Dartmouth and Harvard Meet Again in ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals

Quarterfinals	#5 Dartmouth \| 13-15-4 vs. #4 Harvard \| 17-9-3
When	Friday-Sunday* \| Mar. 15-17, 2019 \| 7 PM (Fri. and Sat.) \| 4 PM (Game 3 Sunday if necessary)
Where	Cambridge, Mass. \| Bright-Landry Center
All-Time Series	65-138-13 (216 Meetings)
This Season	10.27.18 \| W, 7-6 (OT) \| Hanover 2.1.19 \| L, 4-1 \| Cambridge

Media
Radio	94 ESPN Radio
Television	None
Stream	ESPN+: Game 1 \| Game 2 \| Game 3 International Stream: All Games
Live Stats	CollegeHockeyStats.net \| Game 1 \| Game 2 \| Game 3
Social	Twitter: @Dartmouth_MIH Instagram: @Dartmouth_MIH Facebook: /DartmouthMIH
Game Notes	Dartmouth (PDF) \| Harvard
Tickets	Harvard Ticket Office

THIS WEEKEND
•   The Dartmouth men's hockey team will once again have to go through Harvard if it wants to reach Lake Placid and the ECAC Hockey Semifinals.
•   For the second year in a row, the Big Green will play the Crimson in the ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals in Cambridge.
•   The two will play Friday and Saturday night at 7 p.m. with a 4 p.m. start time scheduled for a third game were the best-of-three series to need it.

LAST TIME
•   Dartmouth needed three games to take out 12th-seeded St. Lawrence in the first round this past weekend at Thompson Arena.
•   The Big Green won Game 1, 3-2, but dropped Game 2 in overtime by the same score despite 60 shots on goal.
•   Game 3 was not nearly as close as the first two as Dartmouth rolled to an 8-0 win, tying the program record for most goals in a postseason game, while also improving to 9-4 all-time in decisive third games.

THE PLAYOFFS
•   All four of the higher seeds advanced through the first round of the conference tournament with Dartmouth the only team needing three games to do so.
•   The quarterfinals will take place at the campus sites of the four teams that earned bye.

    2019 First Round Series
    No. 12 St. Lawrence (1) at No. 5 Dartmouth (2)
    No. 11 Rensselaer (0) at No. 6 Yale (2)
    No. 10 Colgate (0) at No. 7 Union (2)
    No. 9 Princeton (0) at No. 8 Brown (2)

    Bye-Week Teams
    No. 8 Brown at No. 1 Quinnipiac
    No. 7 Union at No. 2 Cornell
    No. 6 Yale at No. 3 Clarkson
    No. 5 Dartmouth at No. 4 Harvard

Next week #ECACHockey. pic.twitter.com/NMnzgtPLyD
— Dartmouth Hockey (@Dartmouth_MIH) March 11, 2019

QUIN WAS THE BEST
•   Sophomore Quin Foreman was named the ECAC Hockey Player of the Week for the first time in his career after a dominating display against the Saints.
•   Foreman led all ECAC players with seven points (2-5-7) with that total ranking second in the nation.
•   Foreman would have tied for the league lead in points this weekend had he only played the second frame of Game 3 in which he scored once and assisted on three others for a four-point period.
•   The point and assist totals from that period alone tied Foreman's career highs.
•   With his strong weekend against SLU, Foreman now leads the team in scoring (26) and assists (14).

