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Princeton University
Harvard
Three-Game Weekend Ahead for Women's Hockey Team in New England
February 09, 2022 | Women's Ice Hockey
In what will be a three-game weekend thanks to an earlier postponement, the Princeton women's hockey team will head to No. 6 Harvard for one game on Friday and to Dartmouth for two, on Saturday and Sunday.
at Harvard, Friday, 3 p.m. | ESPN+ | International Video | Live Stats
at Dartmouth, Saturday, 3 p.m. | ESPN+Â | International Video | Live Stats
at Dartmouth, Sunday, 1 p.m. | ESPN+Â Â | International Video | Live Stats
Standings: Princeton stands eighth in ECAC Hockey with 23 points, in the last conference tournament spot and five in front of ninth-place Brown. Three of Princeton's final five regular-season games will be against teams behind them in the standings in Brown and Dartmouth, and two of the five will be against teams ahead of Princeton in the standings in Harvard and Yale.
Changes: Princeton has had to move several games so far because of player availability around the pandemic and injuries on one team or the other. Princeton's two-game visit to Dartmouth this weekend is presently the last of those games, with Sunday's game in Hanover replacing the Jan. 22 visit to Baker.
National rankings: Entering the week, Princeton ranked second in the nation in team faceoff winning percentage (.592). Sharon Frankel was tops in the nation with 486 faceoff wins.
The series with Harvard and Dartmouth: Harvard leads the all-time series 51-34-6 overall and 30-15-2 at home. The Crimson are unbeaten in the last two (1-0-1), winning in Baker earlier this season and tying at home in 2020. Princeton's last win at Harvard and in the series overall was in 2019. Princeton leads the all-time series with Dartmouth 49-32-6 overall while Dartmouth leads the series at home 20-11. Princeton has won the last seven overall and the last three in Hanover against the Big Green, with Dartmouth's last win over Princeton coming in 2016 in Hanover.
Century club: Junior Maggie Connors, now with 105 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: Five Tigers have scored their first goals with the program in freshmen Sarah Paul, Mia Coene, Grace Kuipers, Dominique Cormier and Ellie Marcovsky. The first-timers represent five of Princeton's 12 goal scorers so far on the season.
Program record? Senior Rachel McQuigge has a career save percentage of .933, even with former teammate Stephanie Neatby '20 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, and she is seventh in program history in career saves at 1,306. Rachel Weber '12 is sixth at 1,787.
Olympians!: Princeton is without Sarah Fillier this season as she aims to help Canada win Olympic gold. Fillier, who would return as a junior in 2022-23, is in Beijing with former Tiger teammate Claire Thompson '20. The four-time gold-winning Canadians are looking for their first gold since 2014 after the U.S. won gold in 2018. Netminder Kim Newell '16 competed on China's team, making it three Tiger Olympians as Princeton's all-time wins (52) and saves (3,096) leader started and played three of China's four games with a record of 1-1-1.
