Women’s Ice Hockey: Terriers Face Merrimack in Home-and-Home
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By Claire Smieszny
Boston University Women’s Ice Hockey (7-15-3, 5-9-2 HEA) will face the Merrimack Warriors (5-18-3, 2-13-1 HEA) in a home-and-home series this weekend to earn crucial points in the conference race as the season winds down.
The Terriers are coming off a tough weekend at home against Vermont, dropping both games in the series. Merrimack split its series against Maine.
BU will look for strong performances from players like senior forward Sydney Healey, who leads the team with 22 points and scored all three Terrier goals last weekend. The team will look to graduate student goaltender Michelle Pasiechnyk to carry her stellar .935 save percentage from last Saturday into this weekend.
The Warriors will rely on sophomore goaltender Adreanna Doucette’s net-front presence. Doucette has a .923 save percentage this season. BU’s offense has racked up at least 25 shots in its last seven games.
With only eight games remaining, getting back in the win column is crucial for the Terriers. BU ranks seventh in Hockey East standings. New Hampshire sits two points ahead; catching them could secure a top-six seed and opening-round bye.
“Every piece of adversity you go through you’re learning about how you rebound from it,” BU Head Coach Tara Watchorn said. “A group’s trajectory should never feel linear and always progress. There’s gonna be steps back and it’s about how you rebound, and every time you do that you’re building the muscle as a group of how you respond to adversity.”
The Terriers play Merrimack in North Andover on Friday at 2 p.m. and at Walter Brown Arena on Saturday at 4 p.m. Both games stream on ESPN+, with Saturday’s also on NESN.