No. 11 Quinnipiac Men's Ice Hockey Falls to No. 18 Cornell, 2-1, in ECAC Hockey Opener

Friday, November 3

Hamden, Conn.

7:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

3-2-1, 0-1-0ECAC

Cornell

3-0-0, 1-0-0ECAC

Cornell

Quinnipiac

No. 11 Quinnipiac Men's Ice Hockey Falls to No. 18 Cornell, 2-1, in ECAC Hockey Opener

11/3/2017 10:05:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

By: QU Athletic Communications

HAMDEN, Connecticut - Nationally-ranked No. 11 Quinnipiac men's ice hockey lost to No. 18 Cornell, 2-1, in front of 3,413 at the TD Bank Sports Center in Hamden, Conn. With the loss, Quinnipiac drops to 3-2-1 overall and opens league play at 0-1-0 while Cornell improves to 3-0-0 on the year including a 1-0-0 record in ECAC Hockey. Freshman Matthew Forchuk (Okotoks, Alberta) scored his first collegiate goal for the Bobcats' lone marker in the game.

SCORE
Cornell 2 / Quinnipiac 1

RECORDS
No. 18 Cornell (3-0-0, 1-0-0 ECAC) | No. 11 Quinnipiac (3-2-1, 0-1-0 ECAC)

LOCATION
TD Bank Sports Center / Hamden, Conn.

SCORING SUMMARY

8:34 2^nd (Cornell 1, Quinnipiac 0): On an odd-man rush following the end of a Quinnipiac power play, Cornell's Brendan Smith put the Big Red on the board first when he slid a shot past the right pad of Quinnipiac goalie Andrew Shortridge off a pass from Beau Starrett.
12:36 3^rd (Cornell 2, Quinnipiac 0): On the power play, Cornell's Alec McCrea's shot from the blue line ricocheted off Morgan Barron and was sent air born, fluttering over the head of screened-out Shortridge and into the net.
14:24 3^rd (Cornell 2, Quinnipiac 1): Luke Shiplo started the play when he tipped the puck back into the Big Red's defensive zone where Scott Davidson picked up the loose puck behind Cornell's goal. Davidson stepped out from behind the goal and pushed the puck across the crease to Matt Forchuk who roofed a shot, bar-down, on Cornell goalie Matthew Galajda to cut the Big Red's lead in half.

GIF: Forchuk's 1st of his career cuts Cornell's lead to 1. Apples from Davidson and Shiplo. pic.twitter.com/KHdj0Xzcx7
— QU Men's Ice Hockey (@QU_MIH) November 4, 2017

GAME NOTES

Freshman Matt Forchuk scored his first collegiate goal on the Bobcats lone goal of the game.
Alex Whelan totaled five shots in the contest, the most shots on net for the team, bringing his team-leading total shots for the season to 30.
Davidson notched his first point of the year with an assist on Forchuk's goal while Shiplo recorded his second of the year.

UPCOMING GAME
Quinnipiac will continue its first ECAC Hockey on Nov. 4 when it hosts Colgate at the TD Bank Sports Center at 7 pm. The game will be available on ESPN3 with Bill Schweizer and Rich Coppola on the call.