ECAC Hockey

January 9, 2009

Team Notes: Dartmouth Takes on Yale and Brown

The following article appeared January 9 on the Dartmouth Web site.

HANOVER, N.H. -- The Dartmouth men's hockey team comes home to the friendly confines of Thompson Arena with ECAC and Ivy contests against Yale and Brown on Friday and Saturday. Game time for both days is 7:00 pm. The Big Green is looking to build on the momentum of its blanking of league-leading Princeton last weekend.

SCOUTING YALE
The Yale Bulldogs come to Thompson Arena with a 9-4-0 overall record, 5-2-0 in the ECAC. Yale has won its last two, a pair of 3-2 victories over Minnesota State and Air Force. The Bulldogs have had two three-game win streaks taking wins early in the season over Clarkson, Connecticut and Brown before a second three-game streak over Alabama-Huntsville, Brown and Rensselaer. The Bulldogs currently have five players who have scored in double-figures so far this season. Leading the team is sophomore Broc Little with 15 points. A pair of juniors, Sean Backman and Mark Arcobello have added 14 and 13 points, respectively while sophomore Denny Kearney has added 11 and junior Thomas Dignard has 10. Three different netminders have seen time between the pipes for the Bulldogs. Senior Alec Richards has seen the bulk of the time in net, playing in seven games. Sophomore Ryan Rondeau has played in four games while junior Billy Blasé has seen time in two contests. Richards sports a 3.01 GAA and an .874 save percentage while Rondeau has a team-leading 1.51 GAA and a .939 save percentage. Blasé has a 3.54 GAA and an .887 save percentage.

VERSUS YALE
Dartmouth and Yale have been meeting since a 4-2 Big Green win on Jan. 16, 1907. The two sides have played fairly evenly in the series as neither team has had much of an advantage. Yale currently leads the series with a 94-88-12 record. Last season Dartmouth lost to Yale in New Haven, 6-3 but then took the victory in Hanover, 7-2.

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