Friday, October 7
Chestnut Hill, Mass. / Conte Forum
7:00 PM
Quinnipiac University
at
Boston College
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No. 6/7 Bobcats' Regular Season Slate Begins On the Road Friday, Back Home Sunday
10/6/2022 7:29:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey
Game 1: No. 6/7 Quinnipiac Bobcats (0-0-0) at Boston College (0-0-0)
Conte Forum | Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Game 2: No. 6/7 Quinnipiac Bobcats (0-0-0) vs. Long Island University (0-1-0)
M&T Bank Arena | Hamden, Conn.
Game 1: Friday, Sept. 7 | 7:00 PM
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Game 2: Sunday, Oct. 9 | 2:00 PM
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HAMDEN, Conn. — The No. 6/7 Quinnipiac men's hockey team begins its regular season slate on Friday night when they head up to Boston to take on Boston College at the Conte Forum. Both matchups in Chestnut Hill between the two squads have ended in ties.
Quinnipiac returns home on Sunday afternoon, where it will open its home schedule with a 2 p.m., matchup with LIU.
SCOUTING BOSTON COLLEGE
Conte Forum | Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Game 2: No. 6/7 Quinnipiac Bobcats (0-0-0) vs. Long Island University (0-1-0)
M&T Bank Arena | Hamden, Conn.
Game 1: Friday, Sept. 7 | 7:00 PM
Watch: ESPN+
Live Stats: Click Here
Game 2: Sunday, Oct. 9 | 2:00 PM
Watch: ESPN+
Live Stats: Click Here
Tickets: Buy Now
HAMDEN, Conn. — The No. 6/7 Quinnipiac men's hockey team begins its regular season slate on Friday night when they head up to Boston to take on Boston College at the Conte Forum. Both matchups in Chestnut Hill between the two squads have ended in ties.
Quinnipiac returns home on Sunday afternoon, where it will open its home schedule with a 2 p.m., matchup with LIU.
SCOUTING BOSTON COLLEGE
- It is a new era in Boston College men's hockey, as former All-American defenseman Greg Brown takes over as head coach after Jerry York's 28-year tenure with the program.
- Brown spent 14 seasons behind the bench as an assistant from 2004-18 and was an assistant with the New York Rangers from 2018-21 before spending last season with Dubuque in the USHL.
- The Eagles lost 48 percent of the team's goal output from a season ago and their top returning point-scorer, Nikita Nesterenko, recorded 24 points, good for fifth on the team leaderboard.
- Graduate transfer Mitch Benson minds the net for the Eagles after he started his career at Colgate. He finished with 24 victories in the ECAC, good for eighth among active goalies.
- The Sharks almost pulled off a stunner on Saturday night, taking No. 9 Northeastern to overtime before the Huskies scored 1:16 into the extra session.
- Nolan Welsh and Adam Goodsir each scored for LIU, erasing deficits with each tally.
- Vinnie Purpura kept LIU within striking distance all game, recording 43 saves with 42 in regulation. After just four shots on goal in the first, the Sharks offense hit Devon Levi with 27 saves over the final two periods plus overtime.
- 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.
- The Bobcats were selected No. 7 nationally in both the DCU/USCHO Preseason Poll and the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Preseason Coaches' Poll, as announced on Sept. 19.
- Quinnipiac received 669 points in the DCU/USCHO poll and 439 points in the USA Today/USA Magazine rankings after finishing the 2021-22 campaign with a 32-7-3 record, going 17-4-1 in preseason play.
- The program tied its single-season record for wins in a campaign, while also becoming one of eight schools to reach their fourth Regional Final in four of the last 10 NCAA Tournaments.
- 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.
- Eight current Bobcats were invited to NHL Development Camps this summer, as Yaniv Perets (Philadelphia Flyers), TJ Friedmann (St. Louis Blues), Zach Metsa (Buffalo Sabres) and Skyler Brind'Amour (Edmonton Oilers) will bring that experience back to Quinnipiac.
- The four incoming Bobcats invited were Sam Lipkin (Arizona Coyotes), Collin Graf (Florida Panthers), Charles Alexis Legault (Ottawa Senators) and Chase Clark (Washington Capitals).
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