HOME FINALE WEEKEND
The Engineers welcome 17th-ranked Harvard and Dartmouth to the Houston Field House for their final two regular season home games of the year on Friday and Saturday, respectively ... Puck drop is set for 7pm on both nights.
RPI EDGES NO. 9 CORNELL
Junior
Todd Burgess scored with 51 seconds left in overtime to lift the Engineers to a 3-2 victory at Lynah Rink on February 22 ... RPI netted the opening goal at 5:00 of the first period on a tip-in tally from senior
Brady Wiffen, before freshman
Nick Bowman doubled the visitors' advantage at 12:20 of the first ... Cornell pulled to within 2-1 just 30 seconds later, before knotting the score at 2-2 early in the third ...
Owen Savory made 35 saves to earn the win, while sophomore Matthew Galajda had 13 stops for the Big Red.
COLGATE SLIPS PAST ENGINEERS
Bobby McMann netted the overtime-winner to send the homestanding Raiders past RPI, 2-1, on February 23 at Class of '65 Arena ... Evan Tshumi scored his first goal of the year to open the scoring, before the Engineers drew even at 16:15 of the third on
Chase Zieky's seventh of the season ...
Owen Savory had 25 saves in defeat, with Mitch Benson turning away 31 at the other end of the ice.
RPI LEADERS
Junior
Jacob Hayhurst (3 goal, 20 assists) has a team-best 23 points through 25 games this season ... Freshman Ottoville Leppanen (3 goals, 14 assists) is second with 17 points, while juniors
Will Reilly (5 goals, 11 assists) and
Todd Burgess (7 goals, 9 assists) have 16 points apiece ... Senior
Brady Wiffen (8 goals, 5 assists) and junior
Chase Zieky (7 goals, 6 assists) each have 13.
IN ECAC HOCKEY PLAY
Junior
Jacob Hayhurst (2 goals, 13 assists) has a team-best 15 points in 13 ECAC Hockey games ... Senior
Brady Wiffen (6 goals, 5 assists) and freshman Ottoville Leppanen (3 goals, 8 assists) have 11 points apiece, while junior
Todd Burgess (5 goals, 5 assists) has 10.
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 5-11-3 with a 2.23 goals against average and a .934 save percentage, which is good for fourth in the nation.
RECENTLY
Freshman
Owen Savory is 4-4-3 in his last 11 starts, sporting a 1.77 goals against average and a .943 save percentage, which is third best in the nation over that stretch ... His goals against average is 10th.
ALL-TIME VS. HARVARD
The Crimson lead the all-time series with the Engineers, 56-38-8... RPI won the inaugural meeting, 6-2, on December 27, 1951, in Troy ... The Engineers won their first five home meetings with the Crimson.
RECENTLY
Harvard owns a 5-1-1 mark over the last seven meetings, with the Engineers' lone victory coming on January 13, 2017 – a 4-0 victory at the Houston Field House ... RPI last came away with a win at Bright-Landry Hockey Center on February 12, 2016 – a 2-1 win.
SCOUTING THE CRIMSON
Junior defenseman Adam Fox has a team-high 38 points on eight goals and 30 assists ... Sophomore Reilly Walsh (10 goals, 18 assists) and freshman Casey Dornbach (6 goals, 20 assists) have 28 and 26 points, respectively, while freshman Jack Drury (7 goals, 15 assists) has 22.
HARVARD IN GOAL
Senior Michael Lackey (14-6-3) has a 2.23 goals against average and a .920 save percentage in 24 starts ... Junior Cameron Gornet (2-2-0) has a 2.64 goals against average and an .920 save percentage.
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
ALL-TIME VS. DARTMOUTH
RPI owns a 46-41-6 lead in the all-time series, which dates back to January 17, 1908 – a 4-4 tie in Albany ... Dartmouth saw its seven-game winning streak snapped earlier this season when the two teams tied, 3-3, in Hanover ... The Engineers had a seven-game winning streak in the mid-90s, while the Big Green strung together eight straight wins from 2004 to 2007.
SCOUTING THE BIG GREEN
Dartmouth is paced offensively by freshman Drew O'Connor, who has 18 points on 10 goals and eight assists ... Sophomore Quin Foreman (9 goals, 6 assists) has 15 points, while junior Will Graber (5 goals, 9 assists) has 14 ... Senior Connor Yau (2 goals, 9 assists) leads all Big Green blueliners with 11.
DARTMOUTH IN NET
Junior Adrian Clark is 10-11-4 in 25 starts for the Big Green, including five shutouts ... He has a 2.31 goals against average and a .910 save percentage.Â
ENGINEERS TIE DARTMOUTH
RPI never trailed in settling for a 3-3 tie at Dartmouth on February 8 ...
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.
TOP FACE-OFF MEN
The Engineers have won 47.4% of their faceoffs this season, led by junior
Jacob Hayhurst, who is at 52.1% ... Freshman
Ture Linden wins them at a 49.2% rate, while senior
Brady Wiffen is at 48.8% and junior Make Marrello rounds out the top three at 48.5% ... Linden has won 50.2% of faceoffs in ECAC Hockey play, helping RPI to a 47.3% 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 ... Junior
Chase Zieky is scoring on 20.6% of his shots, which is tops on the team ... Freshman
Jake Johnson is a team-best +3 on the year.
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.