ROCHESTER, N.Y. - The RIT women's hockey team continues its season with two non-conference games at No. 3 Minnesota, Friday and Saturday. The Tigers travel to Minneapolis for a 7 p.m. (EST) puck drop on Friday, followed by a 5 p.m. (EST) start on Saturday.
FOLLOW LIVE
This weekend's road contests can be viewed on BIG10+ Television and heard on gohersports.com. All home games and select College Hockey America road contests this season will be streamed on Stretch Internet. Live statistics for all games can be found at RITathletics.com while in-game updates can be found on Twitter by following @RITWHKY.
NATIONALLY NO. 1
RIT is ranked No. 1 in team saves with 436. Freshman goaltender Sarah Coe is No. 1 in individual saves with 374.
NATION'S TOP-25
RIT has three other Tigers ranked in nation's top-25. Senior defender Taylor Sims is No. 4 with 31 blocks. Sophomore forward Lindsay Maloney is tied for 18th with 104 faceoff wins, while senior forward Abby Davies is No. 25 with 94.
BIG BLOCKS
Four Tiger defenders have registered 20 or more blocks. In addition to Sims' 31, freshman Kyla Bear and sophomore Mia Tsilemos have 21 each, and Kehl has 20.
TIGER SCORING LEADERS
Sophomore forward Lindsay Maloney (3g, 3a) leads the team in scoring, while sophomore forward Emma Roland leads the team with four goals and freshman defender Bailey Kehl leads the team with four assists.
LAST TIME OUT
RIT enters the Minnesota series after opening College Hockey America play with two losses to Syracuse last weekend. The Tigers fell 3-2 (OT) Friday (Nov. 5), before falling 7-0, Saturday (Nov. 6). In the overtime loss to the Orange, the Tigers rallied twice to tie the game after freshman defender Kyla Bear's first collegiate goal in the final minute of the second period forced overtime, making it the third time in the last four games that RIT has entered the third period tied.
ABOUT THE GOPHERS
No. 3 Minnesota is the highest ranked team the Tigers will face so far this season after previously facing No. 6 Colgate (Sept. 25-25). Minnesota enters the weekend series against RIT after a pair of WCHA wins last weekend at Bemidji State. The Gophers won 5-2 (Oct. 29) and 3-2 (Oct. 30), with the latter contest being the program's 700th victory, making it the fastest women's hockey program to achieve that mark. Senior forward Taylor Heise leads the Gophers with 14 points, five assists, 1.4 points-per-game, and 126 faceoff wins, with each category's totals in the nation's top-20 entering the week. Senior forward Amy Potomak's seven goals leads the Gophers (tied 11th nationally as of Wednesday).
RIT VS. MINNESOTA - HISTORY
The Tigers and Gophers have met just once with Minnesota taking a 6-2 victory on March 14, 2015 in Minneapolis. Minnesota was ranked No. 1 entering that game with a 31-3-4 record.
