No. 19 Dartmouth Falls In OT to No. 14 Quinnipiac

Friday, January 31

Hanover, N.H.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

11-8-2, 8-5-1

Quinnipiac

16-8-2, 10-3-1

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Quinnipiac

Dartmouth

Ian Pierce skates with the puck up the ice

No. 19 Dartmouth Falls In OT to No. 14 Quinnipiac

1/31/2025 11:00:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

By: Dan Richeal

HANOVER, N.H.—No. 19 Dartmouth men's hockey fell to No. 14 Quinnipiac 5-4 in overtime on Friday night.

With less than three minutes remaining in the first period the Big Green opened the scoring. Nikita Nikora had the puck in the Quinnipiac zone and fed the puck back to Ian Pierce. Pierce walked towards the net and fired a shot that trickled through the netminder. Luke Haymes tapped home his seventh goal of the season with Pierce notching his fifth assist of the season and Nikora notching assist number 19.

After the first period, the Big Green edged out Quinnipiac 7-6 in shots.

The Bobcats opened the second period on the power play and took advantage just 33 seconds into the frame to tie the game at one.

At the 8:12 mark of the second period, the Big Green answered and took a 2-1 lead. Pierce fired the puck towards the net, the puck bounced to side of the net. Braiden Dorfman passed the puck back in front and Sean Chisholm buried his team leading 10^th goal of the season. Dorfman picked up his seventh assist while it was Pierce's sixth.

Quinnipiac tied the game and took the lead before the end of the second period with goals at the 13:07 mark and the 19:27 mark.

Just past the midway mark of the third period, the Big Green tied the game at three. CJ Foley took a cross-ice pass from Pierce and absorbed a hit from a Bobcat defender. He then took a shot and followed up on his shot with another shot on the rebound. Foley's second shot was saved but the rebound went to the far post as Alex Krause was driving to the back post. He fended off a Bobcat player and finished for his third goal of the season. Foley picked up his 14^th assist of the year while Pierce was credited with his third of the game.

2:07 later, the Big Green took the lead at the 12:49 mark. Eric Charpentier took a low to high pass from the corner and fired it across the ice to John Fusco. J. Fusco fired the puck towards the net through traffic and Cam MacDonald redirected into the net as he fell to the ice to give Dartmouth a 4-3 lead. Charpentier picked up his fourth point of the season while J. Fusco notched his seventh.

With 3:57 left in regulation Quinnipiac tied the game at four.

Neither team scored in the remainder of regulation and both teams went to overtime with at least a point.

Just 47 seconds into overtime, the Bobcats skated away with a 5-4 win.

Emmett Croteau made 23 saves which included 10 in the third period.

The Big Green went 28-23 in the faceoff circle with Chisholm winning 63.2% of draws as he went 12-7.

Pierce is the fourth member of the Big Green this season to tally three points in a game. He is the first defensemen and joins Nikora (vs Stonehill), Chisholm (at Boston College), and Cooper Flinton (at RPI).

Haymes has now scored first for the Big Green in three straight games. Since making his season debut against Alaska-Anchorage on Dec. 28 he has seven goals and three assists in 10 games. He is currently on a six-game point streak and has seven goals and two assists during that stretch.

Foley has tallied a point in four straight games with six points over the four games. He leads all ECAC defensemen in points with 21 despite playing five less games than the rest of the top six. Foley also leads all of the ECAC in plus/minus at +17.

J. Fusco is now seventh among ECAC defensemen with 14 points in 21 games.

Dartmouth finishes the season with four points against Quinnipiac; it is the first time since the 2017-18 season that Dartmouth has taken more points than Quinnipiac in a season series.

The Big Green close out the weekend on Saturday against Princeton with puck scheduled for 7 PM. Dartmouth is hosting a Tennis Ball Toss for Charity and door will open at 5:30 PM with fans encourage to arrive early. For more information and to purchase tickets you can click here.