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In a game where most of the goals came from special teams, a late power play goal by BC’s Ian McCoshen proved to be the game-winner as the Eagles defeated BU, 5-3, at Conte Forum. The first meeting of the season between the Commonwealth Avenue rivals featured five power play goals and a penalty shot.

BU’s best period was the first as it outshot the Eagles 7-5 and scored the only goal on a man advantage. Freshman Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson’s sixth goal on a wrist shot from the high slot followed a pair of “five-foot passes” from captain Matt Grzelcyk and Ahti Oksanen.

Early in the second period, Austin Cangelosi was tripped on a breakaway and the Eagle center converted a penalty shot. BU retook the lead on the ensuing play as JFK was taken down behind the BC goal line, but on the delayed penalty call he managed to slide the puck to Oksanen at the corner of the net. The Finnish wing buried it for his 11^th goal of the season.

Exactly three minutes later, BC’s Zach Sanford backhanded home a rebound after Sean Maguire had made the initial save on a slapshot. Then, late in the period, BC’s Colin White scored a power play goal to give the home team its first lead, 3-2.

Both teams produced multiple scoring chances in an up-and-down third period before the Terriers scored the equalizer at 15:48 on another power play. Freshman Charlie McAvoy set up assistant captain Matt Lane in the high slot for a one-timer that hit BC goalie Thatcher Demko and bounced into the net.

Two minutes later, BC went on the final power play of the game and produced the game-winner as McCoshen’s blast from the point sailed past a screened Maguire. An empty-net goal, also from McCoshen, closed the scoring.

Despite the closely played game, Coach David Quinnexpressed his dissatisfaction with BU’s performance:

“A frustrating loss. I thought we took a step back. I thought we were slow. I thought we were soft … just way too many odd-man rushes, and just not an awful lot to like about our game tonight.”

► With his goal and assist, Oksanen reached the career 100-point mark. He is the third European player to reach that milestone at BU, joining Tommi Degerman and Petteri Koskiimaki.

► Along with Oksanen, JFK and assistant captain Danny O'Regan had two-point nights.

● GoTerriers.com recapand comprehensive box score

● Video highlights

● Post-game comments: Quinn

● Daily Free Press recapand analysis

● Boston Hockey Blog Pluses & Minuses

● USCHO recap

● SB Nation recap

Looking ahead

2016 recruit Chad Krys scored a power play goal to bring the NTDP U18s even with Waterloo, but the Black Hawks won the game in overtime, 4-3. Clayton Keller assisted on Krys’s goal.

2017 recruit David Farrance and 2018 recruit Logan Cockerill registered assists in the NTDP U17s’ 6-4 win against Muskegon.

2016 recruit Dante Fabbro scored his 10^th goal of the season as first-place Penticton defeated Merritt, 6-2, in BCHL action. The right-shot blueliner has a 10-36-46 scoring line in 30 games.

Women’s Team

Terriers are in Burlington, Vt., for a two-game series against the Vermont Catamounts. Both the Saturday and Sunday games start at 2 p.m. ET and will be streamed on CatamounTV.

● GoTerriers.com preview, Game Notes, Live Stats

Unlike Friday when power plays sent pucks flying into the nets, Saturday’s BU-BC rematch at Agganis Arena was a classic goaltending duel, resulting in a 1-1 overtime tie. A crowd of 6,032 saw the Terriers take a lead midway through the second period and hold it until the Eagles finally ended senior Sean Maguire’s shutout attempt with 2:05 left in regulation.

There was no shortage of scoring opportunities as the teams combined for 24 shots in the first period, when both teams had 5-on-3 opportunities, and then 28 in the second with Maguire and BC’s Thatcher Demko both making highlight-reel saves.

BU broke through when freshman Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson’s rush from his own end was denied at the goalmouth by Demko, but a clearing pass was intercepted at the point by senior assistant captain Danny O’Regan. His slap shot was deflected past Demko by senior captain Matt Grzelcyk.

“I saw JFK going in on the breakaway there, just kind of followed the play in case there’s a bounce,” Grzelcyk said. “Puck made its way up the wall, and Danny made a heads-up play to throw it to the net, just tried to get a stick on it. A little bit of puck luck there.”

Shots were harder to come by in the third period—five for BU and eight for BC. With about three minutes remaining, Maguire robbed BC’s Adam Gilmour with a lunging save; but 49 seconds later, the Eagles’ Ryan Fitzgerald was set up in the circle to Maguire’s left and his turnaround wrist shot found its way into the goal high on the stick side.

A late stuff-in attempt by JFK, set up by sophomore Brandon Fortunato, was turned aside by Demko and neither team could find the back of the net during the five-minute overtime..

Maguire, who made a season-high 38 saves to earn first-star honors, stymied the Eagles on a number of two-on-one-breaks and bailed out his teammates following a turnover behind the goal.

Coach David Quinn, who was much happier with his team’s performance than he was on Friday, especially his goalie’s stellar effort:

“He played great last night, too. He’s been getting better and better. The great thing over the weekend is we got elite goaltending, and that certainly bodes well going forward.

