Hamden, Conn—Quinnipiac outshot Princeton 37 to 28, but it was not enough to overcome the Tigers 2-0 win Tuesday night in the third ECAC game of the Bobcats' homestand. With the loss, QU drops to (2-5-1, 0-2-1 ECAC) with the No. 12 Tigers staying strong (4-1-0, 3-1-0 ECAC).

“Sometimes the puck just doesn’t go in,” Quinnipiac coach Rand Pecknold said. “It’s disappointing we haven’t found a way to score goals, but I think we actually played a really good game tonight.”

Princeton broke the scoring silence at the 3:10 mark of the second when Tiger Matt Godlewski fired a slap shot from the left-hand side of the Bobcats' own blue line. Princeton’s Sam Sabky tipped the puck on the assist, which put Princeton on the board 1-0 before Pisellini could see the puck.

Dan Bartlett later added a goal of his own at the end of the period. Sabky placed the puck on Bartlett’s stick, who then took Bobcat assistant captain Andy Meyer on. However, Meyer was unable to stop Bartlett, who flicked the puck over Pisellini into the upper right-hand side of the net at the 17:11 mark and put Princeton ahead 2-0.

Quinnipiac had chances to get on the board, however, struggled offensively in the ECAC matchup. With less than six minutes left in the second, senior David Marshall added to an array of Bobcat shots. Though the crowd was fooled into thinking he got QU on the board, Tiger goaltender Zane Kalemba stifled the shot.

“We were a little bit unlucky tonight,” Pecknold said. “I think Kalemba was very good and that’s part of goaltending, we’ve gotta get a little bit of luck too.”

Further, Quinnipiac didn't have anyone in front of the net to get the deflections, loose pucks or to just put the puck in the net.

“Pucks aren’t going in the net right now. That’s the bottom line,” junior Brandon Wong said. “Right now we’re just in a hole and we’re gonna have to find a way out.”

Pisellini made a career-high 26 saves while his counterpart Kalemba made 37 saves and improved to 3-1-0.

Quinnipiac, still, racked up the penalties, with 22 total between the teams, as was the case for all three ECAC games.

“I think one of the things we struggled with in the last three games is the amount of penalties we’re taking,” Pecknold said. “We’re expending a lot of energy on the kill and that’s probably the most energy we can expend in any situation…and that’s been hurting our five-on-five play and it’s been keeping our better players off the ice.

“Ultimately, other than the stupid penalties I think we played a great game.” He added: “our power play was excellent. We generated a lot of offense…if our power play is that good every night we’ll have one of the better power plays in the league.”

But Pecknold is not taking the penalties lightly.

“It’s frustrating for me as a coach so either these guys are gonna have to start doing a better job on that or we’re gonna have to start putting some kids in the stands,” he said.

The Bobcats get back into action on Friday Nov. 14 in Schenectady, NY when they face off in their fourth-straight ECAC matchup against Union College.