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UAA & Governor's Cup Series Notes 02-26-10]
FAIRBANKS, AK - This weekend the Alaska Nanooks play a home-and-home series against the UAA Seawolves for the rights to the Alaska Airlines Governor's Cup. Heading into the 17th annual series, the teams are tied with eight Cups apiece. The Nanooks will look to snap their three-year losing streak in the battle for in-state bragging rights and the coveted Governor's Cup.
Here are the need to know notes about the Governor's Cup series and Alaska Hockey:
• Alaska trails UAA in the all-time series 48-80-11. While the Nanooks have historically had a rough time against the Seawoles in Anchorage, where they trail 19-45-5 all-time, the gap in Fairbanks is much smaller at 29-33-6.
• The Nanooks will look to capture their first Alaska Airlines Governor's Cup since Dec. 2005, when they claimed the Cup for the fifth straight marking the longest streak by either team in its history. UAA snapped Alaska's strangehold on the Cup during the 2006-07 campaign and has won the last three.
• The Nanooks are riding a six-game unbeaten streak (4-0-2) into the Governor's Cup series. It is their longest streak at the end of CCHA play since 2002-03, when they were 4-0-3 heading into the intrastate showdown.
• With just three league loses at home this year, the Nanooks have set a new program record for the fewest allowed since joining the CCHA. The fewest home loses Alaska has allowed in an entire season was one, set during the 1984-85 campaign.
• Alaska's 11-9-8 CCHA mark this season gave them their second consecutive above .500 season s for the first time in their 15-year history in the CCHA.
• The Blue and Gold put the bookend on their 2009-10 regular season CCHA campaign, closing out league action the way they began it with a series sweep. The pair of victories against the Lakers marked just the second back-to-back weekend triumphs for the Nanooks since they topped Ferris State 3-1 and 3-2 (OT) on Oct. 30-31. It was also the first time in program history that the Nanooks swept the Lakers.
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Andy Taranto's short-handed goal against LSSU Saturday marked the first by a Nanook this season and the first since
Dion Knelsen's shorty on Mar. 14 against OSU in the second game of their CCHA Playoff series in Fairbanks
