Friday, February 02, 2024

UPDATED Game Day: Terriers at New Hampshire

 Game day graphic featuring posed photo of Ty Gallagher. BU at New Hampshire, Feb. 2, 7 PM on ESPN+

#3 Terriers remain on the road traveling to #18 New Hampshire for the rubber game of their season series with the Wildcats. They’ll also look to end a three-game skid. Puck drop is at 7 p.m. for the contest at the Whittemore Center that will be live-streamed by ESPN+ and TSN+.

The Wildcats dealt BU its first loss of the season, 6-4, back on Oct. 13, before the Terriers replied with a 3-0 shutout win on Jan. 13. A 36-save effort by junior Mathieu Caron helped to earn him Hockey East Stop-It Goaltender of the Week honors.

Since that loss to BU, the Wildcats have split weekend series with UConn and Vermont but only allowed seven goals in those four games.

Acknowledging that he expects another hard-fought game with UNH, Head Coach Jay Pandolfo said in his weekly media call, “We’ve had our struggles with [UNH]. The first game, they really took it to us up there. They’re very aggressive. They compete really hard, they skate, they’re on top of you very quickly, so you have to be ready for their pressure. I think that’s a key for us.”

The Wildcats offense is paced by freshman Ryan Conmy (12-12-24) and sophomores Cy LeClerc and Morgan Winters, both with 8-10-18 scoring lines. Junior transfer Jakob Hellsten’s 1.72 GAA and .923 save percentage put him at the top of the Hockey East stat board for goalies.

Macklin Celebrini tops BU point-scorers with 35 (17G18A), followed by Lane Hutson with 31 (10G,21A), Ryan Greene with 25 (8G,17A) and Jeremy Wilmer with 23 (3G,20A). Celebrini is second in Hockey East in both points and goals. Quinn Hutson's 10th goal, scored on Tuesday, makes him the third Terrier with double-digit goals.

BU will again be without sophomore Devin Kaplan, who has a lower-body injury, and there may be some tweaks to the forward lines tonight. 

“We looked at some different lines today. Nothing determined 100% for tomorrow yet, but we definitely looked at some different combinations today,” Pandolfo said. 

In a post-practice media availability Thursday, grad student Cade Webber spoke the Boston Hockey Blog about Pandolfo's calling for more disciplined play from his team. 

He said, “Discipline is a big thing, but not just discipline with penalties and stuff, but shift lengths, knowing when to get the puck deep, just being harder to play against, winning more 50/50 battles…If we’re playing well and we’re doing those things, then I like our chances.”

TONIGHT'S BU LINE-UP 


● GoTerriers.com preview, Live Stats, BU All-Access (audio), BU Men’s Hockey Twitter

● Live Stream ESPN+, TSN+, International stream

● Pandolfo Media Call

● Boston Hockey Blog Terriers looking to end three-game slide at UNH on Friday

● College Hockey News Tale of the Tape

 


 

 ● GoTerriers.com report

 

Looking ahead

Last night's USHL contest between the NTDP U18s and the Youngstown Phantoms--won by the the U18's, 5-3-- featured six futures Terriers. For Youngstown: 2024 recruit Brandon Svoboda and 2025 recruits Zach Morin and Sascha Boumedienne. For Team USA: 2024 recruits Cole Eiserman, Kamil Bednarik and Cole Hutson. Bedanarik, who is third on the U18s in points with 41, score his 17th goal and added an assist while Svoboda scored his seventh goal. 

Team USA next will host its second international tournament, the Five Nations beginning Tuesday in Plymouth, Michigan. Games came be streamed free on USA Hockey TV. 

 ● USA Hockey recap 

Looking back

Of the 12 college hockey alums named to the NHL All-Star Weekend, nine are from Hockey East and four are Terriers: Jack Eichel, Clayton Keller, Jake Oettinger and Brady Tkachuk.

In addition, the six PWHL players who will participate in a 3-on-3 Showcase includes Terrier standout and Canadian Olympic hero Marie-Philip Poulin.

 ● HockeyEastOnline report

 

 

 

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