Tuesday, March 18, 2025

UPDATED: Hutson wins HE Rookie of the Year; Eiserman repeats as R-O-W; SNL

Freshman Cole Hutson becomes the third Terrier in a row--and the sixth in the past 11 seasons to claim Hockey East's Rookie of the Year Award, joining Jack Eichel (2015), Clayton Keller (2017), Joel Farabee (2019), Lane Hutson (2023) and Macklini Celebrini (2024).

Hutson leads all D1 rookie defensemen--as well as all Hockey East blue liners, regardless of class-- in goals (12), assists (27) and points (39). Currently, Hutson stands at third among all D1 blueliners in points, while his 1.15 points per game is second best for Ds.

Cole Hutson Hockey East Rookie of the Year graphic

He earned Hockey East Defender of the Week honors for the week of Jan. 20 and Rookie of the Week honors for the week of March 10. In February, he garnered Beanpot MVP honors after scoring the game-winner in the championship game against Boston College.

During the semester break, he led Team USA to gold in the World Junior Championships, becoming the first defenseman to lead the tournament in scoring.

● GoTerriers.com Hutson Named Hockey East Rookie of the Year 

● HockeyEastOnline Award winners report


 

Cole Eiserman Hockey East Rookie of the Week graphic   


Saturday night’s hero, Cole Eiserman, has repeated as Hockey East Pro Ambition Rookie-of-the Week. His rocket through Michael Hrabel’s five-hole three minutes into overtime punched the Terriers’ ticket to the conference semifinal this week at TD Garden. Eiserman also had the primary assist on Shane Lachance’s power-play goal.   
For the freshman sniper, who shared the R-O-W honors with Cole Hutson, it was the fourth time he has won rookie honors. Eiserman won the Pro Ambition award for the weeks of October 21 and November 18. He also was named Rookie of the Month for October.  Eiserman’s nation’s-best for freshmen 21 goals have come on 91 shots, giving him a 23.3 shooting percentage, among the best for skaters with at least 50 shots.
 
In conference games, Eiserman's 16 goals are twice as many as any other first-year player and he's second (22 points) to Cole Hutson (29) among freshmen.
 
 
Hockey East also announced the finalists for Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year with Cole Hutson, BC's James Hagens and Vermont's Colin Kessler competing for the rookie award. [Editor's note: You'll have to draw your own conclusions as to why Eiserman was not a finalist. I'm stumped].
 
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Sascha Boumedienne and Mikhail Yegorov were named to Hockey East's Weekly Top Performers list. 

Sascha Boumedienne, BU (Fr., D; Stockholm, Sweden) Scored a goal in BU’s 3-2 overtime playoff win against UMass after he broke up a 2-on-1, then joined a 3-on-2 rush the other way and fired a one-timer into the back of the net. He also had the primary helper on Cole Eiserman’s OT winner, clearing the puck out of the crease and onto Eiserman’s stick.

Mikhail Yegorov, BU (Fr., G; St. Petersburg, Russia) In Saturday’s 3-2 win over UMass, made 36 stops, including two saves in overtime. One of those stops helped lead to Cole Eiserman’s winner. Yegorov made 18 saves in the third period alone.

 

Hockey East Semifinals and Championship

●  College Hockey News Hockey East Final Four Preview

► For those planning to attend Thursday's conference semifinals at TD Garden, plan to gather with alumni, parents and friends at The Harp on Causeway Street, starting at 2:00 p.m. prior to puck drop.
 
Poll & Pairwise Story 
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With Saturday’s quarterfinal win, Terriers moved up to #8 in the USCHO Division 1 poll. BC, upset by Northeastern, has dropped to #2, supplanted by Michigan State for the top spot. Maine remains at #4, while UConn jumps up to #7, Providence falls to #10 and Massachusetts holds steady at #14.

The USA Hockey/The Rink Live Division 1 poll is nearly identical to USCHO, except that it has BU at #7 and UConn at #8. A seventh Hockey East team to make the poll is #20 Lowell.

BU is #7 in the Everything College hockey Ranking, which has the Terriers’ next opponent, UConn, at #5.
 
