Regular Season Concludes at Union & RPI With Seeding Scenarios on the Line

Game 28	Dartmouth \| 10-13-4, 9-8-3 vs. RV Union \| 15-11-6, 8-10-2
When	Friday \| Mar. 1, 2019 \| 7 PM
Where	Schenectady, N.Y. \| Messa Rink
All-Time Series	26-30-7 (64th Meeting)
Last Meeting	L, 3-1 \| 2.9.18

Game 29	Dartmouth \| 10-13-4, 9-8-3 vs. Rensselaer \| 10-19-3, 7-11-2
When	Saturday \| Mar. 2, 2019 \| 7 PM
Where	Troy, N.Y. \| Houston Field House
All-Time Series	41-46-6 (94th Meeting)
Last Meeting	T, 3-3 (OT) \| 2.8.19
Media
Radio	94 ESPN Radio
Television	None
Stream	ESPN+: Union International Stream: Union RPItv (Saturday's Game \| FREE)
Live Stats	CollegeHockeyStats.net \| DartmouthSports.com
Social	Twitter: @Dartmouth_MIH Instagram: @Dartmouth_MIH Facebook: /DartmouthMIH
Game Notes	Dartmouth (PDF) \| Union \| RPI
Tickets	Union \| RPI

THIS WEEKEND
•   The Dartmouth men's hockey team is on the road for the final weekend of the 2018-19 regular season.
•   The Big Green head to Union and Rensselaer before the start of the league's postseason next week.

LAST TIME OUT
•   Dartmouth is coming off a 1-1-0 weekend in the final regular season games of the year at Thompson Arena.
•   The home team defeated Yale, 2-0, before being dealt a loss to Brown by that same score.

SCOUTING THE OPPOSITION
•   Union is receiving votes in the national polls thanks to a 15-11-6 overall record. However, the Dutchmen are 8-10-2 in ECAC play and sit in eighth in the league standings.
•   Cole Maier leads the team with 19 assists and 26 points, while Liam Morgan (11) and Ryan Walker (10) are the lone players with double-digit goal totals this season.
•   Sophomore Darion Hanson has seen the most time in net this season, including a win in the previous contest with the Big Green. He is 9-7-5 overall, but just 5-7-2 in conference games.
•   Rensselaer comes into the final weekend of the season at 10-19-3 with a 7-11-2 ECAC record.
•   Jacob Hayhurst leads the team with 23 points and 20 assists. Brady Wiffen's eight goals are the most on the roster.
•   Freshman netminder Owen Savory has come on as of late and solidified the goaltending. Despite a 5-11-3 record, Savory boasts an impressive .934 save percentage to go along with a 2.23 goals against average.

AGAINST THESE TEAMS
•   Union continued it dominance for the lack of a better term against Dartmouth with a 3-1 win in Hanover on Feb. 9.
•   The Big Green appeared to be the better team on that night with many more scoring chances and a 34-24 edge in shots on goal. However, a Ryan Walker goal off the faceoff with 2:46 remaining in regulation and an empty netter with 1:06 left gave the visitors a two-goal victory.
•   The current seven-game losing streak to Union is the longest by Dartmouth in the all-time series and matches the longest unbeaten winless streak (0-6-1) in the match-up. Dartmouth's last win against the Dutchmen was Jan. 31, 2015.
•   That and a win earlier that season in Schenectady are the only two victories against Union dating back to the start of 2013 (2-13-1).
•   The Engineers have played four overtime games in its last six games and five in the last eight, including a 3-3 tie in Hanover on Feb. 8.
•   The polar opposite of the recent series with Union, Dartmouth has had the upper hand when playing Rensselaer as of late.
•   The tie last month snapped the Green's seven-game win streak against the Engineers, but with eight straight without a loss, Dartmouth has tied the longest such run against RPI in the all-time series (Mar. 13, 2004 to Feb. 2, 2007)

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE POSTSEASON
•   Despite the loss on Saturday night to the Bears, the Green clinched home ice in at least the first round thanks to Colgate's overtime win against RPI.
•   The only scenario in which Dartmouth can bypass the first round and earn a bye into the quarterfinals is:
            o   Dartmouth would need to sweep its weekend in Schenectady and Troy, have Clarkson be swept at home by Colgate and Cornell and have Yale win just one game. The only scenario that helps the Green and White is with a three-way tie with those teams because that is the only one in which Dartmouth owns the tie-breaker (wins head-to-head against the two teams would be 3-1-0).
•   The likelihood of that happening is roughly one out of one hundred, making home ice in the first round the situation with the greatest prospect.
•   As it stands now heading into the weekend, the seventh-seed is the spot more likely for Dartmouth to land with a 55% probability.
•   Only one spot has been locked up in the ECAC Hockey postseason with just one weekend left: St. Lawrence will be the No. 12 seed and finish last for the second straight year, playing the No. 5 seed as it did last year against the Big Green.

