Syracuse University
Robert Morris
The Orange Take on RMU to Wrap Up 2025 Year
12/3/2025 9:00:00 AM | Ice Hockey
Syracuse Hosts RMU Friday and Saturday
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PUCK DROP
- Game one and two of a four-game homestand awaits Syracuse on Friday, coming back from just down the road where the Orange took down the Engineers in Troy, NY.
- Friday's matchup will be at 6 p.m. and Saturday's will be at 3 p.m. with both games played at home at the Tennity Ice Pavilion.
- Syracuse came off a busy week, playing three games. Game one was a shootout win tieing No. 5 Cornell and then a win over RPI all at home. The Orange went to Troy, NY on Saturday where they recorded their second shutout of the season.
- Robert Morris split the weekend against fellow AHA team, RIT. Syracuse is 1-6-2 at home this season while the Colonials are 4-5-1 on the road.
- After being on the road for a month, Syracuse rounds out the first half of the season with six home games in seven games. The outlier was last Saturday's game at Houston Field House.
ROUNDING OUT THE FIRST HALF
- The Orange will end 2025 calendar year at home on Friday and Saturday against the Colonials.
- Syracuse is off to one of its better starts in the first half of a season, sitting at 8-10-2 with two games in the balance before the break. Compared to last years first half of the season, the Orange have already won more games, with the chance to improve to 10-10-2 after the Robert Morris series.
- Under head coach Britni Smith, the best first half for Syracuse came in 2022-23 with an 8-13-1 start, while Syracuse went 7-12-0 last year before New Years Eve.
- By winning percentage, the .450 so far in the fall of 2025 is the best percentage in the last four seasons before the break, sailing past the .386 in 2022-23.
DRABYK EARNS SECOND AHA GOALTENDER OF THE WEEK: DECEMBER 2
- Ava Drabyk earns her second AHA Goaltender of the Week award following last weekends performance against the RPI Engineers when she posted a 2-0-0 record and held RPI to only one goal in the series.
- Drabyk ties Penn State's Katie DeSa with the weekly awards among AHA goaltenders (3). - Among AHA goaltenders last week, Drabyk led the league with a 0.97 goals-against average, a .967 save percentage and 89 saves. Drabyk also made 17 saves in the second game of the series to earn her second career shutout, the only AHA netminder to blank a team last week.
- The other AHA weekly award recipients include Lindenwood's Zsofia Pazmandi (Forward), RIT's Emma Pickering (Defenseman), and RMU's Linnea Misner (Rookie).
