In the long-delayed season-opener of the program’s 99th campaign,Terriers dropped a 7-3 decision to Providence at Walter Brown Arena. BU had taken a 3-1 lead five minutes into the second period, but the Friars would respond with six unanswered goals to secure their fourth win of the season.
The teams meet again tonight at Schneider Arena with puck drop at 7 p.m. The game will air live on NESN and be live-streamed on CollegeSportsLive.com
The visitors got on the board just two minutes into the game when Chase Yoder slid a loose puck in the crease under freshman goalie Drew Commesso. BU matched that tally at 9:16 on a power play when sophomore transfer—from Providence—Jay O’Brien converted the rebound of a Jake Wise shot with Dave Farrance also assisting. Just a minute and half later, BU took the lead. Farrance took a return pass from senior transfer—from Vermont—Max Kaufman as he skated to the right circle. Channeling Trevor Zegras, the senior defenseman did a 180-spin and fired a cross-ice pass to freshman Luke Tuch for a one-timer from the left circle that beat goalie Jaxon Stauber.
Early in the second period, Tuch controlled the puck behind the PC goal line and classmate Dylan Peterson sent it to the point. Sean Driscoll’s hard wrist shot beat Stauber to extend the BU lead.
The rest of the period belonged to Providence. Top scorer Tyce Thompson and Yoder scored in a 51-second span to knot the score at three apiece before Max Crozier’s tally, the eventual game-winner, made it 4-3.
After a power-play goal and an even-strength tally early in the third, Coach Albie O’Connell replaced Commesso with sophomore Ashton Abel who gave up a final goal, making the score 7-3.
Five players, including Case McCarthy, Robert Mastrosimone and Wilmer Skoog, were unavailable due to unspecified reason, but O’Connell indicated several would be back in the line-up tonight.
● GoTerriers.com recap and comprehensive box score
● Post-game comments: O’Connell, Logan Cockerill
● Boston Hockey Blog recap
1970-71 flashback 1-9-71 BU 8 BC 3
Sophomore Ron Anderson's first career hat trick led BU to an 8-3 win against archrival BC at McHugh Forum as the Terriers improved to 10-0-1. The contest was the 100th in the BU-BC rivalry. Anderson, who scored once in each period, was coming off a six-point effort against Princeton. BU scored on three of four power plays and poured 51 shots on the BC goal.
BU took a 4-2 lead after one on tallies from Captain Steve Stirling, Bob Brown, John Danby and Anderson, who also had the only score in the middle period, assisted by Guy Burrowes and Peter Yetten.
The Eagles closed the margin to 5-3 early in the third period and it remained that way until the final three minutes when Brown, Danby and Anderson all found the BC net.
Goalie Tim Regan stopped 33 BC shots and improved his record to 8-0-1.
● Boston Hockey Blog recap
Looking ahead
2022 recruit Devin Kaplan (#39) scored a pair of goals and assisted on two others to lead the NTDP U17s to a 7-5 win against Chicago Steel. His coast-to-coast rush with a wraparound tally early in the third period to give the U.S. a two-goal lead for the first time in the game. The power forward from Bridgewater, N.J., earned the game’s first star and now has 22 points (8G, 14A) in 18 games. Fellow U17 recruit Lane Hutson added an assist while Chicago’s Jack Harvey, a 2022 recruit, also had a helper.
● USA Hockey recap
2021 recruit Quinn Hutson scored a goal and added an assist in Muskegon’s 5-4 shootout win against Green Bay.
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