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Clarkson Makes Road Trip to Dartmouth & Harvard

1/14/2020 8:30:00 PM

The Golden Knights stand as one of the top teams in the nation by going 8-1-1 since mid-November, and with three consecutive conference victories through the opening two weeks of 2020 Clarkson has moved into first place in the ECAC Hockey standings. 

Guided by ninth-year Head Coach Casey Jones and Associate Head Coach Josh Hauge and Assistant Coach Mike Towns, Clarkson is ranked 7th in the national polls with a 15-4-2 overall record and holds the top spot in ECAC Hockey with a 9-2 league mark.  The Green and Gold swept Princeton (2-1) and Quinnipiac (5-2) at Cheel Arena over the weekend.

Coming off a four-game home stand to open the New Year, the Knights make a long road trip into New England this weekend to take on Dartmouth on Friday in Hanover, NH, and Harvard in Cambridge, MA on Saturday. Both games are 7:00 p.m. faceoffs and can be viewed live streamed on ESPN+ (US) and StretchInternet (international).
 
• Clarkson continues to rank high in combined specialty teams play at 2nd in the nation (100/171, 58.5%).
• The Knights are ranked second on the penalty kill at 92% (80-87). The Green and Gold are a perfect 16-of-16 on the PK in the New Year, shutting down RPI (3-3) and Union (6-6),
Princeton (3-3) and Quinnpiac (4-4). 
• After going 0-of-7 on the power play against RPI on January 3 in their first game back after a 33-day layoff, Clarkson has scored a power-play goal in each of the last three games and is 3-11 (27.2%) over that span. Overall, the Green and Gold are ranked 11th in the nation on the man-advantage, hitting at 23.8% (20-84). 
• Clarkson ranks third nationally in scoring defense, allowing only 1.76 goals per game. The Knights have allowed more than two goals in a game just once in their past 10 outings. That came on January 3 against RPI when the Engineers scored a late empty-net goal to earn a 3-1 victory at Cheel.
• Offensively, the Green and Gold are 24th in Division I, averaging 2.95 GPG.  With the 5-2 win over Quinnpiac, the Knights are coming off their most productive offensive showing  since defeating Colgate 5-1 on November 16.
• Clarkson has enjoyed the better of the play in the second game of the weekend, putting up a 9-2 record on Saturday after going 6-2-2 on Friday nights.
• Frank Marotte has played every minute (1268:50) in the Clarkson crease and is rated among the top goaltenders in the country.  The graduate transfer posts a 1.66 goals against average (3rd), a .941 save percentage (3rd), and a .762 winning percentage (5th) on an 15-4-2 record. Marotte recorded his second shutout as a Golden Knight and 10th career whitewash behind 19 saves in the 2-0 win over Union (1/4). He also blanked Wisconsin (ranked sixth in the country at the time) behind a season-high 38 saves in a 4-0 victory in Madison, WI on October 25.  Marotte, who starred at Robert Morris the previous three years, has twice been selected ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Week (10/14, 11/25) and was named conference Goaltender of the Month for October.
• Haralds Egle has tallied goals in each of his last three games and leads the Knights in scoring with 24 points and 10 goals. He is Clarkson's second leading playmaker with 14 assists.  The senior wing has tallied 12 points (6-6) over the past eight games. Egle is within reach of the joining the century club with 97 career points on 40 goals and 57 assists through 124 games.  He was named ECAC Hockey Player of the Month for December. 
• Junior left wing Jack Jacome broke out of an offensive slump with three points in the Knights' weekend sweep. He picked up his first point in six games with an assist in the one-goal win over Princeton and followed with a pair of goals just 23 seconds apart late in the first period against Quinnipiac to lift Clarkson out of a 2-1 deficit and on to a 5-2 victory over the Bobcats, who entered the night on a six-game winning streak.
• Sophomore center Adam Tisdale enjoyed his best weekend as a Golden Knight scoring the winning goal in the 2-1 victory over Princeton and scoring again in the 5-2 win over Quinnipiac.  After going without a goal in his freshman campaign, Tisdale has tallied four times and recorded one assist through 13 games this season. 
• The Knights's checking line of Tisdale, sophomore left wing Jamie Collins and junior right wing John Carter MacLean was solid offensively and defensively in the weekend sweep. Along with Tisdale's two goals, Collins and MacLean chipped in one assist apiece. The trio finished with a +4 plus/minus on the weekend.
• Sophomore center Nick Campoli started the Knights' scoring against Quinnipiac, connecting with one second remaining on a power play for his first goal of the season. 
• Zach Tsekos recorded his fourth multiple-point outing at Clarkson, setting up both of Jacome's goals in a 23-second span late in the first period against Quinnipiac.  The junior transfer, who starred at Sacred Heart (2016-18), has 16 points (5-11), including nine (2-7) in the past nine games. He has won 173 faceoffs.
• Clarkson's Captain Devin Brosseau has been named one of 13 nominees for the prestigious 2020 Hockey Humanitarian Award. Also selected as a nominee in 2019, Brosseau steers the Clarkson Hockey team's community-service efforts. The award, which is celebrating its 25th year, is presented annually to college hockey's finest citizen — a student-athlete who makes significant contributions not only to his or her team, but also to the community-at-large through leadership in volunteerism. Brosseau was named ECAC Hockey's Student-Athlete of the Year last season. Along with excelling in the classroom, the graduate student has been a standout on the ice with 106 career points (39-67) through 131 games. Although he has missed six games this season, including the past four with injuries, he is second for the Knights in scoring with 23 points and is Clarkson's leading playmaker with 16 assists through 15 games.
• Clarkson is 8-3 in home games and 7-1-2 on the road. 
• The Knights are 12-0-1 when leading through two periods this season and 55-2-4 when holding the lead through 40 minutes since the 2017-18 campaign. 

