Saturday, October 22
Orono, Maine / Alfond Arena
7:00 PM
Quinnipiac University
at
Maine
Photo by: Russell Hons
No. 3 Bobcats Trek North for Final Non-Conference Series at Maine
10/21/2022 9:05:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey
The Series: No. 3 Quinnipiac Bobcats (2-0-2) at Maine Black Bears (1-2-0)
Harold Alfond Sports Arena
Game 1: Saturday, Oct. 22 | 7:05 PM EST
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Game 2: Sunday, Oct. 23 | 4:05 PM EST
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ORONO, Maine — Unbeaten through its first two non-conference weekends, the No. 3 Quinnipiac men's ice hockey program heads up I-95 to Maine, where the Black Bears await for a pair of games in the final non-conference series for the Bobcats.
Quinnipiac earned a win and tie against Boston College and LIU, respectively, before earning the same results at No. 3 North Dakota last weekend. After its 1-0-1 Grand Forks trip, Quinnipiac ascended to No. 3 in the national polls.
SCOUTING MAINE
Harold Alfond Sports Arena
Game 1: Saturday, Oct. 22 | 7:05 PM EST
Watch: ESPN+
Live Stats: Click Here
Game 2: Sunday, Oct. 23 | 4:05 PM EST
Watch: ESPN+
Live Stats: Click Here
ORONO, Maine — Unbeaten through its first two non-conference weekends, the No. 3 Quinnipiac men's ice hockey program heads up I-95 to Maine, where the Black Bears await for a pair of games in the final non-conference series for the Bobcats.
Quinnipiac earned a win and tie against Boston College and LIU, respectively, before earning the same results at No. 3 North Dakota last weekend. After its 1-0-1 Grand Forks trip, Quinnipiac ascended to No. 3 in the national polls.
SCOUTING MAINE
- The Black Bears enter the weekend with a 1-2-0 record and off back-to-back losses to No. 1 Denver and Bentley on consecutive Saturdays.
- Thomas Freel started the scoring on Saturday, 5:51 into the game, but surrendered five in a row in a 5-1 defeat to Bentley.
- Lynden Breen leads the way in scoring with a pair of goals to his name.
- Victor Ostman and Jacob Mucitelli have split the 176:54 between the pipes this season, with Ostman currently sitting on a 2.23 goals-against average and Mucitelli is at 3.11.
J-QUILLAN
- The Nova Scotia-born sophomore leads the Bobcats in assists this season, with five in the first four games of this 2022 campaign. He had a total of seven in his 36 appearances a season ago.
- Quillan leads the league and is sixth nationally in assists per game, averaging 1.25 per contest.
- Graduate forward Ethan de Jong enters the 2022-23 campaign as part of elite company, sitting as one of two active players with 100 career points.
- Fast-forward a week into the year, he sits second in that category with 110 to his name, tallying 45 goals and 65 assists. He is five behind New Hampshire's Ryan Black, who has 115, and seven ahead of Penn State's Ashton Calder who currently has 103.
- Sophomore Yaniv Perets is in a league of his own, currently leading the country among active players with 12 in 34 appearances during his college career.
- Perets broke the program's single-season shutouts record, becoming the first person ever to reach double digits in that category with 11. He is eight shy of the program's career record, set by Michael Garteig (19).
- Union transfer Collin Graf recorded his first goal with the Bobcats in the home opener on Oct. 9, a power-play tally that got his squad on the board against LIU.
- He finished the 2021-22 campaign second on the Union team in points with 22, tallying 11 goals and 11 assists. All three marks were good for second on the squad.
- After securing its sixth in program history, the Bobcats were picked to three-peat and win the Cleary Cup once again, according to the ECAC Coaches' Poll, announced by the league office on Sept. 21.
- The squad received eight of a possible 12 first-place votes, securing 118 total points. They finished nine points ahead of second-place Harvard, who secured the other four selections to top the league.
- Captain Zach Metsa and sophomore goaltender Yaniv Perets were selected to the ECAC Men's Preseason All-League team as well. Metsa ranked second in the nation for assists by a defenseman in 2021-22, while Perets finished No. 1 nationally in goals-against average and shutouts.
- Graduate defender Zach Metsa was named the 2022-23 team captain by head coach Rand Pecknold in July and is the 49th captain in program history, succeeding Wyatt Bongiovanni, who served as the captain during the 2021-22 campaign.
- Quinnipiac's three assistant captains will be Desi Burgart, Ethan de Jong and Michael Lombardi, as finalized by Pecknold on Sept. 1.
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