Princeton Falls for Fifth Straight Time

Princeton's NCAA men's hockey losing streak reached five games with Friday's 6-2 setback to visiting Cornell in ECAC Hockey and Ivy League action. The Tigers got goals from Kai Greaves and Brendan Wang, who each tallied the first of goal of his college career, but sandwiched in-between were five goals by the Big Red, before Cornell's Dalton Bancroft closed out the scoring with his second goal of the evening late in the third period. 

Remington Keopple, making his first start of the 2024-25 season, stopped 23 shots for the Big Red, who also got a goal and two assists apiece from Ryan Walsh and Jake Kraft. Arthur Smith had 25 stops for Princeton before a crowd of 2,432 at Hobey Baker Memorial Rink. The Tigers (6-9-1, 3-7-1 ECACH) will host Colgate on Saturday, while Cornell (7-5-4, 4-3-2) will visit No. 13 Quinnipiac.

ADDENDUM: Princeton fell to Colgate, 6-4, while Cornell won in a shootout following a 2-2 tie in regulation at Quinnipiac.

NCAA Highlights for Thanskgiving 2022

 

It was quite a Thanksgiving weekend in NCAA Division I men's hockey ...

- Cornell blanked UConn, 6-0, at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Saturday night in its semi-annual Frozen Apple game in Manhattan. Dalton Bancroft scored three goals and Ian Shane stopped all 27 shots he faced for the victorious Big Red.

- No. 9 Harvard (7-1-1 overall) became the last NCAA Division I men's team to suffer a loss this season, a 4-1 setback at No. 5 Michigan on Saturday. The two schools played to a 4-4 tie the night before in Ann Arbor.

- LIU earned its first-ever victory against a ranked opponent with a 3-2 triumph over visiting No. 12 Ohio State on Friday. Former Michigan State forward Adam Goodsir tallied the game-winning goal in the third period, although OSU rebounded for a 4-1 win the next night to salvage a split.

- Speaking of Michigan State, the No. 16 Spartans swept former CCHA foe Miami by 5-3 and 4-0 counts in Oxford, Ohio. Dylan St. Cyr stopped 69 shots on the weekend for MSU, including 39 saves in the shutout victory.

- No. 2 Minnesota and Arizona State split a series at the latter's brand-new Mullet Arena in Tempe. Minnesota won the opener, 3-2, as Logan Cooley set up one goal and then scored the game-winner for the Golden Gophers. The host Sun Devils responded the following evening with a 6-5 victory in overtime as former Boston University forward Robert Mastrosimone connected in the extra session.

- Two teams of Tigers split a non-conference series in Rochester, N.Y. RIT defeated visiting Princeton, 5-3, on Friday as Carter Wilkie scored twice and assisted on another goal for the hosts. Princeton came back the next night to record a 5-0 shutout win behind 23 saves from Ethan Pearson.

- Last but not least, defending NCAA champion Denver (10-4-0 overall) retained the top spot in the DCU/USCHO Division I Men's Poll this week, after a series split with Omaha. The visiting Mavericks won, 3-0, the first night on Jake Kucharski's 22 saves before host DU came back with a 6-3 triumph on Saturday.