YALE HOCKEY QUICK FACTS BULLDOGS, RAIDERS IN ECAC SEMI Yale Heads To Atlantic City For Championship Weekend 2010-11 Overall Record: 25-6-1 2010-11 ECAC Hockey: 17-4-1 Home: 17-1-1 Road: 8-5-0 Neutral: 0-0-0 NEW HAVEN, Conn. –The Yale men’s hockey team (25-6-1, 17-4-1 ECAC), coming Athleti cs Director: Tom Beckett Malcolm G. Chace Coach: Keith Allain '80 off a 2-1 ECAC Hockey Quarterfi nal Series win over St. Lawrence last weekend, Career/Yale Record: 97-55-13 (5th Year) heads to Southern New Jersey to compete in Atlantic City’s inaugural conference Back-to-Back ECAC Hockey & Ivy League championship weekend at Boardwalk Hall (9,800). The Bulldogs, ranked No. 1 Regular Season Champs in the PairWise System and No. 3 in the USA Today/American Hockey Magazine and uscho.com polls, take on league giant slayers Colgate (11-26-3), coming off 2010-11 STAT LEADERS successive road series victories at Rensselaer and top-seeded Union. The opening drop of the puck is set for Friday at 4:36 p.m. and can be seen live on CBS College Goals: O’Neill 18 Sports. The winner of this contest takes on the Cornell-Dartmouth (7:36 pm) Goals (Career): Litt le 70 survivor. Assists: Miller 29 Points: Miller, O’Neill 40 PP Goals: O’Neill 9 WATCHING THE GAMES Short-Handed Goals: 6 with 1 Both semifi nal contests and Saturday’s championship game (7:36 pm) air live on GWG: Miller 4 Penalty Minutes: Cahill 60 CBS College Sports (DirecTV 613, Dish Network 152, various cable outlets). Matt Saves: Rondeau 745 Shepard, Dave Starman and Shireen Saski provide the commentary. Saturday’s Games Played (Career): Kearney, Marti n (134) third-place contest will be streamed live on America One. ON THE AIR AT HOME TOURNEY NOTES Streaming Broadcast: Yalebulldogs.com The semifi nals and championship game require 20-minute, sudden death overtimes Audio Only: wybc.com to determine winners after regulation ties. The third-place game would have the standard, fi ve-minute extra session. The title winner earns an automatic berth in YALE SPORTS PUBLICITY the 2011 NCAA Tournament. Director/Hockey Contact: Steve Conn E-Mail: [email protected] YALE IN ECAC PLAYOFFS Phone: (203) 432-1455 The Blue has played 69 ECAC Playoff contests since the fi rst in 1967 and are Fax: (203) 432-1454 20-44-5 overall. Yale, winners of seven of its last 10 conference playoff games, has USPS Mail: Box 208216 won two straight. The longest Eli win streak is four games, which happened during New Haven, CT 06520-8216 the school’s only conference tournament title run in 2009. Yale hosted the ECAC Express Mail: 20 Tower Pkwy New Haven, CT 06520-8216 Quarterfi nals nine times (last 3 years straight) and is 10-7-3 in those games while Ingalls Rink Press Box: (203) 432-0778 advancing to the conference championship weekend fi ve times. The Blue played in Ingalls Rink Main Line: (203) 432-0876 two ECAC championship weekends at the Boston Garden in the 1980s, skated at Athleti cs Website: yalebulldogs.com Lake Placid in 1998 and won the title at Albany in 2009. Stati sti cians: Billy Garfi eld, Kevin Guarino YALE IN DIVISION I Pairwise: 1 (30 pts) Polls: 3rd (uscho.com/USA Today/American Hockey Magazine) Scoring: 4.25 GPG (1st ) Defense: 2.12 GPG (2nd) Penalty Kill: 82.7 (24th) Power Play: 24.4 (4th) Penalty Minutes: 14.7 (17th) Scoring Margin: 2.12 (1st) 2010-11 Yale Men’s Hockey Game Notes THE LAST TIME... A Yale Player…. Scored 5: Gene Scott vs. AIC 3/2/60 Scored 4: Evan Wax vs. UConn 1/25/03 (4-0-4) Scored 3: Brian O’Neill at Clarkson 2/12/11 (3-0-3) ALE Scored a SHG: Charles Brockett at Princeton 2/20/11 (5-4 W) Had 6 Points: Mark Arcobello vs. Boston College 3/28/10 (3-3-6) Scored in OT: Broc Litt le vs. Clarkson 2/20/10 (5-4 W) Scored on Penalty Shot: Broc Litt le vs. Dartmouth 10/30/10 (7-3 W) HOCKEY Had PS Stopped: Broc Litt le 12/30/08 vs. Minnesota State, D.Tormey (3-2 W) Stopped PS: Ryan Rondeau 1/16/11 at Brown (1st p, MacLellan missed wide) Had 5 assists: Bob Brooke vs. Dartmouth 1/26/80 (0-5-5) Had 4 assists: Andrew Miller vs. Union 12/5/10 (0-4-4) Made 60+ saves: Josh Gartner at Dartmouth 3/5/05 (60) Made 50+ saves: Alec