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8th-Ranked Knights Travel to Minnesota for Two-Game Series vs. 7th-Ranked Gophers

A tough season-opening, non-league slate comes to a close for the Clarkson University Hockey team this weekend as the Golden Knights travel to Minneapolis to take on the University of Minnesota in a two-game series. Game times on Friday and Saturday are 7:00 p.m. central on the big ice (200x100) at 3M Arena at Mariucci.

Ranked tied for 8th, and 9th in the national polls, Clarkson, guided by seventh-year head coach Casey Jones and assistants Phil Roy '00 and Josh Hauge, has fared well against some of the top programs in the country to start its 96th season. The Knights post a 4-1-1 record and are coming off a weekend split at Cheel Arena.

The Green and Gold suffered their first loss of the year on Friday with a 3-1 setback to 19th-ranked UMass-Lowell, but came back with a complete effort on Saturday in shutting out 9th-ranked Providence 4-0.

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• Two traditional NCAA powerhouses, Clarkson and Minnesota have faced off against each other only four times with the Gophers skating away with the victory in each game. Minnesota rallied for a 4-3 overtime victory at Cheel Arena last year on  October 28 in the programs' first ever regular-season meeting.
• The opening slate to the 2017-18 campaign is one of the toughest in the program's 96-year history with seven of the Knights' first eight games against teams that competed in the NCAA Tournament last March. The only game not against a 2017 NCAA participant was vs. nine-time NCAA champion Michigan, who the Green and Gold shut out 3-0. Clarkson opened the year with a 2-1 win over Penn State. The Knights follwed with a tie (2-2) and win (4-2) at Western Michigan on October 13-14.
• Clarkson matched its best start since the 2006-07 campaign when it also went 3-0-1 to open the season. The Knights finished with a 25-9-5 record and made the NCAA Tournament that season. Clarkson began the 1990-91 campaign unbeaten in its first seven (6-0-1).
• Picked to finish fourth in ECAC Hockey this year by the league coaches, the Knights open conference play next weekend, hosting NY State Capital District rivals Rensselaer and Union at  Cheel Arena.
• Clarkson is ranked T-8th, and 9th in the USA Today/USA Magazine and USCHO.com polls. 
• A native of Eden Prairie, MN, Jake Kielly returns to his home state as one of the best goaltenders in the country through the early going of the 2017-18 campaign. Kielly was named ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Week for the second time in the opening month of the season. Coming off his second shutout of the season, a 26-save effort in Saturday's 4-0 win over Providence, the sophomore posts a .958 save percentage (2nd in the NCAA) and a 1.32 goals against average (5th). Playing every minute in the Clarkson crease through the first six games, Kielly's owns a .750 winning percentage (T-8th) and is tied for first in shutouts. He also blanked Michigan on October 7 with 29 saves in Potsdam. ECAC Hockey All-Rookie Goaltender in 2016-17, Kielly has started 41 games for the Knights and holds a career .919 save percentage and a 2.38 GAA. Kielly is named as one of the 20 goaltenders on the Mike Richter Award list for 2017-18, which honors the most outstanding goaltender in NCAA Division I Hockey.
• The Knights boast the second stingiest defensive effort in the country, allowing only 1.33 goals per game, and already have two shutouts in the first six games. Clarkson recorded three shutouts last season.
• Clarkson's top line from last season, sophomores Sheldon Rempal, Devin Brosseau and Nico Sturm have continued the offensive production they displayed as rookie and are the Knights' three leading forwards early in the 2017-18 campaign.
• A right wing, Rempal has tallied at least one point in five of the first six games. He has eight points on three goals and five assists and recorded his second multiple-point game of the year with two assists in Saturday's 4-0 win over Providence.
• Brosseau, a left wing, has posted three multiple-point games this season and recorded his second career two-goal outing with a pair of power-play tallies in the win over the Friars. He has tallied three goals and three assists.
• Centering the sophomore line, Sturm has picked up four points (1-3) and shares the team lead in plus/minus at +4. He is also Clarkson's top center at the faceoff circle winning 66.7% (80-40) of his draws.
• Senior defenseman Terrance Amorosa has tallied at least one point in five of the first six games and is Clarkson's second leading scorer with seven points on two goals and five assists. The 2013 NHL Draft choice of the Philadelphia Flyers has tallied twice on the power play, holds a +4 plus/minus rating and is a team leader in blocks with six.
• Freshmen Jack Jacome and Grant Cooper recorded their first collegiate goals over the weekend. Jacome scored the Knights' lone goal on Friday against UMass Lowell. Cooper netted the game-winner against Providence.
• Captain Nic Pierog is the first Golden Knight to wear the #6 jersey since the late Mike Morrison '89 wore it in his senior campaign of 1988-89.  
• Senior Brett Gervais and sophomore Devin Brosseau serve as Clarkson assistant captains.
• Clarkson is 2-4 all-time against Big 10 opponents after defeating Penn State (2-1) and Michigan (3-0) to open the season on October 6-7 at Cheel Arena.  The Knights lost two close games last season to Big 10 foes, falling to Minnesota (4-3ot) and Wisconsin (5-4). 
• The Knights are 4-0-0 when scoring first and 4-0-0 when leading through 40 minutes.
• Clarkson is 4-0-0 when outshot by the opponents.
• Clarkson's penalty-killing unit is ranked tied for 6th in Division I, shutting down 33 of the opponents' 36 man-advantage chances (91.7%).
• Clarkson's 2-of-5 effort on the power play in the win over Providence was their best outing of the season. The Knights are hitting at 18.5% on the power play this season (5-27).  
• Now in his seventh year as Clarkson Head Coach, Casey Jones reached 100 career wins with Saturday's victory over Providence.
• In its 96th season, Clarkson boasts 72 winning campaigns and a 1,417-852-155 all-time record for a .617 winning % since 1920-21.

