Photo courtesy of St. John's University
JOHNNIES RELEASE 2013 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
By St. John's University (Press Release)
February 4, 2013
COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – New Saint John's University head football coach
Gary Fasching and the Johnnies will open the 2013 season with a 7 p.m.
game Friday, Sept. 6, at Wisconsin-River Falls.
SJU returns home to host Wisconsin-Eau Claire on Saturday, Sept. 14,
and begins the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC)
schedule at St. Thomas Sept. 21.
Four more opponents visit Collegeville, including Concordia-Moorhead
for Homecoming Sept. 28 and Augsburg for Family Weekend Oct. 12. The
Homecoming game is the first for SJU against the Cobbers since Oct.
13, 1984 (W, 13-9).
The Johnnies end the 2013 regular season with back-to-back home games
against Hamline (Nov. 9) and Bethel (Nov. 16).
The season opener at River Falls is the first Friday-night game, at an
on-campus stadium, since Oct. 1, 1965, at St. Thomas. An estimated
crowd of 6,100 spectators witnessed the Johnnies earn a 10-0 shutout
of the Tommies at O'Shaughnessy Stadium en route to a perfect 11-0
record and the program's second national championship.
SJU's...
-Last Game Under the Lights: Sept. 11, 2010, at Wisconsin-Eau Claire's
off-campus venue, Carson Park (L, 20-23 in overtime)
-Last Game on a Friday: Nov. 8, 2002, vs. Bethel at the H.H.H.
Metrodome (W, 31-26)
-Last Game Under the Lights in an On-Campus Stadium: Sept. 6, 1997, at
Bemidji State (L, 21-25)
Minnesota Score Photo by Brad Rempel
WILD'S TOP LINE KNOW THEY WILL GET BETTER
By Izzy Presley - Columnist
January 23, 2013
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(ST. PAUL, MN) – Three games into the young season that is the 2013
season, the first line featuring Wild Captain Mikko Koivu, last year’s
big gun acquisition Dany Heatley, and this year’s addition of
Minnesota native Zach Parise have been carrying their weight as far as
offensive production goes. With a total of 18 points (6 goals, 12
assist), the big line as accounted for 10 of those points (4 goals, 6
assists) with 2 of the goals and 2 of the assists coming on the power
play.
The key to the success of this line is that they are together on
regular shifts and on the power play along with Ryan Suter and Matt
Cullen on the blue line. Although having 5 lefties on the ice at the
same time may be a red flag, the line is getting more comfortable with
each other every shift that they skate together.
“From a chemistry standpoint, guys are coming back. How nice is it for
a line to go out and score a power play goal or even to have some
great movement, a couple shots, or even some momentum, and they come
back to the bench and their talking about it. That’s going to carry on
into their next shift as well” said head coach Mike Yeo after the
teams opening night win against Colorado.
Heatley added “You get to know tendencies of guys when you’re playing
with them 5 on 5 and it helps definitely on the power play.”
Putting them together on the power play as well as regular shifts also
helps in the energy department. “If guys are on different lines then
all of a sudden you draw a power play, a lot of times you got a tired
guy goin’ on the ice. So, if they can be on the same line it does help
in that regard” Yeo said.
After watching the trio throughout the first three games of the
season, you can see a chemistry building which is something to be
expected with guys like Parise and Koivu who are notorious for
outworking everybody on the ice. Then you have a guy like Heatley
there ready to put the puck home, which has been the line’s M.O. over
the first three games. Heatley has 3 goals over those 3 games.
“You put Mikko with him and Heater’s a great player and he’s even a
better with Mikko, then you add a guy like Zach and that just
compounds”, coach Yeo said.
The three know that they still have some work to do.
“I think we can still be better 5 on 5. I think we can spend a little
more time in their zone”, Parise said. “Stop trying to be fancy. We
will definitely get better”.
Captain Mikko Koivu added “We’ve been working on it a lot (getting
better) and we will. We want to get better and each and every night
there’s gonna be ups and downs, but that‘s part of the game.”
“I think we are all hungry to get better”, he continued.
NOTES:
- Rookie Mikael Granlund netted his first goal as an NHLer, and with
the talent this kid has, it definitely will not be his last.
- Josh Harding recorded a shutout in his first start of the season
against Dallas which was also his first game since being diagnosed
with MS this summer.
- Zenon Konopka has already amassed 12 penalty minutes and 30 stitches
over the first 3 games and said he would drop the mitts if needed,
even with the 30 stitches in his face…man’s game.
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