Men's Ice Hockey Downs Princeton, 3-1

Saturday, December 28

Princeton, N.J. / Hobey Baker Rink

7:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

8-7-1, 3-3-1

Princeton

2-9-3, 0-5-2

Quinnipiac

Princeton

Photo by: Morgan Tencza

12/28/2019 10:28:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

Petruzzelli Ties Season-High with 34 Saves, Lee Scores First Career Goal

By: QU Athletic Communications

PRINCETON, N.J. – Jayden Lee (North Vancouver, British Columbia) and Odeen Tufto (Chaska, Minnesota) scored goals two minutes apart from one another in the first period Saturday night and the Quinnipiac men's ice hockey team held on to defeat Princeton, 3-1, at Hobey Baker Rink.

The Bobcats returned to action after nearly a month off from games and returned where they left off before the break to earn their second straight victory.

Lee's tally 7:47 into the first period was the first goal of his career before Tufto followed with his second goal of the season to take a 2-0 lead at the time. Wyatt Bongiovanni (Birmingham, Michigan) scored a power-play goal with 1:23 to go in the third period to cap off the Bobcats victory over the Tigers.

Keith Petruzzelli (Wilbraham, Massachusetts) was stellar between the pipes once again for the Bobcats as he made 34 saves to earn his eighth win of the season and tie his season-high. He made 26 saves through the first two periods and held the Tigers to just one goal in the win.

SCORE
Quinnipiac 3, Princeton 1

RECORDS
Quinnipiac (8-7-1, 3-3-1 ECAC Hockey) | Princeton (2-9-3, 0-5-2 ECAC Hockey)

LOCATION
Hobey Baker Rink | Princeton, New Jersey

SCORING SUMMARY

(7:47, 1^st period) – Quinnipiac 1, Princeton 0: Skyler Brind'Amour dumped the puck off for Peter DiLiberatore (Bedford, Nova Scotia) in the bottom half of the offensive zone where he fed the puck off the sideboards straight to Lee for a one-timer from the right point to beat Jeremie Forget top corner over Forget's blocker.
(9:59, 1^st period) – Quinnipiac 2, Princeton 0: Nick Jermain (Norwalk, Connecticut) caused a turnover near center ice along boards and the puck eventually made its way to Alex Whelan (Ramsey, New Jersey) skating into the offensive zone. Whelan drew a defender before timing centering feed for Tufto where he one-timed the puck just inside the post past Forget.
(14:27, 2^nd period) – Quinnipiac 2, Princeton 1: Jeremy Germain got the Tigers on the board in the later stages of the second period as he carried the puck through the neutral zone into the offensive zone and rifled the puck past Petruzzelli's glove to cut the Bobcats lead in half.
(18:37, 3^rd period – PP) – Quinnipiac 3, Princeton 1: Tufto raced the puck up the right side of the ice and skated in on goal before centering the puck for Bongiovanni who tipped the puck past Forget for his seventh goal.

NOTES

Quinnipiac recorded zero penalties in Saturday's contest against Princeton, its first game with no penalties since Jan. 8, 2011 at Cornell.
Lee's first period tally was the first goal of his career and second career point after recording an assist in the season-opening win over AIC.
Tufto snapped a four-game stretch without a point as he buried his second goal of the season and added his 13^th assist.
With his two-point showing Saturday night, Tufto now has 98 career points and is just two away from becoming the 41^st player in program history with 100 points.
Petruzzelli continued his impressive play of late as he made 34 saves to tie his season-high.
Over his last seven games, Petruzzelli owns a 1.45 GAA and .944 save percentage
Brind'Amour assisted Lee's goal to give him assists in back-to-back games, his third time this season recording points in back-to-back games.
DiLiberatore picked up the primary helper on Lee's tally for his eighth point of the season to tie him for the team-lead among defensemen with Karlis Cukste (Riga, Latvia).
Whelan tallied an assist of his own with the set-up pass on Tufto's goal for his third assist of the season and fifth point.
Whelan also has points in back-to-back games after his assist.
Ethan de Jong (North Vancouver, British Columbia) added an assist for his fifth of the season and eighth point on Bongiovanni's power-play tally late in Saturday night's game.

NEXT GAME

Quinnipiac and Princeton travel up I-95 to finish off the home-and-home series Sunday night back in Hamden with puck drop set for 7 p.m. at Frank Perrotti Jr. Arena.