Wear Orange for 'Cuse Home Opener

Series Details: Friday, Oct. 6 (6 pm) and Saturday, Oct. 7 (3 pm), Tennity Ice Pavilion, Syracuse, N.Y.
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The Orange will play the first home series of the 2023-24 season on Friday, October 6 (6:00 pm) and Saturday, October 7 (3 pm) when they host Merrimack at Tennity Ice Pavilion. For the season-opener on Friday, all fans are encouraged to wear orange to the game to celebrate the first home game of the season. On Saturday, fans are invited to stay after the game for a postgame autograph session with the team.

Syracuse has played Merrimack twice, with each team winning one game in a series in Massachusetts last season. The Orange won the first game, 3-2 in overtime, to give head coach Britni Smith her first victory as the Syracuse leader in her first season at the helm.

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Graduate goaltender Allie Kelley and freshman forward Nea Tervonen earned College Hockey America weekly awards for helping carry the Orange to two victories at Post last week. Kelley recorded her first Syracuse shutout and totaled 27 saves in the two games. She earned the CHA Goaltender of the Week award. Tervonen secured a goal, won 30 faceoffs, and played in every situation in her debut collegiate series, including power play and penalty kill in the series. Tervonen earned Rookie of the Week for her achievement.
Syracuse swept Post in the season-opening series. Sophomore forward Heidi Knoll tallied Syracuse's a career-high two goals in the season-opening win.
All five Syracuse goals scored in the series at Post were tallied by first or second year Syracuse skaters, including sophomore Heidi Knoll (2 goals), sophomore Mik Todd (1), and freshmen Nea Tervonen (1) and Haley Trudeau (1).
Best Start: Syracuse's 2-0 start this season is the best start in program history. In 2010-11 the Orange stared the season with a 1-0-1 record. That season, Syracuse tied Northeastern, 4-4, and beat #5 New Hampshire, 4-2.