ORONO, Maine - The University of Maine men's ice hockey team is hitting the road on Saturday to battle the Boston University Terriers in the rubber match of the season series. The two squads, who split a two-game set prior to Thanksgiving, will drop the puck at 7 p.m. at Agganis Arena. The call can be heard online or on 103.9 WVOM-FM while a stream will also be available online.
 

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GAME INFORMATION
Game #19: Maine Black Bears at Boston University Terriers
DATE: Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018
TIME: 7:00 p.m.
SITE: Agganis Arena - Boston, Mass.
2017-18 RECORDS: Maine 10-7-1 (4-4-1 HEA), BU 8-10-1 (6-6-1 HEA)

Maine game notes

About the Black Bears    
• Maine is coming off a weekend sweep of RPI, earning 3-2 and 5-2 wins on the road.
• On Friday, Nolan Vesey scored twice in the first four minutes while Tim Doherty added the game-winner in the second period and Rob McGovern made 27 saves in the 3-2 win.
• The Black Bears got five goals from five players on Saturday and a 36-save performance from McGovern to earn the weekend sweep.
• Maine notched three goals in the first seven minutes of the second period, including one while short-handed, to break the game open and extend its unbeaten streak to seven games.
• Prior to the two-game set at RPI, Maine had last played on Dec. 8-9, earning 7-4 and 5-3 wins at Quinnipiac.
• On Dec. 8, the Bobcats jumped out to a 3-0 lead before Maine mounted a furious comeback and used four unanswered goals and a 50-save performance from Jeremy Swayman for a 7-4 win.
• The next night, Maine got a 45-save performance from Swayman while Patrick Shea scored with 24.4 seconds left in the third period and Cedric Lacroix added an empty-net goal for a 5-3 win.
• Doherty (7-8—15) and Mitchell Fossier (6-9—15) are tied for the team lead in points while Eduards Tralmaks and Vesey join Doherty with a team-leading seven goals.

About the Terriers
• Boston University – who will face the U.S. U18 Team in an exhibition contest on Friday night – last played on Dec. 9, topping UMass Lowell, 9-3.
• It marked the first time that UMass Lowell had allowed nine goals in a game since the Black Bears topped the River Hawks, 9-2, on Nov. 11, 2005.
• The River Hawks bested BU, 3-2, the night before in the first game of the home-and-home conference set.
• Since BU and Maine played on Nov. 18, the Terriers have gone 2-3-0, losing a neutral site contest against Cornell (3-4) before splitting Hockey East series with BC (7-4, 1-4) and UMass Lowell.
• Patrick Harper leads BU in points (8-13—21) while Bobo Carpenter (9-9—18) and Chad Krys (5-13—18) are tied for second.
• The Terriers have seven players in double-digit scoring and five players with at least 55 shots on goal, including a team-high 69 from Brady Tkachuk.
• Jake Oettinger has started 17 of 19 games for BU, going 7-9-1 and posting a .902 save percentage, 2.91 goals against average and two shutouts while Max Prawdzik has appeared in three games and owns a 1-1-0 record, .914 save percentage, 2.40 goals against average and one shutout.
• As a freshman last year Oettinger was 21-11-3 with a 2.11 goals against average, .927 save percentage and four shutouts.

The Series with the Terriers
• Maine and BU have squared off 129 times prior to Saturday's contest, with BU holding an edge of 65-51-13 in the all-time series.
• The teams played a two-game set earlier this season, with the Black Bears topping the Terriers, 5-2, at Alfond Arena on Nov. 17 before heading to Portland and Cross Insurance Arena the next night, falling, 7-0.
• The Black Bears and Terriers first met during the 1923-24 season, with the Black Bears taking that contest, 4-2.
• Last season, the squads played a home-and-home series, with the Terriers taking their Jan. 20 home contest, 4-1, and also edging out the Black Bears at Alfond Arena, 3-1, on Jan. 21.
• Maine held an 11-game winning streak against the Terriers from Oct. 31, 1986 to Nov. 10, 1989.

