Big Green Battle Bulldogs With Lake Placid Berth on the Line

#7 Dartmouth Men's Hockey 16-15-1 11-11-0 ECAC Hockey	ECAC HOCKEY QUARTERFINALS Mar. 11-13, 2016 Game 1: 7 PM \| Game 2: 7 PM \| Game 3: 5 PM (if neccesary)
#7 Dartmouth Men's Hockey 16-15-1 11-11-0 ECAC Hockey
Opponent	#2 Yale 19-6-4
Location	New Haven, Conn.
Arena	Ingalls Rink
All-Time Series	90-110-15
Streak	0-2-0
Last Meeting	Feb. 5, 2016 // L, 5-1 \| New Haven
Video	Game 1 \| Game 2 \| Game 3
Radio	99Rock WFRD
On the Call	Chris Garrett (PBP) \| Pat Salvas (Color)
In-Game Twitter	@Dartmouth_MIH @Yale_Hockey
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Tickets	Yale Ticket Office
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TALE OF THE TAPE
	Dartmouth	Yale
Record	16-15-1	19-6-4
Goals For	87	80
Goals Against	97	48
Assists	151	129
Points	238	209
Streak	1-0-0	0-1-0
Home	11-6-0	8-3-1
Road	5-9-1	9-3-1
Neutral	0-0-0	2-0-1
LEADERS
Goals Leader	Barre (12)	Hayden (15)
Assists Leader	Barre (14)	Snively/Wilson (17)
Points Leader	Barre (26)	Snively (27)
PIMs Leader	Patterson (35)	O'Gara (41)
GWG	Barre (3)	Hayden (5)
Wins	Grant (9)	Lyon (19)
Goals Against Average	Grant (2.56)	Lyon (1.51)
Save%	Buffalo (.913)	Lyon (.941)

THIS WEEKEND
The Dartmouth men's hockey team returns to the ice this weekend for the ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals at second-seeded and seventh-ranked Yale this weekend. The best-of-three series at Ingalls Rink is one of four around the league.

LAST WEEKEND
The Big Green punched their ticket to the quarterfinals with a 2-1 series win over Colgate at Thompson Arena last weekend. Two of the three games needed overtime with both going the way of the home team, helping them secure a spot in the league's final eight.

OVERTIME(S)!
Dartmouth had never previously played a series in which two games needed overtime until 2016 against Colgate. Not only that, in nine previous all-time Game 3's, it had never gone to an extra period of play. Both of those scenarios changed on Sunday night as Game 3 needed an extra 24:37 of play to determine a winner. Tim O'Brien joined Game 1 hero Brad Schierhorn when he netted the series clincher.

HAT TRICK DROUGHT
Schierhorn's third goal of Game 1 set off a celebration as the Big Green opened the series with a win. It also gave Dartmouth its first hat trick in more than five years as Nick Walsh's three-goal, four point performance against Harvard on Nov. 27, 2010 was the last time the feat was accomplished. Schierhorn erased that long-overdue figure in dramatic fashion with the OT winner and snapped a streak of 189-games without a Big Green player registering a hat trick.

POSTSEASON AGAINST THE BULLDOGS
Dartmouth and Yale have only met twice before in ECAC Hockey postseason play: a 2005 first-round series and a 2006 quarterfinals match-up. Both came in Hanover with Dartmouth taking each, 2-1 and 2-0. This year marks the first time that Yale will be the higher seed and thus host the Big Green in New Haven.

