Saturday night, UNH stopped would may prove to be the Terrier's best shot at gaining home ice in the Hockey East playoffs, after they were done tooling with BU in the second period.
UNH had a shot to go up 1-0 just 35 seconds in to the game when paul Thompson had a breakaway that Grant Rollheiser stopped. Later in the period the WildCats would take the lead when Mike Borisenok pushed in a rebound.
As you can tell the Terriers did not play well for most of the start of the game, but as the first period went on BU did get better.
But once the second period started BU looked like they did for much of the first, Only this time UNH banged home two goals. Damon Kipp scored the firs through a screen and BobBy Butler scored the third on one that looked like Rollhesier should have had.
In the the third BU got on the score sheet when Chris Connolly found a rebound out in front then drilled the post but the puck did bounce into the net.
With only two minutes left in the game UNH just killed off a power play and the got one of their own. Mike Sislo scored on the power play giving us the final score of 4-1.
Parker blamed most of the poor preformance on the confidence of the team after Friday's overtime win against BC.
“It’s hard to comment on this game because I don’t want to take away from how well New Hampshire played,” Parker said. “I thought they played very well. But I thought we absolutely stunk. I just saw [former NHL player and NESN color commentator] Craig Janney, who said ‘Hey, you laid an egg tonight, but you had a good game last night.’
“That’s exactly what we did. We laid an egg tonight. It’s obvious to me with this team that leadership is lacking. Our juniors and seniors had horrible nights tonight in general, and I’m worried about our freshmen and sophomores thinking this is how you’re supposed to play. I thought we got a pathetic emotional effort tonight; our team was not ready to play.” -USCHO
“It’s a sad statement that my team cannot get mentally ready to play a hockey game,” Parker said. “They’re so easily satisfied, or it just isn’t that important to them. We don’t give a damn; that’s what it seems like. With so many guys, their give-a-[expletive] level is way down.” -USCHOUSCHO box score and recap
The Terriers return to action next Friday night against Umass, for the final time this regular season.
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