Friends of Hockey Holiday Skate

Friends of BU Hockey, In appreciation of your support of Terrier Hockey, the Boston University Men's and Women's Ice Hockey teams invite you to join us for the Annual Holiday Skate at Agganis Arena. Hot cocoa, water, and cookies will be provided throughout the event. Upon your arrival, we require each individual to complete a waiver form, which will be provided at the arena. For those guests who are under the age of 18, a parent or legal guardian must complete the waiver form. Please note that sticks and pucks are prohibited.

·        Complimentary skates are available (some sizes may be limited) or bring your own ·        Helmets will not be provided, but are strongly encouraged ·        100 people maximum per session – First come, first served ·        Skate monitors and an EMT will be on site ·        Enter the arena via the Feld Public Skating entrance located on Harry Agganis Way ·        Complimentary parking is available in the Agganis Arena garage – Take the Northwest stairs or elevator from the parking garage to the Feld Public Skating lobby When: Sunday, December 8, 2019 1 PM - 3 PM Where: Agganis Arena 925 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02115

If you have any questions, please contact the Terrier Athletics Fund at 617-353-3008 or terriers@bu.edu. Go BU!

BU Oldtimer's Terrier Takeaway

1. Last night's game was played at a different pace than Friday night's contest. NMU was more tenacious and gritty. They prevented the long touchdown passes out of the BU zone and the long cross-ice passes that BU used Friday night to utilize its speed. Essentially, they stopped BU in the neutral zone.

2. Also, NMU kept BU away from the front of the net to a large extent. BU didn't have many shots off rebounds until Zegras scored the third BU goal. There were very few rebounds allowed by NMU.

3. For the second night in a row, NMU scored off a draw in the BU d-zone. Win the faceoff, back to the blueline, slapshot, goal.

4. Two of the NMU goals went through Pupura's legs.

5. Case McCarthy impressed again. He's mobile, plays with confidence and isn't reluctant to carry deep into the attack zone.

6. Dominick Fensore made two sharp moves on the rush. The first move set up Harper's goal. His second move came during BU's 5 minute power play. He roared up the right wing and rushed to the net for BU's only legitimate scoring chance during the extended power play.

7. Jamie Armstrong, an unheralded recruit, must be doing something right. He's taking a regular turn on the PK rotation and filled in on the second line when Cockerill left the game.

8. Ethan Phillips caught my eye to a greater extent last night than Friday night. There were a couple of instances when he displayed his agility and puck handling skills.

9. The Cockerill-Wise-Quercia line had a quiet night. Cockerill left the game early with a wrist issue.

Defkit's Terrier Takeaway: Oct 18, BU 4 NMU 4

- I missed the first 7 minutes partly thanks to the ticket office selling me a ticket for Saturdays game by accident (lots of rust in several places, including the scoreboard/time clock operation). So, unfortunately, I missed our first three goals of the game.

- The final score was a disappointing end to what was still overall an encouraging game for BU. There is a lot of youth on this team, and we will have bumps on the road as a result. On the tying goal, there were 4 freshman on the ice. Witkowski's penalty was ill-advised and started the NMU comeback.

- To me what stood out was the balance at forward. The top three lines were all generating good scoring opportunities consistently. Certainly the top line has the most talent with Harper and Zegras zipping the puck around, but with Wise, Mastrosimone, Phillips and Cockerill on the other two lines, they were a threat regularly.

- Speaking of Harper, he certainly looks like he's finally back to being himself. And Wise looks like a much more confident player. And as mentioned already, the freshman talent is spread nicely. I don't think scoring goals will be an issue this year.

- On defense, Fensore is the latest in the line of smallish puck-moving defensemen to come to BU from the USNTDP, and I would say he looks as good (at least offensively) as any of the others did at this stage (Farrance, Grzelcyk, Warsofsky). Farrance missed the third period, apparently due to cramps, so Fensore was the QB for all our power plays down the stretch.

- I thought McCarthy looked very good. He made a few nice defensive plays. Vlasic looked solid, and used his height/reach to his advantage on several occasions. That said, I think overall our d-zone coverage got sloppy at times - NMU had a few really strong scoring opportunities in the second half of the game.

- If there is one concern I have, it is in net. I know two games is not a big sample size, but Tucker doesn't seem very confident in net, and obviously 7 goals on less than 40 shots is not going to get it done long term. Hopefully his play will improve. He did make a phenomenal save in OT on a point blank shot - everyone in the arena assumed the game was over, and he kept us alive. I suspect we'll see Purpura tonight.

- Overall I think this team is going to be a lot of fun to watch and will ultimately contend for some hardware. I also like the fact that apart from Zegras, the new talent are mostly 3 or 4-year players.