Friday, March 9
Ithaca, NY
7:00 PM
Quinnipiac University
at
Cornell University
QU Men's Ice Hockey Heads to No. 2 Cornell for ECAC Quarterfinal Series
3/8/2018 8:15:00 AM | Men's Ice Hockey
ECAC HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP QUARTERFINALS | MAR. 9-11, 2018 | LYNAH RINK (ITHACA, N.Y.)
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY BOBCATS
Record: 16-16-4 ECAC Hockey: 9-11-2
Head Coach: Rand Pecknold
Career Record: 485-295-89 (.609), 24th Season
All-Time vs. Cornell: 16-20-3
CORNELL UNIVERSITY BIG RED (#2/#2)
Overall Record: 23-4-2 ECAC HOCKEY: 17-3-2
Head Coach: Mike Schafer
Career Record: 435-235-91 (.642), 23rd Season
Location: Ithaca, N.Y.
Rink: Lynah Rink
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HAMDEN, Conn. - A trip to Lake Placid is on the line when the Quinnipiac men's ice hockey team heads to the road for a three-game series against top-seeded and second-ranked Cornell in the quarterfinal round of the ECAC Hockey Championship on Friday-Sunday. The Bobcats advanced with a dominant opening-round effort against Yale last weekend, taking 5-1 and 4-1 decisions on the road, and now face a Cornell team that they battled to two close one-goal losses in the regular season (2-1 in Hamden and 1-0 at Cornell).
GAME NOTES
ALL-TIME IN THE ECAC HOCKEY TOURNAMENT
• Quinnipiac enters the 2018 ECAC Hockey Championship Quarterfinals with a record of 39-24 all-time since the Bobcats entered the league in 2005-06. .
• Last season, the Bobcats' Quarterfinals Series win at St. Lawrence marked the second time in Quinnipiac's ECAC Hockey history that it won a second-round series on the road. The first time was at Cornell in 2007.
• Quinnipiac has won a playoff series in 20 consecutive seasons dating back to its first year at the NCAA Division I level in 1998-99.
• The Bobcats are the only team in ECAC Hockey to win a postseason series in each of the 13 years that Quinnipiac has been a member of the league.
• 36 of Quinnipiac's 39 ECAC Hockey Tournament wins have come when the Bobcats have scored three or more goals.
• All-time the Bobcats are 36-5 in the 41 tournament games in which they have scored three or more times.
ALL-TIME AGAINST CORNELL
• Quinnipiac enters this weekend's series with a record of 16-20-3 in 39 games all-time against Cornell.
• The Bobcats are 11-5-1 against Cornell since the start of the 2012 season, including two playoff series wins versus the Big Red in that time.
• All-time, Quinnipiac is 9-8-1 in games played at Lynah Rink.
• The Bobcats and BiG Red last met in the postseason in the 2016 ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals, which the Bobcats won in three games (5-2, 4-5, 6-3) at the TD Bank Sports Center.
• Before that year's quarterfinals matchup, Quinnipiac and Cornell met in a 2013 quarterfinals series, which the Bobcats won in three games. After losing game one at home, Quinnipiac won game two 10-0, and closed the series in double overtime when Kevin Bui's goal sealed a 3-2 win.
SCOUTING THE CORNELL BIG RED
• Cornell won sole possession of the program's ninth Cleary Cup — awarded annually to ECAC Hockey's regular-season champion. It's the Big Red's first Cleary Cup since 2004-05, and the fourth during the tenure of 23rd-year head coach Mike Schafer.
• Since Dec. 9, the Big Red has led the nation in winning percentage. Currently at .828, it's Cornell's best regular-season mark since it went 24-4-1 during the 2002-03 season before a postseason run into the Frozen Four.
• While Cornell is on pace to have its highest goal total for a season (3.07 per game) since the 2009-10 campaign, it's once against the program's vaunted defense in the spotlight this year.
• The Big Red enters the weekend leading the nation in team defense at 1.52 goals against per game, which would rank as the sixth-stingiest Division I season on record. The numbers have actually been even been better since Jan. 1, with Cornell yielding 1.25 goals per games over the last 16 games.
