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No. 15 Princeton to Host St. Lawrence, No. 10 Clarkson This Weekend in Baker
November 15, 2022 | Women's Ice Hockey
No. 15 Princeton will host St. Lawrence, the first team out of both rankings this week, Friday and No. 10 Clarkson Saturday in a pair of 3 p.m. starts at Baker Rink as the ECAC Hockey season continues.
vs. St. Lawrence, Friday, 3 p.m. | ESPN+ | Int'l Video | Live Stats | Program | Tickets
vs. #10 Clarkson, Saturday, 3 p.m. |Â ESPN+ | Int'l Video | Live Stats | Program | Tickets
Saturday's game is part of Princeton Athletics' Tigers Fight Hunger initiative. Fans are welcome to bring non-perishable food items for donations to area food banks ahead of the holiday season.
Tested from the Start: Half of ECAC Hockey is in the DCU/USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine rankings, with #4/4 Colgate, #5/5 Quinnipiac, #6/6 Yale, #9/9 Cornell, #10/10 Clarkson and #15/15 Princeton. The Tigers have already faced three of those other five teams and will face another this weekend in Clarkson. Â
The Series with St. Lawrence & Clarkson:Â Princeton leads St. Lawrence 37-31-4 all-time, though the Saints lead 18-17-2 at Baker. Princeton had a four-game win streak in the series, but St. Lawrence won both games last season. Clarkson leads the all-time series 22-17-2 overall and 10-7-1 at Baker. Princeton's last win came 5-1 in the 2020 ECAC tournament semifinal before Clarkson won both games last season.
100 Career Games: Kayla Fillier, Maggie Connors and Mariah Keopple reached 100 career games over the first three weekends. Fellow senior Chloe Harvey, now at 84 games played, is on track to be the next Tiger to reach 100. She'd reach the number Jan. 29 against Quinnipiac if she plays in every game until then.Â
Stat Rankings: Through the weekend, Princeton stood No. 8 in the nation on the penalty kill, at 89.5 percent, and ninth in faceoff percentage, winning at the draw 55.7 percent of the time. Individually, rookie Taylor Hyland ranked 15th in GAA (1.88) and in save percentage at .935.
Tournament Success: Princeton made it to the ECAC semifinals for the third consecutive competitive season last winter, making some history in the process. Princeton became the first eighth seed to win a three-game series from the top-seeded team in the quarterfinals since the best-of-three quarterfinal format began in 2002. Princeton made the ECAC semis in 2019 and won it for the first time in 2020.
Between the Pipes: Sophomore Jennifer Olnowich and rookie Taylor Hyland have split the minutes in goal over the first six games, Hyland at 1-1 with a 1.88 GAA in 128 minutes and Olnowich at 2-2 with a 2.33 GAA in 232 minutes.
New Scorers: Princeton has seen three players score their first career goals already this season in rookies Emerson O'Leary, Issy Wunder and Katherine Khramtsov. Senior Maggie Connors and junior Sarah Fillier, 109 career goals between them, have added four more, and sophomore Dominique Cormier netted her fourth career goal last weekend.
Nice Addition: Back for her junior season is Sarah Fillier, who last played for Princeton in the 2019-20 season that ended due to the pandemic just before Princeton was due to open the NCAA tournament at Northeastern. In the meantime, Fillier helped Canada to two IIHF World Championships and Olympic gold. Fillier has 73 career assists, more than halfway to the program record of 122 (Katherine Issel '95, only Princeton player with 100 career assists), and 120 career points, more than halfway to the program record of 218 (Issel, one of three players with 200 career points).
