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Princeton University
Syracuse
Syracuse to Visit No. 15 Princeton for Weekend Series
November 08, 2022 | Women's Ice Hockey
vs. Syracuse, Fri., 6 p.m. | ESPN+ | Int'l Video | Live Stats | Program | Tickets
vs. Syracuse, Sat., 3 p.m. | ESPN+ | Int'l Video | Live Stats | Program | TicketsÂ
Friday's game is a Seats for Service game, which gives fans a chance to provide tickets for active-duty service members and veterans.
Saturday's game is Future Tigers Day, and all Princeton Kids Club members can receive four free admissions. Check your inbox for our November newsletter to claim your seats. Also, the first 150 kids will take home a Princeton branded lunch box. Kids can also enjoy a face painter and balloonist pre-game on the concourse. All Kids Club tickets must be claimed in advance online prior to game day. Saturday is also the team's Let Her Play game, where fans can get a ticket to the game by registering at letherplay.org/events.
Tested from the Start: Half of ECAC Hockey is in the DCU/USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine rankings, with #4/5 Colgate, #5/4 Quinnipiac, #6/6 Yale, #9/9 Cornell, #11/11 Clarkson and #15/15 Princeton. The Tigers have already faced three of those other five teams and will face another next week in Clarkson. Â
The Series with Syracuse: Princeton leads the all-time series with Syracuse 6-2-2 since the teams' first meetings in Dec. 2009, the Orange's second season of competition. Though Princeton lost those first two games, the Tigers are an unbeaten 6-0-2 since, tying and winning last season in Syracuse.
100 Career Games: Mariah Keopple can be the third Tiger to reach 100 career games played this weekend after Kayla Fillier and Maggie Connors did so over the season's first two weekends.
At the Draw: Princeton entered the week ranked fifth in the nation with a .575 faceoff win percentage, its best statistical ranking of any stat the NCAA tracks.
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 four games, and each has set a career high in saves, Olnowich with 25 against Cornell on Oct. 29 and Hyland with 41 last Saturday at Yale.
Returners: Princeton brings back the scorers of 48 of the team's 58 goals from last season, led by Maggie Connors (13) and Annie Kuehl (10). Connors has 61 career goals, good for 14th in program history. A 20-goal season would lift her to eighth.Â
Nice Start: Rookie Emerson O'Leary had three goals over the first two weekends, leading the team in scoring. While the program's freshman record for goals in a season belongs to Kelly O'Dell '84 with 32 in 1980-81, a recent big number came from current senior Maggie Connors, who had 26 in 2018-19.
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 70 career assists, more than halfway to the program record of 122 (Katherine Issel '95, only Princeton player with 100 career assists), and 116 career points, more than halfway to the program record of 218 (Issel, one of three players with 200 career points).