GAME NOTES
TUF ENUF
• Freshman Odeen Tufto currently leads Quinnipiac in assists (32) and points (41).
• Tufto's 32 assists lead all NCAA Division I freshmen student-athletes and he is one of 20 skaters in the country to reach 41 points to date.
• Tufto also leads the nation with 10 multiple-assist games while his 14 multiple-point games lead all NCAA Division I freshmen.
• Among NCAA Division I freshmen, Tufto leads the nation in assists (32), points (41), points per game (1.14), assists per game (0.89), even-strength points (25), points on the road (24), points when trailing (16), and is one of three players in the country to tally a point in 26 games this year while his 16 power play points rank second.
• He also leads all ECAC Hockey freshmen in first period points (10), second period points (22), power play points (16), even-strength points (25), points at home (17), points on the road (24), points per game on the road (0.66), points in wins (22), points when trailing (16), points when tied (13) .
• IN ECAC HOCKEY GAMES ONLY, Tufto is one of two players to record 20 assists this season, and one of seven with 25 points.
• Tufto is also one of eight players to average 1.14 points per game in ECAC Hockey play, which also leads all ECAC Hockey freshmen.
• His 20 assists and 25 points in ECAC Hockey play also lead all ECAC Hockey freshmen. • He's one of 10 players in the league, and the only freshman, to reach double-digit points at home (10) and on the road (17) in league play.
• Tufto has registered a point in 25 of Quinnipiac's 36 games this season, of which the Bobcats are 13- 11-2. • Quinnipiac is also 6-2-0 in seven games in which he's scored a goal.
• He was named ECAC Hockey Player and Rookie of the Week on Jan. 16 after he was the only player in the country to factor into all of team's goals for the weekend.
• He was also named ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week on Oct. 17.
• Tufto is also the 11th freshman in Quinnipiac's Division I history to reach 30 points points as a freshman, and just the fourth to reach 30 assists.
Quinnipiac Freshman 30-Point Scorers
1. Brian Herbert, 1999-00 (22g-32a-54p)
2. Bryan Leitch, 2005-06 (14-31-45)
3. Brandon Wong, 2006-07 (27-17-44)
4. Sam Anas, 2013-14 (22-21-43)
5. Neil Breen, 1998-99 (15-26-41)
6. Odeen Tufto, 2017-18 (9-32-41)
7. Matthew Peca, 2011-12 (8-31-39)
8. Matt Erhart, 1999-00 (4-27-31)
9. Matt Craig, 2001-02 (11-20-31)
10. Landon Smith, 2014-15 (15-16-31)
11. Chris White, 2001-02 (12-18-30)
Mac ATTACK
• Senior Tanner MacMaster is riding a career year in which he has scored 12 goals and assisted on 20 more for 32 points in 36 games played.
• The start of the second half of the season has been friendly to MacMaster who has scored four goals and assisted on 13 more for 17 points in Quinnipiac's last 18 games heading into the weekend.
• MacMaster is coming off a junior season in which he scored a career-high eight goals, while also picking up 11 assists for 19 points in 32 games.
• For his career, MacMaster has accumulated 29 goals and 53 assists for 82 points.
THE CHASE IS ON
• Junior captain Chase Priskie currently sits at 11 goals and 14 assists for 25 points through 35 regular-season games which leads all Quinnipiac defensemen in all three categories.
• His 11 goals lead all ECAC Hockey defensemen, while he is also one of three defensemen in the country to score 11 goals to date.
• Of his 11 goals, eight have come on the power play, which leads the nation among NCAA Division I defensemen and 11th among all skaters.
• Against ECAC Hockey, his eight power-play goals lead all league defensemen and rank third overall.
• Priskie is one of eight defensemen in ECAC Hockey with five multiple-point games. • He has also recorded a league-high 18 points on the road.
• IN ECAC HOCKEY GAMES ONLY, Priskie's six goals lead all ECAC Hockey defensemen, while his 16 points rank fourth.
• Priskie has tallied a point in 20 of the 35 games he's suited up for, of which Quinnipiac is 13-6-1.
• In the ten games in which he has scored a goal, Quinnipiac is 6-3-1.