First Round Bye

First Round Home

First Round Road

Team

Points

5**

6**

7**

8**

Cornell

45%

20%

22%

12%

26%

34%

22%

11%

Harvard

14%

23%

35%

25%

Clarkson

15%

22%

16%

37%

10%

Yale

14%

62%

14%

Brown

66%

24%

Dartmouth

12%

16%

55%

16%

Union

16%

49%

21%

10%

Colgate

18%

53%

26%

RPI

12%

23%

43%

21%

Princeton

21%

77%

SLU

100%

^ 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
* denotes first round bye in the post season conference tournament
** denotes first round home field advantage in the post season conference tournament

Via www.PlayoffStatus.com

RECORDS!
•   Junior Adrian Clark turned aside 28 against Yale for his fifth shutout of the 2018-19 season.
•   In blanking the Bulldogs for the second time this year, Clark now has tied the Dartmouth single-season record set by Chester Gale in the 1919-20 season.
•   Clark's five shutouts this season have all come against league opponents, tying him with Providence's Hayden Hawkey and Minnesota Duluth's Hunter Shepard, the last two goalies to guide their teams to Ledyard Classic titles.
•   Overall, he is tied for third nationally and for the lead amongst ECAC Hockey netminders with Jake Kielly of Clarkson. Both Kielly and Clark have posted shutouts against one another in alternating wins this season.
•   The record for team shutouts in a season was also matched as Dartmouth also had five shutouts in both 1919-20 and 1926-27.

TWO (DON'T SAY IT) IN A SEASON…
•   In shutting out the Bulldogs at Thompson on Friday night, the Big Green accomplished something it had not done before in the 112-year history of the rivalry: it did not allow Yale to score a goal in the regular season (in seasons in which the two met multiple times).
•   Dartmouth had also posted a 3-0 shutout of the Elis in New Haven back in November, the first such win since Jan. 13, 1979 when then-sophomore Bob Gaudet posted a 2-0 win at Ingalls. The goalie at the other end of the ice that night was Yale's Keith Allain, the coach opposite Gaudet in November.
•   Yale becomes the fourth ECAC opponent to suffer the scoreless regular-season series with the Green.
       o Cornell: 1959-60 (12-0 and 11-0)
       o Union: 2007-08 (4-0 and 0-0)
       o Princeton: 2008-09 (4-0 and 2-0)
       o Yale: 2018-19 (3-0 and 2-0)
•   Dartmouth has also posted a pair of shutouts in the same season against RPI, but did so in Games 2 and 3 of the ECAC First Round in 2003-04, winning 6-0 and 1-0.

MULTI-POINT GAME
•   Matt Baker's two-point night (1-1-2) against Yale marked his first of the season.
•   It has been a long stretch for the Big Green without a multi-point performer as the last time was on Jan. 25 against St. Lawrence when Collin Rutherford (1-1-2) and Quin Foreman (2-0-2) both accomplished it.
•   It marked the 25th time this season a player has had more than a single point.

FIRST IS A WINNER
•   Brendan Less scored the first goal of his collegiate career just 45 seconds into his 48th game.
•   Less was originally credited with an overtime winner last season against RPI, but the goal was changed to Kevan Kilistoff on a redirect in the high slot.

EARLY GOALS
•   The Big Green's fastest two goals of the season both came against Yale.
•   Carl Hesler scored just 2:34 into the November game, while Less bettered him by nearly two minutes with the fastest goal of 2018-19 at just 45 seconds.
•   Dartmouth's last goal in the opening minute and faster than Less' marker was Charley Michalowski's score 22 seconds into the Ledyard Classic title game against Minnesota Duluth last season.

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.

RPItv
•   Saturday's game is the only non-ESPN+ league game this season as it will be carried live and for FREE on RPItv.

ON THE AIR
•   Once again, Rob Kennedy will be the Voice of the Big Green on the radio.
•   Kennedy is in his second season with the team.

WHAT'S AHEAD?
•   ECAC Hockey postseason seedings will be determined by Saturday night with some scenarios locking teams into place on Friday.
•   A complete bracket will be announced and released on Saturday night on Dartmouth's official Twitter account (@Dartmouth_MIH) as well as on DartmouthSports.com.

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