Quinnipiac Men's Ice Hockey Comes-From-Behind To Defeat St. Lawrence, 3-2

Friday, February 23

Appleton Arena//Canton, NY

7:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

14-15-4, 9-10-2ECAC

St. Lawrence

7-24-2, 3-17-1ECAC

Quinnipiac

St. Lawrence

Quinnipiac Men's Ice Hockey Comes-From-Behind To Defeat St. Lawrence, 3-2

2/23/2018 9:28:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

By: QU Athletic Communications

CANTON, New York – Quinnipiac men's ice hockey sophomore Nick Jermain (Norwalk, Connecticut) scored twice, including the game winner with less than two minutes to play, as the Bobcats defeated St. Lawrence, 3-2, at Appleton Arena in Canton, N.Y. The Bobcats' come-from-behind win pushes them to 14-15-4 overall and 9-10-2 in ECAC Hockey play while St. Lawrence drops to 7-24-2 overall and 3-17-1 in league action.

In addition to Jermain's two-goal night, Chase Priskie (Pembroke Pines, Florida) scored the game-winner on the power play while Odeen Tufto (Chaska, Minnesota) and Brogan Rafferty (Dundee, Illinois) both had two assists. Andrew Shortridge (Anchorage, Alaska) stopped 28 of St. Lawrence's 29 shots-on-goal to improve to 11-11-2 on the year.

LOCATION
Appleton Arena (Canton, N.Y.)

SCORE
Quinnipiac 3 | St. Lawrence 2
RECORD
Quinnipiac (14-15-4, 9-10-2 ECAC Hockey) | St. Lawrence (7-24-2, 3-17-1 ECAC Hockey)

SCORING SUMMARY

2:19, 1^st (Quinnipiac 1, St. Lawrence 0): John Furgele picked up a loose puck along the boards and wired a shot on goal. St. Lawrence goalie Andrew Brey was screened by Nick Jermain and misplayed the puck, which slid under his arm and into the crease. Jermain wheeled off his screen, behind Brey, and buried his fourth goal of the season to give Quinnipiac an early lead.
16:57, 1^st (St. Lawrence 1, Quinnipiac 1): Jake Stevens handled the puck at the blue line in the Bobcats' defensive zone before sending the puck into the corner. It caromed oddly off the boards and deflected around Quinnipiac goalie Andrew Shortridge to SLU's Michael Laidley who back-handed a shot past him to tie the game at 1-1.
5:13, 2^nd (St. Lawrence 2, Quinnipiac 1): Ryan Garvey gave St. Lawrence a 2-1 lead with assists to Stevens and Mike Marnell.
12:52, 3^rd (Quinnipiac 2, St. Lawrence 2): On the power play, Quinnipiac worked it around the perimeter, from Odeen Tufto to Brogan Rafferty at the point before Rafferty handed the puck to Chase Priskie for the one-timer.
18:36, 3^rd (Quinnipiac 3, St. Lawrence 2): Late in regulation, Jermain completed the comeback for the Bobcats when he took a pass from Tufto in the crease and slid it around St. Lawerence goalie Andrew Brey to give Quinnipiac the lead late in the game.

NOTES

Jermain entered the weekend with three goals for the year, before scoring twice in the Bobcats' win. The first put Quinnipiac on the board while his second, the game-winner, came in the final two minutes to give Quinnipiac the lead.
Tufto picked up his 14^th multiple-point game of the season with assists on Quinnipiac's game-tying, and game-winning goals. It also gives him 30 assists for the year as well as 38 points for the season.
Tufto becomes just the fourth freshman in Quinnipiac's Division I history to reach 30 assists in his first season. He joins Brian Herbert (32, 1999-00), Bryan Leitch (31, 2005-06) and Matthew Peca (31, 2011-12) as the only first-year Bobcat's to accomplish the feat.
Priskie's goal was his eighth of the season, and also his team-best sixth on the power play.

NEXT GAME
Quinnipiac will play its final regular-season game of the 2017-18 season when it faces Clarkson at Cheel Arena on Saturday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m.