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Noah Laba has been a top player this season for Colorado College (photo: Casey B. Gibson).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ten games into this season, Colorado College\u2019s average of four goals scored per game means the 7-3 Tigers have had the joint fourth-best scoring offense in the country.<\/p>\n

Bagging goals at such a high clip, including CC\u2019s 5-1 road win Friday at Miami and a 4-1 victory Saturday over the RedHawks, has been a happy byproduct for a team without a now-professional, then-junior forward who scored 21 of CC\u2019s 84 goals last season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had obviously lost a big chunk of our offense with Hunter (McKown) leaving, but I thought our depth and the growth of our returners and our freshmen make us a more deep offensive team, and more threatening that way,\u201d Tigers coach Kris Mayotte said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo I think that we\u2019re going to score four goals a game all year? I don\u2019t, and some of that is our schedule, but some of that is what we expected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many of CC\u2019s offensive leaders so far this season were already known quantities.<\/p>\n

Stanley Cooley was a 20-point forward last season who is up to six in his junior season, and senior Logan Will\u2019s two goals and seven points so far have him nearing his 12-point haul from last year, when he was battling injuries throughout the campaign.<\/p>\n

Noah Laba had 11 goals and 22 points last year as a freshman, and while he\u2019s on pace (six goals, 11 points) to improve on that, he isn\u2019t the Tigers\u2019 top scorer. After tearing an ACL 14 games into last season, sophomore forward Gleb Veremyev is now leading CC with six goals and 12 points.<\/p>\n

\u201cGleb put in a ton of work with his body,\u201d Mayotte said, \u201cand you don\u2019t like it to be due to a season-ending injury, but his height has always been there at 6-4 and he was always tough to play against, but he was a really skinny kid and (his recovery) has allowed him to focus a little more on his body, and watch and take a step back and see it from a 30,000-foot view.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat has really helped him, how he manages the game, how he plays the game, how he attacks it. He sees what\u2019s available, how fast things happen and how to win the space and keep it, but it\u2019s all due to his work ethic and his desire to get back.\u201d<\/p>\n

CC opened this season on a five-game win streak before falling at home to a first-year Augustana program that, in taking advantage of the NCAA transfer portal, came into that Oct. 28 game with more prior college game experience than the Tigers had.<\/p>\n

Then, two weeks ago, CC fell to heavy defeats in a home-and-home series with local rival Denver, the first ranked team the Tigers had faced this season. CC lost 6-1 on the road and 5-1 the following night at home in a game that Mayotte doesn\u2019t believe was as one-sided as the score suggests.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had chances 8-4 for (Denver) in that second game, and we\u2019re happy to only give up eight chances in a game, but we didn\u2019t force nearly enough, and we had a lot of work to do, especially offensively,\u201d Mayotte said. \u201cI liked where we had gotten to without the puck, but we needed to do better with it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were disappointed with those results, and it\u2019s a big rivalry game but more than that, we wanted to see where we were. What we learned is that we have a gap to close in terms of wanting to be one of the best teams in the country, but that\u2019s OK. We\u2019ll put together a plan and start to attack it.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the Tigers will get to do that against a tough remaining schedule before the holiday break. CC hosts 16th-ranked Western Michigan this weekend, then has No. 14 Arizona State at home Dec. 1-2 before a trip the following week to No. 2 North Dakota.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur next six games will be big for us,\u201d Mayotte said. \u201cThose are big-time opponents for us, and those are games that we need to start winning if we want to be the program we talk about being. You\u2019ve got to win big games and win them in the regular season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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