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Providence had the answers for Quinnipiac’s offensive charges in Friday’s East Regional semifinal (photo: Matt Eisenberg).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BRIDGEPORT, Conn.<\/b> — Quinnipiac gave up the game’s first goal in the game’s fourth minute. No big deal; the Bobcats were down 1-0 14 times this year and split those games, 6-6-2.<\/p>\n

Thirty-one minutes later, Quinnipiac was down 4-0. Twenty-five minutes after that, the season was over.<\/p>\n

[scg_html_e2014]The Bobcats were stymied, stalled and stonewalled at every turn against the surprising Friars, who handed Quinnipiac its first shutout of the season — and the first since last April’s soberingly similar 4-0 loss to Yale in the national title game.<\/p>\n

The Bobcats, playing just 35 minutes from home, didn’t look uninterested, groggy or unimpressed. They threw 78 pucks on net, and nearly half of them got through to Jon Gillies.<\/p>\n

They earned space, they threw hits, they developed scoring opportunities … for about a period or so. The difference between the 2013-14 Quinnipiac Bobcats and the March 28, 2014, Bobcats was so extreme that senior and top-line center Connor Jones earned a third<\/i> of his 42 penalty minutes this season on Friday night (two minors and a misconduct).<\/p>\n

“We played poorly tonight. Not sure why, but we just didn’t play well. We had a tough time getting it going,” Quinnipiac coach Rand Pecknold said. “It’s a different game out there than we’ve been used to all year. There was a lot of obstruction and hooking and holding and we’ve got to find a way to fight through it a little bit better.”<\/p>\n

Pecknold’s thinly veiled criticism of the officiating aside, the thrust of the matter is that Providence outmuscled Quinnipiac for most of the evening, and definitely when it mattered most.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got to fight through the picks and the interference, and we didn’t do a good job of that tonight,” Pecknold said.<\/p>\n

“We came out a little better in the second [but] they made it hard for us all night and things just didn’t go our way,” Bobcats captain Cory Hibbeler said.<\/p>\n

Pecknold and the Bobcats were well aware of Gillies’ elite status as a World Junior-caliber goaltender. The sophomore Calgary Flames prospect takes up a lot of net at 6-foot-5 and is no slouch with the mitt, either.<\/p>\n

The coach talked about how the Bobcats were going to have to press the issue with Gillies, “get in his kitchen,” get some dirty goals.<\/p>\n

The Bobcats may have been putting the cart before the horse in that regard. Forget the goal line; Quinnipiac could barely get the puck past the red line for the last two periods.<\/p>\n

“I wouldn’t say we were shocked by it,” Hibbeler said of the Friars’ physicality, “but it definitely made things hard for us.”<\/p>\n

Hard by design, of course.<\/p>\n

“I guess midway through the second, we got a couple lucky bounces; I think our second goal went off one of their defenders and then the power-play goal was close to a high stick,” Providence senior defenseman Steven Shamanski said. “Once we got a couple goals off, we could see them getting frustrated, taking shots after the whistle or whatever, so we just wanted to keep on them, keep the pressure on them.”<\/p>\n

“We definitely didn’t want to give them a lot of time and space,” Providence coach Nate Leaman said.<\/p>\n

Just like that, the national runners-up were sat on and suffocated in another season-ending 4-0 flop. Whether you credit Providence, cast sidelong glances at the referees or question the heart of these Bobcats, it was clearly a big man’s world on the ice in Bridgeport Friday night. The bigger men are moving on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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