April 29th, 2010 
Matt.Kaskavitch It’s now golf time, dust off those 9-irons and practice your putting. Hockey is many months away and I want to provide you with some entertainment while the news with the team is very slow. Anyone who knows me will tell you I’m a viral video junkie. I will post these from time to time, of course hockey related! Enjoy them, hopefully you get a chuckle.
The first video is a great spoof of the current NHL Stanley Cup Playoff’s commercial airing on Versus and the NHL network.
April 21st, 2010 Matt.Kaskavitch The UW-Stout hockey schedule for the 2010-2011 season has been anounnced. Go here to check out all the dates for next season. And don’t forget to clear of your calendars Devils’ Advocates! Go Devils!
April 6th, 2010 Matt.Kaskavitch Joel Gaulrapp has been named to the All-USCHO 1st team in the western region. Joel Gaulrapp scored 78 points at UW-Stout in just three years after transferring from UW-Superior. He will go down as one of the best players to ever dawn a UW-Stout sweater along with Scott Motz and Derek Hanson. Find out all the USCHO 2009-2010 selections here.
March 22nd, 2010 Matt.Kaskavitch 
MENOMONIE (March 19, 2010) – UW-Stout forward Joel Gaulrapp (Sr, Owatonna, Minn) was named as an NCAA Division III All-American as a member of the West Region First Team.
Gaulrapp, the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association (NCHA) player of the year, led the Blue Devils with 12 goals and 15 assists for 27 points. He finished the season with five power play goals, one shorthanded goal and three game winning goals. Gaulrapp was also an alternate for the Frozen Four Skills Challenge.
Gustavus Adolphus forward David Martinson was awarded the Sid Watson Award as the top player in Division III. Martinson, the MIAC player of the year, led the nation with an average of 1.04 goals per game. He had 29 goals and 49 points for the Gusties, who advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals.
The runner-up was Oswego’s Eric Selleck.
Here are the remainder of the men’s Division III All-Americans:
East First Team
Forwards: Mickey Lang, Manhattanville; Eric Selleck, Oswego; Alex Smigelski, Williams.
Defensemen: Kyle Shearer-Hardy, Bowdoin; Eric Tallent, Norwich.
Goaltender: Ryan Klingensmith, Norwich.
West First Team
Forwards: Jordan Chong, St. Scholastica; Joel Gaulrapp, Wisconsin-Stout; David Martinson, Gustavus Adolphus.
Defensemen: Chris Berenguer, Hamline; Nick Tabisz, St. Norbert.
Goaltender: B.J. O’Brien, St. Norbert.
East Second Team
Forwards: Chad Anderson, Norwich; Martin Drolet, Middlebury; Coleman Noonan, St. Anselm.
Defensemen: A.J. Mikkelsen, Manhattanville; Steve Rizer, Fredonia.
Goaltender: Scott Barchard, Tufts.
West Second Team
Forwards: Tyler Czuba, Wisconsin-River Falls; Mike Dahlinger, Adrian; Chris Johnson, Augsburg.
Defensemen: Mitch Carlson, Gustavus Adolphus; Chris Stansik, Adrian.
Goaltender: Josh Swartout, Gustavus Adolphus.
March 13th, 2010 Matt.Kaskavitch Gaulrapp, the 2010 NCHA player of the year, was one of 17 players named as an alternate to the West Team and one of 32 total alternates. The Skills Challenge is held in conjunction with the men’s NCAA Division I Frozen Four Championships.
The need for alternates will become more evident following the conclusion of NCAA Division I regional competition on March 28. If a student-
Joel Gaulrapp
athlete who has been selected for the skills challenge becomes a Men’s Frozen Four participant, he will be replaced by an alternate.
Neil Musselwhite of Oswego State was the only NCAA Division III player to be selected to any of the announced teams. David Martinson of Gustavus Adolphus College joins Gaulrapp as the only other alternate for the West Team.
March 11th, 2010 Matt.Kaskavitch 
GREEN BAY – St. Norbert College advanced to the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Division III Men’s Ice Hockey Tournament for the eighth time in nine years with a hard-fought 4-3 win over Adrian College in a first-round game at the Cornerstone Community Center.
The Green Knights improved to 22-3-3 with the win, and will face Gustavus Adolphus College (20-6-2) at 7 p.m. Saturday in a national quarterfinal game at the Cornerstone. Adrian, making its first NCAA Tournament appearance, finished 24-4.
St. Norbert built a 4-1 lead but had to withstand a late Adrian flurry to advance. Adrian cut the deficit to 4-2 when Mike Dahlinger put home a rebound on a power play with 10 minutes 47 seconds gone by in the second period. That score held up until there was 3:41 remaining in the game when the Bulldogs’ Mike Towns had the puck bounce off his shoulder in front of the net for a goal.
Adrian pulled goaltender Brad Fogal with 55 seconds remaining, but did not get a quality look with the extra attacker. There was a face-off in the St. Norbert defensive zone with 5 seconds left, but the Green Knights won the draw and ran out the clock.
