Odeen Tufto Scores Overtime Game-Winner To Lift No. 17 Quinnipiac Men's Ice Hockey To 3-2 Win Against Vermont

Saturday, October 14

Hamden, Conn.

4:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

1-1-1, 0-0-0ECAC

Vermont

1-2-0, 0-0-0HEA

Team	1	2	3	OT 1	F
Vermont	0	1	1	0	2
Quinnipiac	0	2	0	1	3

Odeen Tufto Scores Overtime Game-Winner To Lift No. 17 Quinnipiac Men's Ice Hockey To 3-2 Win Against Vermont

10/14/2017 6:20:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

By: QU Athletic Communications

HAMDEN, Conn. – Quinnipiac men's ice hockey freshman Odeen Tufto (Chaska, Minnesota) scored twice including the overtime game-winner to lead the nationally-ranked No. 17 Bobcats to a 3-2 win against Vermont in front of 3,655 at the TD Bank Sports Center. Tanner MacMaster (Calgary, Alberta) factored into all three of the Bobcats' goals with a goal and two assists. The Bobcats' victory is their first of the season as they improve to 1-1-1 while Vermont drops to 1-2-0 for the year.

GAME WINNNNNNNNNNNER!!!!! ODEEN TUFTON GETS HIS SECOND OF THE GAME TO GIVE THE BOBCATS THEIR FIRST VICTORY OF THE SEASON! pic.twitter.com/3kUUSlJVjI
— QU Men's Ice Hockey (@QU_MIH) October 14, 2017

SCORE
No. 17 Quinnipiac 3 // Vermont 2

LOCATION
TD Bank Sports Center / Hamden, Conn.

RECORDS
Quinnipiac (1-1-1, 0-0-0 ECAC) / Vermont (1-2-0, 0-0-0 Hockey East)

SCORING SUMMARY

3:23, 2nd (UVM 1, QU 0): Liam Coughlin picked up a loose pick along the boards in Quinnipiac offensive zone, stepped into the face-off circle and sent a shot on net. The puck snuck under Bobcats' goalie Andrew Shortridge's (Anchorage, Alaska) arm and trickled past the goal line to give the Catamounts a 1-0 lead.
3:58, 2nd (QU 1, UVM 1): Odeon Tufto's first career goal came thirty-five seconds after UVM's tally to tie the game at 1-1. Tanner MacMaster fed Kevin McKernan (Millbury, Massachusetts) at the point who blasted a shot on UVM goalie Stefanos Lekkas. The rebound bounced out into the slot where Tufto was waiting to punch it past the Catamounts' goalie for the equalizer.
19:04, 2nd (QU 2, UVM 1): With less than a minute to play in the second period, MacMaster won a battle for a loose puck in the corner to Lekkas' left, stepped between several Vermont players and rifled a shot on goal. The puck beat Lekkas five-hole to put Quinnipiac on top, 2-1.
11:33, 3rd (QU 2, UVM 2): Vermont's Craig Puffer tied the game at 2-2 with just-under nine minutes to play in regulation. Alex Esposito fired a shot on goal that Shortridge steered away. Puffer dove across the crease and tipped the loose puck on goal to tie it late.
2:33, OT (QU 3, UVM 2): Tufto scored the overtime game-winner for his second goal of the night off a rebound on a shot from the point by Brogan Rafferty. MacMaster picked up his third point of the night with the secondary assist on the goal.

NOTES

Odeon Tufto (Chaska, Minnesota) became the first Quinnipiac freshman to score a goal this season, and also gave him a three-game point streak after assists in Quinnipiac's opening weekend tie at Boston College and home-opener against Boston University.
The last Quinnipiac player to start their career with a three-game point streak was current Quinnipiac captain Chase Priskie (Pembroke Pines, Florida), who tallied a point in the first six games of his career.
Tufto's second goal made him the first freshman since Nick Jermain against Yale on Feb. 4, 2017 to score twice in a game.
The last time a freshman scored the game-winning goal in overtime was Ben Nelson against Army in a 5-4 win on Jan. 28, 2005.
Tanner MacMaster (Calgary, Alberta) gave Quinnipiac its first multiple-point game of the season with an assist on Tufto's goal before scoring his first of the season late in the second period. MacMaster scored a career-best eight goals last season and now has 18 for his career, good for third among active scorers for the Bobcats.
Landon Smith (Greenwood Village, Colorado) had the Bobcats' last three-point game with a hat trick against Dartmouth on Nov. 11, 2016.

UPCOMING GAMES
Quinnipiac returns to action when it travels to Boston, Massachusetts to face Northeastern in a two-game series at Matthews Arena on Oct. 20-21.