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Men's Hockey February 14, 2017

Clarkson Hockey Plays Final RS Games at Cheel Arena

photo (l-r): Steve Perry, Perry D'Arrisso, Troy Josephs, James de Haas, Jordan Boucher, A.J. Fossen, Ville Runola

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With the final home games of the regular season this weekend, the Clarkson University Hockey team will look to make the most of the familiar surroundings at Cheel Arena in a bid for one last push toward a top four showing in the ECAC Hockey standings. The Golden Knights host Central NY rivals Colgate and Cornell. Friday's game against the Raiders is an 8:30 p.m. start and will be televised live by American Sports Network (ASN).  Clarkson will celebrate Senior Day on Saturday when the Green and Gold host the Big Red in a 7:00 p.m. face off.

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Guided by sixth-year head coach Casey Jones and assistants Phil Roy '00 and Josh Hauge, Clarkson stands at .500 overall and in the league at 13-13-4 and 8-8-2. With four games remaining the Knights are in sixth place in the 12-team conference, seven points out of fourth. Clarkson, which needs to win out and get some help on the out-of-town scoreboard to secure a top-four finish, closes out the regular season at Harvard and Dartmouth on February 24-25.

2016-17 ECAC Hockey Standings

This past weekend in their longest ECAC Hockey road trip of the season, the Green and Gold skated to another impressive win against a Top-20 foe, but followed it up with a tough loss to a team below them in the standings. On Friday, in Hamden, CT, the Knights won for the first time in over seven years at High Points Solutions Arena, skating past 19th-ranked Quinnipiac 4-2.  On Saturday, Clarkson lost for the third straight time at Hobey Baker Rink in New Jersey as Princeton overcame a 2-0 second-period deficit to gain a 3-2 overtime victory.

• Clarkson will honor the four-year veterans during Senior Night on Saturday. Clarkson's Class of 2017 – Jordan Boucher, Perry D'Arrisso, James de Haas, A.J. Fossen, Troy Josephs, Steve Perry and Ville Runola - will make their final regular-season appearance before the home crowd. Over their four-year careers, the Knights' seniors compiled 66 wins entering the weekend and helped Clarkson gain recognition in the national polls this season along with earning the program's first in-season tournament championship since 2007 with the title of Notre Dame's Shillelagh Tournament in November. The seniors have skated to two conference playoff series triumph and are on the verge of leading the Green and Gold to a fourth straight home-ice berth in postseason play.
• Clarkson has five wins and a pair of ties against Top 20 teams this year.
• Four of Clarkson's eight league losses have come to teams below the Knights in the ECAC Hockey standings.
• Clarkson leads Colgate in their all-time series, which began during the 1927-28 campaign, 82-52-17.  The Raiders, however, are 6-2-2 in the last 10 meetings of the rivalry with all of those games being decided by one goal-or-less, including three in overtime.
• Cornell is the Knights' oldest current rival having first played during the 1922-23 campaign. The Big Red lead the rivalry against 64-53-15. Cornell holds a 6-3-1 advantage in the last 10 meetings, but the Green and Gold are on a two-game unbeaten streak (1-0-1).
• The Knights are averaging 3.06 Goals Per Game (22nd in Division I), the best GPG average at Clarkson since the 2006-07 season (3.48 GPG).
• Junior Sam Vigneault paces the Clarkson offense with a team-high 29 points, including 21 assists, the most points and assists by a Clarkson player over the past three years. Vigneault has tallied five points (1-4) over the past three games. He shares the team lead in plus/minus at +9. Vigneault leads all current Knights in career points with 68 (26-42) through 97 games.
• Senior Troy Josephs has scored a team-high 11 goals and is tied for third in Clarkson scoring with 19 points. The Pittsburgh Penguins draft choice also has a plus/minus rating of +9 and leads the team in game-winners with three.
• Three of Clarkson's four goals in Friday's win at Quinnipiac came from the defensemen.
• Sophomore defenseman Aaron Thow posted his first career multiple-point game with the Knights' opening score and the primary assist on Clarkson's second goal in the 4-2 win at Quinnipiac. He followed with a pair of assists in Saturday's game at Princeton.  Thow has nine points (2-7) in 26 games. 
• Senior defenseman, captain James de Haas leads the Green and Gold in scoring from the blueline with 15 points on five goals and 10 assists in 28 games.  The Detroit Red Wings draft choice tallied his second game-winning goal of the season in Friday's win. He leads the team in power-play markers with four.  de Haas has been selected as one of 15 top NCAA men's ice hockey student-athletes who excels both on and off the ice, and is a candidate for the 2016-17 Senior CLASS Award® in collegiate hockey. 
• Freshman Greg Moro enjoyed a solid effort on the blueline to help Clarkson gain a weekend split on the road. He scored his second career goal in the win at Quinnipiac and recorded an assist at Princeton. He has nine points (2-7) in his rookie campaign along with a +7 plus/minus rating.
• Despite not having any players among the top 26 in the country for points per game by a freshman, Clarkson's Class of 2020 is one of the most productive groups in the country.   The Knights' freshmen lead ECAC Hockey rookies in scoring and are seventh overall in the NCAA, averaging 2.63 points per game.  The Knights' seven rookie skaters, and Kielly (one assist) have accounted for 33% of Clarkson's offense with 79 points on 30 goals and 49 assists. 
• Nico Sturm leads the Clarkson rookies in points and is tied for third overall with 19 (8-11). He is followed closely behind by Sheldon Rempal (7-11) and Devin Brosseau (6-12) with 18 points apiece. 
• The Knights have cooled off on the power-play, going 0-of-12 over the past three games.
Clarkson had scored at least one power-play goal in each of the first seven games in 2017. Overall, Clarkson is tied for 31st in the nation on the power play at 18.3% (26-142). 
• Freshman goaltender Jake Kielly has started 27 of Clarkson's 30 games, including the last 20. He posts a .913 save percentage and a 2.66 goals against average. He made a career-high 45 saves in the overtime loss at Princeton.
• Clarkson is 5-8-1 at Cheel Arena, 7-5-2 in road games and 1-0-1 on neutral ice.
• Clarkson is 3-6-4 in games decided by one-goal-or-less, and 0-1-3 in overtime.
• The Knights have gone 4-5-1 in the New Year.
• The Knights have not won a game this year when trailing after two periods, going 0-7-1.
• Clarkson was ranked 15th among the Top 25 College Hockey Programs of All Time by HERO Sports - http://herosports.com/

