Postseason Implications Aplenty In Final Weekend

Game 28	Dartmouth \| 12-13-2, 10-9-1 vs. Yale \| 14-12-1, 9-10-1
When	Friday \| Feb. 23, 2018 \| 7 PM
Where	New Haven, Conn. \| Ingalls Rink \| 3,500
All-Time Series	Yale \| 114-93-15
Last Meeting	Nov. 4, 2017 \| W, 3-1 \| Hanover
Game 29	Dartmouth \| 12-13-2, 10-9-1 vs. Brown \| 6-17-4, 5-14-1
When	Saturday \| Feb. 24, 2018 \| 7 PM
Where	Providence, R.I. \| Meehan Auditorium \| 2,495
All-Time Series	Dartmouth \| 83-66-8
Last Meeting	Nov. 3, 2017 \| W, 4-3 \| Hanover

Radio	ESPN Radio 94.5 FM/1230 and 1400 AM \| PBP: Rob Kennedy
Stream	Yale \| Brown
Television	None
Live Stats	CollegeHockeyStats.net \| Yale \| Brown
Social	Twitter: @Dartmouth_MIH Instagram: @Dartmouth_MIH Facebook: /DartmouthMIH
Game Notes	Dartmouth (PDF) \| Yale \| Brown
Tickets	Yale \| Brown

THIS WEEKEND
The Dartmouth men's hockey team is on the road this weekend at Yale and Brown to close out the regular season.

LAST TIME OUT
The Big Green are coming off a weekend sweep of seventh-ranked Clarkson and St. Lawrence, marking the first time in program history that Dartmouth has managed a season sweep of both North Country teams in the same year.

MR. 300
• With Friday night's victory against No. 7 Clarkson, Bob Gaudet '81 became just the second head coach in program history to reach 300 wins behind the Dartmouth bench.
• Gaudet joined Eddie Jeremiah '30 — the legendary Dartmouth head coach and 1973 US Hockey Hall of Fame Inductee — in the 300-wins club in Hanover. Jeremiah coached Dartmouth in 26 seasons between 1937 and 1967, compiling a record of 308-247-12 in that time.
• Another win on Saturday against the Saints and Gaudet moved his record to 301-304-73 at Dartmouth, just seven wins back of Jeremiah for first in program history.
• He is now just six wins shy of 400 in his career between 30 seasons at Dartmouth (21) and Brown (9).

AWARDS SZN
• For the second straight week, two members of the Green and White were honored with accolades for their performances the weekend before.
• Devin Buffalo was named the ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Week for backstopping Dartmouth to the sweep, while posting impressive numbers (1.50 GAA | .944 save %). It was the first time Buffalo had been honored by the conference office.
• Freshman Collin Rutherford scored a pair of third-period goals to help Dartmouth to a 3-1 win against St. Lawrence. For his efforts, he was named the DartmouthSports.com Male Athlete of the Week.

Devin Buffalo has been named the #ECACHockey Goaltender of the Week for the 1st time in his career.https://t.co/jDAFvQ1vmx pic.twitter.com/aCKksvGS0x
— Dartmouth Hockey (@Dartmouth_MIH) February 20, 2018

SCOUTING YALE
• The Bulldogs are 14-12-1 overall and 9-10-1 in league play for 19 points.
• Joe Snively leads the team offensively across the board in points (31), goals (17) and assists (14).
• Senior Ryan Hitchcock is second on the team in scoring with 17 points, a figure that matches Snively's goal output.
• Sam Tucker has played in two-thirds of the games this season and is 8-9-1 in those contests with a 2.83 goals against average and a .902 save percentage.

AGAINST THE BULLDOGS
• Friday marks the 223rd all-time meeting between the two programs with Yale leading 114-93-15.
• In the earlier game this season, Dartmouth scored once in each period with Alex Jasiek notching a power-play goal, Charley Michalowski netting the game winner and Daniel Warpecha getting his second shorthanded goal of the weekend. It also snapped a losing streak at home to the Elis who had not lost in Hanover since Nov. 2, 2012.
• Snively scored the Bulldogs' lone goal shorthanded in the first period.
• These two teams have met in each of the last two postseasons with each sweeping the other in New Haven. Dartmouth swept out Yale in the 2016 quarterfinals, shocking the Bulldogs en route to Lake Placid. Yale returned the favor last season with a 2-0 sweep in the first round in the 8-9 matchup.
• This will be the 12th meeting against their New Haven counterparts for the senior class.