After Adrian’s Chris Stansik opened the scoring with a low far post shot from the right circle at 10:14 of the first period, St. Norbert’s offense got rolling. Cody Keefer’s wrister from the right slot squared the game at 1-1 at the 17:52 mark of the first.
Dustin Walz’s blast from the blue line for his first goal of the season put St. Norbert ahead 2-1 at 2:07 of the second. Matt Boyd answered 1:14 later when he finished off a pretty passing combination with assists from Tyler Allen and Shane Wheeler. Brandon Longley then found himself in the right place at the 8:56 mark, when a centering pass from Mike Bernardy found Longley’s chest-level stick and was redirected in for a 4-1 lead.
The Green Knights dodged a major bullet midway through the third period when they had to kill off a 5-on-3 Adrian power play. St. Norbert’s Dylan Exton was called for elbowing at 8:52, and Dustin Walz followed with a crosscheck at 9:49. The Green Knights killed the first penalty and then Adrian’s Dahlinger was slapped with an interference penalty at 11:12 to send the action to 4-on-4.
St. Norbert, which had two assists from Alain Joanette, outshot Adrian 31-19, and held a 4-3 shots edge in the third period. B.J. O’Brien made 16 save for St. Norbert, which was 0-for-3 on the power play.
Adrian was 1-for-3 on the power play. Fogal made 27 stops for the Bulldogs, including 14 in the first period.
Story courtesy of St. Norbert Sports Information Department
St. Norbert will now face Gustavus Adolphus on Saturday at the CCC for the right to represent the west in Lake Placid, NY at the NCAA Div. III Ice Hockey Championships
St.Norbert vs. Gustavus Stat Sheet Preview (Last 7 games)
St. Norbert (5-0-2)
GF: 30
GA: 8
PP: 8/44 18.18%
PK: 1/28 3.5%
PIM: 36-79
Gustavus (5-2-0)
GF: 27
GA: 16
PP: 6/32 18.75%
PK: 3/17 17.64%
PIM: 23-46
Learn more about Saturday’s Quarterfinal match-up in DePere (ticket info, game preview etc.) by going here.
February 23rd, 2010 Matt.Kaskavitch 
RSS Feed
Twitter# Player GP G A PTS Shots PCT +/-
9 Joel Gaulrapp 27 12 15 27 67 .179 +10
18 Scott Motz 27 10 17 27 69 .145 +7
25 Derek Hanson 27 9 16 25 79 .114 +9
16 Andy Sternberg 26 11 10 21 50 .220 +7
14 Branden Gay 24 3 12 15 47 .064 +8
24 Sam Carr 22 4 7 11 25 .160 +3
10 Garrett Grimstad 25 4 6 10 33 .121 +7
13 Joe Beaudette 26 4 5 9 44 .091 +5
26 Mike Hartviksen 19 3 6 9 23 .130 0
27 Robert Carr 27 3 4 7 44 .068 +5
3 David Larson 26 1 6 7 27 .037 +5
17 Danny Ryan 21 4 2 6 36 .111 +5
21 Joe Knoepke 14 3 2 5 12 .250 0
20 Paul Henderson 27 1 3 4 16 .062 +3
7 Ryan Sullivan 24 0 4 4 13 .000 +4
23 Joel Whited 12 3 0 3 12 .250 +2
12 Brandon Larson 22 2 1 3 22 .091 0
11 Justin Giles 10 1 1 2 10 .100 +2
5 Eric Scovill 19 1 0 1 15 .067 -1
22 Derrick Bohn 10 0 1 1 10 .000 0
8 Alex Breeden 10 0 1 1 6 .000 +1
2 Jesse Johnston 7 0 1 1 3 .000 +1
19 Ben Bengtson 11 0 0 0 8 .000 0
15 Jared Britton 6 0 0 0 1 .000 -1
4 Bobby Kuehl 2 0 0 0 1 .000 0
29 Tom Lescovich 22 0 0 0 0 .000 0
17 Danny Ryan Jr. 1 0 0 0 4 .000 0
6 Jeff Stone 14 0 0 0 6 .000 +3
# Player GP Mins GA GAA Saves SV%
29 Tom Lescovich 22 1219:17 60 2.95 611 .911
31 Nick Hopper 8 368:54 24 3.90 188 .887
30 Mike Morgan 3 54:47 4 4.38 27 .871
TEAM STATISTICS STOUT OPP
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SHOT STATISTICS...............
Goals-Shot attempts......... 79-793 90-916
Shot pct.................... .100 .098
Goals/Game.................. 2.9 3.3
Shots/Game.................. 29.4 33.9
POWER PLAYS...................
Goals-Power Plays........... 27-119 26-144
Conversion Percent.......... .227 .181
GOAL BREAKDOWN................
