{"id":46142,"date":"2025-02-06T23:38:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T04:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=46142"},"modified":"2025-02-06T23:38:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T04:38:41","slug":"womens-hockey-terriers-set-to-host-uconn-at-home-as-they-look-to-extend-their-winning-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2025\/02\/06\/womens-hockey-terriers-set-to-host-uconn-at-home-as-they-look-to-extend-their-winning-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Hockey: Terriers set to host UConn at home as they look to extend their winning streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Featured image by Spirit Veron<\/em><\/p>\n

By Hayd\u00e9e Cepeda <\/em><\/p>\n

Boston University Women\u2019s Ice Hockey (19-8-1, 16-4-1 HE) will face the University of Connecticut Huskies (17-9-2, 15-4-2 HE) at home on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Terriers are returning to the ice following an intense 3-2 overtime win against Northeastern on Tuesday. The win was solidified by Alex Law\u2019s game-winning goal with 30 seconds remaining in overtime.\u00a0
\n\u201cThe bus was on fire\u2026 the girls were happy for [Law],\u201d CoachTara Watchorn said.<\/p>\n

BU\u2019s goaltender Callie Shanahan played phenomenally in net. Her performance contributed to her .925 save average and 1.74 goals against average.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, it always comes back to your net,\u201d Watchorn said. \u201cHow do you not have confidence in front of [Shanahan], [with] how she was playing?\u201d<\/p>\n

The Huskies are likely to start senior Tia Chan in their net, who has a .941 save percentage and a 1.57 goals-against average.<\/p>\n

BU has a 31-19-9 all-time record against UConn, with 16 wins at home. The last time these two teams met about a year ago, the Huskies took the win 1-0.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t love it,\u201d Watchorn said of playing UConn for the first time this season. \u201cUConn\u2019s team is disciplined and structured and detailed, playing them at the end of the year probably isn\u2019t as ideal\u2026but that being said, we\u2019re playing a really good opponent who\u2019s in their home stretch and who\u2019s ready to go and gonna give us their best going into playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Terriers are on a 5-game winning streak that began with sweeping Holy Cross in a weekend series in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t even really put thought into the streak, to be honest,\u201d Watchorn said. \u201cI think we\u2019ve realized we\u2019ve put ourselves in a good spot\u2026it\u2019s more like the excitement of, okay, just how far can we take this?\u201d<\/p>\n

Puck drop is set for 6 p.m. Friday at Walter Brown Arena. Streaming will be available on ESPN+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Featured image by Spirit Veron By Hayd\u00e9e Cepeda Boston University Women\u2019s Ice Hockey (19-8-1, 16-4-1 HE) will face the University of Connecticut Huskies (17-9-2, 15-4-2 HE) at home on Friday.\u00a0 The Terriers are returning to the ice following an intense 3-2 overtime win against Northeastern on Tuesday. The win was solidified by Alex Law\u2019s game-winning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24218,"featured_media":46032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,1039,1041],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46142"}],"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\/24218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46143,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46142\/revisions\/46143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}