Granite State Bragging Rights on the Line: Dartmouth & UNH Play Home-and-Home

Friday, December 7

Hanover, N.H.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

New Hampshire

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Photo by: Doug Austin

Granite State Bragging Rights on the Line: Dartmouth & UNH Play Home-and-Home

12/6/2018 10:20:00 AM | Men's Ice Hockey

Big Green host Friday night at Thompson, series shifts to Durham on Saturday.

By: Pat Salvas

Game 9	Dartmouth \| 4-3-1 vs. New Hampshire \| 2-7-1
When	Friday \| Dec. 7, 2018 \| 7 PM
Where	Hanover, N.H. \| Thompson Arena \| 4,500
All-Time Series	21-35-3 (60th Meeting)
Last Meeting	W, 3-1 \| 12.29.17 (Hanover)

Game 10	Dartmouth \| 4-3-1 vs. New Hampshire \| 2-7-1
When	Saturday \| Dec. 8, 2018 \| 7 PM
Where	Durham, N.H. \| Whittemore Center \| 6,501
All-Time Series	61st Meeting
Last Meetings	Friday Night
Media
Radio	94 ESPN Radio
Television	NESNplus (Friday Only)
Stream	ESPN+ (at Dartmouth) \| ESPN+ (at UNH) \| International Stream (Fri.)
Live Stats	CollegeHockeyStats.net \| Friday \| Saturday
Social	Twitter: @Dartmouth_MIH Instagram: @Dartmouth_MIH Facebook: /DartmouthMIH
Game Notes	Dartmouth (PDF) \| UNH
Tickets	Home \| Road
Program	Bob Gaudet Cover

THIS WEEKEND
•   The Dartmouth men's hockey team will play host to New Hampshire Friday night before heading down to Durham for a Saturday night date with the Wildcats in the first-ever home-and-home with its Granite State rivals.
•   Friday's game also serves as the annual toy drive for the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock (CHaD). Fans have been encouraged to bring a new, unwrapped toy as a donation. If you were unable to bring anything tonight, but would still like to make a contribution, please visit DartmouthSports.com/mhockey for information on how you can do so.
•   Friday's game will also mark Youth Hockey Night in which any fan eighth grade or younger will get through the doors for just $2 with advanced purchase. The first 100 kids in attendance will also receive a Dartmouth holiday winter hat.
•   Friday's game will be carried on NESNplus in addition to ESPN+ carrying both games this weekend.

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LAST TIME OUT
•   The Big Green are coming off a 1-0-1 weekend in which they defeated No. 16 Cornell, 3-2, on Friday before playing to a 2-2 tie in overtime the next evening against Colgate.
•   The trend of alternating results continues as the team has yet to win, lose or tie in consecutive games this year, the longest such start to a season since the 1982-83 campaign.

THE 309 CLUB!
•   With Friday's 3-2 win against Cornell, the Koenig Family Head Coach of Dartmouth Hockey Bob Gaudet '81 became the program's all-time leader with 309 victories.
•   With the result, Gaudet passed the legendary Eddie Jeremiah '30, a man who coached Dartmouth over 26 seasons between the late 1930s and mid-1960s.
•   A 1973 inductee of the US Hockey Hall of Fame and a 2002 New Hampshire Legends of Hockey Hall of Fame inductee, Jeremiah is now joined by Gaudet — a 2018 New Hampshire Hockey Hall of Famer — as the two greatest coaches in program history.
•   Gaudet (309) and Jeremiah (308) are two of just 21 men to serve as the program's head coach over 112 years, and are the only two with 300-plus victories. George Crowe, who was Gaudet's head coach when he was a player roughly four decades ago, is third on the all-time wins list with 109, exactly 200 behind his former goaltender.

With tonight's victory, Coach Bob Gaudet becomes the all-time winningest coach in 112 years of Dartmouth hockey history! pic.twitter.com/N7iwboN5D4
— Dartmouth Hockey (@Dartmouth_MIH) December 1, 2018

SCOUTING THE OPPOSITION
•   UNH is a lot like Brown and Colgate this season in that the record coming into the game against Dartmouth is misleading. The Wildcats are 2-7-5 overall this season, but like the Bears and Raiders, a win-loss record doesn't tell the whole story.
•   Of New Hampshire's 14 games, seven have been decided by one or two goals, while they have played to a draw with the opposition five other times.
•   Sophomores Max Gildon and Charlie Kelleher are tied for the team lead with 11 points each, while senior Ara Nazarian leads the way with six goals.
•   The team operates at 20.5% on the power play, a figure good for third in Hockey East this season.
•   UNH is led by first-year head coach and Class of 2000 graduate Mike Souza, who had served as the associate head coach and coach in waiting the last few years. He has the unenviable task of replacing a legend in Dick Umile, the program's all-time wins leader who was behind the bench in Durham for 28 seasons.

