Big Green Hit the Road for the First Time This Season, Play at Brown and Yale

Friday, November 9

Providence, R.I.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Brown

Photo by: Mark Washburn

Big Green Hit the Road for the First Time This Season, Play at Brown and Yale

11/8/2018 10:00:00 AM | Men's Ice Hockey

Dartmouth looking to continue early successes at Brown and Yale this weekend.

Game 4	Dartmouth \| 2-1-0, 2-1-0 at Brown \| 0-3-1, 0-2-1 ECAC Hockey
When	Friday \| Nov. 9, 2018 \| 7 PM
Where	Providence, R.I. \| Meehan Auditorium \| 2,495
All-Time Series	83-67-8
Last Meeting	2.24.18 \| L, 3-0 \| Providence

Game 5	Dartmouth \| 2-1-0, 2-1-0 at Yale \| 2-1-0, 2-1-0 ECAC Hockey
When	Saturday \| Nov. 10, 2018 \| 7 PM
Where	New Haven, Conn. \| Ingalls Rink \| 3,500
All-Time Series	94-114-15
Last Meetings	2.23.18 \| W, 6-4 (A)
Media
Radio	94 ESPN Radio \| PBP: Rob Kennedy
Television	None
Stream	ESPN+ (Brown) \| ESPN+ (Yale) International Stream (Brown) \| International Stream (Yale)
Live Stats	CollegeHockeyStats.net \| Brown \| Yale
Social	Twitter: @Dartmouth_MIH Instagram: @Dartmouth_MIH Facebook: /DartmouthMIH
Game Notes	Dartmouth (PDF) \| Brown \| Yale
Tickets	Brown \| Yale

THIS WEEKEND
•   The Dartmouth men's hockey team heads out on the road for the first time this season.
•   After starting the season 2-1-0 at Thompson Arena, the Big Green will take to the road to play at Brown on Friday and Yale on Saturday. Both games are set to start at 7 p.m. and will be carried live on ESPN+.

LAST TIME OUT
•   Dartmouth split last weekend in very different fashion, falling, 7-1, to No. 19 Princeton before a bounce-back 5-1 win the following night against No. 15 Quinnipiac.
•   The Bobcats had come into the weekend as one of the few remaining unbeaten teams in the country and continued that run against Harvard on Friday night. But, for the second straight year, the Green and White came away victorious at Thompson against their Hamden counterparts.
•   Princeton also has enjoyed playing in Hanover the last two seasons, winning both games by a combined 13-4 margin.

SCOUTING THE OPPOSITION
•   Brown is still seeking its first win of the season as it is currently 0-3-1 this year. Included in that is an 0-2-1 ECAC Hockey record with a home loss to Yale to open the season and a road defeat last weekend at Cornell and a tie at Colgate.
•   Don't let the winless record fool you, the Bears are a dangerous team who are never out of games. All three losses this season are by just one goal, in addition to the draw with the Raiders. Their 2.50 goals against per game average is the third best in ECAC Hockey as they are playing low-scoring, tight-checking games. Their issue is in their 1.75 goals for per game mark that is 10th in the league with three rookies atop their scoring at the moment.
•   Yale and Dartmouth are mirror images of one another at the moment with 2-1-0 league and overall records.
•   Friday will mark the 100th career game for senior Joe Snively who already has 100 career points (he reached the figure last year at home against Dartmouth).
•   The Bulldogs have wins against the Bears and at Colgate, with the lone loss coming at Cornell in a hostile Lynah Rink last Friday.
•   The mainstream media will tell you that the weekend's marquee rivalry is Friday when Harvard and Yale play, but the Bulldogs and Big Green have built up a nice rivalry as of late with each beating the other in the postseason in 2016 (Dartmouth) and 2017 (Yale). Dartmouth swept the series last year with a 6-4 win in New Haven that saw Quin Foreman become the first Dartmouth freshman to score a hat trick since Hugh Jessiman accomplished the feat on Jan. 25, 2003.

400!
•   Koenig Family Head Coach of Dartmouth Men's Hockey Bob Gaudet '81 became the 23rd coach in Division I history to reach 400 career wins with Saturday's victory against the Bobcats.
•   In his 31 years behind the bench between Brown and Dartmouth, Gaudet has coached in more men's games in ECAC Hockey than anyone else. He amassed 97 wins in nine seasons at Brown before joining his alma mater in 1997, leading the team to 307 wins in those 22 seasons.
•   The win pushed Gaudet ahead of the late Shawn Walsh, former Maine coach who led the Black Bears to national titles in 1993 and 1999. Walsh posted 399 career wins (399–215–44) before passing away in the fall of 2001 after a year-long battle with cancer.

Coach G.
400 career wins.
307 wins at Dartmouth and one short of the program record held by legend Eddie Jeremiah '30. pic.twitter.com/EOVSK4bBdq
— Dartmouth Hockey (@Dartmouth_MIH) November 4, 2018

307…AND COUNTING!
•   Eddie Jeremiah '30 coached the Big Green for 26 seasons between 1937 and 1967, missing several seasons during WWII for service and another in the early 60s for health reasons.
•   Jeremiah is credited with 308 wins in those seasons, the most by any coach in Dartmouth hockey history.
•   His 400th career win, was also the 307th in his time at Dartmouth, meaning Gaudet is now just one win behind Jeremiah for the all-time lead in program history.
•   The two alums have accounted for 55.3% of the program's all-time wins in just 42.8% of the program's 112 seasons.
•   Gaudet's coach during his playing days was George Crowe. He ranks third at Dartmouth with 109 wins.

