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Crusaders' Reinhardt Named Atlantic Hockey Player of the Week (2/6/06)
Atlantic Hockey Player of the Week
Dale Reinhardt - Holy Cross
Sophomore, Forward, Livingston, N.J.
Reinhardt had a goal and two assists on the week. He scored the
game-winning goal in the 2-1 win at Bentley on Friday night, while
he added two assists in the 4-1 victory on Saturday night.
Reinhardt has earned points in eight straight games with four goals
and 11 assists for 15 points. He is now third on the team in
scoring with eight goals and 18 assists for 26 points.
Atlantic Hockey Goaltender of the Week
Tony Quesada - Holy Cross
Senior, Goaltender, South Freeport, Maine
Quesada went 2-0-0 on the week as he made 49 saves on 51 shots in two games against Bentley. He stopped 23 shots in the 2-1 victory on the road on Friday night. In the 4-1 win over the Falcons on Saturday, Quesada made 26 saves, including 11 in the second period. He is now 14-3-1 on the season and his .806 winning percentage is second in the nation.
Atlantic Hockey Rookie of the Week
Stefan Drew - Sacred Heart
Freshman, Goaltender, Dugald, MAN
Drew helped the Pioneers salvage a weekend and season series
split with Army with his best perfomance to date in goal Saturday
night. He made 27 saves in net to notch his first career shutout as
the Pioneers beat Army 3-0. The freshman, making just his fourth
career start, maintained his composure throughout, in a game that
got extremely physical in the third period. Drew has been
impressive in each appearance thus far, improving with each outing.
He has now posted 2.60 goals against average and .908 save
percentage in his five games.
Team Notes
Army: The Black Knights split a
home-and-home weekend series with the Sacred Heart Pioneers,
winning at home on Friday night (4-0) before falling (3-0) on the
road Saturday night ... Army increased its lead on Bentley for
fourth place with Friday’s win ... the Black Knights are now
6-3-2 since Jan .1 and an even 5-5 versus the three teams ahead of
them in the standings (Holy Cross, Mercyhurst, Sacred Heart) ...
Army split the season series with the Pioneers, 2-2 ... Brad
Roberts recorded his fifth shutout of the season Friday, which
leads the league and is tied for the second most in the NCAA this
year ... Roberts is second all-time at the Academy with nine career
blankings ... he was an honorable mention CSTV/HCA National Player
of the Month for January and Atlantic Hockey’s player of the
month ... Bryce Hollweg recorded two assists in Friday’s win
... four different Black Knights scored, including Brady Dolim on a
short-handed breakaway.
Bentley: Bentley is now 0-4-2 in its last six
games and has fallen three points behind Army in the race for the
final home-ice spot for the AHA quarterfinals, though the Falcons
still have three games in hand on Army. The three games in hand
will be made up at home this week with a Tuesday night game vs. AIC
and a weekend visit from second place Mercyhurst. Army does not
play a conference game this week ... In the last 11 games the
Bentley penalty kill has allowed just five goals on 56 chances for
a kill rate of 91.1%, much improved over the first 14 games of the
season when opponents scored on 32 of 118 power play chances, which
left the Falcons at a dismal 72.9% clip. Over the past 11 games
Bentley has not allowed more than one power play goal any one game
... Ray Jean has now started the last 11 games in goal for Bentley
and has complied a 4-5-2 record with a 2.44 GAA and a 93.0 save
percentage. It has been the Falcon offense that has sputtered
lately, scoring just 1.7 goals per game in the last six contest and
netting more than two goals just once in the last six games ... A
trio of freshmen continue to pace the Falcons offensively. Anthony
Canzoneri is the team leader in points with 21 and in assists with
14, he is followed by Jeff Gumaer who has a team high 11 goals and
six assists for 17 points. Directly behind Canzoneri and Gumaer is
Dain Prewitt with six goals and 10 assists this season.
Canzoneri’s 21 points on the season ties him for 15th most in
a season at the Division I level for a Bentley player.
Canisius: Canisius returns to the ice after having
the weekend off with a road series at Holy Cross. The games against
the Crusaders end a four-week, six-game road trip for the Blue and
Gold. This season is the third straight that the Griffs have played
at least six straight games away from Buffalo. Senior defenseman
Tim Songin (Hamburg, N.Y.) broke a 12-game scoreless string with
three points in the weekend sweep at Connecticut. The Griffs’
leader in ice time has scored in four of the past five Canisius
wins. Junior Michael Cohen (Williamsville, N.Y.) has recorded eight
points in the last six games, the most points by Cohen during any
six-game stretch of his career. Cohen has tied his career high with
25 points on the season. Since allowing four goals to Mercyhurst on
Dec. 10, 2005, freshman goaltender Dan Giffin (Milton, Ont.) has
dropped his goals against average from 4.22 to 2.67. In those seven
appearances, Giffin has a 1.51 goals against average, two shutouts
and has stopped 234 of 244 shots for a .959 save percentage.