SCOUTING BROWN
• The Bears are 6-17-4 overall and 5-14-1 in league contests.
• Brown is currently in the midst of a five-game losing streak and an eight-game winless (0-7-1) stretch. The tie in that run was a 2-2 game on the road at Clarkson with the Golden Knights ranked in the top-5.
• Penguins draft pick and senior forward Sam Lafferty is tied with sophomore Brent Beaudoin for the team lead in scoring with each recording 15.
• Junior Tommy Marchin has 10 goals in 24 games played, the most of any player on the roster.
• Gavin Nieto and Luke Kania have split goaltending duties this season with the latter starting in 15 of the team's 27 games. Kania has better stats, but Nieto has two more wins.

AGAINST THE BEARS
• Dartmouth won the first game of the 2017-18 season series, 4-3, back on Nov. 3 in Hanover. The Big Green rolled out to a 3-0 lead by the first minute of the second period with Kevan Kilistoff, Corey Kalk and Daniel Warpecha all scoring. The Bears clawed back with a pair of goals in the ensuing two minutes to make it a 3-2 game. However, a second score from Kilistoff midway through the frame proved to be the game winner with Lafferty adding the only goal of the third period to make it a 4-3 final.
• Thanks to his two shorthanded goals that weekend, Warpecha was named the ECAC Hockey Player of the Week.
• Since the start of the decade, Dartmouth is 16-3-1 against Brown, including a 7-1-1 mark in Providence with the only loss coming in overtime in 2013.
• Dartmouth's senior class is 6-1-0 against the Bears in their careers with the lone hiccup coming at home on Jan. 21, 2017 with Brown picking up a 4-3 overtime victory.

WHAT'S THIS POSTSEASON LOOKING LIKE?
• With one weekend of regular season games left, the top-four seeds who have earned a bye into the quarterfinals are set. Cornell is on the cusp of an ECAC Hockey regular season title with 34 points. Union (30), Clarkson (26) and Harvard (25) are the three other teams who will not play next week, but are still battling for positioning.
• Dartmouth is currently in fifth, leading the pack that is log-jammed in the middle in the hunt for home ice in the first round. The Big Green have 21 points with Colgate (20), Friday's opponent Yale (19), Princeton (19) and Quinnipiac (18) on their heels as five teams battle for four home-ice spots.
• Brown (11), RPI (10) and St. Lawrence (7) will all be on the road in the first round, joined by one of the teams above.

	Record				Regular Season Finish
					First Round Bye				First Round Home Ice				First Round Road
Team	W	L	T	Pts	1*	2*	3*	4*	5**	6**	7**	8**	9	10	11	12
Cornell	16	2	2	34	98%	2%	^	^	^	^	^	^	^	^	^	^
Union	15	5	0	30	2%	86%	12%	^	^	^	^	^	^	^	^	^
Clarkson	11	5	4	26	X	12%	68%	20%	^	^	^	^	^	^	^	^
Harvard	11	6	3	25	X	X	20%	80%	^	^	^	^	^	^	^	^
Dartmouth	10	9	1	21	X	X	X	X	49%	23%	14%	12%	2%	^	^	^
Colgate	9	9	2	20	X	X	X	X	19%	39%	22%	17%	2%	^	^	^
Yale	9	10	1	19	X	X	X	X	21%	18%	29%	19%	13%	^	^	^
Princeton	9	10	1	19	X	X	X	X	10%	16%	22%	30%	22%	^	^	^
Quinnipiac	8	10	2	18	X	X	X	X	1%	4%	13%	23%	60%	^	^	^
Brown	5	14	1	11	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	80%	20%	^
Rensselaer	4	14	2	10	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	20%	72%	8%
St. Lawrence	3	16	1	7	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	8%	92%

Notes
^ means the team will finish better than this playoff spot
X means the team cannot win this playoff spot
50% - probability the team will win this playoff spot - green number indicates the team controls its destiny for this spot
50% - probability the team will win this playoff spot - red number indicates the team does not control its destiny for this spot
* denotes first round bye in the post season conference tournament
** denotes first round home-ice advantage in the post season conference tournament

WHAT THEY NEED
Here is the range each team can finish and the points needed.

