NORTH COUNTRY TRIP
Rensselaer revisits ECAC Hockey play this weekend, when it travels to North Country-rivals St. Lawrence and No. 16 Clarkson, this Friday and Saturday, respectively ... Puck drop for both contests is scheduled for 7pm.
ENGINEERS TOP ARMY IN OT
Junior
Jake Marrello scored 1:16 into overtime to lift the Engineers to a 2-1 come-from-behind victory over Army West Point on January 5 ... Trailing 1-0 in the third period, RPI pulled goaltender
Linden Marshall for an extra skater and drew even with 20.5 seconds left in regulation ... The Black Knights received a second period tally from Brendan Soucie ... Marshall finished with 27 saves, while Jaredy Dempsey had 30 at the other end of the ice.
HARVARD WINS IN OVERTIME
Casey Dornbach netted a controversial game-winning goal in overtime to give the homestanding Crimson a 3-2 victory on January 4 ... Dornbach kicked a loose puck past RPI freshman goaltender
Owen Savory, but no video evidence could be found to overturn the call on the ice of a good goal ... After falling behind 2-0, the Engineers mounted a comeback, scoring late in the first period on
Shane Bear's first RPI tally ... Following a scoreless second,
Todd Burgess tied the game 46 seconds into the third ... Savory finished 40 saves in a losing effort, while Harvard senior Michael Lackey turned away 24 at the other end of the ice.Â
RPI LEADERS
Junior
Jacob Hayhurst (2 goal, 15 assists) has a team-best 17 points through 19 games this season ... Junior
Will Reilly (3 goals, 6 assists) and freshman Ottoville Leppanen (2 goals, 7 assists) each have eight points, while junior
Patrick Polino (5 goals, 3 assists) has eight ... Rookie blueliner
Kyle Hallbauer (1 goal, 6 assists) and junior
Todd Burgess (3 goals, 4 assists) have seven apiece.
BETWEEN THE PIPES
Sophomore
Linden Marshall (4-8-0) has a 3.57 goals against average and an .895 save percentage as the starter 12 games this season ... Freshman
Owen Savory made his collegiate debut in the season opener at UMass, stopping 8 of 9 shots in the third period ... He then earned the win in his first collegiate start on November 23 at UMass Lowell, saving 26 ... For the season, Savory is 1-6-0, with a 2.66 goals against average and a .929 save percentage in nine appearances (7 starts) ... Senior
Chase Perry made his season debut against Notre Dame on December 1 and has a 1.58 goals against average and a .944 save percentage in 37:59 of ice time.
ALL-TIME VS. ST. LAWRENCE
The Saints are 83-59-7 all-time against the Engineers, including a 7-2 victory in the inaugural meeting on January 3, 1951, in Troy ... St. Lawrence is 53-22-3 at home in the series.
RECENTLY
St. Lawrence is 7-4-0 over the last 11 meetings, including a 4-2-0 mark in Canton ... The Saints swept an ECAC Hockey Quarterfinal series on March 13 and 14, 2015 by scores of 1-0 and 5-1 at Appleton Arena ... RPI's last victory in Canton came on November 7, 2015 – a 4-3 overtime triumph.
NOVEMBER 3, 2018
Jacob Hayhurst had a goal and an assist to lead the Engineers to a 3-2 victory over St. Lawrence on November 3 at the Houston Field House ... The two teams traded goals in the opening frame, with Ottoville Leppanen and
Jake Marrello scoring for the hosts ... After a scoreless second, Hayhurst lit the lamp with a power play tally at 13:11 of the third, with assists going to
Jake Johnson and
Kyle Hallbauer ...
Linden Marshall made 23 saves in goal.
SCOUTING THE SAINTS
Junior Carson Gicewicz leads St. Lawrence with eight points on two goals and six assists ... Sophomore Keenan Suthers (4 goals, 3 assists) and senior Michael Laidley (2 goals, 5 assists) have seven points apiece, while five others have six points, including freshman Zach Risteau, who has six assists.
