A place in the ECAC hockey semifinals is on the line this weekend as No. 12 Princeton and No. 3 Clarkson meet in a best-of-three series starting Friday.
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Rankings: Princeton sits at No. 12 in both the latest USCHO and the latest USA Hockey/The Rink Live national rankings. In ECAC Hockey, seven teams are ranked in the 15-team vote: 3rd/3rd Clarkson, 5th/5th Colgate, 6th/6th Cornell, 7th/7th St. Lawrence, 9th/ Quinnipiac is in 9th place. , 12/13 Princeton, 13/13 Yale.
Princeton at ECAC Hockey Tournament: Princeton is looking to advance to the ECAC Hockey semifinals for the fourth time in the past five competitive seasons, reaching the semifinals in 2019, winning the tournament in 2020 and missing the 2021 season due to the pandemic. In the 2022 semifinals, Harvard became the first No. 8 seed to win three quarterfinal games from a top seed, and in 2023, they gave Colgate one point, all three games were decided by one point, and the Raiders scored two points. I stole it. Three.
Kazu Watch: Sarah Filia, was named ECAC Hockey Forward of the Week four times this season, leading the nation in goals per game (1.04), sixth in power play goals (eight goals) and seventh in points per game (8). 1.52) entering this week. ). Fillier had a hat trick in last Saturday's ECAC opening round game against Dartmouth, his third of the season. Fillier was named a Kazmayer Award Top 10 finalist twice, in 2019 during his freshman season and in 2020 during his sophomore season.
Outstanding Sophomore Player: Then Sarah FiliaPrinceton's next three leading scorers are all sophomores, and all three have surpassed the rookie's point total. Issy Wonder (8G/23A/31P) scored 18 points on nine goals and nine helpers a year ago and has six assists in the last four games. emerson o'leary (6G/23A/29P) had seven goals and four assists for 11 points last year and has seven assists in the last four games. sarah paul (15G/6A/21P) had two goals, three assists and five points in seven games in the injury-shortened 2021-22 season, but missed all of last season due to injury.
Fillier climbs the charts: Here's the latest info on where Sarah Filia On Princeton's career points, goals and assists list:
Points: Filier is 4th with 192. She is the program's highest scorer in the 21st century and is eight points away from becoming the fourth player in program history (and first since 1995) to reach 200 points, with 15 points in three games. -Place a tie (207).
Goals: Filier ranks sixth with 91 goals, four points behind a tie for fifth with former teammate Carly Bullock (20) (95). Carly Bullock is the leading scorer for a Tiger player this century. Three players have scored 100 goals, but none since 1997.
Assists: Fillier ranks second in career assists with 101, behind record holder Katherine Issel '95 (122). The only player in the history of Princeton's men's program to record as many assists as Fillier is John Mesri '89 (118).
Recently named the PWHL's top prospect in the 2024 Draft by The Hockey News, Fillier led the Division I in several categories including points per game (1.63), total goals (91), and goals against (91). He is one of the current career leaders. He ranks second in goals per game (0.77), points scored (192), third in assists per game (0.86) and tied for fifth in assists (101).
Canadian Team Fillier: Senior Sarah Filia It won the gold medal with Canada at the 2022 Olympics, returning Canada to the top of the podium for the first time since the 2014 Olympics after the United States won in 2018. Fillier finished second among Canadians at the 2022 Olympics with eight goals. She scored 11 points, which also placed her sixth among Canadians among all athletes. Fillier is a three-time IIHF Women's World Championship medalist, winning gold in Calgary in 2021, gold in Denmark in 2022 and silver in Brampton, Ontario in 2023.
Staff: 102-68-22, Head Coach carla morley She is in her seventh year overall and sixth competitive season (2020-21 was lost due to the pandemic) leading the program. Her 102 career wins are the second-most in program history behind her predecessor Jeff Campersall '92 (327 wins). On January 13 at Harvard, Morley became the second women's hockey coach at Princeton University and the sixth men's and women's hockey coach to reach 100 wins. The four men's coaches to reach 100 years of age are Richard Vaughn (158 from 1935-59), Jim Higgins (130 from 1977-91) and Don Cahoon (122 from 1991-2000). Guy Gadowski (age 105 from 2004 to 2011). In addition to Dan Gould, who returns to coach the goaltenders, Morey has two new assistant coaches. jamie landmarkHe played professionally from 2001-18, including parts of six NHL seasons with the Rangers, Coyotes, Flames, Kings, and Maple Leafs. melissa samoskevichAfter graduating in 2019, he is considered one of Quinnipiac's all-time leading scorers.
Series record: Clarkson has a total of 26 wins, 17 losses, and 2 draws, and is the all-time leader in the series with 12 wins, 9 losses, and 1 draw against Potsdam. The Golden Knights had won six straight in the series through the weekend, with Princeton's last win coming in the 2020 ECAC Hockey Semifinals at Cornell University. In Potsdam, Clarkson has won the last 10 since a tie in 2014 and is undefeated in the last 11 since the Tigers last won in 2013. In the ECAC postseason, the teams met in 2008, with Clarkson going 2-of-3 at home. In 2017, Clarkson won the semifinal game at home, and in 2020, Princeton won the semifinal game at Cornell University and the quarterfinal series. In the most recent team meeting on Feb. 9 at Baker Rink, Princeton took Clarkson to overtime, scoring on Nicole Gosling's power-play goal midway through the OT period. horse cornia The route to Princeton made 27 stops. In the October 28 regular season meeting at Clarkson, Gosling scored the only goal in the team's 1-0 victory, also on the power play midway through the first period. Cornier made 24 stops and Pasiechnik 15.
About Clarkson: After an 18-3-1 ECAC hockey season, the Golden Knights are 29-3-2 overall, starting with a 1-0 win over Princeton on Feb. 9 at Baker Rink. It ended with four consecutive wins. The Golden Knights lead the nation in penalty kick success rate of 92 percent, scoring defense with 1.06 points allowed per game, team GAA with 1.049 points allowed, and shutouts with 13. Clarkson ranks 6th in total points, 119, 5th in power pay, 28.9 percent conversion percentage, 6th in scoring offense, 3.50 goals per game, 8th in faceoff points, and winning clip It was 55 percent. Nicole Gosling ranks fourth with nine power-play goals and ninth with five game-winning goals, while Michelle Pasiechnik leads the nation with eight shutouts, fifth with a 1.225 GAA and sixth with an .860 winning percentage. It has become.
Statistical Rankings: Princeton has the 7th highest head-to-head finals percentage (.553) in the nation. Sarah Filia They rank first in the nation in goals per game (1.04) and sixth in power play goals (eight). sarah paul They rank ninth in both power-play goals (six) and game-deciding goals (five).
Matchup with top 10: On November 18, 2023, Princeton University defeated then-No. It was No. 6 Cornell University's 16th win against a top 10 team. carla morleyis in his sixth competitive season as the team's head coach. This is Princeton's third in the 2023 calendar year, as the Tigers defeated No. 4 Quinnipiac on Jan. 23 at Baker Rink and No. 3 Colgate in the ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals opener on Feb. 24 in Hamilton. He finished in the top six and won.
What happens next: The winner advances to the top seed in the ECAC hockey single-game semifinals and finals next weekend. His other best-of-three quarterfinals this weekend include (1) Colgate University, (8) Brown University, (3) St. Lawrence University, (6) Yale University, (4) Cornell University, and (5) Quinnipiac University. I will.
