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Clarkson Men Host Arizona State in Key NCAA Series

1/21/2020 11:50:00 AM

Winners of four of its last five games, Clarkson faces a big test this weekend in its final non-league action of the regular season. The Golden Knights host 13th-ranked Arizona State in a two-game set at Cheel Arena as part of the University's Cold Out, Gold Out (COGO) Weekend. Both games are 7:30 p.m. starts and can be viewed live streamed on ESPN+ (US) and StretchInternet (international).

Ranked 8th in the latest national polls, Clarkson, guided by ninth-year Head Coach Casey Jones, Associate Head Coach Josh Hauge and Assistant Coach Mike Towns,  stands at 16-5-2 overall and hold downs first place in the ECAC Hockey standings with a league-high 20 points on a 10-3 conference mark. 

This past weekend in its first road games of the New Year, the Green and Gold gained a split in New England. On Friday, Clarkson suffered a 3-2 loss to Dartmouth in Hanover, NH, but came back with a strong first-period showing in Cambridge, MA on Saturday en route to a 5-3 victory over 16th-ranked Harvard.
 
• Clarkson will face off against Arizona State for the fourth time and third time at Cheel Arena since the Sun Devils started their Division I program in 2015-16. The Knights have won all three games against the Sun Devils, including a 3-0 shutout in the opening round of the Desert Hockey Classic in Glendale, AZ on December 28, 2019. Clarkson swept Arizona State in their inaugural campaign, winning a weekend series at Cheel Arena during the 2015 Thanksgiving Holiday, 3-2 and 4-1. Devin Brosseau and Josh Dunne both tallied power-play goals in last year's victory.
• Clarkson continues to rank high in combined specialty teams play at 2nd in the nation (115/195, .59%).
• The Knights boast the number-one rated penalty kill in Division I, allowing just eight opponent power-play goals in 101 attempts (92.1%). Clarkson's shorthanded unit came up big on Saturday at Harvard, which came into the game with the top-ranked power play. The Knights' held the Crimson to just 1-of-9 on the man-advantage. That lone power-play score by Harvard is the only one Clarkson's shorthanded unit has allowed in the New Year, having killed off 29-of-30.  The Green and Gold have shutdown RPI (3-3) and Union (6-6), Princeton (3-3), Quinnpiac (4-4), Dartmouth (5-5) and Harvard (8-9) in 2020.
• After going 0-of-7 on the power play against RPI on January 3 in its first game back after a 33-day layoff, Clarkson has gone 5-of-21 over the last five games. The Knights went 0-of-3 against Dartmouth, but came back with a 2-of-7 outing at Harvard. Overall, the Green and Gold are ranked 12th in the nation on the man-advantage, hitting at 23.4% (22-94). 
• Clarkson ranks third nationally in scoring defense, allowing only 1.87 goals per game. 
• Offensively, the Green and Gold are tied for 19th in Division I, averaging 3.00 GPG.  The Knights have scored five goals each in two of the last three games, both coming against teams currently ranked in the Top 20 (5-2 vs Quinnpiac and 5-3 vs Harvard). Clarkson has scored five goals in a game four times this season.  Also against Union (5-1) and Colgate (5-1). 
• Over the past four seasons, the Knights are 49-1-2 when scoring four or more goals, including 8-0-0 this season.
• Clarkson has enjoyed the better of the play in the second game of the weekend, putting up a 10-2 record on Saturday after going 6-3-2 on Friday nights. The Green and Gold have won their last nine Saturday night games.
• Haralds Egle became the latest Golden Knight to join the Century Club. He tallied an assist against Dartmouth and a goal and an assist at Harvard, giving the senior right wing  100 points (41-59) through 126 career game. Egle leads Clarkson offensively and is ECAC Hockey's overall scoring leader with a team-high 11 goals and 27 points through 23 games this season. He has a current five-game point streak with four goals and three assists since January 4. Egle was named ECAC Hockey Player of the Month for December. 
• Clarkson's Captain, Devin Brosseau, who reached 100 career points earlier in the season, is tied for the second most overall points in ECAC Hockey despite missing six games with injuries. He has 25 points on seven goals and  a team-high 18 assists through 17 games. The left wing recorded two assists at Harvard in his second game back in the lineup after missing the first four games of 2020. A graduate student, Brosseau has compiled 108 career points (39-69) through 133 games.
• Brosseau has been named one of 13 nominees for the prestigious 2020 Hockey Humanitarian Award. Also selected as a nominee in 2019, Brosseau steers the Clarkson Hockey team's community-service efforts. The award, which is celebrating its 25th year, is presented annually to college hockey's finest citizen — a student-athlete who makes significant contributions not only to his or her team, but also to the community-at-large through leadership in volunteerism. Brosseau was named ECAC Hockey's Student-Athlete of the Year last season. 
• Frank Marotte has played every minute (1387:30) in the Clarkson crease, the seventh most in the country, and is rated among the top goaltenders in the nation.  The graduate transfer posts a 1.77 goals against average (4th), a .938 save percentage (5th), and a .739 winning percentage (5th) on an 16-5-2 record. Marotte recorded his second shutout as a Golden Knight and 10th career whitewash behind 19 saves in the 2-0 win over Union (1/4). He also blanked Wisconsin (ranked sixth in the country at the time) behind a season-high 38 saves in a 4-0 victory in Madison, WI on October 25.  Marotte, who starred at Robert Morris the previous three years, has twice been selected ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Week (10/14, 11/25) and was named conference Goaltender of the Month for October.
• Sophomore center Josh Dunne is Clarkson's third-leading scorer with 21 points (9-12) and is coming off a four-point weekend with a goal and an assist in both road games. He has six points (2-4) over the past five games. Dunne shares the Knights' plus/minus lead with Egle at +11.
• Junior Connor McCarthy leads Clarkson in scoring from the blueline with 15 points and eight goals, six of which have come on the power play. He leads all ECAC Hockey defensemen in goals and is second in the nation for power-play tallies by blueliners.Nine of his career 12 goals have come on the power play.
• Sophomore center Adam Tisdale has three goals and two game-winners in the past four games. He has tallied five goals this season after being held without a goal through 33 games of his freshman campaign. 
• Clarkson is 8-3 in home games and 8-2-2 on the road. 
• The Knights are 13-0-1 when leading through two periods this season and 56-2-4 when holding the lead through 40 minutes since the 2017-18 campaign. 

