Lindenwood Game Notes
Series Notes
- Lindenwood has its first NCAA postseason contests this weekend when its travels to Robert Morris for a best-of-three series in the first round of the CHA Tournament.
- Lindenwood is the fifth seed in the CHA Tournament after finishing with a 7-10-3 league mark. Robert Morris is the fourth seed after going 9-10-1 in conference action.
- The Lady Lions are 3-1-0 against Robert Morris this season. The two teams split the series at Robert Morris, and the Lady Lions swept the series in Wentzville.
- Lindenwood is averaging 3.5 goals a game against the Colonials this year, while allowing 2.8 goals a game.
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Nicole Hensley has played nearly all of the minutes in goal against Robert Morris and she has a .942 save percentage in those games.
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Alison Wickenheiser and
Lyndsay Kirkham each have six points against Robert Morris this season. Wickenheiser has four goals, including two of the game-winning scores.
- Lindenwood is four-of-15 (26.7%) on the power play against the Colonials, while Robert Morris is one-of-19 (5.3%) with a man advantage against the Lady Lions.
- Robert Morris leads the all-time series with Lindenwood by a 5-3-0 mark, including a 3-1-0 record in games played in Pennsylvania.
- Robert Morris is 4-6 all-time in the CHA Tournament. It has won at least one game in each of the last three seasons, including winning the 2012 CHA Championship.
A Look Back At Syracuse
- Lindenwood ended the regular season with a two-game split at Syracuse.
- The Lady Lions won the first game in overtime by a 2-1 score.
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Caitlyn Post scored the game-winning goal with assists from
Kendra Broad and
Lyndsay Kirkham.
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Nicole Hensley stopped 42 of 43 shots in over 61 minutes in goal.
- The victory improved the team's unbeaten streak to seven games, the program's longest during its NCAA era.
- Syracuse won the second game by a 4-1 margin. The Orange had at least one goal in every period, including two in the third.
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Kendra Broad had Lindenwood's lone goal with an assist from
Caitlyn Post.
- After being outshot by 47 shots in the first series with Syracuse, Lindenwood was outshot by just 12 shots in this series.
- Lindenwood was 0-for-six on the power play in the two games, while Syracuse was one-for-seven.
- Lindenwood committed seven penalties against Syracuse, the third-lowest it committed in a series this year.
Lindenwood Notes
- Lindenwood finished the regular season on a 5-2-1 streak. All but three of those games were decided by one goal or less.
- In that recent run, the Lady Lions have scored five goals in the final minute of regulation and two goals in overtime. Three of those goals were game-winners and two forced an overtime period.
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Caitlyn Post has recorded a point in six of the last seven contests. She has three goals and three assists in that span.
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Lyndsay Kirkham,
Alyssa West, and
Alison Wickenheiser all had six-game point streaks snapped in game two of the Syracuse series. In the previous six games, Kirkham had three goals and six assists, West had one goal and six assists, and Wickenheiser had five goals and three assists.
- During the month of February,
Nicole Hensley had a 5-1-2 record. She had a .946 save percentage and a 2.08 GAA.
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Nicole Hensley is seven saves away from reaching 1,000 for the season. Her current total of 993 saves is the most by a Lindenwood goalie during the NCAA era.
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Kendra Broad,
Chelsea Witwicke, and
Lyndsay Kirkham all have a +5 plus/minus over the last eight games. Kirkham has not had a negative plus/minus in a game during that time frame.
- Since Jan. 11, Lindenwood has scored on 18.2 percent of its power plays, and it has killed 82.4 percent of opponents' power- play opportunities.
- Lindenwood finished its first regular season in the CHA by collecting at least two points against every team in the league except for regular season champion Mercyhurst.
CHA Notes
- Mercyhurst is the lone nationally-ranked team out of the CHA. The Lakers are No. 9 in the USA Today/USA Hockey magazine and USCHO.com rankings.
- The semifinals and finals of the CHA Tournament will take place on March 8-9 at Mercyhurst. The two first round winners will join one-seed Mercyhurst and two-seed Syracuse in the semifinals.
About the Colonials
- Robert Morris ended the regular season on a high note by sweeping Penn State by scores of 4-1 and 4-2.
- The Colonials are 6-8-0 at home on the season, including a 5-5-0 mark in CHA play.
- Rebecca Vint is the offensive leader with 16 goals and 15 assists. Kristen Richards, Kelsey Thomas, and Thea Imbrogno also have over 20 points on the year.
- Kristen DiCiocco is the team's top goaltender. She has a 2.32 GAA and a .912 save percentage.
- Head coach of Robert Morris is Paul Colontino, last year's National Coach of the Year. He is in his second season as head coach and has a 32-23-7 record.