Boston University
Cornell
No. 19 Terriers, No. 7 Cornell Head to NYC for Sixth Red Hot Hockey Game
November 22, 2017 | Men's Ice Hockey
| #19 Boston University (6-7-1) vs. #7 Cornell (8-1-0) | |
|---|---|
| Date & Time | Saturday, Nov. 25 | 8 p.m. |
| Venue | Madison Square Garden | New York, N.Y. |
| Tickets | Ticketmaster |
| Watch | TerrierTV |
| Listen | TSRN |
| Live Stats | GoTerriers.com |
| Game Notes | BU | Cornell |
| @BUGameDay | @TerrierHockey | |
Marking the 10th anniversary of the first Red Hot Hockey game, Boston University and Cornell meet once again at Madison Square Garden for the sixth installment of the college hockey showcase on Saturday (Nov. 25) at 8 p.m. The game will be broadcast live on TerrierTV (GoTerriers.com/TerrierTV).
The No. 19 Terriers (6-7-1) will look to stay undefeated at Red Hot Hockey, having won three and tied the other two. At the most recent Red Hot Hockey contest in 2015, BU skated to a 3-3 tie with the Big Red before winning a shootout to retain the Kelley-Harkness Cup.
Cornell, ranked seventh in both national polls, is 8-1-0 on the year and was the last remaining undefeated team in Division I before falling to No. 5 Clarkson, 4-0, last Friday. The Big Red is coming off a 5-4 come-from-behind victory over Niagara on Tuesday.
BU will attempt to get back to. 500 on the year after putting together its most dominant performance of the season on Saturday in a 7-0 rout of Maine to split a weekend series with the Black Bears.
Cornell will be BU's fourth top-10 opponent this season. The Terriers dropped a 4-3 contest to No. 1 Denver on Oct. 27 before posting shutout wins over then-No. 6 Providence and then-No. 9/8 New Hampshire earlier this month.
This will mark the 46th meeting between the old rivals and Cornell has a 23-19-3 advantage in the series despite the Terriers posting a 7-3-2 mark in the past 12 meetings.
BU will be playing its 14th game at Madison Square Garden. Prior to the first Red Hot Hockey game, the Terriers had not played at MSG since the 1977 ECAC Holiday Festival. The Terriers are 8-2-3 in the building and are undefeated in the past 11 games there (8-0-3).
All but two of Cornell's nine games thus far this season took place at home and the Big Red wrapped up a five-game homestand on Tuesday in their tilt with Niagara. The Big Red is allowing a nation-low 22.0 shots per contest and also boasts the best shooting percentage in the country at 13.3.
Thanks in large part to freshman Matthew Galajda, who has a 7-1-0 record to go along with a 1.92 goals-against average and a .913 save percentage, the Big Red's scoring defense of 1.89 trails only Clarkson.
For BU, sophomore Patrick Harper is averaging a point per game and has a squad-best 14 points on five goals and nine assists. Junior Bobo Carpenter has 12 points on the strength of a team-best eight goals and sophomore Chad Krys (2g, 9a) and junior Jordan Greenway (4g, 6a) have recorded 11 and 10 points, respectively.
Four Terrier freshmen scored their first collegiate goals last weekend against Maine, helping the team inch closer to having a balanced scoring attack as the regular season nears its midpoint. In that group is Logan Cockerill, who recorded the first four points of his career over the weekend with a goal and an assist each contest.
The Terriers have earned shutout victories in three of their past six games. Sophomore Jake Oettinger turned in a 30-save effort on Saturday to pick up his second shutout of the year and raise his save percentage to .912. Redshirt sophomore Max Prawdzik recently made back-to-back starts in net and posted a shutout over UNH in his first collegiate start.
