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AS A BULLDOG: Will proudly captain the 74th edition of Bulldog hockey ... heads into his final collegiate go-around with 60 lifetime points (the most of any returning UMD skater) on 26 goals and 34 assists and a team-leading +39 plus-minus rating ... also owns a share of the longest active ironman streak in NCAA I hockey (he's taken part in all 122 games over the past three seasons) ... eclipsed his previous career highs for points (22), assists (16) and power play scores (four) as a junior assistant team captain ... spread his six goals last season over six different games ... counted himself among the four Bulldogs to score shorthanded one year ago ... was UMD's nominee for the 2016-17 NCHC Sportsmanship Award ... collared NCHC All-Academic Team honors for a third consecutive year last season ...  has been a feature on both the UMD penalty kill and power play units for the better part of his career ... took another substantial leap forward in 2015-16 ... established a then personal best for scoring -- only one of five Bulldogs to do so -- that winter ... his sophomore stat line included 12 goals and eight assists ... also sported the club's second highest plus-minus rating (+20) two years ago and struck twice on the power play as a sophomore ... made his final goal of 2015-16 a memorable one -- the game-winner in the second overtime of UMD's 2-1 ousting of No. 1-seeded Providence College in the NCAA Northeast Regional semifinals ... was chosen the NCHC Offensive Player of the Week after having a hand in four goals in UMD's road sweep of St. Cloud State on Feb. 26-27, 2016 ...  collected three points (including a pair of goals) in the opener of that two-game set with the Huskies ... took part in the Montreal Canadien's Development Camp in the summer of 2016 ... passed his collegiate initiation with flying colors in 2014-15 ... placed fifth among NCHC rookies in goals (eight), ninth in scoring (18 points) and fourth in shots on goal (82) ... joined Western Michigan’s Frederik Tiffels as the only two league newcomers to pick up a shorthanded goal that season ... pieced together a six-game scoring streak between Nov. 15 and Dec. 6, a stretch in which the Bulldogs went 5-1-0 ... engaged in a considerable amount of special teams play as a freshman and scored once while a man up and once while a man down (both at AMSOIL Arena) ... also had a pair of game-winning tallies to his 2014-15 credit ... was the lone first-year Bulldog to not miss a game that winter.
BEFORE UMD: Certainly made the most of his one full season of United States Hockey League deployment ... topped the 2013-14 Dubuque Fighting Saints in regular season goals with 25 and added 19 assists for 44 points, the second highest output on the club ... was selected as a 2013-14 midseason USHL All-Star (Eastern Conference second team) ... scored a team-high four goals for the U.S. at last November's World Junior A Challenge, including the opening tally in a 4-1 championship game triumph over Russia ... exited the Cloquet High School program for good immediately following his junior year to hook up with the Fighting Saints -- just in time to help Dubuque capture the 2013 Clark Cup (USHL playoff champions) ... skated for the U.S. Under 18-Select Team in the 2012 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament ... closed out his third, and final, prep season with a 54-point effort (27 goals and 27 assists) after accumulating 50 points in the same number of games (25) the previous season ... appeared in five outings with Dubuque in 2011-12. ... also lettered one year in football (running back) at Cloquet High School ... is a 2014 graduate of Esko High School.
BULLDOG MILESTONES: First Game - vs. Minnesota (Oct. 10, 2014). First Goal - vs. Minnesota State-Mankato (Oct. 17, 2014). First Assist - at Minnesota (Nov. 14, 2014). Most Goals, Game - 2 at St. Cloud State (Feb. 26, 2016) and vs. Western Michigan (Dec. 4, 2015). Most Points, Game - 3 at St. Cloud State (Feb. 26, 2016). Most Shots, Game - 7 (Five Times). Longest Scoring Streak - 6 Games (Nov. 14-Dec. 6, 2014).
PERSONAL: Born Karson Dean Kuhlman in Duluth, Minn. ... is the son of Dean and Jennifer Kuhlman ... has one younger brother (Jack, who works part time on the ice maintenance crew at AMSOIL Arena) ... is majoring in organizational management at UMD.