{"id":40320,"date":"2024-02-16T13:27:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T18:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=40320"},"modified":"2024-02-16T13:27:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T18:27:26","slug":"mens-hockey-no-3-bu-faces-off-v-no-10-providence-in-home-and-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2024\/02\/16\/mens-hockey-no-3-bu-faces-off-v-no-10-providence-in-home-and-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Men’s Hockey: No. 3 BU faces off v. No. 10 Providence in home-and-home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Featured image by Jacob Ireland<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

By Alexa Podalsky<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Four days after falling to the Northeastern Huskies in overtime at the Beanpot finals, No. 3 Boston University Men\u2019s Ice Hockey (19-8-1, 13-4-1 HEA) will have to put the loss behind them as they play a home-and-home against the Providence College Friars (16-9-2, 9-6-2 HEA) in one of their final series’ before the conclusion of the regular season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe big thing is we have to move on. Clearly, everyone was disappointed,\u201d coach Jay Pandolfo said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Huskies came into the finals as underdogs after a slower start to the season, and BU held the lead up until the third period. In the Pandolfo Era, the Terriers were 37-2-0 when leading after two periods prior to Monday’s tilt (@NickBoveOnAir\/X).<\/span><\/p>\n

Pandolfo said the team worked on Monday\u2019s biggest mistake during practice this week: getting second and third chances on the net. BU had 22 scoring chances to Northeastern’s 10, but failed to capitalize (@BUHockeyStats\/X, via Instat).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs these games get tighter and tighter when you get into the playoffs, you have to find a way to score grittier goals,\u201d Pandolfo said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sophomore Ryan Greene and freshman Shane Lachance are both one goal away from joining freshman Macklin Celebrini and sophomores Lane and Quinn Hutson as Terriers who have scored 10 or more goals this season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dylan Peterson is expected to be in the lineup again after he was injured late in the third period on Monday. But, Pandolfo said he still has not decided who will start, or if there are any other shuffles in the lineup, this weekend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

BU drastically improved on their discipline in the games leading up to the Beanpot finals. What once was multiple penalties per game, including one 30 seconds into the Beanpot semifinals, was reduced to one on Monday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Terriers have struggled with their discipline since October, and up until their Beanpot loss, they received at least two penalties per game. Keeping the game in even strength will benefit BU in getting past what Pandolfo called \u201cone of the better defenses\u201d in the Hockey East.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

BU will play in Providence on Friday, Feb 16 at 7 p.m. before returning to Agganis on Saturday to close the weekend. Both games are available to stream on ESPN+.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Featured image by Jacob Ireland By Alexa Podalsky Four days after falling to the Northeastern Huskies in overtime at the Beanpot finals, No. 3 Boston University Men\u2019s Ice Hockey (19-8-1, 13-4-1 HEA) will have to put the loss behind them as they play a home-and-home against the Providence College Friars (16-9-2, 9-6-2 HEA) in one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21300,"featured_media":40321,"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\/40320"}],"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\/21300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40322,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40320\/revisions\/40322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}