Year	Round	Record	Results
2005	First Round	2-1	Game 1: W, 7-2
	No. 12 Yale at No. 5 Dartmouth		Game 2: L, 5-4 (OT)
			Game 3: W, 5-1
2006	Quarterfinals
	No. 11 Yale at No. 1 Dartmouth	2-0	Game 1: W, 5-1
			Game 2: W, 3-1

SCOUTING YALE
● The Bulldogs come into the postseason as the No. 7 team in the nation and second seed in the ECAC Hockey postseason bracket thanks to a 19-6-4 overall record and a 14-5-3 mark in league play this season. Freshman Joe Snively leads the team in scoring with 27 points on 10 goals and 17 assists. For his efforts, Snively was unanimously tabbed as the Ivy League Rookie of the Year. In goal, Yale boasts perhaps the top goaltender in the entire nation as junior Alex Lyon leads all of Division I netminders in both goals against average (1.51) and save percentage (.941).
● Yale's loss at No. 1 Quinnipiac in the season finale was just the second loss since the start of January as it was 13-2-4 in the second half of the season.

HOW WE DID VS. THE ELIS IN 2015-16
Yale swept Dartmouth in the season series in two very different fashions:
● The first game came on Nov. 7 in Hanover with Yale scoring 13:05 into the third period on a play reviewed for a high stick that eventually stood. Dartmouth's Corey Kalk appeared to tie the game a few minutes later, but a review of that play nullified the goal due to an apparent kicking motion. Yale tacked on an empty netter in the final two minutes for the 4-2 win.
● The Feb. 5 contest in New Haven was never really in doubt as the Elis outshot the visitors, 36-22, en route to a 5-1 win. The game was marred by penalties as both combined to go 0-for-9 on the power play in the contest. The line of Snively (1-2-3), Stu Wilson (2-1-3) and John Hayden (1-1-2) was too much for the Big Green to handle. Carl Hesler had the lone Dartmouth goal.

LONGEST GAMES
Sunday's Game 3 was just the fifth multi-overtime game in program history with all five coming since 1993. The 84:37 of game time made it the fifth longest Dartmouth contest, but just the fourth longest against Colgate as the Raiders have four of the top five.

Longest Games In Dartmouth History:
Mar. 14, 2003 vs. Colgate: 121:05 / L, 4-3 (4OT)
Mar. 9, 2012 at Cornell: 97:40 / L, 4-3 (2OT)
Mar. 8, 2002 vs. Colgate: 94:15 / W, 5-4 (2OT)
Mar. 9, 1993 vs. Colgate: 87:16 / L, 4-3 (2OT)
Mar. 6, 2016 vs. Colgate: 84:37 / W, 4-3 (2OT)

SENIOR SEND-OFF
Sunday also marked the final game at Thompson Arena for the largest senior class in the nation. O'Brien and Schierhorn sent the Class of 2016 out in style in their home rink with a pair of OT winners, while senior goalies James Kruger (Game 1) and Charles Grant (Game 3) each picked up a victory in net. In four seasons, the seniors were 37-25-5 in Hanover.

WEEKLY HONORS
Schierhorn and freshman Connor Yau were named the ECAC Hockey Player and Rookie of the Week following the Colgate series. For Schierhorn, it was the second time he had won the honor (following the BU game as a junior in November last season), while Yau's three-point weekend helped the rookie from Illinois claim his first league accolade.

Schierhorn and Yau take home weekly #ECACHockey awards. https://t.co/4X79a9eamM pic.twitter.com/oWDAyFrqIQ
— Dartmouth Hockey (@Dartmouth_MIH) March 8, 2016

GOALIE SHUFFLE
Head coach Bob Gaudet used both of his senior netminders this weekend as James Kruger started Games 1 and 2, while Charles Grant was given the nod in Game 3. Kruger picked up the win in the opener, stopping 20, including four in overtime. He stopped 24 the following night in the Game 2 loss. Grant made a Dartmouth season-best 38 stops in Game 3 as Colgate ratcheted up the intensity with 41 shots. The Nova Scotia native made 13 saves in the 24:37 of extra play to help his team advance.

SHORTY
Josh Hartley scored Dartmouth's second shorthanded goal of the season in the third period of Game 3, finding the back of the net just 16 seconds after Colgate had taken a 2-1 lead, tying things back up. Tim O'Brien had the lone helper on the shorty, tracking the puck down behind the net and hitting Hartley at the top of the slot. O'Brien's shorthanded marker at Brown on Feb. 6 is the only other Dartmouth goal to come this season down a man.