Richards at Union 3/4/06 (57) Made 40+ saves: Ryan Rondeau at Princeton 10/31/09 (40) Made 20 saves in a period: Matt Modelski vs. Princeton 2/3/07 (20, 3rd) Recorded a SHO: Ryan Rondeau vs. St. Lawrence 3/13/11 (21 saves) Whistled for 4 penalti es: Jean-Francois Boucher vs. Holy Cross 10/27/06 Goalie with an Assist: Ryan Rondeau at Princeton 2/20/11 A Yale Team … Had 60 SOG: at Union 3/4/06 (61, 5 OT) Had 25 SOG in a period: at Dartmouth 1/9/09 (25, 1st) Had 20 SOG in a period: vs. Sacred Heart vs. St. Lawrence 3/13/11 (20, 2nd) Faced 60 SOG: at Dartmouth 3/5/05 (64) Scored 4+ goals in a period: vs. Holy Cross 1/2/11 (5 in 1st, 4 in 2nd) Scored 5 PPG in a Game: vs. Brown 1/16/10 (8-5 W) Scored 10+ goals in a Game: vs. Holy Cross 1/2/11 (10-3) Allowed 4 PPG in a Game: Brown 10/29/10 (4-for-9) Allowed a hat trick: vs. St. Lawrence (Travis Vermeulen) 2/19/10 (3-1-4) Allowed a SHG: vs. Brown (Harry Zolernierczyk) 1/15/11 Won in OT: vs. Clarkson (Broc Litt le) 2/20/10 Lost in OT: vs. St. Lawrence 3/11/11 (4-3) Denny Kearney Played in a Shootout: at Wisconsin 1/3/10 (2-1 Wisconsin) 2010-11 AWARDS ECAC Hockey MLX Skates Player of the Week Denny Kearney, Nov. 2 (4-4-8 vs. Brown/Princeton) Broc Litt le, Nov. 22 (2-1-3 at Cornell/Colgate); March 14 (2-5-7 in SLU playoff series) Chris Cahill, Dec. 6 (3-1-4 vs. RPI/Union) ECAC Hockey MLX Skates Goalie of the Week Ryan Rondeau, Dec. 6, Jan. 10, Feb. 7 ECAC Hockey MLX Skates Rookie of the Week Kenny Agosti no, Jan. 25 (3 goals vs. Clarkson/SLU) All-Ivy League 1st Team: Broc Litt le, Andrew Miller 2nd Team: Jimmy Marti n, Ryan Rondeau, Chris Cahill HM: Brian O’Neill Hockey Commissioner’s Associati on Rookie of Month Kenny Agosti no (Jan.) Broc Little Two-Time Defending ECAC Hockey and Ivy League Regular-Season Champions VS. COLGATE The Raiders hold a 45-38-5 advantage in a series with Yale that began in 1916-17, though the Elis are 5-1-2 in the last eight games. Colgate has had the upper hand in the playoffs with a 6-1 mark against the Blue in ECAC post-season games. This is the fi rst meeting during the conference championship weekend. THIS YEAR VS. RAIDERS GAME 1: Yale beat Colgate 6-4 at Starr Rink on Nov. 20. Antoine Laganiere had a goal and three points while Kenny Agostino, Andrew Miller and Jesse Root each had a goal and one assist. The Elis had a slight (34-33) advantage in shots, but got 29 saves and some big plays from senior Ryan Rondeau. He needed 14 of those stops in the fi nal period to keep the Raiders from making a comeback. Colgate, which dominated on the dots with a 46-28 advantage on faceoffs, got 28 saves from Eric Mihalik, making his second start of the year. GAME 2: Yale outshot Colgate 40-32 but had to settle for a 1-1 tie before a sold-out Ingalls Rink on Feb. 25. This was a classic battle of veteran vs. newcomer in the nets. Yale senior Ryan Rondeau stopped 31 shots and stood on his head at times to keep the Elis unbeaten at home. Eric Mihalik, a freshman, turned aside 39 shots, including 22 over the third period and overtime combined. Both goals came in the second off the sticks of Yale’s Andrew Miller and Austin Mayer of Colgate. The teams were blanked on a combined seven power plays. DOG GATE Andrew Miller has two goals against Colgate this season and three overall, but he is not the active scoring leader against the Raiders; Broc Little is with four. Brian O’Neill and Kevin Limbert each have a pair. Ryan Rondeau is 1-1 against the guys from Hamilton with three games started. The senior goalie got the starting nod (but did not fi nish) in the 5-4 OT win at Starr Rink in 2008-09 when the Elis erased a 4-0 third-period defi cit. OTHER MATCHUPS Yale and Dartmouth have met 197 times since 1907 with Yale leading 102-84-12. The Bulldogs swept the series last year and have taken the last six straight, including three this season. Cornell and Elis have played since the turn of the 20th century and Cornell has a 75-57-5 lead. Yale, however, has taken the last seven straight. IMPROVING ONE GAME AT A TIME The penalty minutes (18, 32, 56) increased each night of the three-game series against St.