Saturday, December 30, 2023

Terriers resume with an exclamation mark; Hutson & Willander spark WJC wins

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#2 Terriers launched second semester with a dominating 6-1 road win over Yale, paced by two goals apiece from Dylan Peterson and Shane Lachance and a career-best three-assist effort from Devin Kaplan. Ryan Greene and Jack Hughes also found the net while "assist machine" Jeremy Wilmer and Sam Stevens each added a pair of helpers. Goalie Matthieu Caron faced some challenging shots from the Elis and stopped 23 of 24.

Playing without its top two scorers--Macklin Celebrini and Lane Hutson--and defender Tom Willander (see WJCs below), BU pumped 41 shots on Yale goalie Nathan Reid to produce its second six-goal game of the season. 

“Overall, not playing for that long, I thought the effort was there. I was happy with the result obviously, and I think for the most part, our guys played pretty well,” head coach Jay Pandolfo said postgame. 

BU got on the board just three minutes in when Quinn Hutson sprung Luke Tuch and Greene on a 2-on-1. Tuch's wrister from the left circle was defended but an unmarked Greene buried the rebound for his seventh goal.

Just two minutes later, Mick Frechette send Wilmer through center ice and into the offensive zone. He dropped a pass to Peterson at the right dot and the senior wing whipped a shot past Reid for his fourth tally of the season.

Yale cut the lead in half at 12:27 when Lisai Pesonen's wrister from the slot got past Caron.

Midway through the second period, a five-minute major on Kalen Szeto gave the Terriers a chance to extend the lead, which they did at 11:48. On the power play, Ty Gallagher returned a pass to Hughes who skated into the left circle and ripped a shot past Reid with Tuch providing a well-timed screen. Kaplan also assisted.

Late in the period with BU applying pressure, Stevens collected the puck in the left circle, spun around and fired a shot that was block. The puck came to Kaplan in the slot for a quick release that Lachance redirected home for his sixth goal and a 4-1 lead after two periods.

Seven minutes later the Terriers struck again. Wilmer passed to Peterson as he wheeled into the Yale zone and then lasered a shot from the right circle for his second of the night and fifth of the season.

The final and prettiest goal of the night came just past the nine-minute mark. BU won a d-zone draw and Kaplan sent the puck ahead to Lachance who worked a text-book give and go with Stevens. The 6'5" freshman took the return pass from Stevens and wired home his seventh of the season.

Peterson, recovered from the injuries that slowed him for several games and kept him out of the second Merrimack game, was immense all night. Besides his two goals, he hunted pucks and frustrated Yale power plays with relentless fore-checking. 

“I didn’t skate at all over break, it was more just like a mental reset,” Peterson told the Boston Hockey Blog. “Obviously I was injured for the last stretch of that first half, so just taking a mental break and just kind of recouping and coming back tonight was pretty big for me.”

BU was 1 for 4 on power plays and stopped all three Eli man advantages, limiting them to a combined one shot. Cade Webber had four of the Terriers' 14 blocks.

● GoTerriers.com recap and box score

● Video highlights

● Post-game comments Coach Jay Pandolfo

● Boston Hockey Blog Peterson, Lachance headline 6-1 win over Yale  

 

World Junior Championships

Tom Willander's wrister from the high slot that beat goalie Mathis Rousseau was the game-winner as Sweden surprised Canada, 2-0 in WJC action in Gothenburg, Sweden. After three games, the host country leads the Group A standings.

● IIHF game recap

Team USA defeated Czechia in a shootout, 4-3. Lane Hutson assisted on the game-tying goal, played a team-high 26:16 and was named U.S. player of the game. The U.S. is one point behind Slovakia in Group B and will take on the Slovakians on Sunday at 6:00 a.m. ET.

● USA Hockey game recap and The Inside Story with Lane Hutson

Looking ahead

2024 recruit Brandon Svoboda scored his third goal in Youngstown's 8-5 loss to Muskegon.

2025 recruit Charlie Trethewey's overtime goal (VIDEO), assisted by fellow recruit Conrad Fondrk gave the NTDP 17s a 2-1 win over Green Bay. Fondrk's third-period tally had knotted the game at 1-1.  Trethewey, a right-shot defenseman, has a 9-18-27 line in 27 games. Left-shot forward Fondrk has a 10-13-23 line in 27.

 2024 recruit Michael Chambre stopped 19 shots to backstop Sioux Falls to a 6-3 win over Sioux City. 2025 recruit John McNelis scored his eighth goal and added an assist for the Stampede. 2024 recruit Owen Keefe had an assist for SC.

Looking back

Evan Rodrigues' seventh goal (VIDEO) gave Florida an early lead in what proved to be a 5-4 win against the Rangers.

Clayton Keller's 13th goal (VIDEO) was the game-winner in the Coyotes; 2-0 win over Anaheim.

 

 

 


 

 


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