Terriers return to conference play with a home-and-home series against Providence, beginning with tonight’s game at Agganis Arena. BU is 4-0-1 in its past five conference games and 13-3-4 in the past 20 home games. Coach Jack Parker has tweaked his forward lines, primarily to lessen the load on freshman Charlie Coyle, who moves to right wing with Sahir Gill (photo) and Chris Connolly.
BU is in fourth place in the conference with six games remaining—two points behind Merrimack and five points behind BC and UNH. Terriers will be seeking to bank a bunch of wins down the stretch to solidify its position for the Hockey East playoffs and strengthen its pairwise rankings for the NCAA tournament.
Expected line-up for tonight.
Connolly – Gill – Coyle
Nieto – Trivino – Chiasson
Megan – Gaudet – Pereira
Courtnall – Rosen – Gilroy
Warsofsky-Ruikka
Noonan-Clendening
Escobedo-Nicastro
Millan
• GoTerriers.com has links to game notes, the All-Access game Webcast, the WWZN Radio Webcast and gametracker
• Boston Hockey Blog game preview, Hockey East race analysis, live in-game blog
• WTBU Sports preview
• College Hockey News Tale of the Tape
• HockeyEastOnline weekend preview
• USCHO Hockey East picks
Looking back
Former Terrier winger Dave VanderGulik tallied a goal and an assist in Lake Erie’s 4-2 win over Texas in AHL action.
Sean Sullivan scored his 11th goal of the season for Worcester in the Sharks’ 6-4 loss to Rochester. The former BU captain has 25 points, one behind Dan Spang, now with Texas, among AHL blueliners.
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Women's team
Number four ranked Terriers conclude the regular season with a pair in Maine against the Black Bears. BU, which has won the conference regular-season title and will host the Hockey East playoff semifinals, will again be without freshman scoring star Marie-Philip Poulin, idled with a wrist injury, and sophomore Taylor Holze, who has an ankle injury. Freshman Kerrin Sperry is expected to start both games at Alfond Arena.
• GoTerriers.com has links to game notes and the pay-per-view Web cast.
• WTBU Sports preview
• HockeyEastOnline announcement on BU hosting playoffs
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