Quinn ‘pissed’ he didn’t think to play Moccia during Frozen Fenway

As the Boston University men’s hockey team took the ice for the final frame of Saturday’s Frozen Fenway tilt with the University of Maine, third-string goaltender Anthony Moccia led the way onto the ice for the Terriers.

With BU down 5-0 entering the third and coach David Quinn having already swapped goalies once, some assumed that Moccia, a senior, would finally get his first action in a regular season game. Seconds later, though, it became clear that sophomore Sean Maguire would return to his spot between the posts, and Moccia would find his way back to the bench.

In retrospect, Quinn said he wished he had put Moccia in goal.

“I was so caught up… I had already taken one goalie out and that hadn’t crossed my mind,” Quinn said. “I know people are making a big deal, and I’m pissed at myself that I didn’t think of it.”

Moccia made his first appearance in a game at the start of the season when the Terriers played an exhibition game against St. Francis Xavier on Oct. 5. The Medford native played for the duration of the second period and stopped all seven shots that he faced.

“Hopefully we’ll be up 6-0 once, and I can put him in there – not that that’s what it takes. He does well. He’s a good goalie, he is, but I think we’ve got two guys who have played well and have a longer history of having success at the Division I level, but I’d love to get in a situation where he can play.”

While Maguire and his classmate Matt O’Connor have been one of the more consistent cogs for the Terriers this season, the duo have faltered so far in 2014.

O’Connor, who had taken control of the starting spot after the tandem platooned during the first month of the season, was pulled mid-game in two consecutive starts, both of which came after the team returned from winter intercession. The first time came in BU’s bout with Harvard University where O’Connor gave up four goals in less than half of a game.

His second flub came during Frozen Fenway when he gave up four goals, three of which were power-play goals, in a span of 15:55.

Meanwhile, Maguire, who missed a few starts because of back pain before the break, has still won just a single game so far this season despite having a 2.72 goals-against average. Maguire and O’Connor both have a .919 save percentage.

Quinn said Thursday that he, as well as goaltending coach Mike Geragosian, had watched the tape from the game against Maine and that Geragosian worked with the pair this week to “refine some technical things that maybe they lost sight of.”

With all of those factors in mind, Quinn said that Maguire would get the start Friday evening against Boston College and that he was confident Maguire would have a good game.