HOME FOR ONE
The Engineers host Dartmouth on Friday night in their only game of the week ... RPI played Harvard on January 9 due to the Crimson's participation in the Beanpot Tournament that got underway on Monday ... Puck drop for Friday's contest against the Big Green is scheduled for 7pm.

ENGINEERS TOP NO. 1 CORNELL
Sophomore Jacob Hayhurst scored 20 seconds into the game and Brady Wiffen added a shorthanded goal in the second to lead RPI past then-No. 1 Cornell on Saturday night at Lynah Rink ... Freshman goaltender Linden Marshall made 29 saves, including 11 in the third period to help secure the victory ... Jared Fiegl netted the lone tally for the Big Red, while Matthew Galajda turned away 26 in the Cornell cage.

COLGATE BLANKS RPI
Sophomore goaltender Colton Point stopped all 20 shots he faced to pace the Raiders to a 3-0 victory over the Engineers on Friday night in Hamilton, N.Y. ... Freshman Henry Marshall netted his first collegiate goal at 2:06 of the first, before Hunter Racine and Mike Panowyk tallied for the hosts ... Linden Marshall made 26 saves on 28 shots.

RPI LEADERS
Sophomore Jacob Hayhurst leads the Engineers with 18 points on eight goals and 10 assists through 29 games ... Junior Evan Tironese (6 goals, 9 assists) and senior Mike Prapavessis (15 assists) have 15 points apiece, while senior Viktor Liljegren (9 goals, 3 assists) and sophomore Will Reilly (7 goals, 5 assists) each have 12 ... Senior Jared Wilson has a team-high four power play tallies, while Liljegren leads the club with three game-winners. 

ENGINEERS GOALTENDING
Freshman netminder Linden Marshall is 4-13-2 with a 2.94 goals against average and a .911 save percentage in 21 games (20 starts) ... Junior Chase Perry has started nine games for the Engineers this season, going 1-7-2 with a 3.55 goals against average and a .897 save percentage.

DOUBLE DIGITS
The Engineers have 10 players with double-digit point totals, including freshmen Billy Jerry (7 goals, 3 assists) and Emil Ohrvall (1 goal, 9 assists) ... Sophomore Patrick Polino is one away with nine (9 assists).

ALL-TIME VS. DARTMOUTH
Rensselaer is 46-40-5 all-time against the Big Green, dating back to their inaugural meeting on January 17, 1908 – a 4-4 tie in Albany ... The two teams did not meet against until December 28, 1973, when Dartmouth came away with a 5-2 win in Troy.

RECENTLY
The Big Green have won eight of the last nine meetings, including six in a row ... Four of the last six have been one-goal games, including an overtime victory for Dartmouth on February 13, 2016 ... RPI's last win at the Houston Field House came on November 8, 2014 – a 2-1 victory behind goals from Milos Bubela and Zach Schroeder.

DARTMOUTH WINS IN OVERTIME
Despite coming back from a 4-1 deficit to take a 5-4 lead in the third period, the Engineers fell to the Big Green, 6-5 in overtime, on January 6 in Hanover, N.H. ... Rensselaer scored three goals in a span of 2:27 in the second to climb out of a three-goal hole and went ahead at 17:11 of the third thanks to Max Reisinger's second tally of the season ... Quin Foreman netted an extra attacker goal to tie the game at 18:37, before Kevan Kilistoff potted the winner with 50 seconds remaining in the extra session.

FOR THE BIG GREEN
Senior Corey Kalk (5 goals, 10 assists) has a team-high 15 points, while freshman Matt Baker (8 goals, 5 assists) and junior Alex Jasiek (3 goals, 10 assists) are tied for second with 13 points apiece.


GUYS AND A BUFFALO
Senior netminder Devin Buffalo (8-8-1) has started 18 of Dartmouth's 23 games, posting a 2.91 goals against average and a .906 save percentage ... Sophomores Adrian Clark (1-4-1) and Dean Shatzer (two games) have also seen action this season.

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BEAT #1?
After its 2-1 win over Cornell on Saturday, RPI is now 2-3-1 over its last six games against the USCHO.com nationally first ranked team in the country, dating back to January of 2014 ... The Engineers went 0-1-1 against Quinnipiac when the Bobcats were No. 1 in 2015-16 and fell at North Dakota, 5-2, on October 10, 2016 ... RPI's last victory over a top-ranked team came on October 11, 2015 – a 2-1 win over Boston College at the Houston Field House ... The Engineers last defeated first-ranked ECAC Hockey opponent in the 34th Big Red Freakout! when they dropped Yale, 5-2.

FRESHMEN LEADERS
RPI freshman Billy Jerry ranks fourth among ECAC Hockey rookies with seven goals ... Classmate Emil Ohrvall is sixth in assists with nine.

LIMITING SHOTS
Over the last two weekends, only Clarkson has allowed fewer shots on goal per game (25.75) than the Engineers  (26.00), among ECAC Hockey teams.

SCORING FIRST
The Engineers improved to 3-2-2 when netting the game's first goal on Saturday ... Jacob Hayhurst was the fastest goal RPI has tallied this season ... Junior Evan Tironese scored 56 seconds into RPI's second game of the year – a 1-1 tie at Ohio State on October 14.

LAST MONTH LEADERS
Since January 9, senior defenseman Mike Prapavessis has a team-high six points (all assists), while classmate Viktor Lijegren (3 goals, 2 assists), junior Brady Wiffen (2 goals, 3 assists) and sophomore Jacob Hayhurst (1 goal, 4 assists) all have five ... Freshman netminder Linden Marshall is 2-5-1 with a 2.71 goals against average and a .914 save percentage.

BUBELA '16 AN OLYMPIAN
Rensselaer graduate Milos Bubela '16 has been named to the Slovakian national team for the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea ... He is the fifth former Engineers player to compete in the Olympics, joining Joe Juneau (Canada), Marty Dallman (Austria), Mo Mansi (Italy) and Mathias Lange (Austria) ... A forward from Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, Bubela played in 139 career games for the Engineers, scoring 33 goals and adding 30 assists for 63 points.

MARSHALL HONORED AGAIN
ECAC Hockey has announced its weekly award winners and Linden Marshall has been named Rookie of the Week ... He posted a 1.52 goals against average and a .948 save percentage in two contests last week ... He stopped 29 of 30 shots in RPI's 2-1 victory over then-No. 1 Cornell on Saturday night ... Against Colgate the previous night, he made 26 saves on 28 shots in a 3-0 defeat ... He had the second best goals against average and save percentage of any conference goaltender who played at least two games.