Men's Hockey Explodes For Six Goals Against Yale

Sunday, November 2

Hanover, N.H.

5:00 PM

Dartmouth College

2-0-0

Yale

0-1-0

Yale

Dartmouth

Men's Hockey Explodes For Six Goals Against Yale

11/2/2025 9:51:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

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Dartmouth Improves To 2-0 For Second Straight Season

By: Dan Richeal

HANOVER, N.H.—Dartmouth men's hockey secured an opening weekend sweep on Sunday as the Big Green defeated Yale 6-1 at Thompson Arena in a non-conference game.

On Saturday night in the season opener, Dartmouth sophomore Hayden Stavroff netted a hat-trick to open the season. It took just 2:32 for Stavroff to score his fourth goal of the season. The duo of Cam MacDonald and Hank Cleaves did the dirty work down low on the forecheck and Stavroff picked up the puck and roofed a backhander home for the goal. MacDonald and H. Cleaves each picked up their second assists of the year.

With 29 seconds left in the opening frame, the Big Green doubled their lead. Eric Charpentier fed a pass to his defense partner Colin Grable who fired a shot towards the net. The shot found its way to the net and was sitting in the blue paint when Nikita Nikora tapped home his first goal of the year. Both Grable and Charpentier picked up their first assists of 2025-26.

Dartmouth outshot the Bulldogs, 14-9 in the opening period while winning 13 of 22 faceoffs.

The Big Green exploded for four goals in the second period starting at the 11:10 mark of the frame while on the power play. The first-year trio of Jason Stafanek, Cooper Cleaves, and Ryan Schelling occupied the top of the zone on the power play. Stefanek fed a pass to C. Cleaves at the point who slid a pass to Schelling in the left circle. Schelling one-timed the pass into the back of the net for his first collegiate goal. C. Cleaves notched his first collegiate point while Stefanek picked up his second point in as many games.

Just over four minutes later, Grable scored his first career goal to give Dartmouth a 4-0 lead. Stefanek found Nikora with a breakout pass in the neutral zone and Nikora carried it into the zone. Grable trailed the play and found open ice in the slot and took a perfect pass from Nikora. Grable held the puck for a split second before wristing home the fourth Dartmouth goal.

1:09 seconds later, the Big Green were celebrating their fifth goal of the evening as Schelling notched his second of the night. CJ Foley intercepted a pass at center ice and used speed to back off the Yale defenders. He then dropped the puck to Alex Krause who fired a shot towards the net, the puck trickled to the goal line and Schelling tapped home his second goal. Foley picked up his second assist of the year while it was Krause's first point of the season.

Dartmouth scored its sixth goal of the night just 1:41 later as Charpentier notched his second goal of the year. Andrew Clarke intercepted a bank pass on the half wall and found Charpentier in the high slot. Charpentier delayed and beat the goalie five hole to make it a 6-0 game. Clarke notched his first collegiate point on the play.

The Dartmouth fans gave the Big Green a loud ovation as they headed to the dressing room after outshooting the Bulldogs 15-6 in the middle frame.

5:21 into the third period, Yale broke up the shutout with an even strength goal.

Despite not finding the back of the net, the Big Green outshot Yale 12-8 in the third period and 41-23 overall.

Emmett Croteau started in net for the Big Green and made 22 saves including eight from inside the circles.

12 different players tallied a point for the Big Green including Charpentier, Nikora, Grable, Schelling, and Stefanek who each had two points.

Dartmouth won the battle in the faceoff circle 38-31 as H. Cleaves led the way with 14 wins and a 66.7 winning percentage.

Dating back to the start of the 2024-25 season Dartmouth is 15-1-1 when scoring four or more goals.

Last season, the Big Green won 14 games when scoring first, this season Dartmouth has scored first in both games.

Through two games, Dartmouth has scored 11 goals, it is the most goals in the first two games of the regular season since the 1997-98 season when Dartmouth defeated Niagara 8-5 in the season opener and fell to RPI 8-5 in the second game of the season.

The Big Green are back at Thompson Arena on Friday, Nov. 7 at 7 PM as Colgate travels to Hanover for an ECAC Hockey matchup. The following day, the Big Green and Cornell Big Red renew their rivalry at 7 PM.