Regular Season Concludes For Men's Hockey With North Country Trip

Princeton at St. Lawrence | February 28 | 7 p.m.
Appleton Arena
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Princeton at No. 19 Clarkson | March 1 | 7 p.m.
Cheel Arena
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LOOSE ENDS
Princeton is 35-92-7 against Clarkson all-time and 6-49-1 at Cheel Arena. The Tigers are looking to pick up their first regular season win at Cheel since a 4-3 (OT) win on January 29, 2011 -- Princeton is 0-11-1 in its last 12 regular season trips to Potsdam and 1-15-1 overall in Potsdam since 2011 with a 3-2 win in overtime in Game One of the 2014 ECAC First Round the lone victory.

Kevin Anderson has three points in four career games against Clarkson, with a goal and two assists. Brendan Gorman has the sme point totals in five career games against the Golden Knights.

Princeton is 29-73-13 against St. Lawrence all-time, and 12-37-4 in Canton. Last year at Appleton, the Tigers defeated the Saints, 5-4 in overtime.

Brendan Gorman has nine career points (2g, 7a) in five games against St. Lawrence, while Noah de la Durantaye has eight (2g, 6a).

ONE STEP UP
Ben Syer has put together one of the best debut seasons behind the bench in Princeton program history, recording 10 wins to this point which is tied for 6th-most by a coach in his first season among Princeton's 18 all-time head coaches.
13: Richard Vaughan (1935-36); Bill Quackenbush (1967-68)
12: Don "Toot" Cahoun (1991-92); R. Norman Wood (1959-60); G.J. Gaw (1922-23)
10: Ben Syer (2024-25); Len Quesnelle (2000-01); Frank Frederickson (1933-34)
9: Jack Semler (1973-74); Jim Higgins (1977-78); Bob Prier (2011-12)
8: Guy Gadowsky (2004-05)
7: John Wilson (1965-66); W. Beattie Ramsey (1924-25)
5: Lloyd Neidlinger (1927-28)
4: Ron Fogarty (2014-15); Russell Ellis (1920-21)
3: M.J. MacDonald (1921-22)

PROVE IT ALL NIGHT
Princeton has played 15 games this season against a team currently ranked or receiving votes in the current USCHO Poll. The Tigers are 4-11 against teams ranked or receiving votes, including a pair of wins over current No. 9 Ohio State. To this date, 11 of Princeton's 14 total losses have come to teams ranked or receiving votes in this week's national poll.

I'M ON FIRE
Brendan Gorman enters the week with 19 points (8g, 11a) over his last 19 games and leads the Tigers overall with 23 points in 25 games. Even more recently, he has 10 total points (4g, 6a) over his last nine games.

He has two short-handed goals this season, 2nd in the ECAC and 7th in the country. This season, he is averaging 0.9 points-per-game, which is No. 9 in the ECAC and No. 68 among all players in Division I. Gorman's 0.4 goals-per-game rank No. 12 in the ECAC and No. 65 in the country.

All-time, Gorman now ranks No. 45 in scoring by a Princeton men's hockey player with 68 points (23g, 45a) in 87 games. He recently broke a tie with current Carolina Hurricane Eric Robinson '18 at 67 points and is now even wth five other players, including longtime NHLer Taylor Fedun '11 with his 68 points.

NO SURRENDER
There was no retreat from senior defenseman Noah de la Durantaye last season as he had career highs in points (18) and assists (15) while his three goals were one away from his career high. He is Princeton's active leader in games played (114) and second in assists (40) and points (54). De la Durantaye has two game-winning goals this season to rank No. 8 in GWGs by a defenseman in the nation.

Entering this weekend, de la Durantaye is tied for 77th all-time on Princeton's career scoring list with 54 points (14g, 40a) in 114 games.

Among defenseman, de la Durantaye is No. 10 all-time in points and No. 10 in assists and is alone in No. 13 in goals.

LONG TIME COMIN'
The Tigers finished the non-conference portion of the season 5-2-0. The five wins in non-conference play are the most since Princeton also went 5-2-0 in non-conference play during the 2016-17 season.

THE 'E' STREET SHUFFLE
There were some sparks flying in E's crease as Ethan Pearson made 50 saves and allowed just two goals in a 1-0-1 weekend at Yale and Brown to earn ECAC Goaltender of the Week honors.

He was back in business against Bentley, stopping 61-of-62 shots faced en route to a pair of wins to again earn ECAC Goaltender of the Week accolades.

Recently, he won both games of the Harvard/Dartmouth trip to help Princeton sweep that weekend for the first time since 2010.

Pearson is 5-7-2 overall this season and boasts a 2.33 GAA and a .912 save percentage. His GAA is No. 4 in the ECAC and ranks No. 23 in the country, and he is No. 3 in the ECAC in save percentage and No. 34 in the country.

BETTER DAYS
These are better days for senior Alex Konovalov who has set a career high with 11 points this season, tallying 3 goals and 8 assists in 24 games. He has nine points over his last 12 games, including a career-high three points (2g, 1a) at Union. This comes after tallying six total points -- all assists -- over 43 games during his first three seasons.

MAN AT THE TOP
Jake Manfre is the man at the top of the Princeton rookie scoring race with 7-9-16 totals through 27 games. After tallying an assist in his first collegiate game against Harvard (11/8) he notched his first career goal in his third career game with a redirection at Yale (11/15) before exploding for 2 PPGs and an assist in a 3-1 win over Ohio State (11/29) and adding an assist against the Buckeyes on 11/30 for a four-point weekend to earn ECAC Rookie of the Week honors and ECAC Rookie of the Month honors for November. More recently, he had a goal and an assist in a 3-1 win at #19 Dartmouth. Manfre's three PPGs this season are No. 16 overall in the ECAC and No. 5 among ECAC rookies. His two game-winning goals this season are No. 4 among ECAC rookies, and also No. 11 by a freshman in all of Division I hockey.

THE RISING
Already through 27 games this season, Nick Marciano's career high in points has started rising. He has 11 points (1g, 10a) in 27 games after posting four total points over his first 48 games.

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