Earlier this season, Holy Cross swept Canisius at the Buffalo State
Sports Arena. The Griffs are winless (0-9-4) in their last 13 games
against the Crusaders with the last win being a 3-2 victory for the
Blue and Gold on Jan. 18, 2002. In those games, senior Andrew Dawe
(Kitchener, Ont.) scored each night, which was during his team-best
seven-game point streak. After the weekend series, the Griffs play
their next five games at home, which is the most consecutive
scheduled home games Canisius has had since a five-game stretch
from Oct. 18-Nov. 3, 2002.
Holy Cross: The Crusaders have won seven straight
games for the first time since the 2002-03 season. The longest
winning streak in school history is 10 which was set in the 1979-80
season...Holy Cross’ seven game unbeaten streak is currently
the second longest in the nation...Senior goaltender Tony Quesada
went 2-0-0 on the week as he made 49 saves on 51 shots in the two
wins over Bentley. He stopped 23 shots in the 2-1 victory on the
road on Friday night. In the 4-1 victory over the Falcons on
Saturday, Quesada made 26 saves, including 11 in the second period.
He is now 14-3-1 on the season and his .806 winning percentage is
second in the nation. Quesada’s 14 wins move him into a tie
for ninth on the Holy Cross single-season wins list...The Crusaders
have won eight straight games when Quesada has been in net. Quesada
currently owns the Holy Cross all-time records for career save
percentage (.914) and career wins (53), while he is tied for first
all-time in goals against average (2.51)...All three of junior
Tanner Fogarty’s goals this season have been game-winners,
including his goal in the 4-1 win on Saturday night...Senior Tyler
McGregor has earned points in seven straight games with four goals
and 12 assists for 16 points. He had an assist on Friday night and
a goal and an assist on Saturday. McGregor leads the team in
scoring with 19 goals and 18 assists for 37 points. His 37 points
is already a personal career best for a single-season...Sophomore
Dale Reinhardt has tallied points in eight straight games with four
goals and 11 assists for 15 points. He is now third on the team in
scoring with eight goals and 18 assists for 26 points...Senior
Pierre Napert-Frenette is currently sixth all-time at Holy Cross in
games played with 133. The record is 138 by Tim Coskren
(2000-04)...With another win on the road, the Crusaders are now
11-2-0 on its opponent’s home ice...Holy Cross’ .750
winning percentage ranks third in the nation...The Crusaders’
.906 penalty kill percentage is the second best in the country,
while its .218 power play conversion percentage is fourth.
Mercyhurst: Junior defenseman Jamie Hunt scored
the last two goals of the game including the game-winner nearly 4
minutes into overtime as Mercyhurst defeated the US U-18 National
Development Team 8-7 Tuesday night. The Lakers then scored the
first four goals of the game to defeat visiting RIT 4-3 on Super
Bowl Sunday. Junior winger Scott Champagne had a goal and an assist
and now has 99 points for his career, as does senior captain Scott
Reynolds. The contest marked the first meeting between the teams
since the 1998-99 season. The Tigers still lead the all-time series
16-10-3. Mercyhurst, now third in Atlantic Hockey, will travel to
Bentley next weekend before returning home to face first-place Holy
Cross and fourth-place Army on successive weekends. The Lakers
defeated the Falcons 7-4 and 10-5 in Erie earlier this season.
Sacred Heart: The Pioneers split a pair of games
with Army over the weekend, dropping the opener 4-0 before
rebounding to win the rematch in Milford on Saturday, 3-0. The
split gave the Pioneers and season series split with the Black
Knights. Freshman goaltender Stefan Drew made 27 saves in
Saturday’s win to earn his first career shutout.
Friday’s loss was the first time the Pioneers were shutout
since October 8, 2004. Junior Pierre-Luc O’Brien leads the
team in scoring with 37 points including 15 goals and 22 assists.
Junior goaltender Jason Smith is 13th best in the country in goals
against average with a 2.14 mark. His .932 save percentage ranks
him fifth in the country in that category. The Pioneers are off
this weekend and play a home and home series with American
International Februay 17th-18th.
