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Bobcats Selected to Four-Peat in ECAC; Graf and Lipkin Tabbed Preseason All-League
9/27/2023 10:05:00 AM | Men's Ice Hockey
CLIFTON PARK, N.Y. — The Quinnipiac University men's ice hockey program was picked to win its fourth consecutive Cleary Cup as the ECAC's regular season champion, the league announced on Wednesday morning with its annual preseason poll.
The Bobcats received 10 of the available 12 first-place votes from the league's coaches, besting Cornell by 12 points in the poll. This announcement is accompanied by the league's preseason all-conference team, which had a pair of Quinnipiac players on it in Collin Graf and Sam Lipkin.
Graf, a unanimous selection, is coming off a career campaign, earning First Team All-American honors from CCM/AHCA, as well as a Hobey Baker Top 10 honor. The Lincoln, Mass., native tallied 59 points a season ago, with 21 goals and 38 assists. His final goal of the campaign came with 2:47 left in regulation of the national championship, sending the game to overtime.
Lipkin was named to the Tim Taylor National Rookie of the Year Watch List, as well as the ECAC's Rookie of the Year in his inaugural campaign with the Bobcats. He assisted on both the game-tying and game-winning goals in the National Championship and was one of two players nationally to record a pair of four-assist games during the campaign.
After Quinnipiac and Cornell in the poll, Harvard and Clarkson rounded out the top four with each program earning a first-place nod. St. Lawrence, Colgate, RPI and Union followed, with Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth and Brown finishing it off.
The league's top three in the preseason poll were also recognized in the USCHO Preseason rankings released on Monday, with the Bobcats entering the year at No. 2, Cornell at No. 11 and Harvard at No. 15 nationally.
Quinnipiac will raise its National Championship banner and open the 2023-24 campaign on Oct. 7, hosting Boston College at 7 p.m., at M&T Bank Arena.
For an inside look at the Quinnipiac men's ice hockey program, be sure to follow it on social media @QU_MIH or go to gobobcats.com/mih.
The Bobcats received 10 of the available 12 first-place votes from the league's coaches, besting Cornell by 12 points in the poll. This announcement is accompanied by the league's preseason all-conference team, which had a pair of Quinnipiac players on it in Collin Graf and Sam Lipkin.
Graf, a unanimous selection, is coming off a career campaign, earning First Team All-American honors from CCM/AHCA, as well as a Hobey Baker Top 10 honor. The Lincoln, Mass., native tallied 59 points a season ago, with 21 goals and 38 assists. His final goal of the campaign came with 2:47 left in regulation of the national championship, sending the game to overtime.
Lipkin was named to the Tim Taylor National Rookie of the Year Watch List, as well as the ECAC's Rookie of the Year in his inaugural campaign with the Bobcats. He assisted on both the game-tying and game-winning goals in the National Championship and was one of two players nationally to record a pair of four-assist games during the campaign.
After Quinnipiac and Cornell in the poll, Harvard and Clarkson rounded out the top four with each program earning a first-place nod. St. Lawrence, Colgate, RPI and Union followed, with Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth and Brown finishing it off.
The league's top three in the preseason poll were also recognized in the USCHO Preseason rankings released on Monday, with the Bobcats entering the year at No. 2, Cornell at No. 11 and Harvard at No. 15 nationally.
Quinnipiac will raise its National Championship banner and open the 2023-24 campaign on Oct. 7, hosting Boston College at 7 p.m., at M&T Bank Arena.
For an inside look at the Quinnipiac men's ice hockey program, be sure to follow it on social media @QU_MIH or go to gobobcats.com/mih.
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