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From the FreeP: Power play fails Terriers in loss

By Annie Maroon/DFP Staff

Through nine games, the University of New Hampshire men’s hockey team had allowed just two power-play goals. Boston University could have changed that on any one of its seven man-advantages on Sunday, but the Terriers faltered against the league’s best penalty kill, walking away with nothing to show for 11 power-play shots.

Neither team took a penalty until UNH’s Kevin Goumas was called for hooking 19:44 into the first period. The Wildcats were then penalized four times in the second period, three of which were for stick infractions.

But the Terriers looked oddly sluggish, breaking out of the defensive zone slowly and often losing the puck to UNH’s aggressive forecheckers. On their last two power plays of the second period, BU did not take a single shot on UNH goalie Casey DeSmith.

“We got the puck on our power play, I bet you 10 times, with complete control … and just turned it over,” said BU coach Jack Parker.

“[We] let them come up and bump us off the puck while we were hanging on. That lack of anticipation and willingness to move the puck is going to kill any power play.”

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