No. 2 Terriers Earn 4-1 Win over No. 16 Union in Season Opener

Saturday, September 30

Boston, MA

7:30 PM

Boston University

1-0-0

Union

0-1-0

Union

Boston University

Photo by: Matt Dresens

No. 2 Terriers Earn 4-1 Win over No. 16 Union in Season Opener

September 30, 2017 | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score Box Score Highlights Quinn Postgame Harper/Fabbro Postgame

BOSTON – Sophomore Patrick Harper recorded two goals and set up classmate Dante Fabbro's game winner as the No. 2 Boston University men's ice hockey team kicked off its 2017-18 season with a 4-1 home victory over No. 16 Union at Agganis Arena.

HOW IT HAPPENED

The teams traded power-play goals in the opening period with the visitors striking first at 11:24 on a tally by Brett Supinski.
Just over two minutes later, Harper answered with a man-up goal of his own, elevating a rebound at the left post on assists from junior Jordan Greenway and senior Nikolas Olsson.
After no scoring occurred in the middle stanza, the Terriers once again used their power play to score the go-ahead goal with 7:49 remaining in regulation.
Harper threaded a pass through traffic to set up a one-timer by Fabbro from the left circle that the sophomore blueliner deposited to take a 2-1 lead.
Harper and freshman Shane Bowers added empty-netters to secure the victory with the rookie notching his first goal as a Terrier.

GAME NOTES

The Terriers held a 43-32 shot advantage, forcing junior netminder Jake Kupsky to record 39 saves for the Dutchmen.
Sophomore Jake Oettinger recorded 31 saves for BU and stopped the final 27 shots he faced.
BU was 2-for-5 on the power play and killed off three of Union's four chances with the man advantage.
Freshman Brady Tkachuk picked up his first collegiate point when he assisted on Bowers' empty-netter.
Sophomore Chad Krys picked up the second helper on Fabbro's game winner.
BU is now 66-23-7 all-time in season openers.
The Terriers improve to 2-1-1 against Union and all four meetings have taken place since 2015.

FROM COACH QUINN

"It was a great hockey win. I think this time of year every coach is trying to find out what the team's personality is and what the makeup is. Going into this game, I was very curious to see what we would look like, and I really liked our pace. I thought there was a physicality to us for the most part and we played a much better north/south game than we have in the past."

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