Dartmouth Drops Heartbreaker Against No. 1 Quinnipiac

Friday, January 29

Hanover, N.H.

8:00 PM

Dartmouth College

10-9-1, 7-6-0

Quinnipiac

20-1-5,11-0-3

Team	1	2	3	F
Quinnipiac	0	1	6	7
Dartmouth	1	2	2	5

Dartmouth Drops Heartbreaker Against No. 1 Quinnipiac

1/29/2016 10:32:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. - The Dartmouth men's hockey team dropped a wild 7-5 game Friday night against No. 1 Quinnipiac at Thompson Arena.

The Bobcats scored six goals in the third period and overcame a 5-2 deficit in the frame to improve to 20-1-5 on the season and 11-0-3 in ECAC Hockey. The loss snapped the Big Green's five-game win streak as they fall to 10-9-1 overall and 7-6-0 in league games.

“This was a learning experience to play in a game that plays out like this,” head coach Bob Gaudet '81 said. “We lost, though. I have to do a better job of coaching this team through the adversity that we faced late in that game.

“We played solid hockey against the best team in the country,” Gaudet continued. “In the end they beat us. Nothing more than that.”

Senior Jack Barre scored two goals in the second and added an assist in the third, while sophomore Kevin Neiley had a career-high three assists in the game.

But the story of the night was the top-ranked Bobcats erasing deficits of 4-1 and 5-2 in the third period, while scoring six times in the frame to pull out the miraculous win and stun those inside Thompson Arena.

Leading the charge for Quinnipiac was Sam Anas with a pair of third-period goals with Landon Smith, Devon Toews and Bo Pieper netting the others and Tanner MacMaster hitting the empty net with four seconds left to seal it.

Carl Hesler had the only goal of the opening period with Brett Patterson and John Ernsting scoring in the third around the Barre tallies in the second. For Ernsting — who deposited the partial break into the back of the net on a great feed from Barre just 53 seconds into the stanza — it was his first career marker.

Charles Grant made 25 saves for the Big Green, while Michael Garteig made 28 at the other end as the home team outshot the visitors, 33-32.

Dartmouth hosts Princeton Saturday night at 7:30 p.m.