Dartmouth Hosts 30th Ledyard Classic Saturday and Sunday at Thompson

Game 12	Dartmouth \| 4-6-1 vs. Army West Point \| 8-8-1
When	Saturday \| Dec. 29, 2018 \| 7 PM
Where	Hanover, N.H. \| Thompson Arena \| 4,500
All-Time Series	45-10-6 (62th Meeting)
Last Meeting	T, 2-2 (OT/2-1SOW) \| 12/30/16 (Ledyard Classic)

Game 13	Dartmouth \| 4-6-1 vs. No. 10 Providence \| 9-4-3
When	Sunday \| Dec. 30, 2018 \| 7 PM
Where	Hanover, N.H. \| Thompson Arena \| 4,500
All-Time Series	10-15-0 (26th Meeting)
Last Meeting	L, 3-2 \| 12/29/13 (Ledyard Classic)
Media
Radio	94 ESPN Radio
Television	None
Stream	ESPN+: Brown vs. PC \| Dartmouth vs. Army \| Brown vs. Army \| Dartmouth vs. PC International Stream
Live Stats	CollegeHockeyStats.net \| DartmouthSports.com
Social	Twitter: @Dartmouth_MIH Instagram: @Dartmouth_MIH Facebook: /DartmouthMIH
Game Notes	Dartmouth (PDF) \| Brown \| Army West Point (PDF) \| Providence
Tickets	Dartmouth Ticket Office
Program	30th Ledyard Classic

All-Time Ledyard Classic Results (1978-2017)

THIS WEEKEND
• Thompson Arena will once again play host to one of the longest-running college hockey in-season tournaments when the 30th Ledyard Classic gets started Saturday afternoon.
• This year sees Providence, Army West Point and Brown all come to Hanover for the weekend.

THE SCHEDULE

	Day \| Time	Match Up
	Saturday \| 4 PM	Brown vs. Providence
	Saturday \| 7 PM	Dartmouth vs. Army West Point
	Sunday \| 4 PM	Brown vs. Army West Point
	Sunday \| 7 PM	Dartmouth vs. Providence

FIRST-HALF RECAP
•   Dartmouth alternated wins and losses for the first eight games of the season before a tie against Colgate broke up the streak. Unfortunately, the team ended the first half with three straight losses and without a win in the final four games.
•   A positive for the Big Green thus far, though, has been in the four wins. Each of those four wins came against teams who were above .500 at the time with the season-opening victory over Harvard coming against a Crimson team who was above .500 last year.
•   Will Graber leads the team in both points (9) and assists (6), while junior Quin Foreman and freshman Drew O'Connor are tied for the goals lead with five apiece. Senior defenseman Connor Yau is tied with Graber for the assists lead with six as well.

LAST TIME OUT
•   Dartmouth's third straight loss to a Hockey East school closed out the first half as it fell on the road at Boston University, 4-1, on Dec. 14.
•   It marked the first win by BU against the Green and White since 2006 as Dartmouth had victories in the last three meetings: 2007-08, 2013-14 and 2014-15.
•   Captain Kevan Kilistoff scored the lone goal of the night for the visitors for his first of the year.

THE LEDYARD!
•   This will mark the 30th Ledyard Classic since its first inception in 1978, making it the second-running active tournament behind only the Great Lakes Invitational (1965-66).
•   Dartmouth and Minnesota Duluth officially played to a 2-2 tie in last season's title game in Hanover, but the Bulldogs won the weekend tourney thanks to a 2-1 shootout victory. UMD would go on to win the national championship in April, making them not only the first Ledyard participant to win the whole thing in the same season, but also the first ever to reach the Frozen Four in the same year.
•   Dartmouth's seven titles in the first 29 years are the most of any team with former regular participant Vermont's six the second most.
•   These three teams have all been here in recent years with Army here two years ago, Brown in 2015 and Providence in 2013. None have ever won.

SCOUTING ARMY WEST POINT
•   The Black Knights are 8-8-1 overall this season, while 7-6-1 in Atlantic Hockey play.
•   Senior defenseman Dalton MacAfee leads the team with 17 points (3-14-17) with junior forward Dominic Franco's nine goals the most of any of the cadets.
•   Trevin Kozlowski has played in nine games, but boasts the best goaltending numbers with a 5-2-1 record and a .918 save percentage to go along with a 2.13 goals against average.

SCOUTING PROVIDENCE
•   The Friars come to Hanover ranked 10th in the national polls thanks to a 9-4-3 overall record and a 6-2-1 mark in Hockey East play.
•   Junior Josh Wilkins leads PC in both points (18) and assists (13). The eight goals scored by Penguins draft pick Kasper Björkqvist are the most on the team through 16 games played.
•   The aptly named Hayden Hawkey has been the goalie of record in all but one tie this season and has four shutouts in his 15 games played with a 1.86 goals against average. Overall, the team's 1.88 goals against per game coming into the weekend ranks fourth in the nation.
•   Providence will play Brown on Saturday night and then again on the Bears' home ice on Jan. 15 in a match-up referred to as 'The Mayor's Cup.'

