EASTBOUND AND UP: The 18th-ranked Engineers hit the road for a critical ECAC Hockey road trip this weekend, when they visit ninth-ranked Harvard and Dartmouth, on Friday (7pm) and Saturday (7:05pm), respectively.
THIRD PERIOD PROPELS CLARKSON: The Golden Knights stormed back from a 2-0 deficit to defeat Rensselaer, 4-2, in the 39th Annual Big Red Freakout! on Saturday at the Houston Field House ... Ben Dalpe and Kelly Summers pulled Clarkson even before the halfway mark of the third period ... Terrance Amorosa then scored a power play goal to put the Golden Knights on top for good ... Senior
Milos Bubela scored both RPI goals with assists going to
Chris Bradley,
Riley Bourbonnais and
Kenny Gillespie ... Senior netminder
Jason Kasdorf finished with 29 saves.
SLU BLANKS RENSSELAER: Sophomore goalie Kyle Hayton stopped all 34 shots he faced in defeating the Engineers, 3-0, on Friday night at the Houston Field House ... RPI senior
Jason Kasdorf made 31 stops at the other end of the ice as St. Lawrence broke a scoreless tie 14:53 into the third period ... Tommy Thompson scored the game-winner and added a second goal, less than three minutes later ... Jacob Pritchard added an empty-netter in the final two minutes.
POINTS LEADERS: Junior
Riley Bourbonnais (13 goals, 8 assists) paces the Engineers with 21 points ... Sophomore
Lou Nanne (6 goals, 14 assists) is right behind him with 20 ... Senior
Zach Schroeder (3 goals, 14 assists) is third with 17 points, while junior
Jake Wood (7 goals, 7 assists) and sophomore
Mike Prapavessis (2 goals, 11 assists) have 14 and 13 points, respectively.
BETWEEN THE PIPES: Senior
Jason Kasdorf has started 21 of the team's 30 games this season and is 8-8-4 with a 2.15 goals against average and a .935 save percentage ... Freshman
Cam Hackett (6-2-2) has started nine games and carries a 2.34 goals against average and a .933 save percentage.
SPECIAL TEAMS: The Engineers come into Saturday at 13.1% (11 for 84) on the power play ...The penalty kill is now at 84.5% (87 for 103).
PENALTY KILL IN 2016: RPI has killed off penalties at a rate of 80.0% (16 for 20) since January 1 ... That ranks fourth among ECAC Hockey teams.
STAYING OUT OF THE BOX: The Engineers have taken just 2.18 penalties per game since January 1, which is the lowest in the nation ... Princeton is second at 2.38 penalties per contest ... RPI is also first in penalty minutes per game over the same stretch (4.36).
IN THE FACE-OFF CIRCLE: The Engineers have won face-offs at a 45.7% clip through 30 games ... Junior
Riley Bourbonnais leads the way at 53.6% ... Senior
Milos Bubela is second at 48.7%, while classmate
Mark Miller rounds out the top three at 48.4%.
RANKED: The Engineers are ranked in the USCHO.com Poll for the sixth straight week ... RPI is currently 18th, with fellow ECAC Hockey schools Quinnipiac (1st), Harvard (9th), Yale (10th), Cornell (15th) and Clarkson (20th).
WORTH A DIME: The Engineers are 8-1-2 this season when senior
Zach Schroeder records at least one assist ... They went 4-2-1 last year and 6-2-1 in 2013-14.
ALL-TIME VS. HARVARD: The Crimson own a 51-36-7 lead in the all-time series, which dates back to December 27, 1951 ... RPI won the inaugural meeting, 6-2, in Troy.
THIS SEASON: The Crimson are 1-0-1 in the two previous meetings this year, including a 4-0 win the Shillelagh Tournament opener on November 28 ... RPI earned a 0-0 tie at the Houston Field House on December 5 ... Senior
Jason Kasdorf made 43 saves to lead Rensselaer.
CRIMSON SWEEP IN 2014-15: Harvard won both meetings last year by scores of 4-0 and 6-2 ... Jimmy Vesey had two goals in the shutout win at the Houston Field House, before netting a goal and adding two assists in Cambridge.
HARVARD UPDATE: The Crimson are 1-3 in their last four games, including a pair of defeats in the Beanpot to Boston College (3-2) and Northeastern (5-1) ... Senior Jimmy Vesey (18 goals, 17 assists) leads the team with 35 points ... Junior Alexander Kerfoot (4 goals, 24 assists) has 28 points, while senior Kyle Criscuolo (16 goals, 8 assists) has 24.
BETWEEN THE PIPES: Sophomore Merrick Madsen (12-3-2) has started 17 of the team's 23 games, carrying a 1.94 goals against average and a .933 save percentage ... Freshman Michael Lackey (1-4-1) has a 3.58 goals against average and a .876 save percentage.
ALL-TIME VS. DARTMOUTH: RPI leads the all-time series with the Big Green with a record of 46-36-5 ... The first ever meeting came on January 17, 1908, when the two teams tied, 4-4, in Albany.
RECENTLY: The Engineers have won six of the last 11 meeting with Dartmouth, including four of the last six.
ENGINEERS FALL TO DARTMOUTH: Brett Patterson scored the go-ahead goal at 8:51 of the third period to send the Big Green home with a 2-1 win over RPI, on December 4 at the Houston Field House ... Carl Hesler got the scoring started for the visitors at 13:25 of the first, before Rensselaer senior
Milos Bubela brought the hosts even at 11:53 of the second ... Freshman
Cam Hackett made 34 saves for the Engineers, while Devin Buffalo stopped 28 shots for Dartmouth.
PACING THE BIG GREEN: Dartmouth has gone 2-2 since its five-game winning streak came to an end against first-ranked Quinnipiac on January 29 ... Senior Jack Barre (11 goals, 12 assists) leads the way with 23 points, while sophomore Carl Hesler (9 goals, 7 assists) has 16 ... Senior Brett Patterson (8 goals, 7 assists) rounds out the top three scorers at 15 points.
IN GOAL FOR DC: Senior Charles Grant, who had started 11 consecutive games before last Saturday's 6-3 win over Colgate, is 8-6-0 with a 2.50 goals against average and a .910 save percentage ... Senior James Kruger (3-2-0) has a 4.07 goals against average and a .873 save percentage.
ENGINEERS VS. RANKED TEAMS: The Engineers are 4-4-3 against ranked opposition this season, including victories over then-No. 1 Boston College (2-1), then-No. 10 Yale (3-2 in OT) and then-No. 8 Cornell (1-0).
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