In the Pairwise Rankings, the Terriers remain at #6, just ahead of the Huskies.  CHN also has a Probability Matrix for determining each team’s likely finish in the Pairwise and entry into the NCAAs. And a “You Are the Committee” simulation lets you predict the outcomes of all of this week’s tournaments to get to a final Pairwise Ranking.
 
SNL

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Ryan Greene became the 86th Terrier to reach the 100-point milestone. Quinn Hutson hit the century mark last month. The last time BU had two players hit 100 in the same season was 2015 with Danny O'Regan and Evan Rodrigues.

Let's take another look at Lachance's goal against UMass, a second attempt from his knees that banked in off the goalie's shoulder. Instagram link. 

Prior to #9 Northeastern's upset #1 BC, the biggest quarterfinal upset in Hockey East history was in 2004 when #8 BU knocked off the #1 Eagles in a best of three series. Terriers won the first game, 3-2, dropped the second, 4-0, and won the rubber game, 4-2—all at Conte Forum.

● BU Hockey Stats Quarterfinal recap

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Big Mike says "Outta my space!"         

Thirteen games into his collegiate career, Mkhail Yegorov is fourth nationally in save percentage (.937) and sixth in GAA (1.82)

Saturday’s win was the final game at Agganis Arena this season and BU finished with an 11-6 home record. That’s one more loss than the prior two seasons combined (14-3-0 in ’22-’23; 14-2 in ’23-’24). After a 4-4-0 home record first semester, BU went 7-2 at Agganis since the calendar turned, including three of the last four.

Looking back

Lane Hutson scored his fifth goal in Montreal's 6-3 win against Ottawa. He leads all NHL rookies with 53 points. The only defensemen with more points are fellow college hockey products Cale Makar (78), Zach Werenski (69) and Quinn Hughes (63).

Terriers will be seeking their 11th Hockey East tournament championship. They won their first 39 seasons ago.

1986: Terriers win their first Hockey East tournament title in the Providence Civic Center, thumping BC 9-4 behind MVP Peter Marshall's hat trick and a pair of goals by Jeff Sveen. Single goals were added by John Cullen, Clark Donatelli, Scott Shaunessy and Brad MacGregor. Terry Taillefer stopped 39 Eagle shots. Terriers had been mired at 9-9-2 as of Jan. 10, but embarked on a 15-3-2 run that brought them to the second-ever title game in the new Hockey East Conference. The tournament win was the first of seven Hockey East titles for BU.
• 1985-86 roster/stats
• THFB feature on the 1985-86 season 

BU's fourth Hockey East title was achieved 30 seasons ago today.

1995: Boston University won the final college hockey game played at the old Boston Garden, defeating Providence College, 3-2, to win its 4th Hockey East championship and complete the second leg of what would be the second "triple crown" season (Beanpot, league championship, NCAA title) in Terrier history. PC 's first period goal by Chad Quennville was matched by BU's Ken Rausch. Mike Grier put the Terriers ahead in the second before the Friars knotted the score on a Brady Kramer slapper past a screened Derek Herlofsky. Then, late in the second, Chris Drury muscled his way off the sideboards and passed to Matt Wright, who wheeled, closed on the net and whipped a shot past PC goalie (and tournament MVP) Bob Bell for the game-winner. Bell had 40 saves and Herlofsky, 24. Wright scored the last college goal at the Old Garden; a month earlier, he'd scored the final Beanpot goal at the Old Garden in BU's 5-1 win over BC in the championship game. All three Terrier goals in the HE championship game were scored by walk-on players: Wright, Rausch and Grier. 

Mark Divver reports that former Terrier defenseman Ty Gallagher has signed a two-year entry level contract with AHL Providence. A Bruins seventh round draft pick, he had a productive senior season at Colorado College.


Looking ahead 

The NTDP has announced the roster for its U17 evaluation camp, which begins March 19 in Plymouth, Michigan. While none of the 46 invitees can make college commitments until August, a few with Terrier connections bear continued watching. That includes The Rivers School's high scoring line of Carter Meyer, Sam Pandolfo and Finn Sears. Carter, the younger son of Rivers coach and Terrier All-American Freddy Meyer led New England Prep skaters in goals (41) and points per game (2.50). Sam, the oldest of Jay Pandolfo's three children, had 38 points.

• USA Hockey NTDP Evaluation Camp Roster Announced 


 

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