No. 8/7 BU Set to Host No. 9 Harvard at Sold-Out Walter Brown Friday Night on ESPN2

Friday, December 30

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7 PM

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No. 8/7 BU Set to Host No. 9 Harvard at Sold-Out Walter Brown Friday Night on ESPN2

December 29, 2022 | Men's Ice Hockey

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#8/7 Boston University (11-5-0, 8-4-0 Hockey East) vs. #9 Harvard (8-2-1, 7-1-0 ECAC)
Date & Time: Friday, Dec. 30 - 7 p.m.
Venue: Walter Brown Arena - Boston, Mass.
Twitter: @BUGameDay | @TerrierHockey

The No. 8/7 Boston University men's ice hockey team will close out the calendar year with a top-10 tilt against No. 9 Harvard on Friday night at Walter Brown Arena. Puck drop is scheduled for 7 p.m. The sold-out contest will be nationally televised live on ESPN2, with an audio-only broadcast located here.

Friday's top-10 tilt between the two Beanpot rivals will be the first regular-season men's ice hockey contest with fans at Walter Brown Arena since Jan. 2, 2005, when BU hosted Minnesota before opening Agganis Arena the next night.

TERRIER TIDBITS

This will be the Terriers' second straight and sixth overall game against a top-10 foe this season.
BU is 4-1-0 against top-10 opponents this season, including a 3-2 victory over then-No. 8 UConn on Dec. 11 to close out the first semester.
BU and Harvard are the closest Division I hockey schools - from rink to rink - in the country, just 1.9 miles apart.
Senior Matt Brown leads BU in goals (8), assists (15) and points (23) after a five-point weekend prior to the break, which included a one-goal, three-assist effort at BC on Dec. 9.
Brown ranks fourth nationally and first in Hockey East with an average of 1.44 points per game.
The Terriers will be without freshman defender Lane Hutson, who is representing the United States at the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship.
Hutson is second on the squad in goals (7), assists (11) and points (18).
Senior captain Domenick Fensore enters Friday on a six-game point streak.
Fensore, who played in his 100th career game as a Terrier on Dec. 9, has tallied nine points (5g, 4a) in those six contests.
The Terriers average 3.94 goals per game, which is tops in Hockey East and third-most in the NCAA.
BU also averages 36.3 shots on goal per game, which ranks second in the country and first in Hockey East.

SERIES HISTORY

BU and Harvard are the closest Division I hockey schools - from rink to rink - in the country, just 1.9 miles apart.
BU-Northeastern is second at 2.1 miles while Brown-Providence is third at 2.6.
The Terriers and Crimson have played 159 times since the 1922-23 season and the Terriers hold an 82-70-7 (.538) advantage.
BU has won six of the past eight meetings (6-2-1) after dropping five straight to the Crimson.
That includes a 4-3 win in last year's Beanpot semifinals at TD Garden.
The teams first met on Dec. 13, 1922, at Boston Arena, with Harvard winning, 2-0.
BU is 7-6-1 against Harvard at Walter Brown Arena.
This is the first top-10 matchup between BU and Harvard since the No. 4 Terriers and the No. 3 Crimson met in the 2017 Beanpot title game.

SCOUTING THE CRIMSON

Harvard opened the season 6-0-0, but has since gone 1-2-1, including a 2-1 overtime win at Cornell and a 6-4 road loss to Colgate to end the first semester.
That four-game stretch also includes a 4-4 tie and a 4-1 loss at then-No. 5 Michigan.
Junior Sean Farrell leads Harvard with 18 points and is tied atop the team leaderboard in both goals (7) and assists (11).
Farrell is second in the NCAA in points per game at 1.64.
Senior Henry Thrun also has 11 assists while junior Alex Laferriere joins Farrell with seven goals this season.
Harvard has the top penalty kill (90.9%) and the fifth-ranked power play (27.5%) in the country.
Senior goaltender Mitchell Gibson is 5-1-1 in seven starts this season, posting a .930 save percentage and a 1.83 goals-against average.

UP NEXT

BU will begin 2023 out west when the Terriers take part in the Desert Hockey Classic hosted by Arizona State.
The Terriers will open the tournament on Jan. 6 against Air Force before facing either Michigan Tech or the host Sun Devils the next day.