No. 3/4 Terriers Visit No. 10 Eagles Monday on ASN/NESN
January 15, 2017 | Men's Ice Hockey
| #3/4 Men's Ice Hockey (13-5-2, 6-2-2 HEA) at #10 Boston College (14-8-2, 9-2-1 HEA) |
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| Date & Time | Monday, Jan. 16 | 7 p.m. |
| Venue | Conte Forum | Chestnut Hill, Mass. |
| TV | ASN / NESN - Full List of Stations |
| Listen | TSRN |
| Live Stats | BCEagles.com |
| Game Notes | BU | BC |
| @BUGameDay | @TerrierHockey | |
Round two of the Battle of Comm Ave. will take place on Monday (Jan. 16) when the No. 3/4 Boston University men's ice hockey team visits No. 10 Boston College at 7 p.m. The game at Conte Forum will be broadcast live by ASN and televised locally on NESN.
TERRIERS, EAGLES MEET AT KELLEY RINK
• After a 2-1 home victory on Friday, Boston University aims for a home-and-home sweep of Boston College.
• The triumph on Friday was BU's first over its archrival since Nov. 7, 2014, and the first at home since Nov. 30, 2012.
• The Terriers haven't swept a home-and-home weekend from the Eagles since the 2001-02 season.
• The teams will also meet again in exactly three weeks for the semifinals of this year's Beanpot.
• Monday's tilt marks the Terriers' first game outside the city of Boston since Dec. 10 at Vermont.
GAINING STEAM
• The Terriers are 7-1-1 in their past nine games and are riding a five-game win streak, their longest since reeling off eight straight victories towards the end of the 2014-15 season.
• The win streak is the third-longest in the nation currently, trailing UMass Lowell (7) and Minnesota (6).
COMM AVE MISC.
• The teams have combined for just six goals - three apiece - over the course of the past three meetings with BU allowing a single goal in all three.
• This marks the first time in nearly 84 years that BU has held BC to fewer than two goals in three straight meetings.
• During the 1928-29 season, the Terriers won both meetings by a score of 4-1, and when they resumed play four seasons later, BU earned a 5-1 victory on Feb. 16, 1933.
• In the past six meetings, BU has been called for more penalties in five of them while the penalties were even in the other one.
SERIES HISTORY
• The Comm. Ave. rivals have met 271 times and the Terriers lead the series, 131-122-18 (.517).
• BU is 17-21-4 (.452) in 42 meetings at Conte Forum.
• No other opponent has appeared on BU's schedule more often. Northeastern is the next closest, having faced the Terriers 229 times since the 1930-31 season.
• BU's first season of hockey was 1917-18 and played its lone game that year against BC.
• The two teams have played 41 overtime games and BC holds a 15-9-17 edge.
• The Terriers have eight of the 17 shutouts in the series history.
SCOUTING THE EAGLES
• Boston College sits atop the Hockey East standings with a 9-2-1 record (19 points) but is 5-6-1 in non-conference play.
• The Eagles, who strung together a 10-game unbeaten streak (9-0-1) in the first semester are 4-6-1 since then and 1-3-1 in their past five.
• The Eagles have a plus-81 shot differential in the first period but are minus-32 in the third.
• Senior Matt Gaudreau leads the squad in points (23) and assists (17) while sophomore Colin White has a team-best 11 goals.
• White (7a) and classmate Christopher Brown (6g, 12a) have 18 points each while seniors Austin Cangelosi (9g, 8a) and Ryan Fitzgerald (5g, 12a) have added 17 apiece.
• Freshman Joseph Woll, who earned a gold medal with Team USA at World Juniors along with White and sophomore Casey Fitzgerald, has made 19 starts in goal and boasts a .921 save percentage and a 2.41 goals-against average.
FRIDAY AT AGGANIS
• Freshman Clayton Keller broke a 1-1 tie at the 7:10 mark of the second stanza to lift Boston University to a 2-1 win over Boston College on Friday in front of a sellout crowd at Agganis Arena.
• After a scoreless opening frame, the Terriers struck first thanks to sophomore Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson's ninth goal of the season at the 3:47 mark of the second period.
• BC answered with a power-play goal less than two minutes later.
• Keller collected his first game-winning goal as a Terrier thanks to a terrific effort on the forecheck by sophomore Jordan Greenway.
• Freshman Jake Oettinger made 31 saves, including 12 in the final 20 minutes, to preserve the victory and improve to 10-5-2.
WHO'S HOT?
• Sophomore Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson has six goals over the past three games and is on a four-game point streak (6g, 2a).
• Freshman Clayton Keller is on a seven-game point streak (5g, 7a).
• Sophomore Jordan Greenway has tallied an assist in each of the past five fixtures.
• Sophomore Bobo Carpenter has had a hand in the game-winning goal in each of BU's past four games (1g, 3a) and has nine assists this season after posting four as a freshman.
ALL IN
• All 23 skaters on BU's roster have scored at least one point this season.
TERRIER TIDBITS
• Assistant captains Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson and Nikolas Olsson are the only current Terriers who have scored a goal at Conte Forum.
• Of BU's top 10 point-scorers this season, nine have at least one power-play goal.
• BU has scored first in each of its past six games after allowing the first tally in four straight contests prior to that.
• Sophomore Jordan Greenway has 17 points (5g, 12a) in his past 15 games and has a team-best three game-winning goals.
• Twenty-seven of BU's 65 goals thus far have come in the third period.
• Senior captain Doyle Somerby sports a team-best plus-11 rating.
• Four of BU's wins this season have been shutouts, and for the first time in the Terriers' 95-season history, they blanked their first three home opponents.
ROOKIE NETMINDER IMPRESSES
• Freshman Jake Oettinger has won three Hockey East weekly awards and was named the league's Goaltender of the Month for October.
• The Minnesota native leads all Hockey East netminders in both goals-against average (1.88) and save percentage (.932).
• He currently ranks sixth in the nation in goals-against average and seventh in save percentage.
• Oettinger did his part to excite the Agganis faithful as he put together a home shutout skein of 204:41 to start his career.
• He closed October with back-to-back shutouts as part of a 134:14 shutout streak that was the sixth-best in program history.
PENALTY KILL EXCELS
• The Terriers' penalty kill ranks second in the nation with an 89.7-percent success rate (104-of-116) and has successfully killed off 53 of its opponents' past 59 power plays.
• Earlier this season, BU killed off 22 straight opponent power plays, its longest such streak since 25 straight in March 2011.
• The Terriers have already scored six shorthanded goals after totaling just two all of last season. That total is tied for second in the nation.
• BU leads the nation in combined special teams at 57.6 percent (121-of-210).
