Best-of-Three ECACH Quarterfinal Sends Tigers to No. 6 Harvard

Friday, February 25

Cambridge, Mass.

6:00 PM

Princeton University

Harvard

Photo by: Shelley M. Szwast

Best-of-Three ECACH Quarterfinal Sends Tigers to No. 6 Harvard

February 23, 2022 | Women's Ice Hockey

ECAC Hockey quarterfinal history: This is the eighth straight competitive season in which Princeton has qualified for the ECAC Hockey quarterfinals. Since the first time Princeton competed in a best-of-three quarterfinals in 2002, the Tigers have advanced to the semis five times, including in three of the last four competitive seasons (2017, 2019, 2020). Against Harvard, Princeton has competed in a best-of-three quarterfinal three times, in 2002, 2010 and 2012, with three Crimson sweeps, the last two coming on the road.

National rankings: Entering the week, Princeton ranked No. 1 in the nation in team faceoff winning percentage (.591). Sharon Frankel was tops in the nation with 556 faceoff wins.

The series with Harvard: Harvard leads the all-time series 52-34-6 overall and 19-9-4 at home. The Crimson are unbeaten in four straight (3-0-1) against Princeton, with the Tigers' last win in the series coming on Jan. 4, 2019 at Harvard.

Century club: Junior Maggie Connors, now with 109 career points, earned her 100th on Dec. 4 at Providence. Former teammate Carly Bullock '20 was the last Tiger to reach 100, finishing her career with 159 points.

An historic season: In 2019-20, Princeton set program records for wins (26), points (305) and assists (183), and had the second-most goals in a season, at 122, behind only the 135 scored in the 1983-84 season.

Firsts: Six Tigers have scored their first goals with the program this season in freshmen Sarah Paul, Mia Coene, Grace Kuipers, Dominique Cormier and Ellie Marcovsky and sophomore Daniella Calabrese. The first-timers represent six of Princeton's 14 goal scorers so far on the season.

Program record? Senior Rachel McQuigge has a career save percentage of .9327, just back of former teammate Stephanie Neatby '20 (.9335) for the program record. She is on pace to finish as one of five regular starters in program history to have a career GAA below 2.00, now at 1.80, and she is seventh in program history in career saves at 1,371. Rachel Weber '12 is sixth at 1,787. McQuigge was also named a semifinalist for the Women's Hockey Commissioners Association Goalie of the Year award this week.

Olympic Gold!: Princeton is without Sarah Fillier this season as helped Canada return to the top of the podium in Beijing, winning the country's first Olympic gold in women's hockey since 2014 after the U.S. won in 2018. Fillier was second among all Olympians, to teammate Brianne Jenner (nine), with eight goals scored, and was sixth with 11 points. Canadian and former Tiger teammate Claire Thompson '20 led all blueliners at the Games with 13 points (2G, 11A) and led all players with a plus-minus of +23. Netminder Kim Newell '16 competed with China and is Princeton's all-time wins (52) and saves (3,096) leader. She started and played three of China's four games with a record of 1-1-1.