Scouting Dartmouth
Dartmouth owns an 8-5-3 overall record and holds down seventh place in the ECAC Hockey standings with a 5-3-1 league mark. The Big Green have been especially strong at Thompson Arena with a 5-1-2 home record. Their lone loss in Hanover, NH was a 5-1 setback to Colgate on December 6, but Dartmouth came back the next night to knock off Cornell, currently ranked number one in the nation, 2-1. This past weekend, the Big Green skated to a 1-1 tie at Vermont on Friday and then took down Boston University 5-4 at Thompson Arena on Saturday.

Scouting Harvard
Harvard, which hosts St. Lawrence on Friday, comes into the weekend ranked 16th in the nation, owning an 8-5-2 overall record. The Crimson are tied for fourth in the conference at 6-3-1. Harvard played just one game over the weekend and put everything into it overwhelming Yale 7-0 in non-league action at Madison Square Garden on Saturday. The Crimson have struggled at Bright-Landry Hockey Center in recent games going 0-3 after starting the season with a 3-0 record in Cambridge. In its last action at home the Crimson fell to Cornell (3-1) and Colgate (4-3 ot) on December 6-7.

The Series
Vs Dartmouth -Clarkson holds a decisive 73-31-7 advantage over Dartmouth in their all-time series, which began with a 4-1 win in Hanover, NH on February 4, 1929. The teams are tied 5-5 in their last 10 meetings with the Big Green holding a 3-2 advantage over the past five encounters. The teams split the series last season with both winning on the others home ice. The Knights shut out Dartmouth 2-0 in Hanover on January 26, but the Big Green came back with a 1-0 blanking of Clarkson at Cheel on February 15. Dartmouth posted its first regular-season sweep of the Knights in 12 years with a pair of 3-2 victories during the 2017-18 campaign. Haralds Egle leads the Knights in scoring against the Big Green with six points, including four assists. Devin Brosseau has tallied two goals and two assists in the series.

Vs Harvard -The Knights and Crimson will be meeting for the 128th time in their all-time series, which first began with a 2-1 Clarkson win in Lake Placid on December 28, 1935. Harvard holds a slim one-goal edge in the all-time series 58-57-12, and the long-time rivals have played just as close in recent games. The Knights are 5-4-1 in the last 10 meetings with a 3-2 edge in the last five games. The teams split in the 2018-19 regular season with both winning on home ice – Harvard 4-3 in overtime on January 25 in Cambridge, and Clarkson skating to a 5-3 victory in Potsdam on February 16. The Knights defeated the Crimson for the second straight year in the ECAC Hockey semifinals in Lake Placid, downing Harvard 5-2 on March 22 en route to the conference tournament title. Clarkson's last win in Cambridge was a 5-1 victory on January 16, 2016. Jack Jacome (5-5) and Haralds Egle (3-6) both have nine points in the series. Josh Dunne has tallied three goals in three games against the Crimson.
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