Men's Hockey | 11/17/2014 10:37:00 AM
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Rensselaer (5-7-0; 4-2-0 ECAC Hockey) plays its third game in five nights when it travels to Hartford, Conn., for a non-league game with the Huskies of UConn (2-5-3; 1-2-1 Hockey East). The game, which will be played in the XL Center, is the first of three Tuesday night contests for the Engineers, who play New Hampshire next Tuesday and Harvard on December 30. Those two contests are also on the road.
LAST WEEKEND
RPI split a pair of league games last weekend, defeating Princeton, 3-1, before losing to No. 20 Quinnipiac, 3-1. Both of those games were played at the Houston Field House.
Mark Miller had two goals in the win over the Tigers and the Engineers had an apparent game-tying goal waived off late in the third period versus the Bobcats.
Jason Kasdorf played both games, stopping 24 and 21 shots, respectively.
GOODBYE CAPITAL REGION
Tuesday's game will be the first outside the Capital District for Rensselaer in a month. After playing at Denver on October 18, the Engineers played eight straight games in the 518 area code. Seven of those contests were at the Houston Field House and the other was in Schenectady at Union College. RPI went 4-4-0 in those games, including 4-2-0 in ECAC Hockey contests.
NEXT MAN UP
The Engineers faced Quinnipiac without senior defenseman
Luke Curadi, senior forward
Matt Neal, junior defenseman
Chris Bradley, junior
Milos Bubela and freshman
Bradley Bell due to either injury or illness. Senior forward
Zach Schroeder and freshman
Lou Nanne both left the game after being attended to by
Tera Patenaude, the athletic trainer, and did not return. The status for each student-athlete against the Huskies is unknown.
THE SERIES
RPI and UConn have faced each other five times with the first being January 18, 1930, and the most recent on November 26, 2010. The Engineers are 3-0-2 against the Huskies. Four of the five matchups took place in Troy, while the other meeting was played in Omaha, Nebraska.
HAT TRICK
The star of the first game was RPI's Paul James, who scored five goals against then-Connecticut Agriculture.
