A couple of pregame notes from New Haven, where Yale and Brown begin a two-game ECAC Hockey series that will continue Sunday afternoon in Providence.

Jesse Root is out of the lineup after a head injury suffered at Harvard a week ago. Freshman Clinton Bourbonais will center Root's line alongside Kenny Agostino and Antoine Laganiere.

Tickets at Ingalls Rink will be hard to come by for the remainder of the regular season. Ninety minutes prior to the opening faceoff, there was already a line outside the ticket window for fans looking to snap up the remaining general admission tickets. Expect a handful of SRO from here on out.