DELAWARE
• Freshman Katie Belk (Otonabee, Ont.) scored the Blue Hens’ lone goal Saturday with a deflection, her team-leading third goal of the season. All three tallies have come in the last eight games.
• Charlotte Payne (Oakville, Ont.) has 40-plus saves in three straight games and leads the nation in saves (364).

LINDENWOOD
• Junior Renee Ng (Hong Kong, China), who had gone 12 games without a goal, scored one in each game last weekend for the Lions. The transfer from Division III Wilkes now has 30 goals in her collegiate career.
• The Lions are 3-2 in one-goal games, including consecutive wins, after going 2-8 in one-goal games last season.

MERCYHURST
• The Lakers have scored four shorthanded goals and allowed only one power-play goal all season.
• Mercyhurst has allowed just one goal in four games despite the absence of goaltender Magdalena Luggin (Vienna, Austria) while she plays for the Austrian National Team.
• With Friday’s win at Delaware, the Lakers became the first team in Atlantic Hockey America to win 300 conference games. Mercyhurst, at 301-74-30 all-time, has 84% more wins than the next closest school (Syracuse, 164).

PENN STATE
• Junior Grace Outwater (Picton, Ont.) leads all active AHA players with 48 goals, just two shy of 50 for her career.
• The Nittany Lions lead the conference with a 23.9% power play and have scored at least one PPG in eight of their last 10 games.
• Penn State and goaltenders Morgan Stickney (St. Charles, Mo.) and Maddy Campbell (Courtice, Ont.) have allowed just two goals in their last five games combined. They have posted shutouts in three straight conference games and four of their last five.

RIT
• Zoe Ziotas (Markham, Ont.) scored her third shorthanded goal of the season on Saturday, a total that leads the nation. All three have come in conference games, putting her one shy of the AHA record shared by Kiara Zanon (Penn State, 2022-23) and Christine Bestland (Mercyhurst, 2013-14). Ziotas and Outwater share the AHA lead with eight goals on the season.
• Captain Emma Pickering (Fishers, Ind.) has played four straight games after missing the first 10 of the season recovering from  an injury. Friday she played her 100th career game and Saturday she recorded an assist, her first point of 2026-27. Pickering was the only player besides Penn State’s Outwater to receive votes for the Preseason Player of the Year honor.
• The Tigers scored six goals in their series at Robert Morris, equaling their total from the previous seven games combined.

ROBERT MORRIS
• The Colonials have killed off 20 consecutive shorthanded situations, dating back six games to Oct. 23.
• Captain Alaina Giampietro (Strongsville, Ohio) scored her seventh goal of the season and third game-winner Saturday with just 3:51 remaining in regulation. She is tied for the AHA lead (fourth nationally) with three game-winning goals and leads the conference (fifth nationally) with 68 shots on goal.
• Goaltender Maggie Hatch (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) leads the nation in minutes played (774:11); Syracuse’s Ava Drabyk (Saskatoon, Sask.) is the only other goaltender over 700 minutes (716:19). This week’s opponent, Delaware’s Charlotte Payne (Oakville, Ont.) ranks fifth at 655:56.

SYRACUSE
• Emma Gnade (Fenton, Mo.) led Syracuse with four points (2G-2A) in two games last week, including her first career shorthanded goal. She also led the Orange with 14 shots on goal, finished the weekend +3, and won 17 faceoffs. She leads Syracuse and is tied for second in the conference with 15 points on the year.
• The Orange’s series with RPI begins a stretch in which their next three games and eight of their next 12 are against ECAC Hockey opponents.

Atlantic Hockey America is represented by three current players, four former players, two officials and a current head coach at the 2026 IIHF Women’s World Championship in Denmark:
• Austria: Magdalena Luggin (Mercyhurst)
• Czechia: Head coach Brian Idalski (Syracuse)
• Finland: Emma Nuutinen (Mercyhurst), Sofia Nuutinen (Mercyhurst), Julia Schalin (Mercyhurst)
• Sweden: Nicole Hall (Penn State), Thea Johansson (Mercyhurst)
• United States: Tessa Janecke (Penn State)
• On-ice Officials: Ashley Johnston, Sydney Harris

FLOHOCKEY 24/7 GAME

Friday’s Robert Morris-Delaware game will be available on FloHockey 24/7, FloSports’ free, ad-supported streaming channel.
FloHockey 24/7 can be found on YouTube, or select platforms such as fubo and Amazon Prime Video.

STAT OF THE WEEK

This weekend’s Penn State-Mercyhurst series will feature the top two AHA  teams in shots on goal (37.5 per game for Penn State, 37.4 for Mercyhurst). It will also feature five of the top 10 individuals in shots on goal.
Most Shots on Goal
68 – Alaina Giampietro, Robert Morris
58 – Mariia Polozkova, Mercyhurst
57 – Grace Outwater, Penn State
53 – Julia Perjust, Mercyhurst
52 – Jordan Blouin, Syracuse
51 – Emma Gnade, Syracuse
47 – Sofia Ismael, Penn State
47 – Greta Brezenski, Robert Morris
46 –Abby Stonehouse, Penn State
46 – Silje Gundersen, Lindenwood

THE AHA SHOW

The Atlantic Hockey America Show is published each Thursday on AHA’s YouTube page and wherever you find your podcasts.

Host Mike Puzzanghera welcomes AHA Defenseman of the Month Sophie Morrow ahead of Penn State’s visit to Mercyhurst.