EXHIBITION GAME | BROCK | OCTOBER 4, 2019 | 4 PM | HAMDEN 2019-20 SCHEDULE #8/11 Quinnipiac Bobcats Date Opponent Time/Result 0-0-0, 0-0-0 ECAC Hockey October VS 10/11 AIC 7 PM Brock Badgers 10/12 at AIC 7 PM 10/18 MAINE 7 PM 0-0-0, 0-0-0 OUA 10/19 MAINE 7 PM Video (U.S.): ESPN+ | Video (Int’l): Stretch Internet | Live Stats: GoBobcats.com 10/27 VERMONT 2 PM THE LATEST IN BOBCAT NATION November • Quinnipiac kicks off the season ranked No. 8 in the USCHO Poll and No. 11 in 11/1 at Arizona State 7 PM MT the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll. 11/2 at Arizona State 7 PM MT • Connor Clifton '17 (Boston Bruins) and Devon Toews '17 (New York Islanders) will each begin the 2019-20 season in the NHL, the first time Quinnipiac has 11/8 at Dartmouth * 7 PM had two players on NHL Opening Night Rosters while former All-American 11/9 at Harvard * 7 PM and Associate Head Coach Reid Cashman '07 also begins his second NHL 11/15 UNION * 7 PM season as an assistant coach with the Washington Capitals. 11/16 RENSSELAER * 7 PM • The Bobcats were picked to finish second in the ECAC Hockey Preseason 11/22 at Cornell * 7 PM Coaches Poll while Odeen Tufto was named Preseason All-ECAC Hockey and to the Preseason All-College Hockey News Second Team. 11/23 at Colgate * 7 PM • Four players from the 2018-19 team signed NHL contracts following the 11/29 UMASS 7:30 PM season and will begin in the AHL this season: Chase Priskie (Carolina Hurri- 11/30 at UMass 7 PM canes), Brandon Fortunato (Nashville Predators), Brogan Rafferty (Vancouver Canucks) and Andrew Shortridge (San Jose Sharks) December • Quinnipiac's freshman classes features 10 newcomers to the program: five defenseman, four forwards and a goaltender 12/28 at Princeton * 7 PM • Rand Pecknold enters the season 3rd among active Division I coaches with 511 12/29 PRINCETON * 7 PM wins behind Boston College's Jerry York (1,067) and Mercyhurst's Rick Gotkin (559) January 2018-19 STATISTICAL LEADERS 1/3 HARVARD * 7 PM 1/4 DARTMOUTH * 7 PM FORWARDS GP G A P SH +/- PPG GWG 1/10 at St. Lawrence * 7 PM #29 Odeen Tufto 38 15 27 42 98 +12 7 2 1/11 at Clarkson * 7 PM #20 Craig Martin 38 11 19 30 135 +18 10 5 1/17 at Holy Cross 7 PM #8 Alex Whelan 38 13 12 25 152 +15 2 3 1/25 Connecticut Ice ^ TBA #10 Ethan de Jong 38 10 15 25 75 +12 0 0 1/26 Connecticut Ice ^ TBA 1/31 CORNELL * 7 PM DEFENSE GP G A P SH +/- PPG BLK #13 Chase Priskie 36 17 22 39 135 +18 10 35 February #5 Brandon Fortunato 26 5 23 28 47 +15 2 15 2/1 COLGATE * 7 PM #25 Brogan Rafferty 38 4 20 24 72 E 3 38 2/7 at Yale * 7 PM #2 Karlis Cukste 38 2 18 20 56 +9 0 86 2/8 at Brown * 7 PM 2/14 CLARKSON * 7 PM GOALTENDER GP-GS W-L-T MIN GA GAA SV% SO 2/15 ST. LAWRENCE * 7 PM #35 Andrew Shortridge 27-26 18-7-2 1544:39 39 1.51 .940 4 2/21 at Rensselaer * 7 PM MEDIA INFORMATION TALE OF THE TAPE (18-19) 2/22 at Union * 7 PM Asst. Director (MIH Contact) ........ Kevin Noonan 2/28 BROWN * 7 PM QUINNIPIAC BROCK Office Phone .......................................203-582-5387 3.50......................Scoring Offense ................... 3.00 2/29 YALE *$ 7 PM Cell Phone ................................ 860-235-1380 1.92 ...................... Scoring Defense ....................2.30 1.58 ................................Margin .............................0.70 Email [email protected] 33.03 ..............................SOG ...............................33.3 * - ECAC Hockey Contest Website ................................... www.gobobcats.com 4.19 ..........................Penalties PG...........................4.7 10.34 ............................PIM/gm .............................12.6 ^ - at Webster Bank Arena (Bridgeport, Conn.) TV Play-by-Play .....................................Phil Giubileo 3.89 ............................. PPC/gm ............................... 3.1 TV Color Commentary ..................... Rich Coppola 1.00 ............................. PPG/gm .............................. 0.5 $ - 18th Annual Heroes Hat Game 38/148 (25.7) .........Power Play ........16/105 (15.2) BOLD - Home Game Flagship TV........................................................ESPN+ 108/123 (87.8) .......Penalty Kill ........ 75/90 (83.3) @QU_MIH GOBOBCATS.COM @QU_MIH QUINNIPIAC GAME NOTES The No. 8/11 Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey the fifth in the last six seasons. He was the QUINNIPIAC MEN’S HOCKEY team is back in action for the 2019-20 only ECAC Hockey player recognized by 2018-19 BREAKDOWN season as the Bobcats are set to host the College Hockey News. Overall ............................................................. 26-10-2 Brock Badgers in an exhibition game Sunday Home ..................................................................10-7-1 afternoon at 4 PM at Frank Perrotti Jr. Arena. ECAC Preseason Poll Away ....................................................................14-2-1 The Bobcats were picked to finish second in Neutral .................................................................. 