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Rachel McQuigge is the ECAC Hockey MAC Goaltending Goalie of the Week.
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Following Historic Weekend, McQuigge Earns ECACH Weekly Goalie Honor
February 28, 2022 | Women's Ice Hockey
A .945 save percentage while stopping 103 of 109 shots on the way to a historic series win has netted Princeton senior Rachel McQuigge the honor as the ECAC Hockey MAC Goaltending Goallie of the Week.
McQuigge was in net for all three games against top-seeded and national No. 6-ranked Harvard over the weekend, helping Princeton to 4-2 and 3-2 wins on Friday and Sunday around a 2-1 overtime loss on Saturday that extended the series. Since ECAC Hockey went to a best-of-three series for the quarterfinal round in 2002, no eighth seed had ever taken the series from a number-one seed, and only once before had an eighth seed won a game during the series, when RPI won one of three against Cornell in 2019.
McQuigge, one of 12 on the semifinalist list for the Women's Hockey Commissioners Association's Goalie of the Year honor, was also named ECAC Hockey's MAC Goaltending Goalie of the Month for November.
For the season, McQuigge has a 1.87 GAA and a .939 save percentage, which would be the second-best season-long save percentage behind only the .950 that former teammate Stephanie Neatby '20 posted as a rookie in 2016-17. McQuigge's .934 career save percentage would set the program record, surpassing Neatby's .933, and McQuigge's 1.81 career GAA would be second in program history behind Roxanne Gaudiel '06, who has the standard at 1.70.
McQuigge's performance helped advance Princeton to the ECAC Hockey semifinals, set for Friday at 3 p.m. at and against Yale, second-seeded in the tournament and currentlly ranked No. 7 nationally. The winner will move on to Saturday's final, also at Yale, against third-seeded/No. 8 Colgate or fourth-seeded/No. 9 Quinnipiac.
McQuigge was in net for all three games against top-seeded and national No. 6-ranked Harvard over the weekend, helping Princeton to 4-2 and 3-2 wins on Friday and Sunday around a 2-1 overtime loss on Saturday that extended the series. Since ECAC Hockey went to a best-of-three series for the quarterfinal round in 2002, no eighth seed had ever taken the series from a number-one seed, and only once before had an eighth seed won a game during the series, when RPI won one of three against Cornell in 2019.
McQuigge, one of 12 on the semifinalist list for the Women's Hockey Commissioners Association's Goalie of the Year honor, was also named ECAC Hockey's MAC Goaltending Goalie of the Month for November.
For the season, McQuigge has a 1.87 GAA and a .939 save percentage, which would be the second-best season-long save percentage behind only the .950 that former teammate Stephanie Neatby '20 posted as a rookie in 2016-17. McQuigge's .934 career save percentage would set the program record, surpassing Neatby's .933, and McQuigge's 1.81 career GAA would be second in program history behind Roxanne Gaudiel '06, who has the standard at 1.70.
McQuigge's performance helped advance Princeton to the ECAC Hockey semifinals, set for Friday at 3 p.m. at and against Yale, second-seeded in the tournament and currentlly ranked No. 7 nationally. The winner will move on to Saturday's final, also at Yale, against third-seeded/No. 8 Colgate or fourth-seeded/No. 9 Quinnipiac.
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