BACK TO LEAGUE PLAY
RPI travels to Colgate and No. 2 Cornell to resume ECAC Hockey play this weekend ... The Engineers visit the Raiders on Friday (7pm), looking for a season sweep, before taking a shot at evening things with the Big Red on Saturday night (7pm).

ENGINEERS DROP TWO
The Engineers were swept in a non-league series at Western Michigan last weekend, falling by scores of 8-4 and 6-2 ... Freshman Tristan Ashbrook had two goals in the series opener, before senior Todd Burgess posted a goal and an assist in the finale ... The series marked the final non-league contests of the regular season for RPI.

RPI LEADERS
Rensselaer senior Chase Zieky (7 goals, 12 assists) has a team-high 19 points, while classmates Will Reilly (7 goals, 10 assists) and Mike Gornall (5 goals, 12 assists) are right behind him with 17 points apiece ... Fellow senior Patrick Polino (8 goals, 6 assists) has 14 points while leading the team in goals ... Freshmen Cory Babichuk (3 goals, 10 assists) and Zach Dubinsky (2 goals, 10 assists) have 13 and 12 points, respectively.

GOALTENDING
Sophomore Owen Savory (8-8-2) has a 2.42 goals against average and a .919 save percentage in 18 starts, while junior Linden Marshall (3-3-0) has a 2.90 goals against average and a .904 save percentage in eight games (6 starts) ... Classmate Alec Calvaruso (1-3-0) has a 3.91 goals against average and a .869 save percentage in five games (4 starts).

DEPTH IN NUMBERS
The Engineers boast 12 players with double-digit point totals already this season, including six seniors, two sophomores and four freshmen.

ENGINEERS GET SPLIT
RPI fell to then-second-ranked Cornell, 3-0, on January 10, before blanking Colgate by the same score the following night ... Sophomore Owen Savory highlighted the weekend by posting his second consecutive shutout against the Raiders, stopping all 37 shots he faced ... Three different players found the back of the night on Saturday, including seniors Patrick Polino and Chase Zieky.

ALL-TIME VS. COLGATE
Rensselaer leads the all-time series against Colgate 66-63-5 … The Raiders won the inaugural meeting, 6-1, on February 19, 1916, in Hamilton.

SCOUTING THE RAIDERS
Colgate enters the weekend at 9-13-6 overall, including a 7-6-3 mark in ECAC Hockey play ... Offensively, the team is paced by seniors Bobby McMann (9 goals, 8 assists) and Ben Sharf (8 goals, 8 assists) with 17 and 16 points respectively ... Junior Paul McAvoy (8 goals, 5 assists) and freshman Colton Young (7 goals, 6 assists) have 13 points apiece.

RAIDERS IN GOAL
Sophomores Andrew Farrier and Mitch Benson have split time between the pipes for Colgate this season ... Farrier is 6-6-2 with a 2.35 goals against average and a .919 save percentage, while Benson is 3-7-4 with a 2.38 goals against average and a .918 save percentage.

RECENTLY
The series has been split 3-3-0 over the last six matchups against Colgate … Before this season, Rensselaer's last win over Colgate came on February 1, 2019, with a score of 3-1.

STREAKS
Colgate's longest winning streak over RPI is seven from 2003-2005 … Rensselaer won 11 straight from 1983-1986.

IN OVERTIME
Rensselaer has competed against Cornell in 17 overtime competitions leading those games with a record of 7-5-5.

NOTEWORTHY
Rensselaer achieved its largest margin of victory in an ECAC tournament game against Colgate (8) … RPI has gotten its second most wins against an individual opponent over Colgate (65) … Only two other teams (Clarkson & St. Lawrence) have played more games against RPI.

ALL-TIME VS. CORNELL
Rensselaer trails the all-time series with Cornell 38-64-11 … Cornell won the inaugural meeting, 4-0, on January 31, 1908, in Albany.

RECENTLY
Prior to this season RPI and Cornell had split the last five meetings, 2-2-1 … Rensselaer's last win over Cornell came on February 22, 2019, with a score of 3-2.

LAST TIME IN ITHACA
Todd Burgess scored with 52 seconds left in overtime to send the RPI past ninth-ranked Cornell University, 3-2, at Lynah Rink on February 22, 2019.

FOR THE BIG RED
Second-ranked Cornell is paced by junior Morgan Barron (11 goals, 14 assists) with 25 points ... Classmate Brenden Locke (7 goals, 13 assists) is right behind him with 20 points, while senior defenseman Yanni Kaldis (2 goals, 16 assists) rounds out the top three with 18.

STREAKS
Cornell's longest winning streak over RPI is eight from 1974-1979 … Rensselaer won five straight from 1984-1986.

IN OVERTIME
Rensselaer has competed against Cornell in 21 overtime competitions splitting those games with a record of 5-5-11.

HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?
The Engineers have a 2.11 team goals against average in 16 ECAC Hockey contests this season, which ranks third in the league and ninth nationally.

CONFERENCE SUCCESS
Individually, all three RPI netminders have had solid seasons in ECAC Hockey play ... Owen Savory is 6-5-1 with a 2.12 goals against average and a .926 save percentage, while Alec Calvaruso (1-1-0) has a 2.03 goals against average and a .921 save percentage ... Not to be outdone, Linden Marshall (1-1-0) boasts a 1.83 goals against average and a .938 save percentage.

VERY GOOD BOYS
At 7.50 penalty minutes per game, the Engineers are the second least penalized team in the nation, trailing only Minnesota (7.39) ... Alaska, the most penalized team, is averaging 15.80 minutes per contest ... Amongst ECAC Hockey foes, Quinnipiac is right behind RPI at 7.75 minutes per game.

GOALIE OF THE MONTH
Sophomore Owen Savory was named MAC Goaltending Goalie of the Month for January by ECAC Hockey after posting a 4-0-1 record in five starts ... He compiled a 0.59 goals against average and a .980 save percentage, with two shutouts ... He was twice named ECAC Hockey Goalie of the Week during the run.

NATIONAL RECOGNITION
Savory also garnered Hockey Commissioners Association Goalie of the Month honors after posting his undefeated January.

EXORCISTS
This the season the Engineers have halted a number of winless streaks, including eight straight against Dartmouth, seven in a row with Clarkson, five consecutive Big Red Freakout! games and three Mayor's Cup contests.

TWO BILLS
With RPI's win over Vermont on February 1, head coach Dave Smith eared his 200th career victory ... He won 172 over his 12-year stint at Canisius, before taking over the Engineers in 2017-18.

TURN IT UP... PAST 11
Senior Patrick Polino's seventh goal of the season gave him 12 points on the year, which set a new career high ... He recorded exactly 11 points in each of his three previous seasons.

THREE SHUTOUTS
Sophomore Owen Savory's three shutouts this season are the most by an RPI goaltender since Jason Kasdorf recorded three during his freshman season of 2012-13. 

ALMOST THREE IN A ROW
Savory came just 12.8 seconds from becoming the first RPI hockey goaltender to record three consecutive shutouts, when he surrendered Brown's only goal on January 18.