HOME FINALE WEEKEND: The 17th-ranked Engineers hit the ice for their final two regular season home games, this weekend, when they host first-ranked Quinnipiac and Princeton, on Friday and Saturday, respectively ... Saturday's contest against the Tigers will be Senior Night at the Houston Field House ... Puck drop for both games is scheduled for 7pm.
DARTMOUTH TOPS RPI IN OT: Troy Crema scored with 1:08 left in overtime to lift the Big Green to a 2-1 win over Rensselaer on Saturday night in Hanover, N.H. ... Sophomore
Mike Prapavessis got the visitors on the board first, before Ryan Bullock pulled Dartmouth even in the third period ... Senior goalie
Jason Kasdorf had 32 save for the Engineers.
ENGINEERS HOLD OFF HARVARD: Senior netminder
Jason Kasdorf made a career-high 49 saves to lead the Engineers to a 2-1 victory over then-No. 9 Harvard on Friday ... After Brayden Jaw gave the Crimson a 1-0 lead, RPI junior
Jake Wood tied the score, just minutes later ... Sophomore
Kenny Gillespie potted his fourth of the year in the second period and that goal stood as the game-winner ... Harvard held a 50-22 edge in shots in the contest.
POINTS LEADERS: Junior
Riley Bourbonnais (13 goals, 9 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 (8 goals, 7 assists) and sophomore
Mike Prapavessis (3 goals, 11 assists) have 15 and 14 points, respectively.
BETWEEN THE PIPES: Senior
Jason Kasdorf has started 23 of the team's 32 games this season and is 9-9-4 with a 2.09 goals against average and a .937 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 12.6% (11 for 87) on the power play ...The penalty kill is now at 84.5% (93 for 110).
PENALTY KILL IN 2016: RPI has killed off penalties at a rate of 81.5% (22 for 27) since January 1 ... That ranks fourth among ECAC Hockey teams.
STAYING OUT OF THE BOX: The Engineers have taken just 2.38 penalties per game since January 1, which is the lowest in the nation ... Princeton is second at 2.50 penalties per contest ... RPI is also first in penalty minutes per game over the same stretch (4.77).
IN THE FACE-OFF CIRCLE: The Engineers have won face-offs at a 45.4% clip through 32 games ... Junior
Riley Bourbonnais leads the way at 52.6% ... Senior
Mark Miller is second at 48.5%, while junior
Jimmy DeVito rounds out the top three at 46.4%.
LEADER OF THE PACK: Junior
Riley Bourbonnais leads the Engineers in a number offensive categories, including goals (13), points (21), goals per game (0.48), points per game (0.78), power play goals (4), power play points (7), game winning goals (3), shots on goal per game (2.52) and shooting percentage (.191).
RANKED: The Engineers are ranked in the USCHO.com Poll for the seventh straight week ... RPI is currently 17th, with fellow ECAC Hockey schools Quinnipiac (1st), Yale (8th), Harvard (13th), Cornell (16th), St. Lawrence (18th) and Clarkson (20th).
CARDIAC KIDS: With their 2-1 win over Harvard on Friday, the Engineers set school record for one-goal victories in a season with 10 ... RPI, which is 10-3 in such contests this season, has won nine one-goal games a number of times in its history, with the most recent occurance coming in 2006-07.
ONE PENALTY?: The opposition has been called for a single minor penalty in five of RPI's last nine games.
SCORING FIRST: RPI is 11-3-4 when scoring first this season and just 4-8-1 when conceding the game's first goal.
FREE HOCKEY: The Engineers have gone to overtime nine times season ... All eight have come in ECAC Hockey play and the team's record is 2-1-6 in those contests.
ENGINEERS VS. RANKED TEAMS: The Engineers are 5-4-3 against ranked opposition this season, including victories over then-No. 1 Boston College (2-1), then-No. 10 Yale (3-2 in OT), then-No. 8 Cornell (1-0) and then-No. 9 Harvard (2-1).
VS. NATIONAL NO. 1: The Engineers are 1-0-1 against USCHO.com No. 1 squads this year, having beaten Boston College (2-1) and tied Quinnipiac (2-2) ... All other teams in the country are 4-19-6 against the nation's top team.
ALL-TIME VS. QUINNIPIAC: The Crimson own an 11-6-9 lead in the all-time series, which dates back to October 16, 1999 ... The Engineers won the inaugural meeting, 6-4, in Albany.
RECENTLY: The Bobcats have going 6-0-5 over the last 11 meetings, with RPI's last victory in the series coming on February 19, 2010 – a 5-3 win at the Houston Field House ... Coincidentally, the Engineer swept the season series that year, taking home a 4-1 win in Hamden, on January 8, 2010.
HUMAN BLOCK PARTY: Senior captain
Chris Bradley blocked a season-high 10 shots against No. 1 Quinnipiac on January 21.
NO. 1 BOBCATS SURVIVE RPI: First-ranked Quinnipiac needed a goal with 9.4 seconds left in regulation to earn a 2-2 tie with 16th-ranked RPI on January 21, in Hamden, Conn. ... After a scoreless first period, senior
Zach Schroeder flipped in a rebound to give the Engineers a 1-0 lead ... Five minutes into the third, senior
Mark Miller made it 2-0, when a shot from classmate
Milos Bubela deflected off of Miller and into the net ... Less than a minute later, Quinnipiac answered, as senior captain Soren Jonzzen made 2-1 on a shot from the right circle ... Junior Sam Anas then netted the equalizing goal at 19:50 of the third ... Senior netminder
Jason Kasdorf finished with 46 saves for RPI.
BOBCATS UPDATE: Quinnipiac has gone 3-1-1 in its last five games, including a split on its North Country trip last weekend ... The Bobcats are led offensively by junior Sam Anas, who has 21 goals and 18 assists for 39 points ... Senior Travis St. Denis (15 goals, 19 assists) has 34 points, while junior Tim Clifton (14 goals, 16 assists) has 30.
BETWEEN THE PIPES: Senior Michael Garteig (22-2-6) has a 1.76 goals against average and a .929 save percentage as the starter in 29 of 30 games this season ... He leads the nation with seven shutouts.
PLUS/MINUS DEPARTMENT: Junior blueliner
Parker Reno leads the Engineers at +13, while sophomore
Lou Nanne comes into the weekend at +12 ... Classmates
Drew Melanson (+9) and
Jared Wilson (+7) round out the top four.
LILJEGREN FACTOR: The Engineers are 12-3-4 when
Viktor Liljegren records a point, including 5-1-2 this season ... RPI owns a 6-1-2 mark in games in which he scores a goal.
