QU Men's Ice Hockey Advances To ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals With 4-1 Win at Yale

Saturday, March 3

Ingalls Rink//New Haven, CT

7:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

16-16-4, 9-11-2ECAC

Yale

15-15-1, 10-11-1ECAC

Quinnipiac

Yale Bulldogs

QU Men's Ice Hockey Advances To ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals With 4-1 Win at Yale

3/3/2018 9:44:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

By: QU Athletic Communications

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut – The Quinnipiac men's ice hockey team advanced to ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals after defeating the Yale Bulldogs 3-1 on Saturday, sweeping the opening round series against its in-state rival. The Bobcats are now 16-16-4 on the year while the Bulldogs finish their season with a record of 15-15-1.
LOCATION
Ingalls Rink (New Haven, CT)
SCORE
Quinnipiac 4 | Yale 1
RECORD
Quinnipiac (16-16-4, 9-11-2 ECAC) | Yale (15-15-1, 10-12-1 ECAC)
SCORING SUMMARY

4:41 2^nd Period (Quinnipiac 1, Yale 0): Junior captain Chase Priskie (Pembroke Pines, Florida) finished a one-timer after a beautiful back-handed pass from behind the goal from freshman Odeen Tufto (Chaska, Minnesota). Junior John Furgele (Glen Mills, Pennsylvania) also recorded an assist on the play
11:51 2^nd Period (Quinnipiac 2, Yale 0): Odeen Tufto launched a wrist shot from the left circle after a Tanner MacMaster (Calgary, Alberta) pass from down in the right corner. Nick Jermain (Norwalk, Connecticut) sent the puck down to MacMaster.
10:43 3^rd Period (Quinnipiac 3, Yale 0): Sophomore Brogan Rafferty (Dundee, Illinois) beat Corbin Kaczperski with a backhanded shot through the five-hole after passes from Kevin Duane (New Canaan, Connecticut) and Craig Martin (Trail, British Columbia).
13:22 3^rd Period (Quinnipiac 3, Yale 1): Kevin O'Neil found the back of the net with a wrister from the slot.
19:00 3^rd Period (Quinnipiac 4, Yale 1): Alex Whelan (Ramsey, New Jersey) delivered the knock-out blow with an empty-net goal with just a minute to play. The goal was the sophomore's team-leading 16^th of the season. Rafferty picked up an assist after removing the puck from a Yale defender's stick and passing it to Whelan.

NOTES

Tufto recorded his first career playoffs point with a goal and an assist.
Tufto now has nine goals and 32 assists for 41 points on the season. He becomes the first Quinnipiac freshman to reach the 40-point mark since Sam Anas did so during the 2013-14 season and the sixth Bobcat to accomplish the feat.
Tufto's 32 assists ties the program record for most assists by a freshman. He currently shares the record with Brian Herbert, who set the mark in 2000.
Priskie netted both game-winning goals for the Bobcats in the sweep against Yale. The goal was the captain's fourth of his playoff career and 11^th of the season.
MacMaster now has 20 assists on the season and 54 for his career. He now has eight career playoff assists and nine career playoff points.
Furgele tallied his 12^th assist of the season and picked up his first point of the postseason.
Jermain recorded his ninth assist of the year, the second of his playoff career.
Whelan netted his fourth - career goal in the playoffs for the Bobcats with the empty netter. He had three in a series in the Bobcats' ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals win against Saint Lawrence in 2017.
Rafferty scored his first-career playoff goal tonight for Quinnipiac and tallied his second assist in postseason play. He now has five goals and 19 points so far this season.
Freshman Keith Petruzzelli (Wilbraham, Massachusetts) recorded his second career playoff victory in as many starts. He made 20 saves on the night.
This is the 13th consecutive year that the Bobcats have advanced to the ECAC Quarterfinals, making the Bobcats winners of a postseason series in each of its 13 years in ECAC Hockey. In addition, the Bobcsts have won a postseason series in every season at the Division I level- an incredible run of 20 consecutive years.
Quinnipiac improved to 18-3 all-time in the First Round of the ECAC Tournament, 4-0 on the road.

UPCOMING GAMES
The ECAC Quarterfinals are set to begin on March 9. It is currently unknown who the Bobcats will face, as a pair of First Round match-ups will be playing a Game 3 tomorrow, Sunday, March 11.