No. 20 Terriers Fall in Overtime at UConn, 5-4

Friday, February 16

Hartford, CT

7 PM

Boston University

15-13-3, 10-8-3HEA

Connecticut

15-16-2, 11-11-1HEA

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Boston University

UConn

Bobo Carpenter vs. UMass Lowell - 12/9/17

Photo by: Rich Gagnon

No. 20 Terriers Fall in Overtime at UConn, 5-4

February 16, 2018 | Men's Ice Hockey

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HARTFORD, CONN. – The No. 20 Boston University men's ice hockey team dropped a 5-4 overtime contest to Connecticut on Friday night at the XL Center in Hartford.

The Terriers held a 4-2 advantage midway through the third period but a pair of late Husky goals and one more in overtime over-rode a good night for the BU offense which got goals from Chad Krys, Bobo Carpenter, Brien Diffley and Ty Amonte. BU outshot UConn 31-20 in the game.

HOW IT HAPPENED

BU got on the board first and kept its recent power play success going when Chad Krys scored on a wrist shot with 5:59 left in the first period. Dante Fabbro and Brady Tkachuk got the helpers.
UConn tied the tilt 4:12 into the second stanza when Alexander Payusov sent a centering pass behind the net to Spencer Naas, open in the high slot. Naas beat Jake Oettinger to knot the score at 1-1.
Just 1:01 later, Bobo Carpenter put the Terriers back up, 2-1, scoring on the rebound of a Hank Crone shot.
A couple minutes after that, skating four aside, BU went up 3-1 when Brien Diffley and Logan Cockerill traded passes on a give-and-go leading to Diffley's second strike of the year.
UConn made it a 3-2 game 5:43 into the third period with some deft power play puck work as Kasperi Ojantakanen fed Max Kalter who fed Spencer Naas for the goal.
Like with Carpenter's strike 1:01 after a UConn goal, the Terriers again got the tally right back. Just 17 seconds later, a rebound of freshman David Farrance's shot lay exposed in the crease between a sea of bodies and the goaltender's pads. Freshman Ty Amonte spotted it and powered it home for a 4-2 BU lead.
UConn would not go away as Ojantakanen redirected a point shot by Maxim Letunov past Oettinger midway through the third to make it a 4-3 game.
UConn scored again on the power play to tie the game at 4-4 with 5:37 left to play when Payusov thread a wrist shot through traffic and into the Terrier net.
UConn won the game in OT as Letunov scored unassisted at 2:51.

GAME NOTES

Sophomore Chad Krys scored his sixth goal of the year. He is one of three Terrier blueliners with at least six goals scored on the season, joining sophomore Dante Fabbro (eight) and senior Brandon Hickey (six). BU entered tonight as the only team nationally with three defensemen to score five goals on the season, let alone six.
With their assists on the opening goal of the game, both Fabbro and Tkachuk now have 17 on the year, breaking a three-way tie with junior Jordan Greenway for the team lead.
Junior Bobo Carpenter's second period goal is his team high 18^th goal of the year. His secondary assist on Diffley's goal pushed him to the 30-point plateau on the season, also a team-high.
Promoted to the top line tonight, freshman Hank Crone continued his recent hot streak. His assist on Carpenter's tally gives him a point in five of his last six games played.
Freshman Logan Cockerill extended his point scoring streak to seven games by setting up senior Brien Diffley's second period goal. Fabbro also extended his point streak to seven games tonight – the longest such runs for any Terrier this season. They are the longest scoring streaks by BU since Clayton Keller ended last season on a 10-game run.
BU got three power plays tonight, its most in a game since Jan. 27 at Arizona State. The Terriers converted on one of their three chances and now have a power play goal in eight of their last nine game despite a recent historically low run of attempts.
Tonight snapped a 28-game unbeaten streak for BU when leading after the first period. The Terriers had been 26-0-2 since losing on Jan. 15, 2016, at Boston College and 11-0-1 this season.
Always a popular road draw, BU played before a crowd of 7,372 tonight at the XL Center, the third-largest home attendance in UConn hockey history.
The result moves the Terriers, Huskies and Maine into a three-way tie for fourth place in the Hockey East standings with 23 points. The final order will be crucial as the fourth place team will have a first round bye and quarterfinal home ice, the fifth place team gets a bye and the sixth place team must play the weekend of March 2-4.

UP NEXT

BU heads up the road to North Andover, Mass. on Saturday night for a game against Merrimack at Lawler Arena.
The Terriers are looking for a season sweep of the Warriors after downing Merrimack, 4-3, on Jan. 19 in North Andover and, 3-1, on Jan. 20 at Agganis Arena.