Monday, December 04, 2023

BU at the Break; Poll Story; R-O-W for Lachance; Hutson to Jr. National roster, SNL


Terriers were ranked #1 in both pre-season polls. After an underwhelming start to its season, let's see where the team is at the break...

▪ #2 in the Pairwise Rankings, trailing on a North Dakota team with whom BU split a series.

▪ #1 in the College Hockey News Power Rankings (based on KRACH). Also, #2 in Strength of Schedule.

▪ First place in the Hockey East standings. The only Hockey East team with one loss in conference play. Terriers have 23 points, while BC and Maine have 16 and Providence has 15. All three have a game in hand vs. BU.

▪ One year ago, BU stood at 11-5-0 at the break. Current record is 11-4-1. 

 ▪ With two assists Saturday, Macklin Celebrini has a 10-15-25 scoring line. He leads Hockey East in scoring and is third nationally. 

 ▪With four assists over the weekend, Lane Hutson is the top-scoring defenseman in Hockey East with 20 points on eight goals and 12 assists. No other blueliner in the country has scored more goals than Hutson, who ranks third nationally among defensemen in points.

▪ Cade Webber is tied for the national lead in shots blocked with 42. 

▪Terriers are 6th in team scoring nationally with 3.81 goals per game. In Hockey East games, BU's 4.22 GPG leads the conference.

▪ BU's power play is clicking at 25.4% for all games and 33.3% in conference games.

 

Recognition

                                Photo credit Matt Woolverton

►Freshman Shane Lachance has been named Hockey East's Rookie of the Week following a two-goal performance in Friday's 4-1 win against Merrimack. That matched his career best, first set in the 8-2 win over Notre Dame. Lachance has 11 points in 16 games plus a bushel of goal front screens that don't register on the scoresheet.

● GoTerriers.com Lachance named Hockey East Rookie of the Week 

 

►Lane Hutson has been named to the USA Hockey selection camp roster for the  Junior National Team that will compete in the World Junior Championships in Sweden. Hutson won a bronze with Team USA in last year's WJCs. He'll compete with 28 other for a final roster spot at the camp in Plymouth, Michigan, beginning December 14.

● GoTerriers.com Hutson named to preliminary roster for Jr. National Team

● FloHockey.tv's Chris Peters offers an early analysis of the roster.


Poll Story


In the USCHO D1 Poll, BU is tied with BC for the #2 spot, up from #5 last week. Terriers received eight first-place votes to four for the Eagles. Top ranked North Dakota (947 points) received 33 first-place votes.

BU is #2 (620 points) in the USA Hockey/The Rink Live College Hockey poll, ahead of BC (607) and behind North Dakota (649). Terriers received six first-place votes.

The Everything College Hockey ranking now has BU at #2, while John Buccigross’s ranking bumps BU up from #6 to #5.


SNL (Saturday Night Leftovers)

Saturday’s win brings BU’s record on home ice to 7-1-1 this season with an overtime loss to North Dakota being the only blemish. Since Jay Pandolfo took the reins as BU Head Coach, the team’s home record is 21-4-0 with three of the losses coming in overtime.

Nick Zabaneh game-winning goal and an assist on Tom Willander’s tally earned him the jacket. On Friday, the honor went to Shane Lachance who scored a pair of goals. So, how does that jacket fit both 5'10" Zabaneh and 6'5" Lachance?

Zabaneh became the 16th Terrier to score a goal this season .

Goalie Mathieu Caron has allowed just one even-strength goal in each of his last three starts.

Freshman Tom Willander, who excels at ending opponents' plays, leads the Terriers--as well as Hockey East--in plus/minus with +13, followed by Luke Tuch at +8. He's also tied with Devin Kaplan for best shooting percentage:  .188, 3 goals on 16 shots. His third goal.

Quinn Hutson's goal 23 seconds into Saturday's game, assisted by Celebrini and Tuch, was the third pallindromic goal from BU's top unit: 17-11-71.


Looking ahead

2024 recruit Michael Chambre has won his last three starts and four of his last six. He has a 7-2-1 record for the Sioux Falls Stampede.

2025 recruit Charlie Trethewey assisted on a pair of power play goals for the NTDP U17s in a 4-3 overtime loss to USHL Chicago. Trethewey, a defenseman, leads the U17s in points with a 6-13-19 scoring line. Fellow recruit Jack Murtagh also had an assist and now has 14 points.

Thanks to the blog reader who pointed out we missed 2024 recruit Max Lacroix's first NAHL shutout. The former Governor's Academy standout blanked Corpus Christie, 3-0, for his second win with the Colorado Grit. Lacroix, who recently delivered the NHL Hall of Fame induction speech for his late grandfather, Pierre  Lacroix, stopped all 36 shots by the Ice Rays. 

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