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Nick Zabaneh picking up goals, confidence at the perfect time for Terriers​

March 14, 2023 8:36 am by Daily Free Press AdminViews: 449

Photo by Caroline Fernandez

By Mitch Fink

On paper, Nick Zabaneh’s playoff hat trick is a shocking outcome.
Coming into BU’s Saturday’s Hockey East quarterfinal against Vermont, the junior was one of the Terriers’ lowest scoring forwards, with five goals and nine points.
But Zabaneh’s three-goal eruption against the Catamounts came as no surprise to Jay Pandolfo or his teammates. Instead, the offensive breakthrough was a quantifiable representation of the way Zabaneh has been playing for weeks now.
“He wants to help the team offensively, and he did that tonight,” Pandolfo said of Zabaneh after the Terriers routed the Catamounts, 7-3, on Saturday. “He’s been, arguably, over the last month, six weeks, our best forward.”
Zabaneh, a speedy, hard-charging skater who thrives in transition, was a matchup nightmare for Vermont’s structured defensive scheme. On his first goal, Zabaneh slipped past Vermont’s burly defensemen on the weak side, finding a wide open seam to tap home Dylan Peterson’s feed.
When Zabaneh picks up a head of steam and gets going, it’s almost impossible for defenders to catch up to him. He’s undoubtedly BU’s fastest player, and he has a case as the quickest skater in Hockey East.
 

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