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Knights Return to Play With Road Trip to Brown and Yale

With a week off from action, Clarkson University is well rested and ready to resume the challenge of defending its ECAC Hockey title when the Golden Knights return to league play this weekend.  Ranked No. 3 in the national polls with a 9-1 overall record, Clarkson holds a 2-0 conference mark. Guided by 11th-year head coach Matt Desrosiers and assistants Britni Smith and Tony Maci, the Knights make one of their longer league road trips this weekend when they play Brown and Yale in Providence, RI and New Haven, CT, respectively.

In its last action, the Knights swept Union (5-1) and RPI (3-0) at Cheel Arena in the ECAC Hockey openers on November 2-3 to run their winning streak to five games.

Brown-Yale Weekend Series Notes
USCHO.com Poll
USA Today Poll
Coaches Corner with Mike Vaillancourt


• Clarkson is 3-1 in road games with its only loss this season a 4-3 overtime setback at St. Lawrence on October 19. The Green and Gold came back the next day to shut out the Saints 4-0 at Cheel.
• The Knights have scored at least three goals in every game this season and are first in Division I in offense, averaging 4.30 goals per game.
• Clarkson boasts the top line in the NCAA with all three players ranked among the top five Division I forwards in the country.
• Sophomore right wing Elizabeth Giguere is tied for the most points in Division I with 21 on 10 goals and 11 assists through 10 games. She is eight points shy of the century mark with 37 goals and 55 assists in just 51 career games. 
• Senior left wing Loren Gabel is right behind Giguere with 19 points (tied for third nationally) on seven goals and a team-high 12 assists in eight games. She has 163 career points (83-80) in 130 games and trails only Cayley Mercer '17 (178 pts) and Jamie Lee Rattray '14 (181 pts) on the Green and Gold's all-time scoring list. Gabel missed the games against Union and RPI while she skated with Team Canada at the Four Nations Cup, where she scored one goal and one assist in helping Canada to a Silver Medal.
• Junior center Michaela Pejzlova is tied for fifth in Division I in points (18), recording seven goals and 11 assists. Pejzlova became the latest Golden Knight to join the 100-point club and has 105 career points (44-61) in 88 games.
• T.T. Cianfarano took Gabel's place on the top line in the weekend series against Union and RPI and responded with three goals and four assists to earn NCAA 2nd Star of the Week accolades. A graduate transfer who was ECAC Hockey Player of the Year in her sophomore campaign (2015-16) at Quinnipiac, Cianfarano has tallied 16 points on seven goals and nine assists through 10 games and leads the Green and Gold in game-winning goals with three.
• Junior Ella Shelton is tied for the scoring lead among the nation's defensemen with 12 points on two goals and 10 assists, and holds the best plus/minus among Division I defenders at +14.
• Clarkson's other graduate transfer Kassidy Sauve has started nine of 10 games in the crease and posts a .918 save percentage and a 2.00 goals against average along with two shutouts.  An All-American at Ohio State, Sauve has a 50-38-9 career record with 24 shutouts.

Series vs. Brown
The Golden Knights have not lost to Brown since the 2006-07 season and are riding a 22-game unbeaten streak (20-0-2) over the Bears. Clarkson leads the all-time series 22-4-3 and has outscored Brown 109-29.  Last season on the road the Knights defeated the Bears 11-1 before posting a 4-0 shutout at Cheel Arena. Since the 2014-15 campaign, the Golden Knights have averaged seven goals per game and have not allowed more than one goal in any game versus Brown, shutting out the Bears four times in that stretch. Loren Gabel has dominated in her six career games against Brown, scoring nine goals and assisting on three others for 12 points. Senior captain Cassidy Vinkle has scored eight goals in six games against the Bears. 

Series vs. Yale
After four wins last season over Yale, Clarkson leads the all-time series 23-6-1. The Golden Knights are on an eight-game winning streak over the Bulldogs. In their first matchup last season, Clarkson shut out the Bulldogs 4-0 in New Haven. The Knights went on to win 2-1 at home in early February. The two teams met in the ECAC Quarterfinals later in February where Clarkson won game one handily, scoring 10 goals in the 10-1 victory. The Golden Knights closed out the series the following night winning 4-1 to advance to the semifinals. Loren Gabel leads the way offensively with 14 points on six goals and eight assists against Yale. Gabel broke the record for the fastest hat trick in NCAA history in the 10-1 win over the Bulldogs in the playoffs. Gabel tallied three goals just 4:12 into the game en route to a three-goal and three-assist day. Michaela Pejzlova has also been very effective against Yale scoring four goals and assisting on seven goals for 11 points in only six games.

Scouting Brown:
The Bears own a 5-3-1 overall record and a fifth-place 2-3-1 ECAC Hockey mark. The Bears are 4-0 at Meehan Auditorium and swept league powers Colgate (4-3) and Cornell (4-3) in their last action at home on November 2-3. This past weekend Brown traveled to Albany, but were unable to capitalize on their big wins from the previous week, losing 1-0 at RPI and tying Union 2-2.

Scouting Yale:
The Bulldogs, who host St. Lawrence on Friday, enter the weekend at 1-5-0 with all their action coming in ECAC Hockey play. The Bulldogs picked up their first victory this past weekend, winning 6-1 at Union. Yale lost to RPI the following night 2-1. 
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Players Mentioned

Loren Gabel

#19 Loren Gabel

F
5' 4"
Senior
Elizabeth Giguere

#7 Elizabeth Giguere

F
5' 10"
Sophomore
Michaela Pejzlova

#10 Michaela Pejzlova

F
5' 6"
Junior
Ella Shelton

#11 Ella Shelton

D
5' 8"
Junior
Cassidy Vinkle

#22 Cassidy Vinkle

F
5' 7"
Senior
T.T. Cianfarano

#27 T.T. Cianfarano

F
5' 6"
Graduate Student

Players Mentioned

Loren Gabel

#19 Loren Gabel

5' 4"
Senior
F
Elizabeth Giguere

#7 Elizabeth Giguere

5' 10"
Sophomore
F
Michaela Pejzlova

#10 Michaela Pejzlova

5' 6"
Junior
F
Ella Shelton

#11 Ella Shelton

5' 8"
Junior
D
Cassidy Vinkle

#22 Cassidy Vinkle

5' 7"
Senior
F
T.T. Cianfarano

#27 T.T. Cianfarano

5' 6"
Graduate Student
F