Colgate & #10/10 Cornell Await Men's Hockey At Baker Rink

Friday, November 17

Princeton, N.J.

7:00 PM

Princeton University

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Colgate & #10/10 Cornell Await Men's Hockey At Baker Rink

November 16, 2023 | Men's Ice Hockey

Princeton vs. Colgate | University Night/Tigers Fight Hunger Night
November 17 | 7 p.m. | Hobey Baker Rink
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Princeton vs. #10/10 Cornell | Princeton Jungle Night
November 18 | 7 p.m. | Hobey Baker Rink
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OFFENSE ON POINT
Princeton has scored 16 total goals over its first four games to start the season, the most over a four-game span to open a season since the 2018-19 team scored 17 while also jumping out to a 2-1-1 start. The Tigers have scored 3+ goals in all four games to start the year, the last time that has happened was when the 2006-07 team had 3+ goals in five consecutive games to open that season. There has been balance to the scoring with 12 different goal scorers and 14 different players with at least one point.

BEDLAM AT BAKER HIGHLIGHTS SWEEP OF YALE & BROWN
The Tigers won both games last weekend in overtime, the first time we can find in the record books that the Tigers won back-to-back home overtime games in the same weekend. It is just the fourth time in recorded Princeton men's hockey history that the team has won consecutive games in overtime and the first time it happened in the regular season since 1986-87 when the Tigers won both games of a home-and-home with Army in OT.

THE GAMES, THEY ARE EXCITING
So far through four games this season, Princeton has reached overtime in three of its four games, with the other decided by one goal with under 1:00 left in regulation.

Princeton's two overtime wins so far this season are tied for most in the ECAC and No. 4 in the nation behind Air Force, Arizona State and Ferris State who each have three.

AMONG THE NATION'S TOP OFFENSES
The Tigers enter this weekend ranked No. 1 in the ECAC and No. 4 in the country in goals-per-game (4.0). The Tigers trail Denver (5.20), Michigan (4.58) and Michigan State (4.50) in Scoring Offense nationally.

POWER PLAY POPS OFF
The Tigers are 5-for-13 on the power play this season, connecting at a 38.5% clip to lead the ECAC and rank #2 in the country behind only Michigan (40.0%). Five different players have PPGs for the Tigers -- Nick Seitz, Kai Daniells, Tyler Rubin, David Jacobs and Nick Carabin.

FIRST-TIMERS CLUB GAINS NEW MEMBERSHIP
Three Tigers scored their first collegiate goals during the Harvard/Dartmouth weekend. Joshua Karnish scored in his first collegiate game -- on his first collegiate shot -- at Harvard, while Kai Daniells scored the next night in his second collegiate game. Sophomore Jaxson Ezman found the back of the net at Dartmouth, scoring in his 24th college hockey game.

THE ALL-TIME SERIES WITH COLGATE
This weekend marks the 133rd meeting all-time between the two teams, with Colgate holding a 64-48-10 lead in the all-time series. At Hobey Baker Rink, Princeton is 27-30-6 against the Raiders. Princeton is looking to end an 11-game winless (0-8-3) streak against the Raiders which dates back to 11/3/17.

THE ALL-TIME SERIES WITH CORNELL
This weekend marks the 159th meeting all-time between Princeton and Cornell, with the Big Red holding a 96-54-8 lead in the all-time series. Princeton is 25-42-6 all-time against Cornell at home. The Tigers are looking to snap a seven-game losing streak to the Big Red at Baker Rink.

BUILDING OFF 2022-23
Picked to finish 12th in the ECAC Preseason Poll last year, Princeton entered its game at St. Lawrence last season in 6th place with an 11-12-0 record overall and a 7-9-0 record inside the ECAC. Right in the middle of a race towards a home playoff game, a season-ending injury to starting netminder Ethan Pearson 5:00 into the SLU game knocked the season off course. The Tigers went 1-5-0 down the stretch before rallying for a 6-4 win at Union in the ECAC First Round.

The 13 wins overall and 8 inside ECAC play were the most by a Princeton team since the 2017-18 ECAC championship team won 19 and 10, respectively. Against Ivy opponents, Princeton went 5-5-0 for the second season in a row – tied for the most Ivy wins by a Ron Fogarty coached team (2018-19, 2021-22, 2022-23).

YOUNG GUNS READY TO ROLL
Princeton may very well line up the youngest team in the nation in terms of games played entering this season. Only 19 of the 26 skaters on the roster had skated in a college hockey game with seven freshmen joining the team for 2023-24. Prior to the start of the season, those 19 returning players had played in a total of 785 college hockey games – an average of 41.3 games-per-player. Only Nick Seitz (84 games) and Adam Robbins (81 games) had played three full seasons entering 2023-24. The other five members of the Class of 2024 did not play during 2020-21 as the Ivy League did not compete due to COVID-19.

REELING IN RANKED TEAMS
The Tigers have 19 wins over ranked opponents during Ron Fogarty's tenure, including a 5-0 win at No. 20 RIT and a 3-2 (OT) win over No. 12 Providence last year and a 5-4 win at No. 8 Cornell in 2021-22. Princeton has at least one win over a ranked team in each of its last seven seasons.

