No. 1/1 QU Men's Ice Hockey Travels to Univ.of Maine on Tuesday, Jan. 19

No. 1/1 Quinnipiac University Bobcats (19-1-3, 10-0-2 ECAC Hockey) at
University of Maine Black Bears(5-13-5, 2-6-2 Hockey East)
Date: Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016
Time: 7:00
Location: Alfond Arena (5, 125)
All-Time Series vs Maine: 3-3-0
Last Meeting: W, 4-0 (Oct. 20, 2015, Hamden, Conn.)

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Quinnipiac | Maine

The nationally-ranked No.1/ 2 Quinnipiac men's ice hockey team travels to Orono, Maine to take on the University of Maine at Alfond Arena on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016.

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The Last Time Quinnipiac Played

Quinnipiac men's ice hockey junior Derek Smith (Apple Valley, Minnesota) scored the overtime game-winner two-minutes-and-five seconds into overtime to give the No. 1/2 Bobcats a 5-4 win against No. 4/5 Harvard in front of 12,016 at Madison Square Garden.
Quinnipiac controlled the puck for a majority of the first period, which was highlighted by three goals in thirty-six seconds in what ended up being a four-goal period.
The Bobcats' offensive explosion signaled the ninth time this season that Quinnipiac scored three or more goals in a period, and the fourth time it scored four times in a single frame.
Alex Miner-Barron (Glendora, California), K.J. Tiefenwerth (Bellmore, New York) and Sam Anas (Potomac, Maryland) provided the offensive rush before Travis St. Denis (Trail, British Columbia) scored moments later to give Quinnipiac a 4-0 lead through the first period.

What's Next For The Bobcats?
After its match-up at Maine on Tuesday, Jan. 19 the Bobcats return home to host Rensselaer on Thursday, Jan. 21.

The Bobcats In The National Polls

The Bobcats were announced as the No. 1 team in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men's College Hockey Poll on Monday, Jan. 4, 2016. The Bobcats garnered 30 of the possible 34 first place votes and moved into the top spot in a national poll for the first time since the 2012-13 season.
The Bobcats also moved up one spot to No.1 in the latest USCHO.com Division I Poll, as announced on Monday, Jan. 4, 2016. The Bobcats received 40 first-place votes, its most this season.

The Bobcats In The PairWise Ranking

Quinnipiac enters its 11th consecutive week in the top spot in the PairWise Ranking.
The PairWise Ranking is a system which attempts to mimic the method used by the NCAA Selection Committee to determine participants for the NCAA Division I men's hockey tournament. The PWR compares all teams by these criteria: record against common opponents, head-to-head competition, and the RPI.
For each comparison won, a team receives one point. The final PWR ranking is based on the number of points (comparisons) won. Ties are settled by the RPI.

The Bobcats All-Time Against Maine

Tuesday night's mid-week classic will be the seventh meeting between Quinnipiac and Maine, with all-time record set at 3-3-0.
Quinnipiac has won the last three meetings after losing the first three.
Quinnipiac defeated Maine earlier this year, 4-0, on Oct. 20. Chase Priskie had a goal and an assist while Tommy Schutt, Devon Toews and K.J. Tiefenwerth all scored for the Bobcats.
Quinnipiac and Maine had played each other during the 2001-02, 2002-03 and 2004-05 seasons before resuming the all-time series again in 2012-13.
The last meeting at Alfond between the two teams was the season-opener for both. The Bobcats overcame a 1-0, first period deficit, with Travis St. Denis scoring in his first career game just two minutes into the second period. It was Jordan Samuels-Thomas - playing in his first game at Quinnipiac after transferring from Bowling Green - with the game winner with less than two minutes to play. Jeremy Langlois assisted on both goals.

Scouting The Maine Black Bears

Maine enters Tuesday's contest with a record of 5-13-5 overall and 2-6-2 in Hockey East.
The Black Bears are 5-4-2 at home this season.
Maine opened the year at 0-8-3 before going 4-1-1 in its final six games before the first half break. Since returning for the second half, the Black Bears are 1-4-1 in their last six.
The Black Bears are coming off a 1-0 loss on Friday to UConn before skating to a 1-1 tie against the Huskies on Saturday.
Will Merchant leads Maine in goals (8) and points (13) while Blaine Byron, Dan Renouf and Cam Brown have all passed out seven assists apiece for a share of the team lead.
In goal, freshman Rob McGovern and junior Matt Morris have split a majority of the playing time. McGovern is 1-9-2 with a 2.57 GAA and a .914 save percentage while Morris checks-in at 4-4-3 with a 2.96 GAA and a .914 save percentage.

