DELAWARE
• The Blue Hens’ win against Lindenwood snapped an 0-19-1 stretch dating to Nov. 15, 2025 and marked the third victory in the program’s two-year history.
• Sophomore Charlotte Payne (Oakville, Ont.) earned her first career AHA weekly award this week. She has been between the pipes for all three of Delaware’s victories as a program.
• Sophomore Francesca Barresi (Ottawa, Ont.) scored the game-winning goal Saturday and led the team with 13 shots on goal on the weekend. The other three Blue Hens who scored in Saturday’s game all recorded their first collegiate goals.

LINDENWOOD
• Lindenwood has not allowed a power-play goal in 16 opportunities this season.
• The Lions lead the league in goals allowed per game (1.67) and rank second in goals scored per game (3.17). Twelve Lions have scored at least a goal, four more than any other team.
• 2026 French Olympian Elina Zilliox (Weyersheim, France) has six points in six games and is the only AHA defenseman leading her team in scoring.

MERCYHURST
• Senior Sofia Nuutinen (Vantaa, Finland), the leading career scorer among active AHA players, enters this weekend just five points shy of 100 for her career (32-63–95 in 117 GP).
• The Lakers scored two shorthanded goals Saturday, the first time they have scored a pair of SHGs in a game since Feb. 18, 2022 at Lindenwood. They are the only team nationally with multiple shorthanded goals so far this season.
• Mercyhurst is 297-74-30 through 401 all-time AHA conference games, the most games and wins of any conference member.

PENN STATE
• Junior Abby Stonehouse (Blenheim, Ont.) had a career-high 12 shots on goal Friday against Robert Morris, matching the most by an AHA player since her former teammate Tessa Janecke had a conference record 15 shots on Feb. 10, 2024 at RMU.
• Stonehouse had a career-high four points on Saturday on four assists. She matched linemate Sofia Ismael (St. George, Ont.) for the conference lead with six points on the weekend.
• Ismael scored the first four goals of her college career last weekend, with one on Friday and a hat trick Saturday.
• Penn State’s four shots allowed in Saturday’s win marked the second-fewest ever allowed by an AHA team, trailing only the one shot the Nittany Lions allowed at Delaware on Oct. 11, 2025. They did not allow an RMU shot in the first or third periods.

RIT
• Junior Zoe Ziotas (Markham, Ont.) scored in both games last weekend and has a point in all four games this season (3-1–4). The four-game point streak is the longest of her career.
• Senior Addie Alvarez (Rochester, N.Y.) also has points in each game. She had 2-5–7 in four games against this weekend’s opponent, Delaware, last season.

ROBERT MORRIS
• Captain Alaina Giampietro (Strongsville, Ohio) posted her second two-goal game of the season Friday at Penn State, moving into a tie with the Nittany Lions’ Grace Outwater (Picton, Ont.) for the most career goals among active AHA players with 43.
• Senior Maggie Hatch (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) has played all four games for RMU and made 48 saves Saturday, her 16th career game of 40-plus saves.

SYRACUSE
• Syracuse’s 3-0-0 start was the first in program history.
• Sophomore Emma Gnade (Fenton, Mo.) has a point in all four games thus far (1-5–6), the longest point streak of her career.
• Senior Jackson Kinsler (Madison, Wis.) has posted her second and third career two-goal games in the past two weekends.

STAT OF THE WEEK
Nationally, 18 goaltenders have made multiple appearances and boast goals-against averages under 2.00. Six of those are in Atlantic Hockey America.
Best Overall GAA (min. 2 GP)
0.50 – Ebba Ridderstolpe, Lindenwood
1.34 – Madison Bowtell, Lindenwood
1.51 – Madison Campbell, Penn State
1.51 – Ava Drabyk, Syracuse
1.68 – Magdalena Luggin, Mercyhurst
1.99 – Charlotte Payne, Delaware

Other conferences represented among those top 18 goaltenders are the WCHA (5), Hockey East (4) and ECAC Hockey (3).

THE AHA SHOW

The Atlantic Hockey America Show is published each Thursday during the season on AHA’s YouTube page and wherever you listen to podcasts.

This week, host Mike Puzzanghera will welcome Delaware head coach Allison Coomey ahead of her team’s series at RIT.