No. 2/2 Yale vs. Harvard
Friday, Feb. 24—3 p.m.
Ingalls Rink (New Haven, Conn.)
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No. 2/2 Yale vs. Harvard
Saturday, Feb. 25—3 p.m.
Ingalls Rink (New Haven, Conn.)
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No. 2/2 Yale vs. Harvard (if necessary)
Sunday, Feb. 26—3 p.m.
Ingalls Rink (New Haven, Conn.)
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Playoff hockey is here! The top-seeded Bulldogs host the eighth-seeded Crimson in a best-of-three ECAC quarterfinal series at Ingalls Rink this weekend. The series will be streamed live on ESPN+ and available for international viewing on Stretch Internet.
 
Scouting the Bulldogs

• Yale (26-2-1, 19-2-1 ECAC) is entering the tournament as the top seed.
• Elle Hartje is riding a 15-game point streak that has seen the Detroit native amass 27 points in that span. The streak began on Jan. 6 and is made up of nine goals and 18 assists.
• Over a six-game point streak, Jordan Ray has picked up 14 points. The first year has seven goals and seven assists.
• Emma Seitz is riding a seven-game point streak with 11 points in that time.

Yale in the ECAC Tournament

• This is the first time ever that Yale will be the top seed in the postseason tournament. The highest seed they have ever entered the tournament as was the second seed in 2021-22.
• This is Yale's 13th time qualifying for ECAC postseason action and its fifth-straight appearance.
• This weekend marks the third time in program history that Yale has hosted an ECAC quarterfinal round (2004-05, 2021-22, 2022-23).

 
Yale and Harvard in the Postseason

• It's the sixth time since joining the ECAC that the Bulldogs and Crimson are meeting in the postseason.
• The last time the pair squared off in postseason play was in the 2019-20 quarterfinals, where Harvard took the best-of-three series in three games. The Crimson picked up the first win 4-0, while the Bulldogs took game two with a 4-3 overtime win. Harvard capped the series with a 4-3 victory in triple overtime.

Record Watching

• Elle Hartje is two assists shy of tying her own single season program assist record.
• Claire Dalton (44) and Charlotte Welch (43) are sitting tied for fifth and sixth, respectively, in the Yale career goals record book.
• Dalton is the career assists record holder with 87 in total, while Welch and Hartje are tied for second with 82.
• Dalton is second in the career points category with 131 in total, while Welch is third with 125 and Hartje is fourth with 121.

 
Notables

• The Bulldogs tied their single-season wins record with 26 wins in the regular season.
• Head Coach Mark Bolding was named a finalist for the 2023 ECAC Coach of the Year alongside Colgate's Greg Fargo and Quinnipiac's Cassandra Turner.
• Emma Seitz was named a finalist for the 2023 Mandi Schwartz Scholar Athlete of the Year award from ECAC Hockey.
• Yale secured the 2023 ECAC Hockey regular season title with a victory over Harvard on Feb. 18.
• Yale captured its first-ever Ivy League Championship with a 3-2 overtime win at Cornell on Feb. 11. Claire Dalton scored the game-winning goal 28 seconds into the overtime period to win it.
• Pia Dukaric was named a 2023 National Goalie of the Year Semifinalist by the Hockey Commissioners Association. She was one of three ECAC Hockey goalies alongside RPI's Amanda Rampado and Clarkson's Michelle Pasiechnyk.
• Carina DiAntonio and Jordan Ray were named to the 2023 National Rookie of the Year "Watch List" by the Hockey Commissioners Association.

This Season Against Harvard

• Yale took both meetings this season against Harvard this season.
• In the season opener on Oct. 28, the Bulldogs took down the Crimson, 2-1, at Bright-Landry in Boston. Jordan Ray scored the first two goals of her collegiate career.
• The pair met in the regular season finale just last weekend on Feb. 28 as Yale took a 10-1 victory at Ingalls Rink. Elle Hartje had a hand in five of the team's 10 goals. It was the first five-point game of her collegiate career. 

 
Scouting the Crimson

• Harvard (7-19-3, 6-13-3) is making its fifth-straight appearance in an ECAC postseason tournament.
• Anne Bloomer was the leading point getter for the Crimson in the regular season with 24 points.
• Alex Pellicci broke Harvard's single-season saves record in against the Bulldogs on Feb. 18, recording save no. 928.
• Kristin Della Rovere leads the nation with 499 faceoff wins. Della Rovere won 60-percent of her faceoffs in regular season.
   

ECAC Quarterfinal Matchups

• No. 8 Harvard at No. 1 Yale
• No. 7 Princeton at No. 2 Colgate
• No. 6 St. Lawrence at No. 3 Quinnipiac
• No. 5 Cornell at No. 4 Clarkson