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Goals Shots UNH 2 0 1 - 3 UNH 10 6 5 - 21 BU 2 2 3 - 7 BU 10 12 15 - 37 Power Plays: UNH - 1 for 4 0.250% BU - 0 for 5 0.000% Penalties: UNH - 7 for 14 minutes BU - 6 for 12 minutes Saves: UNH - Heinke 8 10 12 - 30 of 37 0.811% 60:00 BU - Herlofsky 8 6 4 - 18 of 21 0.857% 60:00 Game Summary: 1st Period BU - Mike Grier (Chris O'Sullivan, Shane Johnson) 8:12 BU - Jacques Joubert (Kaj Linna, Mike Prendergast) 9:03 UNH - Mike Mowers (Eric Royal, Ted Russell) 4x4 16:35 UNH - Mowers (Eric Flinton, Russell) 5x4 ppg 19:04 Penalties BU - Mike Sylvia (2 min - hitting after the whistle) 14:57 UNH - Eric Boguniecki (2 min -hitting after the whistle) 14:57 BU - Steve Thornton (2 min - holding) 18:30 2nd Period BU - Ken Rausch (Jay Pandolfo, Shawn Bates) 2:01 BU - Thornton (Grier, O'Sullivan) 4x4 8:31 Penalties UNH - Todd Hall (2 min - hooking) 3:24 BU - Linna (2 min - holding the stick) 7:52 UNH - Tom O'Brien (2 min - roughing) 7:52 UNH - Dean Woodman (2 min - high sticking) 9:05 BU - Jon Coleman (2 min - interference) 17:23 3rd Period UNH - Royal (Kent Schmidtke) 0:22 BU - Pandolfo (Bob Lachance, Coleman) 10:16 BU - Grier (O'Sullivan) 12:26 BU - Matt Wright (Mike Sylvia) 19:55 Penalties BU - Lachance (2 min - slashing) 5:17 UNH - Russell (2 min - holding) 7:42 BU - Joubert (2 min - interference) 12:57 UNH - Hall (2 min - interference) 13:23 UNH - Byran Muir (2 min - roughing) 15:53 Referees: John Gravellese, Tim Benedetto Linesman: Bill Jones Attendance: 3806 Points BU UNH Mike Grier (2g, 1a) Mike Mowers (2g) Chris O'Sullivan (3a) Eric Royal (1g, 1a) Jay Pandolfo (1g, 1a) Ted Russell (2a) Jacques Joubert (1g) Eric Flinton (1a) Ken Rausch (1g) Kent Schmidtke (1a) Steve Thornton (1g) Matt Wright (1g) Shane Johnson (1a) Kaj Linna (1a) Mike Prendergast (1a) Shawn Bates (1a) Bob Lachance (1a) Jon Coleman (1a) Mike Sylvia (1a) BU Roster: 1 Shawn Ferullo, G; 2 Kaj Linna, D; 3 Chris O'Sullivan, W; 4 Chris Kelleher, G; 5 Doug Wood, D; 8 Bill Pierce, W; 9 Shawn Bates, C; 11 Bob Lachance, W; 12 Mike Grier, W; 15 Mike Sylvia, W; 16 Ken Rausch, W; 17 Jay Pandolfo, W; 19 Steve Thornton, C; 20 Jeff Kealty, D; 21 Mike Prendergast, W; 22 Matt Wright, W; 24 Jacques Joubert, C; 26 Jon Coleman, D; 27 Shane Johnson, D; 30 Tom Noble, G; 35 Derek Herlofsky, G UNH Roster: 2 Kent Schmidtke, D; 3 Bryan Muir, D; 4 Tim Murray, D; 5 Eric Royal, F; 8 Mike Sullivan, F; 10 Mike Mowers, F; 11 Eric Nickulas, F; 12 Dean Woodman, D; 15 Tom O'Brien, F; 17 Eric Flinton, F; 18 Brian Putnam, F; 19 Dylan Dellezay, F; 21 Ted Russell, D; 24 Nick Poole, F; 26 Rob Gagnon, F; 27 Joe Moran, F; 30 Trent Cavicchi, G; 31 Mike Heinke, G; 32 Todd Hall, D; 33 Eric Boguniecki, F All information is unofficial. Game Review In the rematch of Thursday's game in Portland, ME, BU and UNH faced-off at Walter Brown Arena. Unlike Thursday night, BU was ready to play and it showed from the opening face-off until the final buzzer sounded. Playing at home, at 7:00pm, on good ice, and with Mike Grier back in the lineup made a difference, as BU out-played UNH most of the night and controlled the flow of the game. The Terriers also played their best defensive game since Rich Brennan was injured. THE FIRST PERIOD: BU came out ready to play and almost immediately attacked the UNH net, getting a great shot on net which Mike Heinke made the save on. The game settled down after the first few minutes and both teams played well, with the edge going to BU. Around the eight minute mark the Wildcats had their best chance in the game, as Eric Boguniecki got the puck all alone in front of the net and Derek Herlofsky had to come up with a great save. As often happens, it turned into a BU goal at the other end of the ice. Mike Grier cleared the puck into the UNH zone, kept it in at the UNH blueline and got it to an open Chris O'Sullivan. He then he got in front of the net to receive O'Sullivan's centering pass and wristed the puck through Heinke's legs into the net. Just 51 seconds later the Terriers struck again, as Kaj Linna carried the puck into the Wildcat zone on the left side and passed it over to Mike Prendergast in the center, who passed it down to Jacques Joubert, who was just inside the face-off circle to Heinke's left. Jacques one-timed the pass and shot the puck through the five-hole, as Heinkle moved across the crease to try and protect the net. After a pair of matching penalties, UNH scored while skating four-on-four at 16:35. Eric Royal and Mark Mowers got a two-on-one break against Chris Kelleher. Royal carried the puck into the BU zone on the left side and Mowers came down the right side, with Kelleher between them. At the center of the left face-off circle Royal made a great pass to Mowers which Kelleher attempted to block, but missed. Mowers received the pass at the right side of the crease and knocked the puck into an open net, as Derek was playing Royal to shoot, not pass the puck. The Wildcats tied it up 2-2 on a powerplay with 56 seconds left in the first, as UNH did a great job of moving the