New Calendar Year Begins With First-Ever Visit to Bentley to Open Road Trip

Saturday, January 5

Waltham, Mass.

5:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Bentley

Photo by: Gil Talbot

New Calendar Year Begins With First-Ever Visit to Bentley to Open Road Trip

1/3/2019 3:18:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

Dartmouth takes on Bentley on the road for the first time in program history.

Game 14	Dartmouth \| 5-7-1 vs. Bentley \| 5-11-1
When	Saturday \| Jan. 5, 2018 \| 5 PM
Where	Waltham, Mass. \| Bentley Arena (1,917)
All-Time Series	Dartmouth Leads, 2-1 (4th Meeting)
Last Meeting	Dec. 9, 2017 \| L, 5-1 \| Hanover

Media
Radio	94 ESPN Radio
Television	None
Stream	Stretch Internet
Live Stats	CollegeHockeyStats.net \| BentleyFalcons.com
Social	Twitter: @Dartmouth_MIH Instagram: @Dartmouth_MIH Facebook: /DartmouthMIH
Game Notes	Dartmouth (PDF) \| Bentley
Tickets	Bentley Ticket Office

THIS WEEKEND
•   The Dartmouth men's hockey team begins a five-game road trip Saturday evening at Bentley.
•   Saturday's game marks the final non-conference game of the season as it's ECAC Hockey contests the rest of the way.

LAST TIME OUT
•   The Big Green went 1-1-0 in the 30th Ledyard Classic last weekend.
•   The tournament opened with a 5-2 win against Army West Point, before No. 10 Providence used an explosive stretch in the second period of Sunday night's game to win the championship game, 5-3.
•   Brown lost, 3-1, to the Friars Saturday in the 100th all-time meeting between the two teams. The Bears bounced back with a 5-3 win against the Cadets the next night to even the weekend in Hanover.

SCOUTING THE OPPOSITION
•   Bentley will host Dartmouth sporting a 5-11-1 overall record, but are in the midst of a four-game slide.
•   The team's last win was at Holy Cross (4-2) on Nov. 24, a night after beating Boston College on the road by the same score.
•   The Falcons are 4-7-1 in Atlantic Hockey play so far this season and are 10th in the standings.
•   Sophomore Luke Santerno leads the team in both scoring (16) and assists (12). Senior Drew Callin's six goals in 17 games leads all players, while 13 skaters in total have more than one tally thus far.
•   Junior Aidan Pelino has seen the brunt of the action this season and sports a 4-11-1 mark to go along with a 3.14 GAA and an .877 save percentage.

AGAINST THE FALCONS
•   This will mark the fourth all-time game between the two programs separated by just 127 miles.
•   The previous three games have all been played in Hanover, making this not only the Green's first trip to the new Bentley Arena, but also the first trip to Bentley at all.
•   Dartmouth owns a 2-1 record in the three games, but the Falcons took last season's contest, 5-1, on Dec. 9.
•   The winning team has scored five goals in all three games.

GAUDET… AN ALL-TIME LEADER!
•   Currently, Koenig Family Head Coach Bob Gaudet '81 has been behind the bench as a head coach for 966 games between his 22 years at Dartmouth and nine seasons at Brown, the most by anyone in Ivy League history.
•   Following the game against Providence, Gaudet tied Joe Marsh for the most games coached in ECAC Hockey history between both the men's and women's leagues.
•   Already the all-time leader for men's coaches, Gaudet tied his good friend Marsh who had 939 games at St. Lawrence and 27 as the interim head coach in 2017-18 with the Big Green women's program for a combined 966 over 27 seasons.
•   Saturday's game at Bentley will be his 967th career game, all in ECAC Hockey.
•   Only Wisconsin's Jeff Sauer (1,244 in WCHA), BU's Jack Parker (1,146 in Hockey East), Michigan's Red Berenson (1,221 in CCHA) and UNH's Dick Umile (1,083 in Hockey East) have coached more games in one conference than Gaudet.
•   Gaudet needs just four more games to pass former Denver and Miami coach George Gwozdecky (970) for 13th on the all-time games coached list.

4TH TO 100
•   Senior captain Kevan Kilistoff is sitting at 99 career games play.
•   Setting foot in the ice Saturday at Bentley will make the British Columbia native the fourth Dartmouth player to reach the milestone this season and the 104th player in the 112-year history of the program.
•   Four players hitting 100 games played is the most in a season since 2015-16 when six players accomplished the feat. However, eight players form the Class of 2015 played in 100 or more games, the most by any one class since 2000.

