Calgary Flames prospect and Quinnipiac Bobcats freshman Ethan Wyttenbach set a new program record for most points by a first-year player with a pair of goals in Friday’s 7-4 loss to Dartmouth College.

Wyttenbach, 19, collected his 55th and 56th points of the 2025-26 season in the loss to break a decades-old Bobcats record held by Brian Herbert, who scored 54 points in 34 games as a 21-year-old at Quinnipiac College in 1999-2000.

The Flames selected Wyttenbach in the fifth round (No. 144 overall) of the 2025 NHL Draft. The Roslyn, N.Y. product broke Herbert’s record with a highlight-reel backhand goal in the second period of Friday’s game at the Thompson Arena in Dartmouth, N.H.

Wyttenbach is in the midst of one of the best NCAA freshman seasons by a teenager this century. The 5’10” winger leads all of Division I men’s hockey with 56 points in 35 games and has 20 more points than anyone else at Quinnipiac.

When the Flames drafted Wyttenbach last June, he was expected to return to the USHL’s Sioux Falls Stampede, having scored 51 points in 44 games with the club in the 2024-25 season. Instead, on the advice of the Flames’ development staff, Wyttenbach opted to head to school a year ahead of schedule — and it certainly looks like he made the right call.

Wyttenbach is on track to become the first teenager to be named a First Team ECAC All-Star since Adam Fox in 2017. He’s also put himself squarely in the mix for the Hobey Baker Award, given each year to the top player in NCAA Division I men’s hockey.

Last summer, we here at FlamesNation had Wyttenbach as the No. 20-ranked Flames prospect and said in our write-up that “it’d be encouraging to see [him] score at or around a half-point-per-game pace in his first year of school,” adding that “anything above that would be highly impressive.” So far, Wyttenbach is averaging 1.60 points per game in college and has recorded at least a point in 31 of his 35 games this season.

Wyttenbach needs just three more points this year to tie Collin Graf and Bryan Leitch for Quinnipiac’s all-time single-season scoring record. The Bobcats will finish their regular season on Saturday against Harvard before starting in the ECAC playoffs; the NCAA counts all playoff games as part of a player’s scoring totals, meaning Wyttenbach should still have a long runway towards becoming the first Quinnipiac men’s hockey player to record 60 points in a season.

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