{"id":25198,"date":"2020-12-09T12:12:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T17:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=25198"},"modified":"2020-12-09T21:16:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T02:16:26","slug":"mens-hockey-bu-will-not-play-any-games-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2020\/12\/09\/mens-hockey-bu-will-not-play-any-games-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Hockey: BU will not play any games in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Patrick Donnelly<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Boston University men&#8217;s hockey team will have to wait even longer to kick off the 2020-21 season. The team will not play any games until at least Jan. 1, the team announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span>The team will focus on completing the semester and final exams during the weekend of Dec. 18-19, as this was previously deemed to be a non-competition weekend,&#8221; said BU Athletics in a press release. &#8220;The student-athletes will return to campus at the end of the month to prepare for the new January start to their season.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The news comes after BU had to call off its game with Connecticut, which was scheduled for last Saturday at 2:30 p.m., after a member of the program tested positive for coronavirus. The Terriers&#8217; two-game series with Massachusetts this week was originally still on as planned, but that is now off as well.<\/p>\n<p>The Terriers were already false-started this season after Vermont delayed the start of its winter sports until Dec. 18, postponing what would have been the season-opening series for BU on the road, which would have began last Friday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured Image: Junior forward Matt Quercia after the Terriers scored a goal in a game against New Hampshire on Feb. 16, 2020. Photo by Hannah Yoshinaga.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Donnelly The Boston University men&#8217;s hockey team will have to wait even longer to kick off the 2020-21 season. The team will not play any games until at least Jan. 1, the team announced Wednesday. &#8220;The team will focus on completing the semester and final exams during the weekend of Dec. 18-19, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17459,"featured_media":25200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1026,1028,19,1],"tags":[1128,1626,1689,1369,1370],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25198"}],"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\/17459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25198"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25248,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25198\/revisions\/25248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}