POINT STREAKS
Nick Bligh was the only player in green and white this weekend to notch a point in each of the three games. Bligh had a pair of assists in Game 1, another the next night on Brett Patterson's PPG and the tying goal midway through the third period of Game 3 that sent the contest to overtime. Bligh is currently on a four-game point streak after netting a goal at Clarkson in the regular season finale.

HORN SCORES, WE WIN
In the last two seasons, Dartmouth is 10-0-2 when Brad Schierhorn scores a goal, including 3-0 this season. Also of note is the captain's propensity for strong play in the first round of the league's postseason as he has 10 points (7-3-10) in 11 career first-round games.

MOVING ON… AGAIN
The Big Green's win on Sunday gave them at least one series win in six straight seasons, just one off their program record of seven set between 2001 and 2007.

QUARTERFINAL STRUGGLES
Following 2011's three-game quarterfinal victory against Harvard to advance to the semifinals in Atlantic City, Dartmouth has struggled in the round. The Green are 0-8 in the last four years in quarterfinal games after posting a 10-3 mark in first-round games. All-time, the men from Hanover are 1-15 in quarterfinal road games.

NO NEW YORK
Dartmouth has played those last four quarterfinal rounds in New York with losses at Cornell, twice at Union and again last season at Colgate. This is only the second all-time road quarterfinal series outside of the Empire State for Dartmouth and the first since a 2-1 loss at Vermont in 2005.

AGAINST A 2-SEED
All-time against a team seeded second in the ECAC Hockey postseason, the Green and White are 1-7 (.125). The last time they took on a team with that seed was the 2012 Quarterfinals at Cornell, which ended in a sweep for the home team.

MULTI-POINT EFFORTS
Interestingly enough, in both instances where Dartmouth won games against Colgate, the game-winner came from a player who had not registered a multi-point effort this season. O'Brien (1-1-2) and Schierhorn (3-0-3) had not previously scored more than one point in any game this season before the contests in which they proved to be the hero.

SERIES PLAY
This weekend at Yale marks the 23rd all-time ECAC Hockey postseason series for the Big Green. Dartmouth is 13-9 coming into the weekend thanks in large part to an 11-1 record in home series.

AROUND ECAC HOCKEY
There are once again four postseason matchups around the league this weekend.
- No. 5 Clarkson at No. 4 St. Lawrence
- No. 6 Rensselaer at No. 3 Harvard
- No. 7 Dartmouth at No. 2 Yale
- No. 8 Cornell at No. 1 Quinnipiac

This marks the first time since the 2007-08 season that no lower seed upset a higher seed in the first round of the ECAC Hockey postseason.

The #ECACHockey Quarterfinals are set! pic.twitter.com/MQ3FKP0t7K
— Dartmouth Hockey (@Dartmouth_MIH) March 7, 2016

FOLLOW ALONG
Those looking to follow all the action in New Haven this weekend have several options.
● Video: All three games will be carried live on ECACHockey.com through the technology of Boxcast for $9.95 per game. Subscribers of the Ivy League Digital Network will not have access to these games and must purchase ECAC Hockey's per-game streaming service to view postseason action at Ingalls rink.
● Audio: Chris Garrett will handle play-by-play duties with both games broadcast on 99Rock WFRD (99.3FM) with Pat Salvas providing color commentary.
● Live Stats: DartmouthSports.com will provide live stats for those looking to track the game's play-by-play.
● Twitter: Fans are encouraged to follow the team's official Twitter account for in-game updates and insights: @Dartmouth_MIH.

WHAT'S AHEAD?
The winners of the quarterfinals will all move on to Lake Placid for the semifinals and league championship. Each of those rounds is single elimination and is held at the 1980 Rink at Herb Brooks Arena on the Olympic sized sheet of ice that played host to the “Miracle on Ice.”

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