“It’s disappointing the way both games ended. We were two and a half minutes away from at least getting a point, and tonight we’re two and a half minutes away from getting a win, so disappointing from that regard, but it’s January 15th, and you don’t want to be playing your best hockey now.”

►After playing his entire freshman season and his first 19 games this season without taking a single penalty, Fortunato found himself in the penalty box in each of the weekend games.

● GoTerriers.com recapand comprehensive box score

● Video highlights

● Post-game comments: Quinn, Grzelcyk

● Daily Free Press recap and Maguire feature

● Boston Hockey Blog Pluses & Minuses

● USCHO recap

● College Hockey News recap

Looking ahead

In the NTDP U18’s 5-1 win against Waterloo, 2016 recruit Clayton Keller scored short-handed (the game-winner) and on a power play and added an assist, while linemate and fellow recruit Kieffer Bellows scored his team-best 27th goal and also registered a helper. Keller raised his team leading total to 67 (23G, 44A) points in 34 games. Goalie Jake Oettinger turned aside 31 Black Hawks shots, earning his 16th win of the season.

● WCF Courier recap and box score
● The Draft Analyst: Keller video highlights

2016 recruit Johnny McDermott scored a goal and an assist in a 5-3 loss to Salisbury and scored a goal in a 4-0 win over Pomfret. The left-shot forward, who had also notched the overtime game-winner in a 5-4 victory against Trinity-Pawling, has six goals and 12 assists in 10 games, playing on the #3-ranked Marlets’ top line.

2017 recruit Logan Cockerill scored the U17s only goal in a loss to Bloomington.

● USA Hockey recap

2019 recruit Joel Farabee scored a goal and an assist in Select Academy’s 6-1 winover the P.A.L. Junior Islanders in a USPHL 16U game. The forward from Cicero, NY has 22 points in 12 league games with points in each of the last ten games.

The Eagle-Tribune offers a lengthy profile of 2018 recruit Jake Wise (photo), considered one of the top 2000 birthdate forwards in North America. The left-shot center, who led Catholic Central with 42 points last season and has a team-best eight goals this year, hopes to follow Jack Eichel’s path and play for the US NTDP program in Plymouth, Michigan next season. Wise is already working with Bruins’ skating coach Kim Branvold, who also tutored Eichel.

Another 2018 recruit, sophomore Jack DeBoer, scored a goal in Salisbury’s 4-1 win against Deerfield.

Looking back

Former Terrier MVP Alex Chiasson scored his third goal of the season in Ottawa’s 5-3 win over the Kings.

● NHL.com recap and box score

Adam Clendening is heading back to the West Coast after being traded to Anaheim by Pittsburgh. The former BU blueliner had been acquired by the Penguins from Vancouver last summer.

Seniors Sean Maguire and captain Matt Grzelcyk and freshman Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson were named to the Hockey East top performers’ list.

Terriers dropped from #10 to #11 in both the USCHO and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine polls.

SB Nation/Hockey East: What we learned last weekend

There were certainly some very positive signs for David Quinn's group, namely the stellar play from senior goaltender Sean Maguire. The Pittsburgh Penguins draft pick made 70 saves on 75 shots on the weekend, but several were of the jaw dropping variety. Before allowing the goal late in Saturday's contest, he was absolutely spectacular to keep the Eagles off the scoreboard.

Boston Herald: Bruins strike gold with JFK

Looking ahead

UPDATE: NHL Central Scouting today announced its 2016 midterm rankings, which feature one current Terrier and five BU recruits on its list of North American skaters: #8 Clayton Keller, #9 Charlie McAvoy, #12 Kieffer Bellows (photo), #18 Dante Fabbro, #30 Chad Krys and #146 Patrick Harper.

●USCHO report

Five points in two games (3G, 2A) earned 2016 recruit Clayton Keller the USHL Forward of the Week honors. The left-shot center had four points on Friday and scored his fifth game-winner of the season on Saturday, bringing his points total to 68 (23G, 45A) in 35 games.
●The Draft Analyst: Keller profile and video highlights

2016 recruit Kieffer Bellows scored his team-leading 27^thgoal in the NTDP U18s’ 3-2 win against Youngstown on Monday. Last season, the Edina, Minnesota native rang up 33 goals in 58 games for USHL Sioux Falls.

● USA Hockey recap

2017 recruit David Farrance (photo) scored a power play and an assist for the NTDP U17s, who dropped a 5-4 overtime decision to Muskegon. 2018 recruit Logan Cockerill assisted on Farrance’s goal.

2018 recruit Tyler Weiss scored a goal with 47 seconds left in regulation to give Don Mills Flyers a 2-2 tie with the Markham Majors. Weiss has a 17-15-32 scoring line in 22 games.

Looking back

Jack Eichel scored the Sabres’ first goal and assisted on the game-winner, both on power plays, in a 2-1 victory over the Coyotes. The former All American and Terrier MVP, who earned first-star honors (and third-star for the NHL on Monday evening), now has 14 goals and 15 assists in 29 games.

