{"id":97617,"date":"2013-12-15T20:21:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T02:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/ecac-blog\/?p=1594"},"modified":"2013-12-15T20:21:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T02:21:46","slug":"the-snowball-effect-goes-both-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2013\/12\/15\/the-snowball-effect-goes-both-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"The “snowball effect” goes both ways"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good news, everyone!<\/h4>\n

(Anyone who read that with Professor Farnsworth’s voice in mind, well done.) Union finished the week 2-0-1, taking two league points from Dartmouth on Wednesday and all but<\/i> sweeping No. 1 St. Cloud on the road this weekend. A huge pair of results that are sure to knock the Huskies off their one-week perch and boost Union near the Top 5.<\/p>\n

“All-in-all, for the adversity this team faced with the tough stretch of games, the players did a great job and I’m proud of them,” coach Rick Bennett said, as quoted by Ken Schott of the Schenectady Daily Gazette. “It was a good road trip,” he continued. “If you had told the coaching staff before the trip that we would come away with a win and a tie against the top team in the nation we would have been pleased. But we are far from satisfied.”<\/p>\n

Union is making a serious run, now unbeaten in 10 games (9-0-1) and 11-1-2 since starting the season 1-2-1. At the top of the ECAC standings through nine games, the Dutchmen have two points and a game in hand on second-place Quinnipiac. Yeah, it’s too early to start calculating “magic numbers” and all that, but it has nonetheless been an impressive 2013 half of the 2013-14 season for the Garnet & White.<\/p>\n

Holiday downers<\/h4>\n

Rensselaer, Colgate and St. Lawrence – on the other hand – had weekends to forget. RPI lost and tied No. 20 Denver in Troy. The Raiders were swept at home by what had been a four-win Massachusetts club (now 6-11-2). The Saints, once looking like a top-10 team, have lost seven of their last nine games… including Saturday’s 5-1 loss at Vermont.<\/p>\n

This leaves ECAC Hockey with nine teams entering the holiday break on a down note: Colgate, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Quinnipiac, RPI (exhibition win over US National Development Team notwithstanding), SLU, and Yale all concluded their pre-Christmas schedule with losses and\/or winless skids.<\/p>\n

Haggerty, Girard and the rest<\/h4>\n

Statistical tidings following this game-light weekend:<\/p>\n

• RPI’s Ryan Haggerty<\/b> continues to lead the nation in goals (18) and goals per game (1.06). He is the only player with a goal a game… besides Cornell goalie Mitch Gillam<\/b>, who has one goal in one game<\/a>. <\/p>\n

• SLU star Greg Carey<\/b>, meanwhile, leads the country with 36 points and 1.89 points a game. He also has 13 goals, good for a four-way tie for second with Boston College’s Johnny Gaudreau<\/b>, younger brother and Saints teammate Matt Carey<\/b> and Quinnipiac freshman Sam Anas<\/b>.<\/p>\n

• Union junior Shayne Gostisbehere<\/b> is one off the national lead in shots on goal, with 86. Oh yeah, reminder: He’s a defenseman<\/i>. No other blueliner in the nation even has 60 shots on goal, much less 80; Gostisbehere is also more than a shot-per-game ahead of any other defenseman in the country.<\/p>\n

• Harvard senior Raphael Girard<\/b> leads Division 1 with a .948 save percentage. <\/p>\n

• QU’s Michael Garteig<\/b> leads the country in minutes played – 1,146:53 – but<\/i> there is just one goalie who has played every non-open-net minute for his team, and that is Holy Cross’ Matt Ginn<\/b>. <\/p>\n

• Clarkson keeper Steve Perry<\/b> is third nationally with a 1.72 GAA.<\/p>\n

• QU (+1.58) and Union (+1.33) are the only league teams to boast goal differentials over +1 goal per game.<\/p>\n

• SLU leads D-I with a 29 percent power play. Wow. Cornell (26.9 percent) and Union (25.8) round out the top three.<\/p>\n

• QU (90.9 percent) and Harvard (90) boast terrific penalty kills, too.<\/p>\n

• Finally, the Bobcats and Dutchmen are 1-2 nationally in shot margin per game. Quinnipiac averages more than 14 shots per game than its opposition; Union, more than nine additional SOG’s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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