#12/13 Bobcats Fall in Overtime to #10/10 Clarkson, 5-4

Friday, January 8

Hamden, Conn.

7:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

6-4-1

Clarkson

7-3-1

OT 1

Clarkson

Quinnipiac

Photo by: Rob Rasmussen / P8Photos.com

#12/13 Bobcats Fall in Overtime to #10/10 Clarkson, 5-4

1/8/2021 11:06:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

Men's Ice Hockey Storms Back from Three-Goal First Period Deficit

By: QU Athletic Communications

HAMDEN, Conn. – The No. 12/13 Quinnipiac men's ice hockey team came back from a three-goal first period deficit to force overtime Friday night but fell to the No. 10/10 Clarkson Golden Knights, 5-4.

Odeen Tufto (Chaska, Minnesota) led the Bobcats with three points on a trio of assists for his seventh straight game with a point while four different Bobcats scored goals in the tough loss.

Ty Smilanic (Denver, Colorado) scored his seventh goal of the season while Peter DiLiberatore (Bedford, Nova Scotia) and Logan Britt (Crystal Lake, Illinois) each scored for the second time this season. Christophe Fillion (Sherbrooke, Quebec) found the back of the net for the first time in his collegiate career.

Quinnipiac got off to a challenging start as Clarkson led 3-0 less than eight minutes in the third period before DiLiberatore got the Bobcats on the board with a late power-play goal and trail by two going into the second period.

The Bobcats continued to answer just 37 seconds into the second period as Smilanic banged home a power-play goal on the backdoor pull within a goal of the Golden Knights.

After Clarkson regained a two-goal lead, the Bobcats scored two unanswered to tie the game and force overtime. Fillion fired home a feed from Desi Burgart (North Vancouver, British Columbia) off a turnover for the first goal of his career.

Trailing 4-3 with less than seven minutes to go in the third period, the Bobcats put an extra skater on the ice with a delayed penalty on Clarkson. After working the puck around the zone, Tufto fired a shot that was saved by Clarkson goaltender Ethan Haider but Britt was waiting on the backdoor to tap home the game-tying goal.

The Golden Knights won it with 1:19 left in overtime as Zach Tsekos put home a rebound.

SCORE
Quinnipiac 4, Clarkson 5 (OT)

RECORDS
#12/13 Quinnipiac (6-4-1, 0-2-1 ECAC Hockey) | #10/10 Clarkson (7-3-1, 2-0-1 ECAC Hockey)

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

SCORING SUMMARY

(3:14, 1^st period) – Quinnipiac 0, Clarkson 1: Luke Mobley scored the first goal of the game just 3:14 into regulation as the Golden Knights led a rush into the offensive zone and Grant Cooper's initial shot was saved by Keith Petruzzelli (Wilbraham, Massachusetts) but Mobley was right on the doorstep to flip home the goal
(4:04, 1^st period) – Quinnipiac 0, Clarkson 2: Jack Jacome doubled the Golden Knights lead less than a minute later as he intercepted the puck in the right corner and skated around to the circle and fired the puck low past Petruzzelli.
(7:34, 1^st period) – Quinnipiac 0, Clarkson 3: Nick Campoli gave Clarkson a 3-0 lead as he skated into the offensive zone, and off a feed from Nick Wicks, wristed a shot from above the left faceoff circle past Petruzzelli's glove.
(17:16, 1^st period – PP) – Quinnipiac 1, Clarkson 3: DiLiberatore got the Bobcats on the board with a power-play goal late in the third period. Tufto passed the puck from the point to DiLiberatore on the right wing where he faked a shot to beat a defender and wristed the puck home past Clarkson goaltender Ethan Haider's glove side.
(00:37, 2^nd period – PP) – Quinnipiac 2, Clarkson 3: The Bobcats scored their second power-play goal of the game as Tufto shifted the puck quick to Ethan de Jong (North Vancouver, British Columbia) low in the left circle. de Jong held the puck to draw the defense before backhanding the puck across the crease for Smilanic to one-time home on the backdoor.
(11:01, 2^nd period – PP) – Quinnipiac 2, Clarkson 4: Clarkson regained its two-goal lead just past the midway point of the second period as Jordan Power fired a shot on goal from the left point that was saved by Petruzzelli and Anthony Callin's initial rebound was also saved before he swiped home a second chance.
(15:57, 2^nd period) – Quinnipiac 3, Clarkson 4: Desi Burgart (North Vancouver, British Columbia) created a turnover in the offensive end, spun and found Fillion streaking down the left side of the zone where he wristed home a rocket glove side to beat Haider and pull back within a goal.
(6:24, 3^rd period – DP/EA) – Quinnipiac 4: Clarkson 4: Logan Britt tied the game with a delayed penalty, extra-attacker goal as Tufto fired a shot on net after a quick pass from Jayden Lee (North Vancouver, British Columbia) and Haider kicked the rebound right to Britt waiting on the backdoor for the one-timer to tie the game.
(3:41, Overtime) – Quinnipiac 4, Clarkson 5: Clarkson created a turnover in the three-on-three overtime and Zach Tsekos battled behind the net for the puck before throwing the puck high for Jack Jacome who gloved down the puck and had his initial shot saved before chipping the rebound to Tsekos who roofed it passed a sprawling Petruzzelli.

NOTES

Quinnipiac went 2 for 6 on the power play Friday night, recording multiple power play goals in a game for the fifth time so far this season.
Smilanic scored his seventh goal of the season to move into a tie for second in the nation among first years and eighth overall in the country.
Smilanic is also tied for third in the nation among first years with three power-play goals
He now has goals in four of his last five games
DiLiberatore picked up a point for a second straight game as he scored his second goal of the season Friday night
His goal was the 11^th of his career and moved up to fourth in the nation among defensemen with 12 points.
Fillion scored his first collegiate goal Friday night as he skated in his eighth game since joining the squad after the first semester.
Fillion is the 17^th Bobcat to score a goal this season.
Tufto recorded three assists to extend his point streak to a season-best seven games and now has multiple points in each of the last five games.
Tufto's three-assist night was his 29^th multi-assist game and 44^th multi-point game of his career.
He leads the nation with 18 assists and 22 points, and is averaging two points per game his season.
Tufto also leads the nation with 164 faceoff wins and a .680 faceoff percentage after going 15 for 22 at the dot.
In his career, Tufto is now sixth in program history with 108 assists while his 143 career points are tied with Brandon Wong '10 and Matthew Peca '15 for ninth in program history and fifth in Division I program history.
Britt's goal was his second of the season and third of his career as he scored at Frank Perrotti Jr. Arena for the first time.
Both of Britt's previous goals came at Holy Cross.
Zach Metsa recorded his third point in the last two games with an assist Friday night to remain second in the nation among defensemen with 13 points.
His assist moved him into a tie with DiLiberatore for first with 10 assists.
Ethan de Jong recorded his sixth assist of the season to give him points in seven of the last eight games.
Burgart hadn't had a point in his last two games before assisting Fillion's first career goal for his seventh point of the season.
Lee continues to add to his point total as he recorded his third assists in his first five games, tying his career-high for assists after recording three as a first year last season.

NEXT GAME

Quinnipiac and Clarkson return to the ice Saturday night for Game Two of their three-game series in Hamden with puck drop set for 7 p.m.
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