Team Notes: Dartmouth Takes Last Regular-Season Road Swing

The following article appeared February 18 on the Dartmouth Web site.

HANOVER, N.H. -- With an extremely important weekend ahead the Dartmouth men's hockey team takes to the road for its last regular-season ECAC road swing. Currently the BIg Green is fourth in the ECAC standings with 22 points. SLU is just out of 4th with 19 points while Clarkson is 9th with 15 points. Dartmouth is looking to stay in the top-four to secure a first-round bye in the ECAC Playoffs. Both Clarkson and St. Lawrence will be looking to exact revenge on Dartmouth's sweep of the two earlier this season.

SCOUTING CLARKSON
Clarkson started the season a little slow, enduring a 11-game non-winning streak. But recently the Golden Knights have begun to turn it around as Clarkson has won or tied seven of its last 10 games and is currently 9th in the ECAC standings with 15 points. Earlier this season, the Big Green took a 5-1 victory over the Knights. Last weekend Clarkson dropped games to Princeton and Quinnipiac, both by the same 5-3 score. Seven players are leading the Golden Knights with double-figures as sophomore Scott Freeman is the leader with 25 points. A pair of seniors, Chris D'Alvise and Shea Guthrie are second with 18 points. D'Alvise is the team's leader with 11 goals while Freeman is tops with 21 assists. In net three different players have seen time but freshman Paul Karpowich seems to have won the job. The rookie has appeared in 23 games and has a 6-12-4 record. He sports a .909 save percentage and a 2.81 GAA.

VERSUS CLARKSON
Dartmouth and Clarkson began their series with a 4-1 Golden Knights victory in New York. Clarkson holds the edge in the series, 62-22-4. Dartmouth holds the advantage in the recent series as the Big Green has won six of the last 12 meetings with the Knights taking four along with two ties. Dartmouth is on a two-game win streak with a 3-1 victory last season and a 5-1 win earlier this year. In the game earlier this season, Jake Morley gave his team a one-goal lead but five consecutive goals by the Big Green put the game out of reach.

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