{"id":17870,"date":"2019-02-08T10:58:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T15:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportswtbu.com\/?p=17870"},"modified":"2020-01-09T17:30:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T22:30:29","slug":"mens-hockey-a-reprise-of-last-weekend-against-umass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2019\/02\/08\/mens-hockey-a-reprise-of-last-weekend-against-umass\/","title":{"rendered":"Men’s Hockey: A reprise of last weekend against UMass"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_9506\"On Friday, Feb. 8, Boston University (10-12-3, 8-6-2 HEA) will travel to Amherst to take on No. 2 University of Massachusetts (20-5, 12-3 HEA) in a reprise of last weekend\u2019s matchup.<\/span><\/p>\n

In that last game, BU overcame deficits of 1-0, 3-1 and 4-3, but fell just short by a final tally of 7-5, secured by a John Leonard empty net goal with 15 seconds remaining.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey played really hard,\u201d head coach Albie O\u2019Connell said, \u201cso we\u2019re going to have to protect our net. I like the fact that we scored five on them, but we\u2019re going to have to manage the puck better. They\u2019ve got a good transition game, so we\u2019re going to have to play smarter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

That contest was followed by a heartbreaking 1-2 loss to No. 8 Northeastern in the Beanpot Semifinals on Monday, which extended the Terriers losing streak to three games. UMass hasn\u2019t played since meeting BU a week ago, and Friday\u2019s tilt marks the Minutemen\u2019s first home game since Jan. 18, a 6-1 drubbing of Northeastern.<\/span><\/p>\n

Entering the weekend, the four top scorers in Hockey East are all <\/span>Minutemen, and it\u2019s no surprise as to how UMass has created the top-\"IMG_9256\"ranked offense in the conference: they\u2019re outstanding in special teams. They have the best special teams net (+18) in the country, due in large part to the nation\u2019s second-best power play offense and 11th best penalty kill unit.<\/span><\/p>\n

While BU held UMass to 0-2 on the power play in their meeting last week, the Terriers are still the second-most penalized team in Hockey East. If they can\u2019t stay out of the sin bin, it\u2019s going to be an uphill battle all night.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve got some dangerous guys,\u201d O\u2019Connell said, \u201cso we\u2019ve got to stay out of the penalty box, play five-on-five and hopefully play a smart road game.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other side of the ice, BU is going to be without captain Bobo Carpenter four the fourth game in a row. O\u2019Connell said that Carpenter will be out for one or two more weeks with the injury suffered against Arizona State on Jan. 25.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt hurts,\u201d O\u2019Connell said, \u201cObviously, it hasn\u2019t been helpful from the faceoff dot, and he was our leading goal-scorer, but we\u2019ve got enough guys in the room. We can\u2019t make excuses. He\u2019s a loss, but someone\u2019s going to have to step up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a team effort on offense for the Terriers since Carpenter\u2019s been out. They got goals from each of their top three lines in the first game against UMass, but leading the pack, Joel Farabee has been playing possessed lately. The freshman right winger has four goals and three assists in BU\u2019s last five games, including the lone goal in the Beanpot Semifinal loss.<\/span><\/p>\n

Having a well-rounded attack is crucial when you\u2019re skating against the eighth-best defense in the country, but the key for BU is in their own goal. Jake Oettinger can\u2019t have another outing allowing six goals, but he looks to have rebounded with a season-high 47 saves on Monday. Oettinger will have to control the rebounds against the vicious and opportunistic Minutemen offense, and it\u2019s going to fall to the Terrier netminder to set the tone for his team.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On Friday, Feb. 8, Boston University (10-12-3, 8-6-2 HEA) will travel to Amherst to take on No. 2 University of Massachusetts (20-5, 12-3 HEA) in a reprise of last weekend\u2019s matchup. In that last game, BU overcame deficits of 1-0, 3-1 and 4-3, but fell just short by a final tally of 7-5, secured by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17192,"featured_media":17891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1028],"tags":[1150,1262,1263,1495],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17870"}],"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=17870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21245,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17870\/revisions\/21245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}