Weekend series preview: Nebraska-Omaha at No. 15 CC

When: 8:10 p.m. Friday, 7:07 p.m. Saturday

Where: World Arena (7,380 capacity)

TV: CBS Sports Network is carrying Friday’s game, and Saturday’s game isn’t on TV

Radio: The Alternative 103.9 FM RXP, play-by-play by Ken Landau

If you go: A sellout isn’t expected either night, as about 900 tickets, ranging from $9 to $35, remain for Friday’s game, and about 850 tickets are left for Saturday’s game. Tickets are available at the World Arena box office starting at 10 a.m., at www.cctigers.com or by calling 719-576-2626. Fans can register Friday on the south concourse to win a trip for two to the Western Collegiate Hockey Association Final Five in St. Paul, Minn.

The series: The teams are tied 2-2-1 in the series that dates to 2006. CC and Nebraska-Omaha split in Omaha in November, with the Tigers losing 7-5, then winning 5-2. The teams also split last season in Nebraska-Omaha’s only previous trip to Colorado Springs.

CC update: The No. 15 Tigers (15-11-2, 12-9-1 WCHA) are winless in their past three games, coming off a 4-2 defeat and a 4-1 loss at Bemidji State. They’re tied for fourth place in the WCHA with Nebraska-Omaha with six games remaining, holding home ice for the first round of the WCHA playoffs by only two points. … C Rylan Schwartz leads CC with 32 points, including 19 goals, nine of which have come on the power play. LW Jaden Schwartz has 30 points, including a team-high 20 assists. D Mike Boivin has 22 points, and C Nick Dineen and RW Scott Winkler have 21 points apiece. D Gabe Guentzel is one of four CC players to have appeared in all 28 games, and he has skated in 124 in a row. In goal, Josh Thorimbert (10-4-1 with a 2.12 goals-against average and a .929 save percentage) has allowed 17 goals in his past 11 starts, while Joe Howe (5-7-1 with a 3.36 GAA and a .884 save percentage) has one win in his past 11 games. … On the injury front, Guentzel (soreness) will play; Dineen (concussion), Thorimbert (concussion), Winkler (upper body) and D Eamonn McDermott (left knee) are probable; LW Scott Wamsganz (illness) is questionable; Boivin (concussion) is doubtful; and RW Dakota Eveland (upper body), C Tim Hall (head) and LW Michael Morin (right ankle) are out. … The Tigers are averaging 3.25 goals, with two or fewer goals in nine of the past 14 games, and they’re giving up 2.79 goals. They possess the nation’s eighth-best power play at 22.8 percent, but they’re 4 for 31 with the man advantage in the past four series, and their penalty kill converts at 79.8 percent, with five short-handed goals. … CC is 13-1 when leading after two periods, and it’s 1-8 when trailing heading into the third.

Nebraska-Omaha update: The Mavericks (13-11-6, 10-7-5) won 4-0 and tied 3-3 last weekend at Michigan Tech. … RW Matt White leads Nebraska-Omaha with 36 points, including a team-high 21 assists, and LW Terry Broadhurst has 34 points, including a team-high 16 goals. RW Josh Archibald and C Jayson Megna have 10 goals apiece, and Megna paces the Mavericks with a plus-13 rating. D Bryce Aneloski has four goals and three assists during a seven-game point streak, and LW Ryan Walters recorded three points against Michigan Tech. In goal, Ryan Massa (6-4-2 with a 2.28 GAA and a .923 save percentage) has outplayed John Faulkner (5-6-2 with a 3.04 GAA and a .881 save percentage) to win the starting job. … RW Andrew Schmit (separated left shoulder) and RW Zahn Raubenheimer (undisclosed injury) won’t travel this weekend. … The Mavericks average 3.03 goals, and they relinquish 2.87 goals. They’re at 18.5 percent on the power play, and they have the WCHA’s second-best penalty kill at 84.5 percent after an 8-for-8 effort against Michigan Tech. … Dean Blais is 54-43-14 in his third season.

CC coach Scott Owens on Nebraska-Omaha: “They have two very good, explosive lines. These guys can really go. They’re going to put a lot of pressure on us. They have a huge defensive core. So we want to make them uncomfortable on an Olympic sheet.”

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