About Head Coach Red Gendron
• Red Gendron, who enters his fifth year behind the bench of the Black Bears, has won two NCAA Hockey National Championships and a NHL Stanley Cup as an assistant coach.
• He assisted head coach Shawn Walsh with the UMaine 1993 NCAA Division I National Championship team.
• Before being named the head coach of the Black Bears, Gendron was associate head coach at Yale University; the Bulldogs earned the 2013 NCAA Division I National Championship.
• Prior to Gendron's two seasons at Yale, from 2005-11, he was an assistant coach at the University of Massachusetts.
• Gendron spent 11 seasons in professional hockey with the New Jersey Devils organization.

League Honors Holway, Doherty
• Defenseman Patrick Holway was named the Hockey East Player of the Month for December while forward Tim Doherty was tabbed as the league's Rookie of the Month.
• Holway led Maine and defensemen nationally - and tied for the league lead - in points in the month, putting up nine points on three goals and six assists.
• The sophomore is the first blue-liner to take home the conference Player of the Month award since Boston University's Colby Cohen did it in January 2010.
• Doherty finished December with eight points on four goals and four assists, with the points placing him tied for third in the league and first among rookies.
• Doherty, who currently has a seven-game point streak, had 40 wins to 26 loses for a .606 win-percentage at the face-off dot.
• Additionally, Jeremy Swayman was runner-up for Goaltender of the Month after going 3-0-1 in four starts and posting a 2.70 goals against average and a .934 save percentage.

Weekly Awards
• Defenseman Brady Keeper was tabbed as the Hockey East Pro Ambitions Rookie of the Week on Jan. 2 after notching the game-winning goal and adding an assist in Maine's 5-2 win at RPI.
• Freshman Jeremy Swayman earned Rookie of the Week honors on Dec. 11 - after he backstopped the Black Bears to a weekend road sweep of ECAC Hockey foe Quinnipiac with a 95-save weekend - and on Nov. 20 after his 40-save performance in a 5-2 win over then No.18 BU on Nov. 17.
• He was also tabbed as the Rookie of the Month Runner-Up for the month of November.
• Eduards Tralmaks was tabbed as the Pro Ambitions Rookie of the Week on Nov. 6, as announced by the Hockey East Association.
• The freshman earned the honor after notching two goals and one assist in Maine's 6-2 win at UMass Lowell on Nov 4.

Five-or-More
• In eight games this season, the Black Bears have scored at least five goals, the most of any Hockey East school.
• In wins over Vermont (6-2) and Quinnipiac (7-4, 5-3) Maine scored five-or-more goals in three-straight games for the first time since a three-game stretch during the 2006-07 season against Bemidji State (7-1, 6-3) and North Dakota (6-2).
• Providence has done it seven times and Northeastern five times while UConn, Boston University, New Hampshire and Merrimack have scored five-or-more goals four times this year.
• Three times this season, Maine has responded to a loss or tie on Friday night by scoring six goals the next night to win, doing so against Miami (6-3) on Oct. 21, UMass Lowell (6-2) on Nov. 4 and Vermont (6-2) on Dec. 2.
• The team scored five-or-more goals on six occasions during the 2016-17 season.

Blocked Out
• Maine's team average of 14.61 blocks per game is 10th overall in the country and first overall in the league.
• The Black Bears have blocked at least 12 shots in 17 of 18 games played, with a season-high 24 coming in a 7-4 win at Quinnipiac on Dec. 8.
• Defenseman Mark Hamilton is sixth in the country with an average of 2.57 blocks per game – a number that leads the league.
• Forward Cedric Lacroix is tops among Hockey East forwards and tied for 15th in the nation with 1.12 blocks per game

Balanced Attack
• So far this season, the Black Bears have received goals from 18 different players, assists from 20 and points from 21.
• Maine's 18 goal scorers is tied with UMass for second in the conference, falling short of only UConn's 19.
• The Black Bears had 11 players find the scoresheet in a 5-3 win over Quinnipiac on Dec. 8, marking the first time since a 5-3 win over Princeton on Nov. 27, 2015 that 11 players earned a point in a game.
• Against Quinnipiac on Dec. 8, UMaine had 10 different players earn a spot on the scoresheet for the fourth time this season.
• The Black Bears also had 10 different point-getters in back-to-back games, doing so against Miami on Oct. 20 and 21 and then against BU on Nov. 17.

Up Next
• Maine will close out non-conference play on Monday night when it drops the puck at 7 p.m. at Brown University.

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