HOMESTAND BEGINS
Rensselaer opens up a four-game homestand on Friday and Saturday when it hosts No. 16 Quinnipiac and Princeton at the Houston Field House ... Puck drop is scheduled for 7pm on both nights ... The Engineers then welcome Notre Dame to Troy for a two-game series on November 17 and 18.
CLARKSON TOPS RPI
The 13th-ranked Golden Knights scored three first period goal en route to a 6-0 victory over Rensselaer on Friday night in Potsdam ... Jake Kielly finished with 17 saves for the shutout, while RPI freshman
Linden Marshall came on in relief of
Chase Perry and turned away 27 of 31 shots over the final 52:46 of play ... Sheldon Rempal registered a hat trick to pace Clarkson offensively, while Kelly Summers had a goal and an assist.
ENGINEERS TIE AT SLU
RPI picked up its first league point of the year on Saturday night, tying St. Lawrence, 4-4, at Appleton Arena ... After Alex Gilmour gave the hosts an early 1-0 lead,
Will Reilly and
Evan Tironese scored to put the Engineers on top, 2-1 ... The Saints answered with a late first period tally and another midway through the second to take a 3-2 lead, but Reilly's second of the night knotted the score at 3-3, heading into the third ... Jesper Ohrvall gave RPI a 4-3 lead less than a minute into the final stanza, but an extra-attacker, power play tally from Joe Sullivan evened things up with 28 seconds left in regulation.
RPI LEADERS
Junior
Evan Tironese (4 goals, 3 assists) and sophomore
Jacob Hayhurst (3 goals, 4 assists) are tied for the team lead with seven points apiece ... Sophomore's
Will Reilly (4 goals, 1 assist) and
Todd Burgess (5 assists) join senior
Mike Prapavessis (5 assists) in a tie for second with five points each.
ENGINEERS GOALTENDING
Junior netminder
Chase Perry has started six games for the Engineers this season, going 0-4-2 with a 2.82 goals against average and a .917 save percentage ... Freshman
Linden Marshall is 1-0-1 with a 3.71 goals against average and a .902 save percentage, having beaten RIT in his debut on October 21.
FIRST GOALS
Sophomore
Max Reisinger and freshman
Troy York each picked up their first collegiate goals recently ... Reisinger netted RPI's opening tally at Niagara on October 20, while York potted the eventual game-winner, late in the first period at RIT on October 21 ... York later scored a second.
WILSON RECOGNIZED
Twenty of the top Division I NCAA men's hockey student-athletes have been named as candidates for the 2017-18 Senior CLASS Award and RPI senior defenseman
Jared Wilson has been selected ... A captain from Calgary, Alb., Wilson is a business and management major with a 3.79 cumulative grade point average ... Compiling a perfect 4.0 GPA in the fall semester of 2016, he is a multiple Dean's List selection and has earned ECAC Hockey All-Academic all three years eligible to date ... An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School ®, the Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities.
SHOOT TO SCORE
The Engineers are sixth in the nation in shooting percentage at 12.4% ... They are second only to Cornell (15.8%) among ECAC Hockey schools.
ECAC HOCKEY LEADERS
Sophomore
Jacob Hayhurst ranks 11th in the conference in plus/minus with a +4 rating ... The Engineers have four freshmen in the top 15 in rookie scoring, including
Troy York (2 goals, 2 assists) ... York is seventh among ECAC Hockey first-year skaters in points per game (0.57).
ALL-TIME VS. QUINNIPIAC
The Bobcats own a 14-6-9 lead in the all-time series, which dates back to October 16, 1999 – a 6-4 Engineers victory in Albany ... RPI won the first four meetings, before Quinnipiac went unbeaten over the next nine (5-0-4).
RECENTLY
Quinnipiac is currently on a 14-game unbeaten streak (9-0-5), going back to February 4, 2011 – a 3-3 tie in Hamden, Conn. RPI's last victory over the Bobcats came on February 19, 2010 – a 5-3 win at the Houston Field House.
ALL-TIME VS. PRINCETON
Rensselaer is 68-34-11 all-time against Princeton, having won the inaugural meeting, 8-4 in Troy on January 18, 1952 ... The Engineers won 14 of the first 16 meetings in the series and own a pair of double-digit winning streaks throughout.
RECENTLY
The Engineers are 5-3-2 over the last 10 games in the series, including a split last year, with each team winning at home ... RPI is unbeaten (4-0-1) in its last five at home against the Tigers.
