December 2, 2009

Team Notes: No. 4 Quinnipiac, Princeton Coming to Ingalls

The following article appeared December 2 on the Yale Web site.

 

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The No. 10 ranked Yale men's hockey team (5-3-2, 2-1-2 ECAC), winners of three of four, host one of ECAC Hockey's most challenging weekends with perennial powers No. 4 Quinnipiac (12-1-0, 7-0-0) and Princeton (4-5-1, 2-4-1) skating into the Whale.

Series vs. Bobcats, Tigers
Quinnipiac leads Yale 5-2-1 in a New Haven County rivalry that began in 2005-06 and has gone 1-1-1 over the last three. Yale owns a 122-99-8 lead on Princeton in a series that dates to 1899, but the Tigers have taken six of the last eight.

COMPARING STATS

Team Avg. (ECAC rank) Quinnipiac/ YALE/ Princeton
Scoring 4.31 (1)/ 4.10 (2)/ 2.33 (12)
Defense 2.31 (2)/ 3.00 (5)/ 3.33 (9)
Penalty Kill 88.7 (1)/ 78.7 (6)/ 81.4 (4)
Power Play 26.4 (2)/ 20.6 (5)/ 20.0 (7)
Penalty Minutes 15.2 (4)/ 10.4 (12)/ 10.9 (11)

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