● NHL.com recap and video

Matt Nieto scored his sixth goal of the season for San Jose, but the Sharks dropped a 4-3 decision to Ottawa in a shootout. Nieto earned second-star honors.

● NHL.com recap and video
● SB Nation: Nieto's backhand beauty

Women’s Team

Freshman Sammy Davis’ hat trick led the Terriers to a 6-2 win at Vermont on Sunday, enabling BU to take three out of four points in the two games with the Catamounts. BU also received goals from senior Dakota Woodworth and juniors Alexis Crossley and Samantha Sutherland.

● GoTerriers.com recapand comprehensive box score

● Daily Free Press recap, Goaltender battle

Davis was named Hockey East Rookie of the Week for the second time this season and is second in the conference in goals (11) scored among freshmen. Sutherland and Lillian Ribeirinha-Braga were named to the weekly top performers list.

● GoTerriers.com report

Episode 13 of Inside BU Hockey features Bernie Corbett’s interviews with Head Coach David Quinn, junior forward Tommy Kelley and former BU netminder Terry Taillefer., Kelley, whose sister Mary Grace Kelley is a freshman on the women’s team, has five career goals including one scored this season against Yale. Before arriving at BU, he starred at St. Sebastian’s as linemate of Danny O’Regan as a junior and as the team’s top goal-scorer as a senior.

Taillefer, a Calgary native and Bruins draft pick, appeared in 76 games between 1983 and 1987with a 38-23-7 record. Thirty years ago, he helped BU end a three-year Beanpot championship drought, backboning a 4-1 win over BC and, with 43 saves and earning tournament MVP honors. A month later, in the Hockey East Championship game, Taillefer stopped 39 BC shots in a 9-4 win over the Eagles that gave BU its first conference tournament title. This time, he shared the spotlight with co-captain Peter Marshall who scored a hat trick that night.

Episode 2 of BU Terriers All Access, which previously aired on NESN, is now available online here. The 21 minute program includes features on assistant captains Matt Lane and O’Regan and former Terrier All-American and Hall of Fame member, NHL standout and current Rivers School coach Shawn McEachern. (McEachern video)

Hockey East has selected the Terriers’ 1-1 overtime tie with BC as its Game of the Week.

The Charlestown Patriot-Bridge examines the final season in which childhood friends Matt Grzelcyk, Harvard’s Jimmy Vesey and Northeastern’s Brendan Collier will compete for the Beanpot Championship.

USCHO: This Week in Hockey East

TV Schedule

Friday night’s game in Orono against Maine will air on Fox College Sports Atlantic at 7:30 p.m. Saturday’s conclusion of the home-and-home with the Black Bears will be streamed on TerrierTV.

Looking ahead

With 2017 recruit Patrick Harper leading the way, Avon Old Farms—USHR’s top-ranked prep team—extended its winning streak to eight games with a 7-4 win over Northfield Mount Hermon. The diminutive center from New Canaan, Conn., scored a goal and added three assists, raising his point total to 29 (10G, 19A) in 13 games. Harper is among the current top scorers in New England prep hockey as is 2016 recruit Johnny McDermott with 21 points in 13 games for Westminister.

NHL.com Top 2016 draft prospectsfrom St. Louis,including Clayton Keller

►Tonight's NTDP U18 game against Michigan will be streamed free of charge. Four 2016 recruit skating for the U18s.

Looking back

Jack Eichel picked up his 16^th assist on a Sabres power play goal, but Buffalo fell to Colorado on a score in the final minute, 2-1. The former Hobey Baker Award winner now has 30 points in 47 games.

●NHL.com recap and video

THIS DATE IN TERRIER HOCKEY:

Jan. 21, 1989: Boston University shutout second ranked Minnesota, 1-0, in front of 2,853 fans at Walter Brown Arena. It was the first time the Gophers had been shutout since 14 March 1986, a span of 80 games. It was a defensive game from start to finish, with great forechecking and backchecking by both teams.

BU goalie Peter Fish made 17 saves to get the shutout, outplaying Robb Stauber, who was making his first start in seven weeks. The only goal of the game came at 10:45 of the second period when Chris Lappin scored the first goal of his Terrier career. Stauber made saves on shots by Shawn McEachern (photo) and Mike Sullivan before Lappin, who moved in when he saw a delayed penalty was being called on Minnesota, picked up the second rebound from just outside the crease and put it in the net.

#11 Terriers are in Orono to begin a home-and-home series with Maine tonight at Alfond Arena. Game time is 7:30 with two options for watching: Fox College Sports Atlantic and Maine’s live stream (see links below)

BU will seek to gain important Hockey East points after taking just one in last weekend’s series with BC.

Maine is led by senior Will Merchant and junior Blaine Byron, each with 13 points, while junior defenseman Dan Renouf has 12. Junior Matt Morris and freshman Rob McGovern have split the net-minding duties. In the Black Bears' last outing, they tied top-ranked Quinnipiac, 3-3.

