No. 12 Terriers Romped by UMass-Lowell by Jashvina Shah/Staff Beat Reporter LOWELL, Mass.

- Sixteen seconds went well for Boston Universitys mens ice hockey team Saturday night at the Tsongas Center. But that was it, as the River Hawks (3-30, 1-2-0 HE) dominated the rest of the game, sending the Terriers (3-3-1, 2-2-1 HE) to a 7-1 loss. It was BUs worst loss since Providence defeated BU 8-2 in the Hockey East Quarterfinals in 1999. "I think they [Terriers] think theyre better than they are," BU head coach Jack Parker said. "I think they think, when they show up here and they think theyre better than they are, they realize the other teams out-working them, [and] they cant back it up. They dont want to play the game they way its supposed to be played. "Literally there wasnt one guy who played well. Not one guy. There were a couple guys, four or five guys, that were absolutely horrible." The Terriers were particularly suspect in the penalties department, as they trumped their average and season high of penalty minutes against UMass-Lowell. Thanks to 28 penalty minutes in the third period, the Terriers racked up 50 on the night. By the end of the game, 11 different Terriers had visited the box. "I thought it was a total breakdown from everybody on the team," Parker said. "From a discipline point of view, taking stupid penalties again, mouthing off to referees, [and] from a stick-your-nose-in-there-and-compete point of view." It didnt help that BUs penalty kill continued to suffer, as UMass-Lowell went 3-for8 on the power play. The Terriers had no such luck, going 0-6 on their manadvantage. "I think its a tough thing to swallow, we definitely dont like to lose, I dont think any team does, especially [since] 7-1 is not a great loss," assistant captain Justin Courtnall said. "Kind of at that point you just got to bring each other closer together. Sometimes stuff like this builds character." The Terriers started the game pressing UMass-Lowell and sophomore goalkeeper Doug Carr and scored their first goal 16 seconds into the first period. Sophomore Adam Clendening threw a shot at the net, and senior Corey Trivino deflected the puck in front. "I thought we came to play in the first five minutes," Courtnall said. "I just think we had some unlucky bounces and guys started to, we as a team, started making mistakes and the mistakes started to pile up and penalty troubles started to happen, and unfortunately the game kind of got out of hand."

It was the offense that was conspicuously missing, as the Terriers only mustered 16 shots on net, including a three-shot first period. Thanks to the absence of senior forward Kevin Gilroy and the return of redshirt freshman Yasin Cissee, Parker shuffled the offensive lines. Most notably Parker broke up the dominant line of sophomores Matt Nieto, Charlie Coyle, and Sahir Gill. The trio, who totaled seven points in BUs last game, was scoreless against the River Hawks. UMass-Lowell recorded their highest shots-on-goal total this season, peppering BUs goalkeeping tandem of seniors Kieran Millan and Grant Rollheiser with 44 shots. Before Rollheiser spelled Millan for the third period, Millan faced 30 shots and looked shaky all night. He continuously allowed large rebounds, which the River Hawks capitalized on most of the night. Toward the end of the second period, it looked as though Millan had trouble making the few saves he did. "I dont think he played extremely well tonight, but we left him out to dry," Parker said. "There were a couple goals hed like to have back, but it was a mess in front of him the whole night." UMass-Lowell scored twice in the first and tacked on four more goals in the second, outplaying the Terriers thoroughly until the third period. Derek Arnold (2), Joseph Pendenza, Scott Wilson, Daniel Furlon, Terrence Wallin and David Vallorani (who leads all current River Hawks in scoring against BU) all netted goals for UMass-Lowell. "I was impressed with the way Lowell, but they played against a team that was playing pond hockey today," Parker said. "If you look at that game unfold, the team in white worked like heck , they beat us to every lose puck. We made little dink plays at their blue line, turned the puck over, they went the other way. At one time they were out-shooting us 3-1. The Terriers have not been able to string together back-to-back wins yet this season, and UMass-Lowell marks the third un-ranked team BU has fallen to. "I think tonight was more a case of, we just were so not ready to come here and play, not wanting to play this hard. It was almost like, 'we dont want to play this hard. This is too hard for us.' And thats how they played," Parker said. "I think the team better realize who they are. Theyre a last-place team, or theyre getting to be a last-place team in this league and they cant beat anybody. Thats who they are right now, so well see what theyre made of now. But theyre not who they think they are, for sure. And thats their problem. They think theyre better than they are."