Team Notes: No. 10 Dartmouth Looks to Continue Unbeaten Streak
HANOVER, N.H. — In the 4-2 victory against RPI, junior Camille Dumais (Beaconsfield, Quebec) led the team with three points on a goal and two assists. Senior Reagan Fischer (Irma, Alberta) tallied the game-winning goal on a delayed penalty off of assists from senior Kelly Foley (South Boston, Mass.) and Dumais.
The next night against Union, the Big Green used another
balanced attack with three skaters scoring in the 3-2 victory.
After falling behind, 2-1, Fischer scored on a puck that deflected
off a Union defenseman, and junior Sasha
Nanji(Markham, Ontario) scored the game-winning goal on a power
play with four minutes to go in the second period.
SCOUTING THE BIG GREEN
The Dartmouth women’s hockey team is unbeaten in its last
seven games and has improved to 11-5-2 overall. The Big Green are
7-3-2 in ECAC Hockey and are 2-1-1 in the Ivy League entering the
weekend. Last weekend, the team hosted its first ECAC Hockey games
since Nov. 30.
Through 18 games, Dartmouth has had 18 players record a point, five skaters with double-digit points, 13 players with multiple points and 10 skaters with at least one goal and one assist. Dumais leads the team with 22 points on nine goals and a team-best 13 assists. Foley is second on the team with 20 points on a team-high 12 goals and eight assists. Fischer ranks third with six goals and nine assists for 15 points. Nanji leads the Big Green defensemen with six goals and seven assists for 13 points. Hobeika is fifth with 10 points on five goals and five assists, and junior Margaux Sharp (Carleton Place, Ontario) sits in sixth with one goal and seven assists for eight points. Morgan Illikainen (Grand Rapids, Minn.) leads all freshmen with five points on five assists.
Sophomore Lindsay Holdcroft (Pittsburgh, Pa.) has played all but four games for Dartmouth. She has 333 saves, a .920 save percentage, a 2.06 goals against average, an 8-4-2 record and two shutouts in 846:07 minutes.
The Big Green are averaging 2.94 goals per game, while allowing
2.33 goals against. The squad takes 29.1 shots per game and commits
3.90 penalties per game. Dartmouth is 16-for-91 on the power play,
converting 17.6 percent of the time, and is 58-for-67 on the
penalty kill at 86.6 percent.
ECAC HONORS
For the fourth time this season, the Dartmouth women’s
hockey team received the ECAC Hockey Player of the Week honor. On
Jan. 17, Dumais garnered the recognition after registering seven
points on three goals and four assists in the three games the Big
Green played last week.
Komarek was named the ECAC Hockey Player of the Week on Nov. 29. Komarek tallied four points on the week to help the Big Green win at ninth-ranked Harvard, 3-2, on Nov. 23 and defeat 10th-ranked Northeastern, 4-3, at home on Nov. 26.
The Big Green earned three other ECAC honors earlier this season. Sophomore Ali Winkel (Espanola, Ontario) was named ECAC Hockey Player of the Week on Nov. 15. The sophomore earned the honor after her four-point performance at Cornell on Nov. 11.
On Nov. 2, the conference named Holdcroft the goaltender of the
week. She propelled the Big Green to a 1-0-1 mark on Oct. 28-29
with 55 saves, a .965 save percentage and a 0.96 goals-against
average. On Oct. 25, after her three-point performance against
Boston College, Foley was named the ECAC Hockey Women’s
Player of the Week.
STREAK UP TO 7
After their two wins this weekend, the Big Green moved their
unbeaten streak to seven games. The last time Dartmouth lost was
back on Nov. 30 at home against Harvard, 2-1.
During the streak, the team is 6-0-1, has outscored opponents, 28-17, and only allowed more than two goals once, which was in the 8-5 win at UNH to start the streak.
It is the longest unbeaten streak for Dartmouth since it went
unbeaten in 10 straight games from Feb. 1, 2008 to March 8,
2008.
PIONEERS OF WOMEN’S HOCKEY CELEBRATION
This weekend the Dartmouth Athletic Department will be welcoming
back the players and coaches who started and propelled the
women’s hockey program to what it is today. This group
includes the women who were there at the beginning, from 1974-75
through 1984-85.
With records dating back to the 1977-78 season, the Big Green
compiled an 85-73-4 record from 1977-85. The best seasons during
that span were the 1982-83 and 1983-84 campaigns. In 1982-83,
Dartmouth went 14-8 overall with Estey Ticknor ’85 leading
the team with 38 points on 25 goals and 13 assists. The following
season, the team went 12-8 and finished 6-4 in the Ivy League.
Ticknor again led the team with 12 goals and 21 assists for 33
points.
DOUBLE 100
Dartmouth had two different skaters play in their 100th game this
past week. Foley suited up for her 100th game on Friday against
RPI, and senior Moira
Scanlon (Chicago, Ill.) reached the century mark at the
historic game at Fenway Park. Foley was the 74th player in the
program’s history to play in 100 games and Scanlon was the
73rd.
Fellow senior Erica
Dobos (Bethel Park, Pa.) also reached the 100 plateau
against Northeastern on Nov. 26. Hobeika also has an opportunity to
get to triple digits this year as she has played in 89
games.