Scouting Minnesota
Guided by long-time head coach Don Lucia, Minnesota is once again regarded among the top teams in the country, ranked seventh in both of the national polls. The Gophers stand at 3-3 and are coming off a weekend split in Grand Forks, ND. Minnesota took the first game of the series against North Dakota edging the Fighting Hawks 2-1 on Friday before losing 4-0 to fourth-ranked North Dakota on Saturday. Minnesota opened the season with a 4-3 overtime setback to Minnesota Duluth in the first round of the IceBreaker Tournament in Duluth on October 6, but came back with a 2-0 victory over Union in the consolation game the next night. The Gophers also split a series with Big 10 foe Penn State on October 13 and 15, losing the first game 3-1 and winning the second meeting 6-3. Minnesota is 1-1 at 3M Arena at Mariucci in 2017-18.

The Series:
Two traditional NCAA powerhouses, Clarkson and Minnesota have faced off against each other only four times with the Gophers skating away with the victory in each game. The first three games of the series came in the NCAA Tournament. The first regular-season meeting between the two teams came last year at Cheel Arena, with the Gophers rallying for a 4-3 victory on October 28. Minnesota eked out a 2-1 win on March 27, 1993 in the opening round of the East Regional in Worcester, MA. The Gophers also swept the Knights (6-1, 5-1) at Mariucci Arena in NCAA first-round play on March 16-17, 1990.
Kelly Summers, Sheldon Rempal and Haralds Egle scored goals in last year's game and Jake Kielly posted 32 saves on 36 shots.
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Players Mentioned

Terrance Amorosa

#44 Terrance Amorosa

D
6' 2"
Senior
Devin Brosseau

#14 Devin Brosseau

F
6' 1"
Sophomore
Haralds Egle

#18 Haralds Egle

F
5' 10"
Sophomore
Brett Gervais

#19 Brett Gervais

F
5' 10"
Senior
Jake Kielly

#29 Jake Kielly

G
6' 2"
Sophomore
Nic Pierog

#6 Nic Pierog

F
6' 1"
Senior
Sheldon Rempal

#11 Sheldon Rempal

F
5' 10"
Sophomore
Nico Sturm

#17 Nico Sturm

F
6' 3"
Sophomore
Kelly Summers

#5 Kelly Summers

D
6' 1"
Senior
Jack Jacome

#16 Jack Jacome

F
5' 7"
Freshman
Grant Cooper

#26 Grant Cooper

F
6' 0"
Freshman

Players Mentioned

Terrance Amorosa

#44 Terrance Amorosa

6' 2"
Senior
D
Devin Brosseau

#14 Devin Brosseau

6' 1"
Sophomore
F
Haralds Egle

#18 Haralds Egle

5' 10"
Sophomore
F
Brett Gervais

#19 Brett Gervais

5' 10"
Senior
F
Jake Kielly

#29 Jake Kielly

6' 2"
Sophomore
G
Nic Pierog

#6 Nic Pierog

6' 1"
Senior
F
Sheldon Rempal

#11 Sheldon Rempal

5' 10"
Sophomore
F
Nico Sturm

#17 Nico Sturm

6' 3"
Sophomore
F
Kelly Summers

#5 Kelly Summers

6' 1"
Senior
D
Jack Jacome

#16 Jack Jacome

5' 7"
Freshman
F
Grant Cooper

#26 Grant Cooper

6' 0"
Freshman
F