↑ Syracuse's Allie Kelley – There are a lot of milestones to recognize, but this one stands alone. The 41 saves graduate student Allie Kelley made in a 1-0 OT loss to Penn State on Friday gave her 4,176 for her career, setting a new NCAA National Collegiate career saves record. RPI goalie Lovisa Selander's previous record of 4,167 saves was set from 2016-2019. Syracuse is Kelley's third school(Quinnipiac, St. Anselm) and as of Friday she had 1,953 saves while at Syracuse. She and Selander are the only two goalies in NCAA history to eclipse 4,000-saves.
↓ Pro/college overlap – The PWHL announced that the Boston Fleet will play two games at Boston University's Agganis Arena and my initial reaction was to be excited. There's been a real lack of connection between the pro and college game so far which is nuts considering about 90% of PWHL players played in the NCAA. But upon closer inspection, the March 8 Fleet game on BU's campus, which starts at 2 PM, overlaps the Hockey East Championship game (which BU has a good shot to play in - and win - for the first time since 2015) being hosted at UConn at 12 PM. I have a lot of not kid-friendly words and thoughts, but it really just boils down to - why? Why that day? And if it had to be that day, why that time? I'm so frustrated.
↑ Milestones – Cornell's Lily Delianedis earned her 100th career point with a goal 24 seconds into Friday's game. Wisconsin's Casey O'Brien became the first player to reach 50 points this season with her first goal of the weekend on Friday. She finished the weekend with 55 points. With her goal in the second period on Saturday, junior Tessa Janecke became the Penn State all-time career points leader with 138.
↓ Hockey East at-large bid chances – Boston College is the highest ranked HE team in the Pairwise at 9th, which in itself is a precarious position. But with losses this weekend, Northeastern is 12th in the Pairwise and Boston University is 14th. Connecticut is 16th. It's likely that one of those four teams wins the conference's auto-bid by winning the conference tournament, but unlikely any other Hockey East team makes the NCAA Tournament.
↑ Union – The Garnet Chargers won their sixth ECAC game on Saturday, breaking the program's previous conference win record.
↓ Time to make moves – I was prepping "How to Watch" templates for the upcoming weeks when I realized most teams have 8-1o games left in the season - basically a month to five weeks depending on when their conference tournament begins. The margin of error is super small and the time to make a difference in a team's final ranking is rapidly shrinking. I've been saying since the beginning of the season that despite the season being pretty long, a lot of times it comes down to one result or even one period or one goal.
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