Bob Gaudet on USCHO Spotlight Podcast
Listen to "Ep. 5: Dartmouth's Bob Gaudet in the Spotlight" on Spreaker.

TIMBER TIME
•    The top line of Shane Sellar, Will Graber and Quin Foreman continue to produce at a high level.
•   Graber dished out a pair of assists in the win vs. Quinnipiac, with Foreman's second-period score standing up as the game winner.
•   Both of Dartmouth's game-winning goals this season have now come off the stick of Foreman thanks to his OT score against Harvard and the power-play marker against the Bobcats.
•   Since last week when the Ivies began play, seven players including Foreman have scored two GWGs. Morgan Barron of Cornell is the only other such player from the ECAC to do so.
•   Graber leads the team with five points (1-4-5), while Sellar (2-1-3) and Foreman (2-1-3) are tied with freshman Drew O'Connor for the team lead in goals (2).

DEPTH SCORING
•   The knock on Dartmouth in the preseason was that after the Timber Line, the scoring would drop off. That has not been the case this season.
•   Of the team's 13 goals in three games, 10 players have been responsible for finding the back of the net.
•   Only Union (15 in 9 games), Harvard (11 in 3) and RPI (11 in 7) have more goal scorers than the Green and White.
•   Clarkson also has 10 different scorers this season, but has done so in four more games played.

MATTY BAKES
•   One of those depth players this year in sophomore Matt Baker.
•   Baker is the only player this season with at least one point in each of the three games.
•   The Ontario native has an assist in each of the team's two wins, while scoring the lone goal against Princeton.
•   Baker's career-best point streak is six, set between Jan. 6-26, 2018.
•   In that six-game stretch, Baker posted a 4-4-8 scoring line that included two goals at then-No. 2 Clarkson in Dartmouth's 3-2 upset win in Potsdam on Jan. 20.

CLARK VERSUS THE 'CATS
•   Adrian Clark has not lost to Quinnipiac in two starts over the last two seasons.
•   He's been solid in each of those games, boasting a 0-0 shutout last season in Hamden in which he also posted his career high of 43 saves.
•   This past weekend, he turned aside 25 and allowed just the one goal for the victory.
•   In those two games played against the Bobcats, Clark has played 125 minutes, made 68 saves on 69 shots (.985) and has a 0.48 goals against average.

GOALIE ASSIST!!!
•   Justin Ferguson's collegiate debut did not go as planned on Friday night against Princeton, but he did manage to make a splash in an unusual way with an assist on Baker's goal.
•   Ferguson became the first Dartmouth goalie since Charles Grant to pick up a point with a helper. Grant had an assist against Sacred Heart on Dec. 14, 2014 in his first appearance of the season. It came in an 8-3 Dartmouth win.
•   The last time before Grant was courtesy of James Mello '12 — a 2018 inductee into the Wearers of the Green — who had two assists during the 2010-11 season.

FIVE AND OUT FOR THE FRESHMEN
•   Matt Baker scored 'The Goal' against Princeton last season, marking the fifth straight year in which a freshman had caused tennis balls to fly.
•   That streak of freshman dominance came to an end this season when… Baker scored again.
•   Since 2000-01, no player has scored 'The Goal' more than once in their career until Baker did so in each of the last two seasons.
•   In that time, only twice has the goal been scored after the first period of play: Baker in 2018-19 (10:17) and Chris Baldwin in 2001-02 (1:57 of the 2nd), with the most recent instances being the latest it has been scored.
•   Dartmouth was shutout in both 2000-01 (6-0) as well as in 2004-05 (3-0).

MULTI-POINT GAMES
•   Adding to the idea of depth scoring this season, Dartmouth already has nine multi-point performances in three games.
•   Graber leads the way with two as he did so against Harvard (1-2-3) and against Quinnipiac (0-2-2).
•   It took the Big Green until their 13th game of the season that year to reach multi-point efforts. That figure was finally met on Dec. 29 versus UNH. Daniel Warpecha was the only player with more than one game of two or more points in that time.

NO NEED TO BE DEFENSIVE, BUT IT CAN'T HURT EITHER
•   The defense is stepping up and contributing at the other end of the ice this season.
•   The same seven players have suited up on the blueline in all three games this season and have combined for six points thus far.
•   Clay Han has the lone goal, but Harrison Markell, Cameron Roth, and Connor Yau all have assists.
•   Yau leads the way with three helpers this season, including two against the Bobcats, marking the fifth two-assist game of his career.

50...
•    Will Graber's second of two assists against the Bobcats gave him his 50th career point in his 67th game. His is the team's active leader in scoring.
•    The game with the Bobcats was also the 50th of junior defenseman Clay Han's career. Han is 1-of-11 players on the roster right now with at least 50 career games played.

WHERE WE RANK
•   The power play is third in the nation, clicking 41.7% (5-12). As impressive as that is, it's still only the third-best mark in ECAC Hockey as Princeton (50.0%, 5-10) and Harvard (42.9%, 6-14) have the two-best marks in the nation.
•   The 1.67 power-play goals per game is second nationally behind the Crimson (2.0), a team that had five man-advantage markers in the opener in Hanover.
•   The Big Green's offense is certainly getting a boost from the power play and that shows in their goals per game figure. The 4.33 goals per contest mark is tied for second in the nation, trailing only Penn State's 4.83 to this point.
•   The penalty kill is… finding its footing right now, ranking last in the nation at 38.5% (5-13).

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 off next weekend for exams, but will return on Saturday, Nov. 24 to play host to former ECAC Hockey travel partner Vermont.
•   Game time is set for 7 p.m. and will be carried on ESPN+ as well as 94 ESPN Radio.