Last Action: The Cardinals dropped a pair of games to Gustavus last weekend, falling 8-1 and 4-2. … Concordia, meanwhile, pushed its win streak to three in a row with 4-1 and 4-2 wins over Hamline last weekend.

A Year Ago: The Cardinals and Cobbers traded one-goal wins in their MIAC series a year ago. SMU got goals from four different players en route to a 4-3 win on Feb. 13, 2004, while the Cobbers rallied from a 2-1 first-period deficit with a pair of second-period goals in earning the split with a 3-2 win the following night.

This and That:

Bill Flynn 1st career goal vs. Gusties

Adam Gill (Rochester, Minn.) scored two of SMU's three goals vs. Gustavus and has scored three goals in eight games since returning from a hand injury that sidelined him for the team's first 11 games. … Bill Flynn (St. Louis, Mo.) accounted for the Cardinals' other goal vs. GAC - it was Flynn's first of the season and first of his career. … SMU's 8-1 loss on Friday was its most lopsided defeat since a 10-1 drubbing at the hands of Augsburg on Feb. 11, 2000. … Four of GAC's 12 goals vs. SMU were on the powerplay. … SMU, meanwhile, was 0-for-10 with the man advantage. … SMU was outscored 2-1 in the first period of its two-game series vs. Gustavus, but the Cardinals gave up 10 goals in the second and third, combined. … SMU was outshot 74-42 vs. the Gusties - including 30-9 in the second period. … Mike Bry (Manvel, N.D.) remains the Cardinals' leader in assists (14 and points (19), while Adam Fingerhut's (Oak Brook, Il.) eight games are a team best.