Fällström Scores Late Equalizer in Exhibition Tie with Brock

Sunday, October 6

Hamden, Conn.

4:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

Brock (Ex.)

Photo by: Rob Rasmussen / P8Photos.com

Fällström Scores Late Equalizer in Exhibition Tie with Brock

10/6/2019 8:01:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

Bobcats Score Two Goals in Third, Including Game-Tying Goal with 12.2 Seconds Left

By: QU Athletic Communications

HAMDEN, Conn. – William Fällström (Stockholm, Sweden) scored the game-tying goal with 12.2 seconds remaining in regulation Sunday night as the Quinnipiac men's ice hockey team skated to a 4-4 tie with the Brock Badgers in an exhibition contest at Frank Perrotti Jr. Arena.

Trailing 4-3, the Bobcats pulled goaltender Evan Fear (Winnetka, Illinois) with about 1:30 remaining in regulation before Quinnipiac could strike as Wyatt Bongiovanni (Birmingham, Michigan) worked the puck to Zach Metsa (Delafield, Wisconsin) at the right point and he shot it on net for Fällström to tip past Brock goaltender Jacob Hutchings.

Fear was solid in goal for the third period and overtime for the Bobcats, making 11 saves to keep the Badgers off the board and allow the Bobcats to come from behind and tie the game.

Karlis Cukste (Riga, Latvia) and Bongiovanni each had a goal and an assist in Sunday's exhibition in addition to Fällström's late equalizer. Nick Jermain (Norwalk, Connecticut) pulled the Bobcats within a goal early in the third period as he batted the puck out of mid-air without looking.

The offense was buzzing for the Bobcats from start to finish as they outshot the Badgers, 57-23 including a 28-7 edge in the second period. Quinnipiac recorded a total of 100 shots compared to 37 for the Badgers and hit six posts.

SCORE
Quinnipiac 4, Brock 4

RECORDS
Quinnipiac (0-0-0, 0-0-0 ECAC Hockey) | Brock (0-1-0, 0-1-0 OUA)

LOCATION
Frank Perrotti Jr. Arena at the People's United Center | Hamden, Conn.

SCORING SUMMARY

(4:51, 1^st period) – Quinnipiac 0, Brock 1: The Badgers got on the board early in the first period with a fluky goal as Tyler Rollo redirected home a shot from Matthew Price-Barnes to take an early lead.
(19:42.9, 1^st period - PP) – Quinnipiac 1, Brock 1: Bongiovanni evened up the score with 17.1 seconds to go in the period with a power-play goal as he rifled a shot from the right wing off a set-up pass from DiLiberatore.
(3:00, 2^nd period) – Quinnipiac 1, Brock 2: Brock scored its first of three goals in the second period as Matthew Price-Barnes beat Keith Petruzzelli (Wilbraham, Massachusetts) with a snapshot on the breakaway.
(13:33, 2^nd period) – Quinnipiac 1, Brock 3: Brayden Stortz gave the Bobcats a two-goal lead with 6:27 to go in the period as he fired a shot above Petruzzelli's glove for his first of the game
(16:06, 2^nd period – PP) – Quinnipiac 2, Brock 3: Cukste answered back less than three minutes later with the Bobcats' second power-play goal of the game as he crashed the net and tapped home a rebound off an Alex Whelan (Ramsey, New Jersey) shot to pull back within a goal
(19:47.4, 2^nd period) – Quinnipiac 2, Brock 4: The Badgers scored a fourth goal in the final 15 seconds of the second period as Sambrook collected a loose puck off a shot from Jared Marino on top of the crease and beat Petruzzelli who had just made a great save on the previous shot.
(4:39, 3^rd period) – Quinnipiac 3, Brock 4: An early candidate for goal of the year as Jermain spun and batted the puck backhanded out of midair off a centering feed from Cukste.
(19:47.8, 3^rd period – EA) – Quinnipiac 4, Brock 4: Quinnipiac tied the game with an extra-attacker goal with 12.2 seconds to go in regulation as Bongiovanni worked the puck up the far boards to Metsa and Fällström was parked in front of the goal to tip home the equalizer.

NOTES

Sunday's exhibition contest was the first game in 188 days since the Bobcats ended the 2018-19 season with a 3-1 loss to national champion Minnesota Duluth in the Midwest Regional Final in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Nine different Bobcats factored into the scoring in Sunday's tie with PJ Fletcher (Dana Point, California) picking up an assist and seven underclassman tallying a point
Cukste tallied a two-point game with a goal and an assist for two points, something the senior defenseman has done five times in regular season or tournament contests
Nine players saw the ice as a Quinnipiac men's ice hockey player for the first time and 17 of the 23 players dressed were underclassmen
Fear did not allow a goal on the 11 shots he faced between the third period and overtime, with eight saves coming in the third period and three in overtime.

FROM THE SOURCE
Head Coach Rand Pecknold
"It was one of those crazy games you play where you look up at the clock and shots are 37-9 and we're losing 3-1. It doesn't happen often but it happens once in a while.

"There's definitely a lot of negatives that we can get better with but there were certainly some positives like coming back down two goals and finding a way to score with 12 seconds left. We had some big kills in the third, the three-on-five kill was great and Fear played really well for his first college action coming in in the third."

NEXT GAME

The Bobcats officially open up the 2019-20 season with the home opener on Friday night with the beginning of a home-and-home weekend with the AIC Yellow Jackets at 7 PM. Quinnipiac travels to AIC on Saturday at 7 PM for the first road game of the season.