Vermont
scored a pair of early goals and another pair late for a 5-2 win, ending BU’s
modest two-game winning streak. The loss drops BU into fifth place, two
points behind Lowell, BC and Providence and three points behind new leader New
Hampshire.
After Matt
White’s shorthander and a goal by Brett Bruneteau gave the visitors a 2-0 lead
just six-and-a-half minutes in, UVM goalie Brady Hoffman made a pair of game-changing
saves. He stoned Matt Nieto on a breakaway and then somehow stopped Evan
Rodrigues who appeared to have a half-open net on a two-on-one. Nieto’s power
play goal, his 15th of the season and sixth in three games, assisted
by Danny O’Regan and Ahti Oksanen, cut the lead in half.
Vermont
scored in the first minute of the second period to regain the two-goal
margin before a Garrett Noonan
(photo) shorthander, assisted by Sahir Gill and Rodrigues, brought BU to within a goal
again at &;29 of the third. But BU couldn’t produce the equalizer, with Hoffman
(26 saves) making several key stops. An even-strength goal and an empty netter
in the final two minutes closed the scoring.
Sean Maguire,
playing a second consecutive game due to Matt O’Connor’s illness, turned aside
37 of 41 shots.
After
dominating the face-off battle Friday night, roles reversed and Vermont won 44
of 60 draws.
BU scored on
one of five power play chances, but yielded one shorthander. Terriers killied
all four Vermont power plays—and all seven in the two-game series—while also
notching a shortie.
►Terrier
Coach Jack Parker was recognized for his 40 seasons behind the BU bench in a
brief ceremony between the periods and fans in attendance received a
commemorative puck
● Video highlights
● Boston
Hockey Blog recap,
slideshow
and Three
Up, three down
● Post-game
comments: Jack
Parker
● College
Hockey News’ Takeaway
● WTBU Sports
recap,
O’Connor
respiratory issues
● USCHO recap
Looking ahead
2013 recruit
Jarrid Privitera score his 9th goal of the season, a shorthander, but
Dubuque gave up two late goals and lost to Sioux Falls in a shootout, 5-4.
Looking back
Feature
on former BU goalie Grant Rollheiser, now with the Wichita Thunders.
Women’s team
#4 Terriers
advanced to the Hockey East semifinals with a dominating 5-1 win against
Connecticut at Walter Brown Arena, led by Jenelle Kohanchuk’s 19th
and 20th goals and a stifling defense that limited the Huskies to 17
shots.
After a
scoreless opening period, BU scored two second-period goals in a minute with
Marie-Philip Poulin notching her 15th and Kayla Tutino her 14th.
UConn cut the lead in half late in the period, but Kohanchuk scored twice in
the third period before Caroline Campbell’s empty-netter closed the scoring.
Poulin’s goal
was the 50th of her BU career, making her the fastest to reach that
milestone (74 games) in program history.
Terrier will
meet Providence next Saturday afternoon in Hyannis, Mass., in a game that will
match two coaches—BU’s Brian Durocher and the Friars’ Bob Deraney—who were Terrier
goalies as undergrads. BU won all three regular-season games against
Providence, which reached the semifinals with a 5-4 OT win over New Hampshire.
BC plays Northeastern in the other seminfinal.
● Video highlights
● UConn recap
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