No. 16 Quinnipiac Men's Ice Hockey Falls To RPI, 5-3

Friday, November 10

Houston Field House//Troy, NY

7:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

0-3-03-4-1; ECACH

RPI

1-3-12-4-3; ECACH

Quinnipiac

Rensselaer

No. 16 Quinnipiac Men's Ice Hockey Falls To RPI, 5-3

11/10/2017 8:45:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

By: QU Athletic Communications

TROY, New York – Nationally-ranked No. 16 Quinnipiac men's ice hockey lost to Rensselaer, 5-3, in an ECAC Hockey matchup at Houston Field House in Troy, New York. The Bobcats drop to 3-4-1 overall and 0-3-0 in ECAC Hockey play while RPI improves to 2-4-3 on the year with a 1-3-1 record in league play.

Chase Priskie (Pembroke Pines, Florida), Craig Martin (Trail, British Columbia) and Odeen Tufto (Chaska, Minnesota) all had two points on the night as Priskie and Martin both tallied a goal and an assist each while Tufto picked up two assists in the loss.

SCORE
Quinnipiac 3 / Rensselaer 5

RECORDS
No. 16 Quinnipiac (3-4-1, 0-3-0 ECAC Hockey) | Rensselaer (2-4-3, 1-3-1 ECAC Hockey)

LOCATION
Houston Field House / Troy, New York

SCORING SUMMARY

GIF: Landon Smith strikes to give QU a 1-0 lead as people are still finding their seats. pic.twitter.com/jl1AtSIBXQ
— QU Men's Ice Hockey (@QU_MIH) November 11, 2017

GIF: The captain, Chase Priskie, gives QU the quick 2-0 lead on the power play. pic.twitter.com/SNJclkEqP4
— QU Men's Ice Hockey (@QU_MIH) November 11, 2017

(1:32,1^st | QU 1, RPI 0): Odeen Tufto (Chaska, Minnesota) won a battle on the wall along the blue line in the Engineer's defensive zone and sent it into the corner. Tanner MacMaster (Calgary, Alberta) picked up the puck behind the RPI goal and fed Landon Smith in the slot. Smith maneuvered around a defenseman, spun and flipped the puck over the shoulder of RPI's Chase Perry.

(3:23, 1^st | QU 2, RPI 0): On the power play, Craig Martin (Trail, British Columbia) fed Tufto at the blue line, who then sent a pass to his right to Chase Priskie (Pembroke Pines, Florida). Priskie's slapshot tucked under Perry's arm to give the Bobcats a two-goal lead.

(12:34, 1^st | QU 2, RPI 1): RPI moved the puck around the Bobcats' end before XXXX fed Will Reilly below the face-off circle to Quinnipiac goalie Keith Petruzzelli's (Wilbraham, Massachusetts) right. Reilly slid between the face-off circle and the goal line before wristing a shot to the opposite post to cut Quinnipiac's lead in half.
(18:38, 1^st | QU 3, RPI 1): On the power play, Tufto held the puck behind the RPI goal before running it to the boards for Priskie. Priskie, drawing a defender, slid the puck with a no-look pass to Bo Pieper (Roseville, Minnesota) in the slot. Pieper then spied Martin on the opposite post who one-timed Pieper's pass for his second of the year and his second point of the night.
(7:24, 2^nd | QU 3, RPI 2): Jacob Hayhurst scored his fourth of the season off a loose puck in the crease to pull the Engineers within a goal.
(9:24, 2^nd | QU 3, RPI 3): Petruzzelli made three saves on shots between the face-off circles, but the third kicked off his pads and caromed off a skate of a Bobcat defenseman before trickling into the goal to tie the game.
(18:28, 3rd) | RPI 4, QU 3): Viktor Liljegren scored his second of the night on a breakaway to give the Engineers a 4-3 lead with less than two minutes to play.
(19:51, 3rd | RPI 5, QU 3): With the goalie pulled, Liljegren potted his third goal of the game to seal RPI's 5-3 win.

BOBCATS SCORING LEADERS

Goals: Landon Smith, Chase Priskie, Craig Martin
Assists: Odeen Tufto (2), Bo Pieper, Priskie, Martin
Points: Tufto, Priskie, Martin (2)

NOTES

Smith's goal was his second of the season and the 40^th of his career. He becomes the 29^th player in Quinnipiac history to reach the 40-goal mark. The last player to reach 40 career goals was Travis St. Denis, who accomplished it as a senior in 2015-16.
With an assist on each of Quinnipiac's first two goals, Tufto recorded his fourth multiple-point game in his eighth career game.
Priskie's goal was the third of the season for the Bobcats' captain. With an assist, it was his second multiple-point game of the season.
MacMaster also picked up his fifth assist of the year on Smith's goal while Martin picked up his third assist. Martin also added a goal to give him his first game with multiple points this season.
Quinnipiac entered Friday night's game with two power-play goals through its first seven games before striking twice in the first period with a man advantage.
Quinnipiac had allowed five power-play goals in its last four games but posted a perfect 6-for-6 night on the penalty kill against the Engineers.

UPCOMING GAME
Quinnipiac resumes its tour of the Capital District when it faces Union on Saturday, Nov. 11 at Messa Rink in Schenectady, New York.