• The Bobcats are also 9-4-1 in 14 games in which he has picked up an assist.
• Priskie also tallied a point in 13 of Quinnipiac's 22 ECAC Hockey games, totaling six goals and 10 assists for 16 points.
SHOW ME THE WHELAN
• Sophomore Alex Whelan currently leads Quinnipiac with 16 goals to date, while he's also assisted on three more for 19 points.
• The second-year Bobcats has scored 10 goals and assisted on two more in Quinnipiac's last 18 games since the start of the second half.
• Whelan's 16 goals rank tied for sixth in ECAC Hockey.
BO KNOWS
• Bo Pieper has nearly matched Alex Whelan's second-half out put with eight goals and three assists in 18 games since the start of the second half.
• For the year, Peiper has tallied 11 goals and seven assists for 18 points.
• Bo Pieper's goal at Princeton was his second of the season and first since Oct. 8 against Boston University.
• Pieper also picked up an assist on Whelan's goal for his first multiple-point game since Game 3 of last year's ECAC Hockey Quarterfinal-clinching win at St. Lawrence on Mar. 12, 2017.
• Pieper is currently the Bobcats' face-off leader, winning 57.4% (331-246) of his draws this season.
• The senior wing had a break-out year in 2016-17 after leading the team with 13 goals, while adding 12 assists for 25 points.
• Pieper's 24 goals in the last two seasons are the most in the Bobcats' lineup in that span.
PILING UP THE HARDWARE
• On Nov. 17-18, Andrew Shortridge had an incredible weekend in which he garnered NCAA Men's Ice Hockey First Star of the Week and ECAC Hockey Goalie of the Week honors.
• Shortridge posted a shutout in in the Bobcats' 5-0 victory against Brown on Friday, Nov. 17. The second-year Bobcat followed with another shutout in Quinnipiac's 3-0 win over rival Yale on Saturday, Nov. 18.
• Shortridge was the first goalie in the nation to post back-to-back shutouts in a weekend series this season.
• Shortridge was also the first Quinnipiac goalie to record back-to-back shutouts since Michael Garteig against Yale on Dec. 4, 2015 and Brown on Dec. 5, 2015.
• With a 21-save shutout against UConn, Shortridge recorded his fourth shutout of the season and also became the seventh goalie in program history to record five shutouts for his career.
• Shortridge's fifth shutout of the season came with a 22-save outing at Brown on Feb. 10.
• For the year, Shortridge is 11-12-2 with a .906 save percentage and a 2.36 GAA.
• Since the start of the second half, Shortridge is 5-3 with a .918 save percentage and a 2.02 GAA in eight games on the road.
SMOOTH LANDON
• Landon Smith had a career-high four points (three goals, one assist) in the Bobcats' 5-0 win against Brown on Friday, Nov. 17, while his three goals gave him his third hat trick of his career.
• Smith's four goals in eight ECAC Hockey games leads Quinnipiac.
• Smith's hat trick was the 31st in Quinnipiac NCAA Division I era.
• Smith's feat made him one of two players, along with Brandon Wong, to record a hat trick against the same team twice in his career; Smith's hat trick was his second against Brown after he recorded one against the Bears on Jan. 30, 2015; Wong had three against Union in his career.
• Wong is the Quinnipiac Division I leader with four career hat tricks while Smith's three-goal night tied Ben Nelson for second with three hat tricks.
• Landon Smith became the 39th player all-time and the 24th in Quinnipiac's Division I era to reach 100 career points with a two-point weekend against Northeastern.
• Smith is one of 14 active players in NCAA Division I hockey with 100 career points while his 109 career points rank eighth, his 43 career goals rank tied for 15th and his 66 career assists rank tied for ninth.
LOOSE PUCKS
• Four of Brandon Fortunato's five goals this season have come in his last eight games as he's scored four times and also added two assists.
• Fortunato had a goal and an assist against Yale before following with a breakaway goal at Brown for a tally in back-to-back games.
• Freshman Joe O'Connor scored his first career goal in the Bobcats' 3-0 win at Brown on Feb. 10. In doing so, he became the first player from Hamden, Conn. to score a goal for Quinnipiac at the Division I level, and the first since former captain Justin Nolan did it in 1996-97.
