Sophomore Dalton Bancroft scored two goals, including the game-winning marker 3:11 into overtime, to lift the No. 14-ranked Cornell men’s hockey team to a 3-2 victory over No. 3-ranked Quinnipiac before a sold-out crowd of 4,361 at Lynah Rink on Saturday night.
Junior forward Ondrej Psenicka joined Bancroft in registering a multi-point night as he logged a goal and an assist, aiding the Big Red to extend its unbeaten streak to six games (4-0-2) and improving its overall mark on the year to 10-4-3 and 5-4-1 in ECAC Hockey play.
Fellow junior Ian Shane continued his strong play between the pipes, stopping 22 shots in the victory. Across six career appearances against the Bobcats, Shane has compiled a 4-1-0 record with a 1.33 goals-against average and a .955 save percentage (150 saves on 157 shots faced).
Quinnipiac graduate student Zach Tupker — a familiar face for many Cornell hockey fans — and Alex Power found the back of the net for the Bobcats (15-6-2, 9-2-1 ECAC), who have lost consecutive games for the first time since losing a pair of overtime contests against New Hampshire (Oct. 21) and Maine (Oct. 28).
Vinny Duplessis shoved aside 14 Cornell shots in the setback for the Bobcats.
The opening 10 minutes of the game featured continual back-and-forth action that featured a seven-and-a-half-minute stretch without a faceoff. During the span, only six shots were attempted, with the lone attempt on target coming from sophomore Nick DeSantis.
Cornell eventually broke the deadlock late in the opening period when Bancroft redirected a shot by freshman defenseman Hoyt Stanley from the right point that trickled past Duplessis.
An early penalty to Quinnipiac in the second period enabled the Big Red to pepper Duplessis with the first seven shot attempts in the frame, five of which came during the power play.
Tupker evened the game with a short-handed goal after Mason Marcellus was tagged for a holding penalty near the period’s halfway point.
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