The Huskies strike first with back-to-back goals, but BU scores four unanswered to take control of the game, winning 4-3.
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Monday, January 97:00 p.m. – CAA Full Court Press
6:45 p.m. – Huskies Basketbll Pre-Game
7:00 p.m. – Northeastern Basketball – Huskies at Hofstra Pride
from the Mack Sports Complex in Hempstead, N.Y.
with Patrick McHugh and Chris Tramontozzi
Thursday, January 129:00 p.m. – Hockey East This Week
3:00 p.m. – Dog Pound Sports Sound
Winter break recap; Rivalry weekend preview
7:15 p.m. – Huskies Hockey Pre-Game
7:30 p.m. – Northeastern Hockey: Huskies vs. #6 Boston University Terriers
from Matthews Arena
with Alex Faust, Ben Horner, and Jack Thaler
12:45 p.m. – Huskies Basketball Pre-Game
1:00 p.m. – Northeastern Basketball: Huskies vs. William & Mary Tribe
with Patrick McHugh and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
from Matthews Arena
New start time:
3:45 p.m. – Huskies Hockey Pre-Game
4:00 p.m. – Northeastern Hockey: Huskies vs. #4 Boston College Eagles
from Fenway Park
with Alex Faust, Ben Horner, and Craig White
Monday, January 26:45 p.m. – Huskies Basketball Pre-Game
7:00 p.m. – Northeastern Basketball: Huskies at Towson Tigers
from Towson Center Arena in Towson, Md.
with Patrick McHugh and Andy Towne
Wednesday, January 46:45 p.m. – Huskies Basketball Pre-Game
7:00 p.m. – Northeastern Basketball: Huskies vs. UNC-Wilmington Seahawks
from Matthews Arena
with Andy Towne and Alex Faust
Saturday, January 71:45 p.m. – Huskies Basketball Pre-Game
2:00 p.m. – Northeastern Basketball: Huskies at James Madison Dukes
from the JMU Convocation Center in Harrisonburg, Va.
with Patrick McHugh and Andy Towne
6:45 p.m. – Huskies Hockey Pre-Game
7:00 p.m. – Northeastern Hockey vs. US National Team Development Program
from Matthews Arena
with Ben Horner, Jack Thaler, and TBA
Northeastern scores two five-on-three goals while holding #2 Minnesota scoreless on the power play, as the Huskies win the Mariucci Classic 3-2.
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Minneapolis — It might not have been the way head coach Jim Madigan pictured it, but Northeastern is in the finals of this year’s Mariucci Holiday Classic. After NU and Princeton played three periods and five minutes of overtime to a 3-3 tie, the Huskies bested the Tigers in an eight-round shootout, with Justin Daniels putting the final puck past Mike Condon.
The Huskies led the semifinal game three different times, and each time Princeton responded to even the score with a power play strike. Though NU outshot the Tigers 41-26, Princeton went 3 of 8 with the extra man to hang in the game.
The Huskies opened the scoring late in the first period when Braden Pimm put home a shorthanded goal from Mike McLaughlin. The game marked McLaughlin’s return to the lineup after missing five games with a broken jaw. Princeton, however was able to convert under a minute later on the same man advantage, getting a goal from Jack Berger.
It wasn’t until 4:35 into the third period that another goal was scored. Vinny Saponari, who had one of his best games as a Husky moved in on the net and slipped the puck past Condon’s short side, putting NU on top 2-1. But once again the Tigers evened things up, getting a power play goal from freshman Tyler Maugeri to even the score.
Under a minute after Maugeri’s goal, Pimm found the back of the net for the second time. For his eighth goal of the season, Pimm put home a centering pass from Cody Ferriero and Steve Quailer. It didn’t take long for the Tigers to respond for the third time as Kevin Ross scored his first career goal, the game’s third in under two minutes.
Both teams had good chances later in the period and in overtime but neither could put home a deciding goal and the game ended in a 3-3 tie.
