Dartmouth Hosts St. Lawrence in ECAC Hockey First Round This Weekend

1st Round	#5 Dartmouth \| 11-14-4 vs. #12 St. Lawrence \| 5-27-2
When	Friday-Sunday* \| Mar. 8-10, 2019 \| 7 PM (Game 3 Sunday if necessary)
Where	Hanover, N.H. \| Thompson Arena (4,500)
All-Time Series	40-61-4 (105 Meetings)
This Season	1.25.19 \| W, 4-1 \| Hanover 2.16.19 \| T, 2-2 (OT) \| Canton

Media
Radio	94 ESPN Radio
Television	None
Stream	ESPN+: Game 1 \| Game 2 \| Game 3 International Stream: All Games
Live Stats	CollegeHockeyStats.net \| DartmouthSports.com
Social	Twitter: @Dartmouth_MIH Instagram: @Dartmouth_MIH Facebook: /DartmouthMIH
Game Notes	Dartmouth (PDF) \| St. Lawrence
Tickets	Dartmouth Ticket Office
Program	6 Games to History

THE FIRST ROUND
•   For the second straight season Dartmouth will be the No. 5 seed in the ECAC Hockey Championship and play host to 12th-seeded St. Lawrence.
•   All three games (if necessary) of the best-of-three series at Thompson Arena will start at 7 p.m., including the possible Game 3 on Sunday night.

HOW WE FINISHED
•   Thanks to a 10-9-3 ECAC Hockey record and 23 points, the Big Green will be the five seed.
•   Dartmouth tied Yale with 23 points, but the Elis will be the sixth seed by virtue of the Green's two regular season wins giving them the tiebreaker.

THE TOURNEY
•   The ECAC Hockey postseason features a best-of-three series format in the first round and quarterfinals, while single elimination in the semifinals and championship.
•   The first and quarterfinal rounds will be played at the campus sites of the higher seeds, while the semis and final will be played at Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid on the Olympic-sized ice sheet.
•   Teams will be re-seeded after each round so that the highest seed plays the lowest seed.
•   Dartmouth (5), St. Lawrence (12), Harvard (4) and Rensselaer (11) all are seeded the same as they were last year. This is the third straight year that RPI is the 11-seed.

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

Bye-Week Teams
No. 1 Quinnipiac
No. 2 Cornell
No. 3 Clarkson
No. 4 Harvard

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— Dartmouth Hockey (@Dartmouth_MIH) March 3, 2019

WHAT WE KNOW…
•   The 5-12 matchup is the only first-round series in which both teams know who they would play in the next round were they to advance.
•   Dartmouth, as the 5-seed, would go to the lowest-seeded bye team, which is No. 4 Harvard. With a series win, last-place St. Lawrence would head to Hamden for a quarterfinals meeting with top-seeded Quinnipiac.
•   Not only are Dartmouth and St. Lawrence the same seeds as they were last season, so is Harvard, making a similar path to Lake Placid very possible for the Big Green as it was last year.

AGAINST THE SAINTS THIS SEASON
•   In the first meeting of the year in Hanover, Dartmouth dominated the Saints en route to a 4-1 win on Jan. 25.
•   The Big Green outshot the visitors, 51-13, marking the first time in nearly nine years that Dartmouth had managed 50 shots on goal in a game.
•   Quin Foreman scored a pair of goals with Collin Rutherford and Alex Jasiek netting the others.
•   The last time the Big Green had 50 or more shots on goal in a game was Nov. 12, 2010 in a 7-1 win at Clarkson. Dartmouth held a 54-35 edge in shots on goal that night in Potsdam with Doug Jones '12 leading the way with seven. Dustin Walsh '13 had four shots and was the offensive leader with two goals and three points.
•   In the Feb. 16 meeting in Canton, the Saints proved to be a far more formidable foe, playing to a 2-2 tie. Cam Roth scored his only goal of the season, while Shane Sellar notched his first since Dec. 7.

VERSUS SLU IN THE POSTSEASON
•   This weekend marks St. Lawrence's second ever trip to Hanover for a postseason match-up and the second in as many years.
•   The two have met in two previous postseason series: the 2012 first round that Dartmouth won in two games in Canton. That series marked the first time the Saints had ever been swept at home in the playoffs.
•   They then met again last season in the first round in Hanover with the home team winning Games 1 and 3 by the same 2-1 score. The Saints won Game 2, 4-2, hitting an empty net late to make it the only non-one-goal contest.
•   Dartmouth and St. Lawrence have met in the postseason two other times: the 2001 semifinals in Lake Placid and the 2007 third-place game in Albany with the Saints winning both.

