#9 seed Terriers have returned to
South Bend, Ind., to take on #8 Notre Dame in a first-round Hockey East playoff
game. Puck drop at the Compton Family Ice Arena is 7 p.m. ET.
BU, which was blanked twice by the
Irish two weeks ago, is looking to extend its streak of at least one in its
past 21 Hockey East tournaments. Last season, the Terriers reached the
conference title game, losing 1-0 to Lowell.
BU is led by freshman Robbie
Baillargeon with 25 points, sophomore blueliner Ahti Oksanen with 23 and
sophomore Danny O’Regan with 22. Matt O’Connor gets the start in goal in this
win-or-go-home contest. TJ Tynan paces Notre Dame with 31 points and Mario
Lucia has 15 goals. BU will be looking to put some pucks past Steven
Summerhays, who has the sixth best GAA in Division 1, 1.87.
● GoTerriers.com preview,
Game
Notes, GameTracker,
Yahoo! Sport Radio Webcast,
Pay-per-view Webcast
● The Season-Episode 4 , Inside BU
Hockey-Episode 20
● Daily Free Press preview
● Boston Hockey Blog live in-game blog
● USCHO Hockey East picks
and predictions.
● Boston Globe
feature on Head Coach David Quinn
● College Hockey News Tale of the
Tape.
● HockeyEastOnline weekend preview
Looking ahead
2014 recruit Jack Eichel scored a goal and added two assists—including setting up the game-winner less than two minutes into
overtime—as the NTDP U18s rallied past Cedar Rapids, 5-4. The tally was his team-best 31st of the
season for the center from Chelmsford, Mass., giving him 60 for his career and
moving him into 10th place in the all-time NTDP record book. Eichel
now has 66 points in 38 NTDP games. With his fourth consecutive
three-point game (6-6-12), he has now scored in the past 12 games and 27 of
the past 29 games.
USA Hockey photo by Tom Sorensen
Earlier in the day, Eichel was the
subject of rumors that he might consider foregoing college if he could play in
the OHL and go “head-to-head” against Canadian Jr. star Connor McDavid. A tweet
from TSN’s Bob McKenzie launched the frenzy. Later several articles suggested
that this is unlikely as Eichel’s CHL rights are held by St. John of the QMJHL,
whose GM said he’d never let him go to the OHL.
●College Hockey News report
● Yahoo! Sports report
● SB Nation report
2014 recruit Ori Abramson scored his
fifth goal of the season for the Jersey Hitmen in their 5-1
defeat of South Shore Kings in the USPHL Premier division best-of-three
semifinals. The 6-5, 220 lb. defenseman from Toronto has a 5-23-28 in 45 games
for the Hitmen, who can advance to the finals with another win.
2015 recruit Bobo Carpenter assisted
on Austin Prep’s first and third goals as the Cougars eliminated Central
Catholic, 4-1,
to advance the EMass Super 8 semifinals.
Women’s Team
Second seed BU takes on #3 seed
Northeastern in the Hockey East tournament semifinals at Hyannis, Mass.
Game time is 4:30 p.m. The Terriers and Huskies played three times this season
with BU winning twice, both times on the road.
BU, which carriers a streak of seven
consecutive conference tournament wins into the game, are led by Division 1’s
top goal-scorer—and Hockey East Player of the Year—Sarah Lefort , who has a
30-23-53 scoring line. Senior captain Louise Warren is 10th in the
nation in scoring with 45 points. Goalie
Kerrin Sperry is BU’s career leading in wins and carriers a 1.56 GAA in Hockey
East tournament games.
If the Terriers win today’s semifinal,
they’ll play the winner of BC-Vermont in Sunday’s championship game.
● GoTerriers.com preview,
Game
Notes, Game
Tracker, HockeyEast Webcast
(pay-per-view)
● HockeyEastOnline weekend preview
Yesterday, Lefort was announced as the
unanimous pic for Hockey East Player of the Year. The Patty Kazmaier Memorial
Award finalist, who made all-rookie last season, is joined as a conference
first-team all-star by Warren and senior blueliner Kaleigh Fratkin.
● HockeyEastOnline report
● GoTerriers.com report
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