No. 5 Quinnipiac Welcomes No. 11 Dartmouth, Harvard

Friday, November 13

Hamden, CT

7:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

Dartmouth

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Antonin Verreault Skates with the Puck Against Providence (Oct. 31, 2026 in Hamden, CT)

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11/12/2026 5:05:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

HAMDEN, CT — The Quinnipiac men's ice hockey program returns to ECAC play this weekend at M&T Bank Arena, welcoming No. 11 Dartmouth for a Friday night showdown before Harvard and new head coach Rob Rassey come to town for a Saturday night puck drop.

Quinnipiac is coming off a pair of league victories to get that part of the campaign off to a strong start, knocking off Cornell by a 4-1 at Lynah Rink before escaping the Class of 1965 arena with a 4-3 overtime win at Colgate.

MR. 700

Head coach Rand Pecknold became the 10th NCAA Men's Ice Hockey coach to reach 700 career wins on Saturday night, knocking off Colgate by a 4-3 final in overtime.
The winningest active coach in NCAA Men's Division I right now, Pecknold is one of four coaches to reach the milestone in 35 seasons or fewer.
He is one of five coaches to win 700 games at one school and is the only active Division I coach with at least 600 victories.

APPLES BY ANDREW

Andrew Strathmann has doubled his career assist total in just nine games in Bobcat Nation, dishing seven helpers to aid the Bobcat attack in the early portions of the season.
His seven assists are three off the national lead by a defenseman and tied for the most by an ECAC blue-liner with Union's Will Felicio.
He currently leads all Quinnipiac D-Men with that number, one ahead of Elliott Groenewold and is third overall on the team behind Ethan Wyttenbach (nine) and Antonin Verreault (eight).

RANKINGS ARE JUST A NUMBER

Quinnipiac is 9-3-1 against ranked opponents since the beginning of the 2025-26 season and is currently in a stretch of three such opponents in four games.
They defeated No. 5 Providence and No. 16 Cornell sequentially the previous two weekends and have No. 11 Dartmouth in their crosshairs on Friday night.
They are 5-1-1 in ranked on ranked at M&T Bank Arena, and this will be the fourth consecutive Quinnipiac/Dartmouth encounter in which both teams are ranked.

TOP FIVE TAKEDOWN

Quinnipiac knocked off a Top 5 opponent for the first time since the 2023 National Championship Game in which they defeated No. 1 Minnesota by a 3-2 final in overtime.
It was the first tilt against a team inside the Top 5 since a pre-Thanksgiving battle with Boston University, a game the Terriers defeated the Bobcats 3-2 at Agganis Arena in 2024-25.

SPENGLER SEASON

For the second consecutive season, Quinnipiac Bobcats will represent college hockey at the pre-eminent international club tournament in the world.
Announced on Thursday, Chris Pelosi will join Elliott Groenewold at the 2026 Spengler Cup. Pelosi returns after last season's debut USCS squad and will have a fellow Boston Bruins draft pick with him.
Pelosi is one of four returners on the team right now, joining Marty Lavins (UNH), Zam Plante (UMD) and Ryan Walsh (Cornell).
Groenewold, a Springfield, Vt., native, is coming off a decorated 2025-26 campaign in which he earned ECAC Best Defensive Defenseman honors as well as selected to First Team All-League.

FAMILIAR FACES

The Bobcats' annual scheduling in the Hockey East continues again in 2026-27, with six scheduled games against the league and a potential seventh if them and UConn advance to the CT Ice Championship in January.
Quinnipiac is 9-3-1 against the conference dating back to last season, outscoring its opponents 54-31.
Compared to teams that have played eight or more non-conference contests against a single-league, Quinnipiac is tied for first in wins (nine) and first in goals (54).

BIG TEN KILLERS

Quinnipiac has now won seven consecutive contests against the Big Ten Conference, a streak that dates back to the 2023 NCAA Tournament.
Two of those wins are against Penn State, winning Friday's matchup in a return matchup from the 2024-25 season opener in Hamden.
They are the only team in the country with seven or more wins and no losses against the league since the 2022-23 campaign, outscoring their opponents 31-14 during that stretch.

GOALS, GOALS, GOALS

Quinnipiac's offense has been flying to start the 2026-27 campaign, scoring 43 goals in its first nine contests. That number is good for second in the nation.
The 4.8 goals per game is tied for second in the country with Western Michigan and 0.3 behind the leaders, Michigan.
It is the third-most goals by an ECAC team since 1999-2000, behind Yale in both 2010-11 (47) and 2002-03 (45).

STREAKY

Mason Marcellus made his mark on the first five games, scoring a goal in each.
He is currently one of four players in the country to have a streak of five-plus games, joining Maine's Lee Parks (five), Augustana's Leonid Bulgakov (six) and Michigan's Jayden Perron (seven).
It is the longest streak by a Bobcat to start a season in the program's Division I era.

KING KIRSCHY

Christian Kirsch made 33 saves on 34 shots on Friday night, propelling a 2-1 victory over Maine.
It is the most saves by a goalie since Matej Marinov's 34-save shutout against Brown on March 15, 2025.

OFFENSIVE EXPLOSION

The Quinnipiac offense flew out of the gates this season, scoring 16 goals across a two-game sweep of New Hampshire and Merrimack.
That number is the highest ever for a Division I Bobcat team in its first two games and the second-most by any NCAA Division I men's team, two short of Michigan who scored 18 in its opening weekend of the 2025-26 season.
The 10 goals were the most since 2013 when they scored 10 in the ECAC Quarterfinals against Cornell and the second-most ever in a season opener.

SNEAK ATTACK

Quinnipiac scored early and often in Friday night's win over New Hampshire, with an emphasis on early.
Braden Blace scored 26 seconds into the second period and Mason Marcellus scored 16 seconds into the third, marking the first time in Division I program history that the team scored inside of the first 30 seconds of two separate periods.
It was also the first time this had occured since Mercyhurst did it on Jan. 31, 2025.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Alex Kostov and Parker Alcos made their Bobcat debuts over the weekend, recording two points each in the victory. They were the first first-year players to record multi-point outings in their debut since Landon Smith on Oct. 11, 2014.
Kostov finished the weekend with three points, tying himself for first amongst first-year forwards in points.

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