SEVENTH-SEEDED COLGATE TRAVELS TO FOURTH-SEEDED DARTMOUTH FOR FIRST ROUND OF PLAYOFFS

Scouting the Big Green
Dartmouth is coming off three straight losses to Clarkson (3-2), St. Lawrence (3-2) and Yale (4-2) while the Big Green is winless in the last four as they tied Princeton 1-1. Their last win came against the Raiders on February 16 as Jamie Herrington scored with 15 seconds left in the game for the 4-3 win.

Junior goaltender Nick Boucher is 9-7-4 with a 2.88 goals against average and a .903 save percentage in 21 games. Sophomore Darren Gastrock is 3-3-1 with a 2.53 goals against average and a .914 save percentage in nine games.

Did You Know?
Colgate and Dartmouth have only met once in the postseason with the Raiders holding the upper hand with a 4-3 double overtime victory in Hanover during head coach Don Vaughan’s first season in Hamilton.

The Last Time Out
The Rensselaer men’s hockey team used outstanding special teams to defeat Colgate, 3-1, in an Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division I men’s hockey game Saturday evening at the Houston Field House in Troy, NY. A crowd of 3,946 saw the Engineers improve to 16-12-4 overall and 10-9-3 in the league. They finished fifth and will host Princeton in the first round of the playoffs beginning next Friday night. The Raiders, who placed seventh and will play at Dartmouth, finish the regular season 13-17-2 overall and 10-10-2 in the ECAC.

The Engineers, who killed all six of Colgate’s power play chances, scored the only goal of the first period when junior Carson Butterwick tallied on a rebound with the home team on a power play. Butterwick earned his 12th of the season at the 7:02 mark when he deposited a rebound of a Matt Murley shot past Colgate netminder David Cann. Junior Marc Cavosie, the ECAC’s leading scorer, also assisted on the play and extended his point-scoring streak to 17 games (12 goals, 15 assists). RPI sophomore goaltender Nathan Marsters kept the Raiders, who had three power plays in the opening period, off the scoreboard by stopping all 15 shots he faced.

RPI opened a two-goal lead at 10:23 of the second period when senior Jim Henkel scored on a wrist shot from the left face-off as a power play was expiring. Henkel tallied his ninth of the year with assists going to Steve Munn and Conrad Barnes. The Raiders pulled to within one goal when captain Etienne Morin beat Marsters from the top of the right circle. The Engineers regained their two-goal lead late in the second period when Ben Barr scored from between the circles. RPI’s goal, which came at 19:36, came after sustained pressure in the offensive zone by the home team. Andrew McPherson and Butterwick earned the assists on the goal, Barr’s second of the season.

Marsters finished with 34 saves, including 13 in the third period, while Cann stopped 30 shots.

All Good Things Come In Three’s
Senior captain Etienne Morin is on a three-game point scoring streak as he has recorded five points in the last three games with two goals and three assists.

Colgate vs. Dartmouth this season
Sophomore Kyle Doyle scored one goal in each of Colgate’s meetings with Dartmouth this season. Freshman Darryl McKinnon, sophomore Kyle Doyle and juniors Scooter Smith and Brad D’Arco also recorded tallys versus the Big Green this season.

In addition, junior P.J. Yedon has two goals and two assists in his career against Dartmouth. Yedon missed the February 16 game in Hanover as a result of an injury, but tallied an assist in the 3-2 win over the Big Green January 11 in Hamilton.

Sparking the offense
In two of the last three games, junior P.J. Yedon has scored Colgate’s first goal of the game against St. Lawrence and Union.

A Fresh Start
Colgate is 7-4-2 in the last 13 games and are 10-7-2 since returning from Christmas break.

A First Time for Everything
For the first time in school history, both the men’s and women’s hockey teams play at the same place (Dartmouth) for the first round of the playoffs. The Raiders and the Big Green are the only two men’s and women’s teams playing the same school in the league.

Up Next
The winner of the first round of the playoffs advances to Lake Placid March 14-16.