DULUTH, Minn. (
csssaints.com) – The St. Scholastica women's hockey team will host Lake Forest College (Ill.) in an important final weekend of Northern Collegiate Hockey Association (NCHA) play.
Where:
Mars Lakeview Arena – Duluth, Minn.
When:
Friday at 7 p.m.
Saturday at 4 p.m.
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St. Scholastica Saints
Stats
Record: 16-6-1, 13-3-0 NCHA
Northern Collegiate Hockey Association: Standings | Stats
What You Need to Know about the Saints:
-The Saints enter the weekend tied with Lake Forest for second in the NCHA with 26 points apiece. The Saints currently own the tie breaker between the teams with 13 conference wins compared to Lake Forest's 11. A split on the weekend would give the Saints the upper edge and the No. 2 overall seed for the NCHA playoffs.
-Both teams have clinched home ice advantage for the first round.
-With the Saints 2-1 win over University of Wisconsin-Superior on Tuesday, the Saints now have a six-game winning streak, tying the program record for the longest winning streak. This is the third time in program history the team has had a six-game win streak. They have a chance to set new mark with a win Friday over Lake Forest.
-With one more win, CSS can set a new single-season record.
-CSS will honor its two seniors on Saturday in
Alexia Klaas (Duluth, Minn./Duluth Denfeld HS (Minnesota-Duluth)) and
Kennedy Houge (Woodbury, Minn./Hill-Murray HS).
-Klaas became the third player in program history to reach at least 40 goals and 30 assists in a career over the weekend. She did so in just three seasons.
-Houge had a personal-best three assists in Saturday win at Aurora University (Ill.).
-Also with the win over UWS, junior goaltender
Lexi Thomeczek (St. Louis, Mo./St. Joseph Academy (St. Louis AAA Blues)) broke the program record for career wins with 29.
-Thomeczek needs one more shutout to break the single-season record.
-Sophomore
Rachel Anderson (Shoreview, Minn./Mounds View HS) now has the second-most assists in a season (26) in program history is four shy of Michelle Fischer's program record of 30.
-Anderson also ranks sixth in NCAA Division III with 1.52 points per game and second with 1.13 assists per game.
-Junior
Taylor Thompson (Buffalo, Minn./Buffalo HS) has recorded at least one point in eight straight games.
-Freshman
Amber Tilander (International Falls, Minn./Falls HS) has a goal and as assist in each of the last two games and leads all NCHA freshmen with 18 points.
-The Saints rank ninth in the nation with a power-play rate of 23.9 percent.
-CSS is 13-1 this season when scoring the first goal.
-The Saints are out-scoring teams by 29 goals in the second and third periods combined.
-The Saints are 8-3-0 at home this season.
What You Need to Know about Lake Forest:
Record: 14-4-5, 11-1-4 NCHA
-The Foresters have only one loss on the season in NCHA play, but have been forced into four ties. That has them sitting at 26 points tied with CSS for the second seed in the playoffs.
-Their only loss was a 3-2 defeat to Trine University (Ind.). They knocked off Adrian by going 1-0-1 against the top-ranked Bulldogs this season.
-The Foresters' final six games of the season are on the road.
-They're 4-0 on this final road trip so far, and are 8-3-1 overall on the road this season.
-Senior Amy Budde leads the Foresters in points (27), goals (18) and second on the team with nine assists. No other Forester has more than seven goals.
-Both junior Kate Fanning and freshman Olyvia Opsahl lead the team with 10 assists.
-Junior goaltender Jacque Rogers has totaled 1020 minutes in net this season for Lake Forest. She has compiled a 9-4-4 record with a 1.18 GAA and a NCAA Division III sixth-best .953 save percentage.
-The Foresters are 3-2 in one goal games, and in two-plus goal games they're 11-2.
-Lake Forest is 13-0-1 when scoring the first goal.
Series Record: LFC leads 19-4-6
(Last Meeting: 2-1 (ot) LFC – 3/2/2018)
Series History: The Foresters have controlled the all-time in this series, with help from a seven-game win streak from 2015-2017 and a 13-game unbeaten streak (10-0-3) from 2014-2017. Lake Forest ended CSS' season in overtime each of the last two seasons in the Slaats Cup playoffs.
Looking Ahead: The Saints will host someone in the first round of NCHA Slaats Cup Playoffs next weekend. The Saints will either be the No. 2 or No.3 seed and in turn will host the No. 5 or No. 4 seed. The standings could still shake up a lot in this final weekend. Puck drop for next weekend's postseason game will be 7 p.m. both Friday and Saturday at Mars Lakeview Arena.
