Around Hockey East: January 18

After a hectic weekend with a full slate of Hockey East action, let's take a look at the standings.

Hockey East								Overall
	GP	W	L	T	Pts	GF	GA		W	L	T	GF	GA
New Hampshire	14	9	2	3	21	55	39		10	7	4	73	70
Boston College	15	9	4	2	20	55	35		12	6	2	72	53
Massachusetts	15	9	6	0	18	48	46		14	8	0	74	66
Maine	15	8	6	1	17	47	42		11	9	2	78	69
UMass Lowell	14	6	6	2	14	45	41		12	9	2	73	55
Vermont	13	5	6	2	12	37	43		11	7	2	64	60
Boston University	15	5	8	2	12	46	50		7	10	3	61	68
Northeastern	16	5	10	1	11	36	56		9	11	1	54	66
Providence	13	4	8	1	9	26	38		9	10	1	48	53
Merrimack	12	4	8	0	8	41	46		7	12	0	63	69

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Luckily for the Terriers, the middle of the Hockey East field is wide open.  Even better for BU, they'll have a chance to take on the top two teams in the conference next week, facing BC on Friday and UNH on Saturday.

Let's go around the league and take a look at how things went this weekend.

The Huskies snapped a four game UVM winning streak with a 3-1 victory over the Catamounts on Friday in Vermont.  However, the Cats bounced back in ridiculous fashion with a 9-2 thrashing of Northeastern the next night on the strength of a Brayden Irwin hat trick.

Providence capped off a huge weekend in Hockey East play with an impressive 3-2 win over Maine, thanks largely to the second big night in a row from Goaltender Alex Beaudry who made 37 saves.  That's 65 saves on the weekend for the PC goalie.  

That loss was the end to an ugly weekend for the Black Bears, who also lost on Friday night in Newton to the Eagles.  BC was all over Maine, winning 6-1 behind a strong effort from goalie John Muse.

UMass Amherst plowed over UMass Lowell two nights in a row, winning 3-2 on Friday and 2-1 on Saturday.

New Hampshire beat Dartmouth in a non-conference game, 5-2.

Points Roundup:

UMA: 4 points

PC: 4 points

NU: 2 points

UVM: 2 points

BU: 2 points

BC: 2 points

UML: 0 points

ME: 0 points

UNH: 0 points

Mack: 0 points