Monday, February 10, 2025

UPDATED: Beanpot Game Day: Terriers vs. Eagle for the title; Bring Back the 'Pot video; Women dump Friars; HE honors for Pietersen

 

Quinn Hutson posed photo is on the Men's Beanpot championship graphic that features MBTA map in background. BU vs. BC, Feb. 10, 7:30 PM at TD Garden.

#8 Terriers will look to shake off a disappointing and distressing loss to Merrimack and pursue their first Beanpot championship since 2022 as they face #1 BC in 72nd tournament title game at TD Garden. Puck drop is set for 7:30 p.m. with NESN broadcasting the game and live-streams provided by ESPN+ and TSN3/5. NHL Network also will carry the game as well as a pre-game show at 7:00 p.m.

BU and BC will meet for the 23rd time in the championship game, with the Terriers holding a 12-10 edge. The last seven title game meetings (4-3 BC) have been decided by one goal with four of them going to overtime.  

Since being swept by the Eagles last month (6-2, 2-0), BU had impressive wins against New Hampshire and Harvard, scoring seven goals in both games, before the offense failed to produce against the Warriors.  

Meanwhile, BC, who is on a nine-game winning streak, dispatched Lowell (4-0), Northeastern (8-2) and New Hampshire (4-2). Their only loss in 2025 was, ironically, to Merrimack (5-2). 

The Boston Hockey Blog was at Sunday’s practice where all team members were on ice. BHB reported that Gavin McCarthy will be in the line-up while Aiden Celebrini is doubtful, and that Mikhail Yegorov will be in goal.  They shared these comments.

TONIGHT’S BU LINEUP

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● GoTerriers.com preview, Game Notes, Live Stats, BU All-Access (audio), BU Men’s Hockey Twitter
● Live Stream ESPN+

● Greene/Hughes/Pandolfo interviews 

● Boston Hockey Blog Battle of Comm. Ave. takes to TD Garden in men’s Beanpot final

● USCHO.com This Week in Hockey East BU & BC to clash in Beanpot final for 23rd time
● College Hockey News Tale of the Tape 

● BU Hockey Stats Beanpot preview 

Polls/Rankings

►BU slips one spot to #9 in both the USCHO Weekly Poll and the USA Hockey/The Rink Live Poll.  Terriers also stand a #9 in Pairwise.

► BHB’s Brendan Nordstrom spoke with goalie Mikhail Yegorov for BU Today and presents Five Facts about the newest Terrier.

After winning the first Beanpot game with a season-high 26 saves and only one goal allowed, Yegorov now gets a Boston College rematch on the biggest stage of his career: the Beanpot Championship.
“I hope that I’m gonna get [the chance for a BC rematch], and I’ve heard that it’s gonna be an awesome environment, a sold-out Beanpot,” he says. “All I can do is look forward to it, because it’s gonna be really fun. We will try our best, and we’ll see how things fall.” 

  

Beanpot Parties 

The BU Alumni Association is hosting a series of events for alumni, friends, and fans to come together, celebrate, and cheer on the Terriers. Click here for details and reservations for the Beanpot Pre-game party at Causeway Boston and on Beanpot Watch parties at 14 locations throughout the nation.

A little Beanpot History
The last time the Terriers and Eagles met in the championship game, 2016, BC won, 1-0 in overtime, on a goal by Alex Tuch, older brother of Luke Tuch. 

BU’s last championship game win over the Eagles, in 2007, also came in overtime, 2-1, with Brian McGuirk scoring off a faceoff. With 37 saves, John Curry was both tournament MVP and Eberly Award winner as top goalie. He would go on to repeat as an All-American.

 

BU had also defeated BC in the 2006 Beanpot championship game, 3-2.  

Will an Amonte Family Beanpot tradition continue? Ty Amonte scored a double-overtime goal to win the 2018 semifinal game against Harvard.

  

Ty and Tristan Amonte’s dad, Tony Amonte, was the 1991 Beanpot MVP. In the title game, after taking a bone-jarring check and being down on the ice for several minutes, he got back up to score a remarkable second-period hat trick within a span of 5:24 to lead the Terriers past Boston College for the championship.

  

Back in 1970, BU trailed the Eagles, 4-2, going into the third period when Wayne Gowing scored a hat trick to give the Terriers a 5-4 win. That began a run of four straight Beanpot titles for BU.

In 1997, BU dispatched Harvard, 7-1, just as they did last Monday, and faced BC in the championship game. Terriers scored four in the third period to win 4-2 with captain Billy Pierce scoring the game-winner and earning MVP honors. (see the Beanpot video above, 30-second mark.)

 
Looking ahead

2026 recruit Tynan Lawrence scored his 16th goal and added two assists  in Muskegon's 6-5 win against Tri-City. With 36 points, Lawrence is among the top rookie scorers in the USHL.

Jack Pridham scored his 17th goal and assisted on another in Kitchener's 9-1 rout of Niagara. He has 35 points in 33 games since moving to the OHL in mid November, leads the Rangers in points per game (1.06) and is second in power-play goals with seven.     

2025 recruit Jack Murtagh had the primary assist on Team USA’s overtime goal in a 2-1 win over Czechia in the final game of the Five Nations tournament.  He finished the tournament with a 2-5-7 scoring line, tied for the US team lead and the tournament lead. Earlier in the week he scored this unassisted breakaway goal against Finland.

 

Looking back

Clayton Keller scored his 19th and 20th goals but Utah fell to Carolina, 7-3.

 Jack Eichel recorded his 49th and 50th assists as Vegas edged the Bruins, 4-3.

 Lane Hutson explains how skating with his laces untied helped him with foot speed and edge work. (Instagram video).


Women’s Team

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#14 Terriers, facing a 1-0 deficit going into the third period, scored four times to race past Providence, 4-1, at Agganis Arena. BU’s leading scorer Sydney Healey led the way with his 12th and 13th goals while sophomore Mari Pietersen stopped 35 of 36 shots.

With their win, the Terriers (20-9-1, 17-5-1) have clinched a bye in the opening round of the Hockey East playoffs.  BU, who also remains atop the Hockey East standings, became the first conference team to reach 20 wins this season. Terriers last hit the 20-win mark in 2019-20.

After a scoreless opening period, the Friars took a 1-0 lead midway through the second.

Healey brought BU even at 7:48 of the third period, scoring from the goalmouth with assists to Christina Vote and Lindsay Bochna.   

Just 90 seconds later, Carey Maeve, a transfer from Stonehill, scored the eventual-game winner converting a goalmouth pass from Alex Law. Kaileigh Quigg also assisted.

Law then stretched the lead to 3-1 with an unassisted short-handed goal on a breakaway.

Healey’s empty-net goal closed out the scoring. 

● GoTerriers.com recap and box score
● Highlights
● Post-game Coach Watchorn/Carey
● Boston Hockey Blog recap

● GoTerriers.com Pietersen named Hockey East Defender of the Week 

►Terriers move up to #13 in the USCHO Weekly poll.

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