Last season, BU swept the league series, winning in Orono, 3-1, and then at Agganis, 3-2 on Jack Eichel's overtime goal.

Sophomore wing Nikolas Olsson remains out of the line-up due to an upper body injury.

Tonight’s Terrier line-up:

Cloonan-JFK-O'Regan
Oksanen-Lane-Greenway
Andren-Carpenter-Baillargeon
Phelps-Moran-Kelley
Grzelcyk-McAvoy
Hickey-Fortunato
Somerby-MacLeod
Maguire

● GoTerriers.com preview, Game Notes, Live Stats, Terrier Sports Radio Network Webcast, @BUGameDay

● Boston Hockey Blog live in-game blog

● Fox College Sports Channel Finder

● Daily Free Press preview

● WTBU Sports game preview

● SB Nation Hockey East weekend preview

● College Hockey News Tale of the Tape,

● USCHO Hockey East Picks and Predictions

● Maine Game Notes , GoBlackBears.com live stream

● HockeyEastOnline weekend preview

● Bangor Daily News preview

Looking ahead

2016 recruit Clayton Keller scored his 24th goal of the season on a power play, but the NTDP U18s fell to Michigan at Yost Arena, 5-2. Fellow recruit Jake Oettinger had a strong performance in goal against the high-powered Wolverine offense, stopping 32 shots overall and holding Michigan to one goal in the first two periods. But the hosts struck for four scores in the third period to put the game out of reach.

USA Hockey recapand box score

Looking back

The Boston Globe’s Fluto Shinzawa reports that a pair of former Terriers, now NHL head coaches will help guide Team USA in the upcoming World Cup:

Mike Sullivanand John Hynes(photo) will be assistants to John Tortorella on Team USA’s World Cup of Hockey entry. Never hurts to put two Boston University minds on staff.

This Date in Terrier Hockey

1991: Terriers used a four-goal first period to level Lowell, 7-4, and raise their record to 16-6-2. Defenseman Peter Ahola, recorded his second two-goal game of the season, while BU also got goals from Keith Tkachuk, Tony Amonte (photo), David Sacco, Ed Ronan and Chris McCann. John Bradley stopped 20 Lowell shots. Forward Mike Bavis suffered a broken jaw in the game, but would return to the lineup after missing only eight games.

1972: Boston University defeated Vermont, 7-2, at Walter Brown Arena in front of 3,466 fans in the first meeting between the two programs. The Terriers struck quickly, when Ron Anderson beat UVM’s Steve Eckerson just 1:11 into the first period. The Catamounts made a game of it and, at 13:59, Brad Cooke beat the Terriers’ Dan Brady (photo) to even the score at 1-all. BU retook the lead for good when Bob Gryp scored 81 seconds later and then Anderson scored on the powerplay 1:28 after that to increase the lead to 3-1.

Vermont drew to within one goal when Willie MacKinnon scored at 4:57 of the second period, but that was as close as they would get. The Catamounts held off the Terriers until 12:25 of the period when Mike LaGarde made it 4-2. In the third BU took control as Bob Brown scored at 1:06, Ric Jordon scored at 8:57 and David Wisener scored at 16:58. Brady made 23 saves for the Terriers while Eckerson made 32 for the Catamounts.

Women’s Team

Terriers begin home –and-home series with Providence on Saturday at Agganis Arena, with puck drop set for 3 p.m.

● Daily Free Press preview

Former Terrier standout Gina Kearns will be inducted into the Women’s Beanpot Hall of Fame. Kearns, currently in her second season as head coach at Neumann University, was a three-time BU captain and when she left the program in 2009 was the all-time points leader with 102.

● GoTerriers.com report

Behind a pair of goals by senior Ahti Oksanen and another strong goaltending performance by senior Sean Maguire, #11 Terriers won the first half of the home-and-home series with Maine, 5-2, at Alfond Arena in Orono. The Finnish winger and his linemates, senior Matt Lane and freshman Jordan Greenway combined for six points, and BU also received goals from captain Matt Grzelcyk, senior Mike Moran and freshman Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson.

The teams came out firing with a combined 28 shots in the first period, but BU scored the only goal when Grzelcyk’s shot from the point sailed past goalie Matt Morris who was screened by Forsbacka Karlsson.Grzelcyk now has eight goals in just 11 games.

Early in the second, Greenway outmuscled Maine defenders behind the Black Bears’ cage and slid the puck across the crease to Oksanen for a tap-in goal. The home team responded two minutes later on a power play when Cam Brown got behind the BU defense and put a backhander past Maguire. Midway through the period some pretty passing by Greenway and Oksanen sent the puck to Moran in the slot. He kicked the puck to his stick and backhanded a shot past Morris for his first goal of the season.

Photo by Maddie Malhotra, Daily Free Press

Less than a minute into the third period Forsbacka Karlsson found the rebound of a Brandon Fortunato shot and converted it for his seventh goal of the season for a 4-1 lead. Late in the period, Blaine Byron popped home a rebound with just two seconds left on a Maine power play. Oksanen followed with his team-high 13^thgoal, aided by Greenway’s third assist of the game.