A LOOK AT THE CONFERENCE STANDINGS
Dartmouth moved into a tie with Princeton for fifth place in ECAC
Hockey with 16 points in 12 games. The Big Green are within one
point of third and trail conference-leading Quinnipiac and Cornell
by six points. The Bobcats and the Big Red are tied for first in
the conference with 22 points. Cornell has reached the total in 12
games compared to 16 for Quinnipiac. Clarkson and Harvard are tied
for third with 17 points in 12 games.
NATIONAL RANKING
After not ranking in the top ten in either national poll for over
two months, Dartmouth moved into the 10th spot in the USCHO.com
National Poll on Monday. The Big Green received 20
points, sitting 23 points behind ninth-ranked Harvard.
Wisconsin leads the poll with nine first-place votes and 143
points. Minnesota is in second with two first-place votes and 131
points, and ECAC Hockey foe Cornell is in third with four
first-place votes and 130 points.
GETTING IT DONE AT HOME
Coming in to last weekend, Dartmouth was 2-4-0 at Thompson Arena,
but improved to .500 at home with the weekend sweep. It was only
the second Friday-Saturday home weekend series for the Big Green
this season as four of their six contests were single-game sets. It
marked the first time the Big Green had swept a home weekend, since
it defeated Cornell, 4-2, and Colgate, 4-3, on Feb. 18-19,
2011.
PAYS TO SHOOT MORE
In both the victories this weekend, Dartmouth outshot the
opposition. It marked the eighth and ninth times this season the
Big Green have outshot opponents. In all nine games, Dartmouth is
unbeaten and has earned the victory in eight of the contests. When
the opponent takes more shots, the Big Green are 3-3-1.
SCOUTING THE RAIDERS
Colgate enters Friday’s game with an 8-14-1 record overall
and are 3-8-1 in ECAC Hockey. The team is tied for eighth in the
conference with seven points in 12 games. The Raiders have lost
three straight and four of their last five. This past weekend, the
team lost at home to Princeton, 5-3, and Quinnipiac, 4-1.
Junior Brittany Phillips leads the team with 25 points on 12 goals and 13 assists. Freshman Melissa Kueber is second with 10 goals and five assists for 15 points, and sophomore Jocelyn Simpson is third with six goals and nine assists for 15 points.
The team is averaging 2.30 goals per game, while giving up 2.74 goals against. The Raiders take 27.6 shots per game, and commit 6.20 penalties per game. On the power play, Colgate is 18-for-126 (14.3 percent) and is 111-for-135 (82.2 percent) on the penalty kill.
In net, senior Kimberly Sass has played in all 23 games for
Colgate. She has 577 saves, a .909 save percentage, a 2.64 goals
against average, an 8-13-1 record and two shutouts in
1,318:55minutes.
SERIES HISTORY
Friday will mark the 36th match up between the two schools. The
Big Green have controlled the series with a 28-5-2 record. The two
teams first met on February 17, 1978 at Colgate, with Dartmouth
winning, 8-0. The squads played twice in the 70’s, but then
didn’t play each other again until 2002. The Big Green won
the first 16 games in the series. Dartmouth won at Colgate earlier
this season, 2-0.
SCOUTING THE BIG RED
Cornell enters the weekend with a 16-2-0 record overall, an 11-1-0
mark in ECAC Hockey and a 5-1-0 record in the Ivy League. The Big
Red are tied for first in ECAC Hockey with Quinnipiac with 22
points. Cornell has played four less games than the Bobcats. The
Big Red’s only loss in conference play came against the Big
Green on Nov. 11. Cornell is on a six-game winning streak, and
haven’t lost since Dec. 3 at Mercyhurst. Last weekend, the
Big Red defeated Quinnipiac, 4-1, and Princeton, 1-0.
Sophomore Brianne Jenner leads the team in points with 33 on nine goals and a team-high 24 assists. Senior Rebecca Johnston and freshman Jillian Saulnier are tied for second with 32 points. Saulnier has 15 goals and 17 assists and Johnston has 13 goals and 19 assists.
In net, sophomore Lauren Slebodnick has played nine games and senior Amanda Mazzotta has played 10 games. Slebodnick has 140 saves, a .942 save percentage, a 1.10 goals against average, an 8-0-0 record and three shutouts in 488:49 minutes. Mazzotta has 180 saves, a .900 save percentage, an 8-2-0 record and two shutouts in 576:22 minutes.
The team is averaging 5.28 goals per game, while giving up 1.67
goals against. The Big Red take 39.6 shots per game, and commit
5.60 penalties per game. On the power play, Cornell is 30-for-106
(28.3 percent) and is 80-for-92 (87.0 percent) on the penalty
kill.
SERIES HISTORY
Cornell and Dartmouth will meet for the 73rd time on Saturday. The
Big Green lead the series, 41-25-6. The first meeting took place on
February 16, 1979 at Thompson Arena, with the Big Red earning an
easy victory, 8-1. Dartmouth didn’t get its first victory in
the series until 1983 in a 3-0 victory at Cornell. The Big Green
dominated the series in the 2000’s with Dartmouth winning 19
in a row that ended on February 14, 2009, when the two teams tied
in Ithaca. Earlier this season, the Big Green earned a 5-4 victory
at Cornell in which Winkel recorded three goals and four
points.
