Hockey Player of the Week for the third time in the same season. 1/6/09 — Bryan Leitch is named the Insidecollegehockey.com National Player of the Week. 1/7/09 — Quinnipiac is named the College Hockey News National Team of the Week. 1/9/09 — National Hockey League pioneer Willie O’Ree is honored at Quinnipiac’s game against ECAC Hockey foe Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. O’Ree was the first African American to play in the NHL. 1/13/09 — Bryan Leitch is announced as a candidate for the prestigious Hobey Baker Memorial Award, given each year to the top college hockey player in the nation. 2/2/09 — Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold announces the release of his instructional youth hockey book, “Hard Core Hockey.” 3/3/09 — Bryan Leitch is named a participant in the 2009 NCAA Frozen Four Skills Competition. 3/17/09 — Bryan Leitch is named to the ECAC Hockey Second Team. 4/14/09 — Bryan Leitch becomes the first Quinnipiac men’s ice hockey player in school history to lead the nation in scoring after totaling 59 points over 39 games for a 1.51 points per game average. Leitch also led the nation with 47 assists at a 1.21 per game clip. 10/08/09 — Eric Lampe (Madison, Wisc.) scored twice to lead men’s ice hockey to a 4–2 win against nationally-ranked No. 17 Ohio State University in the Bobcats’ season opener at the Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio. Brandon Wong (Victoria, B.C.) and Scott Zurevinski (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) added goals for Quinnipiac. 10/9/09 — Dan Clarke (Belleville, Ont.) stopped a career-high 44 shots in goal to help men’s ice hockey complete their two-game sweep of No. 17 Ohio State, 3–1, at the Value City Arena in Columbus, Ohio. 10/13/09 — Men’s ice hockey was announced as the College Hockey News National Team of the Week after the Bobcats swept No. 17 Ohio State University in a two-game series
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in Columbus, Ohio. Quinnipiac was the first team to receive the honor from College Hockey News this season, while it marked the second time that Quinnipiac had won the award in the last two seasons. 11/23/09 — For the first time in its Division I history, men’s ice hockey was ranked in the top 10 in both major polls. The USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Poll ranked Quinnipiac 10th, up three spots from the Bobcats’ first appearance in the poll last week. The USCHO.com Division I poll had Quinnipiac in the ninth spot. 11/29/09 — Men’s ice hockey team jumped to the top spot in USCHO.com’s PairWise Rankings (PWR) following a thrilling 5–4 overtime victory against No. 10 University of Massachusetts in front of sell-out crowd of 3,171 at the TD Bank Sports Center. 11/30/09 — With the nation’s best record at 12–1–0 for a .923 winning percentage and a Division I-best eight-game winning streak, men’s ice hockey received its highest ranking in program history, sliding into the No. 4 spot in the USCHO.com Division I Poll, while also receiving seven first-place votes. In the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll, the Bobcats moved up from 10th to No. 6, while also receiving one first-place vote. Quinnipiac also sat as the top team in the nation in the PairWise Rankings while also ranking fourth in the INCH Power Rankings. 12/04/09 — Men’s ice hockey goalie Dan Clarke (Belleville, Ont.) was named the Hockey Commissioner’s Association (HCA) Player of the Month for November. Clarke was 7–0–0 to help the Bobcats to a perfect 8–0–0 record for the month while capturing a pair of ECAC Hockey Goalie of the Week awards. He was the only goalie in Division I hockey with a 1.000 winning percentage to date. 12/24/09 — Men’s ice hockey, ranked 8th in the USCHO.com Division I poll and 10th in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Poll, was featured on NHL.com. NHL.com writer Bob Snow spoke with several Quinnipiac stand-outs, including captain Jean-Marc Beaduoin and leading scorer Brandon Wong as well as Dan Clarke, about the team’s earlyseason success. 2/08/10 — Men’s ice hockey senior captain Jean-Marc Beadoin (St. Paul, Alb.) was named
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one of the 10 finalists for the prestigious Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award. The award is given annually to an outstanding senior NCAA student-athlete who excels on and off the ice. 3/5/10 — Seniors Jean-Marc Beaudoin (St. Paul, Alb.) and Eric Lampe (Madison, Wisc.) scored their 100th-career points on the same goal to help Quinnipiac to a 3–2 win against Dartmouth in the first game of the ECAC Hockey Championship First-Round Series at the TD Bank Sports Center. 3/7/10 — Men’s ice hockey head coach Rand Pecknold became the fourth coach in the history of Quinnipiac Athletics to win 300 career games as the Bobcats defeated Dartmouth, 2–1, to advance to the ECAC Hockey Championship Quarterfinal Round. 03/17/10 — Sophomore Dan Clarke (Belleville, Ont.) was named the ECAC Hockey Goalie of the Week after a record-breaking performance against Union in the ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals. Clarke recorded 73 saves in the Bobcats 3–2 win against Union on Friday, March 12 in the first game of the ECAC Hockey Quarters in what would turn out to be the longest game (150:22) in NCAA history. 3/4-5/11 — With a pair of 4-0 win against Brown in the ECAC Hockey Tournament First Round, Quinnipiac becomes the second team in ECAC Hockey history to hold its opponent scoreles in a playoff series. In addition, Quinnipiac remains the only team to win a postseason series in each year during its time in ECAC Hockey. 10/8 - 11/11 - Quinnipiac freshman Matthew Peca puts together an 11-game point streak, the third longest streak for a Quinnipiac freshman in program history. 2/24-3/4/12 - In a four-game span, freshman Matthew Peca records a point on 11 consecutive Quinnipiac goals, a program record. 3/2-3/4/12 - Quinnipiac defeats Brown, two-games-to-one, to win it ECAC Hockey First Round Series. The series’ win makes Quinnipiac the only team in ECAC Hockey since the Bobcats joined the league for the 2005-06 season to win a postseason series in each year.