Bryan Leitch scored the game winner with just under three minutes remaining to lift the Quinnipiac Bobcats to a 4-2 victory over the Union Dutchmen at the Northford Ice Pavilion.<\/p>\n
Leitch notched the game winner when he received a Ben Nelson pass through the crease and banged home the puck for the win on the power play.<\/p>\n
“He [Nelson] fed through the defender’s legs, and I was wide-open on the other side,” Leitch said. <\/p>\n
It was an interesting final seven minutes of the game, during which four goals were scored. <\/p>\n
David Marshall started the scoring streak when he beat two defenders and went in and roofed the puck under the crossbar for the Bobcats, who took a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n
The Dutchmen answered with a power-play goal at 17:04 of the third. Chris Potts sent a pass across the blue line to Jason Walters, who ripped a shot that Matt Cook deflected into the net past Quinnipiac’s Bud Fisher. <\/p>\n
“We lost a little steam, but it’s typical of Saturday nights, being tired from the night before,” Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold said.<\/p>\n
On the faceoff after the goal, Michael Beynon took a hooking penalty to put the Bobcats on their own power play.<\/p>\n
It looked as if both teams were heading to overtime as they had done in the previous night, but Leitch’s goal proved to be the difference in the victory for Quinnipiac.<\/p>\n
“They competed really hard and they definitely came to play tonight,” Leitch said.<\/p>\n
Brandon Wong added an empty-net goal with one second remaining in the game, his 12th of the season.<\/p>\n
“It was a great win,” Pecknold said. “We battled all night.”<\/p>\n
Fisher made 20 saves in the victory for the Bobcats while Justin Mrazek made 24 for Union. <\/p>\n
With the win, the Bobcats took over first place in the ECACHL standings heading into their holiday break<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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