HAT TRICK HISTORY
•   For the second straight season, Will Graber scored three times in the Green and White's road game at RPI.
•   Both of his career hat tricks have come inside Houston Field House in Troy as have his top-two offensive outputs with four points (3-1-4) this year and five (3-2-5) last year.
•   It was the first hat trick of the season for Dartmouth and the first by a Big Green player since Foreman had one on Feb. 23 last season at Yale.
•   Prior to Graber, the last Dartmouth player with multiple hat tricks against the same team in his career was Lee Stempniak with two against Colgate in the 2002-03 season in which both came at home as he had one on Nov. 15 and then again on March 15 in a 3-1 Game 2 victory of a quarterfinals series, forcing Game 3.
•   Since 1970, four Big Green players have hat tricks against the same team in either one season or in consecutive years:
        o   Dennis Murphy: 1/20/79 at Maine and 1/19/80 vs. Maine
        o   Scott Fraser: 2/6/93 vs. St. Lawrence and 2/25/94 vs. St. Lawrence
        o   Lee Stempniak: 11/15/02 vs. Colgate and 3/15/02 vs. Colgate (G2)
        o   Will Graber: 2/9/18 at RPI and 3/2/19 at RPI
•   Graber is the only one to do it on the road in both instances.

ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
•   For the second year in a row, the Green will head into the postseason with the reigning ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week.
•   Last season, Foreman earned the honor heading into the series with the Saints, while Drew O'Connor earned the distinction this year.
•   O'Connor won his second weekly accolade of 2018-19 thanks to a three-goal weekend in the Capital District. The New Jersey native scored once and had an assist against Union before netting two in less than three minutes of the second period at RPI the following night.

TWO WITH AT LEAST TWO
•   Thanks to his two goals and the hat trick from Graber, Dartmouth had two players with multiple markers in the same game since… Will Graber and Shane Sellar last season at RPI.
•   In addition to Graber's hat trick, Sellar had a two-goal, six-point night in Troy last season.
•   That six-point game remains the best single-game total in Division I in the last three seasons.

MULTI-POINT GAMES
•   The Big Green had gone almost a month between multi-point games by a player when Matt Baker had two assists vs. Yale on Feb. 22, the first since Jan. 25 vs. SLU (Foreman and Rutherford).
•   This past weekend, three players had multiple-point efforts at Union and four posted more than a point at RPI.
•   O'Connor and Foreman registered two points in both games, making them the only players to accomplish it twice.
•   In total, Dartmouth has had 33 multi-point games by players this season with O'Connor accounting for six to lead the way.

CLARKY GETS THE NOD
•   Junior netminder Adrian Clark has made 19 straight starts for the Big Green as they enter the playoffs, the longest run by a Dartmouth goalie in recent memory.
•   He is 6th amongst ECAC goalies in save percentage in league games at .921.
•   One of only three league netminders to start or play in 20-plus ECAC games this season (21).
•   His 2.08 goals against average in league games ranked fourth.
•   Led all ECAC netminders with five shutouts with all five coming in league games. That figure tied a 99-year old program mark for a single-season set back in 1919-20.
•   Those five shutouts were third nationally for all games, while he was tied for the national lead with those five conference shutouts.
•   A workhorse for the Big Green, he was between the pipes for 95.2% of the time this season, the seventh-highest figure of any goalie in DI.

QUALITY FIRST SEASON
•   As mentioned, Drew O'Connor is having a strong season for the Green and White.
•   He finished the regular season fifth in ECAC amongst rookies in points in conference games (15) and was second in ECAC rookies in conference goals (8).
•   Fifth in league rookies in total points (22).
•   Second in ECAC rookies in goals (13), but led all rookies in goals per game (0.45).
•   His 12 even-strength goals were also the most by any rookies in ECAC, as were his two extra attacker goals this season with both coming in the final month of the season.
•   Averaged 2.97 shots per game, most by any first-year player in the league.
•   The first Dartmouth freshman to lead the team in scoring since Tyler Sikura had 25 points (through two postseason rounds) in 2011-12 and tied with Doug Jones. No Dartmouth rookie has been alone as the team leader in scoring in Bob Gaudet's 21 prior seasons.

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 is in his second season with the team and will broadcast all 29 regular season games on 94 ESPN Radio (WTSL) as well as the postseason tournament.

WHAT'S AHEAD?
•   For Dartmouth? A win and it heads to Harvard for a quarterfinal rematch with the Crimson in Cambridge.
•   For the Saints? An upset series victory earns them a trip to Hamden and the No. 1 Bobcats.

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