DROUGHT: SNAPPED!
•   With an Alex Jasiek marker 12:30 into the game against Providence, Dartmouth snapped a nine-game stretch without a power-play goal.
•   The last goal with the man-advantage came on Nov. 3 against No. 15 Quinnipiac. Since that Collin Rutherford goal in the second period, the Big Green had gone without a goal in 33 opportunities.
•   Since that Nov. 3 game, Dartmouth and Alaska Anchorage were both 3-for-41 on the power play for 7.3%.
•   For the season, the Green and White are 54th nationally at 12.5% (6-48).

LEADING THE WAY
•   Saturday presents freshman Drew O'Connor with an opportunity to continue to build on his team-leading six goals this season.
•   However, for him to break the tie with Quin Foreman atop the leaderboard, he will have to do something he hasn't been able to do yet this year: score a goal away from Thompson Arena.
•   All six of O'Connor's goals have come on home ice, while Foreman has found the back of the net twice in games away from Hanover.

BIG GOALS
•   Speaking of Quin Foreman, the sophomore continues to fill up the net with important goals.
•   His sixth of the season not only tied him with O'Connor, but also proved to be the game winner against Army on Saturday night, giving him three of the team's five winners so far this season.
•   Foreman's OT goal in the opener against Harvard was the first before also notching a winner against Quinnipiac.

ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM
•   Alex Jasiek and Carl Hesler were both rewarded for their play during the two games of the Ledyard Classic with spots on the all-tournament team.
•   Jasiek was the only Dartmouth player with a goal in each game, while also adding the primary assist on Foreman's winner against the cadets.
•   Hesler also finished with three points, scoring once against the Black Knights and posting a helper in each contest.

GOALIE ASSISTS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE RARE
•   Netminder Adrian Clark picked up his second assist of the season, starting the play with an outlet pass that led to the Jasiek power-play marker.
•   Four teams (Dartmouth, Colorado College, Northern Michigan and St. Cloud State) this season have multiple points from their goalies — including Northern Michigan, who has a goalie goal this year — but Dartmouth is the only team in the nation with three as Clark has two and Justin Ferguson has one.
•   Penn State led the nation with five points from goalies in 2017-18, while Michigan Tech, Omaha and Western Michigan all had four to lead the country in 2016-17.
•   Prior to this year, Dartmouth had not had a goalie with a point since Charles Grant. 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 a Dartmouth goalie had more than one point in a season was James Mello '12, who had two back in 2010-11.

WILL'S BACK
•   After four games without a point, junior Will Graber registered once in each Ledyard Classic game, picking up an assist against Army and a goal late in the game against the Friars.
•   Graber leads the team with 11 points with O'Connor's 10 making him the only other player with double-digit points.
•   Graber's goal was his first since an empty-netter at Yale on Nov. 10, snapping a stretch of seven games without a tally.

IN THE 1ST
•   Dartmouth entered the Ledyard Classic with just four goals all season in the first period.
•   They doubled that figure over the two games, scoring twice in each, to move up to 53rd in the nation with eight first-period goals.
•   The 0.62 goals per game in the first period, though, ranks 49th in the nation.
•   Dartmouth was one of only four teams this past weekend to score four first-period goals.

DEFENSIVE SCORING
•   The Big Green had not had a goal from the blueline since Clay Han's tally in the season opener against Harvard.
•   That drought also came to an end when Joey Matthews's point shot through traffic hit the top left corner of the net 5:39 into the third period against Army.
•   Connor Yau added his first goal since Jan. 17, 2017 (Harvard) the following night with a first-period blast from the high slot against Providence.
•   Matthews led all Dartmouth defenders with three points (1-2-3) on the weekend, while Yau (1-0-1), Brendan Demler (0-1-1) and Cameron Roth (0-1-1), all had one apiece.

2018 LEADERS
•   Points: Will Graber (30)
•   Goals: Quin Foreman (13)
•   Assists: Will Graber (19)
•   Plus/Minus: Connor Yau (+12)
•   Games Played: Seven (34)
•   Shots on Goal: Will Graber (100)

COACH LASSONDE IN VANCOUVER!
•   Associate head coach David Lassonde will not be on the bench once again this weekend at Bentley as he will be on the bench for Team USA in British Columbia at the IIHF World Junior Championship.
•   This is Lassonde's third time working with the US at World Juniors after also helping guide the Americans to a gold medal during the 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.
•   Team USA is currently 4-0-1-0 (W-OTW-OTL-L) following a 3-1 win against the Czech Republic Wednesday night.
•   The Americans will play Russia Friday at 4 p.m. in the semifinals with a berth in the Gold Medal Game (NHL Network) on the line.

WHAT'S AHEAD?
•   The five-game road trip starts at Bentley and will continue with a pair of ECAC Hockey weekends.
•   Dartmouth heads to Quinnipiac and Princeton next weekend and follows with a trip to Colgate and Cornell the Friday and Saturday after that.
•   The next home game is Jan. 25 against St. Lawrence.