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Men's Ice Hockey Travels To Brown On Friday
Quinnipiac University
(13-9-2, 6-4-2 ECAC Hockey) at
Brown
University (Brown University (2-13-4, 2-8-3 ECAC Hockey)
Meehan
Auditorium - Providence, R.I.
Friday, Jan. 30, 2009 – 7
p.m.
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Schweizer (Play-by-play)
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Commentary)
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The
Quinnipiac University men's ice hockey team heads to Providence,
R.I. to take on Brown University in an ECAC Hockey match-up set for
a 7 p.m. start at Meehan Auditorium. The Bobcats enter tonight's
game - their first league match-up since Jan. 10, with an over
record of 13-9-2 including a 6-4-2 mark. They currently sit in the
No. 5 slot with 14 points, trailing Dartmouth with 15. Brown is
2-13-4 overall and 2-8-3 in ECAC Hockey play and are in 11th place
in the league standings with seven
points.
Friday
night's match-up at Meehan Auditorium will be the first time
Quinnipiac has faced Brown since the ECAC Hockey Tournament First
Round at the TD Banknorth Sports Center last season. In that
series, Quinnipiac came back to defeat the Bears, 7-6 in overtime,
of the first game before eliminating Brown with a 7-1 victory in
the deciding game. The Bobcats are 6-2-0 all-time against Brown
with four consecutive wins over the Bears, all coming last season.
Brown's last win against Quinnipiac came on Feb. 3, 2007 with a 6-3
win at Meehan Auditorium.
Record Breaker
David
Marshall's extended his Quinnipiac Division I record point-scoring
streak to 17 games. Reid Cashman held the previous mark with 14
consecutive games with a point.
With
three assists on Friday night, Bryan Leitch became the nation's
first 40-point scorer this season, totaling nine goals and 32
assists through Quinnipiac's first 24
games.
Leitch
and Marshall, who is ranked seventh among the nation's scoring
leaders with 14 goals and 18 assists for 32 points through 23
games, make Quinnipiac the first NCAA Division I men's ice hockey
team to feature two 30-point scorers this
season.
Two In The
Top Ten
Quinnipiac is also one of two teams, along
with Minnesota, to have two players ranked in the Top 10 in scoring
nationally.
Marshall is one of 36 players in Division I
hockey to reach double figures in goals and assists, and the only
one to reach both marks in fewer than 19 games. He was also the
first player in ECAC Hockey to hit both marks this
season.
With
his three assists against Robert Morris on Friday night, Leitch
became the fifth player in Quinnipiac men's ice hockey history to
reach 50 goals and 100 assists for his career. He is also the
seventh player all-time with 150 points, which also stands as the
second-highest total since Quinnipiac joined the Division I ranks.
He is one of six Quinnipiac players all-time, and third at the
Division I level, to reach 100
assists.
Leitch
was recently announced as a candidate for the Hobey Baker Memorial
Award, given to the best player in college hockey. The first phase
of the fan voting ends on March 8, while the second phase ends on
April 2nd when the committee announces it's three
finalists.
Leitch
was also named the ECAC Hockey Player of the Week for the third
time this season. The honor makes him just the third player in the
history of ECAC Hockey to win the award three times in the same
season. The last player to do so was St. Lawrence's Kyle Rank, who
did it the same year as Clarkson's Steve Zalewski. Leitch was
previously named ECAC Hockey Player of the Week on Oct. 13 and Nov.
17.
Through
the Bobats game against RPI on Jan. 9, Leitch and David Marshall
(Buffalo, Minn.) became the first Quinnipiac teammates in the
University's Division I history to post concurrent 12-game scoring
streaks, tallying a goal or an assist in the run. Leitch saw his
streak end against Union, while Marshall has tallied in a point in
17 straight games.
Against
Harvard and Dartmouth last weekend, Bryan Leitch and Jean-Marc
Beaudoin scored two goals apiece against each opponent. It was the
first time that the same two players have scored two goals in
back-to-back games in Quinnipiac's Division I history. The
last Quinnipiac player to score two goals in
consecutive games was Brandon Wong against Brown on Jan. 12, 2006
and Yale on Jan. 13, 2006. The last time Quinnipiac had two
multiple goal scorers in back-to-back games was against Brown in
the first round of the ECAC Hockey Tournament last season. In the
first game, Jamie Bates and Wong both scored twice, while in the
second game, it was Ben Nelson and Leitch tallying two apiece.
One-and-Two
Bryan
Leitch (41 points) and David Marshall (32 points) currently hold
down the top two spots among the ECAC Hockey scoring
leaders.
This
season, Quinnipiac is 12-0-0 in games in which it is leading after
the second period. In their last 32 games, dating back to last
season, Quinnipiac is undefeated at 29-0-3 when playing with a lead
heading into the final frame. The Bobcats last loss, when leading
after the second period, came in the 2006-07 ECAC Hockey
Championship Game when Clarkson scored four third period goals to
come-from-behind and take the league
crown.
Not
only is David Marshall climbing up the Quinnipiac all-time charts,
but he is moved into the top 25 in points per game in NCAA Division
I hockey. Marshall, with 14 goals and 18 assists for 32 points, is
currently ranked 7th overall with 1.33 points per game. He's also
ranked 14th nationally in goals per game
(0.58).
Quinnipiac is currently ranked 14th in the
nation in scoring offense at 3.38 goals per game. The Bobcats have
scored four or more goals in 15 of their 24 games including 10 of
those 15 games with five or more
goals.
Quinnipiac is ranked 6th
in power-play percentage with 29 goals in 138 chances for 21.0%. On
the penalty kill, the Bobcats rank 12th at 87.3% after killing 117
of 134 opponent power-plays. The Bobcats are also ranked 7th in
combined special teams at 53.7%
(146-272).
