No. 7 Princeton Completes Weekend Shutout Sweep of Saint Anselm

Saturday, January 4

Princeton, N.J.

3:00 PM

Princeton University

13-4

Saint Anselm

10-6

Saint Anselm

Princeton

Maggie Connors (back to glass) and Sarah Fillier (16) each had four-point games Saturday.

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

No. 7 Princeton Completes Weekend Shutout Sweep of Saint Anselm

January 04, 2020 | Women's Ice Hockey

Box Score

Scoring 10 goals in a game for the first time since 2004, the seventh-ranked Princeton women's hockey team completed a weekend shutout of Saint Anselm to wrap the holiday break.

Sophomore Maggie Connors had her first hat trick of the season, third of her career and first since Feb. 8, 2019 against Brown. Sarah Fillier had a five-point night on two goals and three helpers for her second game with at least five points in a month's time.

The Tigers will resume ECAC Hockey play next Friday and Saturday at Dartmouth and Harvard.

Princeton opened the scoring less than three minutes into the game when Connors found Fillier at center ice, and the Tigers' leading scorer on the season zipped her way to the crease.

17' left, 1st period | #7 Princeton 1, Saint Anselm 0
Sarah Fillier scores her third goal of the weekend and gets the Tigers on the board!
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Less than four minutes later, Fillier won a draw and quickly found Connors for a 2-0 lead.

14' left, 1st period | #7 Princeton 2, Saint Anselm 0
Maggie Connors from Sarah Fillier off the draw, and it's 2-0 Princeton!
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Connors had her second just 22 seconds later when Shannon Griffin won a puck in the Tigers' attacking zone and flipped it to Connors for a 3-0 lead.

13' left, 1st period | #7 Princeton 3, Saint Anselm 0
Connors scores twice in 22 seconds!
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With just two minutes to go in the first, Fillier and Connors charged the net with Fillier flipping the puck to Connors for the natural hat trick and a 4-0 lead.

1' left, 1st period | #7 Princeton 4, Saint Anselm 0
A first-period natural hat trick for Maggie Connors!
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Fillier had the helper again as the second period closed in on its midway point, with Fillier sending a centering pass to Griffin to make it 5-0.

10' left, 2nd period | #7 Princeton 5, Saint Anselm 0
Shannon Griffin gets the goal and Sarah Fillier has her fourth point of the day!
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With three minutes to go in the second, Daniella Calabrese had an assist for the second straight night and for her second career point, finding Carly Bullock as Bullock headed toward goal.

3' left, 2nd period | #7 Princeton 6, Saint Anselm 0
Carly Bullock makes it a 6-0 game with helpers from Daniella Calabrese and Annie Kuehl.
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In the final minute of the third, Amanda Harris found Kayla Fillier on the doorstep of the goal for Fillier's first career goal.

<1' left, 2nd period | #7 Princeton 7, Saint Anselm 0
Kayla Fillier gets her first career goal!
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Just 29 seconds after Kayla Fillier's goal, Emma Kee found the net from beyond the faceoff circles a night after her first career goal to help give Princeton an 8-0 lead headed into the third.

<1' left, 2nd period | #7 Princeton 8, Saint Anselm 0
A day after getting her first career goal, Emma Kee gets her second and gives the Tigers a season-high eight on the game!
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Less than two minutes into the third, Sharon Frankel centered the puck for Chloe Harvey and Griffin close in on the crease, and Griffin had her second of the night.

18' left, 3rd period | #7 Princeton 9, Saint Anselm 0
Shannon Griffin gets her second of the day!
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Sarah Fillier had the final goal with less than seven minutes to go, slipping it inside the post amid a crowded crease.

6' left, 3rd period | #7 Princeton 10, Saint Anselm 0
Sarah Fillier gets her second on the day.
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