Wednesday, July 16, 2025

UPDATED Eiserman's elite asset; Pandolfo re-ups; Greer's Cup Day; New contracts for Fensore and Skoog

 Cole Eiserman - Men's Ice Hockey ...

BHB's Mitch Fink, in a summer gig for the New York Post, spoke with Islanders' draft pick Cole Eiserman's old coaches about what sets the Terrier sharp-shooter apart. 

U.S. National Team Development Program head coach Nick Fohr and Peter Morris, Eiserman’s old peewee coach, agreed on their assessment: it’s all in the hands.

“For me, it’s a release thing,” Fohr said. “It just happens quicker than what people are used to. The puck’s already off his stick in a lot of cases when it wouldn’t be off somebody else’s, and it’s to the goalie before he realizes it’s there.”

Morris agreed, adding that Eiserman has learned how to optimize his stick’s kick point, the flex or bend that generates power during a shot.

“It’s not a slow buildup,” Morris said. “His bottom hand really leans into it. It’s short, it’s quick, it’s explosive.”

● NYPost.com Cole Eiserman's elite asset is almost unexplainable 

Head coach Jay Pandolfo will be behind the Terrier bench for the foreseeable future after signing a multi-year contract extension. 

In three seasons as head coach, the 50-year-old Winchester, Mass., native has led BU to an 81-35-4 record for a .680 winning percentage, second only to Jack Kelley (.714) among all BU hockey coaches.

Pandolfo's teams have won the school's 32nd Beanpot title, one Hockey East championship (2023) and three NCAA regional championships, earning three trips to the Frozen Four and playing in last season's national championship game. He earned Hockey East Coach of the Year honors in 2022-23 and has been a finalist for the Spencer Penrose National Coach of the Year award each of the three seasons.  

Between his days as a Terrier in the 1990s and his term as head coach, Pandolfo has been to the Frozen Four all seven times.

Pandolfo won the Stanley Cup twice (2000, 2003) with New Jersey in a 14-year NHL career.

● Go Terriers.com Boston University, Pandolfo Agree to Contract Extension

►The Athletic's Scott Wheeler's annual ranking of drafted goalies under 25 has rising sophomore Mikhail Yegorov at #4. Here's what he wrote about Big Mike:

Yegorov is a freak athlete who wowed some people at the combine in advance of the draft and has high-end attributes. He’s a 6-foot-5 goaltender with raw, natural athleticism that presents itself in his ability to go post-to-post or low-to-high. He’s also got good hands, and he reads and anticipates the play smartly. He started his post-draft season by returning to the USHL with the Lancers, a team in disarray that often got shelled with shots. After posting a .912 save percentage across 19 games and just three wins to show for it, Yegorov accelerated his commitment to Boston University and joined the Terriers for the second half (where he was excellent early and into the Beanpot, and really made a world of difference for that team, elevating its ceiling and backstopping BU into the Frozen Four). Yegorov was one of the stories of the college hockey season (the five goals he gave up in the final were the most he’d surrendered after joining the Terriers). The talent is all there. He’s a big, long, lean goalie who should get stronger, is quick on his feet and in and out of his butterfly with clear technical skills as well. With the right patience, there’s some serious untapped potential in Yegorov’s game that should continue to reveal itself.

 

 

Looking ahead

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2026 recruits Tynan Lawrence (Muskegon/USHL) and Braidy Wassilyn (Niagara/OHL) have been named to Canada’s National Men’s Summer U18 Team Selection Camp. Both forwards are Puck Preps 5-star prospects and both are projected first-round picks for the 2026 Entry Draft.   

A new ranking of top prospects for the 2026 NHL Entry Draft includes four Terriers in the top 42. Along with Lawrence and Wassilyn, NTDP U18 RD Luke Schairer and USHL Green Bay forward Yegor Shilov.

Looking back

AJ Greer, who became the 13th Terrier to win the Stanley Cup, had his “Cup Day” this past Sunday, celebrating with a parade in his hometown of Joliette, Quebec, and enabling fans to have their photo taken with the historic silver trophy.

His teammate, Evan Rodrigues, won the Cup for a second straight season with Florida. The two forwards also were teammates on BU's 2015 Hockey East champion and national finalist squads.

● NHL.com Greer uses day with Stanley Cup for charitable causes

    Get To Know Defenseman Matt Grzelcyk 

Former two-time Terrier captain and All-American Matt Grzelcyk is an unrestricted again looking for a new NHL address for next season. After skating on the Bruins blueline for eight years, he spent last season in Pittsburgh where he set a career high with 40 points.

Sports Illustrated suggests that Colorado, Florida and the Islanders are likely landing spots for the Charlestown, Mass., native. 

