Princeton University Athletics
Princeton Women's Hockey Announces 2009-10 Schedule
June 10, 2009 | Women's Ice Hockey
The 2009-10 Princeton women's hockey schedule was recently announced by Princeton head coach Jeff Kampersal. The schedule features 22 ECAC Hockey games and seven non-conference games against teams from Hockey East and College Hockey America. Princeton went 18-11-2 last season and finished third in the ECAC Hockey standings.
After a pair of scrimmages against Yale and Brown, the Tigers open the regular season on the road with two non-conference games at Vermont on Oct. 23-24. The Tigers face Vermont in a single game at home last season and will make the trip to Burlington to play at Gutterson Fieldhouse for the first time since Vermont left the ECAC following the 2004-05 season.
Princeton opens its league and home schedules a week later when Rensselaer and Union visit Hobey Baker Rink for league games on Oct. 30-31. The homestand only will last a weekend as the Tigers return to the road for the first two weekends of November with league games at Yale and Brown, followed by match-ups at Dartmouth and Harvard.
The Tigers return home the weekend before Thanksgiving for games against Cornell and Colgate and stay on campus through the holiday, hosting Boston University for a two-game non-league series over the holiday weekend. Princeton closes the first part of the season on the road over the first two weekends of December, traveling to Clarkson and St. Lawrence on Dec. 4 and 5 and visiting Syracuse for two games on Dec. 11 and 12. Syracuse, a member of College Hockey America, played its inaugural Division I season in 2007-08.
Princeton returns from the holiday break to play its home-and-home series against travel-partner Quinnipiac. The first game takes place on New Year's eve as the teams meet at Quinnipiac. The venue changes two days later on Jan. 2 at Baker Rink. Princeton will play three more times before the exam break, hosting a non-league game against Northeastern on Jan. 5 and a league series with Harvard and Dartmouth on Jan 8-9.
The Tigers are then off for 20 days during exams before resuming action in late January with a trip to Union and Rensselaer. A week later, its off to Colgate and Cornell, before Princeton returns home for the final two weekends of the regular season. The Tigers host Clarkson and Sr. Lawrence on Feb. 12-13 and close out the regular season a week later against Brown and Yale.
The ECAC playoffs begin the following weekend on Feb. 26 with the top four finishers hosting the middle four finishers in the quarterfinal round.