January 19, 2010

Team Notes: Colgate Hosts Robert Morris

The following article appeared January 19 on the Colgate Web site.

 

It may seem like the Colgate men’s hockey team hasn’t played in the friendly confines of Starr Rink since the Richard Nixon administration. Ok, maybe that is going overboard. For the first time in two months, the Raiders return home and will host its last pair of non-conference games of the season as Robert Morris comes to town Friday and Saturday evenings. This series with the Colonials kicks off a span in which Colgate will play its next four games and seven of its next nine contests at home. The Raiders rallied to down Princeton 5-4 in overtime on November 21 in their last home appearance. Last time out, Colgate split its two games in the North Country, falling to St. Lawrence 4-0 and then erupting for four goals in the third period in a 6-2 victory over Clarkson. The victory over the Golden Knights snapped the Raiders’ four-game losing streak.

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 277-262-63 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
There is a stark contrast as far as the Raiders’ all-time results between January 22 and January 23 go. Colgate is 3-10-1 all-time in games played on January 22, but 9-4-1 in contests the following night. The Raiders are 1-6-1 in their last eight games on the 22nd. Colgate hadn’t lost in eight consecutive games played on January 23 (7-0-1) until a 4-1 defeat at the hands of Brown last year at Starr Rink. The Raiders have only played on these dates back-to-back three different occasions in 1988, 1993, and 1999. Colgate split the first two weekends, but went 0-1-1 versus Cornell in 1999.

Complete article can be accessed via the Colgate Web site by clicking here.