LAST TIME THEY MET: Canisius took three points out of four last season with a 1-1 tie and then a 4-1 win Thanksgiving weekend in 2012. Jon Puskar Canton, Mich.) and Brandon Fagerheim (Calgary, Alb.) had the goals for AIC in the respective games, while Canisius keeper Tony Capobianco had 21 saves in the tie and 30 in the win.

ABOUT AIC: The Yellow Jackets were swept by Connecticut, 3-2 and 2-1 last weekend in a home-and-home series with the Huskies; in the Friday home game, Puskar and Blake Peake (Lethbridge, Alb.) both had a five-on-three goal and an assist, while Saturday's game saw Fagerheim score the lone tally for AIC in Storrs. AIC sits at 6-17-1 overall and 5-11-1 in league play, tenth in the conference, one point back of Holy Cross in ninth and a point ahead of Sacred Heart in eleventh. Puskar and David Norris (Calgary, Alb.) are the team's points leader with 21 each; Puskar has a team-best 11 goals to go with 10 assists, while Norris has three goals and 18 assists; their line's center, Alexander MacMillan (Calgary, Alb.), has 20 points on 10 goals and 10 assists. All three sit in the top twenty in the AHA in scoring. Norris's rookie classmate, Hunter Leisner, seems to have earned the top role in goal, starting 14 games and posting a 3.58 GAA and .905 SV%.

ABOUT CANISIUS: The Canisius Golden Griffins are coming off of a split against conference-leading Mercyhurst, with the road team winning both matchups; Mercyhurst won Friday 3-1, while Canisius scored five straight, overcoming a 3-1 deficit to win 704 Saturday. At 9-13-2 overall, their 8-7-2 record in AHA play puts them in sixth place, one point behind fifth place Robert Morris and one point ahead of seventh place Niagara. Junior goalkeeper Keegan Asmundson leads the AHA with a .932 SV% in 10 starts, though Capobianco has started each of the last three contests for the Golden Griffins. Senior forward Kyle Gibbons paces the team with 11 goals and 11 assists for 22 points, while senior defenseman Ben Danford is tops on the team with 13 assists, adding three goals for 16 points.

JACKETS HOPE TO BREAK STREAK: AIC swept the Golden Griffins in Springfield in the 2007-08 campaign with wins of 3-1 and 4-2 on November 16 and 17, 2007. Since then, the Griffins have taken points in 14 straight against AIC, with a record of 12-0-2.

NOT PLAYING LIKE A ROOKIE: Norris's 18 assists and 21 points are both the best in the AHA among freshmen. Only once this season-against UMass-Lowell and the first game at RIT-has he gone two straight contests without a point, and he has four multi-point games, including four assists at Bentley and three assists at Niagara.

MILESTONES NEAR: Coach Wright sits at 298 wins in his 30-year career as head coach at AIC; the only other coach to win 300 games with the Yellow Jackets is softball legend Judy Groff. Norris's 18 assists put him just two away from AIC's single-season record in the Division I era of 20, set by Aaron Arnett in 2000 and tied since by Guillaume Caron in 2003 and Neilsson Arcibal in 2012. Finally, MacMillian's five power play tallies are one off the record of six in one season, set in 2000 by Tim Kolasa and most recently tied in each of the last two years by Adam Pleskach, and his four game-winning goals are tied for the record Pleskach set in 2011.

NEXT UP: The Yellow Jackets play a home-and-home with Army, hosting Friday February 7 and heading to West Point on Saturday February 8.