartmouth lost to 14th-ranked Cornell and Colgate on the road two weekends ago in league contests.

Junior Kevan Kilistoff leads the team with six points and is tied with sophomore Daniel Warpecha for the lead in goals with three. Senior Devin Buffalo has started all six games in net with a 3.56 goals against average and an .875 save percentage but was injured in the team's last game 16 minutes in at Colgate. 

Bob Gaudet is in his 21st year as the head coach in Hanover and is only nine wins away from 300 during his tenure. Last year, the Big Green was swept away from home by Yale in the ECAC First Round and finished the season at 10-18-3 (7-13-2 ECAC).

SERIES HISTORY
UVM collected its 50th all-time win over Dartmouth at home last November in the 79th meeting between the former ECAC rivals. Vermont owns the advantage in the series with Dartmouth at 50-23-6, including a 23-15-3 edge in Hanover. The Catamounts are 7-1-1 in their last nine games against the Big Green, winning three in a row by the combined score of 10-3.

Vermont registered a 1-0 shutout on Jan. 8, 2016 in Burlington on Martin St. Louis Night as number 8 was raised to the rafters and Brendan Bradley won the game with a late second period goal. This will be only UVM's second trip since 2012 to Thompson Arena, where the Catamounts are 3-1-0 in their last four outings. Vermont is 1-1-0 against ECAC opponents this season.

NEWS & NOTES
Freshman Alex Esposito scored his first NCAA goal last Friday at Northeastern, joining classmates Max Kaufman, Christian Evers and Owen Grant as the four rookies who have scored this season. Esposito has scored a goal in each of his last two contests, while Kaufman is tied for eighth in the league among rookies in goals (3) and tied for 14th in points (6).

Derek Lodermeier skated in his 50th career game on Tuesday, while classmate Matt O'Donnell hits the 50-mark on Saturday. Captain Rob Darrar played in his 90th contest on Tuesday. UVM ranks second in Hockey East with 185 blocked shots.

WHO'S NEXT
Vermont travels to Orono next weekend for its final Hockey East series of the first half. The Catamounts face the Maine Black Bears on Friday, Dec. 1 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 2 at 5 p.m. at Alfond Arena.

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