Last Action: Lake Forest scored three unanswered third-period goals to hand SMU a 5-3 setback Friday night. … St. Norbert, meanwhile, dropped its second straight, falling to St. Thomas 5-3 on Friday.

A Year Ago: Al Schumacher scored SMU's lone goal, as the Green Knights erupted for two goals in both the first and third peirods en route to a 5-1 win in the Cardinals' season opener on Nov. 7, 2003.

This and That:

Ryan Radke 2 goals vs. Lake Forest

Ryan Radke (Woodbury, Minn.) scored his first two collegiate goals, while Jesse Polk (Hastings, Minn.) netted his first-ever as a Cardinal in the loss to Lake Forest. … Mike Bry (Manvel, N.D.) had two assists vs. the Foresters. … Ryne Ess (Eden Prairie, Minn.) stopped 29 of the 34 shots he faced in suffering the loss vs. Lake Forest. … The Green Knights enter tonight’s game as the No. 2-ranked team in the USCHO poll. … St. Norbert was also picked by the conference coaches to win its fourth straight NCHA title. … St. Norbert, which lost to Middlebury 1-0 in last year’s NCAA Division III national championship game, returns over 84 percent of its scoring from a 2003-04 team that scored an average of 5.5 goals per game.