Team Notes: Colgate Travels to Princeton and Quinnipiac

The following article appeared January 3 on the Colgate Web site.

After finishing January with a 3-4-1 overall record, Colgate kicks off the month of February on the road as it travels to face Princeton and Quinnipiac, Friday and Saturday evening. The Raiders, who enter the weekend with a 10-10-5 overall record and 7-5-1 in ECAC Hockey action, are in a tie for fifth place in league standings with 15 points, five behind first place Cornell and three in back of Yale, Union and St. Lawrence. The seven league wins already passes last year’s total of six for the entire schedule. Four points separate Colgate and Rensselaer, which are tied for fifth and 10th-place Princeton, which has 11 points. The Raiders gained a split on this particular road trip last season. Colgate opened with a 1-0 victory at Quinnipiac before falling 2-1 in overtime to Princeton the following evening at Hobey Baker Rink. In this particular road trip, Colgate has split the weekend four consecutive years.

MEET THE HEAD COACH
Don Vaughan is in his 17th year at the helm of the Colgate Raiders. The 1984 graduate of St. Lawrence enters the campaign as the program’s all-time winningest coach with a 279-263-64 mark. On February 16, 2008, he became the all-time winningest coach with his 252nd victory as Colgate blanked Union 8-0. On November 11, 2007, former Colgate President, Rebecca S. Chopp, announced the creation of the Donald F. Vaughan Endowed Coaching Chair for Men’s Hockey.

THESE DATES IN COLGATE HISTORY
Colgate is dead even in games played on these particular dates. The Raiders are 8-6-2 on February 5 and 6-8-2 overall the following day. Colgate has a four-game unbeaten streak on February 5 (2-0-2) with its last appearance being a 2-2 tie with Cornell in Ithaca in 2005. Conversely, the Raiders will be looking for their first win on February 6 in nine tries. Colgate’s last victory was a 5-3 win over Penn back in 1974. Since then, it is 0-6-2 on this date including a 3-2 overtime loss to Princeton at Starr Rink in 2009. Colgate is 2-0 all-time against Princeton in games on February 5.

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