2-1-0 Overtime .............................................................. 0-2-2 2018-19 Recap the ECAC Hockey Preseason Coaches’ Poll Last 5 Games ...................................................... 2-3-0 The Bobcats returned to the NCAA just one season after sharing the Cleary Cup Last 10 Games .................................................... 5-4-1 Tournament in 2018-19 for the first time in with the Cornell Big Red. Quinnipiac received Last 15 Games .................................................... 9-5-1 three seasons and clinched a share of its three first-place votes and 109 points in the vs. ECAC Hockey..............................................15-8-2 fourth Cleary Cup as ECAC Hockey Regular poll, finishing just behind Cornell’s eight vs. Hockey East .................................................. 7-1-0 Season Co-Champions in the past seven first-place votes and 109 points. vs. Atlantic Hockey ........................................... 3-0-0 seasons. Quinnipiac finished the season with vs. Independent ................................................ 1-0-0 a 26-10-2 record and reached the Midwest Familiar Face Returns vs. NCHC .............................................................. 0-1-0 Regional Final in the NCAA Tournament, Former Bobcat goaltender Justin Eddy ’04 vs. Ranked Opponents.................................... 7-3-2 coming within one win of making its third has returned to the coaching staff as the One-Goal Games .............................................. 5-4-0 Frozen Four Appearance. The Bobcats also goalie coach for his second stint with the won 25 games in the regular season, tied program after Jared Waimon left to become Following a Win ...............................................17-9-0 Following a Loss ................................................ 7-1-2 for its second-most in a regular season in a goaltending scout with the NHL’s Tampa Following at Tie ................................................. 2-0-0 program history. Bay Lightning. Eddy previously served as the goalie coach for two seasons from 2009- Scoring First ......................................................21-5-2 Scouting Brock 11. In his Quinnipiac career, Eddy posted a Opponent Scores First .................................... 5-5-0 The Badgers come into 2019-20 after a 2.81 GAA and .910 save percentage to go Leading After 1st Period ..............................19-3-1 successful 2018-19 season in which they with a 32-26-8 record and three shutouts. Trailing After 1st Period .................................. 5-2-0 finished 22-11 and reached Game 3 of the He also was the first Quinnipiac player to Tied After 1st Period ........................................ 2-5-1 OUA West Semifinals against the Western sign an NHL contract as he signed with the Leading After 2nd Period ............................23-4-0 Mustangs. Brock was competitive in its Washington Capitals before playing parts of Trailing After 2nd Period ................................ 2-6-0 NCAA Hockey exhibition slate last season, two seasons in the AHL and ECHL. Tied After 2nd Period ...................................... 1-0-2 falling to Penn State in a one-goal game and Scoring No Goals .............................................. 0-0-0 falling by two at Robert Morris. Scoring was Pro Bobcats from 2018-19 Scoring 1 Goal ................................................... 1-7-1 spread out through the team last season as Following the 2018-19 season, Quinnipiac Scoring 2 Goals.................................................. 3-0-1 14 players recorded at least 10 points on the saw a program record four players sign NHL Scoring 3 Goals.................................................. 3-2-0 season and 10 players had at least six goals. contracts with two juniors (Brogan Rafferty Scoring 4 Goals................................................10-1-0 Logan Thompson saw the bulk of the time and Andrew Shortridge) among the signees. Scoring 5+ Goals ............................................... 9-0-0 between the pipes and posted a 2.33 GAA Rafferty signed with the Vancouver Canucks and .929 save percentage in 27 games. and played two games to close out the 2018- Allowing No Goals ............................................ 8-0-0 19 season. Shortridge signed with the San Allowing 1 Goal ................................................. 7-0-1 All-Time vs. Brock Jose Sharks and played a game with the Allowing 2 Goals ............................................... 8-2-1 Sunday marks the first-ever matchup AHL’s San Jose Barracuda while Brandon