Tonight the Falcons take a one-game break from their home stand to finish a home-and-home series with the Michigan Wolverines.
The two teams met last Thursday at the BGSU Ice Arena, a game that Michigan took 2-1. The games were split up in order to accommodate Michigan, who played Wisconsin Saturday in the Camp Randall Classic.
In that game, the Wolverines allowed two power play goals in the last 5:32 of the third period to lose 3-2.
Heading into this series, one of the keys highlighted by interim head coach Dennis Williams was to stay out of the box and to keep it a 5-on-5 hockey game.
While the Falcons were mostly solid on the penalty kill on Thursday, they gave up two power play goals during the five-minute major penalty Tommy Dee was given for checking from behind.
"After [the two goals], I thought we settled down, we did a great job pressuring and we utilized a lot of guys in that role," Williams said after the game.
Sitting last in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association in goals, BG will need another solid performance from Nick Eno, who stopped 28 of 30 shots on Thursday.
For his efforts, Eno was named the Papa John's BGSU male athlete of the week.
With the win Thursday, Michigan now holds a commanding 74-33-3 lead in the all-time series over BG, including a 2-1 season series lead this year.
The silver lining for the Falcons is that their victory over Michigan this year came at Yost Ice Arena.
The loss dropped BG's overall record to 4-18-4, including a 3-13-4-3 mark in the CCHA.
BG now find themselves sitting square in the cellar of the CCHA standings, after Western Michigan swept Notre Dame this past weekend, giving them one more point than the Falcons.
Tonight's game starts at 7:35 at the Yost Ice Arena.
The two teams met last Thursday at the BGSU Ice Arena, a game that Michigan took 2-1. The games were split up in order to accommodate Michigan, who played Wisconsin Saturday in the Camp Randall Classic.
In that game, the Wolverines allowed two power play goals in the last 5:32 of the third period to lose 3-2.
Heading into this series, one of the keys highlighted by interim head coach Dennis Williams was to stay out of the box and to keep it a 5-on-5 hockey game.
While the Falcons were mostly solid on the penalty kill on Thursday, they gave up two power play goals during the five-minute major penalty Tommy Dee was given for checking from behind.
"After [the two goals], I thought we settled down, we did a great job pressuring and we utilized a lot of guys in that role," Williams said after the game.
Sitting last in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association in goals, BG will need another solid performance from Nick Eno, who stopped 28 of 30 shots on Thursday.
For his efforts, Eno was named the Papa John's BGSU male athlete of the week.
With the win Thursday, Michigan now holds a commanding 74-33-3 lead in the all-time series over BG, including a 2-1 season series lead this year.
The silver lining for the Falcons is that their victory over Michigan this year came at Yost Ice Arena.
The loss dropped BG's overall record to 4-18-4, including a 3-13-4-3 mark in the CCHA.
BG now find themselves sitting square in the cellar of the CCHA standings, after Western Michigan swept Notre Dame this past weekend, giving them one more point than the Falcons.
Tonight's game starts at 7:35 at the Yost Ice Arena.
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