puck around the outside, before Eric Flinton , at the top of the right face-off circle, threaded a pass to Mowers, who was at the top of the crease and tipped the puck past Derek. Overall the first period was evenly played, with maybe a slight edge to the Terriers for more inspired play. THE SECOND PERIOD: Despite giving up the tying goal at the end of the first, the Terriers came out in the second and immediately took control of the game. Just 2:01 into the period BU got a lucky break, as Ken Rausch picked up a loose puck just inside the UNH blueline and snapped off a hard shot from the top of the slot. It deflected off of Rob Gagnon's skate, who was in the slot, into the top left corner of the net, catching Heinke by surprise, as he was looking for the shot to go to the right side of the net. The Terriers never looked back as they continued to control the game and scored again at the 8:31 mark to regain their 2 goal lead. O'Sullivan passed the puck from the blueline down to Steve Thornton in the left face-off circle. The pass was slightly behind Steve, so he learned back and passed the puck from behind him, through his legs, to his front, as he skated across the top of the crease. Heinke went down and attempted to poke-check the puck away before Steve could regain control, but he just missed it as Steve got the puck back on his stick and swept it into the net between Heinke's toe and the post. THE THIRD PERIOD: The Wildcats pulled to within one, 4-3, just 22 seconds into the period on a lucky break of their own. Kent Schmidtke intercepted the puck in neutral ice, skated into the BU zone and passed the puck into the slot. The puck hit Linna's skate and deflected to Royal, who picked it up and back-handed it into the top right corner of the net, cleanly beating Derek. Just 2:41 into the period BU lost Steve Thornton for the game as he was back-checking a Wildcat and slid into the boards, hitting his knee very hard. Reports on his condition were unavailable, but it may be anything from a severe bruse to a break. If it is broken, he will be finished for his college career, so, hopefully, it is only a severe bruse. The Terriers broke the game open in the middle of the period, as a rising Jon Coleman shot from the right point hit Jay Pandolfo in the back and deflected into the net at 10:16 to make it 5-3. It was Jay Pandolfo's 40th goal and 100th point of his career. Just 2 minutes and 10 seconds later BU made it 6-3, as Grier poked the puck free from a tangle of legs along the right side boards and skated into the Wildcat zone with O'Sullivan on a two-on-one break against Todd Hall. Grier passed the puck over to O'Sullivan in the slot and he froze both Hall and Heinke before passing it back to Grier on the right, who put in into the open net. The Terriers capped the victory with five seconds remaining in the game, as Matt Wright skated into the UNH zone on the left, cut across to the top of the slot and blasted a shot past Heinke's stick side into the top left corner of the net. OBSERVATIONS: UNH played well for the first twenty minutes, but BU dominated them from the beginning of the second period and the Wildcats were unable to play their game from that point on. The Terriers out-played, out-skated, out-hit and out-hustled UNH the entire game and Heinke kept the Wildcats in the game for far longer than they might otherwise have been in it. Mike Grier's return gave BU a huge boost, as he is a natural leader on the ice. He is one of the hardest working Terriers and it showed on both his goals, as he started both of the plays he scored on. It was even better to see the Terriers play their best defensive game since Rich Brennan's injury, as they did a great job of shutting down the high-powered offense of the Wildcats. After allowing 38 shots in Portland Thursday, the Terrier defense limited UNH to only 21 shots in this game. With Rich's return expected on Friday at UMass Amherst, the BU defense finally looks like it might be ready to play the way it was expected to this year. Steve Thorton's injury continues a line of injuries to key Terriers this year; Jay Pandolfo, Shane Johnson,Rich Brennan and now Steve. The bad news is he is important to the success of Mike Grier and Chris O'Sullivan and his absence will be felt. The *good, if it can be called that* news is that Ken Rausch filled in for Steve on the line for the rest of the game and played well with Mike and Chris. UPCOMING GAMES: This upcoming Friday the Terriers travel to Amherst to play the Minutemen, who are coming off their huge victory over the Maine Black Bears. BU will have to be ready for a fired up team, or else they too may fall to the Minutemen, who have just fired another "shot shot heard 'round the world." After Umass Amherst, the Terriers face a rejuvenated Northeastern Huskies team, which decimated the UMass Lowell River Hawks this weekend, in the first round of the Beanpot. Sean Pickett Go BU Terriers, 1994 Hockey East Champions! BU Hockey Page: http://www.tiac.net/users/spickett/hockey.html [log in to unmask]