Friday, November 4
Hamden, Conn.
7:00 PM
Quinnipiac University
vs
Colgate
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ECAC Play Begins as Bobcats Host Colgate, Cornell
11/3/2022 8:34:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey
The Weekend:
Friday, Nov. 4 | 7:00 PM EST
No. 6/7 Quinnipiac Bobcats (3-1-2) vs. Colgate Raiders (2-5-1)
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Saturday, Nov. 5 | 7:00 PM EST
No. 6/7 Quinnipiac Bobcats (3-1-2) vs. Cornell Big Red (0-2-0)
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HAMDEN, Conn. — The chase for a seventh Cleary Cup begins on Friday night, as ECAC Hockey play opens at M&T Bank Arena with Colgate and Cornell coming to town. The Bobcats will take on the Raiders Friday, with the Big Red coming to Hamden on Saturday.
Both puck drops are slated for 7 p.m.
SCOUTING COLGATE
Friday, Nov. 4 | 7:00 PM EST
No. 6/7 Quinnipiac Bobcats (3-1-2) vs. Colgate Raiders (2-5-1)
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Saturday, Nov. 5 | 7:00 PM EST
No. 6/7 Quinnipiac Bobcats (3-1-2) vs. Cornell Big Red (0-2-0)
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HAMDEN, Conn. — The chase for a seventh Cleary Cup begins on Friday night, as ECAC Hockey play opens at M&T Bank Arena with Colgate and Cornell coming to town. The Bobcats will take on the Raiders Friday, with the Big Red coming to Hamden on Saturday.
Both puck drops are slated for 7 p.m.
SCOUTING COLGATE
- The Raiders enter the weekend with a 2-5-1 record, coming off a winless 0-1-1 series against Vermont in Hamilton, N.Y.
- Ross Mitton provided both goals on the weekend that ended with a 2-1 defeat and 1-1 stalemate. He is tied with three other skaters for the lead on the team leaderboard in goals.
- Matt Verboon has four assists to go along with his pair of tallies, good for a team-high six points.
- Carter Gylander has started all eight contests this season, currently boasting a 2.36 goals-against average and .922 save percentage.
- Colgate finished last season with a 9-9-4 resume in ECAC play, defeating Yale and Cornell in a pair of Best-of-Three series before falling to Quinnipiac in the ECAC Semifinals.
- With a later start to its regular season, the Big Red are coming off their first weekend set, a pair of losses at No. 19 Minnesota Duluth this weekend.
- They did not lead during the weekend, surrendering a goal with 1:41 left in the Friday opener to fall before UMD raced out to a 4-1 lead on Saturday.
- Four different players scored a goal over the weekend, while eight others provided an assist to spread out the scoring. Gabriel Seger, who was one of the eight with a helper, won 24 of his 34 faceoffs over the weekend.
- Ian Shane played 77:28 of the available 120:00, making 38 saves, good for a .927 save percentage.
- Cornell went 12-6-4 in ECAC play a season ago, falling in three games to Colgate in the ECAC Quarterfinals.
EXPERIENCE
- The Bobcats have one of the most experienced rosters in the country, with four players inside the Top 15 among active career leaders in appearances.
- Ethan de Jong currently sits at 149 appearances, good for second in the country, tied with Bowling Green's Alex Barber. The same squad's Taylor Schneider enters the weekend with 154 career appearances, the most in the country.
- For the Bobcats, Jacob Nordqvist (144), Zach Metsa (142) and Michael Lombardi (140) all sit inside the Top 15. They combine to make Quinnipiac the only school in the country to have four inside the Top 15 in appearances.
- Graduate forward Ethan de Jong is part of elite company, sitting as one of two active players with 110 career points and four active athletes in triple digits.
- A month into the year, he sits second in that category with 110, tallying 45 goals and 65 assists. He is six behind New Hampshire's Ryan Black, who has 116, and six ahead of Penn State's Ashton Calder who currently has 104.
- Sophomore Yaniv Perets is in a league of his own, currently second the country among active players with 12 in 39 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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