SLU GOALTENDING
Senior Arthur Brey is 1-7-0 with a 3.87 goals against average and a .902 save percentage in 12 games (9 starts) ... Junior Daniel Mannella (1-5-0) has a 3.77 goals against average and a .905 save percentage in eight appearances (4 starts), while freshman Emil Zetterquist (1-2-1) has a 4.26 goals against average and an .890 save percentage in five starts.
ALL-TIME VS. CLARKSON
The Golden Knights own a 96-51-11 lead in the all-time series with RPI – the most victories any team has over the Engineers ... Rensselaer won the inaugural meeting, however, 14-1, in Troy on January 24, 1925.
CLARKSON DOWNS ENGINEERS
Junior Nico Sturm scored a pair of goals to lead Clarkson to a 6-0 victory over RPI on November 2 ... Classmate Greg Moro had three assists and Jake Kielly turned in a 34-save night, as the Engineers wound up out-shooting the visitors 34-26 ... Freshman Josh Dunne had a goal an assist for the Golden Knights.
FOR THE GOLDEN KNIGHTS
Junior Nico Sturm paces Clarkson with nine goals and 12 assists for 21 points in 18 games ... Classmate Haralds Egle (8 goals, 11 assists) has 19 points, while senior Aaron Thow (5 goals, 8 assists) and junior Greg Moro (3 goals, 10 assists) have 13 points apiece ... Sophomore Jack Jacome (3 goals, 9 assists) has 12.
CLARKSON IN NET
Junior Jake Kielly (12-6-0) has started all 18 games for the Golden Knights this season, posting a 1.95 goals against average and a .927 save percentage.
CATALYSTÂ
Junior forward
Jacob Hayhurst has has a hand in 53.1% (17 of 32) of RPI's goals this season, including 61.1% of tallies in ECAC Hockey play.
NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK
RPI's three transfers all made their debuts at the Catamount Cup last weekend ...
Chase Zieky registered his first collegiate goal against Vermont, while
Mike Gornall picked up an assist on the play ... Defenseman
Shane Bear played in both contests as well.
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 ... Rookie blueliner
Kyle Hallbauer scored his first goal in the Cherry & White on November 30 at then-No. 8 Notre Dame ... Freshman defenseman
Brady Ferner potted his first goal on December 7 at Yale, while junior Transfer
Chase Zieky netted his first collegiate tally at Vermont on December 29 – his 10th career game ... Junior transfer
Shane Bear, who had three goals entering the season, netting his first RPI tally at Harvard on January 4.
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 October 27.
HELPING HAND
Junior
Jacob Hayhurst's 15 assists rank 13th in the country and fifth among ECAC Hockey skaters, trailing Odeen Tufto of Quinnipiac, who has 17 ... Hayhurst's 17 points are good for 12th in the conference.
TOP FACE-OFF MEN
The Engineers have won 48.2% of their faceoffs this season, led by junior
Jacob Hayhurst, who is at 51.2% ... Freshman
Ture Linden is second at 49.1%, while senior
Brady Wiffen wins them at a 48.6% rate ... Hayhurst has won 54.0% of faceoffs in ECAC Hockey play, helping RPI to a 48.8% winning percentage as a team.
MISCELLANEOUS LEADERS
RECORD WHEN...
VS. RANKED TEAMS
The Engineers are 2-5-0 against teams ranked in the USCHO.com Top 20, sweeping then-No. 11 Union on October 26 and 27 ... RPI then dropped league games at then-No. 13 Quinnipiac and then-No. 18 Princeton on November 9 and 10 ... The Engineers were swept by then-No. 8 Notre Dame on November 30 and December 1 ... RPI fell to then-No. 11 Northeastern, 3-2 in overtime, on December 28 at the Catamount Cup.
INDIVIDUALLY
Junior
Jacob Hayhurst is second among ECAC Hockey skaters with 10 assists in conference play ... He is seventh in points (11) and eighth in faceoff wins (88) ... Senior captain
Tommy Grant and freshman
Brady Ferner are both 13th with 13 blocked shots.