The Bobcats' Streak

The Bobcats 17-game unbeaten streak to open the season was the second longest unbeaten streak in program history, after the Bobcats posted a 21-game (18-0-3) unbeaten streak in the 2012-13 season.
Quinnipiac's unbeaten streak to start the season was the longest in NCAA Division I men's ice hockey since Colorado College opened the 1995-96 at 15-0-3. It was also the sixth longest in NCAA Division I men's ice hockey since 1970.

Longest Unbeaten Streak To Start A Season Since 1970 (Courtesy of Chip Malafronte, New Haven Register)
29: Cornell (29-0), 1969-70
29: Maine (28-0-1), 1992-93
21: Boston University (21-0), 1977-78
19: Maine (14-0-5), 1994-95
18: Colorado College (15-0-3), 1995-96
17: Quinnipiac (15-0-2), 2015-Dec. 12, 2015
16: St. Lawrence (16-0), 1988-89
15: Harvard (15-0), 1986-87
15: Harvard (15-0), 1988-89
14: Boston University (13-0-1), 1970-71
14: Wisconsin (13-0-1), 1981-82
14: Providence (11-0-3), 2015-16
13: Ohio State (13-0), 1983-84
13: Minnesota (11-0-2), 2001-02
13: Air Force (13-0), 2008-09

Team Notes

Through 23 games, Quinnipiac has out-scored its opponents 87-33, with four goals in 15 of its 23 games.
With a pair of 3-0 wins at Yale and at Brown, and following a 1-0 win against UMass on Nov. 28, Quinnipias posted a shut-out in three straight games for the first time in the program's 41-year history.
34 of Quinnipiac's 87 goals have come in the second period, in which the Bobcats have out-scored their opponents, 34-15.
Quinnipiac has allowed just six goals after the second period across 23 games.
45 of Quinnipiac's 87 goals have come in the final 10 minutes of the period.
Quinnipiac currently boasts the fourth highest-scoring junior class in the country. The Bobcats' 10 juniors have scored an NCAA-leading 41 of the Bobcats' 87 goals, while its 97 total points rank fourth behind Boston College (114), Michigan (100) and Sacred Heart (100).
Quinnipiac currently rank third in power play goals (26), power play assists (51) and power play points (77).
Quinnipiac is 5-1-2 in eight games against teams that were ranked at the time they played:

vs. No. 9 St. Cloud State (W, 5-2)
vs. No. 9 St. Cloud State (W, 4-1)
vs. No. 7 Harvard (W, 4-1)
vs. No. 20 Clarkson (T, 1-1)
vs. No. 14 St. Lawrence (T, 0-0)
at No. 10 Yale (W, 3-0)
vs. No. 12 Boston University (L, 1-4)
at No. 4 Harvard (W, 5-4 OT)

Quinnipiac is also 6-0-0 against teams currently ranked in the top 10 in the PairWise Rankings, topping St. Cloud State (No. 2) twice, Harvard (No. 6) twice, as well as Cornell (No. 7) and Yale (No. 10).
Quinnipiac's four-goal first period against Harvard on Jan. 9 was the ninth time this season that Quinnipiac scored three-or-more goals in a period, and the fourth time it scored four or more goals in a period.
Including the Bobcats win against Harvard, Quinnipiac is now 2-0-3 in overtime this year, and 6-0-7 in 13 overtime games over the last two seasons. The Bobcats last loss in extended play came in the 2014 ECAC Hockey Semifinals against Colgate on Mar. 21, 2014.
Qunnipiac's Travis St. Denis (7), Tim Clifton (6), Sam Anas (5) and Landon Smith (3) have more power play goals (21) than 53 NCAA Division I teams.
Tim Clifton is one of 11 players to score in 12 or more games to date, which is the most in ECAC Hockey. Sam Anas is second in the league with 11 games featuring a goal.
Travis St. Denis is one of 21 NCAA D1 players with three or more two-goal games this season.
St. Denis is also one of 23 active players with 100 career points; QU, Boston University and St. Cloud (3) are only teams with 2 active players with 100 career points (St. Denis, Anas).
Quinnipiac is currently the only team in NCAA Division I men's ice hockey to feature two players (St. Denis, Anas) with 50 goals and 50 assists. There are 11 players to reach both marks to date in the country.
Landon Smith has scored six career game-winning goals in 62 career games, which stands as the fewest games played of the 66 NCAA players with six or more game-winning goals.

