No. 10/10 QU Women's Ice Hockey Hosts Brown on Friday, Yale on Saturday (SNY)

No. 10/10 Quinnipiac Bobcats (16-7-5, 9-5-2 ECAC Hockey) vs. Brown Bears (5-18-0, 3-13-0 ECAC Hockey)
Date: Friday, Feb. 3, 2017 (6 p.m.)
Location: High Point Solutions Arena | Hamden, CT
All-Time Series vs. Brown: 16-6-3
Home vs. Brown: 7-3-2
Last Meeting: W, 8-0 (Oct. 29, 2016)
Head Coach Cassie Turner vs. Brown: 3-0-0

No. 10/10 Quinnipiac Bobcats (16-7-5, 9-5-2 ECAC Hockey) vs. Yale Bulldogs (9-11-3, 7-8-1 ECAC Hockey)
Date: Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017 (3 p.m.)
Location: High Point Solutions Arena | Hamden, CT
All-Time Series vs. Yale: 15-15-6
Home vs. Yale: 7-6-3
Last Meeting: W, 4-1 (Oct. 28, 2016)
Head Coach Cassie Turner vs. Yale: 4-0-1

LIVE ON SNY
For the first time in program history, Quinnipiac women's ice hockey's contest vs. Yale on Saturday, Feb. 4 can be seen live on SportsNet New York (SNY). The game, scheduled for a 3 p.m. puck drop from High Point Solutions Arena in Hamden, will be produced by Quinnipiac and aired live in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Fans who wish to watch the broadcast can find SNY in the channel listings below

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Live Video: Quinnipiac All-Access
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Follow the Bobcats vs. Yale on Saturday

SNY Channel Listings (Available in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania)
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HAMDEN, Connecticut – No. 10/10 Quinnipiac women's ice hockey plays host to Brown and Yale in a pair of ECAC Hockey matchups this weekend at High Point Solutions Arena in Hamden. The Bobcats take on Brown on Friday, Feb. 3, 2017 at 6 p.m., then square off with Yale on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017.

CONCUSSION AWARENESS
The Headway Foundation and ECAC Hockey have partnered to promote concussion awareness, and to challenge athletes to handle concussions properly. The "New Tough" campaign addresses the cultural stigma behind concussion symptom reporting by acknowledging that prompt removal from play is often the tougher decision to make during competition. ECAC Hockey student-athletes are encouraged to report symptoms, offer avenues for teammates to support each other and to encourage safer play

All twenty-four ECAC teams are wearing Headway stickers on their helmets as a symbol of this commitment.

Goals Challenge Pledge Form - People can fill out a form to participate in the goals challenge, pledging a donation per goal scored by their ECAC team of choice.
Headway Informational Doc - This one-page document includes info on Headway, the New Tough campaign and concussion facts. This form will be available at a Headway Foundation table during both of the Bobcats' games this weekend.

LAST TIME OUT
The Bobcats played to a 3-0 loss vs. Princeton at home on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. Bobcats' goalie Sydney Rossman (Excelsior, Minnesota) registered 15 saves in net, and the two teams played to an even total in shots (18) and faceoff wins (21).

IN THE ECAC

Quinnipiac (20 points) currently sits at No. 5 in the ECAC Hockey standings.
Clarkson (29 points), St. Lawrence (27 points), Cornell (23 points) and Princeton (22 points) are the four teams ahead of the Bobcats. Quinnipiac has six regular season games left.

IN THE POLLS

Quinnipiac has been ranked No. 10 nationally in both the latest USCHO.com Poll and the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Women's College Hockey Poll, as announced on Jan. 30 and Jan. 31, 2017.

SCOUTING BROWN

The Bears have lost two-straight games, both to Yale.
Brown is 3-13 in conference play, having beaten Union twice and Dartmouth once.
Sam Donovan (eight goals, seven assists) leads the offensive charge for Brown with 15 total points this year.

ALL-TIME vs. BROWN

Quinnipiac is 16-6-3 all-time vs. Brown.
The Bobcats have won the last 10 meetings, dating back to December of 2011.
The program hasn't lost to Brown at home since January 30, 2009.

SCOUTING YALE

Yale enters the weekend on a four-game winning streak. The Bulldogs topped Dartmouth and Harvard two weekends ago, then beat Brown twice this past weekend.
The Bulldogs are 7-8-1 in conference play.
Eden Murray (seven goals, 18 assists) and Krista Yip-Chuck (eight goals, 17 assists) have led the way with 25 points apiece this year, while Phoebe Staenz (13 goals, nine assists) has recorded 22 points.

