ORONO, Maine -- The University of Maine men's hockey team will continue with Hockey East play this weekend when it battles the Boston University Terriers on Friday and Saturday. Friday's 7:30 p.m. game with BU - who currently ranks No. 18 in the USCHO.com poll and is receiving votes in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll - will take place at Alfond Arena and will be broadcast locally on WVII/WFVX/FOX College Sports. The teams will head south for Saturday's 7 p.m. contest to play at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland. The call of both games can be heard online or on 103.9 WVOM-FM.
 

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Game #9: Maine Black Bears vs. Boston University Terriers
DATE: Friday, Nov. 17, 2017
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
SITE: Alfond Arena – Orono, Maine
2017-18 RECORDS: Maine 3-5-0 (2-2-0 HEA), BU 5-6-1 (3-3-1 HEA)

Game #10: Maine Black Bears vs. Boston University Terriers
DATE: Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017
TIME: 7:00 p.m.
SITE: Cross Insurance Arena – Portland, Maine

Maine game notes
BU game notes

About the Black Bears
• Maine was last in action with a two-game set at UMass Lowell on Nov. 3 and 4.
• The Black Bears battled the River Hawks closely in the first contest but fell 3-2, despite freshman Emil Westerlund's first two career goals and a strong 24-save performance from Rob McGovern.
• The next night, Maine scored six goals – including three in the second period – en route to a 6-2 win over the River Hawks.
• Freshman Jeremy Swayman made 28 saves for his second win of the year while five players had goals and six players had assists.
• Prior to hitting the road, Maine hosted then No. 10/11 Minnesota Duluth for a two-game non-conference series and went toe-to-toe with the Bulldogs both nights.
• On Oct. 27, the Black Bears battled back to tie the game on an Eduards Tralmaks goal in the third period before the Bulldogs potted the game-winner midway through the frame.
• The next night's game saw a strong 35-save performance from Swayman but a first period power-play goal proved to be the winning goal for the Bulldogs in the 2-0 affair.
• The Black Bears return with 74 percent of their goal-scoring from 2016-17 and 63 percent of the total offense with seven of the top 10 point-getters from last year overall.
• Last year's freshmen class finished with 36 goals, good for second overall in Hockey East behind Boston University's rookies, and had the most face-off wins in the conference at 581.

About the Terriers
• BU is coming off a 4-0 conference win over then-No. 9/8 New Hampshire on Saturday night at Agganis Arena, thanks in part to a 29-save shutout from Max Prawdzik in his first collegiate start and four goals from four different players.
• The night before, the Terriers dropped a 6-1 Hockey East tilt at Northeastern but with Saturday's win, came out of the weekend with a 3-3-1 record in league play for fourth place overall.
• The win over UNH marked BU's fourth over an opponent ranked at the time of the game while the loss against Northeastern marked its fourth against an opponent ranked at the time of the game.
• The Terriers battled No. 1/1 Denver evenly on Oct. 27 in Boston, but the Pioneers got a goal with 16.1 seconds left for a 4-3 win.
• Two weeks earlier, it was Minnesota State that gave the Terriers trouble, with the Mavericks skating away with 6-3 and 3-0 wins, marking the first time a team swept BU in Boston since the Black Bears did it in 2012 (4-2, 3-1).
• Patrick Harper – second on the team in points in 2016-17 – leads the Terriers with 11 points on five goals and six assists while Bobo Carpenter is second with 10 points on a team-high seven goals and three assists.
• All five of BU's game-winning goals have come from different players, with Carpenter, Chad Krys, Shane Bowers, Dante Fabbro, and Ty Amonte all potting winners.
• Jake Oettinger has started 11 games between the pipes for BU, going 4-6-1 with a .904 save percentage, 2.91 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.
• Prawdzik, who was the first Terrier goaltender to record a shutout in a collegiate debut (Sean Fields – Nov. 4, 2000), has appeared in two games and has one goal against.

The Series with the Terriers
• Maine and BU have squared off 127 times prior to this weekend, with BU holding an edge of 64-50-13 in the all-time series.
• 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.

Weekly Honor
• Freshman Eduards Tralmaks was tabbed as the Pro Ambitions Rookie of the Week on Nov. 6, as announced by the Hockey East Association.
• Tralmaks earned the honor after notching two goals and one assist in Maine's 6-2 win at UMass Lowell on Nov 4.
• The forward opened the scoring in the first period, notched another goal during the second and then assisted on Mitchell Fossier's power-play tally in the third.
• Tralmaks leads the team in goals (5) and is tied for the lead in points (7), with his five goals placing him tied for first among Hockey East freshman forwards.
• Incidentally, Fossier was the last Black Bear rookie to be tabbed as Rookie of the Week, garnering the honor twice during the 2016-17 season (Oct. 10 and 17).

Blocked Out
• As a team, Maine's average of 15.00 blocks per game leads the league and sits sixth in the national rankings.
• The Black Bears have blocked at least 12 shots in all eight games they have played, with a season-high 20 coming in a 6-3 win over Miami on Oct. 21.
• Senior Mark Hamilton currently sits tied for 20th in the nation and fourth in Hockey East with 23 blocked shots.
• The defenseman's 2.88 blocks per game is first in the league and tied for third overall in the nation.
• Cedric Lacroix is averaging 1.43 blocks per game, tops among Hockey East forwards and fifth in the nation.  

Friendship Four
• Next week, the team will compete in the 2017 Northern Irish Connections Friendship Four Tournament to be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
• The Black Bears will be joined in by RPI and Clarkson of the ECAC Hockey conference as well as Hockey East foe Providence.
• Maine and Providence will meet on Nov. 24 with the winner advancing to take on either RPI or Clarkson the following night for a chance to win the 2017 Belpot Trophy.
•The teams will square off at the SSE Arena, home of the Belfast Giants – a professional team that competes within the Elite Ice Hockey League – and host of the Friendship Four since 2015.

Balanced Attack
• So far this season, the Black Bears have received goals from 13 different players and points from 19.
• The Black Bears had 10 different point-getters in back-to-back games, doing so against Miami on Oct. 20 and 21.
• Against UConn on Oct. 6 and UMass Lowell on Nov. 4, Maine had nine different players register at least one point.
• Maine also has six different players with at least one power-play goal,
• All 19 skaters that suited up for the Black Bears in the two-game season-opening series against UConn recorded at least one shot on goal, with Chase Pearson's 10 leading the way.

Offensive Output
• The UMaine offense exploded in the two-game series against Miami (Ohio), scoring five goals on Friday, Oct. 20 and then six in Saturday, Oct. 21's 6-3 win.
• In the Friday contest, the Black Bears had five different goal-scorers and 10 different point-getters.
• The next night, UMaine notched five goals in a single period for the first time since the first period in a 7-3 win over North Dakota on Oct. 22, 2010.
• Also notable in the 6-3 win was that each goal came from a different player (Eduards Tralmaks, Patrick Holway, Brady Keeper, Patrick Shea, Mitchell Fossier and Tim Doherty).
• The last time UMaine had six different goal scorers came in a 7-0 win over Boston University on Nov. 14, 2013.

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