Commenting on Oksanen and Greenway, Coach David Quinn, who earned his 50th win as Terriers' head coach, remarked:

“Those are big, NHL bodies [and] don’t get me wrong, they have stick skills, too, but if they’re moving their feet it’s going to be very difficult for anyone to defend them."

"This was one of our better performances. We did a great job pressuring the puck. We were a difficult team to play against tonight. This is not an easy place to play. Maine is well-coached and it’s no fun to play them. But I loved the way our guys stuck with it.”

Maguire turned aside 32 Maine shots including a few point blank attempts as Maine generated numerous grade A chances.

Once again, Greenway was a force along the boards and behind the Maine net in a grinding game that suits his style. The 6-5 wing from Potsdam, N.Y., who had just two points in his first 13 games, has tallied two goals and nine assists in the last ten games.

BU’s fourth line pressured Maine all night. In addition to Moran’s goal, junior Tommy Kelley had five shots.

For the first time since the late '80s, BU has a winning record at Alfond Arena— (24-23-7).

The teams conclude the series tonight at Agganis Arena with puck drop at 7 p.m.

● GoTerriers.com recapand comprehensive box score

● BU Goal Videos: Grzelcyk | Oksanen - 1 / 2 | Forsbacka Karlsson | Moran

● Post-game comments: Quinn

● Daily Free Press recap; Second line shines

● Boston Hockey Blog Pluses & Minuses

● USCHO recap

● Bangor Daily News recap

Looking ahead

2017 recruit Hank Crone scored a goal and added two power play assists for Fargo as the Force blanked Waterloo, 6-0.

● Inforum recap

2016 recruit Dante Fabbro assisted on a pair of Penticton goals as the Vees throttled Chilliwack, 8-1. The right-shot defenseman who is projected to be a first round pick in the upcoming NHL entry draft, has 48 points this season, including 16 multi-point games.
● BCHL box score

Looking ahead

Wade Megan’s fifth goal of the season was the game-winner as AHL Portland edged Wilkes Barre/Scranton, 2-1.

Evan Rodrigues scored his fifth goal of the season in Rochester’s 5-3 winover Grand Rapids.

Women’s Team

Terriers resume conference play with a home-and-home series against Providence. Today, BU hosts the Friars in a game at Agganis Arena beginning at 3 p.m. Last month, the Terriers blanked Providence, 6-0, at Schneider Arena. Sophomores Rebecca Leslie and Victoria Bach lead BU with 31 and 28 points respectively. Senior Sarah Lefort has 26 and senior Rebecca Russo has 23.

●GoTerriers.com preview, Game Notes, Live Stats, Terrier TV.

Putting together one of its most complete efforts of the season, BU took an early 2-0 lead against Maine and never looked back, routing the Black Bears, 6-1, at Agganis Arena. Senior assistant captain Matt Lane and freshman Bobo Carpenter each scored twice, with junior Doyle Somerby and senior Danny O’Regan getting the other two goals.

Passes from Oskar Andrén and Robbie Baillargeon sent Carpenter in alone on Maine goalie Rob McGovern. Carpenter beat the Maine goalie glove side for a lead five minutes into the game. Somerby scored the eventual game-winner 31 seconds later on a wrap-around.

Carpenter scored his second of the game—and seventh of the season— following a terrific entry pass from freshman Charlie McAvoy, who also dealt out several heavy checks. Then, Lane cashed in a pass from senior Ahti Oksanen to increase the lead to 4-0 before Cam Brown beat Sean Maguire from the high slot to end the netminder’s shutout bid. O’Regan converted the rebound of a Somerby shot late in the second period to stretch the lead to 5-1. Lane’s second goal early in the final period to close the scoring was his 13^th, tying him with Oksanen for the team lead.

BU outshot Maine 36-23. Maguire was tested less often than on Friday, but was sharp none-the-less, making 22 saves.

Summing up the strong 60-minute performance, Head Coach David Quinn pointed out:

“We were skating; we were pressuring the puck; there was an urgency to our game. One of the things that we’re trying to do is make teams earn ice, and I thought we did a pretty good job of that this weekend”

Lane added:

"We need sweeps, and we need to string together some wins. We know what we’re capable of as a team, and in a sense we didn’t feel we were meeting our standards. This is maybe the first weekend where we’ve played six good periods from start to finish.”

►Three stars: 1. Carpenter, 2. Somerby, 3. Lane.
►Somerby’s game-winner was his third of the season.

►12 Terriers—eight forwards and four defensemen—have reached double figures in points.
►Andrén gained his first points as a Terrier, assisting on Carpenter’s first and Lane’s second.

►Lane and Carpenter also led BU’s dominance in the face off circle, winning nine draws apiece, as BU took 35 of 55 draws.

►After yielding two power play goals Friday night, BU had six successful penalty kills on Saturday.

