{"id":53023,"date":"2013-09-30T17:45:29","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T22:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=53023"},"modified":"2020-08-24T20:55:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T01:55:31","slug":"boston-university-season-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2013\/09\/30\/boston-university-season-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston University Season Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uscho.photoshelter.com\/img-show\/I0000PKnJTAdqnMo\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Photo By: Ryan Coleman\/Ryan Coleman, USCHO.com\" alt=\"Kerrin Sperry deflects a shot in the first period of the 2013 NCAA Women's Frozen Four Championship game at Ridder Arena in Minneapolis on March 24, 2013.. (Ryan Coleman\/Ryan Coleman, USCHO.com)\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/130324-UMN-BOSU-W-0243.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boston University is coming off its most successful Hockey East season in program history, going 18-2-1 and earning its second regular-season title. Adding a third this year will be a major challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Top scorer Marie-Philip Poulin is off to her second Olympics. Jenelle Kohanchuk and Isabel Menard, second and third in points a year ago, have graduated, as have key role players like Jill Cardella and defenseman Kathryn Miller. Before the season gets underway, an injury has further weakened the blue line.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shannon Doyle is going to be out for the season,&#8221; coach Brian Durocher said. &#8220;Obviously, she&#8217;s a first-team all-star. She was sort of the leader of our defensive corps, and she&#8217;s going to go through a double-surgery process that&#8217;s going to take her out for the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Terriers will look to senior Kaleigh Fratkin and junior Shannon Stoneburgh to anchor the defense in front of senior goaltender Kerrin Sperry.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is on offense where the biggest questions need to be answered. BU scored 139 goals in 2012-13, most ever by the team, but the scorers of 70 of those tallies won&#8217;t be available this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We still have some very good players here in house, but almost in a tiered effect we&#8217;ve got to have kids step forward,&#8221; Durocher said. &#8220;I could start with the kids who I think are the leaders in Sarah Lefort, Louise Warren, and Kayla Tutino. They&#8217;re experienced. They&#8217;ve been down this road before and they&#8217;ve been in big games, big situations and produced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Terriers may profit from the experience of last season when they edged Boston College by a single point in the conference race and every game was crucial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This year, I think we&#8217;re going to be a little more a part of the pack,&#8221; Durocher said. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to have to fight for every inch we can get. Every shift is going to be important. It&#8217;s going to be a challenge for us from top to bottom that the kids are ready to play, the kids don&#8217;t assume that they can have a bad period or a bad game and come up with the win, because once in a while over the past years, we did do that. 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