Scouting Arizona State
In its fifth year as a Division I program Arizona State has made a big impression in college hockey and is looking to make the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive year as an independent. 
The Sun Devils, who are ranked 13th in the national polls own a 15-8-3 record, and with over a month to go in the regular season are in the mix to grab one of the coveted 16 spots in the upcoming national playoffs.
Arizona State comes to the North Country, for the second time since the 2015-16 campaign, with a four-game winning streak and a 5-1 mark in the New Year.  The Sun Devils swept RIT this past weekend in Tempe, winning 6-1 and 5-3. ASU opened 2020 with a split at home against Michigan Tech (4-3, 2-3) and then took two against Brown in Providence, RI (3-1, 4-3 ot). The Sun Devils have also played ECAC Hockey foes Quinnipiac, winning 5-3 and 4-1 in Tempe in early November, and Harvard, losing 4-1 and tying 4-4 in Irvine, CA to close out 2019 in late December.  Arizona State is 7-5 in road games.

U.S. Olympian, David Leggio '08 to be Honored on Saturday
Clarkson will raise another banner to the Cheel Arena rafters during COGO Weekend when the University honors David Leggio a member of the United States 2018 Men's Olympic Hockey team, which competed in the Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. An all-star goaltender for the Golden Knights in the mid-2000s, David Leggio '08 has also represented Team USA in two IIHF Men's World Championships (2010, 2014) and two Deutschland Cups (2009, 2017).

The Williamsville, NY native established himself as one of the best goaltenders in Clarkson's illustrious history, competing for the Golden Knights from 2004-08. Leggio helped the Golden Knights compile 78 victories from 2004-2008, two back-to-back 20-win campaigns (2006-07, 2007-08), an ECAC Hockey Tournament Championship (2007) and a conference regular season title (2008) along with making two consecutive showings in the NCAA Tournament (2007, 2008). Leggio capped off his collegiate career by backboning the Knights to one of the most successful seasons in the program's history in 2007-08 with a 22-13-4 overall record, a first-place 15-4-3 ECAC Hockey mark and Clarkson's first NCAA Tournament victory since 1996.  He posted the fourth most wins at Clarkson with a 59-29-12 career record, including eight shutouts. Leggio completed his collegiate career with a .922 save percentage and a 2.30 goals against average.

After graduating from Clarkson with a bachelor's degree in Business, Leggio played over 10 years of professional hockey in the American Hockey League and in Europe. Leggio's USA Olympic Banner Raising Ceremony will take place prior to the Clarkson Men's Hockey team's game against Arizona State on Saturday. Leggio's banner will be raised to Cheel rafters to join those honoring Clarkson's other Olympians.
 
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