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Terriers Host No. 11 Providence on Friday to Kick Off Home-and-Home Series
November 7, 2019 | Men's Ice Hockey
Prior to the game, Boston Police will take on Boston Fire in a club hockey contest at 4:30 p.m. and fans with tickets to the BU game will have access to it.
The Terriers are coming off a 2-2 draw at Maine last Saturday after opening the weekend series with a 4-2 loss to the Black Bears. BU is an even .500 overall (2-2-3), in Hockey East play (1-1-2), at home (1-1-1) and on the road (1-1-2).
After winning five of its first six games, Providence has since gone winless in three straight (0-2-1), including a 3-2 home loss to then-No. 15 Boston College in its most recent game on Saturday. The Friars enter the weekend with a overall record of 4-3-1, including a 2-2-0 Hockey East mark.
In addition to league wins over Maine and Boston College, the Friars also swept a weekend trip to the North Country with victories over Clarkson and St. Lawrence.
Sophomore forwards Jack Dugan (5-13--18) and Tyce Thompson (7-7--14) rank 1-2 in the nation in points while Dugan's 13 assists are also tops in Division I.
Graduate transfer Michael Lackey has started all eight games in goal for the Friars and boasts a 1.96 goals-against average and a .936 save percentage.
For BU, sophomore Matthew Quercia has had a hand in each of the Terriers' past five goals, scoring once and adding four assists. He had more points last weekend at Maine (2-2--4) than he did his entire rookie season (1-1--2).Senior captain Patrick Curry is one of only seven players in the country with at least seven goals this season. He has scored at least once in five of the Terriers' seven games. Dating back to the start of last season's Hockey East tournament, Curry is on an 11-game point streak during which he's tallied 15 points on nine goals and six assists.
Curry has a team-best 10 points (7g, 3a), one ahead of classmate Patrick Harper, who has nine (4g, 5a) despite missing last weekend due to injury.
Over the past four games, graduate student Sam Tucker has posted a 1.94 goals-against average for the Terriers in addition to a .933 save percentage.
The Terriers and Friars first met in the 1926-27 season and have played 185 times since that encounter. BU leads the series 110-57-18 (.643) and is 15-6-5 in their past 26 meetings but the teams are an even 4-4-5 in the past 13. The Terriers are 14-5-4 (.696) against the Friars in the 23 meetings at Agganis Arena.
Last season, BU and Providence faced off three times in Hockey East play last season and were an even 1-1-1. In BU's home opener on Oct. 26, Providence rolled to a 5-0 shutout victory. The Terriers visited the Friars twice and came away with a win and a draw. Logan Cockerill scored the game-winner in a 4-3 win in Providence on Jan. 12. In the most recent meeting on Feb. 28, BU scored first before the Friars got an equalizer in the third period for a 1-1 draw.
