HOME LEAGUE WEEKEND 
Rensselaer hosts North Country rivals Clarkson and St. Lawrence, this weekend at the Houston Field House ... Puck drop is scheduled for 7pm on both nights.

ENGINEERS SWEEP NO. 11 UNION
RPI opened ECAC Hockey play by sweeping then-11th-ranked Union in a home-and-home series ... The Engineers were victorious, 5-3, at the Houston Field House on Friday, before downing the Dutchmen, 4-2, in Schenectady on Saturday night ... Junior Jacob Hayhurst recorded three assists in each game, while sophomore Donovan Ott (2 goals, 1 assist) and senior Brady Wiffen (1 goal, 2 assists) had three points apiece in the two contests ... Sophomore goaltender Linden Marshall stopped 68 of 73 shots, including 24 of 25 while the Engineers were shorthanded.

RPI LEADERS
Junior Jacob Hayhurst (9 assists) leads the Engineers with nine points ... Four players have three points, including sophomore Donovan Ott (2 goals, 1 assist) and junior captain Will Reilly (1 goal, 2 assists). Hayhurst has more assists than shot attempts (8) through five games.

BETWEEN THE PIPES
Sophomore Linden Marshall (2-3-0) has a 3.24 goals against average and a .909 save percentage as the starter in each of RPI's first five games ... Freshman Owen Savory made his collegiate debut in the season opener at UMass, stopping 8 of 9 shots in the third period ... He has a 3.03 goals against average and an .889 save percentage.

ALL-TIME VS. CLARKSON
The Golden Knights have a 95-51-11 lead in the all-time series, which dates back to January 24, 1925 – a 14-1 Engineers victory ... Clarkson is 8-1-1 over the last 10 meetings, including five straight victories.

2017-18 VS. CLARKSON
The Golden Knights took all three meetings last season, winning 6-0 and 3-0 in ECAC Hockey play, while also edging the Engineers 2-0 in Belfast, Northern Ireland at the Friendship Four Tournament.

SCOUTING THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS
Clarkson (3-2) is led offensively by juniors Haralds Egle (2 goals, 4 assists) and Nico Sturm (1 goal, 5 assists) with six points apiece ... Freshman Josh Dunne (3 goals, 2 assists) has five points, while three other have four points.

CLARKSON GOALTENDING
Junior Jake Kielly has played every minute in goal for the Golden Knights so far this season, posting a 3-2-0 record ... He has a 2.42 goals against average and a .911 save percentage.

ALL-TIME VS. ST. LAWRENCE
The Saints hold an 83-58-7 lead in the all-time series, which dates back to January 3, 1951 – a 7-2 Saints win in Troy ... St. Lawrence is 3-1-1 over the last five meetings, but the Engineers did take the season series last year, 1-0-1.

2017-18 VS. ST. LAWRENCE
RPI was a minute shy of pulling off the season sweep of St. Lawrence last year, settling for a 4-4 in Canton, in which they led 4-3 late ... The Engineers then won, 2-1, in overtime at the Houston Field House on January 12 ... Viktor Liljegren netted the winner, 1:39 into the extra frame ... Linden Marshall had 19 saves in the victory.

SCOUTING SLU
The Saints (1-5) are led offensively by junior Carson Gicewicz, who has one goal and three assists for four points ... Junior Ryan Garvey (1 goal, 2 assists) and sophomore Jake Stevens (1 goal, 2 assists) have three points apiece.

REILLY IN OCTOBER 
Junior defenseman Will Reilly now has three goals and six assists for nine points in the month of October, going to back his freshman season.

FIRST GOALS
Freshman Jakub Lacka netted his first collegiate goal just 15 minutes into his first game, scoring on the power play in the first period at UMass on October 12 ... He added his second goal the following evening at the Houston Field House ... Freshman Ottoville Leppanen and Ture Linden each potted their first collegiate goals against No. 11 Union on October 26 – a 5-3 victory at the Houston Field House.

FIRST POINTS
Rookie defenseman Kyle Hallbauer earned his first collegiate point – an assist – against the Minutemen on October 12 in Amherst ... Classmates Brady Ferner and Jake Johnson each picked up their first collegiate assists against Union on Saturday night.

MARSHALL AWARDED
Sophomore goaltender Linden Marshall was named ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Week after leading the Engineers to a 2-0 weekend against Union ... He compiled a 2.50 goals against average and a .932 save percentage with 68 total saves in the two games against the Dutchmen.

PENALTY KILL IMPROVEMENT
After going 3 for 7 in the season-opener at UMass, the Engineers have killed off 19 of 20 chances shorthanded, including 13 of 14 against the Union Dutchmen on October 26 and 27 ... RPI's 95.0% on the kill since October 13 ranks fifth nationally.

SWEEPS ONLY
The last time RPI and Union split a weekend ECAC Hockey series was November 12 and 13 of 2010 ... The Dutchmen won in Schenectady, 2-1, while the Engineers were victorious in Troy, 4-3 in overtime, the following night.

GOOD START
RPI is 2-0 in ECAC Hockey play for the first time since 2015-16, when it also swept Union to begin the conference schedule ... That team was unbeaten through its first six league games (4-0-2), before finishing 8-7-7 ... The 2014-15 team also began 2-0 and the 2009-10 opened 3-0 ... Prior to 2009, the last time RPI started a season with a pair of wins was 1997-98. 

HAYHURST STREAKING
Junior Jacob Hayhurst has at least one point in each of RPI's last seven regular season games, dating back to last year ... Over that stretch, he has three goals and 10 assists for 13 points, including nine helpers this season.

HELPING HAND
Hayhurst's nine assists rank second nationally and first among ECAC Hockey skaters ... He has had a hand in 75% of RPI's goals this season.

POINT OF REFERENCE
Junior Jacob Hayhurst is the RPI player to record a point in each of the team's first five games since Matt Neal in the 2012-13 season ... Neal collected three goals and six assists for nine points in contests. 

RECENTLY IN LEAGUE PLAY
Over the last four seasons, RPI has gone 26-51-11 in ECAC Hockey play, including an 8-7-7 mark in 2015-16 – it's most season finishing above .500.

2017-18 IN ECAC HOCKEY
Rensselaer went 4-16-2 in league play last year, but the four victories came against first-ranked Cornell, St. Lawrence, Yale and Quinnipiac.