Clarkson is coming of it's 3rd straight weekend split, the Knights will look to gain valuable league points when they host 4th place Colgate and 7th place Cornell. Â
Heading into the weekend, the Knights sit in 3rd place in the ECAC with 24 points. Colgate has 23 league points and currently is in 4th place in the league standings. Cornell has 19 points and sits in 7th place.Â
Cornell's visit to Cheel is often a big game but will carry some extra meaning this year. The Big Red will have a familiar face behind the bench, as former Head Coach, Casey Jones is the Head Coach in waiting for Cornell. Legendary Coach, Mike Schafer is in his final season behind the bench for the Big Red and Jones will assume the Head Coaching duties in full next season. Â
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One of the hottest players in the nation,
Ayrton Martino has 11 goals and 4 assists in his last 8 games.  Martino is 4th in the NCAA and tops in the ECAC for Game Winning goals with 5 on the season. Martino is also 9th in the NCAA for Goals per game (0.63) which is the best in the ECAC.
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The young Knights have made an impact with this team, Jared Mangen leads all rookies on the team in goals with 6 goals and 4 assists for 10 points and
Tate Taylor is tied with Jared for rookie points with 10 on 2 goals and 8 assists.Â
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Ethan Langenegger has been named to the HCA Richter Award Watch List, his GAA of 2.18 is 21st best in the nation and 4th best in the ECAC.  With a good goalie, usually a team has good penalty kill. Clarkson is 6th in the nation for Penalty Kill %, with 87.1%, (68 for 78 attempts) and top in the ECAC.
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The Knights have out shot their opponents in 14 of 24 games this season. They are averaging 28.04 shots while allowing 25.29 shots per game.  The two most shots taken by a player come from the point,
Tristan Sarsland and
Trey Taylor with 65 & 56 shots taken. Both Sarsland and Trey lead the team in shots blocked also with 49 & 48 respectively.
Tonight's game can be streamed on ESPN+ and heard on B99.3FM with Bob Ahlfeld.
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