“I’m disappointed with our effort,” said Jim Madigan, Fernie Flaman Men’s Hockey head coach. “In this league, you can’t play well for one period and think you’re going to win a hockey game. We won one period and they won two periods, and they won the game.”
It was first-year Aerin’s Frankel’s first collegiate start between the pipes, but the youngster had no problem flashing the pads, stopping a total of 51 of the 52 shots she faced in a weekend series against the Merrimack Warriors.
We’re almost six weeks into the 2017-18 NHL season, and it’s time to take stock of what we’ve learned from the 18 or so games each team played thus far.
The Huskies got off to an 8-0 start for the CAA season but struggled the second time around in conference, only managing two wins in the final eight matches. Friday’s loss against James Madison dashed any hopes of securing a bye for the tournament.
Flint mentioned how although third-year goalie Brittany Bugalski has had some big-time saves and quality performances, the team is looking to first-year backup Aerin Frankel for upcoming games.
“I think the second unit really comes out and brings energy,” Occeus said. “We play as hard as we can on defense, getting rebounds and outrunning them. I hope the team feeds off of it.”
The Huskies reaffirmed last weekend’s road defeat of the Terriers, dominating their crosstown rivals Friday in front of a soldout Matthews Arena, including a Doghouse fan section that packed both sides of the balcony. The win came in spite of a starting lineup lacking injury-plagued seniors Dylan Sikura and Garret Cockerill. Junior forwards Adam Gaudette and Lincoln Griffin each had two goals in the 6-1 effort.
The Huskies posted season-best times in a number of events, including third-year Carly Schnabel and fourth-year Sara Touchette-McGowan in the 200-yard freestyle and first-year Klara Juliussonn in the 100-yard breaststroke.
On Wednesday against Hofstra, the Huskies were able to put up two very competitive frames, but couldn’t pull ahead in either of them, losing again in straight sets. The Pride (17-12, 9-6 CAA) took a solid lead in the first, but the Huskies came back to even the score at 24. Hofstra’s front line took over at that point, landing two kills to end the set.
“I think if you’re not playing for that,” Coen said, “you’re going to misfire. That may be more of a challenge some years more than others because of experience and what-have-you, but every year we set out to play the best and be the best that we can be. If we do that, we’ll have reached our goals.”
First-year forward Bobby Hampton got the Huskies on the board midway through the first period, scoring his second goal of the season off a pass from second-year forward Grant Jozefek. With 0.1 seconds remaining in the first period, fourth-year forward and captain Nolan Stevens snuck the puck under BU second-year goaltender Jake Oettinger, sending the Terriers stunned into intermission.
