Beavers look to carry momentum into Bowling Green
BSU Men’s Hockey makes first CCHA road trip to Bowling Green State

The Bemidji State University Men’s Hockey team makes its first Central Collegiate Hockey Association road trip of the season this week and travels to Bowling Green State University for a pair of league games.

The Beavers (4-4-0, 2-0-0 CCHA) hope to carry momentum from a conference-opening series sweep of Augustana University into their road series against the Falcons (2-2-0, 2-0-0 CCHA). The teams begin their CCHA series at Slater Family Ice Arena on Halloween with puck drop scheduled for 6:07 p.m. CST. Game two follows Saturday at 5:07 p.m. CST.

Each game will be exclusively streamed online at MidCo Sports Plus with Falcons Athletics providing play-by-play. Beaver Hockey fans can tune-in to a Beaver Radio Network broadcast for both games on the radio dial at 92.1 FM or online at www.beaverradionetwork with Brian Schultz calling play-by-play.

The Beavers are riding momentum from last weekend after opening CCHA play earning five-of-six points against Augustana University at Sanford Center. In a low-scoring, hard-fought series, the Beavers prevailed over the Vikings in two one-goal games. Bemidji State earned a 1-0 victory in the series opener Friday night with junior Olive Peer netting the game-winning, overtime goal 2:12 into the extra frame. Junior Raythan Robbins was dominant in net making 27-of-27 saves for his first collegiate shutout. The Beavers completed the series sweep Saturday night defeating the Vikings 3-2 in another tightly contested game. Freshman Max Namestnikov scored his first collegiate goal and added an assist to lead the Beavers while freshman Max Hildebrand stopped 25-of-27 shots for his second win of the season.

Hildebrand earned his first CCHA accolade after the performance collecting CCHA Rookie of the Week honors for the victory.

Bemidji State dominated on the faceoff dot in the series winning 65-percent of draws (75-of-115) with three of its four centers posting a .600 percentage or better.

The Beavers’ .652 faceoff win percentage was the best in the CCHA and ranked third overall nationally over the weekend.

Junior Reilly Funk led the team winning 29 faceoffs (74.4-percent) including 18-of-20 on Friday.

Senior alternate captain Adam Flammang returned to action from injury recording an assist in both games of the series while boasting a +2 rating.

As a team, the Beavers blocked 32 shots, most of any series so far this season. Their 22 blocked shots on Friday night was a season high and the most since Feb. 28, 2025.

Sophomore defenseman Hudson Thornton paced the team with seven blocked shots while junior forward Vincent Labelle followed with five.

Bemidji State is paced offensively by senior Adam Flammang and junior Oliver Peer who each have eight points on the season.

Peer is tied for the team lead with four goals and is tied for second in the CCHA while Flammang’s seven assists are second most in the league.

Flammang’s assist per game average of 1.17 is tied for fifth in the nation.

Flammang has a point in five-of-six games he played including a four-point effort to open the season.

Bemidji State is third in the CCHA averaging 3.25 goals per game and are fourth in goals allowed (2.88).

The Beavers are eighth in Division I with 26 goals scored this season.

Bemidji State has had 17 different goal scorers including five with two or more goals.

Reilly Funk is tied with Peer for the team lead with four goals and leads the CHCA With 78 faceoff wins.

Junior Kasper Magnussen is third on the team with seven points (2g-5a) with six (2g-4a) coming during even strength. He leads the team and is tied for the conference lead with a +7 rating on the ice.

Bemidji State reentered the USCHO.com Top-20 national poll and is receiving votes for the third time this season. It remains unranked in the USA Hockey College Hockey Top-20 poll.

Bemidji State is 4-1-0 when scoring first this season and 0-3-0 when its opponent scores first.

Bemidji State is 4-1-0 when it holds its opponent to under 30 shots and is 0-3-0 when allowing 30 or more shots.

The Beavers and Falcons all-time series is split evenly between the two programs with the all-time series record at 21-21-4 in 46 meetings.

However, the home team has been heavily favored in the series with Bowling Green 14-5-2 against BSU when playing at Slater Family Arena while the Beavers are 16-7-2 against the Falcons at Sanford Center.

The Beavers are currently unbeaten in their last three games (2-0-1) against the Falcons and took nine-of-12 points in last year’s meetings.

Over the last 10 matchups, Bemidji State is 6-3-1 against Bowling Green.

Head coach Tom Serratore is 21-21-4 in 25 seasons coaching against Bowling Green.

Senior Adam Flammang leads the team with eight career points (4g-4a) against the Falcons while seniors Kirklan Irey (3g-4a) and Reilly Funk (1g-6a) follow with seven.