No. 2/2 Yale vs. St. Lawrence
Friday, Jan. 27—6 p.m.
Ingalls Rink (New Haven, Conn.)
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No. 2/2 Yale vs. No. 9/10 Clarkson
Saturday, Jan. 28—3 p.m.
Ingalls Rink (New Haven, Conn.)
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Another weekend of ECAC Hockey lies ahead for the No. 2 nationally ranked Yale women's hockey team. On Friday, St. Lawrence rolls into New Haven for a conference bout at Ingalls Rink. Then on Saturday, the Bulldogs will host Clarkson for their "Mandi Schwartz Whiteout" game at the Whale. 

The game will honor the memory of former Yale women's hockey player Mandi Schwartz '10, who passed away of leukemia in 2011, at the age of 23. The team will be selling commemorative t-shirts in honor of Mandi, as well as handing out rally towels. A postgame skate, open to the public, will follow Saturday's game against Clarkson.

Both contests will be live on ESPN+ and available for international viewing on Stretch Internet.
 
Bulldog Bytes

• Yale (19-1-1, 12-1-1 ECAC) extended its winning streak to 11 games with road wins at Princeton (3-1) and Quinnipiac (4-2) last week.
• Claire Dalton has been on fire for the Bulldogs since the beginning of the 2023 calendar year. Dalton has 15 points (6 goals, 9 assists) in nine games, with three of her six goals standing as eventual game-winners.
• Charlotte Welch has also been an emerging name in 2023. On a line with Dalton, Welch has 13 points in nine contests, and has points in seven-straight games.

In the NCAA

• Pia Dukaric, Yale's ace in net, is third in the nation in save percentage (.946), third in goals against average (1.176), and tied for fourth in shutouts (6).
• The Bulldogs are second in the nation in penalty kill percentage (.934).

In the ECAC Standings

• Yale sits a half a point behind Quinnipiac for first place with the Bulldogs holding a game in hand.
• St. Lawrence sits in the seven spot in the standings with 18 points.
• Clarkson is tied for fourth with Cornell (28.5). 

Notables

• Pia Dukaric broke the single-season shutouts program record with Yale's 4-0 win over Brown on Jan. 14.
• Dukaric was named to 2023 National Goalie of the Year "Watch List" by the Women's Hockey Commissioners Association on Jan. 11.
• Claire Dalton's 22 points this season put her at 119 career points, which is second all-time in program history.
• Dalton became the new program record holder for career assists earlier this year. The senior has 13 assists putting her at 80 in her career, 12 more than the former record holder Maria Dennis (68).

Last Meeting with St. Lawrence
These two sides will have met just 20 days ago when they square off again on Friday at Ingalls. Yale took the 4-2 victory on Jan. 7 behind goals from Charlotte Welch, Jordan Ray, Elle Hartje, and Emma Seitz. It was also the game that Welch picked up her 100th career point. Pia Dukaric made 14 saves in goal.
 
Scouting the Saints

• St. Lawrence (11-15-2, 5-7-2 ECAC) has struggled in its last five games. The Saints have a 1-3-1 record with the lone victory a 4-0 shutout over Union on Jan. 13. They followed that with two back-to-back losses to conference opponent RPI, and RIT, both on the road, and a series split with Clarkson (loss/tie). 
• Julia Gosling will be St. Lawrence's player to watch. The junior has been stellar for the Saints, leading the team in points (31), goals (13), and assists (18). Gosling is a plus-6 and has three game-winning goals.
• Lucy Morgan has gotten the nod in the net in 24 games for the Saints. Morgan has a .915 save percentage, nine wins, and four shutouts.

Last Meeting with Clarkson
Earlier in January, these two sides met in Potsdam, N.Y. Yale captured the 3-1 victory behind a two-goal effort from Anna Bargman, who notched her third game-winning goal of the season. Pia Dukaric posted 21 saves in between the pipes for Yale.

 
Scouting the Golden Knights

• Clarkson (20-6-2, 9-4-1 ECAC) is riding a hot streak since their game against the Bulldogs on Jan. 6. After falling in that meeting, the Golden Knights have gone on to earn victories in four of their next five and tied in the fifth.
• In that span, Clarkson outscored its opponents, 16-5.
• Gabrielle David has been a power player for Clarkson throughout the whole season. David has 40 points (17g, 23a), which includes three game-winners and an overtime winner and is a plus-29. The senior is on a five-game point streak heading into their Friday matchup at Brown.
• Both Darcie Lappan and Anne Cherkowski have also been impact-players for Clarkson. Lappan has 35 points and a team-leading six game-winning goals, while the latter has 33 points, including six powerplay goals, and has points in her last five games.
• Clarkson has four goalies in its depth chart, but Michelle Pasiechnyk has seen the most time with 21 starts. Pasiechnyk has 15 wins, including eight shutouts, a .937 save percentage and a 1.41 goals against average.

Up Next
This weekend's games are the last for the Bulldogs until the end of February. Yale hits the road next weekend for games at Union and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Feb. 3 and Feb. 4.