Falcons Improve To 10-1 Tying Third Best Start In Program History

Saturday, January 2

Big Rapids, Mich.

3:07 PM

Bowling Green State University

10-1, 1-0WCHA

Ferris State

0-5, 0-1WCHA

Bowling Green

Ferris State

Photo by: Alex Wohl

Falcons Improve To 10-1 Tying Third Best Start In Program History

January 02, 2021 | Ice Hockey

Box Score

By: by Kyle Edmond, BGSU Athletics

BIG RAPIDS, Mich. - The No. 7 Bowling Green State University hockey team skated to a 6-1 victory over Ferris State behind four third period goals on Saturday (Jan. 2) to begin WCHA play. Cameron Wright led the way for the Falcons with three points as 11 different skaters logged a point for Bowling Green in the contest, including five different goal scorers. In net, Eric Dop made a season-high 35 saves to improve to 6-0-0 on the season. As for the Falcons, they advance to 10-1 on the year, tied for the third best start in program history, while beginning WCHA play at 1-0.

Next Home Game: The Falcons will back at the Slater Family Ice Arena on Jan. 7 and 8 for a two-game home series against Bemidji State with both games being available to stream on FloHockey.

Scoring Plays

Just after a power play in the first period the Falcons were able to see a score by Brandon Kruse to put the first tally on the board of the game as Ferris State got their man out of the box. Connor Ford and Gavin Gould were given the assists on the score.
In the second period Ferris State answered with a power play score of their own being scored by Ethan Stewart with assists from Liam MacDougall and Mitch Deelstra.
Before the end of the second period Bowling Green reclaimed the lead with a goal from Cameron Wright. Wright was able to strike the rebound from Will Cullen's backhand attempt and put it over the goalie's shoulder. Cullen received the primary assist with the secondary going to freshman Anton Malmstrom for his first career collegiate point.
In the third period the Falcons were able to net another power play score with Sam Craggs tipping in a shot attempt from Tim Theocharidis. Theocharidis then had the primary assist with the secondary going to T.J. Lloyd. The goal for Craggs marked his first of the season.
Less than 40 seconds later the Falcons added another score, this time off the stick of Seth Fyten with assists coming from Chrystopher Collin and Adam Conquest. The assist for Collin marked his first collegiate point while Conquest logged his first point of the season.
On the power play again, Bowling Green added another score with Ford lighting the lamp. He was assisted by Wright and Cullen on the goal.
With just under two minutes remaining the Orange and Brown added the final goal of the night with Wright scoring his second of the contest with an assist from Kruse.

Falcon Stat Facts

The win for the Falcons puts them at 10-1 to start the season, tying the 1986-87 campaign for the third best start in program history. Additionally, the win marked the 996th in program history as Bowling Green moves towards 1,000 wins as a program.
Scoring four goals in the third period, the Falcons tied their mark for the most goals in a single period this season. They also scored four in the second period against Adrian on Nov. 21. The four goals also bring the season total to 21 goals scored in the third period for the Falcons, accounting for nearly half of their 46 goals total.
Netting the first goal of the game and assisting on the last, Brandon Kruse tallied career points 120 and 121 for his tenure in the Orange and Brown, moving him into 53th all-time, passing John Stewart. Next on the list at 122 career points is a familiar face to the Falcons, Alec Rauhauser.
Kruse also registered his fourth multiple-point game of the year and the 30th of his collegiate career.
With the assist in the first period and goal in the third, Connor Ford moved his career point total to 99 needing just one more point to become the program's 75th 100 point scorer all-time.
Like Kruse, Ford logged a multiple-point effort marking his fourth of the season as well and 25th of his career.
Cameron Wright joined Kruse and Ford with multiple-points, tallying three thanks to two goals and an assist. The outing is Wright's third multiple-point effort of the season and first three-point game. As for goals, it was his second multiple-goal game of the year and the fourth of his career.
In goal for the Falcons, Eric Dop registered a season-high 35 saves in the contest, just two off of his career-high. He also picked up his sixth win of the season to improve to 6-0-0 in 2020-21.
Registering an assist on Wright's second period goal, Anton Malmstrom logged his first career point with the Falcons. He was then joined by Chrystopher Collin who assisted on Seth Fyten's score in the third period. Collin and Malmstrom join Ethan Scardina and Fyten as freshmen to log points this year for the Orange and Brown.
After both receiving WCHA Player of the Month honors for December, Wright and Will Cullen connected for the second goal of the night for the Falcons. Wright was named the WCHA Forward of the Month while Cullen was the WCHA Defensemen of the Month.
With the secondary assist on Sam Craggs' goal, T.J. Lloyd registered his eighth assist of the season, already matching his assist total from last year.
Scoring in the third period, all three of Seth Fyten's goals this season have come against Ferris State, scoring one in each of the three meetings.

Ty's Take

"We're obviously excited for our first WCHA win, which is very important. We knew coming up here that Ferris State was going to play well at home and it being their first WCHA game. We battled for the first couple periods and then in the third our guys played really well and executed once they got going. It was a great way to finish the game. Eric Dop was really good again, we're really happy with how he played. When we weren't playing at our best, Eric was and that's huge."

Up Next

The Falcons and Bulldogs will conclude their series tomorrow afternoon (Sunday, Jan. 3) with another 3:07 p.m. start time. The game will serve as the second WCHA game of the season for Bowling Green and will be available to stream on FloHockey.

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