No. 2/3 Bobcats Host Final ECAC Weekend Before Holidays

The Weekend:

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The No. 2/3 Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey program takes to the M&T Bank Arena ice for the final time during the 2022 calendar year, hosting RPI and Union in its final ECAC weekend before the holiday break. The Bobcats enter in first in the league, claiming all 24 available points and sit five head of Harvard.

Rand Pecknold‘s club enters the weekend on a 11-game unbeaten streak and has climbed up to No. 2 in the DCU/USCHO poll, receiving 12 first-place votes as we enter the third month of the season.

RING THE BELL!

• Graduate captain Zach Metsa did the honors, as the Quinnipiac University men’s ice hockey team brought home its first Belpot championship, winning in a shootout over UMass after tying 2-2 in 65 minutes of action.
• Cristophe Tellier provided the winner in the shootout, scoring the lone goal as Yaniv Perets made two stops in the tiebreaker, while a third shot sailed over the crossbar. The Bobcats’ earned a bid in the final with a 5-2 win over fellow ECAC foe Dartmouth before knocking off the Hockey East’s Minutemen.

POWERED UP

• Collin Graf and Ethan de Jong have each been a focal point on the Bobcats’ second-ranked power play in the ECAC. Both players are tied for the league lead and inside the Top 15 nationally in power play goals, tallying four each.

DRAW!

• Quinnipiac enters the weekend with the third-best percentage at the faceoff dot, winning 56.3 percent through the first two months of the season.
• This attack is led by Skyler Brind’Amour, with the senior center currently sitting ninth in the nation and atop the ECAC with 198 faceoff wins.

DROPPIN’ DIMES

• First Year Sam Lipkin dished a career-high four assists on Saturday night, en route to the Bobcats’ 4-0 victory over Yale. It is one of six such performances by a palyer in NCAA hockey this season and one of three by a first-year player (Karsen Dorwart, Michigan State).
• Lipkin is the first Bobcat first-year to reach that milestone since Matthew Peca recorded…