It is GAME DAY! #GOBU pic.twitter.com/YhbAHZygED
— Agganis Arena (@AgganisArena) October 24, 2014
BU opens its home regular season schedule with a pair of non-conference games, hosting Michigan State (Friday) and Michigan (Saturday) as part of the Big 10-Hockey East Challenge. Puck drop against the Spartans is 7:30 at Agganis Arena.
Last year, BU
lost to Michigan State, 3-1, in East Lansing. A first-period goal by Matt Lane
gave BU a lead that it held until late in the third, when the Spartans scored
twice in less than a minute and then added an empty net score.
The Spartans
split their two
regular season games against UMass, winning 5-3 and losing 4-3. Senior Matt
Berry leads their offense with a 2-4-6 scoring line. Junior Jake Hildebrand is the veteran in
goal.
UPDATE: O'Connor gets the start. The rest of the lineup remains the same as the starters against UMass.
The Spartans last visited BU in 2008 with the Terriers winning, 2-1, in the championship game of the Ice Breaker tournament. It would be the first of seven titles earned by the 2008-09 squad, culminating with the NCAA Championship.
● GoTerriers.com
preview, Game Notes,
Gametracker,
Terrier TV Webcast,
Terrier Sports Radio Network Webcast
● Daily Free Press preview
● BU Today preview and Rhett Rally details (starts 5 p.m. at Agganis)
● Daily Free Press preview
● BU Today preview and Rhett Rally details (starts 5 p.m. at Agganis)
● College
Hockey News’ Tale
of the Tape, Big Ten preview
● Spartan
Notebook profiles sophomore Mackenzie MacEachern, who plays left wing on
Michigan State’s top line.
● Michigan’s MGoBlue.com
previews
Saturday’s match-up between the Wolverines and the Terriers.
►Prior to last
Saturday’s game, Terrier freshmen and former NTDP standouts Jack Eichel, Brandon Fortunato
and Johnathan MacLeod were presented
with their championship rings from Team USA’s gold-medal performance at the
2014 IIHF Under-18 World Championship.
►The Boston
Globe’s John Powers offers an insightful
profile of Eichel, including comments by Jack Parker, the coach who
recruited him, and David Quinn, who currently coaches him, as well as a video
interview.
►AlongTheBoards.com
gives BU the top spot in its weekly Hockey
East Power Rankings.
►Last Sunday,
members of the Terrier men’s hockey team, led by captain Matt Grzelcyk, and women’s basketball team were volunteers at the 14th
annual Greater Boston Walk Now for Autism Speaks fundraising and awareness
event at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield. It was the first of many Autism
Speaks activities for the hockey team, which has supported the Massachusetts
chapter of Austism speaks for 11 years and wears the Autism Speaks logo on its
uniforms.
Looking ahead
Following
last Saturday’s game against the U18s, the Daily
Free Press talked with 2015 recruit Jordan Greenway about his first Agganis
Arena experience, the key influences in his hockey career and his decision to
play at BU. The 6-5, left-shot forward from Potsdam, N.Y., who starred at Shattuck St. Mary's before joining the National Team Development Program, is projected to be a mid-first-round pick in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft.
► Vindy.com looks at the Youngstown Phantoms' defense including newcomer and 2016 BU recruit Vas Kolias.
Looking back
Looking back
A
Boston Herald feature on Glen Tucker, aka Dr.
Shot, notes that Coyle, Eichel and 2018 BU recruit Jake Wise, have all
sought Tucker’s guidance on improving their shot-making.
Women’s
Team
#6
Terriers begin conference play with a pair of road games at Maine. Puck drop at
Alfond Arena both Friday and Saturday is 2 p.m.
Last season, BU won all three meetings between the teams by a combined
14-6 margin.
BU
has the fourth best offense in Division 1, averaging 3.75 goals per game. It’s
led by junior Sarah Lefort with seven points and senior captain Marie-Philip
Poulin with five points, including a team-best four goals.
●
HockeyEastOnline.com weekly
preview
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