No. 5/5 QU Women's Ice Hockey Faces Brown and Yale in Weekend Series at High Point Solutions Arena
1/8/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Ice Hockey
No. 5/5 QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY BOBCATS (16-1-3, 9-1-2 ECAC Hockey) vs.
BROWN UNIVERSITY BEARS (4-11-0, 1-7-0 ECAC Hockey)
Date: Jan. 9, 2015
Time: 3:00 P.M.
Location: High Point Solutions Arena - Hamden, Connecticut
- QU Women's Ice Hockey Game Notes
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No. 5/5 QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY BOBCATS (16-1-3, 9-1-2 ECAC Hockey) vs.
YALE UNIVERSITY BULLDOGS (7-7-1, 4-4-0 ECAC Hockey)
Date: Jan. 10, 2015
Time: 3:00 P.M.
Location: High Point Solutions Arena - Hamden, Connecticut
- QU Women's Ice Hockey Game Notes
- Yale Women's Ice Hockey Homepage
- Live Video: Quinnipiac vs. Yale
- Live Stats: Quinnipiac vs. Yale
- Live Twitter: @QUAthletics; @QU_WomensIceHky
The No. 5/5 Quinnipiac women's ice hockey team welcomes the Brown Bears and Yale Bulldogs to High Point Solutions Arena for the first home weekend series of 2015. The Bobcats will face the Bears on Friday, Jan. 9 at 3 P.M. and the Bulldogs on Saturday, Jan. 10, also at 3 P.M.
All-Time Against the Bears
The Bobcats own the all-time series with the Brown Bears, owning a career record of 11-6-3 against their neighbors from Rhode Island. Currently, the Bobcats are unbeaten against the Bears in their last 10 meetings, including a five-game winning streak dating back to Dec. 2, 2011. In the span of that winning streak, the Bobcats have allowed just one goal to the Bears. Quinnipiac swept last season's meetings with the Bears with 3-1 and 5-0 victories. Kelly Babstock, Emma Woods and Amanda Colin all scored for the Bobcats in their 3-1 victory in Providence, Rhode Island on Nov. 8, 2013. Nicole Connery recorded two assists in the win and Chelsea Laden earned the win, recording seven saves before giving way to Sydney Rossman. In Hamden on Senior Day, Morgan Fritz-Ward scored a pair of goals while Babstock, Woods and Meghan Turner each added goals in the 5-0 win. Amanda Colin picked up two assists in the win while Rossman recorded 18 saves and Ashley Winslow got some playing time between the pipes, earning a save.
Scouting the Bears
It's been a tough start to the season for the Brown Bears, who are 4-11-0 with a 1-7-0 conference record. The Bears are currently riding a five game losing streak. The Bears fell to Providence on Nov. 29 before getting swept by Rensselaer and Union on the road to close out the first half of the season. Opening up 2015 was not much different for Brown, as it was swept at home against Dartmouth and Harvard, only managing one goal in the weekend. Brown's lone conference victory came over the St. Lawrence Saints in a 7-4 win on Nov. 1. The Bears are led offensively by Kaitlyn Keon who's scored eight goals and six assists for a team-high 14 points. Sam Donovan is the second highest goal scorer with seven goals and two assists while Sarah Robson leads the team in assists with eight, while chipping in four goals as well. The Bears have scored 39 goals in 15 games, good for an average of 2.59. They have only been shutout in a game once this season, a 6-0 loss to Harvard. Defensively, the Bears have struggled tremendously allowed 62 goals. In 11 of the teams 15 games, they have allowed at least four goals. Only once have the Bears held an opponent to one goal, a 2-1 win over Providence. Monica Elvin is the main goaltender for the Bears, coming into the weekend with a 4-6-0 record, a 3.37 GAA and an .898 save percentage. Elvin has allowed 37 goals in 658:56 between the pipes. The power play has been very effective for the Bears, converting 23.8 percent of their man advantage opportunities, the fifth best percentage in the country. They have scored 15 power play goals in 63 chances. The penalty kill has been decent as well, killing off 84.6 percent of penalties, only allowing eight power play goals. Brown has yet to record a victory on the road, starting off the season 0-6-0 so far.
