Agganis Hosts 267th BU/BC Meeting Friday on NESN
January 15, 2015 | Men's Ice Hockey
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Inside BU Hockey - Episode 14
BOSTON - Returning to Hockey East play for the first time in over a month, the No. 2/3 Boston University men's ice hockey team will host archrival and 17th-ranked Boston College on Friday (Jan. 15) at Agganis Arena. Game time is set for 7 p.m.
Tickets are sold out for the 267th meeting of the Comm. Ave. rivalry but fans can still catch all the action on NESN.
The BU women’s ice hockey team will be selling chuck-a-pucks at the game in conjunction with Skating Strides Against Breast Cancer. The annual women’s hockey Skating Strides game will be taking place on Sunday, Jan. 25, at 3 p.m. at Walter Brown Arena. For additional information please visit GoTerriers.com/skatingstrides.
The Terriers (3-0-3) and Eagles (5-0-2) are a combined 8-0-5 since the beginning of December. Both teams lost on Thanksgiving weekend before starting their unbeaten streaks.
BU earned a 5-3 come-from-behind victory at BC back on Nov. 7 in the teams' first meeting of the season. A win by the Terriers on Friday would allow them to claim their Hockey East season series against the Eagles for the fourth time in the past seven years.
The Terriers, who finished ninth in last year's Hockey East standings, are currently tied for first in the league with UMass Lowell, who they will host on Sunday.
BU leads the all-time series with BC, 130-119-17, but is just 3-10-1 (.250) in the 14 meetings at Agganis Arena.
BC is coming off a three-point weekend against crosstown rival Northeastern. The teams tied, 1-1, at Northeastern before the Eagles earned a 4-2 home win on Saturday.
Sophomore Adam Gilmour leads a balanced scoring attack for the Eagles with 17 points on six goals and 11 assists. Five of his six goals have come on the power play.
Junior defenseman Teddy Doherty is right behind with 16 points on five goals and 11 assists. Sophomore Chris Calnan has contributed 15 points on the strength of a team-best 10 goals.
Sophomore Thatcher Demko has started 18 of BC's 21 games and sports a 2.04 goals-against average to go along with a .930 save percentage.
When the teams met at Conte Forum in November, senior Evan Rodrigues scored his second goal of the night with 5:46 left in regulation to lead BU to the win. Rodrigues brings a four-game point streak into Friday's game, having scored eight points (2g, 6a) during the stretch.
Freshman Jack Eichel recorded his third four-point game of the season in Saturday's 6-1 victory at Wisconsin and currently leads the nation in points per game (1.72), assists per game (1.17) and plus/minus (+22).
Junior Danny O'Regan - Eichel and Rodrigues' current linemate - is one of only seven players in the country with at least 14 goals this season and his 26 points put him in a tie for fifth nationally.
Eichel (1st), O'Regan (T-5th) and Rodrigues (21st) all rank in the top 25 nationally in points per game and they are the top three scorers in all of Hockey East in league play.
In goal, junior goaltender Matt O'Connor has won 10 of 15 starts and has allowed only 28 goals thus far this season. His .936 save percentage and 1.83 goals-against average rank sixth and 10th amongst Division I goaltenders, respectively.
