{"id":288,"date":"2018-03-01T21:01:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T21:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2018\/03\/01\/201831ecac-mens-hockey-first-round-preview\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:48:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:48:14","slug":"201831ecac-mens-hockey-first-round-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2018\/03\/01\/201831ecac-mens-hockey-first-round-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"We preview the ECAC men&#8217;s hockey tournament series vs. Yale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          \n          \n          \n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:1024.0px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n                style=\"padding-bottom:47.94921875%;\"\n              \n              class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                \n          \n        \n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  data-animation-override\n\n          ><br \/>\n            <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_7535.jpg\" alt=\"Quinnipiac vs. Yale on Feb. 9 in New Haven, (Photo by Steve Musco\/Yale Athletics)\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_7535.jpg\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_7535.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"1024x491\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"Quinnipiac vs. Yale on Feb. 9 in New Haven, (Photo by Steve Musco\/Yale Athletics)\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5a9869aec83025402fc100ae\" data-type=\"image\" \/>\n          <\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-caption\">\n<p>Quinnipiac vs. Yale on Feb. 9 in New Haven, (Photo by Steve Musco\/Yale Athletics)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By Cliff Nadel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ninth-seeded Quinnipiac University men&#8217;s hockey team will make the short trip down Whitney Avenue to New Haven to face its rival, No. 8 seed Yale, at 7 p.m., Friday night at Ingalls Rink.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first game of a best-of-three series in the first round of the East Coast Athletic Conference men\u2019s hockey championship tournament.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/quinnipiacbobcats.com\/news\/2018\/2\/26\/quinnipiac-mens-ice-hockey-to-face-yale-in-ecac-hockey-first-round-best-of-3-series.aspx\">Quinnipiac<\/a> (14-16-4) faces the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yalebulldogs.com\/sports\/m-hockey\/index\">Bulldogs<\/a> (15-13-1) for the third time this season. The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhregister.com\/sports\/article\/Quinnipiac-men-s-hockey-team-shuts-out-rival-12368958.php\">Bobcats defeated the Bulldogs<\/a>, 3-0, in their first meeting this season in November. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhregister.com\/sports\/article\/Yale-men-s-hockey-snaps-winless-streak-against-12591885.php\">Yale earned a 3-2 victory<\/a> over the Bobcats in the second contest between the two on Feb. 9.<\/p>\n<p>The last time Quinnipiac and Yale faced off in the postseason was in the 2013 NCAA national championship game in Pittsburgh, where <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/news\/icehockey-men\/article\/2013-04-13\/yale-breaks-through-then-pours-it-quinnipiac-win-national\">the Bulldogs won<\/a>, 4-0.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Bobcats hold a 17-7-5 advantage all-time over Yale, and are 16-2 in ECAC first-round games having never lost an opening series.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch game one <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ecachockey.com\/men\/2017-18\/BoxCast\/Quinnipiac-Yale_Game_1\">here<\/a>, or listen to the game <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/streamdb8web.securenetsystems.net\/v5\/WQUN\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing each other in the postseason for the first time since the 2013 national title game, which Yale won, the Quinnipiac Bobcats and the Bulldogs battle for the right to advance out of the first round of the ECAC tournament at Ingalls Rink in a best-of-three series starting at 7 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[168,52,4,35,53,54],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quinnipiac","tag-ecac-hockey","tag-hockey","tag-quinnipiac","tag-quinnipiac-events","tag-quinnipiac-hockey","tag-yale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2952,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/2952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}