• First-year Bobcat Matt Forchuk has scored twice and assisted on six more goals this season. Forchuk had a goal against Union last week, and also followed with an assist at RPI. He also added two assists against St. Lawrence on Feb. 3, 2016.
• After the first 18 games of the season, and heading into the first-half break after the Bobcats' weekend series against Maine on Dec. 8-9, Quinnipiac was 9-for-69 (13%) on the power play. Since then, the Bobcats are 14-for-58 for 24.1% over its last 16 games including 11-for-37 over its last 10 games for 29.7%.
SINCE CHRISTMAS
• Tufto has six goals and 16 assists for 22 points in 18 games at a 1.25 point-per-game clip.
• MacMaster has scored four times and assisted on 1 more goals for 1 points in 1 games for a 0.94 point-per-game average.
• Alex Whelan and Bo Pieper have each scored a team-leading eight goals and have produced a team-best 10 points in 16 games played.
• In that span, Pieper leads the team with two game-winners. • He's also won 59.6% of his face-offs (174-121).
• Priskie has scored four goals - all on the power play - to go along with seven assists for 11 points in 16 games; Priskie has scored in back-to-back games.
• Quinnipiac's defensemen have scored 23 goals to date, the most in ECAC Hockey and tied for fourth most in the country.
• Chase Priskie's seven goals lead all ECAC Hockey defensemen.
• Through the first 15 games of the season, Andrew Shortridge was 5-8-2 with a .903 save percentage and a 2.49 GAA. Since the break, Shortridge is 6-4-0 with a .911 save percentage and a 2.18 GAA.
• Through the Bobcats' first 15 games of the year, heading into Christmas, Keith Petruzzelli was 1-2-0 with a .860 save percentage and a 3.95 GAA. Since the break, Petruzzelli is 2-2-2 with a .918 save percentage and a 2.35 GAA. Andrew Shortridge Before Christmas: 5-8-2//.903//2.49 Andrew Shortridge After Christmas: 6-4-0//.911//2.18 Keith Petruzzelli Before Christmas: 1-2-0//.860//3.95
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY BOBCATS
Record: 16-16-4 ECAC Hockey: 9-11-2
Head Coach: Rand Pecknold
Career Record: 485-295-89 (.609), 24th Season
All-Time vs. Cornell: 16-20-3
CORNELL UNIVERSITY BIG RED (#2/#2)
Overall Record: 23-4-2 ECAC HOCKEY: 17-3-2
Head Coach: Mike Schafer
Career Record: 435-235-91 (.642), 23rd Season
Location: Ithaca, N.Y.
Rink: Lynah Rink
MULTIMEDIA LINKS
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- Live Stats: CornellBigRed.com | CollegeHockeyStats.net
- Twitter: @QU_MIH
- Game Notes: Quinnipiac | Cornell
HAMDEN, Conn. - A trip to Lake Placid is on the line when the Quinnipiac men's ice hockey team heads to the road for a three-game series against top-seeded and second-ranked Cornell in the quarterfinal round of the ECAC Hockey Championship on Friday-Sunday. The Bobcats advanced with a dominant opening-round effort against Yale last weekend, taking 5-1 and 4-1 decisions on the road, and now face a Cornell team that they battled to two close one-goal losses in the regular season (2-1 in Hamden and 1-0 at Cornell).
GAME NOTES
ALL-TIME IN THE ECAC HOCKEY TOURNAMENT
• Quinnipiac enters the 2018 ECAC Hockey Championship Quarterfinals with a record of 39-24 all-time since the Bobcats entered the league in 2005-06. .
• Last season, the Bobcats' Quarterfinals Series win at St. Lawrence marked the second time in Quinnipiac's ECAC Hockey history that it won a second-round series on the road. The first time was at Cornell in 2007.
• Quinnipiac has won a playoff series in 20 consecutive seasons dating back to its first year at the NCAA Division I level in 1998-99.
• The Bobcats are the only team in ECAC Hockey to win a postseason series in each of the 13 years that Quinnipiac has been a member of the league.
