Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Terriers rally past Harvard on extra-attacker and OT goals; Central Scouting Midterm Rankings

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With dramatic goals in the final minute of regulation and in overtime, the #14 Terriers brought new life to an old cliché—snatching victory from the jaws of defeat—as they edged Harvard, 2-1, in the opening round of the Women’s Beanpot at Matthews Arena. 

Junior Sydney Healey notched the tying goal with 55 ticks left in the third period and grad student Lindsay Bochna called game at 3:43 of overtime. Terriers will meet   Northeastern, who defeated BC in the semifinal, in next Tuesday’s championship game at TD Garden. 

Through two scoreless periods, BU dominated time of possession and out-shot the Crimson, 21-5, but had failed to finish. A pair of power plays produced six shots but no goals. 

A turnover early in the third period led to Harvard taking the lead on Angelica Megdanis’ first goal of the season. 

Terriers poured more than a dozen shots on Harvard’s Ainsley Tuffy to no avail. With a minute remaining and Callie Shanahan pulled for an extra attacker. BU won an offensive zone draw and the puck went back to Julia Shaunessy at the left point. She quickly passed to the slot where Riley Walsh redirected the puck to Healey outside the right post for a quick finish for her team-leading ninth goal.

In overtime, BU rang a pair of shots off iron. Just 20 seconds in, Luisa Welcke skated in on Tuffy, but hit the post. Two minutes later, Shaunessy nearly ended things with a wrist shot off the left post. Then, at 3:43, Bochna did end the game. Recovering the puck in the neutral zone, the transfer from Providence sped around a Harvard defender and, from the bottom of the left circle, wired a shot past Tuffy, high to the glove side. It was her fifth goal of the season and second game-winner.

Overall, BU had a 41-10 shot advantage with another 20 shots blocked by the Crimson. BU also dominated at the face off dot, winning 30 of 48 draws. 

Shaunessy assisted on both Terrier goals. Earlier in the day, she was the subject of a Boston Globe feature story about how she leaned on lessons from her father, Scott Shaunessy, about the Beanpot.

Even as a first-grader, Shaunessy knew what a big deal it was to play at TD Garden. She was raised on tales of Beanpot glory that came from Garden ice. The tournament was something she revered growing up — and still does — because of the stories told by her father, Scott, who played four years at Boston University and won two Beanpots in the 1980s. 

● GoTerriers.com recap and box score
● Post-game Coach Tara Watchorn/Bochna
● Boston Hockey Blog Sydney Healey, Lindsay Bochna come through as BU women’s hockey advances to Beanpot Final in dramatic fashion
 

Looking ahead

NHL Central Scouting posted its Midterm Rankings for the 2025 with seven current and future Terriers on the North American skaters list—three in the top 32 and six in the top 43:

#18 freshman Sascha Boumedienne; #23 Haoxi (Simon) Wang; #25 Jack Murtagh, #37 Charlie Trethewey; #38 Carter Amico; #43 Conrad Fondrk; and #212 freshman Alexander Zetterberg. Among the recruits, all are 2025 except for Wang who arrives in 2026.
CleanSheetHockey refined Central Scouting’s list to include only skaters currently playing for or committed to NCAA D1 school. Of the top 13 names on that list, six are Terriers.

 Looking back

The Athletic look at the top Calder Trophy candidates at the NHL's half-way mark has Macklin Celebrini and Lane Hutson tied for the top spot. 

The Athletic's Cory Pronman posted his Ranking of the top NHL players and prospects under 23 and BU is well represented. Celebrini is #1 overall. Lane Hutson #39, Tom Willander #68, Cole Hutson #95, Cole Eiserman #102 and Mikhail Yegorov #139. Yegorov is one of only six goalies on Pronman's ranking.

Hutson recorded three assists in Montreal's 5-3 win over Utah and now has 32 points (3G,29A). Clayton Keller picked up his 29th assist for UHC.  Besides both being Terrier standouts, the Hutson-Keller friendship goes back a long way.

Celebrini assisted on a pair of goals as the Sharks doubled up Detroit, 6-3. He has a 13-18-31 scoring line.

Jake Oettinger stopped 27 shots in the Stars' 4-1 win over Toronto. Oettinger notched his 22nd win.

 

 

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