The Bulldog hockey team will be with­out its lead­ing scorer when it hosts the nation­ally No. 16-ranked Western Michigan Broncos in a con­fer­ence show­down this weekend.

The Torch inac­cu­rately reported on Wednesday that Bulldog senior cap­tain Zach Redmond played in the team’s pre­vi­ous series against Lake Superior State last week­end. Redmond suf­fered a bro­ken foot against the Miami RedHawks on Nov. 5 and did not travel to the U.P. with the team.

Ferris State head coach Bob Daniels said Redmond will miss at least the next three games and could miss as many as the next seven. Daniels also said not hav­ing Redmond on the ice against the Lakers had a major impact on the out­come of the series.

Redmond is the team leader with nine points and five assists. He is also tied for the team lead in goals with four. Senior for­ward Nate Hennig and sopho­more Kyle Bonis each have four goals as well. The Bulldogs have not scored a power play goal and have just one even-strength goal in the three games that Redmond has missed.

“Realistically, we haven’t scored a power play goal this year when Zach hasn’t been on the ice,” said Daniels.

Ferris comes into the week­end with a 5−5−2 record over­all and a 2−4−2−2 record in CCHA play. The Bulldogs are tied for sixth in the con­fer­ence, while the Broncos are in an eighth-place tie in the CCHA standings.

The Broncos have played four con­fer­ence games thus far, while the Bulldogs have already played eight. Western Michigan is 6−2−2 over­all this sea­son under first-year head coach Jeff Blashill, a for­mer Ferris goal­tender and assis­tant coach.

After fail­ing to score a goal in two shutout losses at Lake Superior State last week­end, Daniels said being back home will help the team rebound from being swept on the road.

“I do think that play­ing in front of our home fans means a big deal to the team,” said Daniels.

Following the series against Western Michigan, the Bulldogs have three games against Michigan State and two games against Alaska lead­ing into the break. Daniels said it is impor­tant for the team to play well against Western so that they don’t lose con­fi­dence going forward.

“I think the next three games are really impor­tant to our team,” said Daniels. “I think they are really impor­tant com­ing off the fact that we didn’t do well the week­end before.”

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