Quinnipiac Knocks Off Providence

Final	1	2	3	Final
Providence (2-12-1)	0	1	1	2
Quinnipiac (7-6-1)	3	1	1	5

Scoring Summary
1st - 01:55	Brandon Wong (Quinnipiac)
1st - 08:34	Jean-Marc Beaudoin (Quinnipiac)
1st - 13:13	David Marshall (Quinnipiac)
2nd - 09:25	Eppich, Chris (Providence)
2nd - 15:47	Bryan Leitch (Quinnipiac)
3rd - 00:28	Eric Lampe (Quinnipiac)
3rd - 10:13	Bergland, Matt (Providence)

Providence	Quinnipiac
G: 2 Players (#17, #19 - 1) A: 4 Players (#4, #12, #16, #25 - 1) Sh: Bergland, Matt - 4 Sv: Mannix, Chris - 23	G: 5 Players (#7, #9, #10, #11, #22 - 1) A: 2 Players (#6, #22 - 2) Sh: 2 Players (#10, #22 - 4) Sv: Nick Pisellini - 25

TEAM STATISTICS	Providence	Quinnipiac
Power Plays	0 for 3	0 for 5
Shorthanded Goals	0	0
Penalties (min)	7 (14)	5 (10)
Shots on Goal	27	28
Face Offs Won	30	30

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Boxscore

HAMDEN, Conn. – David Marshall (Buffalo, Minn.) scored a goal and added two assists as the Quinnipiac University men’s ice hockey team defeated Providence, 5-2, Friday night at the TD Banknorth Sports Center. The Bobcats benefited from a three-goal outburst in the first period. The game marked the first time that Quinnipiac had ever hosted a team from Hockey East. The win improved the Bobcats’ record to 7-6-1, while Providence falls to 2-12-1 this season with the loss.

“I thought we played pretty well at times and were opportunistic offensively,” said Quinnipiac Head Coach Rand Pecknold. “Nick [Pisellini] did a good job in net. It’s always nice to beat any Hockey East team and we are happy to do it at home.”

Brandon Wong (Victoria, British Columbia) scored his sixth goal of the year, and 46th of his career, just 1:55 into the game. The junior center fired a shot past Providence’s Chris Mannix from just below the hash marks. Wong received a pass from Greg Holt (Mt Sinai, N.Y.) in the neutral zone and skated into the offensive zone before snapping the shot beneath the Providence goalie’s pads. Andy Meyer (St. Louis, Mo.) was also credited with an assist on the goal, his first of the year.

The Bobcats’ made it a two-goal game 8:34 into the first. Jean-Marc Beaudoin (St. Paul, Alberta) moved the puck along to the boards to Meyer at the point. Meyer passed the puck to the right point for Brett Dickinson (Furlong, Pa.). Dickinson’s shot into traffic ricocheted off a Friar defenseman in the slot and landed on the stick of Beaudoin. The Quinnipiac winger wristed a quick shot into the net before Mannix could move to his right and make the save. Beaudoin’s goal was the 20th of his career.

Marshall’s seventh of the season pushed the Bobcats lead to three goals before the end of the first period. Marshall picked up a loose puck behind the Providence goal and skated untouched to the top of the slot where he dropped the puck back to Dan Henningson (Edmonton, Alberta) at the point. As a Providence winger came out to challenge Henningson, he found Marshall in the right face-off circle. Marshall dragged the puck around Mannix and into the net off his backhand. Marshall’s 58th career goal moves him into a tie for fourth place in the program’s Division I history and 10th all-time with Ryan Olson ‘02.

Providence’s Chris Eppich put the Friars on the board midway through the second period to cut the Bobcat lead to two, 3-1. Eppich collected a rebound after Matt Germain blasted a shot over the net. The puck bounced off the glass behind Quinnipiac goalie Nick Pisellini (Itasca, Ill.) and back out into the left side of the crease where Eppich was waiting.

Quinnipiac’s Bryan Leitch (Coquitlam, British Columbia) pushed the Bobcats’ lead back to three, 4-1, with less than five minutes to play in the period. Leitch’s received the puck in the left face-off circle after Marshall won a face-off. Leitch’s shot from the half-boards found the top left corner of the net for his fourth goal of the season.

Eric Lampe (Madison, Wisc.) scored his second goal of the season just 28 seconds into the third period. Marshall started the play by finding Leitch in the neutral zone with a long pass. Leitch gloved the puck out of the air and quickly centered the puck to Lampe at the blueline who came in alone on Mannix. Lampe deked out the goaltender to his left and slid the puck under the right outstretched pad.

Matt Bergland scored the Friars’ second goal of the game midway through the third. John Cavanagh centered to Bergland in the slot for the quick one-timer that found its way off the inside of Pisellini’s pad and into the net.

Pisellini finished with 25 saves to earn his sixth win of the season. Mannix turned aside 23 Quinnipiac shots in the loss. Marshall moved closer to joining Leitch as the only current members of the Bobcats in the 100-point club with his three points in the game. He now has 96 career points on 58 goals and 38 assists.

The Bobcats are idle until Dec. 29-30 when it travels to Storrs, Conn. for the UConn Invitational. Quinnipiac will play Merrimack College on Monday, Dec. 29 at 4 p.m., prior to the late game of that day between host University of Connecticut and the United State Air Force Academy. The losers of both games will play in the consolation game on Tuesday, Dec. 30 at 4 p.m. before the championship game at 7 p.m.