Scouting Colgate
Riding a modest two-game winning streak the Raiders of Colgate are challenging for a top eight finish in the ECAC Hockey standings. Guided by 24th-year head coach Don Vaughan, Colgate is tied for ninth in the conference, along with Dartmouth, with a 6-10-2 league record one point out of the eighth and final home-ice spot for the upcoming conference first-round series. Overall, the Raiders stand at 8-17-5. This past weekend in Hamilton, Colgate edged Brown 2-1 on Saturday and knocked off Yale 4-2 on Sunday.  The Raiders are 2-10-2 on opponents' home ice. Their last road win was a 3-2 victory at Arizona State on December 3. The Raiders' only conference road win came on November 11 at Yale, 4-1.
Bobby McMann (5-13) and Jake Kulevich (4-14) pace the Colgate offense with 18 points each. Charlie Finn has seen the bulk of the action in the Raiders' crease and posts a .904 save percentage and a 3.08 goals against average en route to a 6-12-4 record. 

Scouting Cornell
Guided by 22nd-year head coach Mike Schafer, Cornell enters the North Country riding a five-game unbeaten streak (4-0-1) prior to Friday's game at St. Lawrence. The Big Red have their sites on first place in the conference, currently tied for third, two points shy of the top spot. Ranked 12/13th in the national polls, Cornell stands at 16-6-3 overall and 11-4-3 in ECAC Hockey. The Big Red skated to a 2-2 tie with Yale at Lynah Rink on Saturday before defeating Brown 5-3 on Sunday.  Cornell has only lost twice on opponents' home ice this season (3-2 at Merrimack and 4-3 at Harvard) with an 8-2-1 road record. Mitch Vanderlaan leads Cornell in scoring with 20 points on 10 goals and 10 assists. Mitch Gillam is the Big Red's go-to guy in goal with a .917 save percentage and a 2.16 goals against average through 24 starts.

