Dartmouth Men's Hockey: Top-10 Moments of 2018-19 Season

10 | Brother-to-Brother | Jan. 5
In the first game of 2019, Sam and Carl Hesler did something at Dartmouth that had not been accomplished in nine years when the brothers combined to pick up points on the same goal. Freshman Drew O'Connor found the back of the net just a minute and 25 seconds into the second period at Bentley with each of the Hesler brothers picking up assists. Carl found Sam, who picked up his first career point with the pass over to his classmate. The last time two brothers recorded points on the same goal for Dartmouth was Jan. 29, 2010 when Dustin Walsh '13 scored twice at Quinnipiac with older brother Nick Walsh '12 assisting on both. Since the start of the 2010 calendar year, there have been five sets of brothers to suit up together for the Big Green: Nick and Dustin Walsh, Joe '10 and Jimmy '12 Gaudet, Connor '12 and Mark '13 Goggin, Eric '15 and Kevin '18 Neiley and the Heslers.

9 | A rebound win at Princeton | Jan. 12
The first meeting of the season did not go the way Dartmouth would've liked in a 7-2 Princeton win in Hanover in early November. The second game was a much better result for the men in green and white. The Big Green dominated the Tigers to the tune of a 5-0 win in the second weekend of January. Senior Alex Jasiek scored the first and third goals of the night, sandwiched around an O'Connor tally to send the visitors to the dressing room with a 3-0 lead after 20 minutes. Captain Kevan Kilistoff and alternate captain Carl Hesler added another two goals to the total in quick succession midway through the next frame for the final five-goal win against the defending league champion.

8 | Dartmouth beats Colgate, 1-0, on the road thanks to late goal | Jan. 18
Dartmouth followed up the win in New Jersey with another shutout victory the following weekend on the road at Colgate. With just 8:18 remaining in the third period, senior Alex Jasiek broke a scoreless tie with his sixth goal of the season. The lone tally of the game also helped the Green and White to their first consecutive shutouts in 15 years. Netminder Adrian Clark turned aside 28 shots to earn his third shutout of the year.

7 | Graber nets another hat trick at RPI | Mar. 2
There's something about Houston Field House that Will Graber just loves. For the second year in a row, the Dartmouth forward netted a hat trick in Troy at the home of the Engineers. This season's three-goal performance came in the regular-season finale and solidified the Big Green locking up the No. 5 seed and home ice in an extremely tight group of ECAC Hockey teams vying for that spot on the season's final weekend. Graber finished the night with a season-high four points in the game and became the first Dartmouth player since Lee Stempniak '05 to record hat tricks against the same team in his career after Stempniak did so against Colgate with both coming in the 2002-03 campaign. In total since 1970, four Big Green players have hat tricks against the same team in either one season or in consecutive years with Graber the only one to do so on the road both times.

6 | Dartmouth sweeps season series from Yale | Nov. 10 & Feb. 22
This is another moment that revolves heavily around the performance of Clark in goal. In the first match-up of the season in New Haven, Clark turned aside 31 for his first shutout of the season and just the second of his career. The shutout was the first by a Dartmouth goaltender against Yale since Bob Gaudet stopped 13 in a 1-0 win on Jan. 13, 1979 in Hanover. The Bulldogs' goalie that night was Keith Allain, the current Yale head coach, who allowed just the one goal. The last time a netminder wearing the Green and White turned in a shutout performance in New Haven was all the way back in 1949 when Dick Desmond backstopped Dartmouth to a 4-0 win on Feb. 19 of that year at New Haven Arena, making Clark's the first shutout at Ingalls Rink. The second win of the season also came via the shutout as Clark stopped 28 in a 3-0 contest. In blanking the Bulldogs for the second time this year, Clark tied the Dartmouth single-season record set by Chester Gale in the 1919-20 season. The second win gave Dartmouth its first season sweep of the Elis in which they did not allow a goal against.

5 | O'Connor scores late; Dartmouth beats Clarkson, 1-0, on the road | Feb. 15
Tied 0-0 late in the third period in Potsdam, Dartmouth's top rookie stepped up and delivered the crushing blow to 11th-ranked Clarkson. O'Connor took a centering feed on the rush from defenseman Clay Han and redirected the puck into the top of the net past the Golden Knights' All-American goalie Jake Kielly's outstretched reach. The 15th 1-0 win all-time for the Big Green, it was the second of 2018-19 for the team and Clark in net, marking the first time in the program's 113-year history that the team had posted a pair of one-goal shutouts in a season.

4 | Bob Gaudet '81 wins 400th career game with victory against No. 15 Quinnipiac | Nov. 3
Koenig Family Head Coach of Dartmouth Men's Hockey Bob Gaudet '81 became the 23rd coach in Division I history to reach 400 career wins with an early-season victory against No. 15 Quinnipiac. What guided Gaudet to his milestone was scoring depth and a tight defensive game that resulted in the four-goal win, the largest margin of victory for Dartmouth in the all-time series against the Bobcats and handed them their first loss of the season. Led by a balanced scoring attack, Clark was the anchor of the defensive zone, stopping all 13 shots Quinnipiac managed on its three power-play opportunities. The win was also Gaudet's 307th at Dartmouth, a figure that will come into play soon…

3 | Dartmouth Dominates SLU in Game 3 with 8-0 win | Mar. 10
The last home game of the season was one of the most memorable as the Big Green dominated the Saints in the decisive third game of the first-round series. Alex Jasiek and Quin Foreman each had a goal and three assists for four-point nights, while Will Graber scored twice and had three points as did Jeff Losurdo on one goal and a pair of helpers. The eight goals matched the program's most ever in a playoff game, a figure previously set in 1980 against Rensselaer in an 8-0 victory in the league quarterfinals in a single-elimination format. The eight goals are what catch the eye, but the zero allowed by netminder Adrian Clark for his sixth shutout of 2018-19 are what makes the contest historic. The sixth shutout set a new Dartmouth single-season record, while also moving him into a tie for first all-time with the program as it was the seventh of his career.

2 | Big Green open season with 7-6 overtime win against Harvard | Oct. 27
The first home game of the season was one of the most memorable as the Big Green defeated Harvard, 7-6, in overtime. Foreman scored 18 seconds into the extra period to lift Dartmouth to the season-opening victory, finishing off a great centering feed from Shane Sellar along the halfboards after forcing the Crimson into a turnover. Sellar finished with two goals and that helper for three points, while O'Connor made his Dartmouth debut in stellar fashion, scoring once and dishing out two more. The Crimson had leads of 3-1 and 4-2, but were unable to hold off the resurgent home team who scored five times in the final two periods of regulation before ending it quickly in the fourth.

1 | Dartmouth beats Cornell to give Gaudet all-time wins record at Dartmouth | Nov. 30
"Cam Strong '20 helped Bob Gaudet '81 pass Eddie Jeremiah '30" was the lede of that night's recap and it was completely fitting of the events of that 3-2 Dartmouth win at Thompson Arena over visiting No. 16 Cornell. The junior scored his first goal of the season midway through the third period to give the home team a one-goal edge that would hold up. Gaudet — the former Dartmouth goalie in his 22nd season behind the bench of his alma mater — was aided in earning his program-record 309th win behind the bench by his current goalie Adrian Clark, who made a season-high 38 saves, including 20 in the third period alone. The result moved Gaudet alone into first place all-time at Dartmouth in career coaching wins, passing the legendary Eddie Jeremiah who had amassed 308 between the 1940s and 1960s.

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