Wins Since The Start of the 2012-13 Season
Quinnipiac men's ice hockey has qualified for the last three NCAA Tournaments. Since the start of the 2012-13 season, the Bobcats lead all NCAA Division I men's ice hockey programs in wins:

Quinnipiac 96
North Dakota 94
Minn. St. Mankato 90
UMass Lowell 88
Minnesota 87
Boston College 85

Player Notes
Michael Garteig

On Thursday, Jan. 7, Michael Garteig record 25 saves in a 5-0 shutout against Union. Garteig's seventh clean sheet of the year is a program single-season record - passing his record of six he set as a sophomore in 2013-14 - and is also the most in NCAA Division I hockey this season.
Michael Garteig (Prince George, British Columbia) enters Tuesday's game with a record of 19-1-3 with a 1.41 goals-against average (2nd-NCAA) and a .949 save percentage (5th-NCAA) and seven shutouts (1st-NCAA). He also has two assists for the year.
Garteig was named the ECAC Hockey Goalie of the Month for December. The Bobcats senior netminder was 4-1-0 with a .945 save percentage and a 1.25 goals-against average, leading all ECAC Hockey goaltenders in wins (4) and shutouts (2) in December.
In a 3-0 win at Yale, Gartieg won his 60th career game, breaking the program record of 59 held by JC Wells '01 and Jamie Holden '05.
Against Brown, Garteig ran his shutout streak to 194:49 minutes - the longest streak in program history, passing Jamie Holden's mark of 191:19 during the 2002-03 season.
On Tuesday, Dec. 8, Garteig was named the ECAC Hockey Goalie of the Week after back-to-back shutouts at Yale and Brown on Dec. 4-5, respectively.
On November 7, Garteig allowed a season-high four goals in a 5-4 overtime win at Cornell. Since then, he is 11-1-3 with a .947 save percentage and 1.22 GAA, with six shutouts, plus two shutout periods at UConn and Princeton.
For the year, Garteig is 10-1-2 in 13 home games this season with a 1.14 goals-against average and a .955 save percentage with five shutouts.
On the road, Garteig is 8-0-1 with a .928 save percentage and a 1.51 GAA; In six games since his game against Cornell, in which he allowed four goals, Garteig is 5-0-1 with a .965 save percentage and a 0.72 GAA.
Garteig was honored by the Hockey Commissioners' Association as the NCAA Division I National Player of the Month for November. The announcement from the HCA came after Garteig was named ECAC Hockey's Goalie of the Month for the second-consecutive month.
In nine games for the month of November, Michael Garteig led all ECAC Hockey goalies in games played (9) minutes (528:51), wins (7), shutouts (2) while posting a 7-0-2 record. Garteig allowed just 11 goals for the month for a 1.25 goals-against average while posting a .946 save percentage. He was the only goalie that appeared in six or more ECAC Hockey games to post an undefeated record (4-0-2) while he also registered a 1.62 GAA and a .933 save percentage against the league. Garteig stopped 19 of 20 in a 4-1 win against Harvard on Nov. 13 before a 22-save performance against Dartmouth on the following night.
He also stopped 25 of 26 in a 1-1 tie against Clarkson before blanking St. Lawrence in a 36-save performance that saw him featured on ESPN Sports Centers Top 10 as the No. 4 play of the day.
During the Bobcats' stretch of five games in nine days from Nov. 17 through Nov. 27, Garteig was 3-0-2 with 0.83 GAA after allowing just four goals in 289:44 between the pipes and also posted a .965 save percentage after stopping 109 of 113 shots-on-goal. Two of the four goals allowed by Garteig came with the Bobcats' playing a man-down.
For his career, Garteig is 65-22-12 with a 1.86 GAA and a .920 save percentage in 6,046:26 minutes in 104 career games.
Garteig recorded a career-best 41-saves in a 0-0 shutout of St. Cloud State on Oct. 25.
Garteig was named the ECAC Hockey Goalie of the Week on Oct. 27.
He was also named the ECAC Hockey Goalie of the Month for October.
Garteig was named to the Mike Richter Award Watch List on Thursday, Oct. 8. The award is given annually to the top NCAA Division I goalie in the country.
Garteig's 65 career wins rank first among all active goalies.

