Quinnipiac Men's Ice Hockey Rolls To 5-2 Win Against St. Lawrence

Saturday, February 3

Hamden, Conn.

7:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

11-13-4, 6-8-2ECAC

St. Lawrence

6-20-2, 2-13-1ECAC

St. Lawrence

Quinnipiac

Quinnipiac Men's Ice Hockey Rolls To 5-2 Win Against St. Lawrence

2/3/2018 10:02:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

By: QU Athletic Communications

HAMDEN, Conn. – The Quinnipiac men's ice hockey team defeated St. Lawrence, 5-2, in an ECAC Hockey matchup at Frank Perrotti, Jr. Arena at the TD Bank Sports Center. With the win, Quinnipiac improves to 11-13-4 overall and 6-8-2 in ECAC Hockey play while St. Lawrence falls to 6-20-2 overall and 2-13-1 in ECAC Hockey.

Quinnipiac shook-off a St. Lawrence goal just five minutes into the game with five unanswered goals, four coming in a nine-minute clip to end the first period. Brogan Rafferty (Dundee, Illinois) and Bo Pieper (Roseville, Minnesota) both scored twice, while Odeen Tufto (Chaska, Minnesota) had a goal and an assist and freshman Matt Forchuk (Okotoks, Alberta) had two assists. In goal, Andrew Shortridge (Anchorage, Alaska) stopped 22 of St.Lawrence's 24 shots-on-goal for the win.

SCORE
Quinnipiac 5 | St. Lawrence 2

RECORDS
Quinnipiac 11-13-4 (6-8-2 ECAC) | St. Lawrence 6-20-2 (2-13-1 ECAC)

LOCATION
Frank Perrotti, Jr. Arena | Hamden, Conn.

SCORING SUMMARY

5:18 1st, (Quinnipiac 0, St. Lawrence 1): SLU's Callum Cusinato won the puck along the boards in front of the Quinnipiac bench and slid a pass over to Nolan Gluchowski in the neutral zone. Gluchowski took advantage of Quinnipiac line change and ripped the puck up-ice to Alex Gilmour who beat Shortridge on the breakaway.
9:30 1^st, (Quinnipiac 1, St. Lawrence 1): Forchuk handled the puck along the boards before sending it across ice to John Furgele (Glen Mills, Pennsylvania). Furgele then handed the puck to Rafferty at the point who bombed a shot on goal. The puck found the skate of a St. Lawrence player and evaded SLU goalie Arthur Brey to tie the game at 1-1.

14:17 1^st, (Quinnipiac 2, St. Lawrence 1): Tufto took a pass from Forchuk in the neutral zone and skated on net before deking Brey and walking across the crease to give Quinnipiac a 2-1 lead.

15:10 1^st, (Quinnipiac 3, St. Lawrence 1): Pieper got a dropped pass from Chase Priskie (Pembroke Pines, Fla.) in the Saints' defensive zone and sent the puck glove-side over Brey.

18:57 1^st, (Quinnipiac 4, St. Lawrence 1): Pieper netted his second of the game on a two-on-one with Kevin Duane when he received a pass on the far side of the net and slipped the puck past the pad of Brey to add to Quinnipiac's lead.

14:07 2^nd, (Quinnipiac 5, St. Lawrence 1): On the power play, Tufto backhanded a pass to Rafferty across the top of the crease, who roofed the puck to push Quinnipiac's lead to 5-1.
6:29 3^rd, (Quinnipiac 5, St. Lawrence 2): Jake Stevens took a shot from the point that bounced off a Bobcats defenseman and to Gilmour on the far post for his second of the night.

NOTES

Tufto's goal was his seventh of the season and also his 30th point of the year. The last Bobcat to reach 30 points as a freshman was Landon Smith in 2014-15. Tufto became the 13^th player in Quinnipiac's Division I era (since the 1998-99 season) to reach 30 points in his first season.

Tufto has now scored in back-to-back games and has a four-game point streak.
Pieper's two-goal game brings his season total to 10. His 23 goals over the past two seasons is the most among active Quinnipiac players. Pieper also won 11-of-14 face-offs for the night.
Rafferty's two-goal night was his first multiple-goal game of his career.

UPCOMING GAME
The Bobcats head on the road next weekend to face cross-town rival Yale on Friday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. in New Haven before heading to Brown on Saturday, Feb. 10 for another 7 p.m. conference game.