Coach Albie O’Connell’s Spring Newsletter looks back at the truncated and frequently interrupted past season and ahead to next year, noting that Logan Cockerill, Max Kaufman and Ty Amonte will all return next season. He hints at the addition of a player through the transfer portal: that player reportedly is UMass Lowell left wing Matt Brown.
The letter also notes David Farrance repeating as first-team All-American and turning pro with Nashville; lists the 18 Terriers who played in the NHL this season, along with 14 in the AHL and 19 others playing professionally; and the $220,000 raised for the hockey program on BU Giving Day.
● GoTerriers.com Spring Newsletter
Looking ahead
Team USA, currently playing
pre-tournament exhibitions for the IIHF World U18 Championships in Frisco, Texas, includes a pair of future Terrier blueliners: 2021 recruit Roman
Schmidt and 2022 recruit Lane Hutson who has moved up from the NTDP U17s.
Hutson had three assists in Team USA’s 7-6 overtime loss to Russia. In last night's 2-1 win against The Czech Republic, he set up Team USA's tying goal in the third period and then scored the only goal in the shootout to give the US the extra points.
Schmidt, a 6’5” right-shot who had 14 points (3G,11A) for the U18s this season, received a B-ranking from Central Scouting in its midterm rankings. Hutson had 19 points (5G, 14A) for the U17s and six points for the U18s.
tw-align-centerLane Hutson is one of the smartest players I’ve watched in the last 12 months. Seriously.
— Gabe Foley (@NHLFoley) April 26, 2021
His hockey IQ and ability to think quick is incredible. He combines it with great hands and super-smooth skating.
The ‘22 eligible joins the US team in the U18s today. Keep an eye out.
A pair of 2021 recruits on the U18s, forwards Jeremy Wilmer and Tyler Boucher, will miss the tournament due to injuries. Wilmer, a small, speedy right-shot, was fourth in points for the U18s with a 11-25-36 line in 37 games.
Boucher, also a right-shot, has missed most of the season with a leg injury. The son of former NHL goalie and current NBC analyst Brian Boucher, he was profiled this week by New England Hockey Journal (a subscription publication). His U18 coach, Dan Muse, says:
“Tyler is a power forward who also has the skill-set where he can make plays with anybody. He’s a guy who plays a powerful, physical game. He can create space for those guys who are around him. In terms of getting in on the forecheck, finishing checks, driving the net and driving defenders wide, he’s able to create space with and without the puck, and he leads with power. He plays a (Washington Capitals right wing) Tom Wilson type of game. It’s not just physical and power, there’s also a skill element to it. He has a great shot, a hard release. He can score from distance and around the net.”
A former Avon Old Farms standout who earned a B-rating from NHL Central Scouting, Boucher says he wants to be “physical and mean out there.”
“I wanted to anger people. But at the same time, I can use my skills, too. My coaches and my dad helped me find that. My dad said to me halfway through the year that I needed to watch Tom Wilson, (Calgary Flames left wing) Matthew Tkachuk and (Montreal Canadiens right wing) Josh Anderson. Those three players, that has to be me. Ever since then, I’ve been watching them and adding stuff that I see in their games to my game. At the same time, I’m also my own player and my own version of that. I try to play that mean, hard, powerful, skill game.”
Lane Hutson’s older brother, 2021 or 2022 recruit Quinn Hutson, scored Muskegon’s only goal in a 5-1 loss to Chicago. The right-shot forward, who began the season at Penticton and joined the Lumberjacks in December has a 16-26-42 line in 45 games.
2021 recruit Brian Carrabes scored a goal and added two assists in Sioux City’s 5-3 win against Fargo. The right-shot forward has a 21-19-40 line in 45 games and has six goals in his last seven games.
2023 recruit Jack Musa scored his eighth goal and assisted on two others in the Odessa Jackalopes’ 4-3 win against New Mexico.
Looking back
Brady Tkachuk scored his 16th goal and added an assist in Ottawa’s 6-3 win against Vancouver.
Charlie Coyle’s unassisted goal broke a 2-2 tie in the third period as the Bruins defeated Buffalo, 5-2. It was Coyle’s sixth goal. Charlie McAvoy added an assist.
Mike Eruzione is the special guest for the 200th episode of The Morning Skate podcast. He’s joined on the interview with Wisconsin hockey manager Clara Boudette whose father, Neal Boudette, co-authored Eruzione’s autobiography, Making of a Miracle, and is a blog contributor.
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