No. 9/9 QU Women's Ice Hockey Travels to North Country This Weekend to Face St. Lawrence, Clarkson

***Due to poor weather, this weekend's games at St. Lawrence and Clarkson have each been pushed back one day. The times listed below are the correct, updated game times.***

No. 9/9 Quinnipiac Bobcats (18-7-5, 11-5-2 ECAC Hockey) vs. No. 3/3 St. Lawrence Saints (23-3-2, 15-2-1 ECAC Hockey)
Date: Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017 (6 p.m.)
Location: Appleton Arena | Canton, NY
All-Time Series vs. St. Lawrence: 11-14-4
Away vs. St. Lawrence: 3-6-2
Last Meeting: L, 1-0 (Nov. 5, 2016)
Head Coach Cassie Turner vs. St. Lawrence: 3-0-1

No. 9/9 Quinnipiac Bobcats (18-7-5, 11-5-2 ECAC Hockey) vs. No. 4/5 Clarkson Golden Knights (21-4-5, 15-1-2 ECAC Hockey)
Date: Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017 (3 p.m.)
Location: Cheel Arena| Potsdam, NY
All-Time Series vs. Clarkson: 10-20-4
Away vs. Clarkson: 6-10-2
Last Meeting: L, 4-1 (Nov. 4, 2016)
Head Coach Cassie Turner vs. Clarkson: 2-2-1

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HAMDEN, Conn. - Following its first weekend sweep at home since Sept. 30/Oct. 1, No. 9/9 Quinnipiac women's ice hockey is set to travel to North Country to take on two Top 5 teams, St. Lawrence and Clarkson, in a big weekend of ECAC Hockey action.

HOW SWEEP IT IS
The Bobcats took down both Brown and Yale last weekend at High Point Solutions Arena in Hamden, completing its first weekend sweep at home since the first set of home game in the 2016-17 regular season.

Thirteen different players recorded a point in Friday evening's 9-0 rout of Brown. Meghan Turner (Bedford, New Hampshire) paced the Bobcats offensively, recording her first career hat trick in the win. Turner grabbed a goal in each period of the victory, registering the first multi-goal game of her career. Kenzie Lancaster (Waxhaw, North Carolina) and Sarah-Eve Coutu-Godbout (Rouyn Noranda, Quebec) both chipped in with two goals of their own, while Kenzie Lancaster (Waxhaw, North Carolina) and Raquel Pennoyer (Rehoboth, Massachusetts) also scored.

Quinnipiac then outlasted Yale, 4-1, on Saturday in the program's first-ever game televised on SportsNet New York (SNY). Four different players scored in the winning effort for the Bobcats in front of a season-best crowd of 1,110 people. Melissa Samoskevich (Sandy Hook, Connecticut) registered one goal and one assist, while Emma Woods (Burford, Ontario), Kate MacKenzie (Winnipeg, Manitoba) and Taryn Baumgardt (Innisfail, Alberta) all added a score. Sophomore forward Kenzie Lancaster (Waxhaw, North Carolina) also chipped in with an assist.

IN THE ECAC

Quinnipiac (24 points) is currently tied for No. 4 in the conference standings with Princeton.
Both the Bobcats and the Tigers travel to New York to play Clarkson and St. Lawrence (the top two teams in the conference) this weekend.

IN THE POLLS

Quinnipiac has been ranked No. 9 nationally in both the latest USCHO.com Poll and the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Women's College Hockey Poll, as announced on Feb. 6 and Feb. 7, 2017.

SCOUTING ST. LAWRENCE

St. Lawrence currently ranks No. 2 in the ECAC, going 15-2-1 so far this year in conference action.
The Saints currently have two of the top three scorers in the country: Kennedy Marchment (17 goals, 31 assists) and Brook Webster (18 goals, 28 assists).

ALL-TIME vs. ST. LAWRENCE

Quinnipiac is 11-14-4 all-time vs. St. Lawrence
The Bobcats fell at home, 1-0, to the Saints when the two teams squared off earlier this year on Nov. 11, 2016.
QU is 5-2-1 in the last eight meetings.

SCOUTING CLARKSON

Clarkson ranks No. 1 in the ECAC, entering the weekend with a 15-1-2 in the conference.
Cayley Mercey is tied for second in the nation in goals (20) and also has 24 assists on the year.

ALL-TIME vs. CLARKSON

Quinnipiac is 10-20-4 all-time vs. Clarkson
The Bobcats fell to the Golden Knights, 4-1, at home earlier this year in November.
QU is 5-2-1 vs. Clarkson in its last seven games.

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 137 career games, Emma Woods and Meghan Turner have played in 142 games, and Taryn Baumgardt has participated in 143 career games at Quinnipiac. The Bobcats have seven regular season games left in the 2016-17 season.

FIRST-RATE FACEOFFS

Quinnipiac has won 855 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 355 individual faceoff wins so far in 2016-17.

OFFENSIVE OUTBURST

Quinnipiac's nine goals ties a program high for goals scored in an ECAC Hockey game. The last time the Bobcats recorded nine goals in an ECAC contest was on Feb. 19, 2016 vs. Union. The program also had a season-high 51 shots in total, and tied its season-high mark for power-play goals (3) in the win.

DOMINANT DEFENSE

Quinnipiac currently ranks No. 3 in the nation in team defense, giving up just 1.43 goals per contest.

POWER PLAY

Quinnipiac has scored on 20-of-107 power play chances thus far in 2016-17, a rate of 18.69 percent – which ranks No. 7 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 88-of-101 PK chances, good for 87.1 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 20 of 30 games so far in the 2016-17 season, going 16-1-3 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 23 of 30 games so far in 2016-17, going 18-2-3 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 winter break, a 6-1 win over RPI on Dec. 3, 2016. 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. 3 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

NEXT UP
Following the Bobcats trip to North Country, Quinnipiac will return home to host RPI and Union in its final two games of the season. The Bobcats take on RPI on Friday, Feb. 17 at 7 p.m., then Union on Saturday, Feb. 18 at 3 p.m.

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 11 goals and nine assists so far this year for the Bobcats, and 46 career goals to go along with 57 assists for 103 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 12 assists for 24 points this year, and 57 goals and 49 assists for 106 points in her career.

MELISSA SAMOSKEVICH

Melissa Samoskevich has nine goals and 14 assists for 23 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 25 goals and 30 assists for 55 career points.

MEGHAN TURNER

Meghan Turner, an assistant captain for the Bobcats in 2016-17, has nine goals and 10 assists for 19 points so far this season.
She has 26 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 six goals and nine 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 12 career goals and 29 assists for 41 points.

EMMA GRECO

Senior Emma Greco has nine assists so far this season to go along with a team-high 53 blocked shots.
She has two goals and 22 assists for 24 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 nine goals and six assists for 15 points this year, and nine goals and seven assists for 16 career tallies.

RANDI MARCON

Randi Marcon has six goals and two assists for eight points so far in 2016-17, and 10 goals and four assists for 14 career points.

RAQUEL PENNOYER

Raquel Pennoyer has three goals and five assists for eight points this year, and five goals and nine assists for 14 career points.

KATE MACKENZIE

Freshman Kate MacKenzie has six goals and six 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 nine assists for 10 points so far this year, and two goals with 15 helpers for her career at QU.

DANIELLE MARMER

Has seven assists for the Bobcats so far this year, and two goals with 13 helpers in her career at Quinnipiac.

SARAH-EVE COUTU-GODBOUT

Has two goals and three assists in her first 15 games at Quinnipiac.

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