Rivalry Weekend: Part I

Here is this week's edition of Clarkson notes.

Bonus material
KARPOWICH HONORED
Freshman goalie Paul Karpowich has come up big this season whenever he's faced one of the top teams in the nation. After helping lead Clarkson to a pair of ties against top-ranked Colorado College early in the season he made 40 saves last Friday to lead the Golden Knights to a 4-2 win over second-ranked Miami (Ohio).
Karpowich was also solid the following night against Ohio State in a 2-0 Clarkson loss and was named the ECAC Hockey Goaltender of the Week.
"The team made it really easy for me, everything was from the outside," Karpowich said.
More important that beating a No. 2 team would be, the win over Miami also snapped a school-record, 11-game winless streak (0-9-2).
"That's always nice," Karpowich said. "We were in a pretty bad skid there."
The next big challenge for the freshman, who was drafted by the NHL's St. Louis Blues last summer, is rival St. Lawrence University, Clarkson's opponent for a pair of nonconference games this weekend.
"I've never seen (a Clarkson/SLU game) before," Karpowich said. "You hear stories about how wild they get."