Tim Clifton

Quinnipiac junior Tim Clifton (Matawan, New Jersey) was named the ECAC Hockey Player of the Month for December, as announced by the league office on Tuesday, Jan. 5. For the month, Clifton led Quinnipiac with four goals and four assists for a team-high eight points in five games for the month of December, in which the Bobcats were 4-1-0. Clifton was tied for the ECAC Hockey in goals (4) and led the league in game-winning goals (2) and plus/minus ( 6). Clifton scored in Quinnipiac's 3-0 win at Yale on Dec. 4 before following with a goal and an assist against Brown in a 3-0 win on Dec. 5, which both registered as game-winning goals. In a two-game series against Princeton, he registered two goals and three assists. His four-point night on Dec. 29 saw Clifton score and assist on three more goals in a 6-0 win before following with the game's first goal in a 4-3 win at home against the Tigers on Wednesday, Dec. 30.
After a one-goal, one assist showing in a 5-0 win against Union, Clifton enters Tuesday night's game tied for the team lead with 13 goals and 10 assists for 23 points in 19 games. Clifton's 23 points rank third in the Bobcats' line-up.
Clifton has scored a goal in 13 of the 19 games he has played in this year.
Clifton's 10 goals and 17 points in 11 ECAC Hockey games are both team-highs, while his goal total also leads the league.
Clifton currently leads ECAC Hockey with 10 goals and 17 points in 12 league games, as well as power play goals (4), short-handed goals (2), game-winning goals (2) and plus/minus ( 14).
Six of Clifton's 13 goals this year have come on the power play. He enters the week as one of nine NCAA Division I players to score six or more power play goals this year.
Clifton's seven-game goal streak was the second longest in Quinnipiac's Division I history following Chris Cerrella's 11-game goal streak in 1999-00.
Clifton scored in both games of the Bobcats' season-opening weekend against Holy Cross before missing the next four games to injury. Since returning, he's scored in each of the Bobcats last four games, totaling five goals and an assist.

Travis St. Denis

In the Bobcats' 5-0 win against Union on Thursday, Jan. 7, Travis St. Denis scored twice and assisted on another goal to become the 38th player in Quinnipiac history and the 24th at the NCAA Division I level to reach 100 career points.
Travis St. Denis (Trail, British Columbia) has 12 goals and 15 assists for a team-high 27 points in his senior season, good for a tie with Harvard's Jimmy Vesey for the league lead in overall points.
St. Denis sits at 50 goals and 53 assists for 103 points in 142 career games.
St. Denis is also riding a five-game point streak in which he's tallied four goals and six assists. St. Denis leads the league with nine assists in 12 ECAC Hockey games.
In 13 home games, St. Denis leads Quinnipiac in goals (8), points (13) and power play goals (5).
St. Denis is also the only player to score two goals in back-to-back games at High Point Solutions Arena this year. He also has a team-best four multiple-point games on the team's home ice.
St. Denis also leads the team with nine assists on the road.

Sam Anas

With a three-point night against UMass on Saturday, Nov. 27, 2015 All-American Sam Anas (Potomac, Maryland) became the 37th player in program history and the 23rd at the Division I level to reach 100 career points. Anas did so in his 92nd career game.
Anas currently checks-in as ECAC Hockey's third-leading scorer, with a league-leading 13 goals and 13 assists for 26 points.
Anas enters Thursday's match-up against Union on a team-leading six -game point streak featuring four goals and four assists.
Anas also checks-in with a team-leading 58 career goals, good for seventh all-time at Quinnipiac in 100 career games, while also assisting on 50 more for 108 points, good for 27th place all-time and 15th at the Division I level at Quinnipiac.
Anas is currently one of 16 active players with 100 career points.
Anas' career 1.06 points-per-game are the fourth-best average among active NCAA Division I players, trailing Northeastern's Kevin Roy (1.15), Omaha's Jake Guentzel (1.10) and Harvard's Jimmy Vesey (1.10).
Anas has tallied a point in 17 of Quinnipiac's first 23 games.
Against Harvard on Friday, Nov. 13, Anas became the 17th Quinnipiac player all-time and 11th player at the NCAA Division I level to score 50 goals, doing so in 87 games.
Anas is the Bobcats' active leading scorer with 58 goals and 50 assists for 108 points in 101 career games.
Anas ranks fifth among active players with 58 career goals while his 0.58 goal-per-game average is second to Vesey (0.61).
Anas currently ranks second among active players with 24 career power play goals in 101 games for a 0.24 per-game average and is the tops among active players.
In 2015, Anas is one of three NCAA Division I men's ice hockey juniors - along with Omaha's Jake Guentzel and Union's Mike Vecchione- to rank in the Top 20 in career points and is the only junior in the Top 10.

