NEW SPECTATOR POLICIES STARTING FEB. 11

St. Lawrence at No. 7 Yale
ECAC HOCKEY, Best-of-Three Quarterfinal Series
Friday, Feb. 25 – Sunday, Feb. 27
6 p.m., 3 p.m., 3 p.m. (if needed)
Ingalls Rink

YALE GAME NOTES
 
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – It's been 17 seasons since the Yale Women's Ice Hockey Team hosted a post-season contest. The No. 7 Bulldogs, who have won seven of their last eight games, host an ECAC Hockey Quarterfinal Series at Ingalls Rink this weekend. The first home playoff series for the No. 2 seeded Elis since 2005 brings the St. Lawrence Saints (7 seed) to town for a best-of-three set.

AT THE WHALE
Admission is free for all three games this weekend and the Yale Band will be in attendance. Friday is the White Out with the first 400 fans getting free t-shirts, while Saturday is fan raffle prize day. Raffle prizes include: Garden Catering Gifts Cards, two Free Avelo flight vouchers, a meet & greet with Handsome Dan, Yale gear and more.

 
LAST MEETINGS
Yale and SLU skated to a 4-4 OT tie at Canton early in the year and then the Bulldogs grabbed a 3-1 victory over the Saints at New Haven.
 
ECAC HOCKEY TOURNAMENT
The four advancing teams this weekend are in the semifinal round, which is played at the site of the highest remaining seed on Saturday, March 5. The other series are No. 8 Princeton at No. 1 Harvard, No. 6 Cornell at No. 3 Colgate and No. 5 Clarkson at No. 4 Quinnipiac. The championship game is set for March 6, while all championship weekend times are TBA. The Elis have advanced to one semifinal (2005), which followed a series sweep of Princeton at New Haven.
 
BULLDOGS
Yale, which has had a record-breaking campaign, clinched second place by winning 3-0 at Princeton last Saturday as three different skaters found the net and rookie Pia Dukaric got the shutout between the pipes. The Bulldogs, tied for fourth with Wisconsin in the Pairwise, head into the post season ranked second nationally in scoring defense (1.41) and fifth in offense (3.69). Dukaric is second in Division I with a 1.15 goals against, while her .936 save percentage is 12^th. Senior goalie Gianna Meloni, a semifinalist for national goalie of the year honors, is seventh nationally with a 1.44 GAA; her SP (.938) is 10^th. Sophomore forward Elle Hartje ranks third in the nation with just over an assist per game, and she is eighth with 1.52 point per contest.
 
SAINTS
SLU brings a 14-13-7 record to New Haven coming off a pair of home losses last weekend. The Saints, who lost 3-2 in OT to Cornell and then dropped a 9-1 decision to Colgate, is 0-3-2 over its last five but ranked 13^th in this week's Pairwise. SLU, which has one conference tournament title (2012), is led offensively by rookie forward Abby Hustler (11-13-24) and in net by junior Lucy Morgan (1.64 GAA, .943 SP).