March 5, 2009

Team Notes: Colgate Travels to Quinnipiac in First Round

The following article appeared March 5 on the Colgate Web site.

 

HAMILTON, N.Y. -- The Colgate men’s hockey team travels to the Constitution State for a best of three series with Quinnipiac, as the 2009 ECAC Hockey Tournament gets underway Friday evening at four different sites. The winners will advance to the league quarterfinals for another best of three series.

The Raiders, who have advanced to two ECAC Hockey semifinal berths in the last three seasons, will carry the 10th seed into this year’s event. Colgate, 11-16-7 overall, enters the weekend playing its best hockey of the season. In their last five games, the Raiders have posted a 3-0-2 record, the last four contests winding up in overtime. In Colgate’s last outing, it rallied from a one-goal deficit late in the third period en route to posting a thrilling 3-2 overtime upset of 11th-ranked Yale, last Sunday at Ingalls Rink. That tie gave Colgate 16 overtimes this season, which tied the all-time national record set last year by Minnesota.

Colgate leads the all-time series over Quinnipiac dating back to the 2005-06 season, 7-3-2. The Raiders swept the Bobcats this season, claiming a 1-0 victory on November 7 in Hamden and then a 3-2 overtime victory, February 7 at Starr Rink. In the first contest, Francois Brisebois (Montreal, Que.) tallied the lone goal at 8:43 of the third and Charles Long (Cleveland Heights, Ohio) saved all 19 shots thrown at him for his first career collegiate shutout. In the second meeting, Peter Bogdanich (Burnaby, B.C.) scored twice, including the game winner in overtime and David McIntyre (Pefferlaw, Ont.) netted a goal and two assists in the victory. Bryan Bessette (Melrose, N.Y.) saved 33 shots in his collegiate starting debut en route to earning his first victory as a Raider.

Complete article can be accessed via the Colgate Web site by clicking here.