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Like the Terriers, the Wildcats have struggled in the early going playing a difficult out of conference schedule starting the season with an 0-3-1 record.\u00a0UNH lost both games\u00a0of a weekend series to\u00a0Colgate\u00a0on the road\u00a0and then\u00a0played to a tie and lost to\u00a0Colorado College in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n
Upon returning home to Durham the Wildcats began their conference play hosting UVM and UMASS. Beating Vermont 3-2 then losing to UMASS 5-1. With no common opponents on the season it’s tough to stack these two teams up against one another. With identical sub-500 records this weekends clash can bring some much needed confidence in the early going\u00a0in conference play.<\/p>\n
The Terriers are coming off their first\u00a0victory of the year last Saturday when they beat Northeastern 4-1 at Agganis Arena.\u00a0When asked,\u00a0Terriers head coach Albie O’Connell said the team looked much improved from\u00a0the first couple of games of the season.<\/p>\n
“We played hungry offensively, the power play looked better. We shot the puck more. We played a lot more simple, it was a big key.” said coach O’Connell.<\/p>\n The win against No. 13\/14 Northeastern was a convincing one for the Terriers. BU held the Huskies to 1-6 on the powerplay and played some big minutes on the kill in the third when the game was still close.<\/p>\n Coach O’Connell said he knew the Wildcats are better than their record shows, he said his team is going to have to come out strong and remember to stay focused to play\u00a0a full 60-minute effort against UNH especially since the Terriers will be on the road.<\/p>\n “The two biggest areas that we’ve had tough times with are our decision making\u00a0with the puck, turning it over, and the ability to manage the rush defensively.” said O’Connell.<\/p>\n Overall coach knew the season was still young and his message to the team in the locker room has remained the same for a few weeks: “keep trying to get better and build off last week.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Brian Lombardo The Terriers (1-4-1, 1-2-1 HE) will be on the road this\u00a0Saturday in their only game of the weekend visiting the University of New Hampshire (1-4-1, 1-1-0 HE) in a clash of conference foes. Like the Terriers, the Wildcats have struggled in the early going playing a difficult out of conference […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17192,"featured_media":16481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1028],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16479"}],"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\/17192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21427,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16479\/revisions\/21427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"BUUNH2.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2018\/11\/buunh2.jpg\")