2016-17 Men's Ice Hockey Roster
Alex Riche
- Position:
- Forward
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 190
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Oakville, Ont.
- High School:
- T.A. Blakelock
Senior Year (2018-19): Finished third on the team in scoring with 26 points in 30 games ... scored 11 goals and 15 assists ... won 52.3 percent of his face offs (253-231) ... took 70 shots and blocked 10 ... drew seven penalties ... tie for eighth in the nation in power-play goals with 9 ... scored in the season opener at No. 10 Penn State ... had a four-point game scoring one goal and three assists in a 7-1 win at Dartmouth on Nov. 2 ... tallied a goal in a 4-3 overtime win versus No. 12 Union on Nov. 9 and net two assists the next day in a win over Rensselaer ... had an assist in an overtime loss to No. 19 Arizona on Dec. 9 ... net two assists in a 4-4 draw with No. 9 Penn State at the Wells Fargo Center on Dec. 15 ... assisted on the game winner in a 1-0 win over Maine on Dec. 28 ... scored on Colgate on Jan. 5 ... tallied the game-winning goal over Harvard on Jan. 11 ... had a goal and an assist at St. Lawrence on Feb. 1 ... scored on Brown on Feb. 8 and assisted on the game winner the next night versus Yale ... had a goal at Rensselaer on Feb. 15 .. net a goal and an assist in a 5-3 win over St. Lawrence on Feb. 23 ... set up the game-winning goal at Brown on March 2 ... scored twice and added two assists in a triple overtime game at Brown on March 9 in Game 2 of the ECAC playoffs.
Junior Year (2017-18): Played in all 33 games on the nation's second-best scoring line ... scored six goals and had 16 assists for 24 points, and finished + 14 ... won 58.2 percent of his face offs (305-219) .. took 62 shots and blocked seven ... took 13 penalties ... assisted on the game winner in the season opener versus Holy Cross ... had assists in four straight games - vs. No. 18 Cornell, Union, Rensselaer and Yale) ... scored the game-winning goal on Nov. 24 in a 4-1 win over Bemidji ... earned an assist in a loss to Quinnipiac ... followed up with two assists in a 9-2 win over Dartmouth on Dec. 2 ... scored a goal and two assists in a 4-0 shutout of Arizona State on Dec. 8 and had a goal and an assist in the next day in Game 2 of the series ... picked up an assist in a 6-3 win at Dartmouth and in 5-3 win at Quinnipiac ... tallied two assists in a 5-4 OT win over St. Lawrence on Feb. 2 ... added two assists in a 7-2 win at Brown on Feb. 9 and scored the next night at Yale ... had an goal and an assist in Game 2 of the ECAC first round series with Brown ... scored in a 3-2 Game 2 at No. 16 Union in the quarterfinals.
Awards
• ECAC Player of the Week (Dec. 12)
• ECAC All-Academic Team
Sophomore Year (2016-17): Scored seven goals and 10 assists in 28 games … missed six games because of an injury … won 51.9 percent of his face offs (190-176), had nine blocks and took 48 shots on goal … scored both goals in the season opener at Michigan State … picked up an assist at Clarkson on Nov. 5 and in a tie with Dartmouth on Nov. 12 … scored in a one-goal loss to Colgate on Nov. 18 and earned an assist the next night at Cornell … chipped in an assist against No. 18 Union on Dec. 2 … tallied a goal and an assist in a 5-3 win over No. 7 Quinnipiac on Dec. 9 … had an assist in each game of a two-game set with No. 19 Minnesota State … scored in his first game back after missing six, on No. 18 St. Lawrence in a 3-1 win … tallied assists in back-to-back wins over Brown and Yale on Feb. … had an assist in a 2-1 win over Colgate in Game 3 of the ECAC first-round series … scored a goal in a 4-3 OT loss at No. 6 Union in the ECAC Quarterfinals.
Freshman Year (2015-16): Played in all 31 games and had eight points on two goals and six assists ... took 43 shots ... had an assist in his first career game against Yale at the Capital City Classic ... earned an assist in a 2-1 loss at Colgate on Nov. 7 ... tallied an assist in a 3-0 shutout of No. 20 Clarkson on Nov. 21 ... picked up an assist in a 4-2 win at Brown on Dec. 4 ... chipped in an assist in a 3-3 tie with Rensselaer on Jan. 7 ... scored in a 5-4 loss to Colgate on Feb. 5 ... scored a goal in the first game of the ECAC playoffs at Clarkson on March 4 and earned an assist in the next night.
Before Princeton: Spent three years in the Ontario Junior Hockey League (OJHL), most recently with the Cobourg Cougars ... spent a season and a half with the Milton Icehawks and had a brief stint with the Oakville Blades ... averaged 1.05 points per game in the OJHL with 110 points on 44 goals and 66 assists in 105 games ... in 2014-15 he collected 27 points in 22 games with Milton before finishing the season at Cobourg ... scored 27 points in 30 regular-season games before adding five more points in 10 playoff games as the Cougars reached the conference semifinals ... a 2013-14 OJHL first-team all-prospect player ... named to the 2015 roster for the Canadian Junior Hockey League (CJHL) Prospects Games ... a 2014 graduate of T.A. Blakelock High School ... a varsity letterwinner in baseball.
Personal: Full name is Alex Riche ... born July 28, 1996 ... parents are Steven Riche and Jan Sheng ... Steven is a math teacher and Jan is an engineer.