Power Play.................. 27 26
Short-handed................ 4 5
Empty net................... 2 2
Penalty..................... 0 0
Unassisted.................. 8 11
Overtime.................... 1 2
PENALTIES.....................
Number...................... 187 161
Minutes..................... 382 371
Penalties/Game.............. 6.9 6.0
Pen minutes/Game............ 14.1 13.7
February 22nd, 2010 Matt.Kaskavitch MENOMONIE (February 20, 2010) – UW-Stevens Point’s Johnny Meo scored 18 seconds into the overtime period of the mini-game to eliminate UW-Stout from the NCHA Peters Cup tournament.
The Pointers came back in the first game to tie the game in the second period, then scored the winning goal two minutes into the overtime period on a shot by Travis Erstad.
Stout opened the scoring in the game when Joel Gaulrapp (Sr, Owatonna, Minn) scored with one second remaining in the first period. The Pointers tied the game midway through the second period on a goal by Harrison Niemann.
In the mini-game, Stevens Point’s Jon Madden scored 23 seconds into the game. Stout tied the game at 6:30 when Derek Hanson (Sr, Bemidji, Minn) scored.
Meo scored the winning goal quickly when the puck crossed the line and he slid into the net.
Stevens Point will meet St. Norbert College, Saturday, Feb. 27. St. Scholastica will host UW-River Falls in the other semi-final game.
February 20th, 2010 Matt.Kaskavitch 
MENOMONIE (February 19, 2010) – UW-Stout did an about face from the week before and rolled UW-Stevens Point, 5-1, in the opening game of the NCHA Peters Cup Friday at the Dunn County Ice Arena.
The Blue Devils (10-12-4) were blanked last weekend in Stevens Point, 4-0.
Joe Beaudette (Fr, Blaine, Minn) put the Blue Devils on the board first , scoring at 5:02 of the first period. Joel Gaulrapp (Sr, Owatonna, Minn), the 2010 NCHA player of the year, doubled the score for Stout with a wrap around goal 42 seconds into the second stanza.
The Pointers (11-14-1) cut the score in half when Luke Nesper scored midway through the period. Stout took a 3-1 lead on a goal by Mike Hartviksen (Fr, Thunder Bay, Ont) at 16:02 in the second period.
Andy Sternberg (Sr, Duluth, Minn) scored twice in the third period, hitting a shot from the point that bounced off the back of the Stevens Point goalies’ leg. Sternberg added an empty net goal with just over a minute left in the game.
Stout outshot the Pointers, 38-26. Tom Lescovich (Fr, Clifton Park, NY) had 24 saves for Stout and Nick Graves had 34 saves for Stevens Point.
The teams will meet again in the best of two games, with a mini-game if needed, Saturday, Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m.
February 19th, 2010 Matt.Kaskavitch 
Joel Gaulrapp (F)
UW-Stout senior forward Joel Gaulrapp (Owatonna, Minn.) has been named Men’s Player of the Year in the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association after gaining the majority of the league coaches’ votes. Gaulrapp posted 25 points during the regular season and was a dominant player for the Blue Devils both offensively and defensively. Some of Gaulrapp’s accomplishments this season included two separate four-game scoring streaks, game-winning goals against UW-Stevens Point and UW-Superior and eight multi-point performances. Opponents’ game plans revolved around covering the Blue Devils’ skilled forward.
“Joel has been our best player in both ends of the rink all year,” said UW-Stout head coach Terry Watkins. “He’s very good on the power play and penalty kill, and he never takes a shift off.”
Gaulrapp is from Owatonna, Minnesota, which is roughly an hour south of the twin cities. He played high school and junior hockey in Owatonna, in the Minnesota State High School League and the North American Hockey League. Gaulrapp is majoring in construction.
Gaulrapp is the second UW-Stout player selected as NCHA player of the year. Goalie Jeff Dotson received the honor after the 2003-04 season.
The Blue Devils also had three players named to the honorable mention squad. Forwards – and Gaulrapp’s linemates - Derek Hanson (Sr, Bemidji, Minn) and Scott Motz (Sr, Lake Elmo, Minn/Tartan), along with defenseman David Larson(Jr, Warroad, Minn) were selected as honorable mention.
Motz leads the Blue Devils in scoring with 27 points (10 goals, 17 assists) and Hanson is third (9-14-23). Larson has scored one goal and six assists from his defensive spot.
The coaches also voted for Coach of the Year and St. Norbert’s Tim Coghlin emerged the winner. Coghlin’s Green Knights won the regular season NCHA championship with a 14-2-2 conference record. This is the fifth Coach of the Year award for Coghlin. St. Norbert had the most players voted All-NCHA with five. Included was junior defenseman Nick Tabisz, who earned his third straight selection to the team.
Conference runner-up St. Scholastica had the second most players voted All-NCHA. The Saints’ Jordan Chong was the 2010 NCHA scoring leader as well as the leader in game-winning goals.
Courtesy of NCHAhockey.org and UW-Stout SID
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