Friday, December 1
Cambridge, MA
6:00 PM
Quinnipiac University
at
Harvard
QU Women's Ice Hockey Returns to ECAC Play, Travels to Harvard and Dartmouth This Weekend
11/30/2017 11:34:00 AM | Women's Ice Hockey
Quinnipiac University Bobcats (8-7-2, 4-4-0 ECAC) at Harvard University Crimson (5-3-1, 3-1-1 ECAC)
Date: Friday, December 1, 2017 (6 P.M.)
Location: Bright-Landry Hockey Center | Cambridge, Massachusetts
QU All-Time Against Harvard: 6-18-3
Cassandra Turner All-Time vs. Harvard: 4-0-1
Quinnipiac University Bobcats (8-7-2, 4-4-0 ECAC) at Dartmouth College Big Green (3-6-0, 1-4-0 ECAC)
Date: Saturday, December 2, 2017 (3 P.M.)
Location: Thompson Arena | Hanover, New Hampshire
QU All-Time Against Dartmouth: 11-11-3
Cassandra Turner All-Time vs. Dartmouth: 4-1-0
The Quinnipiac women's ice hockey team returns to ECAC action this weekend as they travel to Massachusetts on Friday to face Harvard and then continue their trip north to New Hampshire on Saturday as they take on Dartmouth. The Bobcats are coming of their 7th Nutmeg Classic Championship, which they won by defeating UConn 2-1 in a shootout after skating to a 2-2 tie last Saturday.
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LAST WEEKEND IN THE NUTMEG CLASSIC
Date: Friday, December 1, 2017 (6 P.M.)
Location: Bright-Landry Hockey Center | Cambridge, Massachusetts
QU All-Time Against Harvard: 6-18-3
Cassandra Turner All-Time vs. Harvard: 4-0-1
Quinnipiac University Bobcats (8-7-2, 4-4-0 ECAC) at Dartmouth College Big Green (3-6-0, 1-4-0 ECAC)
Date: Saturday, December 2, 2017 (3 P.M.)
Location: Thompson Arena | Hanover, New Hampshire
QU All-Time Against Dartmouth: 11-11-3
Cassandra Turner All-Time vs. Dartmouth: 4-1-0
The Quinnipiac women's ice hockey team returns to ECAC action this weekend as they travel to Massachusetts on Friday to face Harvard and then continue their trip north to New Hampshire on Saturday as they take on Dartmouth. The Bobcats are coming of their 7th Nutmeg Classic Championship, which they won by defeating UConn 2-1 in a shootout after skating to a 2-2 tie last Saturday.
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LAST WEEKEND IN THE NUTMEG CLASSIC
- The Bobcats were named champions of the 14th annual Nutmeg Classic Tournament after defeating Yale University and UConn.
- Both victories were decided by a shootout, with the shootouts being won 2-1.
- Junior Kenzie Lancaster (Waxhaw, North Carolina) tallied the winning shootout goal for the Bobcats in both games. She also tallied a pair of assists, one in each game, and now has 10 on the year.
- Junior captain Melissa Samoskevich (Sandy Hook, Connecticut) netted her ninth goal of the season against UConn, good for her eighth in her last five games.
- Along with being named the Most Outstanding Player of the Nutmeg Classic and earning a spot on the All-Tournament team, sophomore Sarah-Eve Coutu-Godbout (Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec) tallied two goals against Yale.
- Sophomore Kati Tabin (Winnipeg, Manitoba) added her first goal of the season and earned a place on the All-Tournament team.
- Sophomore Abbie Ives (Bedford Hills, New York) was awarded the Laurie Belliveau Goaltender Award for most outstanding goaltender of the tournament. She was also named to the All-Tournament team.
- Senior Raquel Pennoyer (Rehoboth, Massachusetts) scored her first goal of the season.
- Sophomore Abby Cleary (Buffalo, New York), junior Randi Marcon (Winnipeg, Manitoba) and sophomore Kate Mackenzie (Winnipeg, Manitoba) combined for four assists.
- Junior Anna Kilponen (Orivesi, Finland) added her fourth assist of the season.
- Sophomore Kenzie Prater (Hudson, Wisconsin) and freshman Grace Markey (West Bloomfield, Michigan) tallied shootouts goal.
- Quinnipiac has won seven of the 14 Nutmeg Classics.
- Harvard comes into the weekend with a 5-3-1 overall record, with a 3-1-1 record in ECAC play.
- The team is 2-2-1 in its last five games.
- Sophomore Kat Hughes has lead the Crimson offensively, as she is the leader in goals (6) and tied for the team lead in points (10).
- Freshman Brooke Jovanovich is right behind Hughes with four goals, six assists and 10 goals.
- The team comes in averaging 3.33 goals per game.
- The Crimson's penalty kill sits at 73.7% (28-for-38)
- Quinnipiac is 6-18-3 all-time against Harvard.
- These teams met earlier in the season on October 28, where the Bobcats were victorious over the Crimson, 2-1.
- Head Coach Cassandra Turner is 4-0-1 all-time against Harvard.
- The Big Green sit at 3-6-0 with a 1-4 record in conference play.
- Dartmouth is 2-3 in its last five games and has been outscored 22-8 in that span.
- Junior Kate Landers' five goals is good enough for the team lead. She is second in points (7).
- The Big Green have struggled to put points on the board consistently, averaging just 1.78 goals per game.
- Dartmouth's penalty kill sits at 72.5% (29-40)
- Quinnipiac is 11-11-3 all-time against Dartmouth.
- The Bobcats recorded a season-high 61 shots on goal earlier in the season against the Big Green, however they were defeated 1-0.
- Cassandra Turner is 4-1-0 all-time against Dartmouth.
- Quinnipiac is currently tied for 4th in the ECAC standings with #4/4 Clarkson University. Each team has eight points.
- #3/3 Colgate University and #7/7 Cornell University are tied for first place in the conference. Both teams have 10 points.
- #8/8 St. Lawrence University sits alone in third place with nine points.
- Last weekend there were no games played that effected conference standings.
- Junior Melissa Samoskevich has been on a roll, with eight goals in her last five games.
- She tallied another goal against UConn in the Nutmeg Classic and is first on the team in goals (9) and second in points (13).
- Samoskevich was named ECAC Player of the Week on November 14, 2017.
- Junior Kenzie Lancaster remains the team leader in assists (10) and points (14) after adding a pair of assists during the Nutmeg Classic.
- Lancaster is averaging 1.08 points per game, tied for 12th highest in the ECAC.
- Sophomore Kati Tabin and senior Raquel Pennoyer netted their first goals of the season this past weekend.
- Both Pennoyer and Tabin now have seven points on the season, which ties them for 3rd with Kate MacKenzie on the team leaderboard.
- Sophomore Sarah-Eve Coutu-Godbout made her return to the box score with two goals against Yale.
- She is second on the team in goals with five.
- Quinnipiac's penalty kill and power play are amongst the best in the conference and best in the country.
- The Bobcats penalty kill percentage this season is 89.1%. That is the fifth highest in the ECAC and the 6th highest in the country.
- On the power play this year the Bobcats have converted 20.3% of their opportunities, which is fifth highest in the conference and 13th highest in the country.
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