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Clarkson Closes Out 7-Game Road Trip in Western NY

11/29/2017 1:44:00 PM

Winners of eight straight and coming off a highly memorable trip to Northern Ireland for the Friendship Four tournament, the Clarkson University Hockey team rates as one of the hottest teams in the country. Guided by seventh-year Head Coach Casey Jones and assistants Phil Roy '00 and Josh Hauge, the Golden Knights are ranked 3rd/4th in the national polls and stand at 12-3-1 overall. Clarkson holds down first place in the ECAC Hockey standings with a perfect 6-0-0 league mark.

For the second straight year the Green and Gold won a Thanksgiving Holiday Tournament by claiming the championship of the Friendship Four played in Belfast. The Knights shut out RPI for the second time this season, blanking the Engineers 2-0 in first-round action at the SSE Arena on Friday. The following day Clarkson skated past 10th-ranked Providence 4-2 to become the first ECAC Hockey program to ring the Belpot Trophy in the three-year history of the tournament.

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• Canisius is one of the few NCAA teams Clarkson has never defeated, going 0-1-3 against the Golden Griffins. The first four games in the series were all played in Potsdam. The teams last played during the 2012-13 season, skating to a pair of ties at Cheel Arena (3-3, 2-2). 
• Clarkson boasts the number-one ranked defense in the nation, allowing only 1.44 goals per game. The Knights have outscored their opponents 51-23 through the first 16 games, and 33-10 during the current eight-game winning streak.
• Offensively, the Green and Gold are averaging 3.19 goals per game, good for 17th best in Division I. The Knights have averaged 4.13 goals per game during the current win streak.
• A big part of Clarkson's success has been the productivity of the special teams. The Knights boast the best combined specialty teams play in the country at 60.3 percent (88-146). 
• Clarkson's power play is second in the NCAA, clicking at 29.4% (20-68). The Knights have scored at least one power-play goal in each of the last eight games, and 15 total during that span. The Green and Gold have tallied at least two man-advantage goals in five of those games, including a pair of three power-play goal outings. The Knights were a combined 2-9 (22%) at the Friendship Four.
• The Knights' penalty kill is rated 10th in the nation, killing off 87.2% of opponents power-play chances (68-78). Clarkson has not allowed a power-play goal over the past three games, killing off all 11 opponent's man-advantage chances during that span.
• Clarkson's current eight-game winning streak is the Knights' longest stretch of victories since stringing 13 together late in the 1998-99 campaign.
• After a standout freshman season when he was named ECAC Hockey's All-Rookie Goaltender, Jake Kielly has been even better to start his sophomore campaign. Playing every minute in the Clarkson crease, Kielly lists among the top goaltenders in the country in several categories. Kielly is first in Division I in goals against average (1.44), tied for second in save percentage (.947) and leads the nation in shutouts with five, two more than any other Division I goaltender. Kielly has started 51 career games for the Knights, including the past 21, and holds a career .922 save percentage and a 2.21 GAA. In his first two seasons, Kielly has gone 12-0-2 in the Clarkson crease during the month of November. Named NCAA First Star of the Week for his efforts in Belfast, Kielly was also Tournament MVP at the Friendship Four after blanking RPI with 22 saves and backstopping Clarkson to the tournment championship victory with 20 saves in the 4-2 win over Providence. He has been named as one of the 20 goaltenders on the Mike Richter Award list for 2017-18, which honors the most outstanding goaltender in NCAA Division I Hockey. Kielly was named ECAC Hockey co-Goaltender of the Month for October. 
• Clarkson's Sophomore Line centered by Nico Sturm with right wing Sheldon Rempal and left wing Devin Brosseau is accounting for 32% of the Knights' scoring. 
• Tied for the overall scoring lead in ECAC Hockey,  Rempal has 19 points on the season, recording a team-high 11 goals to go along with eight assists.  He is ninth in the NCAA in goals per game (.69). Rempal has twice been named ECAC Hockey Player of the Week.
• Brosseau is the Knights' second-leading scorer with 15 points and shares the team lead in assists with 11. He was named Clarkson's Star of the Game in the win over Providence in the championship of the Friendship Four, after scoring a power-play goal and recording an assist on the game-winner. He is tied for the Clarkson lead in power-play tallies with four and plus/minus at +10.
• Sturm adds 11 points (3-8) to round out one of the top lines in college hockey. He connected for the game-winner against the Friars in Belfast. Clarkson's top center at the faceoff circle, he has won 62% (172-104) of his draws. Sturm shares the Knights' plus/minus lead (+10) with Brosseau.