●TheHockeyNews.com Former Bruins defenseman is best free agent left.

Dom Fensore, who captained BU's 2022-23 Hockey East champions, has been re-signed by Carolina for next season.  A third-round pick by the Canes in 2019, Fensore made his NHL debut in the team's final two regular-season games, becoming the 99th Terrier to play in the NHL.

In his second AHL season, Fensore set career highs in goals (9) and points (32) while leading all league d-men with three short-handed goals and five short-handed points. He was honored by the Wolves with their 2025 Tim Breslin Unsung Hero Award.  

The Panthers have re-signed Wilmer Skoog to a one-year, two-way deal for $770K (NHL) and $150K (AHL).  Over two seasons with AHL Charlotte, he had 55 points. 

The new contract coincides with the 26th birthday of the former BU fan favorite. Our friend BU Hockey Stats marks the occasion with clips of his three lacrosse-style goals.

 Women's Team 

The 2025-26 Terrier roster is posted on the GoTerriers.com site. It includes seven freshman and one transfer.

Incoming freshman Anežka Čabelová is one of 46 players who will participate in Czechia’s Summer Olympic Camp

The defending Hockey East champions will open their season on Oct. 3 and 4, hosting Minnesota. 

 


 

 

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Friday, July 11, 2025

UPDATED: Bernie's big assist on Parker's HHOF selection; Four named to U.S. WJSS roster; 19 draft picks on 25-26 squad

 As we reported a few weeks ago, Jack Parker has been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto with his induction set for November. He'll become the fourth NCAA coach so honored, joining Ron Mason (Michigan State), Red Berenson (Michigan) and Jerry York (BC). And for many in Terrier Nation and the greater hockey community, the selection was long overdue. 

Bernie Corbett, the longtime Voice of Terrier Hockey, was motivated to make it happen, as described in Andrew Mahoney's piece in the Boston Globe: How BU’s Jack Parker made the Hockey Hall of Fame: A yearlong pursuit by an old friend results in much-deserved nod.

Corbett spent nearly a year assembling information and building a presentation for the Hall of Fame Committee.

Corbett drew inspiration from Dick Bresciani, the late Red Sox publicist who compiled a compelling statistical case for Jim Rice that helped get the outfielder into the Baseball Hall of Fame in his final year on the ballot in 2009. 

The numbers are spectacular. During his 40 years behind the BU bench, Parker's teams won 897 games--the most by a coach at a single D1 hockey school--and claimed three national championships, 21 Beanpot Tournament titles, 11 Hockey East championships and four ECAC titles. He received the Spenser Penrose Award as top collegiate coach three times. His 24 NCAA tournament appearances are a record.

Seventy-three of his players reached the NHL, while 28 competed in the Olympic Games and 52 represented their countries in the World Junior Championships. Forty-three earned ACHA All-American recognition.

Corbett was assisted by Matt Dressens, a former producer for Corbett's "Hockey on Campus" podcasts, who created graphics for the presentation.


Another graphic describes Parker's prolific coaching tree, players who've gone on to coaching professionally, in college and in prep and high schools, as well as those in NHL front-offices and scouting roles. That includes four who became NHL head coaches: Mike Sullivan, Joe Sacco, David Quinn and John Hynes.

And as for that coaching tree? Eight former players have held coaching positions in the pro ranks outside of the NHL, including the AHL, ECHL, BCHL, and WHL. There have been 22 in the college ranks, and 23 in the NHL on coaching staffs or in front offices. And an additional 17 have worked in high school or prep hockey. 

                             Courtesy of Matt Dresens

 

At the Development Camps


● HockeyWilderness.com Boston University Is A Good Choice For Ryder Ritchie's Development


 ● TheHockeyWriters.com Getting to Know Devils' Mikhail Yegorov 

 

World Junior Summer Showcase

USA Hockey announced its roster for the WJSS, the first step toward selecting the Junior National Team for the 2026 World Junior Championships, and four Terriers were selected. Returnees from last year's gold-medal winning squad Cole Eiserman and Cole Hutson are joined on the roster by Kamil Bednarik and incoming freshman Jack Murtagh. 

In the 2025 WJCs, Hutson became the first defenseman to lead the tournament in scoring with a 3-8-11 line while Eiserman produced three goals and four assists. Brandon Svoboda, who earned a roster spot when he led last summer's WJSS in scoring, scored six key points (3G,3A) from his spot on the checking line 

Bedarink was initially named to the last summer's WJSS camp roster but was unable to attend for personal reasons. 

►College Puck NXT has posted a list of D1 schools with the most NHL draft picks rostered for next season, as of July 10. BU tops the list with 19, including 13 chosen in the first three rounds.