In the shootout to determine which team would advance to the final, neither team scored in the first seven rounds until Daniels finally won the battle for NU.The Huskies will face Minnesota in the final tomorrow at 8 p.m. EST. The Golden Gophers defeated Niagara 5-1 in the other semifinal.
Our Observations
Quotable
“We knew that Princeton works hard, they skate hard, they come at you, I didn’t think we matched their intensity at periods of time and I thought it was an ugly win from our perspective. We executed poorly, we had way too many penalties, we were undisciplined in our play and every time we got a lead, we’d throw it right back to them.”
- Jim Madigan
Full post-game interview:
“I was a little rusty in the first but I got my lungs back under me and I felt fine after that. Whenever you come back after being out for six weeks it helps to get a point right away and get the confidence back, it felt good. We know we have a lot more than that. Princeton played well, but we’ve got to turn it around and have a better game tomorrow.”
- Mike McLaughlin
Full post-game interview:
The Huskies give up three power play goals and finish regulation 3-3 but survive a 
tense shootout to advance to the Mariucci Classic championship.
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4:15 p.m. – Huskies Basketball Pre-Game
4:30 p.m. – Northeastern Basketball: Huskies at Vermont Catamounts
from Patrick Gym in Burlington, Vt.
with Patrick McHugh and Andy Towne
4:45 p.m. – Huskies Hockey Pre-Game
5:00 p.m. – Northeastern Hockey: Mariucci Classic – Huskies vs. Princeton
from Mariucci Arena in Minneapolis, Minn.
with Alex Faust, Jared Shafran, and Ben Horner
Available on WRBB Sports Extra; joined in progress on WRBB-FM
6:45 p.m. – Huskies Hockey Pre-Game
7:00 p.m. – Northeastern Hockey: Mariucci Classic – Final
from Mariucci Arena in Minneapolis, Minn.
with Alex Faust, Jared Shafran, and Ben Horner
Isn’t it fun to be watching the polls again? When Monday comes around, we know you’re anxiously awaiting the final tally of votes to see where Northeastern falls. Fortunately, both hockey teams seem well-positioned to garner votes and that’s where we start this week.
Though outside the top 20, Huskies hockey is back in the thick of it, getting their sixth consecutive win with a 3-2 decision over UMass-Lowell on Saturday. And to think, this whole stretch started with a players-only meeting the Monday after their winless streak balooned to one month – Jared Shafran explains the turnaround in his piece for NESN. The challenge is to keep it going, and voters in the USCHO and USA Today polls haven’t seen enough yet: Northeastern received 37 points in the USCHO poll, good for 23rd overall but not good enough to be ranked. Where it matters is the Pairwise, and Northeastern has climbed to 18th in the latest reading. NU players also continue to rack up awards: Chris Rawlings was defensive player of the week for a second time.
But to show you how terrible polls are, check out Yale ranked 19th in the latest USCHO poll. They have a 6-5-1 record, just lost to UMass, are not even ranked in the Pairwise, have the 33rd-best RPI in the country, and have a strength of schedule ranked 41st in the nation. Yet, pollsters have voted them the 19th best team in the nation. You be the judge. That’s the besauty of college hockey, versus BCS football: it’s up to the Parwise and very little else to determine the post-season selection.
Women’s hockey rebounded from a stumble to grab some big wins last weekend, taking down Boston University and UNH. They were idle this week. The Huskies now sit in 7th in the latest USCHO poll and 9th in the latest USA Today poll. More importantly, the Huskies are 9th in the latest Pairwise, with the top 8 making the tournament at the end of the year. Speaking of Pairwise, USCHO’s Candace Horgan explains the reason why the Huskies aren’t in the top group: most of their early season opponents are not in the Pairwise at all. In accolades, Florence Schelling was named defensive player of the week and Northeastern was named Team of the Week by the league.
