Quinnipiac University senior defenseman and team captain Chase Priskie won't be in the lineup for his team's first two games of the ECAC Hockey tournament this season.
The Pembroke Pines, Fla. native was suspended by ECAC Hockey for kicking an opposing player in a 4-1 win at Yale in Quinnipiac's regular-season finale on March 2. He was charged with a five-minute major penalty for kicking that evening, the first major penalty of his NCAA career, and also earned a game disqualification penalty before the league tacked on another game's suspension.
The six-foot, 192-pound Priskie has tallied a team-high 17 goals to go with 22 assists for 39 points in 34 games so far this season. He also leads the Bobcats with 10 power-play goals this year. A product of Salmon Arm (BCHL), Priskie has registered 39-77—116 points in 152 career games with QU, along with 55 penalty minutes, and was a member of its national runner-up squad as a freshman in 2015-16. He was then selected in the sixth round of the 2016 NHL Draft by the Washington Capitals.
The fifth-ranked Bobcats (25-17-2 overall, 14-6-2 ECACH), who have gone 9-2-1 in their last 12 outings, earned a first-round bye in the ECACs by finishing among the league's top four teams,
and finished first in the standings via tiebreakers over Cornell. They will thus host the lowest-remaining seed in a best-of-three series in Hamden, Conn. on March 15-17. Priskie would be
eligible to return in a deciding third game of that series, if necessary, or in the ECACH semifinals in Lake Placid on March 22 should QU advance that far.
ADDENDUM: Arizona State defenseman Jacob Wilson was also suspended for his team's next two games for a high hit against Minnesota on March 2.
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