Junior Jordan Greenway’s
first-career hat trick and two tallies by leading scorer Patrick Harper led a
Terrier season-high nine-goal outburst as BU thumped Lowell in its final
first-semester outing, 9-3. Chad Krys had a three-point night with a goal and
two assists as BU evened its record in Hockey East at 6-6-1.
For the second night in a row, Brady
Tkachuk gave BU an early lead, taking an entry pass from Drew Melanson and
connecting on a backhander that beat Tyler Wall. However, this time, the
Terriers wouldn’t give up the lead; they built on it. Attacking while on the
penalty kill, Bobo Carpenter dashed into the Lowell zone and found Greenway in
the slot for a quick finish and a 2-0 lead just four minutes in.
Late in the period BU extended the
lead to three with a power play goal from Harper who closed to the right circle
dot and wired a shot high to the glove side. Lowell got on the board a minute
later when Jake Oettinger was bumped on a play behind the BU cage, leaving an
empty net for Charlie Levesque.
BU would pour it on in the second
period. Krys, who had left the ice in pain after blocking a shot, returned to follow his own rebound and beat Wall with a backhander. On the ensuing faceoff,
Greenway intercepted a pass just inside the Lowell blueline, skated to the high slot and
wristed home a shot, high to the glove side.
...and here's Jordan with the steal and the finish to give us a 5-1 lead! pic.twitter.com/Bf0P9JEyZ6— BU Men's Hockey (@TerrierHockey) December 10, 2017
Cam Crotty tallied his first career
goal on a shot from the right point through the five hole to make it 6-1 and
end Wall’s night. BU’s onslaught was interrupted briefly when a defender was
beaten to the puck behind the Terrier goal line, leading to a goal by Connor
Wilson, unmarked right in front of Oettinger. Harper then scored his second power
play goal on a sequence involving all five BU skaters and concluding with
Greenway finding Harper in the slot for a quick finish.
Some outstanding puck movement on the power play led to a 7-2 lead after 40 minutes! pic.twitter.com/VHqcVoFItz— BU Men's Hockey (@TerrierHockey) December 10, 2017
In the third period, after a Lowell
power play goal, Kasper Kotkansalo collected the puck after Chase Phelps’ faceoff win, skated
to the high slot for a wrist shot that beat Christoffer Hernberg, who was screened
by Nikolas Olsson. Greenway completed his hat trick banging home the rebound of
Crotty’s shot from the right point.
Carpenter, Shane Bowers and Phelps
combined to win 27 of 38 draws.
Senior John MacLeod who returned to
the line-up for the Lowell series, played a strong defensive game and finished
the night +4.
Terriers fired 47 shots (24 in the first period) on the two
Lowell netminders while limiting the Red Hawks to just 18 shots. Greenway led
BU shooters with seven shots.
Summing up the win, Coach David
Quinn pointed out “We were ready from the drop of the puck. We played at a pace
that we haven’t played in while.” He added,“You get nine goals,
obviously that’s a great thing, but it was the way we did it. It wasn’t luck,
it wasn’t bad bounces on their end. We earned it."
While inconsistency continues to dog the
Terriers, their offense continues to show positive signs with two
seven-goal efforts to go along with last night’s nine spot in the past six games. SID
Brian Kelley tweeted that the last time BU scored nine times was a “9-5 win
over UMass on Jan. 30, 2015 when ERod got six assists.”
●
Post-game comments Quinn;
Greenway & Krys
● WTBU Sports recap
►This
coming Wednesday, Terrier coaching legend Jack Parker will be inducted into theU.S. Hockey Hall of Fame in a Boston ceremony, along with Ben Smith, who served
as a BU assistant and in several head coaching slots, and Scott Young, a former
BU, NHL and Olympic standout, who spent two seasons as a Terrier assistant.
NHL.com talked with Parker about how he became a college hockey coaching icon
even though it wasn’t his career goal after graduation.
Looking
ahead
2018 recruit Joel Farabee had a hand in three goals for the NTDP U18s in their 4-2 win against Central Illinois. The forward from Cicero, NY scored once and added two assists while fellow recruit Jack DeBoer assisted on Team USA’s fourth goal. Farabee, who is ranked #12 by McKeen’s for the 2018 NHL Entry Draft, is the U18s’ second leading scorer with 24 points (12G, 12A). DeBoer has 12 points (3G,9A).
2018
or 2019 recruit Matt Quercia scored a goal and added an assist in Sioux Falls’ 4-3 overtime win against Youngstown.
Looking
back
Matt
Nieto scored a goal and added two assists and Colin Wilson also found the net
in the Avalanche’s 7-3 win against Florida.
●
NHL.com recap and highlights
►NHL.com
Grzelcyk’s
game is growing
Jakob
Forsbacka Karlsson scored his eighth goal in the Providence Bruins 3-2 overtime win against Utica.
Women’s
Team
Despite
two more tallies from national goals leader Victoria Bach, BU dropped a 6-5 decision to
Providence at Schneider Arena. The Friars took a 3-0 lead after one before Bach
scored her NCAA-best 22nd and 23rd goals in the second
period.
Midway
through the third period, pucks began finding the net. In a five minute span
the Friars scored three times while Nara Elia scored for BU making the score
6-3. Mary Grace Kelley and Abby Stanley
scored extra-attacker goals to cut the margin to one. A late Providence penalty
had the Terriers with a 6-on-4 advantage in the final minute, but they were
unable to produce an equalizer. Captain Rebecca Leslie contributed three
assists while Bach extended her scoring streak to 10 games.
●
GoTerriers.com recap
and comprehensive
box score
No comments:
Post a Comment