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Senior Day Highlights Exciting Weekend at Cheel for Clarkson

2/20/2019 4:37:00 PM

Clarkson Class of 2019 photo (l-r): Emma Keenan, Kelly Mariani, T.T. Cianfarano, Rhyen McGill, Kassidy Sauve, Josiane Pozzebon, Loren Gabel, Cassidy Vinkle

With the final weekend of league play at hand, Clarkson still finds itself in serious contention to earn a third straight ECAC Hockey regular season title. The Golden Knights, however, will need to win both games this weekend at Cheel Arena against tough opponents and have the out-of-town scoreboard go in their favor if they want to secure their fifth overall conference regular season championship.

Guided by 11th-year Head Coach Matt Desrosiers and assistant Britni Smith and Tony Maci, Clarkson hosts 6th-ranked Princeton at 6:00 p.m. on Friday and Quinnipiac on Saturday's Senior Day, beginning at 3:00 p.m.

The Knights are in third place in the conference standings, owning 30 points with a 15-5 ECAC Hockey mark. The Green and Gold are three-points behind league-leader Princeton. Clarkson, which has already secured a top four spot, is two points in back of Cornell in second place and one point in front of fourth-place Cornell. 

Ranked 4/5th in the national polls, the Golden Knights are the only team in ECAC Hockey with 20-or-more wins, posting a 24-7-1 overall record.

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• Clarkson will recognized the Class of 2019 this Saturday on Senior Day and all they have done for the program and the University. Clarkson's Class of 2019 has led the program to overwhelming success during their careers wearing the Green and Gold. Seniors, captain Cassidy Vinkle, assistant captain Josiane Pozzebon, Loren Gabel, Emma Keenan, Kelly Mariani and Rhyen McGill along with graduate students T.T. Cianfarano and Kassidy Sauve have played a leading role in solidifying Clarkson's reputation as one of the elite programs in Women's Hockey.
• Entering the weekend, the seniors, who are striving for their fourth consecutive 30-plus winning season, have amassed 122 victories, including 67 ECAC Hockey triumphs, and a .831 winning percentage.  The Class of 2019 has been nearly unbeatable at home with 67 victories and a .878 win percentage at Cheel. The playoffs is where the seniors have really excelled, helping the Knights to a phenomenal .900 winning percentage on a 18-2 postseason record. The Class of 2019 has made three appearances in the ECAC Championship game (two at Cheel), winning it twice (2017, 2018) and competed in the NCAA Frozen Four in each of their first three seasons, capped off by winning the past two NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS!
• Clarkson leads Princeton 18-13-2 in 33 all-time matchups. The Knights hold a slight 9-7-1 advantage over the Tigers at Cheel, but have not lost to Princeton in Potsdam since the 2010-11 season. For the season, Clarkson is 14-1 on home ice.
• Clarkson holds a 23-11-4 advantage over the Bobcats in the all-time series. The Knights have won the last two games and five of the last six, including a 3-2 win in Hamden, CT on February 1. Clarkson is 11-8-2 versus the Bobcats at Cheel Arena.
• The Knights are 14-1 at home this season, with the lone loss coming in their last appearance at Cheel, a 4-3 overtime setback to Colgate on February 9.
• Clarkson has played in three straight overtime games, going 1-2 in those contests. This past weekend in New England, the Knights were involved in a pair of 3-2 overtime decisions, losing at Dartmouth and winning at Harvard.
• Clarkson is tied for the second most potent offense in Division I, averaging 3.81 goals.
• Defensively the Green and Gold are tied for fifth in Division I, allowing only 1.88 goals.
• The Knights' scoring margin is third in the country at 1.94.
• Clarkson has outscored the opponents 55-18 in the second period.
• Headlining the Green and Gold attack are three of the top five scorers in Division I. Senior left wing Loren Gabel leads the nation in goals with 33 and and its tied in points (59) with linemate, sophomore right wing Elizabeth Giguere, who is tied as the leading playmaker in Division I with 38 assists. Junior center Michaela Pejzlova is fifth in the NCAA in points with 48 and is Division I's fourth leading playmaker with 30 assists.
• Making up arguably the top line ever in women's college hockey, the Clarkson trio has combined for 72 goals and 94 assists for 166 points. That is more goals than 21 other Division I teams, including eight ECAC Hockey squads, more assists than 15 teams (seven in ECAC) and more points than 16 other teams (six in ECAC).
• Averaging almost two points per game, Gabel has tallied 59 points (33-26) through 30 games. She leads the country in game-winning goals, connecting for her ninth deciding goal of the season with 4.9 seconds left in Saturday's 3-2 overtime victory at Harvard.  Through 152 career games, Gabel has amassed 202 points on 109 goals and 94 assists as the Green and Gold's all-time leading scorer. 
• Giguere has recorded 21 goals and 38 assists through 32 games. She is steadily moving up the Clarkson all-time scoring lists and looks to challenge Gabel's records before her collegiate career is over. Through just 73 games, she has tallied 130 points on 48 goals and 82 assists. Giguere has scored a Clarkson record five shorthanded goals this season. Only one team, other than Clarkson has more shorthanded goals than Giguere - Cornell with six. She has also tallied three power-play goals, three game-winners and posts a nation-high +51 rating.
• Centering the top line in college hockey, Pejzlova has 48 points on 18 goals and 30 assists, and has accumulated 135 career points (55-80) in 110 games. She is tied for the team lead in power-play goals with four and has scored three game-winners.
• Graduate transfer T.T. Cianfarano has been a nice addition to the Clarkson lineup,  recording 32 points on 17 goals and 15 assists. 
• Junior defenseman Ella Shelton rounds out Clarkson's 20-point scorers with 23 points on five goals and 18 assists. 
• An All-American at Ohio State, graduate transfer Kassidy Sauve has been stellar in recent games and has been a key reason for the Knights' success. Through 28 starts, she posts a .931 save percentage, a 1.80 GAA and is second in wins with a 21-6-1 record, including five shutouts.

