Back on Track
Following a relatively light schedule last weekend, all the top teams kick back into gear this week with a whole slew of games. The ECAC has some high-profile contests on the docket Friday night, as Dartmouth hits St. Lawrence in an early showdown for league supremacy. Not so fast, says Harvard, who is listing a bit but by no means sunk. The Crimson tangle with Clarkson in the North Country as well, before resetting their sites on the Saints tomorrow night. In non-conference action, upstart Northeastern travels west to take on Wayne State for a pair, while Hockey East partners Boston University and Vermont partner up with ECAC Hockey's Princeton and Quinnipiac in a mid-Atlantic do-si-do. Full-tilt action is finally underway in the CHA, with Robert Morris hosting Niagara and Syracuse welcoming Mercyhurst for the weekend. Can surprising North Dakota hold its own on home ice against top-ranked — and undefeated — Wisconsin? The tandem is set to tango Saturday and Sunday.
The Rundown
'Tute-torial
Rensselaer only finished with one point in two ECAC Hockey games this weekend, but what a point it was. The unranked Engineers went on the road and stunned No. 3 Harvard in a 1-1 tie; it was RPI's first-ever point against the team that went 22-0-0 in ECAC play last year and had outscored the Engineers 26-3 in four previous all-time meetings. Rensselaer even outshot the hosts 6-1 in the first period and 22-19 on the game, even though it took Allysen Weidner's extra-attacker goal with only 19 seconds remaining to get RPI into overtime. Elsewhere this weekend, No. 5 Dartmouth made the most of Harvard's misfortune to take first place in the league, beating Union and RPI. Wayne State swept Vermont on the road, Providence did the same to Robert Morris, and Ohio State and St. Cloud split in Minnesota.
Women's Feature Stories
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USCHO Players of the Week
O Ashley Riggs, Niagara
D Jessie Vetter, Wisconsin
Women's Question of the Week
| Which team's start has been most surprising thus far? |