All-Time Against the Bulldogs
Quinnipiac just barely trails Yale in their all-time meetings with a record of 10-13-6. The Bobcats are also unbeaten in their last eight meetings with the Bulldogs since 2011, with a record of 5-0-3 in that span. The two schools separated by just 10 miles have already met once already this season in the first round of the Nutmeg Classic Tournament with the Bobcats advancing past the Bulldogs 5-2. Quinnipiac jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first two periods with goals from Meghan Turner, Emma Woods and Morgan Fritz-Ward. Yale answered back with a goal from Stephanie Mock before Erica Uden Johansson extended Quinnipiac's lead back to three. Phoebe Staenz added a goal to cut Quinnipiac's lead to 4-2 before Nicole Kosta added an empty-netter late in the game to bring the lead to three once again. Chelsea Laden recorded 16 saves to help advance Quinnipiac to the Nutmeg Classic Championship.
Scouting the Bulldogs
The Bulldogs saw a three game-winning streak come to a close this past Saturday after a 3-1 loss to Harvard on Jan. 3. Yale comes into the weekend with a 7-7-1 over record and 4-4-0 record in ECAC play, finding themselves seventh in the conference standings. Offensively, things have gone very well for the Bulldogs so far this season. Helped by a 13-0 rout of Sacred Heart, the Bulldogs are averaging 3.31 goals per game, scoring 50 goals in 15 games. Jamie Haddad leads the team with six goals and eight assists for 14 points. Two other Bulldogs have scored six goals this season, as Krista Yip-Chuck and Stephanie Mock have been vital to the offense. Phoebe Staenz has played very well for the Bulldogs, dishing out a team-high 10 assists while adding two goals as well. Jaimie Leonoff has seen the majority of the action between the pipes, posting a 6-6-1 record in 13 games played. She has a GAA of 2.58 and a .919 save percentage so far this season, allowing 33 goals in 767:05. Leonoff allowed four goals against the Bobcats back on Nov. 28 in Storrs, Conn. The power play has been very effective for the Bulldogs, scoring on 21.7 percent of opportunities, totaling 13 goals in 60 chances for the eighth best power play in the country. Yale has allowed 10 power play goals while on the penalty kill, but have killed off 51 other opportunities for an 83.6 percent. The Bulldogs have also added four shorthanded goals while on the penalty kill.
Multimedia
Both games this weekend will be featured on QuinnipiacBobcats.com by clicking the video link on the schedule. Nolan Rich will be on the call for both games. There will also be live stats available at QuinnipiacBobcats.com.
Last Time Out
The Bobcats continued their strong play to open up the 2015 calendar year by winning their third straight game with a 3-1 victory over the Princeton Tigers. Lindsey West scored the Bobcats first goal of the game before Emma Woods banged home what would go down as the game-winning goal. With just under seven minute left in the third period, Molly Contini snapped Chelsea Laden's shutout streak which was at 186:23, dating back to the last goal she allowed at Harvard on Dec. 6. Shiann Darkangelo added an empty-net goal with 32 seconds remaining in the game to give Quinnipiac its 3-1 victory. Chelsea Laden turned away 13 of the 14 shots she faced to pick up her 16th victory of the season.
ECAC Weekly Awards
Taylar Cianfarano earned her third ECAC Hockey Women's Rookie of the Week Award on Tuesday, Jan. 6 as announced by the league office. Cianfarano scored her fifth game-winning goal of the season against Rensselaer on Jan. 3, tying her for the most in the country with Minnesota's Dani Cameranesi. It was also her team-leading ninth goal of the season.
Most In Conference
With Cianfarano's ECAC Hockey Women's Rookie of the Week Award, it was the eighth weekly award the Bobcats have won this season, giving them the most in the ECAC. The next close team to the Bobcats is St. Lawrence, who checks in with five players winning ECAC weekly awards.
National Polls
Quinnipiac remains ranked in the Top Five of the USCHO.com Division I Women's Poll and the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine for the ninth straight week after being ranked No. 5 in the first polls of 2015. It is the third straight week the Bobcats have been ranked No. 5 in each poll as well. The Bobcats are the highest ranked ECAC Women's Hockey team once again, with Harvard hot on their heels at No. 6, Clarkson at No. 8 and Cornell breaking back into the Top 10 at No. 10 in the USCHO poll while Harvard and Clarkson are the only other ECAC teams ranked in the USA Today poll, at No. 6 and No. 8 respectively.
