{"id":29631,"date":"2022-01-22T00:51:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T05:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=29631"},"modified":"2022-01-22T11:09:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T16:09:19","slug":"mens-hockey-terriers-fall-to-tenth-place-vermont-in-overtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2022\/01\/22\/mens-hockey-terriers-fall-to-tenth-place-vermont-in-overtime\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Hockey: Terriers fall to tenth place Vermont in overtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Owen Gund<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BOSTON &#8212; Despite carrying the play for most of the night and firing 43 shots on goal, the Boston University Terriers (10-10-2, 5-5-3 HEA) came up empty on their home ice in a 2-1 overtime defeat to the University of Vermont Catamounts (4-14-2, 3-7-2 HEA). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was particularly crushing for a Terrier team that was riding a seven-game unbeaten streak to have that streak come to an end against a UVM team that had just two wins in Hockey East play.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLast week we were happy we won in overtime. Tonight, obviously, it stings. Tough way to lose a hockey game,\u201d BU head coach Albie O\u2019Connell said after the game. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOffensively, we weren\u2019t sharp tonight. You\u2019ve got to tip your cap to their goalie. He played well, but we\u2019ve got to bear down on some of the chances. A lot of them, we just hit him in the belly. We\u2019ve got to be a little bit hungrier around the net\u201d, O\u2019Connell said<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For BU, the game started off well with a first-period effort that O\u2019Connell was pleased with. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn the first period, we were really good,\u201d O\u2019Connell said. The majority of the play early on took place in Vermont\u2019s end. Still, the Terriers could not light the lamp until junior forward Robert Mastrosimone got things started with a little under four minutes to go in the opening frame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Behind the Catamounts\u2019 net, junior forward Matt Brown stole the puck for BU and attempted to jam in a wraparound goal. UVM goaltender Gabriel Carriere (42 saves) was quick to beat Brown to the post, but the rebound ricocheted across the crease, where Mastrosimone tapped in his seventh goal of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Great work down low from Skoog, Brownie and Mastro sends us to the first intermission with a 1-0 lead! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wVxFs0aTHc\">pic.twitter.com\/wVxFs0aTHc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BU Men&#39;s Hockey (@TerrierHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TerrierHockey\/status\/1484687228878016513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2022<\/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;\">\u201cIt was a hard play on the back door, and we had a little traffic,\u201d O\u2019Connell said of the goal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Terriers shut down the Catamounts with a flawless defensive performance in the first period. BU killed off two back-to-back Vermont power plays with ease. The Catamounts registered only three shots on goal in the opening stanza.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately for the home crowd, the Terriers failed to match their intensity in the second period, and the Catamounts knotted things up halfway through the middle stanza. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Freshman forward Luke Mountain peeled off the left-wing wall and just missed his classmate, Timofei Spitserov, on a cross-ice back-door feed. Spitserov retrieved the puck in the corner, cut to the top of the right-wing circle, and fired a high shot through traffic that Terrier sophomore netminder Drew Commesso (19 saves) was never able to see. The goal was Spitserov\u2019s first career collegiate point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Later in the second period, the Terriers had two chances to take the lead on the power-play but failed to convert either time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Terriers peppered Carriere with 16 shots in the third period, but could not solve the sophomore netminder. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carriere\u2019s biggest moment of the night came just over a minute into overtime, when he stoned Terrier junior forward Jay O\u2019Brien on a partial break. O\u2019Brien toe-dragged around UVM defenseman Andrew Lucas and appeared to have Carriere beat with a deke to his forehand, but the UVM netminder snatched O\u2019Brien\u2019s attempt with a highway robbery stop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One minute later, the Catamounts secured their first victory over BU since 2016 when junior forward William Lemay banged home a fortunate UVM bounce off the rebound for his first career game-winning goal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Terriers and Catamounts will meet again on Saturday afternoon at Agganis Arena. Puck drop is at 4 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured Image by Patrick Donnelly<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Owen Gund BOSTON &#8212; Despite carrying the play for most of the night and firing 43 shots on goal, the Boston University Terriers (10-10-2, 5-5-3 HEA) came up empty on their home ice in a 2-1 overtime defeat to the University of Vermont Catamounts (4-14-2, 3-7-2 HEA). 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