Big Green Play Host to a Pair of Ranked Opponents This Weekend

Friday, November 2

Hanover, N.H.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Princeton

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Big Green Play Host to a Pair of Ranked Opponents This Weekend

11/1/2018 10:13:00 AM | Men's Ice Hockey

No. 19 Princeton and No. 15 Quinnipiac come to town.

Game 2	Dartmouth \| 1-0-0, 1-0-0 vs. No. 19 Princeton \| 0-1-0, 0-0-0
When	Friday \| Nov. 2, 2018 \| 7 PM
Where	Hanover, N.H. \| Thompson Arena \| 4,500
All-Time Series	103-87-17
Last Meeting	1.13.18 \| L, 6-3 \| Hanover, N.H.

Game 3	Dartmouth \| 1-0-0, 1-0-0 vs. No. 15 Quinnipiac \| 5-0-0, 0-0-0
When	Saturday \| Nov. 3, 2018 \| 7 PM
Where	Hanover, N.H. \| Thompson Arena \| 4,500
All-Time Series	9-20-2
Last Meetings	1.12.18 \| W, 4-3 \| Hanover, N.H.
Media
Radio	94 ESPN Radio \| PBP: Rob Kennedy
Television	NESNplus
Stream	ESPN+ (Princeton) \| ESPN+ (Quinnipiac) \| International Stream PBP: Tyler Murray COLOR: Matt Corsetti (Color)
Live Stats	CollegeHockeyStats.net \| DartmouthSports.com
Social	Twitter: @Dartmouth_MIH Instagram: @Dartmouth_MIH Facebook: /DartmouthMIH
Game Notes	Dartmouth (PDF) \| Princeton \| Quinnipiac
Tickets	Harvard \| Quinnipiac
Program	Alex Jasiek Cover

THIS WEEKEND
•   The Dartmouth men's hockey team remains home for the second week of the 2018-19 season, playing host to No. 19 Princeton on Friday and No. 15 Quinnipiac on Saturday.
•   Friday's game vs. the Tigers will be carried live on NESN.

LAST TIME OUT
•   The Big Green are coming off a thrilling 7-6 overtime win against visiting Harvard last Saturday night.
•   Sophomore Quin Foreman scored the winner just 18 seconds into the fourth period thanks to a great play that started with Will Graber knocking the puck off the Crimson defender's stick. Shane Sellar picked up the loose puck inside the blueline and sent a centering feed to the far post for Foreman to knock it into the net to give the Green and White the win.

SCOUTING THE OPPOSITION
•   Princeton comes to Hanover as the league's defending postseason champion after an improbable run to the crown in Lake Placid that culminated with an overtime win against Clarkson in the title game.
•   The Tigers have a ton of offensive punch thanks to All-Americans Ryan Kuffner and Max Véronneau, who each had over 50 points last season.
•   Princeton is No. 19 in the latest national poll after a loss at Penn State to open the year. Quinnipiac is No. 15 thanks to a 5-0 start to the regular season.
•   The Bobcats posted a sweep of AIC last weekend in a home-and-home series that featured a 9-2 win Saturday in Hamden.
•   Senior Brandon Fortunato leads the team with eight points (1-7-8), while Odeen Tufto and Chase Priskie both had four goals.

GOALS IN OPENER
•   Dartmouth's seven goals in the season-opening game marked the most in the first game of a season since an 8-5 win against Niagara to start the 1998-99 campaign.
•   A 14-5 win against Norwich started the 1964-65 season and a 14-2 victory against Boston College to open the 1942-43 season are the most in an opener in program history.
•   In total, Dartmouth has scored seven or more goals in 29-of-112 season-opening games.
•   Since Bob Gaudet came to Dartmouth as a player in the fall in 1977, Dartmouth has only scored seven goals in an opener just five times, making the majority of those 29 games from the early years of the century-old program.

TRIO WITH A TRIO
•   Drew O'Connor (1-2-3), Shane Sellar (2-1-3) and Will Graber all registered three points in the opener.
•   The last time any Dartmouth player had three points in the first game of the season was J.T. Wyman (2-1-3) in the 2007-08 opener at Vermont, a 4-2 Big Green win.
•   The year before (2006-07) saw future NHLers David Jones (1-2-3) and Tanner Glass (0-3-3) each reach three points in a 5-2 win at Harvard for the first of 18 wins that season.

THAT WAS FAST
•   Dartmouth has played exactly 50 overtime games since the start of 2010.
•   In those 50 games, Dartmouth and its opponents have each won 11 times with 28 contests ending in a tie.
•   Of the 22 total wins, none have come faster into the overtime period than Saturday's victory that saw Foreman score 18 seconds in.
•   Only twice in those 22 wins has the goal scored come inside the opening minute. Tucker Brockett scored 45 seconds into an Oct. 25, 2013 game at the Prudential Center in Newark to give Princeton a 3-2 win. Tyler Sikura's Feb. 21, 2014 winner came 51 seconds into sudden death at Brown for a 2-1 Dartmouth victory.

