Orange Heads to UConn

Syracuse (3-3-0) at UConn (1-5-1)
Date & Time	Friday, Oct. 26 (7 p.m.) \| Saturday, Oct. 27 (3 p.m.)
Location	Storrs, Conn. \| Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum (2,000)
Game notes	Syracuse
Live Stats	Friday's Game \| Saturday's Game
Social Media	Facebook \| @Cuse \| #SUICE

The Orange heads to Connecticut this weekend for a weekend series against the Huskies. Syracuse (3-3-0, 2-0-0) and UConn (1-5-1, 1-1-0 Hockey East) face off on Friday, at 7 p.m. and on Saturday at 3 p.m. Both games are slated to take place at the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum.

Weekend Recap
• The Orange split its weekend with Quinnipiac at home, losing in overtime on Friday, 3-2, and then bouncing back on Saturday with a 4-0 shutout.
• All four goals between the two teams on Friday were scored in the second period. Sadie St Germain and Laurie Kingsbury had the tallies for SU. The Bobcats scored a power play goal with seven seconds remaining in OT to record the win. Jenesica Drinkwater recorded 36 saves in the game.
• It would take until the second period again for the Orange to score on Saturday. This time, Shiann Darkangleo found the back of the net. A three-goal third period secured the victory for the Orange after Kingsbury, Nicole Ferrara and Darkangelo scored. Goaltender Kallie Billadeau posted her second shutout of the season against QU.

Orange Analysis
•Laurie Kingsbury leads the Orange offense with five goals and four assists. The forward has tallied at least one point in all six games so far and is on goal scoring streak of three games. Caitlin Roach has a team-high five assists and one goal while Holly Carrie-Mattimoe has four goals and two assists. Melissa Piacentini is on a five game scoring streak, notching two goals and three assists.
•Goaltender Kallie Billadeau has totaled two shutouts in her first two starts this season while her counterpart, Jenesica Drinkwater, has a GAA of 2.96 and a save percentage of .886 and one shutout.

Scouting the Huskies
• Head Coach: Heather Linstad (Providence, '89)
• Record : 1-5-1, 1-1-0 Hockey East
• Series against Syracuse: SU leads, 3-1-1
• Most Recent Meeting: 10/29/2011; Syracuse 2, UConn 1 (at Syracuse)
• The Huskies welcome Syracuse in its first home series of 2012. Last weekend, The Huskies won its first game of the season at Maine, 3-2, in overtime. The following night UConn fell, 3-2. Connecticut opened up the season, going 0-4-1, in its first five games.
•Michela Cava leads the Huskies' offense with four goals and three assists. Sarah MacDonnell is right behind Cava with two goals and four assists.
• Goaltender Elaine Chuli has a GAA of 3.44 and a save percentage of .899. Sarah Moses has seen action in three games and has recorded a GAA of 3.47 and a save percentage of .906.

On the Road Again
• Syracuse is 2-0-0 on the road this season, after defeating Penn State.
• The Orange will play five-straight games on the road starting with its series at UConn before returning home on November 20th to host RIT.

Home Sweet Home
• SU is now 1-3-0 at home after winning its first game at Tennity Ice Pavilion against UConn, 4-0.
• Syracuse dropped its first two games at home this season against New Hampshire, 4-3, and No. 10 Northeastern, 5-2.
•The Orange holds a 27-33-6 all-time record while playing at home.

Second Period Strong
• The Orange have scored at least one goal in the second period of every game that they have played in.
• The most goals that they have scored in the second period this season is two, which SU has accomplished three times.

Even Stevens
• In its overtime loss to Quinnipiac, almost everything was even between the two teams.
• Each goaltender had 36 saves while each team had five power plays a piece. Both scored two goals in the second period.
• QU held a slight advantage in shots, 39-38, and notched the overtime win with seven seconds left.

Free Hockey
• The Orange went into overtime for the first time this season, falling to Quinnipiac 3-2 at home.
• The Bobcats scored with seven seconds remaining in the overtime period.

