Saturday, October 22, 2022

Terriers fall to UConn in OT; Women blanked

In a back-and-forth game, Connecticut had the last word, as they scored in overtime to defeat BU, 4-3, at Agganis Arena in the Terriers’ first conference game. The crowd of 4,546 saw BU take a 2-1 first period lead and then rally to tie the score in the third period.

For the third consecutive game, BU gave up the game’s first goal. At 5:21, Andrew Lucas raced deep into the Terrier zone and passed to an unmarked Nick Capone in the slot. His one-timer beat junior Vinny Duplessis, who again was in net while Drew Commesso remains day-to-day with an injury.

Four minutes later, BU responded when Case McCarthy's shot from the center point sailed past UConn’s Logan Terness. Sam Stevens and Jamie Armstrong assisted.

Duplessis' sharp stop on a Justin Pearson breakaway kept the score tied, but BU took the lead with 1:33 left in the period. Freshman Lane Hutson fed classmate Devin Kaplan for an attempt from the left circle that was blocked. The puck slid to Armstrong in the slot and he ripped a wrister home to make it 2-1. BU had a 10-7 shot advantage and had several grade A chances for more scores including one by an unmarked Matt Brown from the right circle. The Terriers also dominated the face off dot, 16-4.

The second period was another story with the Terriers taking four penalties leading to 12 of the Huskies’ 17 middle-period shots. They tied the score 36 seconds into the first power play when All-American Ryan Tverberg connected from in close.

UConn took its first lead two minutes into the third period when a rebound fell to Tristan Fraser on the goal line to Duplessis’ left and he shoveled it behind the goalie. Trailing 3-2, BU regained the upper hand, outshooting the Huskies 12-5 in the  period. The Terriers finally produced the equalizer on a power play with 6:19 remaining. Dylan Peterson carried the puck into the zone, then lost and regained it. His attempt was defended and trickled to the right of the cage behind the goal line. Jeremy Wilmer quickly banked the puck off Terness’ pad into the goal. One more power play produced a few chances for BU, but no goals.

In overtime, BU had the first two shots. Then Lucas skated into the BU zone and fired a shot through a defender’s legs that beat Duplessis high to the stick side at the 41 second mark.

“I thought we had a decent start to the game,” said Coach Jay Pandolfo, then noting that in the second, “for whatever reason, we got away from our game... The second period, we couldn’t do anything right. We were getting outworked, we turned too many pucks over and attempted maybe five shots. That’s not good enough.”

He added, “We certainly played better in the third, so we have to regroup after this.” The teams play again Saturday at Agganis with puck drop at 7 p.m.

Pandolfo also pointed out that early in the game BU struggled on the power play due to UConn’s aggressive kill, but was better in the third, producing the tying goal and later some good chances.

► The game saw two streaks ended: Duplessis' seven-game win streak going back to last December; and UConn's streak of 26 successful kills to start the season.

● GoTerriers.com recap and comprehensive box score

● Video highlights and Pandolfo post game

● Boston Hockey Blog recap   

Looking ahead

2023 or 2024 recruit Mack Celebrini scored a pair of power play goals (his 5th & 6th tallies) as Chicago edged Youngstown, 5-4. 2023 recruit Jack Harvey assisted on a pair of goals including Celebrini’s first. 2023 recruit and Phantoms captain Shane Lachance scored his fourth goal while 2024 recruit Brandon Svoboda had his first marker.

2024 recruit Cole Hutson set up a game-tying goal in the final minute of regulation and the NTDP U17s went on to defeat Dubuque, 4-3, in overtime.

Looking Back

Evan Rodrigues scored his first goal for Colorado in the Avalanche's 3-2 loss to Seattle.

Women’s Team

Terriers dropped a 3-0 decision to BC at Conte Forum and fell to 1-2-0 in Hockey East.

A turnover and a rebound tally midway through the first period gave the Eagles a 1-0 lead and ended BU goalie Andrea Brandli’s unscored upon streak. The second period was scoreless, but BC added an insurance goal 21 seconds into the third before closing the scoring midway through the period. Brandli stopped 31 shots while the Eagles’ Abigail Levy turned aside all 29 Terrier shots.

The teams will complete the home-and-home series Saturday at Walter Brown Arena with puck drop at 3 p.m.

● GoTerriers.com recap and comprehensive box score

● Post-game comments Coach Brian Durocher

 

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