Army West Point Athletics
Saturday, January 20
Kingston, Ontario
7:35 PM
Army West Point
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Royal Military College
Army, RMC Renew Rivalry in Ontario
January 18, 2018 | Hockey
WEST POINT, N.Y. – Riding a 10-game unbeaten and six-game winning streak in the series, the Army West Point hockey team will renew its longtime rivalry with the Royal Military College of Canada Saturday in Kingston, Ontario. The contest marks the 82nd meeting between the two teams, which began in 1923, and is slated to begin at 7:35 p.m. at the K-Rocke Centre.
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Talks of the series started in 1921, however, when Superintendent Brig. Gen. Douglass MacArthur wrote a letter to Maj. Gen. Sir Archibald MacDonnell, commandant of the Royal Military College, to suggest that the two military schools play. The second meeting of the two military academies marked the first time that Army did not play a home game of hockey. It was not until 1941 that the Black Knights would travel to face their competition, except of course for the Paladins year in and year out.
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ARMY (9-10-4, 7-7-4 Atlantic Hockey)
HOW TO FOLLOW
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GAME NOTES • GoArmyWestPoint.com
RMC (5-14-3)
LAST TIME OUT
16-straight
POWER PLAY PROWESS
For more news and information about Army hockey, please follow @ArmyWP_Hockey on Twitter and Instagram.
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Talks of the series started in 1921, however, when Superintendent Brig. Gen. Douglass MacArthur wrote a letter to Maj. Gen. Sir Archibald MacDonnell, commandant of the Royal Military College, to suggest that the two military schools play. The second meeting of the two military academies marked the first time that Army did not play a home game of hockey. It was not until 1941 that the Black Knights would travel to face their competition, except of course for the Paladins year in and year out.
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ARMY (9-10-4, 7-7-4 Atlantic Hockey)
- The Black Knights improved to fourth in Atlantic Hockey standings after gaining three points last weekend with a tie and victory over Bentley last weekend.
- Army is tied for fourth with 18 points alongside Mercyhurst and AIC.
- Michael Wilson leads the Black Knights with 13 goals and eight assists for 21 points.
- He is the only Cadet to record a multi-goal game this season, and he has accomplished the feat twice.
- Zach Evancho had a standout weekend with a pair of assists in Friday's contest for his second multi-point performance of the year.
- Jared Dempsey continues to thrive and notched the team's shutout on Saturday with 34 saves.
- The Black Knights will take a break from league play with the 82nd matchup against the Royal Military College.
LISTEN • GoArmyWestPoint.com/watch
TWITTER • @ArmyWP_Hockey
GAME NOTES • GoArmyWestPoint.com
- The Paladins enter the 2018 contest with a 5-14-3 record.
- Riley Brandt leads RMC with 23 points on 17 goals and six assists.
- David Savery and Rhett Willcox are the Paladins' playmakers with 12 and 11 assists apiece.
- Daniel Vautour has been the primary goaltender for RMC with a goals against average of 3.88 and an .888 save percentage.
LAST TIME OUT
- The Black Knights picked up three points last weekend with a 4-0 victory over Bentley on Saturday and a 3-3 OT draw on Friday.
- Wilson stole the show offensively with a hat trick. He netted two on the power play and now leads the league in power play goals per game.
- The shutout was fueled by Dempsey's 34 saves in his first-career shutout. He backed Army's penalty kill which was perfect on the weekend.
- In total, the Black Knights have killed off 16-straight penalties.
- Brendan Soucie netted Army's first shorthanded goal of the year in Friday's game and was ranked the second-best play in NCAA Hockey this week.
16-straight
- The Black Knights have seen success on its penalty kill throughout the season.
- Army continues to execute and has now denied 16-straight power plays to its opponents.
- The team has an efficiency of .889 which ranks the Black Knights second in the country.
- Thanks to Soucie's goal on Friday, Army notched its first shorthanded score of the season.
POWER PLAY PROWESS
- Army has also seen recent success in its other special teams unit - on the power play.
- The Black Knights have now scored on the man-advantage for three games in a row.
- This past weekend, Army had three power play goals, fueled by Conor Andrle who notched one and Wilson who had the other two.
- Wilson now averages 0.30 power play goals per game and ranks fifth in the nation.
For more news and information about Army hockey, please follow @ArmyWP_Hockey on Twitter and Instagram.
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