Men's Hockey Falls to #1 Quinnipiac on the Road

Saturday, February 18

Hamden, Conn.

7 p.m.

Brown University

9-16-2, 5-13-2

Quinnipiac

26-3-3, 18-2-0

Brown

Quinnipiac

Photo by: Rob Rasmussen

Men's Hockey Falls to #1 Quinnipiac on the Road

2/18/2023 10:05:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

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HAMDEN, Conn. – The top-ranked Quinnipiac Bobcats (26-3-3, 18-2-0 ECAC) closed their home slate with a 5-2 win over the Brown Bears (9-16-2, 5-13-2 ECAC) Saturday night at M&T Bank Arena.

"Quinnipiac is an outstanding hockey team, they're number 1 in the country for a reason, they've won 26 games," said head coach Brendan Whittet '94. "They're able to do some things in terms of graduate students and transfers that unfortunately we can't do. They have a veteran hockey team with several guys on the team that have played over 150 college hockey games.

"That being said, I liked the way we worked, I liked the way we battled. I thought we battled and against an excellent hockey team everyone needs to have their 'A' game. I thought some of the guys did but I didn't think enough of us had that. We'll go back to work and get ready for a home weekend and continue to push and build momentum as we enter the playoffs."

Zach Metsa put the Bobcats ahead early with his sixth goal of the season 3:08 into the opening period. Metsa wired a shot from the blue line through traffic to beat Brown goaltender Jacob Zacharewicz (31 saves).

James Crossman buried his team-leading eighth goal of the season and second in as many night 8:43 into the first to tie the game at 1-1. Crossman picked up a drop pass from Noah Wakeford and used Jonny Russell as a screen to beat Quinnipiac goalie Yaniv Perets (8 saves).

Less than three minutes later, Sam Lipkin gave the Bobcats a 2-1 lead with assists from Collin Graf and Jacob Quillan.

Ethan de Jong, playing in his 175th career game, made it 3-1 Bobcats with a short-handed goal 4:09 into the second period. Skyler Brind'Amour and Iivari Rasanen assisted on the goal.

Zacharewicz robbed Brind'Amour of a sure goal 6:51 into the second, moving to his right and snagging Brind'Amour's shot with his glove.

Brind'Amour would find the back of the net on Quinnipiac's second power play chance of the night at 9:02 of the second to make it 4-1.

Quinnipiac made it 5-1 in the final seconds of the middle frame as Lipkin tallied his second of the night.

Crossman buried his second of the night 51 seconds into the third on the power play to make it 5-2. Luke Krys found Crossman at the top of the right circle for the one-timer to beat Chase Clark (5 saves), who replaced Perets to start the third. Jordan Tonelli picked up the secondary assist on the goal.

GAME NOTES

Crossman is one goal shy of cracking Brown's top-10 for goals in a season by a defenseman. Sean Hurley '08 most recently hit the ten-goal mark from the blue line in 2006-07.
Wakeford recorded his first collegiate point with the assist on Crossman's first goal.

Brown returns to Meehan Auditorium for the final regular season weekend. The Bears are set to host the 11th-ranked Cornell Big Red (16-8-2, 13-5-1 ECAC) on Friday (Feb. 24) before taking on the Colgate Raiders. (14-14-3, 11-7-1 ECAC) on Senior Night Saturday. Both games are set to begin at 7 p.m. and will stream on ESPN+.

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