Bowling Green’s hockey team attempts to break a five-game winless streak tonight at
19th-ranked Michigan.
The Falcons are 0-4-1 in their last five games to fall to 2-8-3 overall and 1-5-2-1
in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.
BG is coming off 4-3 (overtime), 3-1 losses at home to 16th-ranked Ferris State, even
though it held a 66-42 edge in shots in the series.
Michigan is 4-6-1 overall and 2-5-1-1 in the CCHA after losing twice at home to No. 6
Notre Dame.
OFFENSE: Michigan leads the CCHA and is fourth nationally in scoring, averaging 3.64
goals per game.
The Wolverines are last in the in goals allowed at 3.55.
"Our defense has to have a purpose it," Bergeron said. "(Michigan)
will expose you if you make a mistake. We have to play focused and play with
intensity."
The Falcons are tied for eighth in the CCHA in goals allowed (2.92 per game).
INJURIES: Bergeron said forward and co-captain Cam Wojtala (lower body) will play
tonight after missing the last four games.
But Bergeron said forwards Brent Tate (back) and Ted Pletsch (shoulder) will remain
out and not play tonight.
Bergeron said the goal now is to have Tate back for BG’s game against Niagara Dec.
29. Pletsch’s status is week to week.
STREAK: BG forward Ryan Carpenter has a point in four straight games, totaling two
goals and two assists in that span. He leads BG with four goals and nine points.

PP/PK: Although special teams are always important, they’re even bigger against
Michigan.
The Falcons are last in the CCHA in power-play conversions (5-of-61, 8.2 percent) and
penalty-killing (73.7 percent, 42-of-57).
The power play did score in each game against Ferris to end 0-of-39 streak, but the
penalty-killing has allowed 10 goals in 27 chances over the last five games.
Michigan is fourth in the CCHA in power-play conversions (18 percent, 9-of-50) and
eighth in penalty-killing (81.4 percent, 35-of-43).
BREAK: After tonight’s game, the Falcons will break for Thanksgiving and return to
practice Monday.
BG finishes the first half of its pre-Christmas schedule with a Dec. 7-8 series at
Alaska and a Dec. 15 home game against Notre Dame.
WHY: The Falcons and Michigan originally were scheduled to play a two-game series in
Ann Arbor this weekend.
However, the series was switched to two single games to allow Michigan to play
Cornell on Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York.
The second game is Jan 8, a Tuesday night.
SERIES: Michigan won of two of the three games against BG last season and is 9-1 in
the last 10.
BG last won at Yost Arena during the 2009-10 season.
LEADERS: Senior forward A.J. Treais is Michigan’s leading scorer with 13 points on
eight goals and five assists, while sophomore forward Alex Guptill has four
goals and six assists, and junior defenseman Mac Bennett has three goals and
seven assists.
Freshmen Steve Racine and Jared Rutledge have split time in goal.
Racine has a 2.92 goals-against average and an .885 save percentage in eight games,
while Rutledge has a 4.46 goals-against and an .855 save percentage in four
games.
Racine started both games against ND.
MERRILL: Standout Michigan defenseman Jon Merrill hasn’t played a game this season,
the result of a fractured vertebrae suffered Oct. 10 in an exhibition against
Windsor.
Merrill originally was expected to miss a minimum of six weeks.
He was a second-round draft pick of New Jersey in 2010.
FUTURE STAR: Michigan freshman defenseman Jacob Trouba was selected ninth overall by
the Winnipeg Jets in June’s NHL Draft.
The 6-foot-2, 195-pounder has four goals and five assists.