CAREER YEARS
Eight of Princeton's returning skaters had career years during the 2022-23 season. Joe Berg (+2 points), Nick Carabin (+10 points), Jack Cronin (+12 points), Noah de la Durantaye (+7 points), Mike Kennedy (+2 points), Ian Murphy (+10 points), Adam Robbins (+1 point) and Nick Seitz (+6 points) all increased their scoring output from 2021-22 to 2022-23. In goal, Ethan Pearson turned his freshman season (0-2-0; 7.16 GAA, .826 sv%, 100:16 of play) into a sophomore season where he was among the ECAC's top goalies (11-9-0, 4 shutouts, 2.71 GAA, .903 sv% 1174:14 of play) before his season-ending injury.

BRINGING BACK THE POINTS
Princeton returns 173 of its 230 points from last season, accounting for 75% of points tallied during the 2022-23 season – a percentage which ranks No. 10 among all Division I teams entering the season.

TIGERS RETURN TWO ALL-IVY SELECTIONS
Ian Murphy (second-team All-Ivy) and Ethan Pearson (honorable mention All-Ivy) are the two of Princeton's four All-Ivy selections from last season returning this campaign. For Murphy, this was the second All-Ivy honor of his career after being named first-team All-Ivy in 2022.

THE MURPH
For the second year in a row, Ian Murphy is the top returning scorer on the team. After posting 9-10-19 numbers in 2021-22, he popped off for 15-14-29 last season to lead Princeton in goals, assists, and points. This year, he is a point-per-game player (2-2-4) to start the season. He had two hat tricks last season, tying for most by an ECAC player and second-most by any player in the NCAA. After spending the summer of 2022 at NHL Development Camp with the Vancouver Canucks, he spent this past summer at NHL Development Camp with the St. Louis Blues.

JACK ATTACK
Jack Cronin struck for five PPGs and was second on the team with 12 goals overall last year. He scored 10 more goals last year than he did in his freshman season, and his 12-point growth from 2021-22 to 2022-23 was the most of any player on the team. In the opening weekend, Cronin had three points in two games, including a two-point game (1g, 1a) at Harvard -- his first multi-point game since 12/30/22 at Colorado College.

Cronin's 15 career goals are second-most by an active Princeton player, but he has yet to record a multi-goal game over his 57 career games played.

GORMAN FAMILY SCORING RACE
Sophomore Brendan Gorman is chasing down his older brother, Liam (Class of 2023), and father, Sean (Class of 1991) on his family's all-time scoring leader list. Brendan averaged 0.6 points-per-game last season as a true freshman.
1. Liam Gorman -- 36 pts. (16g, 20a) in 91 games
2. Sean Gorman -- 23 pts (5g, 18a) in 99 games
3. Brendan Gorman -- 23 pts. (6g, 17a) in 35 games

DE LA SOUL
Junior defenseman Noah de la Durantaye tallied a career-high 17 points last season, up from 10 as a rookie in 2021-22. He leads all returning defensemen in goals (4), assists (13) and points (17).

ABOUT ADAM
Adam Robbins tallied 14 points (5g, 9a) in 32 games last season after registering 15 points (5g, 10a) over his first 49 combined games. Of his nine assists last season, seven came on the power play. He has three assists this season, two of which have come on the power play. During the 2020-21 year, Robbins won a Clark Cup with the Chicago Steel.

Robbins scored the OTGWG against Yale, landing at #5 on that evening's Sportscenter Top-10 Plays -- the second time in his career he landed on the #SCtop10 following a penalty shot goal against Harvard on 1/6/23 which was #4.

SETTING SEITZ
Another NYC product had a standout 2022-23 in Nick Seitz. Last year, he connected for a career-high 15 points (9g, 6a) in 28 games after tallying 11 points (3g, 8a) over his first 56 games. He has 5 points (1g, 4a) in 4 games this season, including a 3-assist game at Dartmouth. He enters the weekend tied for No. 1 in the country in assists-per-game (1.5) and No. 2 in points-per-game (2.0).

CARABIN CARRIES HIS WEIGHT
Assistant captain Nick Carabin stepped into a larger role last season as a junior and delivered with a career-high 11 points (1g, 10a) in 32 games after registering just one assist in 21 games during the 2021-22 season. He has 4 points (1g, 3a) in 4 games this season.

EZMAN IS THE MAN
After tallying 2 points in 22 games as a freshman last season, Jaxson Ezman has started the 23-24 season with 3 points (1g, 2a) in 4 games.

DJ SPINS GOLD
David Jacobs had 15 points (5g, 10a) as a freshman last year over 32 games. He had five different one-goal games, and is looking for his first career multi-goal game. To start this season, Jacobs has 5 points (1g, 4a) including a 3-point game (1g, 2a) against Yale last weekend.

FRESH FACES FIND FOOTING IN NET
Princeton's two wins last weekend each provided the first career win in their first career start for Princeton's two freshmen netminders. Arthur Smith made 24 saves in the 5-4 win over Yale, while Conor Callaghan made 30 saves in a 3-2 win over Brown.