By Kevin Noonan, QBSN Staff Writer
Senior Kevin Bui (Edmonton, Alb.) has earned this week’s QBSN Athlete of the Week honors in propelling the men’s ice hockey team past the Cornell Big Red in the ECAC Quarterfinals.
In the second overtime of game three, Bui scored the series-winning goal to give the Bobcats a 3-2 victory and send them to the semifinals for the first time since the 2006-07 season.
He received a pass from fellow senior Loren Barron (Glendora, Calif.) on the left side of the ice and skated over the blue line with the puck. Going one on one with Cornell goaltender Andy Iles, Bui made a forehand to backhand move with the puck and sent it five-hole on Isles to win the game and series.
It was just Bui’s second goal of the season, with his other goal coming in a 5-4 victory over the Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks back on Dec. 29.
The top-seeded Quinnipiac Bobcats will face the seventh-seed Brown Bears on Friday in Atlantic City, N.J. for the ECAC semifinals on Friday for a shot at making it to the ECAC championship game on Saturday.
