FINAL HOME WEEKEND
The Engineers close their home schedule this weekend, when they host Princeton and Quinnipiac on Friday (7pm) and Saturday (7pm), respectively ... Saturday's match up with the Bobcats in the 40th Annual Big Red Freakout! and Senior Night.

DARTMOUTH EDGES ENGINEERS
The Big Green scored a second period power play goal and added an empty-netter late in the third to top Rensselaer, 2-1, last Friday at Thompson Arena ... RPI pulled one back in the final minute, when sophomore Brady Wiffen tallied a power play, extra-attacker goal ... Junior Jared Wilson and sophomore Evan Tironese picked up the assists on the play ... Chase Perry made 28 saves.

TIGERS ON THE TROT
Princeton is unbeaten in its last six games (4-0-2), including a home sweep of St. Lawrence and Clarkson last weekend ... Freshman Jackson Cressey (1 goal, 8 assists) has a team-high nine points during the run and has won a team-best 62.8% of his face-offs ... Sophomore Ryan Kuffner (4 goals, 4 assists) has eight points, while senior goaltender Colton Phinney (4-0-2) has a 2.26 goals against average and a .936 save percentage.

SCOUTING PRINCETON
The Tigers are led offensively by sophomore Max Veronneau (8 goals, 20 assists) with 28 points ... Classmate Ryan Kuffner (14 goals, 13 assists) has 27 points, while freshman Jackson Cressey (5 goals, 21 assists) has 26.

PHINNEY FILE
Senior Colton Phinney has started 24 of 25 games for the Tigers this season, posting a 10-11-3 record, with a 3.26 goals against average and a .905 save percentage.

RPI POINTS LEADERS
Sophomore Evan Tironese has six goals and 19 assists for 25 points, while senior captain Riley Bourbonnais (13 goals, 11 assists) has 24 ... Freshman Jacob Hayhurst (6 goal, 11 assists) rounds out the top three with 17 points ... Junior Jared Wilson (9 goals, 4 assists) leads all blueliners with 13.

BETWEEN THE PIPES
Sophomore Chase Perry is 4-16-1 as the starter in 21 of RPI's 31 contests in 2016-17 ... He has a 3.20 goals against average and a .912 save percentage ... In 14 ECAC Hockey contests (13 starts) he is 4-9-0 with a 2.68 goals against average and a .926 save percentage.

ALL-TIME VS. PRINCETON
The Engineers own a 67-34-11 lead in the all-time series with Princeton ... The 67 victories are the most over any opponent in school history ... RPI's 63 wins over Brown are second ... The two teams have split the previous 10 meetings (4-4-2), with the Engineers taking a four-game unbeaten streak (3-0-1) into this season.

TIGERS EARN COMEBACK WIN
Trailing 4-1 in the second period, Princeton came back to beat the Engineers, 6-5 in overtime, on December 3 at Hobey Baker Rink ... Sophomore Max Veronneau led the charge for the hosts finishing, with two goals and two assists ... RPI freshman Jacob Hayhurst scored twice, while sophomore Evan Tironese had a goal and an assist ... Defensemen Mike Prapavessis and Will Reilly each recorded a pair of assists ... Sophomore goaltender Cam Hackett turned in a career-high 49 saves.

PACING THE BOBCATS
Quinnipiac is led offensively by sophomore defenseman Chase Priskie (7 goals, 16 assists), who has 23 points ... Freshman and fellow blueliner Brogan Rafferty (2 goals, 20 assists) has 22 points, while three players have 21, including senior Tim Clifton (12 goals, 9 assists).

ALL-TIME VS. QUINNIPIAC
The Bobcats are 13-6-9 in the all-time series, which dates back to October 16, 1999 ... RPI won the inaugural meeting, 6-4, in Albany ... Quinnipiac owns a 13-game unbeaten streak (8-0-5) in the series, with Rensselaer last win coming on February 19, 2010 at the Houston Field House ... The Engineers swept the season series that year, taking the first meeting, 4-1.

BIG RED FREAKOUT!
Saturday's game will be the 40th Annual Big Red Freakout! at Rensselaer ... The Engineers are 21-13-5 in previous games, which includes a 17-game unbeaten streak (13-0-5) from 1991 to 2007 ... RPI has never faced Quinnipiac in a Freakout! game ... The Engineers are just 3-6-0 since the streak ended, including a 4-2 loss to Clarkson last season.

SPECIAL TEAMS
The Engineers enter the weekend's action with the third-best power play in ECAC Hockey at 20.9% (29 for 139) ... RPI's 29 power play goals are third-most in the league ... The penalty kill comes in at 79.8% (130 for 163) ... RPI's 163 penalty kill opportunities rank 11th nationally.

POWER PLAY IN 2017
RPI's power play is running at a 30.3% clip in the calendar year of 2017, which is good for sixth in the country.

NEWCOMER
The Engineers added a goaltender to begin the January semester when they brought in freshman Kyle St. Denis from the Syracuse Stars ... He was 5-7-1 in 24 games between the Stars and the Springfield Pics, with a 3.29 goals against average and a .917 save percentage.

PERRY HEATING UP
Since January 5, sophomore goaltender Chase Perry is 3-5-0 with a 2.02 goals against average and a .944 save percentage, which ranks fifth nationally in that span ... In his last 10 ECAC Hockey games (9 starts), he is 3-6-0 with a 2.53 goals against average and a .930 save percentage.