Connor Clifton

Bobcats junior defenseman Connor Clifton (Matawan, New Jersey) has blown past his 2014-15 point totals (0-5), accumulating four goals and 10 assists for 14 points in 23 games this year.
His 14 points this season are also a career-high, surpassing his nine-point total (5g-4a) as a freshman in 2013-14.
Clifton saw a six-game point streak - the longest of his career - fall with a scoreless showing against Harvard. Clifton scored an empty-net goal against Dartmouth and again against UConn to give him a point in eight of Quinnipiac's first 13 games.
Clifton had an assist in a 3-2 win against Colgate on Friday, Nov. 13 before scoring the game-winner in overtime against Cornell in a 5-4 win in Ithaca, New York.
Clifton was chosen in the 5th Round of the 2013 NHL Draft by the Phoenix Coyotes.
He was the first Quinnipiac freshman to join the Bobcats directly from the prestigious U.S. National Developmental Team.

Chase Priskie

Freshman defenseman Chase Priskie (Pembroke Pines, Florida) has passed out a team-leading 16 assists, while also scoring once, for 17 points through his first 23 career games.
Priskie's 16 assists rank tied for first, with Boston College's Colin White, among all NCAA Division I freshmen.
Priskie had assists against Harvard and Dartmouth, which followed a three-assist outing against Cornell to give him six in his last six games.
The last freshman with three assists in a game was Sam Anas at Colgate on Nov. 1, 2013.
The last Quinnipiac defenseman with three assists in a game was Zach Tolkinen against UMass on Nov. 30, 2013.

Derek Smith

Derek Smith checks in with three goals and 10 assists from the blue line.
Smith provided the dramatics when he cleaned up a rebound and scored the game-winner in overtime against No. 4 Harvard at Madison Square Garden on Jan. 9.
Smith found the back of the net in back-to-back games in the Bobcats' 6-0 and 4-3 wins against Princeton on Dec. 29-30.
Smith totaled 13 assists in 36 games as a sophomore last year but sits second in the Bobcats' line-up with 10 helpers this season.
Smith sits in the Bobcats' history books as the first player in program history to have scored on his first two shots on goal, which came in his second and third collegiate games.

Devon Toews

Junior Devon Toews has scored three goals and assisted on 11 more for 14 points in 20 games this season.
Toews scored once and also assisted on another goal in the Bobcats' 3-0 win at No. 10 Yale on Dec. 4.
The Bobcats' defenseman was drafted by the New York Islanders in the fourth round of the 2014 NHL Draft after a freshman campaign that saw him total a goal and 16 assists.

Soren Jonzzon

Quinnipiac captain Soren Jonzzon had an assist in both games against Princeton last week.
Jonzzon had a strong weekend at Yale and Brown, totaling two assists against the Bulldogs while also scoring in the Bobcats' win at Brown.
Jonzzon stands at three goals and eight assists for 11 points this season, giving him 13 goals and 18 assists for 31 points for his career.
Jonzzon has a goal and three assists in his last four games.

K.J. Tiefenwerth

Quinnipiac junior K.J. Tiefenwerth is enjoying a break-out season, as he's tallied career-highs in goals (5), assists (7) and points (12).

Landon Smith

For the year, Smith has accumulated six goals and 13 assists for 19 points.
Smith currently has six points in his last four games on two goals and four assists and has tallied a point in nine of his last 11 games.
Landon Smith enjoyed a remarkable first season with the Bobcats in 2014-15, scoring 15 goals and assisting on 16 more for 31 points in his first year of college hockey.
Smith started his sophomore year with a goal in the Bobcats' home opener, but then went nine straight games without a goal.
Coming out of the Thanksgiving break, Smith has four goals, and three assists, in the Bobcats' last seven games.

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No. 1/1 QU Men's Ice Hockey Travels to Univ.of Maine on Tuesday, Jan. 19

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Players Mentioned

Sam Anas

Connor Clifton

Tim Clifton

Michael Garteig

Soren Jonzzon

Alex Miner-Barron

Chase Priskie

Tommy Schutt

Derek Smith

Landon Smith

Travis St. Denis

K.J. Tiefenwerth

Devon Toews

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