No. 1 Bulldogs Going into Enemy Territory
The following article appeared in the January 28 issue of the Yale Daily News.
By Max de La
Bruyere, Alison
Griswold
Staff Reporters
Last time Yale competed against ECAC hockey powerhouses Union and Rensselaer, the men’s hockey team defeated its toughest competitors yet to earn the first No. 1 national ranking in program history. They’ve topped the polls ever since.
This weekend the Bulldogs (17–2, 11–1 ECAC) will face off once more against No. 12/13 Union (16–7–3, 8–3–1) and No. 10 RPI (15–6–3, 7–5) in the hopes of extending their unprecedented nine-week run as America’s best college hockey team. But the Elis, who have struggled to generate offense in the opening periods of their past few games, have little room for error as they travel to take on two of the nation’s top five scoring defenses.
“These games are all about us,” forward Clinton Bourbonais ’14 said. “Coming into their barn, it would be nice to ice the crowd by scoring early and often.”