● GoTerriers.com recapand comprehensive box score

● Video highlights
● Post-game comments: Quinn; Lane & Carpenter
● Daily Free Press recap; Carpenter notches 2 goals
● Boston Hockey Blog Pluses & Minuses

● USCHO recap

● Press Herald recap

Looking ahead

2016 recruit Clayton Keller scored a goal and an assist in the NTDP U18’s third-period rally to tie Michigan State, but the U18s lost in overtime, 3-2. With two points, Keller upped his team-leading points total to 71 (25G, 46A).

USA Hockey recap

2017 recruit Brady Tkachuk assisted on a power play goal for the NTDP U17s, who dropped a 5-4 decision to the Madison Capitols.

2017 recruit Patrick Harper (photo) scored a goal and assisted on three others as top-ranked Avon Old Farms doubled up Berkshire, 8-4, running its unbeaten streak to 12 games (10 wins, 2 ties). Harper leads the Winged Beavers with 34 points (11 G, 23A) in 14 games.

2018 recruit Tyler Weiss scored his 16th goal in the Don Mills Flyers’ 2-1 win over the Junior Canadians and assisted on the Flyers only goal in a 1-1 tie with the Mississauga Senators. Weiss leads the Flyers with 34 points in 25 games.

Looking back

Photo by Just Sports Photography

The Providence Journal spoke with former Terrier standout and U.S. Olympian Clark Donatelli about his coaching career. He took over as head coach of the AHL Wilkes Barre/Scranton Penguins earlier this season when former BU captain Mike Sullivan was elevatedto head coach in Pittsburgh. Last season’s coach of the Baby Penguins, John Hynes, is now head coach of the New Jersey Devils.

Charlie Coyle scored his 12^th goal of the season in Minnesota’s 4-3 loss to San Jose, converting a power play rebound.

● NHL.com recap and video

Women's Team

Resuming conference play, the Terriers dominated Providence with a 5-1 win at Agganis Arena. Sophomore Rebecca Leslie scored twice and added an assist. Victoria Bach tallied her team-leading 15^th goal, while Rebecca Russo and Alexis Crossley also found the net. Victoria Hanson stopped 20 of 21 shots for BU.

●GoTerriers.com recapand comprehensive box score

● Video highlights

●Post-game comments: Head Coach Brian Durocher

Senior forward Ahti Oksanen, with a pair of goals and four assists in the two-game sweep of Maine, earned Hockey East’s Warrior Player of the Week honors. Senior Sean Maguire, with a sparkling 1.50 GAA and .947 save percentage for the two games, and freshman Jordan Greenway, with four assists and a +4, were named to the weekly top performers list.
● GoTerriers.com report

Terriers moved up to #9 in the USCHO weekly poll and to #10 in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll.

The Beanpot Luncheon was held today at TD Garden where David Quinn and Matt Grzelcyk joined the coaches and captains from BC, Harvard and Northeastern. BU, which has won 30 of the previous 63 Beanpot tournaments and is the defending champion, takes on Northeastern in a first round matchup on Monday, Feb. 1.

● NESN report

● 2015 Beanpot championship video highlights

Congrats to goaltender Terry Talliefer'87 on being inducted into the Beanpot Hall of Fame! #ProudToBU pic.twitter.com/TiTpx8OUhv
— BU Men's Hockey (@TerrierHockey) January 25, 2016

►Extended video replays of the BU goals in Saturday’s 6-1 win are available here.

►We’ve added a link to Episode 2 of BU Terriers All-Access to the Video Highlights list in the sidebar.

Looking ahead

The Draft Analysts presents a 2016 NHL Draft Close-up on the NTDP's Lethal Duo--2016 recruits and linemates Clayton Keller and Kieffer Bellows. Keller leads the U18s with 71 points, while Bellows (photo) has a team-high 28 goals.

For the second game in a row, 2018 recruit Jake Wise scored twice and added two assists as Central Catholic defeated Hingham HS, 4-2, on Saturday. Earlier in the week, the left-shot center from North Andover also had 2+2 in a 10-0 rout of Acton-Boxboro. Wise,who is averaging two points a game over 14 games with 13 goals and 15 assists, will skate with Team USA in the Youth Olympics in Norway next month, along with fellow 2018 recruits Tyler Weiss and Jack DeBoer.

Looking back

Billy Cotter, a gritty right wing on BU’s 1978 national championship team passed away last Friday. A Charlestown, Mass., native, he captained Matignon to the state high school championship in 1977. Cotter scored 84 points (30G, 54A) in four varsity seasons.

Former Terrier assistant captain Cason Hohmann scored a pair of goals in ECHL Elmira’s 3-2 winagainst Norfolk. Hohmann leads the Jackals, a Sabres affiliate, in goals with 13 and points with 28.

Women’s Team

Terriers completed a sweep of Providence, doubling up the Friars, 4-2, at Schneider Arena on Sunday. After falling behind, 2-0, BU connected four times in the second period, getting goals from juniors Rebecca Russo and Maddie Elia, sophomore Victoria Bach and freshman Mary Grace Kelley, who scored her first collegiate goal. Erin O’Neil saved 29 shots to gain her 10^thwin.

