MacArthur, Freshmen Can't Overcome Wolverines
October 9, 2004 | Men's Ice Hockey
October 9, 2004
DAYTON, OH-Freshman Peter MacArthur scored a pair of goals and his four other classmates provided a collective bright spot but their efforts could not overcome a seven-goal outburst by the University of Michigan as the Terriers dropped a 7-2 decision to the Wolverines on Saturday night, Oct. 9.
It was B.U.'s second loss in the Third Annual Lefty McFadden Invitational played at the Ervin J. Nutter Center on the Wright State University campus. On Friday night, the Terriers bowed to host Miami University, 5-1.
Michigan, which was ranked number one in the nation entering the weekend, scored four times in the first period and added three in the second en route to the win.
"If you want me to point to something positive from tonight, it would be the play of the freshmen," said Terrier head coach Jack Parker. "Bryan Ewing (Plymouth, MA), Chris Bourque (Topsfield, MA), and MacArthur (Clifton Park, NY) played very well.
"I also thought that Brian McGuirk (Danvers, MA) and Ryan Weston (Henniker, NH) played well in their roles," continued Parker. "But, that was it."
Michigan's first-period goals came off the sticks of Chad Kolarik, Matt Hunwick, Jeff Tambellini, and Brandon Rogers.
It took the Terriers over 13 minutes of action to take their first shot on goal. By that point, the Wolverines had taken 10 shots on B.U. starting goalie freshman Karson Gillespie (Mankota, SASK) and scored three times. From then until the end of the period, B.U. outshot Michigan, 12-3, as each team had 13 shots on goal in the opening 20 minutes of action. The difference was Michigan had four goals, while the Terriers had none.
It was more of the same in the second period, as the Wolverines added three goals on 15 shots, while the Terriers were 0-for-12. Milan Gajic scored two of the goals, while David Rohlfs scored the other.
After Michigan's seventh goal, Parker pulled Gillespie and put sophomore John Curry (Shorewood, MN) in net. Curry saw action in just one game last year, as he played the final 5:10 of action in the Terriers' 5-1 win over Niagara last December 13th. Against Michigan, Curry played 30:43 and stopped all 12 shots he faced.
"I had been saying that Curry will figure in the mix as to who will be playing in goal for us," said Parker. "Our goalie coach (Mike Geragosian) will take a lot at the film from the weekend, and we will see how practice goes this week."
Parker expressed great disappointment over the lack of support Gillespie received from the Terrier defensemen.
"Here we had a freshman goalie playing in his first game, and our six defensemen hung him out to dry," said Parker. "I was flabbergasted as to how poorly our defensemen played tonight. I thought this was going to be one of our team strengths coming into this season, but, thus far, we have been inept in every phase of the (defensive) game.
"We are not going to win many games if they play as awful as they did tonight," said the coach. "The first three goals Michigan scored against us tonight, the guy at the other end (Michigan All-American and Hobey Baker candidate goalie Al Montoya) wouldn't have stopped.
"I just thought we would play with more determination tonight," said Parker.
The coach did see some of that, especially from the freshmen in the final period. B.U. outshot Michigan in the final 20 minutes, 7-3,and scored a pair of goals from MacArthur.
The first came at the 14:11 mark when MacArthur took the puck out from behind the Michigan goal and tucked it into the right corner of the goal. Senior Matt Radoslovich (Wanaque, NJ) picked up the assist.
Then, less than three minutes later, at 17:00, MacArthur came skating down from the left faceoff circle. Bourque, who had the puck, was a couple of strides in front of MacArthur.
"Bourquie, Bourquie," MacArthur could be heard yelling, as he was asking for the puck should Bourque want to pass it off.
The freshman left wing did leave the puck for MacArthur who blistered a shot just under the cross bar leaving Montoya no chance for the save. Bourque and Ewing had the assists.
Parker is hoping the Terriers will take the momentum from the last six minutes of the third period and use it toward next Saturday evening when they host the University of Vermont. Faceoff at Walter Brown Arena is 7:00 p.m.
