TAMPA — He grew up in Bedford, NH, went to school at Lawrence Academy in Massachusetts – and built a college program at Quinnipiac University from the lowest rung to a possible first-ever national championship against national powerhouse North Dakota.
The two swapped No. 1 and No. 2 rank most of the season. Saturday night, only one will claim the top spot.
With a starting salary of $6,700 back in 1994, Pecknold guided the Bobcats from a Division III program into D-1 in the MAAC League to Atlantic Hockey and now the ECAC over the past 22 years.