{"id":28433,"date":"2021-10-22T12:43:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T16:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=28433"},"modified":"2021-10-22T22:54:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T02:54:42","slug":"mens-hockey-terriers-set-for-home-and-home-against-merrimack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2021\/10\/22\/mens-hockey-terriers-set-for-home-and-home-against-merrimack\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Hockey: Terriers set for home-and-home against Merrimack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Stevie Potter<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Boston University Terriers (2-2-0, 1-1-0 HE) will take on the Merrimack Warriors (2-2-0, 0-1-0 HE) this weekend in a two-game series.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Friday&#8217;s game will take place in North Andover at Merrimack\u2019s home arena, Lawler Rink. The puck drop is at 7 p.m.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Terriers are coming off a 1-1-0 weekend against Sacred Heart. BU dropped the Friday game to the Pioneers 3-2 but came back to win their Saturday match 4-1. Junior Domenick Fensore leads the Terriers with five points (1g, 4a).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BU is going into the weekend with an absolutely stellar penalty kill, going 16-for-16 across all four games so far this season. Head coach Albie O\u2019Connell credits this performance to his team\u2019s ability to win face offs and stay aggressive on the PK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u201cI think we&#8217;ve done a good job, you know, we&#8217;ve done a better job on the face off that&#8217;s allowed us to get some clears, we&#8217;ve been a little bit more aggressive down the ice,\u201d O\u2019Connell said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">O\u2019Connell also said one of the keys to beating Merrimack will be staying disciplined on the ice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFirst thing is you&#8217;re gonna stay out of the penalty box, you know, I think their power play actually looks really good. Both units are threatening,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BU will also have more freedom with their lineup than last week, as O\u2019Connell has reported that there are fewer players injured.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some injury updates from Albie O&#39;Connell:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Luke Tuch and Jay O&#39;Brien will not be available this weekend, and likely unavailable next. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Tuch will be out for &quot;a bit.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Thomas Jarman had season-ending surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &quot;We&#39;ve got more guys available than we had last weekend.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Patrick Donnelly (@PatDonn12) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatDonn12\/status\/1451204496994963460?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 21, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Merrimack is coming off a similar weekend as the Terriers, dropping their Friday contest to Colgate 2-1 but defeating them 5-3 the following night. Their team leader in points is Max Newton, who currently has six points (4g, 2a).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Historically, BU leads the all-time series against Merrimack at 91-22-8.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Terriers will also host Merrimack at Agganis Arena on Saturday, Oct. 23, at 7 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured Image by Patrick Donnelly.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stevie Potter The Boston University Terriers (2-2-0, 1-1-0 HE) will take on the Merrimack Warriors (2-2-0, 0-1-0 HE) this weekend in a two-game series.\u00a0 Friday&#8217;s game will take place in North Andover at Merrimack\u2019s home arena, Lawler Rink. The puck drop is at 7 p.m.\u00a0 The Terriers are coming off a 1-1-0 weekend against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19885,"featured_media":28434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1026,1028,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28433"}],"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\/19885"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28435,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28433\/revisions\/28435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}