Thursday, December 08, 2011

Game Day: BU visits New Hampshire--updated



Terriers are on the road this weekend with a game at New Hampshire tonight—the final regular season meeting between the two teams—and the first meeting of the year with Maine, which takes place in Orono on Saturday night.

BU has a 5-2 record in its past seven games and sits in third place in Hockey East. After a seven-game unbeaten streak, the Wildcats have been slumping of late, losing four of the past five games including being swept last weekend by UMass-Lowell.

BU won the first two meetings with UNH this season, a 5-0 shutout in the season opener and a 4-1 win last month—both games at Agganis Arena.

Junior Wade Megan (photo) moves up to the second line left wing slot as Matt Nieto will miss the game due to a shoulder injury. On defense, freshman Alexx Privitera will be back in the rotation, while sophomore Patrick MacGregor is a healthy scratch for the first time this season. BU's lineup:

Connolly-Trivino-Gill
Megan-Coyle-Chiasson
Courtnall-Hohmann-Rodrigues
Gaudet-Rosen-Cissé
Escobedo-Clendening
Noonan-Privitera
Nicastro-Ruikka
Millan

The Wildcats’ top guns, both with 19 points, are senior Stevie Moses (11g, 8a) and sophomore Nick Sorkin (5g, 14a). Freshman Casey DeSmith is expected to get the start in goal for UNH.

WBIN-TV will televise Thursday's 7 p.m. contest in a UNH-produced broadcast. In the Boston area, WBIN is Channel 18 (811 in HD) on Comcast, Channel 6 (506 in HD) on Verizon Fios and 50 on DirecTV.
● GoTerriers.com preview, game notes, WWZN Radio Webcast , Live Stats
● Daily Free Press preview
● CHN’s Tweetcast
● Boston Hockey Blog live blog
● USCHO’s Hockey East column -- excessive time for faceoffs, embellishmen/diving on penalties.
● WTBU Sports: preview and hockey notebook
UNH Web site preview and game notes
● Concord Monitor examines UNH’s defensive deficiencies


► TheHockeyWriters.com has named Charlie Coyle one of five players to watch at the upcoming World Junior Championships.

Women’s team
Terriers dropped a 4-1 decision to Northeastern at Matthews Arena. Kayla Tutino had BU’s only goal, her 11th of the season. Kerrin Sperry stopped 26 shots.
● GoTerriers.com recap and comprehensive box score
● Daily Free Press recap

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