The Quinnipiac University Bobcats (2-3-1, 0-1-1 ECAC) and the Cornell Big Red (1-0-1, 1-0-1 ECAC Hockey) battled to a 0-0 tie Saturday evening at the TD Banknorth Sports Center in front of 3,422.<\/p>\n
“It’s great that we got a point and we did a lot of good things,” said Quinnipiac Coach Rand Pecknold. “Our penalty kill was great. The negative is the bad penalties [we took].”<\/p>\n
Both teams were coming off of 1-0 games last night, with the Big Red topping the Princeton Tigers, while the Bobcats dropped their contest to the Colgate Raiders.<\/p>\n
It was more of the same from the previous game for the Bobcats as Saturday night’s game was a penalty-filled affair. Both squads’ special teams were put to the test. The two teams combined for 19 penalties.<\/p>\n
The Bobcats have now been held scoreless in the last 133:28, a span of two-plus games.<\/p>\n
“It’s a product of taking a lot of penalties and some of my top offensive players were just bad both nights,” said Pecknold.<\/p>\n
The Bobcats best chance in the first period came on a 2-on-0 rush. David Marshall carried the puck into the zone, but a diving back check by Joe Scali helped to break up the scoring chance.<\/p>\n
The Big Red’s Evan Barlow was awarded a penalty shot at 10:31 of the second period. Barlow came in from the high left circle and ripped a shot from between the circles. Quinnipiac’s Nick Pisellini made the glove save to prevent Cornell from taking a lead.<\/p>\n
“Nick was great in net [tonight] and he played big, moved well and was confident,” said Pecknold. “I thought our defensemen down low did a good job winning battles. It was a huge bright spot with our penalty kills.”<\/p>\n
Cornell’s Jared Seminoff had a chance at the third period buzzer, with a clear lane to the net, but on the shot, his stick broke, negating the chance.<\/p>\n
Cornell had a five-on-three advantage with 13 seconds remaining in overtime, but the Bobcats cleared the puck to end the game.<\/p>\n
Pisellini made 23 stops to move to (2-1-1) while his counterpart Ben Scrivens made 25 saves to move to 1-0-1.<\/p>\n
The Bobcats travel to Albany next weekend to play RPI and Union while Cornell splits a home-and-home with Colgate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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