ALL-TIME vs. YALE

Quinnipiac is 15-15-6 all-time vs. the Bulldogs.
The Bobcats have won three straight vs. Yale.
The two teams faced each other four separate times last season. Quinnipiac went 3-0-1 in those games.
The Bobcats haven't lost at home vs. Yale since Jan. 31, 2009.

MILESTONE WATCH: CAREER SHUTOUTS

Sydney Rossman has 24 career shutouts at Quinnipiac. She needs just one more shutout to tie the program record of 25 shutouts set by Chelsea Laden ('15) and Victoria Vigilanti ('13).

MILESTONE WATCH: CAREER GAMES PLAYED

Four current Bobcats' seniors are closing in on the Quinnipiac program record for most games played (149), set by both Nicole Brown and Kristen Tamberg
Emma Greco has played in 135 career games, Emma Woods and Meghan Turner have played in 140 games, and Taryn Baumgardt has participated in 141 career games at Quinnipiac. The Bobcats have seven regular season games left in the 2016-17 season.

FIRST-RATE FACEOFFS

Quinnipiac has won 784 faceoffs in total so far this year, which ranks No. 3 in the country.
Emma Woods (Burford, Ontario) is No. 2 in the nation with 331 individual faceoff wins so far in 2016-17.

DOMINANT DEFENSE

Quinnipiac currently ranks tied for No. 3 in the nation in team defense, giving up just 1.50 goals per contest.

POWER PLAY

Quinnipiac has scored on 17-of-97 power play chances thus far in 2016-17, a rate of 17.53 percent – which ranks No. 8 in the country.

PENALTY KILL

Quinnipiac ranked No. 2 in the nation in PK percentage last season, killing off 98-of-106 penalties (92.5 percent). This year, the Bobcats have successfully killed 78-of-91 PK chances, good for 85.7 percent.

JUST SCORE FIRST

Last year, Quinnipiac scored first in 25 of its 34 regular season games – going 22-0-3 in those games. The Bobcats have scored first in 19 of 28 games so far in the 2016-17 season, going 15-1-3 when scoring first.

SHOOT TO THRILL

The Bobcats are 39-3-7 in games where they outshoot their opponent, dating back to the start of last season. Quinnipiac has recorded more shots in 21 of 28 games so far in 2016-17, going 16-2-3 in that span.

CENTURY MARK

Emma Woods (Burford, Ontario) and Taylar Cianfarano (Oswego, New York) both reached 100 career points in the Bobcats' final game before the break, a 6-1 win over RPI on Dec. 3, 2016. Woods recorded four goals to lead the offensive charge for Quinnipiac, while Cianfarano chipped in with a goal and two assists. Woods, the senior captain, reached the century mark in 133 career games (43 goals, 57 assists). Cianfarano, a junior, reached the plateau in 94 games (56 goals, 44 assists).

SUPER CIANFARANO

Taylar Cianfarano (Oswego, New York) has six power-play scores, which ranks tied for No. 2 in the nation.

NO ASSISTS? NO PROBLEM

Kenzie Lancaster (Waxhaw, North Carolina) has four unassisted goals so far in 2016-17, which is tied for No. 2 in Division I hockey.

ECAC HOCKEY AWARDS
The Bobcats have won three ECAC Hockey Weekly Awards this year:

Sydney Rossman (Excelsior, Minnesota) – ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Week – Oct. 11, 2016
Taylar Cianfarano (Oswego, New York) – ECAC Hockey Player of the Week – Oct. 18, 2016
Kenzie Lancaster (Waxhaw, North Carolina) – ECAC Hockey Player of the Week – Nov. 29, 2016

TOP DOG

The Bobcats were picked as ECAC Hockey's favorite entering the 2016-17 season, finishing No. 1 overall in the ECAC Hockey Preseason Coaches Poll. Junior forward Taylar Cianfarano (Oswego, New York) was selected to the Preseason All-ECAC First Team. Last year as a sophomore, Cianfarano led the ECAC with 52 points.

COMMANDING THE CONFERENCE

Quinnipiac dominated ECAC Hockey play last year, going 16-2-4. The Bobcats finished with 36 overall points, three total points ahead of Clarkson – who went 14-3-5 in conference action. QU allowed just 18 goals in 22 conference games in 2015-16. The Bobcats have gone 7-3-1 in their first 11 conference games this year.