AWARD SEASON
•   For their play against Harvard, O'Connor and Sellar were recognized with weekly accolades from the ECAC Hockey offices.
•   For the second time in his career, Sellar was named the Player of the Week. He was also honored last February following a six-point night at RPI.
•   O'Connor was tabbed as the top rookie as he tied for the conference lead for points by a freshman, but did so in just one game.

Award SZN: Shane Sellar named the #ECACHockey Player of the Week, while Drew O'Connor tabbed as the Rookie of the Week for their respective 3-point performances against Harvard in the 2018-19 opener. pic.twitter.com/jog1FDKf6K
— Dartmouth Hockey (@Dartmouth_MIH) October 29, 2018

399 AND COUNTING
•   With last week's win, Koenig Family Head Coach of Men's Hockey Bob Gaudet '81 moved closer to a pair of career milestones.
•   Gaudet is now one win away from becoming the 23rd coach in the history of Division I men's hockey to reach 400 career victories.
•   His win against Harvard also was the 306th during his 22 seasons at Dartmouth, moving him to within two of the legendary Eddie Jeremiah's program record of 308.

TIIIIIIIIIIMBERRRRRRRRRRRR LINE
•   There appeared to be no rust for Dartmouth's top line of Graber, Sellar and Foreman against Harvard.
•   After combining for 62 points (27-35-62) in 25 games played together last season, the trio opened 2018-19 by posting four goals and eight points between them.
•   Sellar netted a pair, and had a power-play goal along with Graber, while Foreman scored the biggest of the night in the fourth period.

FROM THE POINT
•   You might not believe it, but Dartmouth's first goal from a defenseman last season came on Dec. 9 when Tim Shoup scored the lone Big Green goal versus Bentley.
•   In 2018-19, that stretch to open the season lasted just 53:41 as junior Clay Han's shot found a lane through bodies in the slot and into the back of the net for the sixth goal of the night for the home team.
•   Han is actually the only true defenseman on this year's roster to have scored a goal last year, nothing his lone tally of 2017-18 at Yale on his 23rd birthday.
•   The home team actually got three points (1-2-3) from blueliners against Harvard with Cameron Roth and Harrison Markel also picking up assists, with the helper on the latter marking the first of his career.

WINS=VOTES
•   Dartmouth is back in the national polls this week… kind of.
•   The Big Green earned one point in the USCHO.com poll announced Monday.
•   The last time Dartmouth received votes in the national poll came on Nov. 7, 2016 following a season-opening win against then-No. 11 Michigan in Hanover, a 1-1 tie with Cornell and 2-0 win against Colgate.

FOOTBALL AND HOCKEY VS. HARVARD
•   Saturday marked only the third time in history that Dartmouth and Harvard played one another in both football and men's hockey on the same day.
•   Oct. 29, 2005: football lost 42-14, hockey lost 6-2.
•   Nov. 1, 2014: football lost 23-12, hockey tied 3-3 in OT.
•   Oct. 27, 2018: football won 24-17, hockey won 7-6 in OT.

THE GOAL
•   The goal that all Dartmouth players want to score every year is the first of the home game with Princeton. Interestingly enough, in each of the last FIVE years, a player who has no first-hand experience seeing the aftermath has scored that goal.
•   The last five players to score the goal have been freshman: Matt Baker (2017-18), Cam Strong (2016-17), Alex Jasiek (2015-16), Carl Hesler (2014-15) and Grant Opperman (2013-14).
•   The last time a player other than a freshman scored the celebrated marker was when senior defenseman and team captain Mike Keenan opened the scoring at 15:08 of the first period on March 1, 2013.

It's Princeton Week...

Can a freshman score 'The Goal' for the SIXTH straight year? Matt Baker made it 5 straight rookies last year. pic.twitter.com/2Jm27UCZVb
— Dartmouth Hockey (@Dartmouth_MIH) October 30, 2018

ESPN+
•   All of Dartmouth home games will be carried this season on ESPN+ with Tyler Murray providing play-by-play at each home game in 2018-19.
•   In addition to games played in Hanover, ECAC Hockey road games at each school besides Rensselaer will also be carried on the network, making ESPN+ your home for 21-of-22 conference games and 25 regular season games total.
•   Postseason games will also be carried on ESPN+ in 2018-19 and will not need subscribers to pay any additional fees to watch the league's postseason.

ON THE AIR
•   Once again, Rob Kennedy will be the Voice of the Big Green on the radio.
•   Kennedy begins his second season with the team and will broadcast all 29 regular season games on 94 ESPN Radio (WTSL).

WHAT'S AHEAD?
•   Dartmouth is on the road next weekend, taking on Brown and Yale.
•   Both games will be carried on ESPN+ as well as 94 ESPN Radio.

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