University of Connecticut Athletics
University of Connecticut
Boston College
Huskies at Boston College Friday Night on NESN+
2/10/2022 4:26:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey
Media Coverage
TV: NESNplus Eric Gallanty (pxp), Andrew Raycroft (color)
Video: NESN.com / CollegeSportsLive.com (Outside New England)
Live Stats: BCEagles.com
Twitter: @UConnMHOC
Game Notes: UConn Boston College
Ice Chips
- The UConn Huskies head up to Chestnut Hill, MA on Friday night to close out the season series with Boston College in a Hockey East match-up available on NESN+. The Huskies and Eagles have split their previous two meetings, each winning on the other's home ice this season.
- UConn will carry a five-game Hockey East winning streak up to BC after posting a 6-2 win on the road at Merrimack on Tuesday night. The Huskies have won six of their last seven and have climbed up the Hockey East standings into a tie for third place with Boston University, both with 32 points, a point behind UMass in second and five points behind UMass Lowell in the top spot.
- The Huskies received votes in this week's DCU/USHCO.com top-20 national poll and have moved up to 21st in the PairWise rankings. UConn has seven games left in the regular season, four against teams in the current national polls and top-15 of the PairWise (UMass/6, Northeastern/15).
- BC leads the all-time series with UConn at 14-4-2. UConn posted their first-ever win at BC in their last trip to Kelley Rink in January, posting a wild 5-4 win with Kevin O'Neil scoring the game-winning goal with 34 seconds to play in the game. BC won the first meeting this season, a 2-1 affair at the XL Center in Hartford. The Eagles will be without Marc McLaughlin and Drew Helleson, who are playing with Team USA, and Jack McBain, playing with Team Canada, at the Olympics.Â
- The Huskies put up six goals for the second-straight game in Tuesday's 6-2 win at Merrimack and they also did it with six different players finding the back of the net in consecutive games as well. Sophomore Ryan Tverberg is currently on a three-game goal scoring streak, providing the game-winner in the second period as the Huskies scored four unanswered.
- Senior Jachym Kondelik, Jonny Evans and Carter Turnbull all had a goal and an assist in the win. Junior Vladislav Firstov scored for the second-straight game, a highlight reel goal that made ESPN's SportsCenter Top-10 plays, and has seven points (4g/3a) in his last six games.
- On Friday night, UConn got a season split with nationally ranked Providence, posting a 2-1 win at home in the XL Center. Sophomore Ryan Tverberg scored the game-winner on a break-away with 4:17 left in the third period and added an assist in the win. Sophomore defenseman John Spetz had a goal and an assist in the win.
- Senior Jachym Kondelik scored his 10th goal of the season, hitting double digit goals for the first time in his career. He has 22 points (10g/14a) on the season, leading the team in scoring. Kondelik hit the 20-point mark for the fourth-straight season and is the Huskies leading active career point leader at 95 points (26g/69a). His 95 points matches Maxim Letunov (95/2015-17) for the most points during the Hockey East era (2014-present). Kondelik has moved up to tied for ninth on the Huskies Division I career points list. His 69 career assists is second on the Division I all-time list, two away from tying the school record (71 - Sean Ambrosie 2009-13).
- Kondelik is tied for seventh in Hockey East in scoring and his 14 assists is tied for 13th in the league. Tverberg has 23 points on the season and is tied for 11th in the league in scoring. Tverberg's 12 goals leads the Huskies and is tied for seventh. Kondelik and Tverberg are candidates for the 2022 Hobey Baker Award. Fan voting is open now and will run through March 6. Fans can vote daily by visiting HobeyBaker.com/vote.
- UConn grad student goaltender Darion Hanson, who transferred in this season from Union, and has started 25 of the 26 games. He has allowed two goals or less in seven-straight games. On the season, he owns a 2.24 goals against average and a .922 save percentage, fifth and fourth among league leaders in both categories. He has played the second most minutes in Hockey East and has a 664 saves on the season, fourth best. He has been named to the 2022 Mike Richter Award watch list.
This Season vs. BC
November 12, 2021 @ XL Center - L, 2-1
- Boston College senior Jack McBain scored the game-winner with 1:22 left in the third period giving the No. 16 nationally ranked Eagles a 2-1 win at the XL Center in November.
- After a scoreless first period, UConn grabbed the lead in the second as sophomore Ryan Tverberg scored the Huskies lone goal.
- BC's Colby Ambrosio tied it up for the Eagles with just 20 seconds left in the second, sending the game to the final period knotted back up. With the UConn goaltender Darion Hanson stopping two break-away chances for BC in the third the game looked like it might head to overtime. McBaine had other ideas and took a feed from Nikita Nesterenko on a two-on-two rush into the zone and snapped a shot past Hanson for the go-ahead tally.Â
- Hanson finished with 37 saves in the loss while BC goaltender Eric Dop made 29 saves. There was just matching minors called on both teams in the third period as the only penalties for the night leaving both teams without a power play chance.
January 8, 2022 @ Kelley Rink - W, 5-4
- UConn grad student Kevin O'Neil capped a wild third period between the Huskies and the No. 18 Boston College Eagles, scoring the game-winner with 34 seconds left to send the Huskies home with a 5-4 Hockey East win at Kelley Rink.
- After falling behind BC 2-0 in the second period, the Huskies and Eagles went to the third tied up at 2-2. UConn struck early in the period as sophomore Artem Shlaine (Moscow, Russia) got his third on the season for a 3-2 lead just 1:03 in.
- BC tied it at 3-3 on a Colby Ambrosio goal at 7:24 but a UConn power play with 5:34 to go gave the Huskies the lead back on a senior Jachym Kondelik's goal. After just pulling the goaltender with a minute to play, BC's Patrick Giles created a break-away chance and knotted the game up again, 4-4, with 54 seconds left.
- The Huskies got a late chance as O'Neil broke up a BC rush in the neutral zone and burst up the right side. Looking to shoot all the way, he buried it past Dop to the far post delivering a 5-4 UConn win.
- Five different Huskies found the back of the net in the win as sophomore Hudson Schandor and senior Carter Turnbull joined Shlaine, Kondelik and O'Neil in the scoring column.
