By: Jake Reiser<\/p>\n
There was a lot of hype coming into tonight\u2019s game, and boy, did it deliver. The first of a home-and-home series rematch of the National Championship game between the Boston University Terriers (5-3-1) and the Providence College Friars (6-0-2) occurred at Schneider Arena in Providence, the teams skating to a 1-1 tie.<\/p>\n
The game came with a lot of physicality from both sides. Friar defenseman Kyle McKenzie laid a hit on Nikolas Olsson, tumbling Olsson to the ice. Olsson would get his left arm checked by team staff after skating to the bench.<\/p>\n
Anthony Florentino would duck under an attemted Ahti Oksanen hit, flipping Oksanen over near the boards, drawing a clipping penalty.<\/p>\n
BU would end up with 25 totals PIMS, 19 of which belonged to freshman Charlie McAvoy, who received a game misconduct and a five-minute contact to the head penalty at 5:34 of the third period. BU would be short-handed much of the third, including two minutes of a 5-on-3 after Grzelcyk and McAvoy both sat for boarding at 2:31 of the third.<\/p>\n
Providence College got the scoring started, as Mark Jankowski would rip a shot high over the glove shoulder of BU starter Connor LaCouvee on the power play at 13:24 of the second period.<\/p>\n
The power play came after a scrum in which two Terriers and one Friar went to the penalty box for roughing.<\/p>\n
Jankowski’s snipe would be the only goal\u00a0LaCouvee allowed, as the sophomore made 32 saves in the overtime tie.<\/p>\n
LaCouvee headed to the bench with two minutes to go for the extra attacker. Thirty seconds later, the Friars couldn\u2019t win a defensive zone faceoff cleanly, as Olsson finessed the puck behind him. Oksanen won the loose puck, and with two Providence defenders draped on the Finnish forward, he sent a screaming wrist shot over the shoulder of Ellis.<\/p>\n
The game remained scoreless for the final 1:29 of regulation and overtime as the teams split valuable Hockey East points.<\/p>\n
It was the second time all season that Providence did not win a game when leading after the second period.<\/p>\n
The next game of the home-at-home series will be Saturday, November 14th<\/sup>, at 4 p.m. at Agganis Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By: Jake Reiser There was a lot of hype coming into tonight\u2019s game, and boy, did it deliver. The first of a home-and-home series rematch of the National Championship game between the Boston University Terriers (5-3-1) and the Providence College Friars (6-0-2) occurred at Schneider Arena in Providence, the teams skating to a 1-1 tie. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17207,"featured_media":6723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1026,1028],"tags":[1249],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}