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Matt Filipe has registered two goals and eight points in 12 games this season for Northeastern (photo: Rich Gagnon).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When he arrived on the Northeastern campus, Northeastern coach Jim Madigan knew that he had something with Matt Filipe.<\/p>\n

Standing at 6-foot-2 with a touch for scoring, Filipe immediately became a regular in the Huskies lineup. Playing parts of the season alongside Adam Gaudette, a player who would go on a season later to win the Hobey Baker Award, Filipe had a scoring touch.<\/p>\n

If there was a knock of Filipe\u2019s game, though, it was two-way play. Madigan understood that he needed to make Filipe a more complete player: competitive offensively, aggressive defensively and someone who could use his size to his advantage.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s turned into a two-way, heavy, solid player,\u201d Madigan said of Filipe. \u201cFor me, being a complete player started to happen in his sophomore year. Being better away from the puck, his details and habits have started to improve.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s that two-way power forward. He\u2019s fast, he\u2019s strong on pucks, heavy on pucks.\u201d<\/p>\n

This past Saturday against Providence was a breakthrough game for the now-senior forward. Madigan said that he played physical, was heavy on pucks and helped his team sustain forechecks.<\/p>\n

That, and he scored two goals and added two assists. Not a bad night.<\/p>\n

That said, being a scoring machine isn\u2019t the total reason Filipe is on the ice. Madigan highlights his defensive play as one of his strengths, noting that the two-way play is more important now than, say, when Filipe was a freshman and Northeastern possessed one of the most potent offenses in the nation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not going to outscore opponents [as in years past],\u201d said Madigan. \u201cSo we have to reply on defense to win the 2-1 and the 3-1 games, to win those close games. So for more players, your attention to detail needs to be heightened and aware and that can take away from your offense.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the areas where Filipe excels this season is also a major strength of the team at this point: the penalty kill.<\/p>\n

Northeastern has been faced with killing 48 opponent power plays, allowing just four goals (and scoring twice shorthanded). The 91.7 percent efficiency of the penalty kill is the best in Hockey East and ranks sixth in the nation.<\/p>\n

This weekend, Northeastern hosts Maine for a pair of Hockey East games.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Filipe’s] been really good on the penalty kill for us. He\u2019s a key cog for us on the penalty kill both up zone and in zone,\u201d Madigan said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had good penalty kill over the last couple of years, and we thought we had a chance to enhance that. We have more structure to our penalty killing. Regardless of what the opposition is doing, we\u2019re staying in our structure. We\u2019re not deviating from what we do well in terms of penalty killing based on how the opposition runs their power play.\u201d<\/p>\n

The key, Madigan says, to his team\u2019s success on the penalty kill is using its hockey sense. Taking risks is critical, but not at the expense of the defensive structure.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have a structure but you have to make reads. That\u2019s one of the things we\u2019re talked to the players about, making reads,\u201d Madigan said. \u201cYes, when the puck is in a certain place, you need to be in a certain spot but you have to have the ability to make reads. The game is too fluid.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t dictate every situation out there. It\u2019s not football, it\u2019s not baseball. That\u2019s where I think our team has gotten a lot better on the penalty kill. They make reads off of each other really well. We\u2019re still a work in progress, but you can see the strides we\u2019re making. That\u2019s been the real positive sign over the last four weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Filipe\u2019s two-way play isn\u2019t his only growth area over his four years on Huntington Avenue. He\u2019s understood that maturity and leadership were critical to his growth as a student athlete. He now serves as an alternate captain and a role model for many of the team\u2019s underclassmen.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe came in as an 18-year-old,” Madigan said. “Your habits and your details, both on and off the ice, your preparation for practice, for games, you\u2019ve become a professional with your approach.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re a freshman, you\u2019re just learning the details of every play, of every habit. He\u2019s really emerged that way, both preparing in practice, in preparing for games. He\u2019s a big, strong kid, an outgoing kid, who players will follow.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe does things the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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