The Series:
Clarkson leads the Raiders in their all-time series, which began during the 1927-28 campaign, 82-52-17.  Colgate, however, is 6-2-2 in the last 10 meetings of the rivalry with all of those games being decided by one goal-or-less, including three overtime contests. Clarkson broke out of a seven-game winless (0-5-2) drought against the Raiders with a 2-1 victory in Potsdam last January 30, but Colgate rallied for a 3-2 win in Hamilton on January 21 in their last meeting.
Clarkson and Colgate are tied 11-11-8 in games played at Cheel Arena. The Raiders' last win in Potsdam was a 2-1 victory on January 9, 2015.
   Sam Vigneault has a team-high three points in the series with one goal and two assists. James de Haas (1-1) and A.J. Fossen (0-2) are the only other Knights with multiple points against Colgate. Jake Kielly made 21 saves on 24 shots in the first meeting this season against the Raiders. Steve Perry owns a .914 save percentage, a 2.28 GAA and a 0-1 mark, while Ville Runola holds a .900 save percentage, a 2.31 GAA and a 0-1-1 mark in two games against Colgate.

Cornell is the Knights' oldest current rival having first played during the 1922-23 campaign with the teams battling to a 0-0 tie in Ithaca. The Big Red lead the rivalry against the Knights 64-53-15. Cornell holds a 6-3-1 advantage in the last 10 meetings, but the Green and Gold are on a two-game unbeaten streak after tying the Big Red 3-3 in Ithaca on January 20 and defeating Cornell 2-1 in overtime in Potsdam last year on January 29. The overtime win at Cheel Arena last year snapped a four-game losing skid in the series for Clarkson. Cornell's last win was a 5-2 victory at Lynah Rink on December 5, 2015. The Knights are 13-8-6 against the Big Red at Cheel. Cornell's last win in Potsdam was a 2-0 triumph on January 10, 2015.
   Jordan Boucher is the Knights' leading scorer against Cornell with three goals and three assists. James de Haas has tallied two goals and three assists against the Big Red. Terrance Amorosa, Brett Gervais and Sam Vigneault are the only other current Knights to have scored a goal against Cornell. Jake Kielly turned aside 28 of 31 shots in the tie game earlier this season in his first action against Cornell. In four games, Steve Perry holds a .946 save percentage, a 1.42 GAA and a 1-3 record against the Big Red. Ville Runola has started one game in the series and holds a .895 save percentage, a 2.07 GAA and a 0-1 mark.
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Players Mentioned

Terrance Amorosa

#44 Terrance Amorosa

D
6' 2"
Junior
Jordan Boucher

#28 Jordan Boucher

F
6' 0"
Senior
Perry D

#8 Perry D'Arrisso

F
5' 10"
Senior
James de Haas

#2 James de Haas

D
6' 3"
Senior
A.J. Fossen

#26 A.J. Fossen

F
5' 9"
Senior
Brett Gervais

#19 Brett Gervais

F
5' 10"
Junior
Troy Josephs

#16 Troy Josephs

F
6' 0"
Senior
Steve Perry

#1 Steve Perry

G
5' 10"
Senior
Ville Runola

#34 Ville Runola

G
6' 0"
Senior
Aaron Thow

#13 Aaron Thow

D
6' 1"
Sophomore
Sam Vigneault

#21 Sam Vigneault

F
6' 5"
Junior
Greg Moro

#3 Greg Moro

D
6' 4"
Freshman

Players Mentioned

Terrance Amorosa

#44 Terrance Amorosa

6' 2"
Junior
D
Jordan Boucher

#28 Jordan Boucher

6' 0"
Senior
F
Perry D

#8 Perry D'Arrisso

5' 10"
Senior
F
James de Haas

#2 James de Haas

6' 3"
Senior
D
A.J. Fossen

#26 A.J. Fossen

5' 9"
Senior
F
Brett Gervais

#19 Brett Gervais

5' 10"
Junior
F
Troy Josephs

#16 Troy Josephs

6' 0"
Senior
F
Steve Perry

#1 Steve Perry

5' 10"
Senior
G
Ville Runola

#34 Ville Runola

6' 0"
Senior
G
Aaron Thow

#13 Aaron Thow

6' 1"
Sophomore
D
Sam Vigneault

#21 Sam Vigneault

6' 5"
Junior
F
Greg Moro

#3 Greg Moro

6' 4"
Freshman
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