• Clarkson's Freshman Line centered by Josh Dickinson with right wing Jack Jacome and left wing Kevin Charyszyn has emerged as another hilghly productive line for the Green and Gold, accounting for 22% of the Knights' scoring (13-18-31). The trio has accounted for 12 goals and 17 assists during the current eight-game winning streak. 
• Linemates in juniors last year with the Georgetown Raiders, Jacome and Dickinson, were two of the NCAA's hottest forwards in November, raking up 12  and 11 points, respectively during the month.
• The second leading overall freshman scorer in ECAC Hockey, Jacome has tallied 13 points in 14 games and shares the team lead in assists with 11. 
• Dickinson has emerged as one of the top goal scorers in the nation with nine tallies in the last eight games. He its tied for the Division I lead in goals for rookies. Dickinson recorded his third two-goal outing of the season with both scores in the 2-0 victory over RPI in first-round action at the Friendship Four. He has 12 points (9-3) on the year and shares the team lead in power-play markers (4). 
• Charyszyn has tallied six points (2-4) this season, all coming in the last six games. He set up both goals in Friday's win over RPI and scored Clarkson's second goal in the championship victory over Providence.
• Clarkson is 9-0 when leading after the first period and 12-0 when holding the lead through 40 minutes. 
• The Knights are 12-0-1 when scoring more than one goal, and 11-0-1 when connecting for a power-play goal.
• Senior blueline partners and NHL Draft choices Terrance Amorosa and Kelly Summers are two of the top defensemen in the league.  Amorosa, a Philadelphia Flyers draft choice, is Clarkson's third-leading scorer with 14 points (4-10) and shares the team lead in power-play goals (4).  An Ottawa Senators draft pick, Summers has two goals and eight assists and leads the Knights in blocked shots with 27. 
• Sophomore Haralds Egle adds another resource to the Knights' offense.  After missing the first 10 games recovering from an injury, Egle scored early in the opening period at Brown (11/10) in his first game back in the lineup, and has three assists in the last four games.
• Freshman Grant Cooper had a big night in the Friendship Four championship game, scoring his second goal of the season for the Knights' fourth score and blocking three shots on one shift and six for the games.
• Captain Nic Pierog is the first Golden Knight to wear the #6 jersey since the late Mike Morrison '89 wore it in his senior campaign of 1988-89.  Pierog has three goals and two assists.
• Senior Brett Gervais serves as an assistant captain along with Devin Brosseau. Gervais also has five points on the year with two goals and three assists.
• Nine different Golden Knights have scored game-winning goals this season, led by Rempal, Sturm and freshman defenseman Jere Astren with two each.
• The Knights have scored the opening goal in 11 of the 16 games this season and are 9-1 when doing so.
• Clarkson is ranked third and fourth in the USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey magazine polls, respectively. The programs highest rankings since also being ranked third in the USCHO.com poll on March19, 2007.
• After many years of futility Clarkson is on a roll in in-season tournaments having won two consecutive Thanksgiving affairs. The Knights won Notre Dame's Shillelagh Tournament last year, tying Yale 2-2 (advancing in a shootout win) and defeating the Fighting Irish 2-0 to claim its first in-season tournament title since 2006.
• Picked to finish fourth in ECAC Hockey this year by the league coaches, the Knights are 6-0-0 in the conference for the first time since the 1991-92 campaign. Clarkson returns to league action on December 8-9 with a home-and-home series against archrival St. Lawrence.  
• Clarkson began its 57th season of ECAC Hockey play this year. Entering the 2017-18 campaign, the Knights boasted a 677-380-94 league record for a .629 winning percentage since the conference was formed in 1961-62.  Clarkson has won 10 regular-season titles, the last coming in 2007-08, and five conference tournament crowns, the last coming in 2007.
• In its 96th season, Clarkson boasts 72 winning campaigns and a 1,425-854-155 all-time record for a .617 winning % since 1920-21.

Scouting Canisius:
The Golden Griffins rate right up there with Clarkson as one of the hottest teams in the nation having won five straight for the fourth longest current winning streak in the NCAA. Canisius, under first-year head coach Trevor Large, owns an 8-4-1 overall record and holds down first place in Atlantic Hockey with an 8-4 conference mark. The Griffins swept Army in West Point over the weekend, winning 4-3 in overtime and 3-2. Canisius' last loss was a 4-3 overtime setback at Mercyhurst on November 10. Canisius is 4-2-1 at the Harbor Center. In its lone non-league game of the season, the Griffins tied Colgate 3-3 in Western New York on October 21.

Clarkson is still looking for its first win against Canisius, having gone 0-1-3 in the first four meetings. The teams last played each other on November 3-4, 2012 in Western New York with the Golden Griffins and Knights skating to 3-3 and 2-2 ties. The series start in late November of 2008 at Cheel Arena with Canisius skating to a 4-3 overtime victory and a 4-4 tie at Cheel Arena.
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