Billadeau with Two Shutouts
• In her second start of the season, Kallie Billadeau recorded her second shutout against Quinnipiac, 4-0. She recorded 29 saves in the win.
• It was her fourth shutout of her career.
• For her efforts against the Bobcats, she was honored as the CHA Goaltender of the Week.
• In her first start, Billadeau recorded a 6-0 shutout at Penn State.
• Billadeau has a career GAA of 2.96 and a save percentage of .906.

Kingsbury's Dynamic Debut
• Redshirt freshman Laurie Kingsbury has tallied at least one point in all six games for the Orange in her debut season.
• Kingsbury ranks fourth in the CHA for scoring and second in freshman scoring with nine points (5g, 4a).
• She is currently on a five game scoring streak (5g, 4a).
• Her five goals are good for third in the conference.
• Kingsbury is alos on a three game goal scoring streak with four goals.
• She tallied two goals and one assist against Quinnipiac.
• For her efforts against the Bobcats, Kingsbury was honored as the CHA Rookie of the Week.
• Kingsbury was also named to the CHA honor roll for the first two weeks of the season for her offensive efforts.

Power Play Leader
• Holly Carrie-Mattimoe's power-play tally in the third period at Penn State was the 17th of her career.
• Carrie-Mattimoe now sits alone at the top of SU's all-time power-play goal list with 17. Behind her is Julie Rising (2008-11) with 15.
• She has two power play tallies so far this season.
• Carrie-Mattimoe has scored the most power-play goals in the history of the Orange (17) and only needs three more assists to move into second.

Assists from Roach
• Junior defenseman Caitlin Roach has notched one assist in each of the past four games.
• She now ranks ninth on SU's career list for assists with 17.
•She ranks third in the conference for defensemen scoring (1 g, 5a).
• Roach scored her first goal and tallied an assist in the Orange's season opener against New Hampshire.

Piacentini on the Power Play
• Freshman forward Melissa Piacentini notched a point in her fifth straight game against the Bobcats (2g, 3a).
• She scored her first career power play goal at Penn State (10/14/12).
• She notched her first career goal against Penn State the night before.

Shutout Victories
• All three of Syracuse's wins so far this season have been shutouts.
• The Orange shutout Penn State, 4-0 and 6-0, and blanked Quinnipiac, 4-0.

Taking the Lead
• Syracuse owns a 3-1-0 record when they score first in the game.
• When they are leading after the first period, they are 2-0-0 and 3-0-0 when ahead after the second period

Double Trouble
• Four different Orange have scored twice in a single game this season.
• Carrie-Mattimoe notched two goals and one assist in SU's season-opener against New Hampshire (10/5/12)
• Kingsbury scored twice and added an assist at Penn State (10/14/12).
• Scharfe totaled two goals at Penn State (10/14/12).
• Shiann Darkangelo scored two goals against Quinnipiac (10/20/12)

St.Germain Scores
• Junior forward Sadie St. Germain scored her first goal for the Orange against Quinnipiac on Friday night.
• It was her first goal of the season and her first tally since Sept. 30, 2011 at St. Cloud State.

Darkangelo with Two
• Sophomore forward Shiann Darkangelo scored twice against the Bobcats last weekend
• Her two goal performance against Quinnipiac was her second muli-point game this season.

Strong Defense
• The Orange defense has only allowed an average of 2.0 goals per game to be scored by its opponents.
• This number is good for first in the CHA.

Seventh Straight
• After holding Quinnipiac to no goals in the first period, it was the seventh consecutive frame that Syracuse did not allow an opponent to score.

Shut Out
• The Orange have totaled three shutouts so far this season.
• The most shut outs recorded in one season for SU is three, which the Orange have done in three seasons (2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11).

Shots Fired
• On Saturday, Oct. 13th, the Orange set a new program record for most shots in a game (57) at Penn State.
•SU had previously registered a high of 53 shots at Sacred Heart in 2009.
• The Orange also tallied 28 shots in the first frame of play in its 4-0 win. It was the most shots taken in a single period this season for the Orange.

