#12/14 Boston University (0-0-0) vs. Bentley (0-0-0)
Date & Time: Saturday, October 1 - 7 p.m.
Venue: Agganis Arena - Boston, Mass.
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The No. 12/14 Boston University men's ice hockey team will open its 101st season on Saturday night when the Terriers host Bentley at Agganis Arena. Puck drop is scheduled for 7 p.m.

Fans can purchase tickets for Saturday's game by clicking here. For fans that cannot make it to Agganis, the game will be streamed live on ESPN+, with an audio-only broadcast located here. All games that take place in Hockey East rinks will be shown on ESPN+ this season.

TERRIER TIDBITS

• Saturday will be 1995 national champion Jay Pandolfo's first game as head coach of the Terriers after spending last season as the team's associate head coach.
• Pandolfo, the 13th head coach in program history, leads a roster that returns 21 letter winners, including 10 seniors, from last season's Beanpot championship squad.
• Seven newcomers, including six freshmen, have joined the roster.
• Those six freshmen include three top-70 seections in the 2022 NHL Draft - Ryan Greene, Lane Hutson and Devin Kaplan.
• There will also be two newcomers behind the bench, though one is a familiar face to Terrier fans, as 2009 national champion Joe Pereira ('11) is the team's associate head coach while Kim Brandvold joins BU as an assistant coach.
• BU is 4-2-0 in its last six season openers, including a 2-1 win at UConn last year.
• This is the first time BU is opening its regular season at Agganis Arena since defeating Union, 4-1, on Sept. 30, 2017.
• BU entered both national preseason polls in the top 15, as the Terriers were ranked 12th in the DCU/USCHO poll and 14th in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll.
• The Terriers were picked to finish second in Hockey East by the league's head coaches, earning 94 points and one first-place vote in the league poll.
• Eight of the Terriers' top nine point producers from last season are back, including senior captain Domenick Fensore, who led the Terriers with 26 assists and 31 points.
• Senior Wilmer Skoog is also back - he led the Terriers with 15 goals last year and was second with 30 points.
• BU returns 75% of its points from last year, which ranks second among all Hockey East schools and ninth nationally.
• Junior goaltenders Drew Commesso and Vinny Duplessis return after strong sophomore campaigns, joined by graduate student Patrick Schena, who was the team's practice goalie last season.
• In addition to Fensore, the Terriers' leadership group also includes assistant captains Case McCarthy, Jay O'Brien, Drew Commesso and Luke Tuch.
• Fourteen current Terriers were invited to NHL development camps this summer.

SERIES HISTORY

• BU and Bentley have met twice before, both times at Agganis Arena.
• The Terriers defeated the Falcons, 3-0, in the last meeting between the schools on Nov. 24, 2015.
• Bentley bested BU, 4-1, on Dec. 14, 2013.

SCOUTING THE FALCONS

• Bentley was picked to finish eighth in the Atlantic Hockey preseason poll.
• Junior Cole Kodsi is Bentley's top returner in both goals (10) and points (23) while senior Matt Gosiewski is the top returner in assists (16).
• Sophomore defenseman Tucker Hodgson is the leading returner in blocks (30).
• Junior goaltender Nicholas Grabko started all 13 games in which he appeared last year, going 3-9-1 with a 3.35 goals-against average and an .896 save percentage.