Friday, June 07, 2024

Report: Blue-chip D recruit to accelerate; full schedule announced

                            Youngstown Phantoms | Sascha Boumedienne has been named to the All-USHL Rookie First Team. Congratulations Sascha! | Instagram

Hockey journalist Mark Divver posted that Swedish defenseman Sascha Boumedienne will now head to Comm Ave. for the 2024-25 season, one year earlier than previously expected. The 6-2 left-shot defenseman, who committed to BU committed to BU last Winter after being tendered by the USHL Youngtown Phantoms. He earned All-Rookie honors after producing a 3-24-27 scoring line in 49 games with .55 points/game--tops for USHL first-year defensemen.

Boumedienne represented Sweden in last season's World U17 Hockey Challenge, earning a bronze medal, and wore the Tre Kroner in 25 international games over the past two seasons. Before his USHL season, he starred in the Ohio Blue Jackets organization.

Boumedienne is the son of former NHLer Josef Boumedienne who is an assistant coach for the Columbus Blue Jackets. He turned 17 last January and will be eligible for the 2025 NHL Draft.

With the blueliner's acceleration, BU would have eight defensemen on the 2024-25 roster: holdovers Tom Willander, Gavin McCarthy, Aidan Celebrini, Mick Frechette and Jack Page, transfer Brehdan Engum, and freshmen Cole Hutson and Boumedienne. 

►An NHL.com story on the NHL Combine (this week in Buffalo) features Macklin Celebrini's meeting with the San Jose Sharks who hold the overall first pick in this month's Entry Draft. It also covers Jack Pridham's experiences at prior NHL drafts, as a runner assisting his father, Toronto assistant GM, Brandon Pridham. The right wing, who earned BCHL All-Rookie honor after putting up 49 points, revealed that he'll play a second season with West Kelowna and be part of BU's 2025 recruit class. 

"I think another year of development (with West Kelowna) will be good," he said. "I have to continue to get stronger. Another year of juniors is only going to help get me ready for the next level."


Terriers' full 2024-25 schedule--34 regular-season games and two exhibition games--has been announced and posted on the Go.Terriers.com web site. BU opens the season with two non-conference home games, Oct. 5 vs. Holy Cross and Oct. 12 vs. Union, followed by the Hockey East opener against UConn, at home on Oct. 18. 

The out-of-conference schedule also includes a pair of road games against North Dakota, two at home with Michigan, a late December return to New Haven to play Yale and the Beanpot Tournament with a first-round match-up against Harvard.

Terriers will play a pair at Maine for the first time since 2021-22 and will meet Providence and Vermont three times. 

● GoTerriers.com Men's Hockey Announces Schedule

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