AGAINST UNH
•   This weekend represents a scheduling oddity between these two in-state rivals as it is the first time they've ever played one another on consecutive days.
•   The two Granite State teams have only played one another multiple times in the same year three times with games in both Hanover and Durham only twice (1975-76 and 1982-83).
•   The 1978-79 season marks the only season in which the two had played more than twice, meeting up three times in three different cities. They split a Jan. 24 game in Hanover, 5-5, before UNH defeated the Big Green, 3-2, at the old Boston Garden in the ECAC Semifinals. The final meeting was played at the Olympia in Detroit and in the 1979 National Third-Place Game as the Big Green bounced back from their earlier loss to New Hampshire, winning 7-3 in the Red Wings' old building.
•   From 2001-02 to 2011-12, the two teams played in Manchester as part of the Riverstone Cup. They played another game there in 2014, but five of the last six meetings have come on the ice at either the Whittemore Center or Thompson Arena.

MONTANA STRONG
•   Junior Cam Strong is the only Division I college player from the state of Montana and he did everything in his power to make them proud this past weekend.
•   Coming into the games against Cornell and Colgate, Strong had not scored a goal yet in 2018-19.
•   That stretch came to an end in impressive fashion as his first of the year came midway through the third period against Cornell on a breakaway. He tucked a backhand through the five-hole for the eventual game winner, a goal that helped Gaudet solidify his spot atop the record books.
•   He added another go-ahead goal in the third period against Colgate, knocking in a rebound 4:20 into the final frame and helping Dartmouth to a three-point weekend.

A LOOK AT THE STANDINGS
•   As of this weekend, the Big Green are tied for second in the ECAC Hockey standings with Yale as both teams have nine league points.
•   Dartmouth has already beaten Yale once this season and owns the tiebreaker thus far.
•   The lone team ahead of the Green is No. 9 Quinnipiac, another team the Big Green have a win over, taking down the then-15th-ranked Bobcats, 5-1, in Hanover on Nov. 3.
•   At this point last season, Dartmouth was 10th in the standings with just five points and was four games under .500 overall. That led to a second-half surge as the team coalesced right before the winter break.

NON-CONFERENCE WINS NEEDED…
•   Dartmouth is looking to bolster its overall record out of league.
•   The last win against a non-ECAC Hockey team was against these Wildcats on Dec. 29, 2017 in the Ledyard Classic.
•   That 3-1 win was one of only two against non-conference opponents last season with the other coming on the road at No. 2 Denver two weeks before.
•   In the only non-league game of this season, the Green fell to visiting Vermont on Nov. 24.

GOALTENDER OF THE WEEK
•   For the first time in his career, junior Adrian Clark was tabbed as the ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the ¬¬Week.
•   Clark earned the weekly accolade after boasting a 1-0-1 record and was the only ECAC netminder to play in multiple games without registering a loss.
•   He stopped a season-high 38 shots in the win over No. 16 Cornell to pick up his fourth win of the season.
•   Of his six career victories, four have come against teams ranked in the top-20 nationally, including a pair in the top-10 at the time (No. 6 Harvard in Jan. 2017 and No. 2 Clarkson last January).

103 NOW WITH 100!
•   Assuming there are no major roster shakeups and both Alex Jasiek and Connor Yau are in the lineup on Friday night, the two will both be appearing in the 100th game of their respective careers.
•   Carl Hesler appeared in his 100th game back on Nov. 24 in a home game against Vermont to become the 101st player in program history to reach the century mark.
•   The 2015-16 season marked the last time a Dartmouth team had three or more players reached the 100-games played mark as Jack Barre (108), Brett Patterson (112), Brad Schierhorn (132), Ryan Bullock (107), Tim O'Brien (115) and Geoff Ferguson (124) all reached the mark. That senior-heavy team was also the last Big Green team to reach Lake Placid and the league's semifinal.
•   In 2014-15, seven members of the team pushed over the 100-game mark, the most since 2010-11 when seven others also reached the figure. Seven remains the most in any given season since 2000.

BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE
•   There's still a long way to go in the 2018-19 season, but the way things are shaping up, there will be a lot to look forward to moving forward.
•   Taking out all contributions by the senior class, Dartmouth ranks 10th in the nation in goals per game (2.88).
•   The 6.12 points per game also rank in the top third of the country, while the 25.38 shots on goal per game are 11th as is the .529 success rate on faceoffs.

SLOW START… LATE FINISH
•   Dartmouth's eight games played are the fewest by any team in the nation right now.
•   Yale and Brown have played nine with Princeton (10), Harvard (11) and Cornell (11) just ahead.
•   Dartmouth's game at BU next Friday is also one of the last games before the winter break. Only Princeton the following day plays a later game by an ECAC team when it takes on Penn State at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. For BU, it marks the last game involving a Hockey East team before the Holidays.

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 to take on Boston University on Friday night at Agganis Arena.
•   The Big Green and Terriers will drop the puck in Beantown at 7:30 p.m.

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