Shooting Frenzy
• The Orange has outshot all of its opponents in at least one game so far this season, 248-154, and is 3-2-0 when outshooting an opponent.
• The Orange outshot Quinnipiac 34-29 in its 4-0 shutout.
• At Penn State, the Orange took 57 shots to the Nittany Lions' 21 shots and outshot PSU 44-20 in game two of the series.
• Against UNH, SU tallied 38 shots, while the Wildcats registered 20.
• In its game against No. 10 Northeastern, the Orange registered 37 shots compared to the Huskie's 25.

Points at Penn State
• The Orange had six different skaters register at least one point in each game of the series at Penn State.
• The following is how many points each member of the Orange scored this past weekend at PSU:
                - Carrie-Mattimoe: 2g, 1a
                - Ferrara: 1g, 3a
                - Kingsbury: 2g, 2a
                - Piacentini: 2g
                - Roach: 2a
                - Scharfe: 2g, 2a

Drinkwater Honored
• For the second time in her career, goaltender Jenesica Drinkwater was named the CHA Goaltender of the Week (10/15/12).
• Drinkwater posted her third career shutout, and first of the season, at Penn State (4-0).
• Currently, Drinkwater has a GAA of .864 and a save percentage of .864. She has recorded 57 saves so far this season.
• She tallied a season-high 36 saves against Quinnipiac in a 3-2 OT loss.

Scharfe in the Swing of Things
• Junior forward Margot Scharfe tallied four points at Penn State.
• She had two assists in game one of the series (10/13/12) and scored two goals in the second game (10/14/12).
• Scharfe netted her two goals in the third period against PSU. Her first score was the her first goal of the 2012-13 season.

Blocking By Hosoyamada
• Junior defenseman Akane Hosoyamada has a team high eight blocks so far this season.
• Hosoyamada has two assists so far this season.

Orange Special Teams
• The Orange has gone 4-for-30 (.133) so far this season on the power play.
• The SU penalty killing unit has gone 21-for-27 (.778).

Tri-Captains
• Senior defenseman Jacquie Greco, senior forward Holly Carrie-Mattimoe and junior forward Margot Scharfe will serve as the Orange tri-captains this season. Greco was an assistant captain last season.

Record Book Watch
• Senior forward Holly Carrie-Mattimoe's name can be seen throughout the Orange record book.
• She sits in fourth with games play (111), third in points (76), in second for goals (33) and 3rd with assists (43).
• Carrie-Mattimoe needs one more goal to tie for first in the Orange record book for career goals and two to become the all-time leader.

Energized in the Second
• The Orange offense was explosive in the second period against No. 10 Northeastern, registering a season-high 18 shots in the frame.
• They limited the Huskies only four shots and zero goals in the second 20 minutes of play after allowing four goals in the first period.

Conference Openers
• The Orange is now 3-2 all-time in conference openers and 1-2 when they are on the road.
• SU shutout Penn State, 4-0, in this season's CHA opener.
• Last season, the Orange were defeated at Robert Morris, 2-1 and lost to Robert Morris in its inaugural season, 1-0.
• SU won its conference openers against Niagara, 2-1, in 2009 and Wayne State, 3-0, in 2010.

Freshmen Connection
• Redshirt freshman Laurie Kingsbury's first career goal in the game against Northeastern was assisted by fellow freshmen, Danielle Leslie and Melissa Piacentini.
• The assists were both Leslie's and Piacentini's first career points.
• Kingsbury tallied an assist against UNH for her first career point the night before.

Welcome to the Orange
• The Orange added six newcomers to its roster this season Freshman Julie Bengis will join the goaltending corps while Nicole Renault and Danielle Leslie will join the veterans on defense. Melissa Piacentini, Marianne Thomaris and Emily Auerbacher will add to the Orange's strong offense.

Up Next
• The Orange are back on the road when it visits Union on Friday, Nov. 2 (7 p.m.) and Satruday, Nov. 3rd (2 p.m).

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