MANCHESTER, N.H. – The Saint Anselm College women's ice hockey team hosts Post University on Friday, Feb. 17 and Saturday, Feb. 18 to conclude the 2022-23 regular season.
Prior to the 3 p.m. opening puck drop on Saturday, the Hawks will honor their five seniors and one graduate student with a pregame Senior Day ceremony.
SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE HAWKS (13-15-4, 12-6-4 NEWHA)
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POST UNIVERSITY EAGLES (4-25-2, 4-17-1 NEWHA)
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The Hawks most recently posted a 1-0-1 record in a weekend series with Saint Michael's College on Feb. 3 and Feb. 4, moving the team to 13-15-4 overall and 12-6-4 in league games. Following the regular season series, Saint Anselm will look to its New England Women's Hockey Alliance First Round three-game series scheduled for Friday, Feb. 24 through Sunday, Feb. 26. Saint Anselm ranks third in the NEWHA at the time of writing with 28 points.
The Eagles split a NEWHA series with Franklin Pierce University, claiming a 3-2 win in overtime on Feb. 10 before falling by an 8-0 score the following day. Post enters the final regular season series with a 4-25-2 overall record and a 4-17-1 mark in league games. Post will also compete in the NEWHA First Round three-game series following the regular season finale. The Eagles have nine points this season which is good for sixth in the standings.
HAWKS NOTES
- Graduate student Kelly Golini (Tewksbury, Mass.) ranks second in the NEWHA with 36 points. The co-captain has scored 16 goals which is second most in the league and is the league leader with 20 assists.
- Golini is currently riding a six-game point streak and has totaled nine points on the stretch (2 G, 7 A). The graduate student has already set career highs in assists and points this season and can add goals to that trend with three more tallies. Golini can move into fourth all-time in program history with six points, surpassing Alex Starzyk '17 who totaled 118 career points.
- Sophomore Tyra Turner (Andover, Minn.) is also riding a six-game point streak, collecting 10 points on the run (5 G, 5 A). Turner has set career highs in goals (15), assists (17), and points (32). Compared to the NEWHA, Turner ranks third in points, tied for fourth in goals, and is second in assists.
- Junior Natalie Tulchinsky (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and sophomore Audrey Jackson (Shoreview, Minn.) rank third and fourth on the roster in points with 30 and 22 respectively. Tulchinsky has netted 15 goals and 15 assists while Jackson has netted eight goals and assisted on 14 others.
- Freshman Brooklyn Pancoast (Helena, Mont.) has registered a multi-point effort in three of the Hawks' last six games, bringing her to nine goals and seven assists for 16 points.
- Senior goaltender Allie Kelley (East Berne, N.Y.) has eclipsed the 1,000 saves mark for the second-consecutive season and enters play on Friday with a National Collegiate level high of 1,009 saves. With just 32 stops, Kelley can break her own program record for saves in a single season.
- Kelley holds a 3.27 goals-against average and a 0.911 save percentage in 30 games started this season.
- The Saint Anselm power play is operating at 15.4%, scoring 19 goals in 123 power play chances. The team ranks fourth in the NEWHA with a 79.1% penalty kill rate, allowing 27 goals in 129 times shorthanded.
SCOUTING POST
- Kiersten Browning and Sheridan Terrazzano are tied for the team lead with 18 points apiece. Browning has a team-high eight goals while ranking second with 10 assists. Terrazzano has seven goals, second most on the roster, and has a team-high 11 helpers.
- In the Eagles 3-2 overtime win over the Ravens, Browning went for one goal, which was the overtime game-winner, and one assist, totaling two points.
- Madeleine Noonan and Jenna Abeyta are third and fourth on the roster with 10 points and nine points each. Noonan has scored three goals and assisted on seven others while Abeyta has found the twine four times and collected five assists.
- Grace Glasrud has started a team-high 17 games in the goal for Post. She owns a 3.99 goals-against average and a 0.899 save percentage with a total of 668 saves this season.
- The Post power play has scored 10 goals in 112 power play chances, good for an 8.9% conversion rate. The team has a penalty kill percentage of 68.0%, conceding 32 goals in 100 times shorthanded.
ALL-TIME vs. POST
- The Hawks and Eagles have met 19 times in the women's ice hockey all-time series. Saint Anselm enjoys a 19-0-0 record against Post all-time.
- The squads most recently met on Nov. 29 which went Saint Anselm's way by a 4-2 score.
- Friday's meeting on the Hilltop will be the first game played at Sullivan Arena since Nov. 13, 2021 between the two squads, ending four consecutive games played in Shelton, Conn.