Thursday, October 31, 2024

Rookie of the Month for Eiserman; Early 2025 draft rankings; Reid, Giaquinto, Shanahan claim monthly awards

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With four goals and an assist in five games, freshman Cole Eiserman earned Hockey East Rookie of the Month honors. The career goal-scoring leader at the NTDP scored twice, including the game-winner, in BU's only conference game thus far, a 4-2 win against UConn. 

GoTerriers.com reports that "Eiserman was just the second Terrier since at least 2002-03 to score four goals in his first three collegiate games; Shane Bowers also notched four goals in his first three games as a Terrier during the 2017-18 season."

● GoTerriers.com Eiserman Named Hockey East Rookie of the Month

● HockeyEastOnline.com Monthly Awards announced

 

►Devin Kaplan’s short-handed tally against North Dakota made Hockey East’s Plays of the Week.

►Boston Hockey Blog’s Eli Cloutier examines how the Terriers regrouped after being “out-battled, out-competed” on Friday and “responded” on Saturday to deal North Dakota its first regular-season home loss in more than a year.

● Boston Hockey Blog: BU men’s hockey showed resilience in split with North Dakota

►A shift-by-shift look at Hockey East Defender of the Week Tom Willander in Saturday’s win against North Dakota. Also, a look at his defense partner, Sascha Boumedienne, who is the youngest player in D1 this season.

►Blog contributor BU Oldtimer provided his thoughts on a second viewing of Saturday’s win.

One man's opinions and observations. As always, dissenting and concurring opinions are welcome.

1. BU had survived slow starts versus Holy Cross and Union prior to last weekend. Certainly, North Dakota is a much stronger opponent, and made BU pay for its sins Friday night. Simply stated, two or three crisp passes in rapid succession are apt to make any defense look inept, slow and flat footed, especially when the opponent is as fast and talented as North Dakota is.

2. While watching Saturday night's game, I thought BU struggled to get behind the North Dakota defense to establish an effective forecheck. After viewing the replay my observation was wrong. Aside from a few short stretches, BU had plenty of prolonged possessions in the offensive zone.

3. In his Takeaways from Saturday night's game, defkit praised Tom Willander's play. I agree. Aside from missing a center ice check on North Dakota's second goal Friday night, he had a very solid weekend. He keeps his play simple and straightforward.

4. It seems that Ryan Greene has scored several PP goals in a similar manner. The puck is down low around the opponent's net drawing in the defenders. The BU point man rotates to the left faceoff circle allowing Greene to slyly move to the top of the slot, receive a pass and take a shot from dead on center.

5. I thought Jack Hughes and Jack Harvey had solid weekends.

6. Doug Grimes took a shift late in Saturday night's game and acquitted himself well.

7. Cole Hutson had a tough weekend. Let's hope he benefits from the experience.

Looking ahead

►McKeen’s Hockey has announced its initial Top 32 ranking for the 2025 entry draft and it includes 2025 recruit forward Jack Murtagh (#28) and current freshman blueliner Sascha Boumedienne (#30). McKeen’s also listed 14 honorable mentions and four are future Terriers: 2025 recruits Conrad Fondrk, Carter Amico and Charlie Trethewey, and 2026 recruit Haoxi (Simon) Wang.

●  McKeen’s Hockey First Top 32 Draft Ranking

►Scout Joseph Stanislau assesses Devils’ goalie prospects including 2025 recruit Mikhail Yegorov, now in his second USHL season, whom he describes as “a real stud of a goalie. (includes video)

Mikhail Yegorov tracks the plays in front of him very well and guards his post tightly sealed. He can make a heads-up poke check when opponents are tight on his crease. Yegorov does a stellar job slowing the pace down, freezing the puck when it's necessary. He looks locked in when in the butterfly, covering the lower portion of the net, and is great at snuffing out upcoming plays. This goalie looks very calm and confident in moving post to post laterally with ease.

● Pucksandpitchforks.com Devils Goalie Pipeline is strong with Mikhail Yegorov and Jakub Malek   

Looking back

Clayton Keller scored his sixth goal in Utah’s 5-1 rout of Calgary.

Brady Tkachuk scored his fifth and sixth goals in Ottawa’s blowout 8-1 win over St. Louis.

►Lane Hutson. No translation necessary

 

►The Athletic examined “some of the less heralded names exceeding expectation so far this season” and Hutson tops their list:

How he’s looked: Hutson dominated the NCAA over the past couple of years, but as an undersized 5-foot-9 defenseman, especially one without elite draft pedigree, there were questions about how seamlessly his game would translate to the NHL. It hasn’t been a perfectly smooth transition — he’s had a couple of rough outings defensively — but Hutson is flashing sky-high potential with his electrifying skill set.

The 20-year-old is already leading the Canadiens in averaging 23:11 per game. As colleague Arpon Basu pointed out, he’s top 20 among all NHL defensemen in even-strength minutes.

● The Athletic Surprise breakouts? (subscription) 


Women’s Team

Defender of the Month Tamara Giaquinto produced a 3-3-6 line in October. She leads Hockey East and is fifth in the NCAA in power play goals with three.

With 4-2-0, 3-1-0 HE record in October, Goaltender of the Month Callie Shanahan leads the conference with a 1.06 GAA in Hockey East games. Two of her HE wins were shutouts (Northeaster, Maine) and she yielded just one goal in another.

Already recognized three times as Rookie of the Week, Lola Reid earned Player of the Month honors with a conference best 11 points, with seven coming on Hockey East games. Her six goals include four game-winners, tops in Hockey East and in NCAA D1.  

● GoTerriers.com Giaquinto, Shanahan, Reid Garner Hockey East Monthly Awards

● HockeyEastOnline.com Monthly Awards

 

►In addition to Reid  winning her third Rookie-of-the Week honors, three Terrier earned spots on Hockey East’s Top Performers list for the week.

Christina Vote, BU (Sr., F; Arlington, Mass.) Picked up three assists in two-game sweep of Syracuse, pushing the Terriers win streak to five games. She also won three faceoffs and was a plus-two on the weekend. The senior is tied for the lead in assists on the BU squad with five and tied fifth in Hockey East.

Maeve Kelly, BU (Jr., D; Victoria, Minn.) Netted her first collegiate goal in a 4-1 win over Syracuse on Friday. She had two blocks throughout the weekend.

Callie Shanahan, BU (Sr., G; Commerce, Mich.) Picked up a win at Syracuse in Friday’s 4-1 victory, making 28 saves in 60 minutes of work. It is her fourth win of the season and she currently leads Hockey East with a 1.06 GAA and a .960 SV%  

 

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