Boston University
Northeastern
Men's Ice Hockey Kicks off Home-and-Home with No. 13/14 Northeastern Thursday on NESN
October 31, 2018 | Men's Ice Hockey
| Boston University (0-4-0, 0-2-0 HEA) at #13/14 Northeastern (4-2-0, 1-0-0 HEA) | |
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| Date & Time | Thursday, Nov. 1 | 7 p.m. |
| Venue | Matthews Arena | Boston, Mass. |
| TV | NESN |
| Streaming | NESNgo | Howlin' Huskies Productions (Outside New England) | TSN Direct (Canada) |
| Listen | TSRN |
| Live Stats | Stat Broadcast |
| Game Notes | BU | NU |
| Podcast | Inside BU Hockey - Episode 4 |
| @BUGameDay | @TerrierHockey | |
The Terriers (0-4-0, 0-2-0 Hockey East), who are in their second game of a stretch of seven straight league contests, will be looking to end their season-opening skid in their first match-up with the Huskies (4-2-0, 1-0-0 Hockey East) since last season's Beanpot title game. The teams will also meet on Saturday at Agganis Arena.
Check out the weekend preview with rinkside reporter @catherinebogart and junior Chad Krys. #GoBU pic.twitter.com/bed0eV0Yua
— BU Men's Hockey (@TerrierHockey) November 1, 2018
This will be the 235th meeting between the Terriers and Huskies since they first met during the 1930-31 season. The only team BU has played more games against is Boston College (277). BU holds a 164-61-9 (.720) advantage, including wins in 12 of the past 17 meetings (12-4-1), and is 79-30-5 (.715) in the teams' 114 meetings at Boston/Matthews Arena.
Northeastern is coming off a huge 3-2 win over No.2/3 St. Cloud State on Saturday for its first win over a top-three opponent in nearly years. The Huskies posted a 4-1 win at UMass Lowell on Friday in their Hockey East opener. During the first two weekends of the season, Northeastern swept a road series at Sacred Heart before being swept at home by Union.
The Huskies have benefited from impressive balance in their scoring thus far as 13 players have scored at least one goal and five players are tied atop the point list with six each. Junior Grant Jozefek has a team-best four goals to go along with two assist and senior transfer Liam Pecararo has two tallies and four helpers.
In goal, sophomore Cayden Primeau has started all six games and boasts a 2.00 goals-against average and .923 save percentage.
Through their first six games, the Huskies are averaging only 5.7 penalty minutes per contest.
The Huskies swept this home-and-home series last season, winning a 4-1 game on Nov. 4 at Agganis Arena before adding a 6-1 home win six days later. Northeastern went on to post a 5-2 victory in the Beanpot championship game. It marked just the third time in the rivalry's history that Northeastern swept an entire season series against BU, going 4-0 in 1987-88 and 2-0 in 1963-64.
In last year's postseason, the rivals could have met in both the Hockey East title game and the NCAA Northeast Regional final, but the Terriers advanced to both and the Huskies came up one game short each time.BU has been held scoreless over its past seven-plus periods and suffered back-to-back shutouts for the first time since February of 2014.
Despite scoring only six goals thus far this season, BU has had at least one goal from each class. Sophomore David Farrance has a team-best four points - all assists - and senior Bobo Carpenter has two goals and an assist.