● GoTerriers.com recapand comprehensive box score

● Daily Free Press recap; Agganis game

Leslie’s six-point performance (2G, 4A) in the two games against Providence was top in the nation this past weekend and earned her Hockey East’s Player of the Week recognition. The sophomore from Ottawa leads the Terriers with 36 points and has been on the score sheet in 11 of the past 12 games. Kelley and Victoria Hanson were named to the weekly top performers list.

● GoTerriers.com report

Senior Ahti Oksanen, who on Monday was named Hockey East Player of the Week, added more recognition for his two-goal, four-assist performance against Maine as one of the NCAA’s three stars of the week. ESPN's John Buccigross tweeted that the top four goal-scorers in Division 1 over the past two seasons are: Harvard's Jimmy Vesey (46) and Oksanen (38), tied with Omaha's Austin Ortega and Quinnipiac's Sam Anas.

2016 NHL Draft prospect and Boston University freshman Charlie McAvoy is +10 since the Quinnipiac game (7 games). Was -7 in 16 GP prior.
— Jeff Cox (@JeffCoxSports) January 27, 2016

SB Nation's Cox has also put together a list of the top 10 NHL prospect defenseman currently in Hockey East and it includes McAvoy, sophomore Brandon Hickey (photo), senior captain Matt Grzelcyk and junior Doyle Somerby, who comprise two-thirds of BU’s starting defense corps.

Looking ahead

A new video from State Champs! Power Play has an NTDP focus with interviews featuring 2016 recruits Chad Krys, Kieffer Bellows and Clayton Keller, along with game action featuring a goal from Bellows for the U18s and 2018 recruit Logan Cockerill for the U17s.

2016 recruit Dante Fabbro skated for Team West in last night’s CJHL Top Prospects game in Surrey, British Columbia. The right-shot defenseman has a 10-38-48 line in 33 games and leads all BCHL defensemen in points-per-game (1.45) by a wide margin.

2017 recruit Patrick Harper scored a goal and two assists--including setting up the game-winner as Avon Old Farms edged Loomis-Chaffee, 4-3. The top-ranked Winged Beavers extended their unbeaten streak to 14 games and their record to 13-1-2, while Harper upped his team-leading points total to 41 (12G, 29A) in 16 games.

2018 recruit Tyler Weiss (photo) roofed a backhand shot for his 19^th goal of the season, but the Don Mills Flyers fell to the Junior Canadians, 3-2, in GTHL action. The Raleigh, North Carolina native has a team-leading 35 points (19G, 16A) in 25 games.

2019 recruit Case McCarthy is ranked #3 by PrioritySelection in its initial rankings for the 2017 OHL entry draft. McCarthy, a Clarence, New York native who plays for the GTHL Mississauga Rebels, is a right-shot defenseman with size and strong offensive upside.

Looking back

Jack Eichel scored his 15^th and 16^thgoals of the season to spark a Sabres’ comeback win against Ottawa, 3-2. The former BU MVP and All-American, who scored the game-winner and earned first-star honors, now has 34 points, second best among NHL rookies. Eichel has 20 points in his last 18 games, and with three two-goal games already, he’s tied with Patrick Kane and Steven Stamkos on the list of most multiple-goal games as a rookie.

● NHL.com recap and video highlights

● CBS Sports Back Into Calder Contention

No Terriers made the score sheet in last night’s 2-0 Penguins win over the Devils, but a pair of BU alums were calling the shots behind the benches. John Hynes is in his first season as New Jersey’s head coach, while Mike Sullivan (photo) was elevated to Pittsburgh’s top spot earlier this season. Former Terriers and current Penguins Nick Bonino and David Warsofsky both sat out with injuries. Ten seasons ago, Sullivan was behind the Bruins bench for several games against the Islanders, coached by former BU All-American and captain of the 1971 national championship team Steve Stirling.

A night for our program to be proud of w/ both head coaches (Mike Sullivan, John Hynes) being BU alums! #ProudToBU https://t.co/MNAHsjyZQs
— BU Men's Hockey (@TerrierHockey) January 27, 2016

Adam Clendening has been claimed on waivers by the Edmonton Oilers. Earlier this month, the Penguins had traded him to Anaheim. Previous NHL stops included Chicago and Vancouver. He’s made 30 NHL starts.

Women’s Team

●Daily Free Press: 20 questions with forward Sammy Davis

Episode 14 of Inside BU Hockey features Bernie Corbett’s interviews with Head Coach David Quinn, senior wing Ahti Oksanen and two-time first-team All-American and 1998 Hobey Baker Memorial Award winner Chris Drury.

Oksanen, the current Hockey East Player of the Week, is the team’s co-leader in goals this season with 13 and is second in points with 27. A converted defenseman who made the switch to forward a year ago, his next goal will be the 50^th of his Terrier career. Oksanen is expected to be one of the most pursued free agents when he completes his BU career.

