Tigers Attempt to Snap Winless Streak
The following article appeared in the February 18 issue of the Daily Princetonian.
BY JEFF EPSTEIN
STAFF WRITER
With the men’s hockey team’s season coming to a close, Princeton (14-9-2 overall, 9-7-2 ECAC Hockey) will play its final home games this weekend. The Tigers will try to break their season-high four-game winless streak with games against Brown (8-12-4, 6-10-1) and Yale (20-5, 14-4). With the ECAC Hockey conference tournament only a few weeks away, this weekend’s games are the most important of the season for determining seeding. Additionally, the team’s seniors will be saying goodbye to Baker Rink as they play their final regular-season home games of their collegiate careers.
The senior graduating class is perhaps one of the most successful in the program’s history. With two wins in their final four games and 71 victories total, they would surpass the Class of 2010 as the most winningest class in Princeton history. Along with the Class of 2010, these seniors were ECAC Champions in 2008 and captured two bids to the NCAA tournament.
Currently, Princeton sits at sixth in the conference standings with 20 points, trailing several teams by only a handful of points. With only four games left on the Tigers’ schedule, it is mathematically impossible for them to place higher than third. First-place Union is nine points ahead and second-place Yale would own the tiebreaker — the most wins overall — even in the best-case scenario. However, a strong finish by the Tigers can catapult them into the top four and earn them a bye in the first round of the conference tournament.
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