#10/9 Terriers host #6 Providence in the final regular-season game at Agganis Arena. The Senior Night contest begins at 7 p.m. and will be live-streamed on ESPN+.
L-R:
Billy Girard IV, Matt Copponi, Brehdan Engum, Jack Page, Jack Hughes,
Tristan Amonte, Mathieu Caron. Photo credit Matt Woolverton
At stake are three critical points as BU seeks to lock down the #3 seed in the upcoming Hockey East tournament. Either a win or an overtime win will clinch third place. In addition, after the teams split a home-and-home series last month, the victor tonight wins the head-to-head comparison in the Pairwise Rankings where BU (18-12-2) is #7 and the Friars (20-8-5) are #6.
Each team won on home ice last month with PC winning 6-3 on Friday, following by 3-0 BU shutout on Saturday. Tonight’s game will be the 200th in the series with the Terriers holding a 119-60-20 advantage.
Credit BU Hockey Stats
Providence is 5-2-1 in its last eight games with the loss to BU and one to Maine in overtime being the only blemishes. Its balanced attack features 14 skaters with at least 10 points, led by Logan Will (23), Tanner Adams (22), Hudson Malinoski (21), John Mustard (20), Gramham Gamache (18) and Nick Poisson and Will Elger each with 16. Junior Philip Svedebäck was in goal for both games last month.
The Terriers haven’t played since Feb. 25 when they took two points at then-No. 9 UConn thanks to a 2-2 tie and a shootout win.
Quinn Hutson, who has 13 points in the last 10 games, leads BU with 39 points, including new career marks in goals (18) and assists (21). He’s also the +/- leader with plus-17. Cole Hutson, who was named Hockey East Rookie of the Month for February follows him with 33 points (10g,23a). Co-captains Ryan Greene and Shane Lachance have 28 and 25 points respectively.
Coach Jay Pandolfo reported everyone is available for this game with the exception of senior Brehdan Engum who also sat out the UConn game.
CHECK BACK FOR TONIGHT'S BU LINE-UP
● GoTerriers.com preview, Game Notes, Live Stats, BU All-Access (audio), BU Men’s Hockey Twitter
● Live Stream ESPN+, TSN+
● Pandolfo Media Call
● College Hockey News Tale of the Tape
● BU Hockey Stats Week 22 Preview: Home Stretch
● Boston Hockey Blog In double OT thriller, BU women’s hockey survives Boston College to advance to HE title game
Brady Tkachuk scored his 24th goal on a perfect deflection as the Senators edged the Blackhawks, 4-3. Alex Vlasic recorded his 22nd assist for Chicago.
tw-align-centerThe ol' "hit the post, cycle it then tip it in".
— Ottawa Senators (@Senators) March 6, 2025
A play as old as time 🕰️ ⏳#GoSensGo pic.twitter.com/8aVxofaixZ
Buffalo's Jordan Greenway has been signed to a two-year contract extension with an average annual value of $4 million. He'll be under contract through the 2026-27 season. Earlier in the week, The Athletic (subscription) spoke with the 6'5" left wing about the possibility of being traded.
At 28 years old, Jordan Greenway no longer worries about the NHL trade deadline.
The Buffalo Sabres winger went through a deadline trade two seasons ago when the Wild traded him to the Sabres. He doesn’t pay attention to trade rumors, even those involving his name, and doesn’t use social media. Even in the final season of his contract before becoming an unrestricted free agent, Greenway isn’t sweating the March 7 trade deadline.
Will it be OK with Greenway if he’s still on the roster after the deadline without a new contract?
“It’s got to be,” Greenway said. “I’ve got no choice.”
“People don’t like unexpected things,” Greenway said. “It’s uncomfortable. If you go through it, it minimizes how scary or nerve-wracking it can be. Grand scheme of things, you go to another team and you’ll be best friends with all of them five days after the trade deadline. And it’s gonna be as if nothing happened.”
Women's Team
Lindsay Bochna's goal at 7:12 of the second overtime sent BU to a 3-2 win over BC in the Hockey East semifinal and gave the Terriers their first championship game berth since 2016. BU will meet Northeastern in the title game after NU defeated defending champion UConn, 3-1, in a battle of the Huskies.
The championship game is set for Saturday at Noon at the Toscano Family Ice Center on the UConn campus.
It took 87 minutes to produce a winner with no shortage of grade A scoring chances (see the highlights).
Terriers erased a pair of BC one-goal leads to send the game to overtime. The Eagles took a 1-0 lead on a BU turnover midway through the opening period. They nearly doubled the lead on Julia Pellerin's breakaway but Callie Shanahan came up with one of the biggest of her 38 saves.
BU connected early in the second. Clara Yuhn took a centering pass in the slot from Christina Vote and beat the Eagles' Grace Campbell. It was her 10th of the season.
tw-align-centerGotta love a Clara Yuhn goal, am I right ladies?
— BU Women's Hockey (@TerrierWHockey) March 5, 2025
Watch: https://t.co/4xrR0Jk3tY@espn | @hockey_east#GoBUpic.twitter.com/ud5w1ovTXi
BC broke the tie late in the period on Katie Pyne's tally.
Five minutes into the third period, BU scored on the rush. Taking a pass from Luisa Welcke, Lilli Welcke put the puck on the stick of Riley Walsh at the goalmouth for a tap-in. Walsh's ninth goal pulled BU even at two apiece.
tw-align-centerThere's just something about that Welcke-Welcke-Walsh connection 😤
— BU Women's Hockey (@TerrierWHockey) March 6, 2025
Watch: https://t.co/4xrR0Jk3tY@espn | @hockey_east#GoBUpic.twitter.com/bH1hMNGz7R
Despite 12 shots on goal in the third period, BU was unable to score a go ahead goal and the game went to overtime. The first extra period produced no winner and early in the second extra-period both Walsh and Lilli Welcke hit iron off the rush.
Seven minutes into the second overtime, Yuhn sent Vote into the BC zone. Skating past the right circle, she cut hard to the net. BC's Campbell defended Vote's shot but the rebound sat just outside of the goal line and Bochna poked it home for her ninth goal and fourth game-winner. She also scored the overtime game-winner in the Beanpot semifinal.
BU took the season series with the Eagles with wins in three of the four meetings.
● GoTerriers.com recap and box score
● Post-game Coach Tara Watchorn/Bochna
● Boston Hockey Blog In double OT thriller, BU women’s hockey survives Boston College to advance to HE title game
https://x.com/TerrierWHockey/status/1897487260058050792
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