HARD TO OVERLOOK
•   Drew O'Connor is having himself a great first year in Hanover and was honored as the ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week for the second straight time on Monday following another strong showing against the Saints.
•   The rookie scored once in all three games of the series and now has a team-best 16 goals.
•   The New Jersey native has scored in five straight games, amassing six goals in that stretch.
•   Those six markers in March are tied for the most by any player in Division I and twice as many as any other rookie in the country.
•   His 16 goals this season not only lead Dartmouth, but are also the most by any first-year player in ECAC Hockey and second in the nation amongst freshmen players.
•   Since the start of January, O'Connor leads all ECAC rookies in goals (10), points (15) and game winners (2).
•   Only 11 players in the country have more goals than the Big Green forward since the start of 2019.
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AWARDS? HOW ABOUT RECORDS?!
•   Netminder Adrian Clark accomplished something on Sunday night that no other goalie in 113 years of Dartmouth hockey has ever done when he earned his sixth shutout of the season.
•   Clark had been tied with Chester Gale for the single-season shutouts mark, a figure Gale set in 1919-20.
•   With his 22-save performance against SLU, Clark not only took the mantle alone as the owner of the single-season, but also moved into a first-place tie with George Bott '29 for shutouts in a career (7).
•   Since the start of 2019, no goalie in the country has more shutouts than Adrian Clark's five.
•   No goalie has logged more time than Clark's 1,164:25 minutes, either. All while boasting a .916 save percentage and a 1.96 GAA.

ALL-IVY…
•   For his play in 2018-19, Clark was named to the All-Ivy League First Team.
•   He becomes the first Dartmouth netminder picked to the Ancient Eight's top team since James Mello in 2011.
•   Clark led the Ivy League in wins (5), shutouts (3), games (9), minutes (532:15), while ranking in the top-three in both goals against average (2.25) and save percentage (.924).
•   O'Connor and Connor Yau were named to the second team as well.
•   Three players earning All-Ivy League recognition is the most since Tyler Sikura (1st), Mike Keenan (1st) and Matt Lindblad (2nd) were honored in 2012-13.
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SCOUTING THE CRIMSON
•   Harvard hosts this weekend by virtue of owning the No. 4 seed after registering 28 points thanks to a 13-7-2 league mark.
•   Overall, the Crimson were 17-9-3 in the regular season and are 14th in the national polls this week.
•   Leading the way is All-American defenseman and Carolina prospect Adam Fox, who leads the team with 40 points (8-32-40). Fox was named the Ivy Legaue Player of the Year for his outstanding junior season.
•   Ivy League Rookie of the Year Casey Dornbach is third on the team with 28 points, one back of second-place Reilly Walsh. Senior captain Lewis Zerter-Gossage has a team-best 17 goals.
•   Michael Lackey was the team's starting goalie for much of the season, posting a 14-6-3 record, but an injury forced Cameron Gornet to take over the starter's role for the final two weeks. Gornet went 3-1 in that stretch to give his team a shot at the conference's regular-season title.

AGAINST HARVARD THIS SEASON
•   These two opened the season in Hanover back on Oct. 27 in a wild 7-6 overtime win for Dartmouth.
•   The Crimson had a pair of two-goal leads in the second period and carried a 4-3 advantage into the final period, but three straight goals helped the Big Green take leads of 5-4 and 6-5 in the third.
•   Fox tied the game with 3:48 to play with his fifth point (1-4-5), but Quin Foreman's first of the season came just 18 seconds into the extra period to give Dartmouth the 'W.'
•   In total, 19 games ended in the first minute of OT this season with only three ending more quickly than the Dartmouth/Harvard game on opening night. The fastest OT goal of the season was scored by Penn State's Sam Sternchein just six seconds into the fourth period on Nov. 17 at home in a 7-6 win against Michigan.
•   It was the second-highest scoring OT game of the season across college hockey with a 7-7 tie on Jan. 4 between Ohio State and Michigan State accounting for 14 goals.
•   Harvard won the second meeting in the season series, 4-1, on Feb. 1 in Cambridge.

IN CAMBRIDGE
•   This weekend in Cambridge is just the second postseason meeting between the two teams on Harvard's home ice with last year marking the first.
•   Before last year, the two programs had met six previous times in postseason play with four coming on neutral ice and the previous two times in Hanover during the first round (2013) and quarterfinals (2011).
•   Dartmouth won last year's opening game, 4-1, before Ryan Donato and Fox took over in Games 2 and 3, leading the Crimson to wins of 7-1 and 4-2 to move on to lake Placid.

