Colgate University Men's Ice Hockey News

Head Coach:
Don Vaughan
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Associate Head Coach:
Stan Moore
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Assistant Coach:
Andrew Dickson
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Athletic Trainer:
Steve Chouinard

Captain:
Etienne Morin

Assistant Captains:
Ben Bryce
Steve Silversides

MEN'S HOCKEY HOSTS CANISIUS TUESDAY NIGHT IN FINAL NON-CONFERENCE GAME

The Series
Tonight’s game marks the third meeting between the two schools with Colgate leading the series by a 2-0 margin. The last time these two teams met was in the 1988-89 season where the Raiders won by a score of 14-1. This will be Colgate's final non-conference game of the season.

Scouting the Golden Griffins
Canisius is coming off two straight wins over Army by scores of 4-1 and 4-3 OT.

A trio of seniors lead the team in scoring as forward David Deeves has four goals and 16 assists for 20 points while Brad Kenny has seven goals and 12 assists for 19 points and Chris Duggan has eight goals and 10 assists for 18 points. Freshman forward Fred Coccimiglio paves the way with five power play goals while Kenny has four to his credit.

Senior goaltender Sean Weaver sports a 7-9-2 record with a 3.22 goals against average and a .888 save percentage. Freshman goaltender Bryan Worosz has a 4-3-0 record with a 2.11 goals against average and a .926 save percentage.

The Golden Griffins have scored most of their goals in the second period while also allowing the most goals in the same stanza. They are 25/142 on the power play and 108/133 on the penalty kill.

Did You Know?
Colgate has scored a power play goal in five of the last nine games including one each against Brown and Harvard. The Raiders only scored eight power play goals in the first 14 games of the season.

The Last Time Out
Sophomore Kyle Doyle scored his first collegiate hat trick to lead the Colgate men’s hockey team past Harvard 5-3 Saturday afternoon at Starr Rink.

The Raiders completed a weekend sweep, picking up four points in the conference and jump to 9-13-1 overall and 7-6-1 in the ECAC, while Harvard falls to 9-8-3 overall and 8-5-2 in the conference.

Doyle picked up his third goal of the game at 4:39 in the third period when he rebounded a Rob Brown shot and beat Crimson goalie Will Crothers to put Colgate ahead 5-2.

Harvard pulled within 5-3 at 18:53 in the third on Tyler Kolarik’s unassisted goal, but it proved to be too little too late.

Dmitry Yashin scored the second of his two goals at 6:32 in the second period when he rebounded an Etienne Morin shot in front of the crease and jammed it into the back of the net to extend the Colgate lead to 4-2.

Colgate took the lead for good at 4:35 when Doyle took a pass from Ben Bryce, who screened the defender, and ripped a slap-shot past Crothers’ stick-side to put the Raiders ahead 3-2.

Peter Capouch tied the game at 2-2 when he beat Colgate goaltender David Cann with a slap-shot on his stick side at 1:33 in the second period.

Doyle’s first goal of the contest at 19:12 in the first put the Raiders ahead 2-1, seventeen minutes after Yashin’s first goal evened the score at one.

Liam McCarthy got Harvard on the board first at 2:02 in the opening period when he ripped a slap shot past Cann from the top of the circle. Cann stopped 13 shots for Colgate while Crothers had 16 saves for Harvard.

ECAC Honors For Doyle
Sophomore forward Kyle Doyle became the second Raider to be honored in as many weeks by the ECAC when he received Avaya Player of the Week honors Sunday after he recorded his first collegiate hat trick in the 5-3 win over Harvard. Doyle also added an assist in the 2-1 win over Brown February 1. He is currently riding a four-game point scoring streak.

A Fresh Start
Colgate is 6-3-1 since returning from Christmas break, including a 3-0-1 record in the last four games.

Morin’s Three for Three
After recording three points in the first 20 games, senior captain Etienne Morin has three points in the last three games.

A First Time For Everything
Freshman Dave Thomas recorded his first multiple point game of the season with two assists in the 5-3 win over Harvard.

He Shows He Can(n)
Sophomore goaltender David Cann continued his strong play since Christmas as he notched his second career win over Brown Friday night. Cann is now 6-2-1 in the last nine games and sports a 2.19 goals against average and a .902 save percentage during that span.

The Firing Squad
Colgate’s five goals against Harvard matched its season high. The Raiders also scored five goals in the 9-5 loss to Merrimack in the first round of the Syracuse Invitational Tournament.

Odds and Ends
Senior defenseman Ben Bryce has a +/- rating of +7, the best on the team since Iona, while sophomore defenseman Rob Brown is +5 and sophomores Matt Nicholson and Paul Kelley are each +4.

Home Sweet Home
The Raiders are in the midst of their longest homestand of the season with five games in nine days. Colgate sports a 6-5 record at Starr Rink this season, including two series sweeps with wins over Dartmouth (3-2), Vermont (4-1), Brown (2-1) and Harvard (5-3).