Sunday, November 05, 2023

Hutson’s hatty goes for naught as BU falls in OT; Women win in OT

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In another thriller of a game—in which BU never led, but responded in each period—North Dakota had the last word when Jackson Blake scored 20 seconds into overtime to nail down a 5-4 win and a split of the weekend series, with nearly 5,000 fans in attendance at Agganis Arena.

                                  Photo credit Gracie Davenport
Sophomore assistant captain Lane Hutson scored BU's first three goals--one in the first period, two in the second--for his first career hat trick, while Devin Kaplan's late tally sent the game to overtime. Macklin Celebrini assisted on Hutson's first goal and on Kaplan's. Mathieu Caron turned aside 21 shots.

“We’re understanding you have to play a certain way to be successful,” Head Coach Jay Pandolfo said. “It’s gonna take a little bit of time, but I think we’re moving in the right direction … that’s a really good hockey team over there, so overall like I said, I’m happy with it.”

“When you get into these games that are tight, you have to understand that you have to play a simple game — and when we did that — we had a lot of success,” he added. “I think that’s the biggest lesson.”

Just like Friday's game, both teams pushed the pace from the opening whistle. Three minutes in, Jake Schultz received a five-minute major for an elbow to Macklin Celebrini’s head.After several near tallies, BU thought it had scored a power-play goal when Celebrini converted Ryan Greene’s pass to the goalmouth, but a review confirmed the Terriers were offside.

Killing off the major gave UND momentum and they initiated the scoring at 15:36 on a snap shot by Riese Gaber from right circle that beat Caron. 

Three minutes later, Hutson's first goal drew BU even. Taking a pass from Ty Gallagher at the blue line, he deked a defender, moved to the middle and wristed a shot that beat goalie Ludvig Persson who was screened by Greene.

 The visitors regained the lead at 1:01 of the second period when Owen McLaughlin got behind the BU defense, received a pass and scored from the doorstep. Midway through the period, they extended the lead to 3-1 on Jayden Perron's power play snipe.

With just under three minutes left in the period, BU cut the deficit in half. Hutson dropped a pass to Celebrini at the bottom of the right circle and then headed to the slot just in time to redirect Celebrini’s return pass past a diving Persson. Kaplan had the secondary assist.

Then, with half a minute left, Shane Lachance controlled the puck behind the Fighting Hawks’ cage and feathered a pass through traffic to Lane Hutson in the left circle. He hesitated  a moment while Dylan Peterson parked himself in front of Persson and then found a small space on the goalie’s glove side to tie the game. It was his first career hat trick.

 

 

North Dakota regained the lead early in the third with a set play off the draw. A quick shot by Ben Strinden beat Caron high to the stick side.

BU put on the pressure, creating good chances, but no equalizer.  It was looking like BU would be pulling Caron for an extra skater, but with just over two minutes remaining, Macklin Celebrini sent a cross ice pass to Cade Webber at the left point. The senior blueliner threw the puck toward the cage and Kaplan redirected it past Persson, knotting the score at 4-4. 

In the final minute of regulation, Doug Grimes fired from the high slot, but his shot went over the net, possibly catching iron along the way.

And then, the overtime was over in the blink of an eye. With arguably its three best players—Hutson, Celebrini and Luke Tuch— on the ice for the 3-on-3, the Terriers never touched the puck as Blake's game-winner--a great individual effort--came on the first possession of overtime.


With two assists, Celebrini remains atop the Hockey East scoring chart with an 8-6-14 line. Hutson (6-3-9) and Jeremy Wilmer (0-9-9) are tied for seventh.

Hutson ranks first among all NCAA defensemen with six goals this season.

In addition to his assist, Webber had six of BU's 16 blocks. 

“I thought [Webber] had a terrific weekend,” Pandolfo explained. “He’s hard to play against, he’s great on the penalty kill, he’s playing against the other team’s top players … he’s feeling healthy clearly, so that was the biggest difference for him.” 

For North Dakota, the win puts them back on top in the all-time series with BU, 13-12-1.

Next up for BU is a home-and-home with UMass Lowell, beginning Friday night at Tsongas Arena.

● GoTerriers.com recap and comprehensive box score

● Video highlights and Pandolfo post-game comments

● Boston Hockey Blog recap

 

Looking ahead

2025 recruit Charlie Trethewey fired a pair of power-play goals and assisted on three other man-advantage tallies as Team USA routed Finland, 8-3, in the 2023 World U17 Challenge in Prince Edward Island.  Fellow recruit Jack Murtagh also had a power-play goal and Conrad Fondrk assisted on the first goal by Trethewey, who leads the NTDP U17s in scoring with 17 points (4G, 13A). Fondrk is second with 8-8-16.

● USA Hockey recap and box score

 

Women’s Team  


For the second day in a row, Terriers found themselves in overtime with the Merrimack Warriors and again, BU produced a winner for a 4-3 victory and a weekend sweep.  Senior defenseman Tamara Giaquinto scored at 1:59 of the extra session, assisted by Christina Vote. Terriers are now 4-0-1 in their last five games.

After Merrimack took a 1-0 lead early in the second period, BU responded with a pair of goals from Lacey Martin, the first assisted by Alex Law and Clara Yuhn, the second on a power play assisted by Vote and Andi Calderone.

Merrimack tied the score at 6:49 of the third, but a minute later, Martin completed her hat trick, from Yuhn and Law for a 3-2 lead. That lasted until the final minute of regulation when the Warriors scored an extra-attacker tally with just 12 seconds left.

In overtime, Vote sent Giaquinto and Yuhn away on a 2-on-1. Giaquinto fired from the right circle, beating Calli Hogarth high to the stick side.

Alexa Matses stopped 12 shots for BU.

● GoTerriers.com recap and comprehensive box score

● Video highlights

● Post-game comments Coach Tara Watchorn and Martin

● Boston Hockey Blog recap

 

 

 


 

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