MANCHESTER, N.H. – The Saint Anselm College women's ice hockey team opens its 2021-22 season at the University of Maine on Saturday, Oct. 2, marking the program's first official game in 586 days.

SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE HAWKS (0-0, 0-0 NEWHA)
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UNIVERSITY OF MAINE BLACK BEARS (0-2, 0-0 HEA)
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The Hawks will exclusively play National Collegiate-level competition for the first time in program history in the 2021-22 season. Saint Anselm has qualified for the New England Women's Hockey Alliance (NEWHA) Championship game in all three full season of league play, capturing the league championship in 2018-19. The Hawks posted a 16-14-3 record in the 2019-20 season, falling to Long Island University on Feb. 23, 2020 in the Championship game, 1-0. Saint Anselm opens NEWHA play on Friday, Oct. 29 when they host Franklin Pierce.

The Black Bears opened the season with a pair of contests at Quinnipiac on Sept. 24 and Sept. 25. Maine dropped both games by 3-2 and 5-1 scores. They open Hockey East (HEA) play on Friday, Oct. 15 against the University of Connecticut.

Fans attending the game at the Harold Alfond Sports Arena are expected to familiarize themselves with the University of Maine spectator policy.

SCOUTING SAINT ANSELM

• The Hawks have 11 student-athletes returning from the 2019-20 roster. Six of the student-athletes are forwards, four are defenders, and one goaltender.
• Senior Kelly Golini (Tewksbury, Mass.) returns as the team's top goal-scorer after finding the back of the net eight times in 2019-20. She added a team-high 14 assists for 22 points in 33 games. Senior Erin Meyers (Saint Paul, Minn.) posted seven goals and nine assists for 16 points as sophomore, also in 33 games.
• The Hawks return senior Kendra Currier (Middleton, Mass.) and junior Gabrielle Huson (Edina, Minn.) as the most experienced blue-liners on the roster. Currier played in 33 games while Huson saw action in 26 of them. Huson posted five goals and three assists for eight points while Currier registered five points on a goal and four helpers.
• Saint Anselm has four goaltenders on the roster but none of them have seen time in goal for the Hawks. Senior Gloria Bilafer (Dedham, Mass.) has been rostered since her freshman season while junior Allie Kelley (East Berne, N.Y.) transferred to the Hilltop from Quinnipiac, appearing in two games.
• Head coach Jen Kindret enters her first contest behind the bench for the Hawks, who were selected to finish in fourth in the NEWHA Preseason Coaches' poll. They garnered 14 points, which was four shy of the third place in the poll.

SCOUTING THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE

• In 2020-21, Maine closed the season at 8-9-1 with a 7-8-1 record in Hockey East play. They fell to Providence College in the conference semifinals by a 1-0 score on Mar. 3.
• The Black Bears allowed a goal less than one minute into their season opener. However, they lit the lamp just 1:15 into the second period on the power play from Celine Tedenby. Maddie Giordano found her first tally of the year just past the halfway point of the final frame but the team could not find the equalizer in the remaining time.
• Tedenby opened the scoring in the second game of the weekend but Quinnipiac rattled off five unanswered goals in the second and third stanzas to grab a 5-1 win, sending the Black Bears to 0-2 after the opening weekend.
• Ally Johnson was credited with two assists on the three Maine goals, which tied her with Tedenby with the team lead in points at two. Ali Beltz, Ida Kuoppala, and Kennedy Little have one assist each.
• Loryn Porter started both contests for the Black Bears, making 71 saves. She currently is 0-2 with a 4.07 goals against average and a .899 save percentage.
• Maine was selected seventh in the Hockey East Preseason Poll, collecting 43 points. Future Hawks opponent, Northeastern, was picked as the favorite in the poll with nine first place votes and 90 total points.

ALL-TIME vs. THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE

• This will be the first meeting all-time between the two programs.
• Saint Anselm has played current Hockey East member Holy Cross 36 times in program history. The Hawks are 23-10-3 against the former NEWHA member. The last meeting came on Feb. 26, 2017 and resulted in a 3-2 win in overtime for Saint Anselm.