Series Notes:
- The Lindenwood women's hockey team begins a stretch of six consecutive conference series as it closes out the regular season portion of its 2016-17 schedule. Lindenwood heads to Pittsburgh, Pa. for a two-game series with the No. 7 ranked Robert Morris Colonials on Jan. 13-14.
- The games with the Colonials will represent the third-consecutive series against ranked opponents for the Lady Lions. Lindenwood played host to No. 10 North Dakota on Dec. 16-17, and No. 1 Wisconsin on Jan. 6, before the cancelation of the Jan. 7 contest.
- Dating back to the start of the 2011 season, Robert Morris owns the edge in the all-time series, 18-6-1. A season ago the Lady Lions and Colonials met seven times, including three times during the first round of the CHA Tournament. In the first round of last season's CHA Tournament, Lindenwood won the first meeting of the best-of-three series before falling in the next two games as the Colonials advanced to the CHA semifinals.
- Robert Morris enters the weekend with a 14-1-5 record and is unbeaten in its last 13 contests. The Colonials lone loss of the season came in overtime at Merrimack on Oct. 21. Robert Morris currently sits atop the CHA standings with 15 points.
- Robert Morris is led offensively by the duo of Brittany Howard and Jaycee Gebhard, who are tied for the team lead with 13 goals scored. Howard has a team-leading 35 points, while Gebhard ranks second with 27 points. The Colonials have split the goaltending duties between Lauren Bailey and Jessica Dodds. Dodds leads the team in goals against average (2.13) and save percentage (.925), while Bailey leads in wins (7).
Lindenwood Notes:
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Shannon Morris-Reade entered into a five-way tie for the team lead in goals scored following her third period goal on Jan. 6 against Wisconsin.
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Jolene deBruyn stopped 30 shots against Wisconsin, her sixth game this season with at least 30 saves.
- deBruyn has started all eight confernce games for the Lady Lions this season. In those eight contests, deBruyn has compiled a .926 save percentage and a 2.13 goals against average.
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Cierra Paisley leads the team with four points in CHA action. Paisley also leads the team with nine points and seven assists for the season.
- The Lady Lions won 29 of the 55 faceoffs against the Badgers on Jan. 6. It was the fifth time this season that Lindenwood held the edge in the faceoff circle.
- Paisley currently leads Lindenwood with 77 victories on faceoffs, while
Emma Hare has registered the highest winning percentage on draws at 54.1 percent.
- Lindenwood had nine players record a blocked shot against Wisconsin.
Erin Near has blocked a team-high 26 shots this season.
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Taylor Girard tallied three shots against Wisconsin, and ranks third on the team with 34 shots on goal. Morris-Reade leads the team with 47 shots, and
Sarah Bobrowski has the second-highest total with 36 shots.
- Lindenwood currently has seven players that have dressed in all 19 games this season. Last season the Lady Lions had 10 players suit up for all 37 contests.
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Holly Dietzler is the active leader with 122 games played.
Carrie Atkinson has skated in 121 games.