• 36 of Quinnipiac's 39 ECAC Hockey Tournament wins have come when the Bobcats have scored three or more goals.
• All-time the Bobcats are 36-5 in the 41 tournament games in which they have scored three or more times.
ALL-TIME AGAINST CORNELL
• Quinnipiac enters this weekend's series with a record of 16-20-3 in 39 games all-time against Cornell.
• The Bobcats are 11-5-1 against Cornell since the start of the 2012 season, including two playoff series wins versus the Big Red in that time.
• All-time, Quinnipiac is 9-8-1 in games played at Lynah Rink.
• The Bobcats and BiG Red last met in the postseason in the 2016 ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals, which the Bobcats won in three games (5-2, 4-5, 6-3) at the TD Bank Sports Center.
• Before that year's quarterfinals matchup, Quinnipiac and Cornell met in a 2013 quarterfinals series, which the Bobcats won in three games. After losing game one at home, Quinnipiac won game two 10-0, and closed the series in double overtime when Kevin Bui's goal sealed a 3-2 win.
SCOUTING THE CORNELL BIG RED
• Cornell won sole possession of the program's ninth Cleary Cup — awarded annually to ECAC Hockey's regular-season champion. It's the Big Red's first Cleary Cup since 2004-05, and the fourth during the tenure of 23rd-year head coach Mike Schafer.
• Since Dec. 9, the Big Red has led the nation in winning percentage. Currently at .828, it's Cornell's best regular-season mark since it went 24-4-1 during the 2002-03 season before a postseason run into the Frozen Four.
• While Cornell is on pace to have its highest goal total for a season (3.07 per game) since the 2009-10 campaign, it's once against the program's vaunted defense in the spotlight this year.
• The Big Red enters the weekend leading the nation in team defense at 1.52 goals against per game, which would rank as the sixth-stingiest Division I season on record. The numbers have actually been even been better since Jan. 1, with Cornell yielding 1.25 goals per games over the last 16 games.
GAME NOTES
TUF ENUF
• Freshman Odeen Tufto currently leads Quinnipiac in assists (32) and points (41).
• Tufto's 32 assists lead all NCAA Division I freshmen student-athletes and he is one of 20 skaters in the country to reach 41 points to date.
• Tufto also leads the nation with 10 multiple-assist games while his 14 multiple-point games lead all NCAA Division I freshmen.
• Among NCAA Division I freshmen, Tufto leads the nation in assists (32), points (41), points per game (1.14), assists per game (0.89), even-strength points (25), points on the road (24), points when trailing (16), and is one of three players in the country to tally a point in 26 games this year while his 16 power play points rank second.
• He also leads all ECAC Hockey freshmen in first period points (10), second period points (22), power play points (16), even-strength points (25), points at home (17), points on the road (24), points per game on the road (0.66), points in wins (22), points when trailing (16), points when tied (13) .
• IN ECAC HOCKEY GAMES ONLY, Tufto is one of two players to record 20 assists this season, and one of seven with 25 points.
• Tufto is also one of eight players to average 1.14 points per game in ECAC Hockey play, which also leads all ECAC Hockey freshmen.
• His 20 assists and 25 points in ECAC Hockey play also lead all ECAC Hockey freshmen. • He's one of 10 players in the league, and the only freshman, to reach double-digit points at home (10) and on the road (17) in league play.
• Tufto has registered a point in 25 of Quinnipiac's 36 games this season, of which the Bobcats are 13- 11-2. • Quinnipiac is also 6-2-0 in seven games in which he's scored a goal.
• He was named ECAC Hockey Player and Rookie of the Week on Jan. 16 after he was the only player in the country to factor into all of team's goals for the weekend.
• He was also named ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Week on Oct. 17.
• Tufto is also the 11th freshman in Quinnipiac's Division I history to reach 30 points points as a freshman, and just the fourth to reach 30 assists.