LAST SEASON

As a team, Quinnipiac is on the heels of perhaps its most impressive season in program history, which ended with an ECAC Hockey Championship and an NCAA Tournament berth. The Bobcats went 30-3-5 in 2015-16, earning the most wins and highest win percentage (.885) in team history. Head coach Cassandra Turner also set the NCAA Record for most wins by a first-year women's ice hockey head coach.

BENCHMARK YEAR

Other program records set in 2015-16 included: most goals scored (118), most assists (188), highest power play percentage (25 percent), highest penalty kill (92.5 percent), fewest goals allowed (35), lowest GAA (0.92), most home wins (18), longest winning streak (10 games), and longest unbeaten streak (21 games).

Player Notes
EMMA WOODS

Woods was unanimously voted by her teammates to be the Bobcats' captain for 2016-17 season.
Has 10 goals and nine assists so far this year for the Bobcats, and 45 career goals to go along with 57 assists for 102 points.

SYDNEY ROSSMAN

Bobcats' goaltender Sydney Rossman had a .949 save percentage a season ago, allowing just .90 goals per game in 39 games (second-best in the nation). The 2016 ECAC Hockey Goalie of the Year recorded 16 shutouts in 2015-16, which is tied with former Bobcat netminder Chelsea Laden's single-season record from 2014-15.
Her current .935 save percentage and 1.17 goals-against average for her career rank No. 1 in program history.
Has six shutouts so far in 2016-17, with a .916 save percentage.
She is also an assistant captain for Quinnipiac this year.
Rossman has 24 career shutouts, needing one more to tie the program's all-time record.

TAYLAR CIANFARANO

T.T. Cianfarano recorded 28 goals and 24 assists last year, winning ECAC Hockey Player of the Year honors.
She owns the Quinnipiac program record for most goals and most points in a single-season for a sophomore.
She was selected to the Preseason 2016-17 All-ECAC First Team
Has 12 goals and nine assists for 21 points this year, and 57 goals and 46 assists for 103 points in her career.

MELISSA SAMOSKEVICH

Melissa Samoskevich has eight goals and 12 assists for 20 points so far this year.
She was named to the ECAC Hockey All-Rookie Team last season, after putting up 16 goals and 16 assists as a freshman.
Samoskevich has 24 goals and 28 assists for 52 career points.

MEGHAN TURNER

Meghan Turner, an assistant captain for the Bobcats in 2016-17, has six goals and 10 assists for 16 points so far this season.
She has 23 career goals and 23 career assists over four years with the Bobcats – including a career-high eight goals in 2015-16.

TARYN BAUMGARDT

Taryn Baumgardt has five goals and eight assists so far this year.
The defender has two goals and four assists for six points in 2014-15, and then three goals and 10 helpers for 13 points in 2015-16. She has 11 career goals and 28 assists for 39 points.

EMMA GRECO

Senior Emma Greco has seven assists so far this season to go along with a team-high 42 blocked shots.
She has two goals and 20 assists for 22 career points.

KENZIE PRATER

Kenzie Prater has six goals and seven assists for 13 points in her first season at QU.
She was a member of the 2016 U.S. Women's Under-22 team, alongside teammates Cianfarano and Samoskevich.

KENZIE LANCASTER

Kenzie Lancaster has eight goals and four assists for 12 points this year, and eight goals and five assists for 13 career tallies.

RANDI MARCON

Randi Marcon has four goals and two assists for six points so far in 2016-17, and eight goals and four assists for 12 career points.

RAQUEL PENNOYER

Raquel Pennoyer has two goals and five assists for seven points this year, and four goals and nine assists for 13 career points.
Assisted on both goals in Quinnipiac's latest game vs. Cornell.

KATE MACKENZIE

Freshman Kate MacKenzie has five goals and four assists in her first season with the Bobcats. She tallied three assists in the Oct. 29 victory over Brown.

KATI TABIN

The freshman defender has two goals and five assists for seven points in her first season with Quinnipiac.

ALICIA BARRY

Has a goal and seven assists for eight points so far this year, and two goals with 13 helpers for her career at QU.

DANIELLE MARMER

Has six assists for the Bobcats so far this year, and two goals with 11 helpers in her career at Quinnipiac.

SARAH-EVE COUTU-GODBOUT

Has two assists in her first 13 games at Quinnipiac.

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