Men's Ice Hockey

NESCAC Men's Ice Hockey Weekly Release - Jan. 29, 2024

NESCAC Player of the Week
Gabe Shipper – Bowdoin – So. – F – Sherman Oaks, Calif.
In the only game of the week for Bowdoin, Shipper scored twice in the first period to propel the Polar Bears to a 5-1 win over Colby on Saturday night. Shipper opened the scoring to give Bowdoin a 1-0 lead and added a second tally midway through the period to push the Polar Bear’s advantage to 3-0. It was the largest margin of victory in small college hockey’s longest-running rivalry since 1994, and Shipper was named the Peter Schuh Memorial Award winner as MVP of the contest. 
 
NESCAC Weekly Honor Roll
Amherst – Senior Ryan Tucker (Clarkston, Mich.) scored the game-winner in the third period and added an assist in the Mammoths' 3-2 win over Wesleyan.

Colby – Senior Griffin Grise (New Canaan, Conn.) scored a goal in each contest last week. The senior scored the game-winner in a midweek showdown with the University of Southern Maine on Tuesday, and he tallied the lone score for the Mules in a setback at Bowdoin on Saturday.  

Conn. College - Senior forward Seth Stadheim (Lyme, N.H.) was instrumental for Conn as the Camels completed their first season sweep of Williams in program history, going 1-1 on the week. In the opener on Friday night against Middlebury, the senior won 14 faceoffs while recording two shots on goal. On Saturday, Stadheim tallied two goals to lead the Camels to a 5-1 win over the Ephs. Stadheim capped off a huge penalty kill in the second period, by scoring a shorthanded tally, to extend Conn’s lead to 3-0.  After Williams cut it to 3-1, Stadheim ended any chance of a comeback, redirecting a shot from the point into the net, making it 4-1.

HamiltonJackson Krock (Mars, Pa.) scored two goals in a 5-2 win against Wesleyan. Krock's second goal put the Continentals in the lead for good at 2-1 midway through the second period. The multi-goal game was Krock's first at Hamilton. The sophomore center also won 25 of 44 faceoffs in two games. 

Middlebury – With 1:45 expired in overtime on Friday night, rookie Bobby May (Davidson, N.C.) found the back of the goal to give Middlebury a 2-1 victory over Connecticut College. The goal was the defender’s first in his career as a Panther.

Trinity – Sophomore Devon Bobak (Northwood, Ohio) allowed just two goals in a pair of NESCAC road victories, posting 1.00 goals against average and a .962 save percentage with 51 saves. In a 6-1 win at Hamilton, Bobak logged his second-most saves of the season with 29 stops, followed by a 22-save performance in a 5-1 victory at Amherst.

Tufts – Senior Peyton Durand (Newport, R.I.) was again a strong foundation for the Jumbos during a conference weekend. In two games, he played 118 minutes and made 59 saves while allowing just two goals for a 1.02 goals against average and a .967 save percentage. Against Williams on Friday, Durand made 35 saves to keep the game close at 1-0 until the Ephs scored an empty-net goal. In Tufts' 2-1 win over Middlebury on Saturday, the netminder again kept the game close until the Jumbos were able to score twice in the third period to overtake the Panthers. Durand finished with 24 saves.

Williams – Junior Owen Stadheim (Lyme, N.H.) scored the game-winning goal 2:48 into the first period in a 2-0 victory at Tufts on Friday evening in Malden, Mass.