GAME 3… WILD NIGHT!
•   Sunday night's Game 3 against SLU produced several interesting facts and figures.
•   It was just the second shutout by Dartmouth in a third game, matching the feat accomplished by the 2004 team in a 1-0 win against Rensselaer in a quarterfinals series played in Hanover. The goalie that night was Dan Yacey, who made 32 saves for his second straight shutout after helping Dartmouth to a 6-0 win in Game 2.
•   The eight goals scored and the eight-goal margin of victory also matched program postseason records set in an 8-0 quarterfinals win in 1980, also against the Engineers. The win that night in Hanover punched Dartmouth's ticket to the Boston Garden and the semifinals. In goal that night for the Green and White is current head coach Bob Gaudet '81. That 1980 run was also the last time Dartmouth made the league's title game.
•   The most goals the Big Green had ever scored in a Game 3 prior to Sunday night was a 6-3 win against Harvard in the first round of the 2013 postseason.

SENIOR SALUTE
•   It seems fitting that the first and last goals scored in the third St. Lawrence game came off the sticks of seniors.
•   Alex Jasiek opened the scoring in the first with what proved to be the game winner, before dishing to Carl Hesler for the final goal of the night in the third period.
•   Seniors have been leaving their mark in the final game of the season at Thompson for the last few years:
        o   2018 – Corey Kalk notched the game winner early in the third period of Game 3 against SLU to help Dartmouth advance.
        o   2016 – Tim O'Brien finds the back of the net 4:37 into the second overtime period to win Game 3 of a first-round series with Colgate.
        o   2015 – Eric Robinson puts Game 2 of a first-round series with Princeton away, hitting the empty net with five seconds left in a 2-0 victory.
        o   2013 – Alex Goodship has his only three assists of the year in that 6-3 win over Harvard in Game 3 of the first round. The final of his trio of helpers that night went to classmate Dustin Walsh late in the third to put the game out of reach.

NEARING 50
•   Thanks to his career year with 15 points and 13 assists, Connor Yau is just two points away from 50 for his career.
•   The last Dartmouth defenseman to reach 50 points in a career was Evan Stephens '11, who posted 81 points (19-62-81) in 128 games from 2007-11. Stephens reached the figure as a junior during the 2009-10 season.
•   Prior to Stephens, the last Dartmouth D-men with 50-plus points in a career were Ben Lovejoy '06 (11-43-54) and Grant Lewis '07 (13-64-77) in their final seasons in Hanover in 2006-07. Lovejoy had six points as a freshman at Boston College in 2002-03, giving him just 48 (11-37-48) in a Dartmouth sweater.

EIGHT IS ENOUGH
•   The eight goals against the Saints were the most by a Dartmouth team since Jan. 17, 2017 when the Green defeated No. 6 Harvard, 8-4, at Thompson Arena.
•   That game was the actually the first collegiate win for Adrian Clark, who came in for the final 33:16 of play, stopping all 14 shots faced and allowing his teammates to score the game's final four goals for the victory.
•   Like Sunday, seven Dartmouth players scored in that game with Ryan Blankemeier the only player to do so in both.

SURVIVE AND ADVANCE
•   With the Game 3 result, Dartmouth won a playoff series and advanced in the postseason for the eighth time in the last nine seasons.
•   The Big Green have played in the first round every year since 2012 and have failed to advance just once (2017 at Yale).
•   After a bye into the quarterfinals in 2011 with a third-place regular season finish, Dartmouth bested Harvard in three games to move on to Atlantic City and the conference semifinals.

FOLLOW THE ACTION
•   The entire ECAC Hockey Championship will be carried on ESPN+ as have all Dartmouth home games and league road contests throughout the season.
•   There is no additional fee for subscribers to watch the conference's postseason tournament.

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 and behind the mic for all 29 regular season games on 94 ESPN Radio (WTSL) and will continue to do so for the entire postseason tournament.

WHAT'S AHEAD?
•   The winner of the weekend's best-of-three series will move on to Lake Placid and the conference semifinals next Friday.
•   Teams are re-seeded after each round with the higher seeds earning home team distinction in both the semifinals and championship game.

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