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<\/p>\nBy Jacob Lintner<\/p>\n
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BOSTON \u2013 The game won\u2019t count for either team\u2019s record, but in a season where they are fighting to get back to .500, the Terriers (10-13-3, 8-7-2 HEA) will be fighting for their pride when they take on the No. 17 Harvard Crimson (12-7-3, 9-5-2 ECAC) in the Beanpot Consolation Game on Monday, Feb. 11.<\/span><\/p>\n “It’s going to be banged out,” head coach Albie O’Connell said. “It’s going to be a lively crowd. But our guys like playing in that. The more fans, the more excited they get to play in the game.” The teams skated to a 2-2 draw on Jan. 8. BU netminder Jake Oettinger picked up his first and only collegiate point with an assist on Joel Farabee\u2019s game-tying goal in the third period of that contest.<\/span><\/p>\n Since their last meeting, these teams have gone in near-opposite directions. The Terriers, who began the new year 4-1-1, have dropped their last four, including a 1-2 overtime loss to Northeastern in the Beanpot Semifinals to put them in the consolation game.<\/span><\/p>\n Harvard, meanwhile, has won five of their last six, their lone loss a 1-2 setback against Boston College in their first game of the Beanpot tournament. Most recently, they cruised past Union 5-3 last Friday. In that game, junior Adam Fox (19-80-99) matched his career high with four assists and now is one point away from the century mark in a Crimson uniform.<\/span><\/p>\n Harvard (No. 17 in the USCHO poll) has scored nearly four goals per game (3.83, to be precise) in their recent hot streak, which includes wins over No. 9 Clarkson and No. 20 Union. That scoring outburst has been fueled by Harvard\u2019s dominance on special teams. The Crimson were 3-3 on the penalty kill in their 5-3 win over Union on Friday, and they are now 10-10 on the PK in their last three games.<\/span><\/p>\n Harvard is also the best team in the nation when they\u2019re a man up, converting on 27-75 (.360) of their power plays on the season after scoring on all four of their power plays against Union. They\u2019ll face BU\u2019s 18th-ranked penalty kill unit, though, which is successful on 84 percent of their 4-on-5 situations.<\/span><\/p>\n The Terriers are facing a ranked opponent for the sixth game in a row, and this will be their fifth straight game without captain Bobo Carpenter, who could be out for another week, according to O\u2019Connell, after being \u201croughed up\u201d in a Jan. 25 win over No. 12 Arizona State.<\/span><\/p>\n In Carpenter\u2019s stead, BU has gotten a ton of production from Farabee and Shane Bowers, whose taken over Carpenter\u2019s spot as the first-line center. Farabee (2g, 3a) and Bowers (1g, 2a) are both on three-game point streaks entering Monday\u2019s 4 p.m. tilt at TD Garden. The Terriers are going to have to keep feeding their top-line underclassmen to keep pace with Crimson\u2019s potent offense.<\/span><\/p>\n This game will also feature two of the nation\u2019s top goaltenders. Oettinger and Harvard\u2019s Michael Lackey are part of a six-way tie for 15th in country with a .923 save percentage, but their numbers run counter to their teams\u2019 performances as of late. Oettinger hasn\u2019t had a save percentage lower than .920 in a game since Dec. 7, 2018, while Lackey is coming off his two worst games of the season \u2013 .889 and .880 against BC and Union, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s always a battle between two bitter rivals in the Beanpot, and the winning team is going to be the one that better hides the cracks in their own fa\u00e7ade. Whether it\u2019s Harvard\u2019s suddenly porous goaltending or BU\u2019s big missing piece, the storylines are going to play themselves out at the Garden, and you can listen to every minute of the game at mixlr.com\/wtbusports.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Jacob Lintner BOSTON \u2013 The game won\u2019t count for either team\u2019s record, but in a season where they are fighting to get back to .500, the Terriers (10-13-3, 8-7-2 HEA) will be fighting for their pride when they take on the No. 17 Harvard Crimson (12-7-3, 9-5-2 ECAC) in the Beanpot Consolation Game on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17192,"featured_media":17945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1028],"tags":[1114,1241,1262,1369],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17939"}],"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=17939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21238,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17939\/revisions\/21238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"IMG_7965\"](\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2019\/02\/img_7965.jpg\")
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