Cornell 1-2 (clinches #1 with a win or tie OR a Union loss or tie)
Union 1-3
Clarkson 2-4
Harvard 3-4

Dartmouth 5-9 (clinches home ice with 1 point)
Colgate 5-9 (clinches home ice with 3 points)
Princeton 5-9 (clinches home ice with 4 points)
Yale 5-9 (clinches home ice with 4 points)

Quinnipiac 5-9
Brown 10-11
Rensselaer 10-12
St. Lawrence 11-12

ROOKIE SCORING
• Two freshmen scored all three goals in Dartmouth's win against the Saints.
• Collin Rutherford scored at 8:48 of the third period to tie the game and then again with just 58.3 seconds remaining to give his team its first lead of the night.
• Quin Foreman would add an empty netter with just 7.2 on the scoreboard as the Class of 2021 accounted for all three tallies in the third period and thus, the game.

SOPHOMORE SCORING
• Members of Dartmouth's sophomore class scored all three goals against Clarkson.
• Shane Sellar's team-leading ninth goal came in the first period when the second-year winger intercepted a pass in the defensive zone and scored on a breakaway at the other end of the ice.
• Charley Michalowski put the Green on top 2-1 just 51 seconds into the third with his fourth of the season. Michalowski now has two of Dartmouth's three goals scored in the opening minute of a period this season, having also scored 24 seconds into the contest against No. 17 Minnesota Duluth on Dec. 30.
• Just over two minutes later, an innocent-looking slapshot from the neutral zone off the stick of Cam Strong careened off the backboards and into the crease. Clarkson Jake Kielly attempted to cover the puck with his glove, but momentum carried both he and the puck into the net for the eventual game winner.

UNDERCLASSMEN SCORING
• The freshman and sophomores have combined for 111 of Dartmouth's 177 total points this year, accounting for 62.7%, a figure that ranks 11th in the nation.
• In ECAC Hockey, only Colgate (5th, 74.7%) and Clarkson (9th, 65.6%) have a higher percentage of underclassmen scoring.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THAT HAPPENED?
• Dartmouth's last win when trailing after two periods was Jan. 28, 2017 at No. 14 Cornell.
• Just like we saw with Rutherford and a pair of third-period goals, that comeback in Ithaca was sparked by a pair of goals in the final period by Alex Jasiek. The then-sophomore netted a power-play goals just 62 seconds apart in the third period to help the Big Green to a stunning 4-2 comeback victory at Lynah Rink.
• Dartmouth had been 0-12-0 this season when playing from behind heading into the final period.

HE'S FIGURED IT OUT
• Shane Sellar's first points of the season came in his 11th game of the year.
• Since then, he has a team-leading 17 points and nine goals in 16 games played. That point total is fifth in ECAC Hockey and 20th nationally.
• Sellar's eight points in that time are second on the team behind only Alex Jasiek (9).

PLAYS OF THE WEEK
• Devin Buffalo's third-period sprawling glove save against Clarkson not only helped preserve the win, but was also named the No. 6 play of the week across all sports by the NCAA.
• It was named No. 4 on the “Nice on the Ice” (the top-five NCAA Hockey Plays of the Week), giving Dartmouth six appearances in the last seven weeks, tied with Minnesota for the most in the nation all season.

Plays. Of. The. Week. pic.twitter.com/MVwcRVlGk2
— NCAA Ice Hockey (@NCAAIceHockey) February 21, 2018

SPLITS AND SWEEPS
• With a 10-9-1 record in ECAC play, it's been a pretty even season for the Big Green.
• That's because other than a split with Colgate and a 1-0-1 mark with Quinnipiac, Dartmouth has either swept or been swept by every other league foe.
• They have swept the season series from: Clarkson, Rensselaer and St. Lawrence.
• They have been swept by Cornell, Harvard, Princeton and Union.
• Dartmouth defeated both Yale and Brown in Hanover during the first meetings with this weekend's opponents in early November.

FOLLOW ALONG
• All Dartmouth home games this season will be carried live and in HD on the Ivy League Network. Road games played at Brown, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton and Yale will also be streamed on the network for subscribers.
• Fans can also hear all 29 regular season contests live on 94.5 ESPN on their radio dials (94.5 FM/1230 and 1400 AM) or online. Rob Kennedy has stepped into the broadcast booth full time this season as the Voice of Big Green Men's Hockey.
• Those looking for live updates and in-game insights can follow the team's official Twitter account: @Dartmouth_MIH.

WHAT'S AHEAD?
Dartmouth will play in the first round of the ECAC Hockey tournament next weekend. Check back with DartmouthSports.com for more information regarding seeding and the Big Green's opponent.

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