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Charlie McAvoy assisted on the tying goal and
then scored the overtime game-winner (video)
in the Bruins’ 4-3 win against Carolina. The former BU All-American has seven
goals and 30 points. McAvoy and Will Butcher are tied for second, by one point,
among rookie blueliners in scoring.
Former Terrier standout Danny O’Regan has been reunited with his Terrier linemates, Jack Eichel and Evan Rodrigues, after
being traded to the Sabres by San Jose as part of a deal for Evander Kane.The 2017 AHL Rookie of the Year, had 25
points in 31 games for the San Jose Barracuda this year, along with four points
in 19 games with the Sharks.
Terriers season came to an end with a
heartbreaking loss in game three of their quarterfinal series against Maine. BU
took a 3-0 lead early in the third period only to see the Black Bears’s Stacey
Brooke fashion a hat trick to tie the score. Maine’s Tereza Vanisova netted the
game-winner at 4:39 of overtime.
BU scored twice in the first period on power
play goals by captain Rebecca Leslie and Victoria Bach. An unassisted tally by
NataszaTarnowski gave BU its 3-0 lead. Goalie Erin O’Neil stopped 36 shots.
Bach was named Hockey East Player of the
Month for February, her third monthly honor of the season. The senior led the
league for the month with seven goals and 13 points and closed the month on a
seven game point streak. A finalist for
the Patty Kazmaier Award, Bach finished her BU career as all-time leader in
goals (104) and points (198).
Terriers poured 34 shots on Vermont goalie
Stefanos Lekkas but only produced one goal and had to settle for a 1-1 tie in
the regular-season finale. Jordan Greenway’s first period goal held up until
the opening minute of the third period when Alex Esposito scored on a power
play to knot the score.
BU finishes the season in fourth place and, following a first-round bye in the Hockey East playoffs, will host Connecticut in the best-of-three quarterfinals beginning March 9.
Greenway’sgoal at 18:44 came on a wrist shot from the high slot off a set-up by
Brady Tkachuk. Kasper Kotkansalo also assisted. BU dominated the middle period
with a 17-9 shot advantage with eight shots coming on power plays, but failed to
beat Lekkas.
At the end of the second period, Tkachuk took
a five-minute major and a game misconduct for a hit to the head. The power play continued into the third period
and just 38 seconds in, Esposito took a pass just below the right circle and
beat Jake Oettinger for the equalizer.Oettinger finished the game with 28 saves.
Coach David Quinn summed up the contest, saying:
“I thought it was a sloppy game from
our end too often. We had our chances on the power play. Their goalie made some
great saves.”
He went on to announce that sophomore Patrick
Harper, sidelined since January 6, would miss the rest of the season, but will make
a full recovery and play next season:
“Good news is he’s going to be fine,
it’s nothing too serious. I couldn’t pronounce
[the illness] if you put a gun to my head. We literally got word today so we’ll
elaborate on it a little bit later.”
A pair of goals from senior captain
Rebecca Leslie and tallies by senior Victoria Bach and freshman Jesse Compher
paced BU to a 4-1 win over Maine, forcing a deciding third game in the Hockey
East quarterfinal series at Alfond Arena. The teams face off today at 2 p.m.(Live
stream)
Bach gave BU an early lead with an unassisted
score in the first period. Leslie and Compher ( a shorthander) extended the
lead to 3-0 in the middle stanza. A Maine unassisted goal in the third narrowed
the lead, but senior goalie Erin O’Neil stopped 10 Black Bear shots in the
period, while Leslie’s empty-netter produced the final 4-1 score.
Behind goals from Drew Melanson and David
Farrance and a 33-save effort by Jake Oettinger, BU blanked Vermont, 2-0, at
Agganis Arena to nail down the fourth seed in the Hockey East Playoffs. For Oettinger, it was his fourth shutout of
the season, having previously blanked Providence, Maine and Arizona State.
The game also marked a milestone for Head
Coach David Quinn, who notched his 100th win, joining Harry
Cleverly, Jack Kelley and Jack Parker as BU coaches who reached the century
mark.
After a bye week, BU will host a quarterfinal,
best-of-three series against either Maine or Connecticut beginning March 9. (Playoff
format).BU and Vermont conclude
the regular season tonight at 7 p.m. with Senior Night Ceremonies preceding the
contest. The game will be live-streamed on Terrier TV.
Jordan Greenway, who suited up a day after
returning from the PyeongChang Olympic Games, set up a power play goal early in
the first period, centering a pass in the slot to Melanson, who fought off a
Catamount defender, to beat Stefanos Lekkas. Hank Crone also assisted and has
seven points in his last eight games.
BU extended the lead early in the second.
Gabriel Chabot disrupted a Vermont rush in the neutral zone with the puck
deflecting to Farrance racing into the offensive zone. From the left faceoff
circle, he wired a shot short side over Lekkas’s shoulder.