Quinnipiac Freshman 30-Point Scorers
1. Brian Herbert, 1999-00 (22g-32a-54p)
2. Bryan Leitch, 2005-06 (14-31-45)
3. Brandon Wong, 2006-07 (27-17-44)
4. Sam Anas, 2013-14 (22-21-43)
5. Neil Breen, 1998-99 (15-26-41)
6. Odeen Tufto, 2017-18 (9-32-41)
7. Matthew Peca, 2011-12 (8-31-39)
8. Matt Erhart, 1999-00 (4-27-31)
9. Matt Craig, 2001-02 (11-20-31)
10. Landon Smith, 2014-15 (15-16-31)
11. Chris White, 2001-02 (12-18-30)
Mac ATTACK
• Senior Tanner MacMaster is riding a career year in which he has scored 12 goals and assisted on 20 more for 32 points in 36 games played.
• The start of the second half of the season has been friendly to MacMaster who has scored four goals and assisted on 13 more for 17 points in Quinnipiac's last 18 games heading into the weekend.
• MacMaster is coming off a junior season in which he scored a career-high eight goals, while also picking up 11 assists for 19 points in 32 games.
• For his career, MacMaster has accumulated 29 goals and 53 assists for 82 points.
THE CHASE IS ON
• Junior captain Chase Priskie currently sits at 11 goals and 14 assists for 25 points through 35 regular-season games which leads all Quinnipiac defensemen in all three categories.
• His 11 goals lead all ECAC Hockey defensemen, while he is also one of three defensemen in the country to score 11 goals to date.
• Of his 11 goals, eight have come on the power play, which leads the nation among NCAA Division I defensemen and 11th among all skaters.
• Against ECAC Hockey, his eight power-play goals lead all league defensemen and rank third overall.
• Priskie is one of eight defensemen in ECAC Hockey with five multiple-point games. • He has also recorded a league-high 18 points on the road.
• IN ECAC HOCKEY GAMES ONLY, Priskie's six goals lead all ECAC Hockey defensemen, while his 16 points rank fourth.
• Priskie has tallied a point in 20 of the 35 games he's suited up for, of which Quinnipiac is 13-6-1.
• In the ten games in which he has scored a goal, Quinnipiac is 6-3-1.
• The Bobcats are also 9-4-1 in 14 games in which he has picked up an assist.
• Priskie also tallied a point in 13 of Quinnipiac's 22 ECAC Hockey games, totaling six goals and 10 assists for 16 points.
SHOW ME THE WHELAN
• Sophomore Alex Whelan currently leads Quinnipiac with 16 goals to date, while he's also assisted on three more for 19 points.
• The second-year Bobcats has scored 10 goals and assisted on two more in Quinnipiac's last 18 games since the start of the second half.
• Whelan's 16 goals rank tied for sixth in ECAC Hockey.
BO KNOWS
• Bo Pieper has nearly matched Alex Whelan's second-half out put with eight goals and three assists in 18 games since the start of the second half.
• For the year, Peiper has tallied 11 goals and seven assists for 18 points.
• Bo Pieper's goal at Princeton was his second of the season and first since Oct. 8 against Boston University.
• Pieper also picked up an assist on Whelan's goal for his first multiple-point game since Game 3 of last year's ECAC Hockey Quarterfinal-clinching win at St. Lawrence on Mar. 12, 2017.
• Pieper is currently the Bobcats' face-off leader, winning 57.4% (331-246) of his draws this season.
• The senior wing had a break-out year in 2016-17 after leading the team with 13 goals, while adding 12 assists for 25 points.
• Pieper's 24 goals in the last two seasons are the most in the Bobcats' lineup in that span.
PILING UP THE HARDWARE
• On Nov. 17-18, Andrew Shortridge had an incredible weekend in which he garnered NCAA Men's Ice Hockey First Star of the Week and ECAC Hockey Goalie of the Week honors.
• Shortridge posted a shutout in in the Bobcats' 5-0 victory against Brown on Friday, Nov. 17. The second-year Bobcat followed with another shutout in Quinnipiac's 3-0 win over rival Yale on Saturday, Nov. 18.
• Shortridge was the first goalie in the nation to post back-to-back shutouts in a weekend series this season.
• Shortridge was also the first Quinnipiac goalie to record back-to-back shutouts since Michael Garteig against Yale on Dec. 4, 2015 and Brown on Dec. 5, 2015.
