Monday, January 15, 2024

UPDATED HEA weekly honors for Celebrini, Caron; A Clean Sweep of the Polls; SNL supersized

Recognition

Mathieu Caron is Hockey East's Goaltender of the Week after authoring his first shutout as a Terrier and stopping 60 shots in two victories.

With three goals and an assist in two BU wins, Macklin Celebrini earned conference Rookie of the Week honors for the second time this season.

● GoTerriers.com Caron, Celebrini collect Hockey East weekly awards

UPDATE: A pair of Terriers were named to the Hockey East weekly top performers list.

Sam Stevens, BU (Gr., F; Montreal, Que.) Extended his point streak to five games with goals in the Terriers’ wins over Northeastern and No. 16 New Hampshire. He opened the scoring in Tuesday’s win over the Huskies with a first-period strike. He also got the game-winning goal in Saturday’s 3-0 win, scoring with 8:35 remaining in regulation. Stevens also helped the Terriers go 7-for-7 on the penalty kill during the week.

Lane Hutson, BU (So., D; North Barrington, Ill.) Recorded a goal and assisted on two others, including the game-winner, in a 4-3 overtime victory over Northeastern on Tuesday. Hutson also blocked seven shots on the week. He leads all NCAA defensemen with nine goals and is first among league blue liners with 23 points

 

 Poll Story

A combined six polls and rankings agree: Terriers are #1.

Terriers have replaced BC atop the USCHO D1 Weekly Poll with 32 first-place votes to 12 for the #2 Eagles. # Quinnipiac received 2. Other Hockey East teams in the top 20: #8 Maine, #9 Providence, #12 UMass and #17 New Hampshire.

It was a volatile, upset-filled weekend in Division 1. BU, Quinnipiac and Michigan St. were the only top 11 teams in last week’s USCHO Weekly Poll to escape unscathed.

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In the USA Hockey/The Rink Live poll, BU leapfrogged BC to take over the #1 spot, taking 27 of 34 first-place votes. Quinnipiac, Wisconsin and Michigan State round out the top five. 

The last time BU was #1 in both major polls, during the season, was December 14, 2014.4  BU's next regular-season game was on Jan. 3 against defending national champion Union, which resulted in a 3-3 tie. BU played without Jack Eichel who was at the World Junior Championships.

John Buccigross’s updated D1 ranking has BU at #1, followed by BC, Quinnipiac, Michigan State and Wisconsin. Everything College Hockey has the Terriers on top with Michigan State second and BC third, plus five other Hockey East schools: #8 Maine, #9 Providence, #18 UMass, #19 UNH and #20 Merrimack.

Terriers also move to the top of the Pairwise Rankings followed by BC, Michigan State, Quinnipiac, Wisconsin and Maine.  College Hockey News' Power Rankings follow suit with BU ranked #1 just ahead of BC.


SNL (Saturday Night Leftovers)

ICYMI: defkit’s Terrier Takeaway

►Dogs over Cats: BU is now 15-1-2 in its last 18 games against UNH; 9-0-1 in the last 10 home games.

►Terriers blocked 25 shots in Saturday’s win. Cade Webber continues to lead Hockey East with 53 blocks overall, followed by his blueline partner, Captain Case McCarthy, with 42.

 

Caron returns the love to his Dog Pound fans.

►BU is 25-for-27 (92.6%) on the penalty kill since Nov. 22.

And that one loss in regulation? 2-0 to Northeastern and Devon Levi with the Huskies scoring an ENG. BU outshot NU 41-26

 

►With two assists against UNH, Luke Tuch has a career high 13 and is within 2 points of his career-best 20 set last year. He has five multi-point games this season.

►With the Agganis Arena sound system down, the 90+ members of the Alumni BU Band provided stellar off-ice entertainment for the sellout crowd.

►With 29 points in 17 games, Macklin Celebrini is second among all Division 1 skaters in points-per-game with 1.71. Lane Hutson is tied for second among defensemen with 1.35 PPG.

Looking ahead

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2024 recruits Cole Eiserman, Kamil Bednarik and Cole Hutson will skate for Team Blue in today’s USA Hockey Chipotle All-American Game which airs on NHL Network at 4 p.m. 

Update: Eiserman scored a third period goal to bring Team Blue even at 4-4, but Team White scored in overtime for a 5-4 win. Blue received strong efforts from all three BU recruits.

● NHL.com preview

2025 recruit Charlie Trethewey spoke with hockey podcaster George Guay about why he committed to BU and about his path to the NTDP U17s, where the 6’1” defenseman is second on the team in points with 30. Fellow commits Jack Murtagh and Conrad Fondrk are tied for third with 25 points.

● Just Say Guay podcast - Trethewey

 

Looking back

Jack Eichel, who is leading Vegas in goals (19) and points (44) is going to "miss a little bit of time" with a lower body injury, according to Coach Bruce Cassidy. Eichel had been named to the 2024 NHL All-Star game.

With his sixth overtime goal in Saturday’s Bruins’ win over St. Louis, Charlie McAvoy has surpassed Ray Bourque for most OT goals by a defenseman in franchise history.

In today's 3-0 shutout of the Devils, Charlie Coyle scored his 15th goal and McAvoy recorded his 23 assist.

The other Blackhawks rookie is quietly making an impact.

Matt Brown is playing in tonight's ECHL All-Star game (also on NHL Network). Brown leads the Reading Royals in scoring with 29 points in 26 games.                  

UPDATE: And he did this!

Women's Team

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Terriers head to Harvard's Bright-Landry Hockey Center tomorrow to face off against #Boston College in the opening round of the Women's Beanpot Tournament. Puck drop is at 4 p.m. for the game that will air on NESN and be live streamed on ESPN+.

Head Coach Tara Watchorn will be back behind the BU bench after leading Team Canada in the Women's World U18 tournament.

The January 23 championship and consolation games will return to TD Garden.

● GoTerriers.com preview, Game Notes, Live Stats,

● Live Stream ESPN+, International Link

● The Boston Hockey Blog game preview

Anezka Cabelova, 2025 recruit, had a 2-6-8 scoring line in the tournament, including the final goal in Czechia’s upset win over Canada.

 

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