HOME STRETCH
The Engineers host Princeton and sixth-ranked Quinnipiac in their penultimate ECAC Hockey home weekend of 2018-19 ... Puck drop for both Friday and Saturday night is scheduled 7pm.

ENGINEERS TIE DARTMOUTH
RPI never trailed in settling for a 3-3 tie at Dartmouth on Friday, in its only contest of the weekend ... Will Reilly, Ture Linden and Brady Wiffen all tallied for the Engineers, while Owen Savory made 35 saves between the pipes ... Adrian Clark had 24 stops a the other end of the ice.

RPI LEADERS
Entering the weekend, junior Jacob Hayhurst (3 goal, 20 assists) has a team-best 23 points through 25 games this season ... Freshman Ottoville Leppanen (3 goals, 13 assists) is second with 16 points, while junior defenseman Will Reilly (5 goals, 10 assists) has 15 ... Classmates Todd Burgess (5 goals, 8 assists) and Patrick Polino (7 goals, 4 assists) round out the double-digit scorers with 13 and 11 points, respectively.

BETWEEN THE PIPES
Sophomore Linden Marshall (5-8-0) has a 3.70 goals against average and an .890 save percentage as the starter 13 games this season ... Freshman Owen Savory is 3-9-3 with a 2.30 goals against average and a .933 save percentage, which is good for third in the nation.

RECENTLY
Freshman Owen Savory is 2-2-3 in his last seven starts, sporting a 1.67 goals against average and a .946 save percentage.

ALL-TIME VS. QUINNIPIAC
The Bobcats own a 16-7-9 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
The Engineers snapped a 14-game winless streak (0-9-5) on November 10, 2017, which dated back to February 4, 2011 – a 3-3 tie in Hamden, Conn. Before its 5-3 win last year, RPI's last victory over the Bobcats came on February 19, 2010 – a 5-3 win at the Houston Field House.

BOBCATS BLANK ENGINEERS
Andrew Shortridge stopped all 12 shots he faced and Quinnipiac scored two power play tallies to shut out RPI, 3-0, on November 9, 2018 ... Daniel Winslow's first collegiate tally opened the scoring, before Odeen Tufto potted a man advantage tally at 10:33 of the second ... Chase Priskie capped the scoring with a goal at 14:25 of the third – also on the power play ... Linden Marshall suffered the loss for the Engineers, making 35 saves ... Patrick Polino registered a team-best four shots for RPI.

SCOUTING THE BOBCATS
Sixth-ranked Quinnipiac is paced by sophomore Odeen Tufto, who has 13 goals and 24 assists for 37 points ... Senior Chase Priskie (14 goals, 21 assists) is right behind him with 35 points, while classmate Brandon Fortunato (5 goals, 23 assists) rounds out the top three with 28.

QU GOALTENDING
Junior Andrew Shortridge is 13-3-1 with a 1.32 goals against average and a .949 save percentage ... Sophomore Keith Petruzzelli (8-3-0) has a 2.32 goals against average and a .908 save percentage.

TOP FACE-OFF MEN
The Engineers have won 49.4% of their faceoffs this season, led by junior Jacob Hayhurst, who is at 52.1% ... Freshman Ture Linden wins them at a 51.6% rate, while junior Make Marrello rounds out the top three at 51.0% ... Linden has won 55.1% of faceoffs in ECAC Hockey play, helping RPI to a 50.8% winning percentage as a team.

MISCELLANEOUS LEADERS
Freshman Jakub Lacka leads the Engineers with three power play goals, while junior Patrick Polino has the club's lone shorthanded tally ... Polino is scoring on 14.9% of his shots, which is tops on the team ... Freshman Jake Johnson is a team-best +2 on the year.

RECORD WHEN...
RPI is 2-0 when Donovan Ott records a point this season ... The Engineers are 7-6 when Jacob Hayhurst registers an assist and 5-3 when Patrick Polino collects at least one point.

SAVORY RECOGNIZED AGAIN
Freshman goaltender Owen Savory was named ECAC Hockey Goalie of the Week after helping the Engineers to a 1-0-2 mark in three games ... He stopped 111 of the 113 shots he faced and registered his first collegiate shutout against then-No. 18 Union at the 2019 Mayor's Cup on January 29.

VS. RANKED TEAMS
The Engineers are 2-7-3 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 ... The Engineers dropped a conference matchup with then-16th-ranked Clarkson on January 12 ... RPI came away with a 0-0 tie with then-No. 18 Union at the Mayor's Cup on January 29 and a 1-1 tie with then-No. 13 Cornell on February 2.