With four straight wins and victories in eight of its last nine games, Clarkson has enjoyed a strong start to the 2019-20 campaign. The Golden Knights, guided by ninth-year Head Coach Casey Jones, Associate Head Coach Josh Hauge and Assistant Coach Mike Towns will look to close out the first semester with another solid showing as they travel to Michigan's Upper Peninsula to take on Michigan Tech in a two-game, non-league series this weekend in Houghton, MI.

Ranked 4/5th in the national polls, Clarkson owns an 11-3-1 overall record and is tied for second in the ECAC Hockey standings with a 6-1 league mark. The Green and Gold are coming off their third win of the season over archrival St. Lawrence, defeating the Saints 3-1 in conference action at Cheel Arena on Saturday.

The Knights also defeated St. Lawrence twice (4-3 ot, 3-2 ot) in Potsdam during non-league play in early November.

Clarkson has won three straight over Michigan Tech to take a 3-2 lead in their all-time series, which began with a 7-1 Huskies victory in the 1962 NCAA National Championship game. This will be the Knights first games at MacInnes Arena.
 

• Game Notes vs Michigan Tech  
• USCHO.com Poll
• USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll
• Coaches Corner with Mike Vaillancourt
• ECAC Hockey

• Clarkson's three losses have come against Providence (ranked 12th at the time), 4-2 on October 19; at Wisconsin (ranked 6th), a last second 4-3 defeat in Madison on October 25; 4-2 ECAC Hockey setback to Cornell (ranked 3rd) on November 15.
• The Knights will be making their third trip out to the mid west this season. The Green and Gold opened the year with a 1-1 tie and 3-1 win over Michigan in Ann Arbor on October 11-12. Clarkson split with Wisconsin (4-0, 3-4 ot) in Madison on October 25-26. 
• After being outshot in each of their first six games, the Knights have held the shot advantage in eight of the last nine games and tied in shots in the other (31-31 vs Cornell on Nov. 15). Clarkson posted its second 40-shot game of the season against St. Lawrence, putting 41 on the Saints' net in Saturday's 3-1 victory.
• Frank Marotte has played every minute in the Clarkson goal and is rated among the top goaltenders in the country. The graduate transfer posts a .939 save percentage (7th), a 1.72 goals against average (6th) and a .767 winning percentage (5th) on an 11-3-1 record. He started his Clarkson career with six consecutive 30+ save outings, including a season-high 38-save effort in 4-0 shutout over Wisconsin (ranked sixth in the country at the time) in Madison on October 25. He followed the next night, posting 37 stops in a one-goal loss to the Badgers. 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.
• Offensively, Clarkson is averaging 3.07 goals per game, 20th in the nation.
• Twenty of the Knights' 22 skaters have recorded at least one point and 15 players have scored at least one goal. 
• Four Clarkson players are scoring in double figures, led by Devin Brosseau with 20 points. The Knights' captain, Brosseau is third in the nation in points per game (1.54). Through 13 games, the left wing has tallied six goals and 14 assists. Brosseau, a graduate student, has amassed 103 career points (38-65) through 129 games. 
• Ten different Knights have accounted for the 11 game-winning goals with sophomore Chris Klack leading the way with two deciding goals.
• Senior left wing Haralds Egle became the latest Knight to connect for the deciding goal with a power-play tally for Clarkson's second score in the 3-1 win over St. Lawrence. 
Egle, who also recorded two assists in Saturday's victory over the Saints, is second on Clarkson in scoring with 17 points, including 12 assists through 15 games. Egle looks to be the next Golden Knight in line to challenge for the century mark with 90 career points (35-55) through 118 career games.
• Junior defenseman Connor McCarthy enjoyed a career day in the win over SLU, scoring twice on the power play and assisting on the game-winner. McCarthy was named ECAC Hockey Player of the Week.  All four of his goals this season have come on the power play and seven of his eight career tallies have come on the man-advantage.
• Sophomore center Josh Dunne has scored a team-high seven goals and is tied for fourth in the country in power-play tallies with five. The assistant captain also has seven assists. 
• Dunne and Egle share the team plus/minus lead at +8.  
• Zach Tsekos is making a significant impact up front in his first season on the ice with the Golden Knights. The junior transfer, who starred at Sacred Heart (2016-18), has 12 points (5-7), including five (2-3) in the past three games. 
• Clarkson's  penalty kill has been outstanding, ranked tied for fourth in the nation (58-63, 92.1%). Only five opponents have scored on the power play against the Green and Gold. 
• The Knights' power play has been clicking over the past five games with eight goals in the last 24 man-advantage opportunities (33.3%). Overall, Clarkson is 13-57 on the power play (22.8%),  good for 15th in the nation.
• Junior defenseman Jere Astren saw his first action on Saturday since suffering an injury at Michigan  (10/12) in the second game of the season. Astren missed the final 22 games last season due to an injury. 
• Right wing Anthony Romano leads the Clarkson rookies in scoring with four goals and one assist.  He is a 2019 Arizona Coyotes draft choice (6th round, 176 selection). 
• The Knights are 9-0-0 when leading through two periods this season and 52-2-3 when holding the lead through 40 minutes since the 2017-18 campaign. 
• Clarkson has gotten off to solid starts, netting the first goal in 10 of 15 games while outscoring the opponents 14-5 through the opening 20 minutes.  The Knights are  9-0-1 when scoring first.
• The Knights have also been strong in the third period with a 16-9 goal differential, and have traded 13 goals with the opposition in the middle frame.
• Clarkson is 5-2 in home games and 6-1-1 on the road.
• Clarkson opens the New Year with a four-game home stand, beginning with Rensselaer and Union on January 3-4
• In its 98th season, Clarkson boasts 74 winning campaigns and a 1,473-876-163 all-time record for a .619 winning percentage since 1920-21.
• Four current Golden Knights have been selected in the NHL Draft. Junior Kris Oldham – 2015 by Tampa Bay (6th round, 153 overall), sophomore Nick Campoli – 2017 by Las Vegas (6th, 158), freshman Dustyn McFaul – 2018 by Boston (6th, 181) and freshman Anthony Romano – 2019 by Arizona (6th, 176).

Scouting Michigan Tech
Michigan Tech of the WCHA comes into the weekend on a similar roll as the Golden Knights having won three straight and seven of its last eight. Michigan Tech stands at 10-7 overall and is tied for third in the WCHA at 8-6. The Huskies took two from Alaska Anchorage over the weekend at MacInnes Arena, winning 2-1 and 4-1. Over the Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend, Michigan Tech made the long trek to the Union's 49 State, splitting a pair against Alaska in Fairbanks, losing 4-3 before winning 2-1. The Huskies are 3-4 in Houghton this season.

The Series;
Two traditional hockey programs, Clarkson and Michigan Tech have played each other only five times with the Golden Knights winning the last three to hold a 3-2 advantage. Playing for the first time since a 4-3 Clarkson victory in the 1970 NCAA semifinals in Lake Placid, the Green and Gold won a pair of 3-1 games at Cheel Arena last year on November 16-17. 
Michigan Tech won the 1962 National Championship game over Clarkson 7-1 in Utica, in the teams' first ever meeting. The Huskies also won the only other game played in Potsdam, skating to a 4-3 overtime victory at Walker Arena on November 25, 1966. This will be the first games between the two in Houghton, MI. Haralds Egle has recorded a team-high two points (1-1) against Michigan Tech. Greg Moro, Jack Jacome and Grant Cooper have also scored goals against the Huskies.