NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale's best offensive weekend of the 2019-20 season has produced four crucial conference points and a weekend sweep of the Capital District teams. Curtis Hall had two goals tonight, and Corbin Kaczperski stopped 27 of 28 shots, in a 4-1 win over RPI at Ingalls Rink.

Yale, which scored nine goals on the weekend, got on the board late in the first period when Justin Pearson skated from the right circle into the slot and fired top shelf on Alec Calvaruso for a power-play tally. That really tilted the ice in favor of the Elis, but the Engineers came close to swinging the momentum.

One of the great individual efforts of the season prevented just that while giving the home team a 2-0 lead early in the second. Hall's back-check on a quality, 2-on-1 scoring chance for RPI prevented the visitors from evening the score. The sophomore Boston Bruins' pick, who had a four-goal, five-point weekend, then scooped up the biscuit and raced the length of the ice, zipping through a defender before sliding it five-hole on the netminder.

Luke Stevens notched his second of the weekend late in the second to make it 3-0 before Hall was at it again. His highlight, power-play one-timer of a Tyler Welsh pass put the game out of reach.

"It feels good to get all four lines rolling for 60 minutes," said Yale captain Evan Smith. "We finally got a consistent game, start to finish. It was a great way to bounce back from MSG, and it gives us a lot of momentum heading into the tournament next weekend."

Yale is back in action next Saturday night at Webster Bank Arena against Sacred Heart in game two (7:30 p.m.) of the CT Ice Festival.