UConn has an explosive offensive unit, which over the last nine games has averaged 6.33 goals per game, just a tad higher than its 6.12 goals-per-game total this season. Richardson’s came on the power play, too, and gave UConn an early-second period lead.
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Forty-five seconds later, Thompson completed his hat trick with his third power-play goal of the game.
The Huskies improve to 3-2, 1-1 Hockey East. BU is 2-2, 1-1. BU closed the scoring late as Chase Phelps scored his second of the year with 52 seconds left.
They’ll host Notre Dame on Saturday in Hartford.
Former Whaler Scott Young was in the building as an assistant coach for the Boston University Terriers. The BU penalty kill, Quinn said, was the story of the contest. They had four power play goals. “Every puck they had at the blue line found its way through”.
“You can’t wait till you’re down 3-1 and play with an urgency”, Quinn said.
“The good news is”, he continued, “we get to go to practice tomorrow and get better”. I thought on Saturday we played a pretty strong game for 40 minutes and we didn’t play in the third.
UConn won the 18 regular-season conference games by an average of 48.7 points a year ago and led all AAC squads in field goal percentage offense and defense, 3-point percentage offense and defense, rebounding margin, points scored, points allowed, assists, steals, blocks, turnover margin and assist-to-turnover ratio.
UConn put the puck in the net on 4 out of 7 of their power play opportunities.
“I think definitely, without a doubt, we can get four in”, USF coach Jose Fernandez said. I guess the saying is true that winning does fix everything.
“It’s something that we strive for”.
The Huskies have played several of the same teams that the Minutewomen (8-8, 4-3 Atlantic 10 Conference) competed against in their non-conference schedule, including New Hampshire, Northeastern, Boston College, Boston University and Stanford. I don’t want that to be conversation anymore, “Hey, we beat a top ten team”.
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“Davidson is more important, we are not playing to not play people per say, but UConn is not that important of a game that we press our team to the max”. That’s what I want our program to be. “And there’s no reason we can’t be that if we keep putting in the work, committing to playing for each other and as hard as we did tonight”.
