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Greg, Matt Carey earn weekly awards, Saints men's hockey crack Top 20

Posted 11/13/13

Senior wing Greg Carey has been named ECAC Player of the Week and his freshman brother Matt is the ECAC Rookie of the Week following the Saints' road sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth. Additionally, the …

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Greg, Matt Carey earn weekly awards, Saints men's hockey crack Top 20

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Senior wing Greg Carey has been named ECAC Player of the Week and his freshman brother Matt is the ECAC Rookie of the Week following the Saints' road sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth.

Additionally, the Saint team, now 6-2-2 in its first 10 and 2-0-2 in league play, made its first appearance in the national polls, checking in at 17 as one of six ECAC teams in the top 20 with three more from the 12-team league also receiving votes. Quinnipiac is the top-ranked ECAC team at sixth with Yale ninth, RPI 10th, Clarkson 11th, the Saints 17th and Cornell 19th. Union, Brown and Harvard are those also receiving votes.

Greg Carey, who leads the nation in points overall with 19 and is second in points per game, earned his second Player of the Week award for the current season. Named a finalist for the Senior CLASS Award early last week, he will lead the Saints into their home series with Colgate and Cornell after a six-point weekend at Harvard and Dartmouth. He scored the game-winning goal and assisted on another at Harvard and had a goal and three assists at Dartmouth.

Matt Carey scored his first collegiate hat trick in the Dartmouth game with his brother assisting on all three goals. Matt Carey is second among all ECAC freshmen overall in points with 13 through ten games and is tied for the rookie goal-scoring lead with eight. He is the second Saint to earn Rookie of the Week honors this season, following Drew Smolcynski, who was named the league's top rookie after the Ferris State series.

The Saints will make their first ECAC home appearances this weekend when the host Colgate and Cornell and will be out to continue their best start to an ECAC season since a 4-0-0 opening in 2006-07 and their best start to a season overall since the 2005-06 team went 7-3-0.