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Recapping Northeastern's home finale
Junior
Cody Ferriero and sophomore
Adam Reid lit the lamp on Friday night against No. 19 Boston University, but the Northeastern men's hockey team could not contain a determined Terriers' team in a 4-2 setback on Senior Night at Matthews Arena. Seniors
Drew Ellement,
Steve Morra,
Chris Rawlings,
Vinny Saponari and
Robbie Vrolyk all skated in their final contest at Matthews Arena. Vrolyk assisted on Reid's goal while Rawlings turned aside 33 shots in the loss. The Terriers outshot Northeastern, 37-33, as BU's Sean Maguire stopped 31 shots in his ninth win of the season. Both clubs went 0-for-3 on the power play. Ferriero scored his 12th goal of the season and added his 14th assist to notch his fifth multi-point game of the season and eighth of his career. while Reid potted his sixth goal of the season. Boston University curbed Northeastern's three-game winning spell over the Terriers with the victory.
Rhett-oric
Boston University skates into Saturday's contest at Agganis Arena one point out of home ice for the Hockey East quarterfinals. BU has nearly an identical home and away record of 8-7-1. Much like NU's rookie in
Kevin Roy, first-year forward Danny O'Regan leads the Terriers in scoring with 0.91 points per game (13-18-31), good for 64th in the NCAA. O'Regan also ranks 10th amongst all rookies across the country. Captain Wade Megan is one of six skaters in all of college hockey with three short-handed goals to help along BU's 24th-ranked penalty-killing unit (83.5 percent). The Terriers are averaging 2.97 goals per game (22nd in the country), but the defense has surrendered over three goals a game (3.03 gpg - 45th). BU is the sixth most penalized team with 15.2 PIMs per game. After getting help from Michigan State last night, BU is right on the Pairwise bubble, tied for 16th place with Wisconsin.
Spoiler alert
Mathematically, Northeastern cannot make the Hockey East playoffs this season. The Huskies are currently seven points behind Maine and four points behind Massachusetts, thus eliminating them from contention. Northeastern looks to play the spoiler while its opponent, BU, fights to play at home for the playoffs next weekend. NU will finish 10th in Hockey East this season.
Senior salute
Northeastern honored six members of its senior class on Friday night as part of Senior Night. Skating in their final game at Matthews Arena will be
Drew Ellement,
Steve Morra,
Vinny Saponari,
Robbie Vrolyk and
Chris Rawlings.
Garrett Vermeersch did not dress for Friday night's game while
Bryan Mountain, although a senior, still has a year of eligibility left and will return to the roster next season. Combined, these seniors have skated in 613 total games and have amassed 194 points (63-131-194) while Rawlings and Mountain has combined to stop 3,900 shots.
Rawlings in the record books
After his season-high 42-save performance against Maine on Jan. 11,
Chris Rawlings surpassed Brad Thiessen's (2006-09) mark of 3,166 stops for the second most saves all-time at Northeastern and has amassed 3,495 career saves heading into Saturday. Rawlings also surpassed Keni Gibson (2001-05) for the second-most games played in net in NU history (121). The North Delta, B.C., native needs 61 more saves to tie Bruce Racine's (1984-88) school record of 3,557.
Top 100 countdown
Vinny Saponari needs just one point over the course of the next two games to reach the 100-point mark for his career. Granted, NU's captain scored 47 of his 99 points as a member of Boston University. The last time a Husky scored 100 total career points was when both Wade MacLeod (61-76-137 – 20th all-time) and Tyler McNeely (44-61-105 – tied for 43rd all-time) met the benchmark in 2010-11. Saponari has accounted for 34 goals and 65 assists.
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