Army West Point Athletics
Friday, November 15
Rochester, NY
7:00 PM
Army West Point
at
RIT
Hockey Slated for Road Series at RIT
November 14, 2024 | Hockey
WEST POINT, NY - Army West Point hockey (3-6-0, 3-5-0 Atlantic Hockey America) is set to hit the road for a weekend series at RIT (3-7-0, 2-3-0 Atlantic Hockey America) this weekend. Puck drop is slated for 7:00 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday night from the Gene Polisseni Center with streaming on FloHockey and the Varsity Network.
Game One: Nov. 15 - 7 PM
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Game Two: Nov. 16 - 7 PM
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LAST TIME OUT
Game One: Nov. 15 - 7 PM
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Game Two: Nov. 16 - 7 PM
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LAST TIME OUT
- Army split its series at home with Niagara with just two total non-empty net goals scored in the two games.
- The Black Knights earned a 1-0 win on Friday night before falling 2-0 on Saturday.
- Freshman goaltender JJ Cataldo earned his first career shutout on Friday with a 39-save effort to blank the Purple Eagles.
- Freshman forward Adam Marshall registered his first career goal which proved to be the game-winner.
- Army matched a regular season program-high with 27 blocked shots in the game one win.
- Cataldo returned on Saturday to make 30 saves while allowing just one goal.
- Army has surrendered one goal or fewer in three of nine games this season after doing so just five times in 35 games in 2023-24.
- JJ Cataldo enters the series leading the country with a .960 save percentage.
- Cataldo's 1.26 GAA is third-best among goaltenders nationally.
- With accurate data going back to the 2002-03 season, Cataldo is just the second collegiate goaltender to make 120+ saves while allowing five or fewer goals through his first four starts.
- The .960 save percentage is also seventh-best from any goaltender in that span through the first four starts of a career.
- He is just the third freshman goaltender for Army to post a shutout in the Atlantic Hockey era (2002-pres.).
- Sophomore forward Nik Hong has scored three times in seven games, ranking eighth in the conference in goals per game.
- Hong and sophomore forward Barron Woodring are one of four pairs of teammates in the conference to each average eight faceoff wins per game at a 50-percent or better clip.
- Sophomore forward Brent Keefer has paced Army's offense with six assists and seven points this season.
- Keefer also leads the Black Knights in plus-minus with a +1 rating this season.
- Senior forward Joey Baez leads all active college hockey players with 19 career power-play goals.
- Senior forward Michael Sacco is one of the two forwards in the country this season with multiple goals and 14-plus blocked shots.
- Army has seen 12 underclassmen skaters dress in seven or more games this season.
- The Black Knights have blocked 15.56 shots per game which ranks second in Atlantic Hockey America.
- Army has split three of its first four conference series' to begin the campaign.
- RIT leads the all-time series 27-6-7.
- The Tigers have won the past four meetings, sweeping a series in each of the past two seasons while Army swept the Tigers in Rochester in 2021-22.
- The past ten meetings have seen Army boast a 3-6-1 record.
- The Tigers were picked second in the AHA Preseason Coaches' Poll after winning the conference in 2023-24.
- Sophomore forward Matthew Wilde was selected to the All-AHA Preseason Team and made his season debut last weekend, collecting four points in two games.
- RIT snapped a five-game losing streak last time out against Bentley as the Tigers enter play with a 3-7-0 overall record.
- Sophomore Tyler Fukakusa has paced the team with nine points while junior forward Simon Isabelle has posted five goals.
- Freshman goaltender Jakub Krbecek is responsible for all three Tiger wins this season, with a 2.82 GAA and .924 save percentage in six starts.
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