Series Princeton: The Golden Knights lead the Princeton 18-12-2 in 32 all-time matchups. A season ago, Princeton snapped a 10-game unbeaten streak (9-0-1) for the Knights with a 2-0 win in New Jersey, but Clarkson exacted some measure of revenge by taking down the Tigers 3-1 just a few weeks ago at Hobey Baker Rink. Clarkson holds a slight 9-7-1 advantage against Princeton at Cheel Arena, but the Green and Gold have not lost to Princeton at home since the 2010-11 season. In eight career games versus the Tigers, Loren Gabel has scored 12 points on eight goals and four assists. In the first matchup between the two teams this season, Kassidy Sauve turned away 37 of 38 shots to send Princeton to its first conference loss of the year. Sauve stopped all 15 shots on the power play, holding the Tigers in check (0-for-6) on the man advantage.  

Series Quinnipiac: Clarkson holds a 23-12-4 advantage over the Bobcats in the all-time series. The Knights are on a modest two-game winning streak with wins in five of the last six contests. Clarkson and Quinnipiac have played the last 10 matchups fairly evenly with the Knights holding a slight 5-4-1 edge, and Clarkson is 11-8-2 versus the Bobcats at Cheel Arena. The last time the two played in Potsdam, Quinnipiac stunned the fourth-ranked Golden Knights in overtime. Loren Gabel and Elizabeth Giguere have each collected five points against the Bobcats in their respective careers, with Gabel scoring four goals with one assist and Giguere tallying one goal to go along with four assists. Earlier this season, Kassidy Sauve stopped 32 of 34 shots in Clarkson's 3-2 victory.

Scouting Princeton: The Tigers (18-4-5 overall, 15-2-3 ECAC) hold a modest one point edge in the ECAC standings over second place Cornell and a three-point lead over the Knights. After having its 20-game unbeaten streak snapped by Clarkson a few weeks ago, Princeton had an opportunity to gain ground in the ECAC with four games against teams in the bottom portion of the conference. With a 2-1 loss to RPI this past weekend, the Tigers gave Cornell and Clarkson renewed hope in the race for home ice advantage. Princeton is led offensively by freshmen Sarah Fillier and Maggie Connors. Fillier leads the nation in points per game (2.04) with 47 total points, while Connors ranks third nationally in total goals with 24 to go along with 13 assists for 37 points. Starting goaltender Rachel McQuigge is 10-4-4 in 18 starts with a .932 SP and a 1.75 GAA.

Scouting Quinnipiac: The Bobcats enter the weekend jockeying for position in the ECAC standings with RPI, St. Lawrence, and Harvard. All four teams are within a point of one another in the standings, with Quinnipiac tied for seventh in the ECAC at 9-9-2 and 12-16-4 overall. Quinnipiac rolls into the North Country on a four-game unbeaten streak (3-0-1).


 
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