Billy Sauer

Infobox Ice Hockey Player


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team=Colorado Avalanche
prospect_team = Michigan Wolverines
prospect_league = CCHA
former_teams =
league = NHL
position = Goaltender
catches = Left
height_ft = 6
height_in = 2
weight_lb = 170
nickname =
nationality = USA
birth_date = birth date and age|1988|1|6
birth_place = Rochester, NY, U.S.
draft = 201st overall
draft_year = 2006
draft_team = Colorado Avalanche
career_start = TBA

Billy Sauer (born January 6, 1988 in Rochester, New York) is an amateur ice hockey goaltender. He is currently a prospect for the Colorado Avalanche.

Playing career

Sauer is currently attending the University of Michigan. (Junior Year 2007-08)... Through Feb. 16,2008... Has career-best three shutouts ... Eighth on U-M's saves list (2,301) ... Seventh on U-M's career goalie games played list (91) ... Seventh on U-M's career goalie minutes-played list (5,350:32) ... Has allowed two or fewer goals in 21 of 28 starts, including nine straight from Dec. 7-Jan. 26 ... 6-0-2 when making 30+ saves -- had 30 stops at Miami (Feb. 9); 17-5-4 for career ... Career-best shutout streak of 206:14 from Dec. 7-Jan. 11, which included two shutouts ... CCHA Goalie of the Week and Inside College Hockey Player of the Week (Jan. 2) ... CCHA Player of the Month for December -- 3-0-0, 0.59 GAA, .983 save percentage ... Great Lakes Invitational MVP and all-tournament team with 87 saves and two shutouts (Dec. 28-29,2007) ... Back-to-back shutouts on Dec. 28-29 were first by U-M goalie since Josh Blackburn on Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2002 ... Tallied second consecutive shutout with 37 saves in 1-0 double-overtime win vs. Michigan Tech in GLI Championship (Dec. 29). Three shutouts this season are career high ... Set career-high with 50 saves in shutout vs. Providence; 18 saves in third period set season period high (Dec. 28) ... Career-best 12-game winning streak (Oct. 19-Nov. 24); allowed two goals or less in seven straight games (Nov. 3-24) ... Named CCHA Goalie of the Week (Nov. 26) for third consecutive week after stopping 50 of 53 shots in wins vs. Wisconsin and Minnesota (Nov. 23-24) ... With a two-game sweep of LSSU (Nov. 16-17), earned CCHA Goalie of the Week honors (Nov. 19) ... Recorded then-career-best shutout streak of 128:30, which began at UNO (Nov. 3), continued through shutout vs. Alaska (Nov. 9) and ended in second period vs. Alaska (Nov. 10) ... CCHA Goalie of the Week (Nov. 12) following sweep of Alaska (Nov. 9-10) during which he stopped 33 of 35 shots and had one shutout ... Shut out Alaska with 15 saves (Nov. 9) ... Recipient of the Alice M. and Thomas J. Haverbush, M.D. Scholarship for Men’s Ice Hockey. Sauer played for the varsity Knights of McQuaid Jesuit High School during the 2003-2004 season before playing for the Chicago Steel of the United States Hockey League (USHL).

External links

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