Men's Ice Hockey

NESCAC Men's Ice Hockey Weekly Release - Feb. 5, 2024

NESCAC Player of the Week
Christian Hayes - Trinity - Sr. - F - Milton, Mass.
Hayes registered a team-high three points behind a team-high two goals with an assist in a pair of conference victories for the Bantams. Hayes scored back-to-back third-period goals to help the Bantams dig out of a 2-0 hole and even the score at 2-2 in an eventual 3-2 victory over Williams. Hayes added an assist in a 3-2 overtime win against Middlebury.

NESCAC Weekly Honor Roll
AmherstAlex Wisco (Peterborough, Ontario) stopped 38 of the 40 shots in a 3-1 loss to Colby last week. The senior made 29 saves over the first two periods alone. The Mammoths were 0-1-1 on the week.

Bowdoin - Patrick Callahan (Skaneateles, N.Y.) scored two goals two minutes apart in the first period, to lead the Polar Bears to a 3-2 win over Hamilton on Saturday at Watson Arena. It capped a three-point weekend for the senior, who also assisted on a second-period goal in Bowdoin's 2-2 tie Friday against Amherst. 

Colby - First-year Jayden Grier (Needham, Mass.) tallied the game-winning goal midway through the third period Saturday in a 3-1 victory over Amherst. The win snapped the Mules’ four-game winless streak against the Mammoths. Grier has four goals on the season.  

Conn. College - First-year forward Quinn Kennedy (Silver Spring, Md.) tallied two goals and one assist last week for the Camels. In midweek non-conference action against Assumption, Kennedy tallied one goal. On Friday, in the opener of a home-and-home series against Tufts, Kennedy powered the Camels to a come-from-behind win at Tufts. With Conn trailing 3-1 late in the third period, Kennedy got the comeback started firing a shot that was tipped home with 3:08 remaining. With the game tied in overtime, Kennedy fired the puck in from a tight angle over the shoulder of the Tufts goalie to give the Camels the 4-3 win.

HamiltonJustin Biraben (Kingston, Ontario) scored three of the five goals the Continentals recorded last week. Biraben notched two goals, including the go-ahead goal 5:58 into the third period, in a 3-1 win at Colby. The first year added a goal and two blocked shots, and won all three faceoffs in a 3-2 setback at Bowdoin. The multi-goal game against the Mules was Biraben's first. 

Middlebury – Junior Jin Lee (Stamford, Conn.) tallied two goals and had a pair of assists in a 1-1-0 weekend for Middlebury. The Panther scored the opening pair of markers and dished out a helper on the game-winning goal in a 5-2 victory versus Wesleyan on Friday night. With just 13.5 seconds left in regulation, Lee assisted on the game-tying marker in a 3-2 overtime loss to Trinity on Saturday. The Panther leads the team in points (15) and goals (eight).

TuftsTyler Sedlak (Wyckoff, N.J.) scored three goals in two games as Tufts kept pace in its hopes to secure a quarterfinal home game in the NESCAC Tournament by earning four points over the weekend. Sedlack’s first-period goal on Friday night tied the game at 1-1 against Conn. College. On Saturday, after 37 minutes of scoreless play, the junior forward scored Tufts' first two goals in an eventual 4-0 victory in the series finale against the Camels.

WilliamsOwen Stadheim (Lyme, N.H.) tallied one goal and two assists in a 1-1-0 NESCAC weekend for the Ephs. The junior finished with one goal and one assist in a 5-3 triumph over visiting Wesleyan on Saturday. Stadheim also tallied one assist in a 3-2 setback to Trinity on Friday.