{"id":98476,"date":"2014-11-06T09:44:15","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=98476"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:11:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:11:27","slug":"uconn-hockey-defeats-bc-in-front-of-sellout-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2014\/11\/uconn-hockey-defeats-bc-in-front-of-sellout-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Hockey Defeats BC in Front of Sellout Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"UConn Men&#039;s Hockey Upsets No. 3 BC at XL Center\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g2LGqKGPcYg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The UConn men&#8217;s hockey team earned their first-ever Hockey East win Wednesday night, knocking off the no. 3 nationally ranked Boston College Eagles 1-0, in front of a sellout crowd of 8,089 at the XL Center in their home opener.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uconnhuskies.com\/sports\/m-hockey\/mtt\/evan_richardson_907987.html\">Evan Richardson<\/a> scored the game&#8217;s only goal midway through the first period. Richardson, who transferred to UConn this season after spending his rookie year at BC, picked up his second goal of the season. Teammate\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uconnhuskies.com\/sports\/m-hockey\/mtt\/rob_nichols_858052.html\">Rob Nichols<\/a> made it stand up, stopping all 35 shots he faced in recording his second career shutout win.<\/p>\n<p>The win marks the fourth time in program history the Huskies have beaten a ranked opponent, and the third time under head coach\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uconnhuskies.com\/sports\/m-hockey\/mtt\/mike_cavanaugh_858038.html\">Mike Cavanaugh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BC is the highest ranked team the Huskies have ever beaten. The Huskies&#8217; win was the first shutout loss for BC in 106-straight games, the longest streak in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Huskies earned their first-ever Hockey East win Wednesday night, in their home opener at the XL Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":98487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2234,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-98476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-university-life","category-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 18:43:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98476"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98494,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98476\/revisions\/98494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/98487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98476"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=98476"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=98476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}