{"id":34689,"date":"2022-11-13T11:21:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=34689"},"modified":"2022-11-13T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T16:21:08","slug":"mens-hockey-no-14-terriers-earn-first-series-sweep-in-5-1-win-vs-no-11-10-umass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2022\/11\/13\/mens-hockey-no-14-terriers-earn-first-series-sweep-in-5-1-win-vs-no-11-10-umass\/","title":{"rendered":"Men’s Hockey: No. 14 Terriers Earn First Series Sweep in 5-1 Win vs. No. 11\/10 UMass"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sasha Abrams<\/span><\/p>\n

Boston University Men’s Hockey (6-3-0, 4-2-0 HE) defeated the No. 11\/10 Massachusetts Minutemen (5-5-1, 1-5-0 HE) 5-1 to complete BU\u2019s first series sweep of the season. The win came with goals from five different Terriers, two of which earned their first goals of the season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur players have high expectations for themselves,\u201d BU Head Coach Jay Pandolfo said. \u201cThey\u2019re doing things the right way. Every day in practice, every day they come to the rink, so it\u2019s important for us if we\u2019re gonna have success for them to buy in, and they\u2019ve been doing that, so it was a great weekend for us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Junior goaltender Drew Commesso made 28 saves, 14 of which came in the first period when UMass was leading in shots on goal.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t think we got our legs right away,\u201d Pandolfo said. \u201cIt took us a little while to get going and I thought Drew Commesso was excellent this weekend. He was excellent early in the game until we found our legs and started playing in there a little more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

BU freshman forward Ryan Greene opened the scoring at 9:18 in the first off a pass in front of the net from junior forward Luke Tuch. Greene\u2019s strike from the slot completed his six-point weekend, now tied with senior forward Matt Brown for most goals on the team (5). Freshman forward Quinn Hutson picked up the other assist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/TerrierHockey\/status\/1591588558665437184<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201c[Greene] is playing all situations now, killing penalties, he\u2019s on the power play. He\u2019s playing more and he\u2019s earned it,\u201d Pandolfo said. \u201cHe\u2019s very calm out there. He makes smart decisions with the puck, and he\u2019s been really good for us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

BU senior forward Jamie Armstrong made it 2-0 at 17:25, finding the back of the net off a rebound from sophomore forward Ty Gallagher\u2019s initial shot on the net. From the blue line, Gallagher attempted to score his first goal while Armstrong was there to follow it up. Senior forward Sam Stevens earned a point as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/TerrierHockey\/status\/1591591429020622850<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest thing for us was having a little bit more of a shot mentality and recovering pucks, and that\u2019s what we did and we were rewarded because of it,\u201d Pandolfo said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Senior defenseman Case McCarthy lifted BU to a 3-0 cushion at 12:23 in the second period on a one-timer from the right circle to move his season total to three points (2g, 1a).<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/TerrierHockey\/status\/1591601932904243200<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

UMass senior captain Eric Faith put the Minutemen on the board 38 seconds into the third period. Faith\u2019s first goal of the season brought him to four points this season (1g, 3a).<\/span><\/p>\n

Senior forward Ethan Phillips found junior forward Nick Zabaneh in the slot for his first goal of the season at 8:59 of the third period, extending the lead to 4-1.<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/TerrierHockey\/status\/1591614835468341249<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLast night we had our chances, we just didn\u2019t put it in the net, and I think today as a line we just kind of talked about like it\u2019s gonna come,” Zabaneh said. “We\u2019re gonna get our chances and we\u2019re going to score.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Less than a minute later, it was O\u2019Brien\u2019s turn to celebrate his first goal of the season for the Terrier\u2019s only power play goal of the night at 9:38 of the third.<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/TerrierHockey\/status\/1591615686216155137<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt like a month that we didn\u2019t play,\u201d O\u2019Brien said. \u201cThat bye week felt like forever. We were all chomping at the bit to play this weekend and it obviously showed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

BU returns to Agganis Arena for another conference series against the Northeastern University Huskies on Friday with puck drop set for 7 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sasha Abrams Boston University Men’s Hockey (6-3-0, 4-2-0 HE) defeated the No. 11\/10 Massachusetts Minutemen (5-5-1, 1-5-0 HE) 5-1 to complete BU\u2019s first series sweep of the season. The win came with goals from five different Terriers, two of which earned their first goals of the season.\u00a0 \u201cOur players have high expectations for themselves,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19938,"featured_media":34219,"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\/34689"}],"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\/19938"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34690,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34689\/revisions\/34690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}