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Princeton University Athletics
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Men's Hockey to Host UConn Monday Night in First Game After Exam Break
January 22, 2010 | Men's Ice Hockey
GAMETIME: Monday, Jan. 25, at 7 p.m.
RECORDS: Princeton (6-10-2, 3-8-1 ECAC); Connecticut (3-16-3, 3-11-3 ECAC)
SERIES RECORD: First meeting between the teams
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PRINCETON (1/22/10) - The Princeton men's hockey team returns from the exam break on Monday night with a non-conference game against Connecticut as the team begins its five-week, 11-game run to the postseason.
Princeton had a four-game unbeaten streak snapped the last weekend before the exam break with league losses to Union and Rensselaer at Hobey Baker Rink. Princeton had won three of its previous four entering the weekend. The Tigers dropped a 7-3 decision to now 13th-ranked Union in the weekend opener and fell to Rensselaer 4-1 two days later.
Princeton got goals from four different players in the weekend and points from three more. Mark Magnowski led the way with two assists, while Michael Sdao, Taylor Fedun, Dan Bartlett and Mike Kramer scored the Tiger goals. Eric Meland and Matt Arhontas also added assists.
The losses leave Princeton in a current tie for ninth in the ECAC Hockey standings with Brown entering this weekend. Princeton still has games in hand on most league teams, but those numbers will even out for the most part after this weekend's action when Princeton is off and eight teams have league games scheduled. The Tigers currently have seven points and sit three points out of eighth and the final home-ice playoff slot with 10 league games remaining starting next weekend.
Princeton hosts UConn Monday night in the first-ever meeting between the two schools. Connecticut is one of six current NCAA Division I teams that Princeton has not yet faced. The other five are Canisius, Ferris State, RIT, Northern Michigan and Sacred Heart. Princeton has played six of the teams in Atlantic Hockey, but only three since the league was formed. Princeton is 2-2-1 in those games, most recently falling to Mercyhurst. Princeton also has a win over American International and is 1-1-1 in three games against Bentley. The Tigers have faced Air Force, Army and Holy Cross, but before the league was formed.
Connecticut enters the weekend 3-16-3 overall and 3-11-3 in Atlantic Hockey. In their last game prior to their two-game series at Army on Jan. 22-23, the Huskies knocked off RIT, the first-place team in their league, 2-1. That win snapped a 13-game winless streak that saw the Huskies go 0-10-3. Two of those ties came against Air Force, now the top team in the Atlantic Hockey standings.