Team Notes: Colgate Hosts Clarkson, St. Lawrence
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The following article appeared January 27 on the Colgate Web site.
The second half of the ECAC Hockey schedule officially begins
this weekend as Colgate will finish its regular season series with
Clarkson and St. Lawrence, Friday and Saturday evening at Starr
Rink. The Raiders, 9-9-5 overall and 6-4-1 in league play, come
into the weekend in a three-way tie for sixth in the ECAC Hockey
standings with Rensselaer and Harvard. Only four points separate
first-place Union (17 points) and the three teams tied for sixth
with 13 points. In the second half of the league season, seven out
of the next 11 league games will be played in Hamilton and
including these two games, six of the remaining 11 will be
televised games. The Raiders are 2-0-1 in their last three games
and that includes a 1-0-1 showing versus Robert Morris last weekend
at Starr Rink.
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 278-262-64
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 has a combined 15-9-1 all-time record in games played on
January 29 and 30th. The Raiders are 9-4 on the 29th and 6-5-1 the
following evening. This will mark only the third time Colgate has
played in back-to-back games on these dates with the other two
happening in 1988 and again in 1999. Colgate split the 1988 weekend
by beating Army 5-1 and then falling to Princeton 4-3. The Raiders
were swept in 1999 falling to Yale 5-1 and Princeton 2-1. Colgate
is 2-1 in games played against Clarkson on the 29th and 1-0 in
games versus St. Lawrence on the 30th.
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