Team Notes: Bulldogs Seek Road Success
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The following article appeared January 20 on the Yale Web site.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The No. 5/6 Yale men's hockey team (10-4-3,
6-2-2 ECAC) has been tough to beat at Ingalls Rink but just over
.500 on the road this winter. The Bulldogs have a chance to make a
big improvement on the their out-of-town mark with one of the most
challenging of ECAC Hockey excursions, Clarkson and St. Lawrence.
The Elis take on the Golden Knights (5-14-3, 1-7-2) 7 p.m. on
Friday at Cheel Arena before playing a 4 p.m. game Saturday against
the Saints (11-8-4, 5-3-2) at Appleton Arena.
YALE VS CLARKSON, SLU
The Elis have played Clarkson 100 times since 1929-30 and the
Knights own a 68-28-4 lead. Clarkson and Yale have split the last
two season series. Yale went 1-1-1 against St. Lawrence last year,
but the Saints have a 52-24-8 advantage.
LAST YEAR AGAINST NORTH COUNTRY TEAMS
The road teams won both of last year's Clarkson-Yale games by a
goal. Sean Backman had two goals and Alec Richards ‘09 made
22 saves in the Blue's 3-2 win at Potsdam early in the year. Three
different players scored but the Elis went 1-for-6 on the power
play and fell 4-3 at home in January. Yale outshot Clarkson 34-24
in both games. Billy Blase made 27 saves but the Bulldogs went
scoreless on five man-advantages in a 3-2 OT loss at Canton. Blase
had 26 stops the next meeting at Ingalls in a 2-2 tie. Yale erased
a late, one-goal deficit in the ECAC semifinals at Albany with
tallies by Mark Arcobello and Matt Nelson ‘09 to take a 4-3
decision. Alex Petizian made 101 saves and held the Bulldogs to one
power-play tally on 16 attempts in the three contests.
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