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Visit to Harvard, Dartmouth Ahead for Women's Hockey Team This Weekend
January 31, 2023 | Women's Ice Hockey
Just three weekends remain in the regular season for the Princeton women's hockey team, and its second-to-last regular-season road trip is this weekend as Harvard and Dartmouth will welcome the Tigers on Friday and Saturday.
at Harvard, Fri., 3 p.m. | ESPN+ | Int'l Video | Live Stats
at Dartmouth, Sat., 3 p.m. | ESPN+ | Int'l Video | Live Stats
The Home Stretch: Six ECAC Hockey games remain for the Tigers, and with 19 points, Princeton enters the weekend three-and-a-half points up on Rensselaer, one of next weekend's opponents in Baker Rink, for the final ECAC Hockey playoff spot. If the season ended today, Princeton would head to Yale for a best-of-three quarterfinal round on the final weekend in February. Princeton enters the weekend after knocking off No. 4 Quinnipiac 11-3 in Baker last Sunday with Sarah Fillier, Maggie Connors and Jane Kuehl all getting hat tricks, with Kuehl's including her first career goal.
The Series with Harvard and Dartmouth: The Crimson and the Big Green were Princeton's opponents for Hobey 100 Weekend on the first weekend of January, and Princeton swept the weekend. The all-time series with Harvard stands 53-37-6 in favor of the Crimson, and 32-17-2 in Cambridge. Princeton's last trip to Harvard saw the Tigers become the first eighth-seeded team in the current format of the ECAC playoffs, in place since 2002, to take a best-of-three series from the top seed. The series with the Big Green stands 52-32-6 in favor of Princeton, and 20-13 in favor of the Big Green in Hanover. Princeton has won five straight in Hanover, and both of the teams' meetings last season were played there to ease COVID-related rescheduling.
A Tiger Behind the Bench: Liz Keady Norton, a 2007 Princeton alum, leads the Big Green as her latest step in a career that included a All-Ivy and All-ECAC honors with the Tigers in 2005.Â
Stat Rankings: Entering the week, Princeton stood 11th in the nation in faceoff win percentage at .533 and 19th in scoring offense at 2.59 goals allowed per game. Sarah Fillier was sixth nationally with 341 faceoff wins, 15th at 0.64 goals/game, and 18th with 1.27 points/game.
Checking the Charts: Senior Maggie Connors stands 12th in program history with 72 career goals (11th is 75), and junior Sarah Fillier stands tied for 12th with 142 points (11th is 147), 15th with 58 career goals, and sixth with 84 assists (fifth is 86).
Outshoot 'em: Princeton has outshot its opponent on goal in 14 of 22 games on the season. On the season, Princeton is averaging 33.5 shots a game to 25.5 for its opponent.Â
Rookies: First-year Tigers are two of Princeton's four leading point scorers this season, with Issy Wunder (6/9a) third with 15 points and Katherine Khramtsov (6g/5a) fourth with 11. Classmate Taylor Hyland has played 44 percent of the team's minutes in goal and leads the team with a .908 save percentage.Â
Between the Pipes: Sophomore Jennifer Olnowich has played 56 percent of the minutes in goal this season with rookie Taylor Hyland playing the other 44 percent. Olnowich has the lower GAA, at 2.43 to 2.69 for Hyland, and Hyland has the edge in save percentage, .908 to .891.
Olympic Gold: unior 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).