• With a 21-save shutout against UConn, Shortridge recorded his fourth shutout of the season and also became the seventh goalie in program history to record five shutouts for his career.
• Shortridge's fifth shutout of the season came with a 22-save outing at Brown on Feb. 10.
• For the year, Shortridge is 11-12-2 with a .906 save percentage and a 2.36 GAA.
• Since the start of the second half, Shortridge is 5-3 with a .918 save percentage and a 2.02 GAA in eight games on the road.
SMOOTH LANDON
• Landon Smith had a career-high four points (three goals, one assist) in the Bobcats' 5-0 win against Brown on Friday, Nov. 17, while his three goals gave him his third hat trick of his career.
• Smith's four goals in eight ECAC Hockey games leads Quinnipiac.
• Smith's hat trick was the 31st in Quinnipiac NCAA Division I era.
• Smith's feat made him one of two players, along with Brandon Wong, to record a hat trick against the same team twice in his career; Smith's hat trick was his second against Brown after he recorded one against the Bears on Jan. 30, 2015; Wong had three against Union in his career.
• Wong is the Quinnipiac Division I leader with four career hat tricks while Smith's three-goal night tied Ben Nelson for second with three hat tricks.
• Landon Smith became the 39th player all-time and the 24th in Quinnipiac's Division I era to reach 100 career points with a two-point weekend against Northeastern.
• Smith is one of 14 active players in NCAA Division I hockey with 100 career points while his 109 career points rank eighth, his 43 career goals rank tied for 15th and his 66 career assists rank tied for ninth.
LOOSE PUCKS
• Four of Brandon Fortunato's five goals this season have come in his last eight games as he's scored four times and also added two assists.
• Fortunato had a goal and an assist against Yale before following with a breakaway goal at Brown for a tally in back-to-back games.
• Freshman Joe O'Connor scored his first career goal in the Bobcats' 3-0 win at Brown on Feb. 10. In doing so, he became the first player from Hamden, Conn. to score a goal for Quinnipiac at the Division I level, and the first since former captain Justin Nolan did it in 1996-97.
• First-year Bobcat Matt Forchuk has scored twice and assisted on six more goals this season. Forchuk had a goal against Union last week, and also followed with an assist at RPI. He also added two assists against St. Lawrence on Feb. 3, 2016.
• After the first 18 games of the season, and heading into the first-half break after the Bobcats' weekend series against Maine on Dec. 8-9, Quinnipiac was 9-for-69 (13%) on the power play. Since then, the Bobcats are 14-for-58 for 24.1% over its last 16 games including 11-for-37 over its last 10 games for 29.7%.
SINCE CHRISTMAS
• Tufto has six goals and 16 assists for 22 points in 18 games at a 1.25 point-per-game clip.
• MacMaster has scored four times and assisted on 1 more goals for 1 points in 1 games for a 0.94 point-per-game average.
• Alex Whelan and Bo Pieper have each scored a team-leading eight goals and have produced a team-best 10 points in 16 games played.
• In that span, Pieper leads the team with two game-winners. • He's also won 59.6% of his face-offs (174-121).
• Priskie has scored four goals - all on the power play - to go along with seven assists for 11 points in 16 games; Priskie has scored in back-to-back games.
• Quinnipiac's defensemen have scored 23 goals to date, the most in ECAC Hockey and tied for fourth most in the country.
• Chase Priskie's seven goals lead all ECAC Hockey defensemen.
• Through the first 15 games of the season, Andrew Shortridge was 5-8-2 with a .903 save percentage and a 2.49 GAA. Since the break, Shortridge is 6-4-0 with a .911 save percentage and a 2.18 GAA.
• Through the Bobcats' first 15 games of the year, heading into Christmas, Keith Petruzzelli was 1-2-0 with a .860 save percentage and a 3.95 GAA. Since the break, Petruzzelli is 2-2-2 with a .918 save percentage and a 2.35 GAA. Andrew Shortridge Before Christmas: 5-8-2//.903//2.49 Andrew Shortridge After Christmas: 6-4-0//.911//2.18 Keith Petruzzelli Before Christmas: 1-2-0//.860//3.95
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