Team Notes: Dartmouth Takes to Road for League Play
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The following article appeared January 2 on the Dartmouth Web site.
HANOVER, N.H. -- The Dartmouth men's hockey team takes to the
road for the first time since coming back from its overseas
excursion as the Big Green travels to Quinnipiac and Princeton for
a pair of ECAC Hockey contests. Currently Quinnipiac is fifth in
the league standings while Princeton is tied with Cornell for the
top spot. Dartmouth is in a tie with Harvard for third. These
league games will be the Big Green's first since Nov. 21 and
22.
SCOUTING QUINNIPIAC
Quinnipiac began the season up and down but has turned it around,
going 7-2 in its last nine contests. The Bobcats began the 2008-09
season, winning just two games while dropping four and tying two.
Currently Quinnipiac is 4-3-1 in ECAC games and recently the
Bobcats took nonconference wins over Providence (5-2), Merrimack
(4-3) and Air Force (4-2). Bryan Leitch is the high scorer for
Quinnipiac with 26 points. The junior leads the squad in assists
with 22. David Marshall has notched 19 points while Brandon Wong
has 13. In net Nick Pisellini was the starter for Quinnipiac but
recently took a leave of absence from the team. The Bobcats will be
looking at either Bud Fisher or Dan Clarke to take over the duties.
Fisher has appeared in six games while Clarke has played in one.
Fisher currently has a 4.04 GAA and an .884 save percentage.
VERSUS QUINNIPIAC
Dartmouth and Quinnipiac have only recently begun its series with
both teams garnering three wins along with one tie. The series
began on Oct. 30, 2004 when the Bobcats took a 2-1 victory over the
Big Green in Hanover. Last season the two split when Quinnipiac
came from behind to take a 5-3 win at home while Dartmouth ran away
with a 7-2 victory a month later.
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