Polls, BHB's Analysis, BU Hockey's first home

 

Polls

The split of the home series with Vermont sent BU from #18 to #20 both the USCHO Division 1 Poll and the USA Hockey Division Poll.  The 8-8-1 Terriers have been in both Top 20s for all 11 weeks.

 

● BU Hockey Stats' recap of the men's split with Vermont and the women's split with UConn  includes these advanced analytics and more.

   

 Friday's game                    Saturday's game

 

►As the end of first semester approaches, BHB's Eli Cloutier provides a no-punches-pulled analysis of what may be ailing the Terriers.  

It’s fair to wonder where the Boston University men’s hockey team goes from here. “Here” is a 3-2 home loss to Vermont, and the distinction of becoming the first team this season to surrender three goals to the Catamounts.

The prospect of an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament continues to fade, leaving the Terriers needing to win the Hockey East tournament to keep their hopes for the program’s elusive sixth national championship alive.

● Boston Hockey Blog BU men’s hockey is in uncharted territory. Why? And is there a way out?

 ►Friday's Players of the Game 

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These two guys came through in the clutch tonight!

Big Mike and Treth are tonight’s players of the game!    

📸 Eliza Nuestro pic.twitter.com/yvzcnm9LyC

— BU Men's Hockey (@TerrierHockey) December 6, 2025  

 

 

                Boston Arena entrance, 1930s. 

►This Saturday's game against Northeastern will be the final game played at Matthews Arena, aka Boston Arena, BU Hockey's first home. Our friend BU Hockey Stats is posting about BU Hockey's early days at the arena on St. Botolph Street and will conclude with a longer piece Friday. (Follow him at @BUHockeyStats)

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In the lead up to the final game at Boston (now Matthews) Arena, we will look through BU's history at their original home

BU's first game was a 1-3 loss to BC on 2/6/1918
Warren Pond scored the first ever goal for the Terriers

The Arena burned down 8 months later on Dec. 18th pic.twitter.com/Rftf7hq58u

— BU Hockey Stats (@BUHockeyStats) December 8, 2025

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BU's first win in program history came to Massachusetts Agricultural College (now UMass Amherst) 6-1 on January 11th, 1923 at the Arena

Adolphus Provost scored the game winner and Joseph Almer recorded the first Hat Trick in team history in the game.

— BU Hockey Stats (@BUHockeyStats) December 9, 2025

Looking ahead 

 

                Credit Cormac McInnis 

The Hockey News' December top 50 rankings for the 2026 NHL Entry Draft has Tynan Lawrence at #2, Caleb Malhotra at #22 and Egor Shilov (photo) at #35. Braidy Wassilyn was an honorable mention 

Elite Prospects' December top 98 includes those four plus Luke Schairer, Brady Knowling and Rian Chudzinski. 

Looking back

Three Terriers—Jack Eichel, Charlie McAvoy and Brady Tkachuk —“co-starred” with Jon Hamm in an NBC promo ad for the upcoming Milan Cortina Olympic Games.

  

● NHL.com Hamm gives United States players pep talk in NBC spot

►We have a Jake Oettinger two-fer. The first recognize his three-win week. In the second, he reveals the favorite memory of his hockey career to date. Can you guess what it is?  

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Another week, another masterclass from Jake Oettinger 👏 pic.twitter.com/VigMJD7p2V

— Dallas Stars (@DallasStars) December 8, 2025

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Five otters? Sounds like a romp.

More from Jake Oettinger in this week's Player Q&A 👇 pic.twitter.com/kzh88kHy0i

— NHLPA (@NHLPA) December 9, 2025

►When Tom Willander scored his first NHL goal on Saturday, he became the 73rd Terrier to score in the league.