No. 10/10 Men's Hockey Shuts Out Maine, 2-0

Saturday, November 24

Orono, Maine / Alfond Arena

7:30 PM

Quinnipiac University

11-2-0,4-2-0ECAC

Maine

4-7-1, 2-3-1HE

Quinnipiac

Maine

Photo by: Rob Rasmussen / P8Photos.com

11/24/2018 9:44:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

Petruzzelli Earns Third Shutout of Season, Metsa Scores First Career Goal

By: QU Athletic Communications

ORONO, Maine –Zach Metsa (Delafield, Wisconsin) scored his first career goal Saturday night and Keith Petruzzelli (Wilbraham, Massachusetts) tallied his third shutout of the season as the No. 10/10 Quinnipiac men's ice hockey team blanked the Maine Black Bears, 2-0, at Alfond Arena.

Petruzzelli's shutout gives the Bobcats four shutouts on the season as he made 23 saves to extend Quinnipiac's winning streak to four consecutive games. The four-game winning streak is Quinnipiac's second-longest of the season after a six-game winning streak to open up the season.

Metsa's first career goal made him the sixth different Bobcat to record their first career goal this season. Fellow freshman Ethan de Jong (North Vancouver, British Columbia) also scored for the Bobcats Saturday night.

SCORE
Quinnipiac 2, Maine 0

RECORDS
Quinnipiac (11-2-0, 4-2-0 ECAC Hockey) | Maine (4-7-1, 2-3-1 Hockey East)

LOCATION
Alfond Arena | Orono, Maine

SCORING SUMMARY

(9:39, 2^nd period) – Quinnipiac 1, Maine 0: Scott Davidson (Trail, British Columbia) got the scoring play started as he rushed through the zone and fired a backhanded shot which was saved by Maine goaltender Jeremy Swayman. Michael Lombardi (Barrington, Rhode Island) chased down the rebound and backhanded the puck into the slot where Metsa tapped home the puck past a diving Swayman for the first of his career.
(2:09, 3^rd period) – Quinnipiac 2, Maine 0: de Jong and Tufto teamed up for a goal for the second time in as many nights. After de Jong won a battle for the puck, it came loose to Odeen Tufto (Chaska, Minnesota) low in the circle. His intital shot was saved by Swayman but de Jong put himself in position to one-time home the rebound for the goal.

NOTES

Quinnipiac extended its winning streak to four games after its second straight weekend sweep, and third overall weekend sweep this season
Metsa scored his first career goal in the victory
Metsa is the sixth different Quinnipiac freshman to record their first career goal and the 14^th different player to score a goal this season
Petruzzelli's shutout was his third of the season and his career as he made 23 saves in the winning effort
It was also Petruzzelli's second consecutive shutout and he has run his shutout streak to 122:47
Petruzzelli now has seven wins this season, tied for the most in ECAC Hockey
de Jong's goal was his third of the season as he becomes the first Quinnipiac freshman to reach 10 points this season
Tufto tallied his ninth assist of the season to extend his ECAC Hockey-leading point total to 18 points
Lombardi recorded an assist for the second straight night and has all three of his points in the last five games
Davidson picked up his second assist of the season with the secondary helper on Metsa's goal
Head coach Rand Pecknold picked up the 496th victory of his career as he moves closer to the 500 win mark

UPCOMING GAMES

Quinnipiac returns home Friday night to host the No. 18 Princeton Tigers in Frank Perrotti Jr. Arena at People's United Center at 7 p.m. for the first game of a home-and-home weekend series with the Tigers. The Bobcats and Tigers will meet