Leading the Charge
Quinnipiac University is the only school in the country to have both of its ice hockey teams in first place in their conference standings, as both the men's and women's ice hockey teams are first in ECAC Hockey. The women's ice hockey team is currently in first place over Harvard, leading 20 points to 15 points with a 9-1-2 conference record. The men's ice hockey team leads Harvard in the men's standings as well, with a 16-14 points advantage due to an 8-2-0 conference record going into the weekend.
Heading Up North
Associate Head Coach Cassandra Turner is in Buffalo, New York for the week, serving as the Head Coach of the Canadian U-18 Team at the IIHF U-18 World Women's Championships. Turner is in her fifth season with Hockey Canada and first as a head coach. Heading into Thursday's games, the Canadians were in second place in Group A with a 1-1 record. Canada defeated Russia 3-2 after losing to the United States in a shootout, 2-1. Class of 2019 recruit Melissa Samoskevich scored for the United States against the Czech Republic on Tuesday for her first goal of the tournament as the United States is 2-0 in the preliminary round so far.
Balanced Attack
Quinnipiac's offensive output this season has been spread out amongst the top three lines, providing a balanced attack that teams have had trouble dealing with. The Darkangelo-Kosta-Uden Johansson line has scored 18 goals, racked up 26 assists for a total of 44 points. The second line of Connery-Cianfarano-Fritz-Ward has scored the most goals so far this season, with 19 goals and 25 assists for 44 total points. The third line for the Bobcats of Brown-Woods-Turner has kept the attack balanced, posting 14 goals and 16 assists for 30 points. As a team, the Bobcats have scored 58 goals in 19 games.
We're Talkin' Bout Defense
The Bobcats are the No. 1 defense in the country and that proved true this weekend against Union and Rensselaer. Quinnipiac has given up just 16 goals in 20 games, good for a 0.80 goals per game average. Teams have managed just 288 shots in 20 games, an average of 14.4 per game. In the third period against Union, the Bobcats did not allow a single shot attempt and held the Dutchwomen to a season-low four shots, the fewest allowed in a game in program history. The previous low was six shots allowed against Southern Maine on Nov. 21, 2003.
The Iron Laden
It was a historic weekend for Chelsea Laden, as she tied and broke the Quinnipiac single-season record for shutouts. Laden needed just four saves in a 4-0 shutout of Union to tie the record of nine shutouts in a season, set by former goaltender Victoria Vigilanti in the 2010-11 season. The following night, Laden broke the record with an eight save shutout of Rensselaer, as she recorded her 10th shutout of the season. Laden's previous single-season high was eight shutouts, set in the 2013-14 season.
Double Trouble
Shiann Darkangelo recorded the ninth multi-goal game of her career against Union, when she scored two goals against the Dutchwomen in a 4-0 shutout. It was Darkangelo's first multi-goal game of the season and her second multi-point game. Darkangelo now sits just six points shy of 100 for her career, as she got her 94th point against Princeton on Tuesday, Darkangelo now has 53 goals to her name in her collegiate career.
TT For the Win
Taylar Cianfarano got back in the goal column Saturday afternoon at Rensselaer as she scored the only goal in a 1-0 victory over the Engineers. The goal was Cianfarano's team-leading ninth goal of the season, as she moved into a tie for the national lead among rookies for goals with Wisconsin's Annie Pankowski and St. Lawrence's Kennedy Marchment. It was also Cianfarano's fifth game-winning goal of the season, propelling her back into a tie for the national lead with Minnesota's Dani Cameranesi.
Top of the Blue Line
Cydney Roesler continues to be the most offensively productive defenseman this season as she tallied her second two-point game of the season. Roesler scored a goal and assisted Shiann Darkangelo's power play goal in the 4-0 victory over Union. Roesler now has five goals and four assists for nine points from the blue line. Roesler also leads the team in blocked shots with 32.
Born in the USA
Shiann Darkangelo and Chelsea Laden were both invited to the USA Women's Hockey Winter Training Camp from Dec. 27-31 in Blaine, Minnesota to train with the National Team. 14 members of the Olympic silver-medalist squad were also invited to the camp. For Darkangelo, it is just the latest chapter in a journey with the USA women's national team while Laden has been invited to her second training camp in the calendar year.
