Home-and-Home With No. 4 Quinnipiac Ahead for Tiger Icers This Weekend

Both games with ECAC Hockey travel partner Quinnipiac are ahead for the Princeton women's hockey team this weekend as the Tigers head to Connecticut for the front half on Saturday before returning home for a Sunday afternoon return visit from the Bobcats.

at No. 4/4 Quinnipiac, Sat., 1 p.m. | ESPN+ | Int'l Video | Live Stats
vs. No. 4/4 Quinnipiac, Sun, 2 p.m. | ESPN+ | Int'l Video | Live Stats | Program | Tickets
Sunday's broadcast is also available on NBC Sports Philadelphia+, and on SNY delayed at 8:30 p.m.
Sunday's game is the team's Pride Day, and fans can receive a Tiger Pride sticker pregame.

Ranked Foes: With Quinnipiac ranked No. 4 in both the USCHO/DCU and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls, this weekend's games will be Princeton's 10th and 11th out of 22 this season against top-10 opponents.

The Standings: Princeton enters the weekend eighth in ECAC Hockey with 16 points, three and a half ahead of Rensselaer (12.5) for the final spot in the ECAC postseason. If the standings remained the same, this weekend's series would be a quarterfinal matchup, with Quinnipiac's 38 points as best in the league by a half-point over Yale. Princeton has made the ECAC postseason in each of its last eight competitive seasons and hasn't missed the top eight since 2013.

The Series with Quinnipiac: Princeton leads the all-time series 22-17-4 overall and 14-9-2 at Baker. At Quinnipiac, the teams are even at 8-8-2. Since 2017, Princeton leads the series 12-4, and the teams split their meetings last season, each winning on the other's home ice. Princeton has won the last three at Quinnipiac, with the Bobcats last winning there in 2017, and Quinnipiac's win streak in Baker is one, as Princeton won the best-of-three ECAC quarterfinal series in 2020.

Stat Rankings: Entering the week, Princeton stood 13th in the nation in faceoff win percentage at .528 and 19th in scoring defense at 2.55 goals allowed per game. Sarah Fillier is eighth nationally with 310 faceoff wins.

Checking the Charts: Two players are making moves high up on Princeton's career list. Senior Maggie Connors stands in a three way tie for 12th in program history with 69 career goals and is six short of a tie for 11th. Junior Sarah Fillier has 55 career goals, good for 15th with the Connors-included trio next up, and 83 career assists, standing tied for sixth and three out of a tie for fifth. With the 83 assists (record is 122) and 138 points (record is 218), Fillier is more than 60 percent of the way to both records with a season-plus to go.

Outshoot 'em: Princeton has outshot its opponent on goal in 14 of 20 games on the season. On the season, Princeton is averaging 34.0 shots a game to 25.0 for its opponent.

Rookies: First-year Tigers are three of Princeton's five leading point scorers this season, with Issy Wunder (6/9a) second with 15 points, Katherine Khramtsov (6g/5a) fourth with 11 and Emerson O'Leary (4g/4a) fifth with eight. Classmate Taylor Hyland has played 38 percent of the team's minutes in goal and leads the team with a .914 save percentage.

Between the Pipes: Sophomore Jennifer Olnowich has played 62 percent of the minutes in goal this season with rookie Taylor Hyland playing the other 38 percent. Olnowich has the lower GAA, at 2.43 to 2.48 for Hyland, and Hyland has the edge in save percentage, .914 to .891.

Olympic Gold: Junior Sarah Fillier returned to Princeton this season for the first time since the 2019-20 season that ended due to the pandemic just before the NCAA tournament. In the meantime, Fillier helped Canada to two IIHF World Championships and Olympic gold. At the Olympics, Fillier co-led Canada in goals (five) and led the team in points (11).

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