SCOUTING BROWN
•   The only team Dartmouth won't play this weekend is the only team they've played this season. Brown came away with a 4-2 win in Providence against the Big Green on Nov. 9 in the first road game of the season for Dartmouth.
•   The Bears' win against the visiting Big Green was their only one in the first 10 games of the season. However, a 3-2 victory over RPI in the final game of the first half has allowed Brown to head into the break on a three-game unbeaten streak (1-0-2).
•   A pair of freshmen are tied at the top of the scoring leaderboard with seven points each for both Justin Jallen (5-2-7) and Tristan Crozier (3-4-7). In goal, it's usually been Gavin Nieto who has a 2.71 GAA and a .907 save percentage.

THE RILEY GAME
•   Army head coach Brian Riley has history not only with Koenig Family Head Coach of Dartmouth Men's Hockey Bob Gaudet '81, but also with Dartmouth.
•   The former Brown player — now in his 15th season behind the bench at West Point — continues the tradition of hockey in the Riley family. His father Jack Riley '44 was the head coach of Army for five decades and also led the United States to gold at the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, California, after his playing career with Dartmouth was finished.
•   Riley's uncles Bill Riley '46 and Joe Riley '49 also two of the greatest players in the history of the program with Bill's 228 career points 52 more than the next-closest player. Joe is 15th all-time with 116 points.
•   After Jack Riley passed away in February of 2016, both Dartmouth and Army wore "JPR" patches on their jerseys to honor the legendary coach and 1979 US Hockey Hall of Famer.

VERSUS HOCKEY EAST
•   Dartmouth will play Providence on Sunday night, marking the fifth game against a team from Hockey East this season.
•   Success in the previous four games have been the issue as the Green lost to Vermont (5-3), both games of a home-and-home with UNH (3-2, 4-0) and at BU (4-1) to close out the first half.
•   The other two non-conference games this season come against programs from Atlantic Hockey, starting with Saturday's game against Army. Next Saturday's contest at Bentley is the final non-ECAC Hockey game of the season as it's league games from there on out in 2019.

COACH LASSONDE IN VANCOUVER!
•   Associate head coach David Lassonde will not be on the bench this weekend in Hanover as he will be on the bench for Team USA in British Columbia at the IIHF World Junior Championship.
•   This is Lassonde's second time working with the US at World Juniors after also helping guide the Americans to a gold medal during 2013 tournament in Ufa, Russia.
•   Lassonde's previous international experience includes helping the US capture a gold medal at the 2017 World Deaf Ice Hockey Championship and serving on the staff of the US U-18 Men's Select Team that finished second at the 2016 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup.

PENALTY KILL
•   At the start of the second half, Dartmouth's penalty kill is 59th in the nation with at 71.9% (23-32).
•   That stat is bogged down by a terrible start (38.5% | 5-13) in the first three games of the season through Nov. 3, which was the worst figure in the nation.
•   However, since then, Dartmouth's PK has been one of the most formidable in the country, successfully killing off 18-of-19 power plays against for a 94.7% success rate, the third-best mark in the country during that time, closely behind only Air Force (97.0%) and Vermont (96.0%).

AT THE BREAK: 2017-18 vs. 2018-19

	2017-18	2018-19
Record	3-8-1	4-6-1
ECAC Record	2-4-1	4-2-1
ECAC Place	10th	3rd
Points Leader	Kalk (7)	Graber (9)
Goals Leader	Kilistoff, Warpecha (3)	Foreman, O'Connor (5)
PP%	9.1	12.5
PK%	78.4	71.9
GF	1.75	2.64
GAA	3.42	3.45

HOME AND ROAD COOKIN'
•   The Big Green need to play well this weekend at home in order to build momentum heading into 2019, which starts with five straight contests away from Thompson Arena.
•   Three of the four wins have come on home ice this season with the lone road win coming at Yale in a very rare shutout of the Bulldogs in New Haven.
•   As it stands now, Dartmouth is the only team in the country that is perfect on the road on the PK (11-11), and the only team without a road power-play tally (0-13).

	Home	Away
Record	3-3-1	1-3-0
GF	3.29	1.50
GA	3.71	3.00
PP	18.5 (5-27)	0.0 (0-13)
PK	57.1 (12-21)	100.0 (11-11)

GOOD START TO THE SECOND HALF!
•   Dartmouth has just four goals in 11 first periods this season, which, although ranks tied for 56th in the nation, is still 10th in ECAC Hockey (tied with Brown at 0.36, Colgate is the worst at 0.13).
•   Of those four first-period goals, two have come from Shane Sellar (Harvard and UNH), while Drew O'Connor has the other home score (Vermont).
•   The lone opening-period goal on the road was at Yale thanks to Carl Hesler. The quickest goal to start a game this season for the Green and White also proved to be a game winner, the fastest by a Dartmouth player in almost six years.

WHAT'S AHEAD?
•   After the Ledyard, Dartmouth heads out on the road for a five-game trip over the course of three weeks. The first of those games is a Jan. 5 contest at Bentley.
•   The next home game for the Big Green is Friday, Jan. 25 against St. Lawrence; a team Dartmouth needed three games to defeat in last season's ECAC Hockey Tournament First Round.

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