After scoring three goals against
Maine goalie Jeremy Swayman in Friday’s win, Terriers were stymied by the
Bruins’ draft pick on Saturday and dropped a 3-1 decision to the Black Bears. Swayman stopped 41 BU shots, including 28 over the final two periods. Bobo
Carpenter’s team-high sixth goal was the only shot to beat him.
After BU had held a decided early
territorial advantage, Maine drew first blood on a power play midway through
the first period. Jake Oettinger stopped Chase Pearson’s initial shot but Mitch
Fossier gained position at the left post and buried the rebound.
Maine doubled the lead early in the
second period with the teams skating four men apiece as Pearson converted on a
3-on-2 rush. Halfway through the period, BU got on the board when co-captain
Dante Fabbro sent the puck behind the Maine net to Logan Cockerill, who was
slowed by a Maine defender. Carpenter picked up the loose puck and put a sharp-angle
shot past Swayman, high to the glove side.
Bobo's team-best sixth goal of the season got us on the board midway through the second. #GoBU pic.twitter.com/Bx9GtBlJxY— BU Men's Hockey (@TerrierHockey) November 18, 2018
BU outshot Maine 28-14 over the final two periods, but couldn’t produce
an equalizer. With less than a minute left in regulation, Swayman denied Shane
Bowers and Pearson fired the puck the length of the ice into the empty Terrier
cage.
After scoring three power play goals
Friday, BU came up empty on five attempts Saturday. Defenseman David Farrance,
a key point man on the power play, and Maine’s Simon Butala were given game
misconducts for facemasking, just 12 minutes into the game.
Head Coach Albie O’Connell lamented
the frustrating loss, noting, “We had plenty of opportunities in that first
period to get up a couple goals. Their goalie made some big saves … We had
plenty of chances to score through the game.”
● GoTerriers.com recap
and comprehensive box
score
● Daily Free Press recap
Defkit’s Terrier Takeaway
- Thought the team played pretty
well, the difference in the game was Swayman, who made several excellent saves.
- Dressing the extra forward
(Witkowski) versus an extra defenseman became an issue when Farrance was given
the misconduct, since that left the team with only 5 d-men. But given that BU
was playing from behind most of the game, I don't know how much Vidoli would
have actually played. The bigger impact was losing Farrance on the Power Play.
- The team once again struggled with
the PP rush where they drop it back to a forward. I guess there must be a
reason for this approach, since some NHL teams use it now, but the forwards
were not making good decisions with the puck and the result was often a
turnover right at the blue line.
- Harper seems to have his legs back,
but the Maine defensemen had little trouble knocking him off the puck.
Hopefully he'll continue to improve.
- While Swayman was clearly the
player of the game, I thought Oettinger played well. He had no shot on the
first goal (a rebound to an uncovered winger on the Power Play). The shot total
for Maine (28) wasn’t high, but several of them were testing.
Looking ahead
🚨You are playing with fire if you take a penalty against the U18s. This time it's Alex Vlasic who makes Dubuque pay.— Stars n’ Stripes Hockey (@StarsStripesHKY) November 18, 2018
Trevor Zegras finds Judd Caulfield on the goal line and he throws a nifty blind pass to Vlasic, who one-times it for the goal. #NTDP
Team 🇺🇸 4 Dubuque 2 pic.twitter.com/3pLv25txYI
Trevor Zegras can't convert the spin-o-rama pass to Jack Hughes. No problem, he can re-direct the Henry Thrun pass for the goal. #NTDP. pic.twitter.com/Lau4rluweR— Stars n’ Stripes Hockey (@StarsStripesHKY) November 18, 2018
2019 recruits Alex Vlasic and Trevor
Zegras scored goals in the NTDP U18s’ 7-4 win against Dubuque. Zegras also
assisted on Vlasic’s power play goal. For Team USA, it was their sixth straight
win.
● USA Hockey recap, box score
and video highlights
Robert Mastrosimone, who played 4 games with the U18s at the Five Nations Tournament, scores the 2nd goal of the game for the Steel.— Stars n’ Stripes Hockey (@StarsStripesHKY) November 18, 2018
Some nice passing springs @rmastro9424, and he roofs one over the shoulder of Drew Commesso for the goal. #NTDP. pic.twitter.com/F6ovTaOUbn
2019 recruit Robert Mastrosimone
scored his team-leading ninth goal in USHL Chicago’s 5-3 win over the NTDP U17s,
beating future teammate and 2020 recruit Drew Commesso. 2020 recruit Dylan
Peterson had an assist for the U17s, his sixth point in the last eight games.
● USA Hockey recap and box score
and video highlights
Looking back
Jacob Forsbacka Karlsson scored his
first NHL goal in the Bruins’ 2-1 win against Arizona.
● NHL.com recap
and video highlights
Jack Eichel assisted on the tying and
game-winning goals in the third period as Buffalo rallied for a 3-2 win against
Minnesota. With 22 points, Eichel leads
the Sabres who have won five in a row.
● NHL.com recap
and video highlights
Alex Chiasson scored his eighth goal
and his second in two nights in Edmonton’s 6-3 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights.
● NHL.com recap
and video highlights
Women’s Team
Terriers had to settle for a 3-3 tie
with Vermont as the Catamounts scored with 91 seconds left in regulation. BU
goal scorers were Jesse Compher, Sammy Davis and Mackenna Parker.
● GoTerriers.com recap
and comprehensive
box score
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