After outshooting the Catamounts over two
periods, 27-21, BU was on the short end of shots in the third, 12-8, but did a
good job of getting the puck deep in the Vermont zone and minimizing grade A
scoring chances. BU also dominated the
faceoff circle with Bobo Carpenter and Shane Bowers combining to win 14 of 19
draws.
Greenway’s return also paid dividends on the
penalty kill where BU had struggled in his absence. Last night, the Terriers
were a perfect four-for-four on the PK.
After giving up two-goal leads in some recent
games, Quinn was particularly pleased with how his squad closed out last night’s
win:
“I thought we really played smart hockey. They outshot us but
I thought we did a really good job of keeping things on the perimeter and not
giving up odd-man rushes. We had a boatload of chances to make it 3-0 and we
just couldn’t, but I really liked an awful lot about that third period.”
He also had praise for Farance whose shift to
forward has helped the third line provide offensive contributions:
“He’s doing a lot of good things, he’s
playing good hockey, he’s a very talented player. That’s a heck of a
shot he made to make it 2-0 and give us some breathing room. He’s coming along
for sure.”
Congrats to David Quinn on his 100th
career win! Quinny is the fourth BU coach to win 100 games, joining Jack
Parker, Harry Cleverly and Jack Kelley! pic.twitter.com/ZynExGXOYM
2018 recruit Jake Wise’s
first-period power play goalwas
the game-winner in the NTDP U18s’ 4-1
win against Central Illinois. Wise and fellow recruit Jack DeBoer had also assisted
on Team USA’s first goal. Tyler Weiss also picked up a helper.
2020 recruit Dylan Peterson drops the puck to
fellow recruit Donovan Sebrango, then heads to the net for a return pass and
converted the game-winner in overtime as CIHA Midget White edged Navan U18
AAA4, 5-4.
It was Peterson’s second goal and defenseman Sebrango’s third assist.
In the Voyageurs previous game, a 6-3
win against Cornwall U18, Peterson had a four-point game with two goals and
two assists. He leads CIHA in scoring with an 11-19-30 line in 26 games, while
Sebrango has five goals and 16 assists.
2021 recruit Jeremy Wilmer now has 73
points (34G, 39A) for the Long Island Gulls 14U Bantam Majors, equaling his
total of last season with the 14U Bantam Minors.
Women’s Team
Terriers’ dropped a 3-2 decision to Maine in
the opener of a best-of-three quarterfinal series at Alfond Arena. The Black
Bears took an early 1-0 lead and then scored twice more within a minute for a
3-0 lead. Nina Rodgers got BU on the board late in the first assisted by
captain Rebecca Leslie and Victoria Bach.Midway through the second period, Bach narrowed the margin to one with a
power play goal, assisted by Leslie and Jesse Compher.
BU outshot Maine 16-6 in the third period—including
a breakaway opportunity for Bach— but couldn’t produce an equalizer. The teams
play again today at 2 p.m. with BU looking to stave off elimination.
Leslie’s two assists gave her a program
record 101 career assists, surpassing Marie-Philip Poulin’s 100. She has 32
helpers this season and 53 points overall.
Terriers
begin the final weekend of the regular season with a pair of home games
against Vermont and an opportunity to clinch fourth place in Hockey East. Tonight’s contest at
Agganis Arena starts at 7:30 p.m. ET.
UConn’s
loss to UMass last night guarantees BU either fourth or fifth seed and a bye in
the first playoff round. Terriers would secure fourth place by taking three
points from the Catamounts. Any points Maine fails to get in its series with BC
would reduce that number.
Vermont
dropped a pair of games to Northeastern last weekend, but in recent weeks has
produced wins against Lowell and Providence, along with a tie against the
Friars—
all
on their home ice. The Catamount attack is led by Colton Ross with 15 goals and
21 points and Alex Esposito with 19 points. One-time BU commit Liam Coughlin
has 14 points. Sophomore goalie Stefnos Lekkas brings a 2.88 GAA and.912 save percentage to the game.
It
is expected that Jordan Greenway, who returned to Boston yesterday, will be in
the Terrier line-up. Patrick Harper, who has not played since January 6,
remains sidelined by illness.
Terriers
begin a best-of-three quarterfinal playoff series against Maine at Alfond
Arena. It marks the first time BU is playing a Hockey East playoff series on
the road. BU finished sixth in the conference while the Black Bears were third.
Maine swept the season series, taking all three games.
Senior
Victoria Bach has been named a Top -10 finalist for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial
Award, given annually to the top player in Women’s Division 1 hockey. Bach is
second in the nation in goals (36), first in goals per game (1.20) and third in
points per game (2.03).
She
joins Marie-Philip Poulin and Sarah Lefort as Terriers nominated for the
Kazmaier.
Poulin
and Jenn Wakefield of Team Canada earned silver medals at the PyeongChang
Olympics after Team USA won the gold-medal game, 3-2, in a shootout. Poulin had
given Canada a 2-1 lead before the U.S. tied the score in the third period. In the 2010 and 2014 gold-medal games (both against Team USA), Poulin scored the game-winning goals.