Turnovers continue to bite Northeastern men’s basketball, as they had 23 in their loss to Bradley last week, as Anthony Gulizia notes in the Huntington News. As a whole, the team is in the bottom 100 in turnovers per possession. It’s not just NU that has had this problem early in the year – Mike Litos wrote as early as November 21st that CAA teams were giving up the ball at an alarming rate. Despite this, Quincy Ford was named CAA Rookie of the Week as the rookie continues to impress for NU.
Finally, kudos to NU women’s basketball for breaking their long losing streak, though they lost their first conference game to VCU. The Huntington News has the recap.
By now you’ve heard of the Corey Trivino mess at BU. We have an Off The Wires special on Trivino’s arrest and dismissal from the Terriers. Coach Jack Parker added more outlets to his media roundup – he talked with Scott McLaughlin from College Hockey News (who did a great job adding historical context to the story) and Parker added some interesting quotes in the Boston Globe. The strategy with this has been clear from the outset: BU wants to be out in front of the story and make the narrative be that they were proactive in addressing this problem. The reality, though, is less clear. If, as Parker suggested, Trivino should have enrolled in alcohol counseling, why didn’t it happen? There was another minor incident in the spring (his third), but yet there seemed to have been no action taken then, despite alcohol being a lingering problem. There are still many questions that remain unanswered.
Boston University senior Corey Trivino, the team’s leading scorer and the top goal scorer this season in Hockey East, was swiftly booted from the Terriers’ No. 9-ranked squad after being arrested over the weekend on charges stemming from an altercation with a BU resident assistant in a campus dorm. Of note, though Trivino has been kicked off the hockey team, he has not been suspended from school (as of yet) and can continue to attend classes until officially being suspended or expelled.
It is not Trivino’s first discipline issue – in 2010 he and Vinny Saponari (now at Northeastern) were suspended from the team after missing a punitive bike ride following a night of drinking before the Hockey East semifinals. He and Saponari also participated in a profanity-laced rap video posted to YouTube which led to Saponari’s removal from the team.
We start from the source with Art Jahnke at BU Today:
The starting center on the BU men’s ice hockey team was arrested Sunday night and charged with three counts of indecent assault and battery after he allegedly entered the room of a female student and attempted to kiss and grope her. …
Trivino, whose family flew in for his arraignment, appeared in court in handcuffs and a powder blue hoodie. He never spoke, standing hunched forward and head down throughout the court proceeding.
Head hockey coach Jack Parker says Trivino has been permanently removed from the team. “He is no longer associated with the BU hockey team,” says Parker.
Side note: interesting how BU Today functions as a quasi-official news source for BU, and despite this obviously being a negative story, it’s prominently placed on the front page in full detail. One would imagine that if some story of this magnitude were to hit Northeastern, any official statement would be very terse.
Moving on to the Daily Free Press, which has published an extensive police account of what happened on Sunday night:
According to the BU Police Department police report, obtained from Brighton District Court, the incident began when the RA heard individuals of a room being extremely loud. The RA went to the room to tell them to quiet down, and Trivino followed her back to her room and pushed her door open, the report states. She said in the report that she told Trivino to go back to his room, but instead he allegedly started kissing and groping the victim.
Supplemental to the DFP, the Boston Hockey Blog has been on top of every development in this story, and talked with coach Jack Parker about Trivino’s apparently chronic trouble with alcohol:
“There is no question in my mind it’s an alcohol problem,” Parker said. “I did [ask him to get treatment], but he didn’t think it was for him.” …
“I could suspend him [at that time] for some games, but that didn’t work,” Parker said. “So I said this is going to be real simple. I’m going to give you a fair warning. One more incident and you’ll be gone. One more alcohol-related incident and you’re out of here. No ifs, ands or buts. That’s what he knew was going to be the outcome.
“The only thing you can do to help a kid with an alcohol problem is get him to stop drinking.”
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