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Of BU’s 19 picks, three are 1st rounders (Eiserman, Sascha Boisvert, Sascha Boumedienne), seven are 2nd round (Ryder Ritchie, Murtagh, Bednarik, Conrad Fondrk, Hutson, Carter Amico, Mikhail Yegorov), four are 3rd round (Svoboda, Gavin McCarthy, Charlie Trethewey and Malte Vass), one is 5th round (Jonathan Morello), two are 6th round (Aiden Celebrini and Ben Merrill) and two are 7th round (Jack Harvey and Owen McLaughlin). 

Looking back

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Sunday, July 06, 2025

UPDATED Ritchie makes it official; Parker dishes on his career; Boisvert gearing up;Terriers at NHL development camps

              Puck Preps on X: "🚨 BREAKING 🚨 According to @Hockey_Robinson, 4.5 ⭐️ recruit Ryder Ritchie has committed to Boston University. The '06 born 2nd round pick of the Minnesota Wild is coming 

Medicine Hat right wing Ryder Ritchie made his commitment to BU official Sunday with an Instagram video featuring clips of his next coach, Jay Pandolfo, other Terrier greats including Chris Drury, Danny O’Regan, Lane Hutson and Jake Oettinger, and a scene from BU’s 2009 national championship. 

A 2024 second-round pick by Minnesota, Ritchie had 61 points (29G,32A) in 53 games for the Tigers last season, then added 18 points in 18 playoff games, helping Medicine Hat reach the Memorial Cup championship game. He helped Canada win gold at the Hlinka-Gretsky Tournament and the World U18s in 2023-24 and the previous year was the WHL’s Rookie of the Year with 55 points in 61 games.

 ● Earlier announcement/profiles of Ritchie (June 12)

  ● The Hockey Writers: Ryder Ritchie at Wild Development Camp (text and video)  

►Jack Pridham, who had initially committed to BU in 2022, has decommitted and will return to OHL Kitchener for another season and reportedly is planning to turn pro with Chicago the following season.  

 

Legendary BU Coach Jack Parker joined veteran sports reporters Bob Lobel and Mike Lynch for a far- reaching interview that covered his recent election to the Hockey Hall of Fame and his forty-year career behind the Terrier bench. As Terrier fans know, no one can tell a story quite like JP.

Terriers at the Development Camps 

 Mikhail Yegorov | DEV CAMP RAW 6.30.25 ...   

● NHL Video: Mikhail Yegorov 

● NHL.com Yegorov feature 

And at Flyers' camp... 

● McKeen's Scouting report and video: Jack Murtagh 

From the Blue Jackets' camp...

● NHL.com Vass embraces his job as a shutdown defender 

From Islanders camp...

The Hockey News' ranking of the Islanders top 15 prospects has Cole Eiserman at #2 and Kamil Bednarik at #12.  

The Chicago Sun-Times ranking of Blackhawks' prospects includes:  Sascha Boisvert #8, Drew Commesso #10 and Ryan Greene #12.    

Looking ahead 

2026 recruit Haoxi Simon Wang, selected #33 in the draft by the Sharks, made a strong impression at San Jose development camp when he went up against #2 pick Michael Misa in a one-on-one drill. 

● NHL.com Wang interview at San Jose camp (text and video)
 
►An early ranking for the 2026 draft from Tankathon has three future Terriers in its top 32: Tynan Lawrence (Muskegon) is #9, Braidy Wassilyn(Niagara OHL) is #19 and Luke Schairer (NTDP U18)is #24.

FloHockey’s Chris Peters ranked Lawrence at #6, while the Daily Faceoff has Wassilyn at #12.  

2026 or 2027 recruit Yegor Shilov was selected #3 overall in the QMJHL draft by Victoriaville. Last season, the 6’1” left wing tore it up on the 16U AAA level with the Long Island Gulls before moving to the USHL with Green Bay. He’s been mentioned as a potential high pick in the 2026 Entry Draft.  

Looking back 

Alex Chiasson, who served as a volunteer coach for the Terriers last season, is guest coaching at the Capitals’ development camp where Cole Hutson is participating. Chiasson won the Stanley Cup with Washington in 2018. He completed his BU degree this past winter and walked with the graduates in May.

Shane Bowers has been traded by New Jersey to San Jose. An Ottawa first-round draft pick in 2017, the Halifax, N.S., native had made stops in Colorado and Boston before being dealt to the Devils in 2023. As a Terrier freshman in 2017-18, he produced 32 points (17G,15A) to help BU win the Hockey East Championship and earned All-Rookie honors. Bowers turned pro following his sophomore season.

He set up Patrick Curry's overtime game-winner in the Hockey East semifinal against BC. 

Women's Team      

● GoTerriers.com Carey Named 2025-26 Team Captain 

 

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