Drury is the only player to have won the Hobey Baker Award and the Calder Trophy as NHL rookie of the year. At BU, where he is the program’s all-time goal-scoring leader with 113 and third in all-time points (214), he played for the 1995 national championship team and in two subsequent Frozen Fours. A proven clutch performer throughout his career, he played 12 NHL seasons with four teams (Colorado, Calgary, Buffalo, Rangers), winning the Stanley Cup with the Avalanche in 2001 and scoring more than 300 goals between regular season and playoff games.

Drury represented the United States in three Winter Olympiads, winning silver in 2002 and 2010. A 2003 inductee into the BU Athletics Hall of Fame, he was inducted last month into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. In September, he rejoined the Rangers as Director of Player Development.

● NHL.com bio

● Rangers bio

College Hockey News’ Chris Boulay examines senior Sean Maguire’s long road back to the Terrier net after missing his entire junior season.

USCHO: This Week in Hockey East

Beanpot 2016

In a rematch of last year’s Beanpot Championship game, Terriers take on Northeastern in Monday night’s semifinal. BU will be the home team in a game set to begin at 8 p.m. at TD Garden. The BU Alumni Association has organized Beanpot Watch parties in 13 U.S. cities. Details and reservation information is here. BU won its 30^th Beanpot title last February, defeating the Huskies, 4-3 on Captain Matt Grzelcyk’s overtime goal (video)

Looking back

In his second season as head coach, former Terrier standout Jason Lawrence has led Everett High School to the program’s first Great Boston League title since 1970. Everett clinched the title with a 7-0 win against Somerville Wednesday night. A Saugus native, Lawrence scored 97 points for BU over four seasons and led the 2009 national championship team with 25 goals, playing on the top line with Colin Wilson and Chris Higgins. That season, Lawrence scored the game-winning goal in both the Beanpot Championship game and the NCAA Regional Final and had a natural hat trick against UMass. He later played in the ECHL and in Europe before beginning his coaching career with the Boston Junior Bruins.

Looking ahead

2018 recruit Jake Wise scored a goal and assisted on two others as Central Catholic routed Westford Academy 8-0. The left-shot center from North Andover has 15 goals and 19 assists in 16 games for the Raiders.

Women’s Program

●Daily Free Press: Steel-Woloschuk tandem critical to defense

#9/10 Terriers take on Merrimack tonight at Agganis Arena with puck drop set for 7:30 p.m. BU dropped a 4-3 decision to the Warriors earlier in the season and will be looking to avoid a repeat and to gain an important two points in the Hockey East race.

The game, which will be streamed on TerrierTV (subscription), marks BU’s Annual AutismAwareness Night, highlighted by a silentauction for the Autism Speaks jersey wornby Jack Eichel during last season's Autism Awareness game. BU hockey has supported Autism Speaks through numerous activities since 2004 and its players wear the Autism Speaks logo on their jerseys.

After a strong start to the season, Merrimack has struggled in recent weeks, losing the last nine straight and winning just once in the last 14 games. Their offense is led by seniors Brian Christie (18 points) and Ben Bahe (15) and junior Hampus Gustafsson (15), while Collin Deliahas handled most of the netminding duties.

Since second semester began, BU has enjoyed its best scoring balance of the season from its forwards. First liners Danny O’Regan and Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson have 28 and 22 points respectively, while Matt Lane (photo) and Ahti Oksanen have powered the line with 13 goals apiece. Third line center Bobo Carpenter, who has five goals in his last eight games and linemate Robbie Baillargeon now are in double figures with 10 points each.

The Daily Free Press tweeted that newcomer Oskar Andrén, who scored his first points as a Terrier last Saturday against Maine, will join JFK and O’Regan on the top line tonight. Senior Sean Maguire is expected to make his eighth consecutive start in goal.

Tonight's BU line-up.

Andrén -JFK-O'Regan
Oksanen-Lane-Greenway
Cloonan -Carpenter-Baillargeon
Phelps-Moran-Kelley
Grzelcyk-McAvoy
Hickey-Fortunato
Somerby-Diffley
Maguire

► Tonight BU will honor Jim Priorfor his 30 seasons as game announcer at Walter Brown Arena and now at Agganis Arena.

● GoTerriers.com preview, Game Notes, GameTracker, TerrierTV, Terrier Sports Radio Network Webcast, @BUGameDay

● Boston Hockey Blog live in-game blog

● Daily Free Press preview

● WTBU Sports game preview podcast

● College Hockey News Tale of the Tape

● USCHO: Hockey East Picks and Predictions

● HockeyEastOnline weekend preview
● SB Nation preview

● Merrimack Game Notes

Looking back

Buffalo News: At the break, Eichel living up to the hype

#9/10 Terriers picked up their third straight conference win, blanking Merrimack, 4-0, at Agganis Arena behind goals by junior Robbie Baillargeon and seniors Danny O’Regan, Matt Lane and Ahti Oksanen.

Senior Sean Maguire stopped all 27 shots he faced, but wasn’t credited with either a shutout or a win. Just over one minute into the first period, he had to leave the game for skate repairs, and was replaced by sophomore Connor LaCouvee, who made just one save in his five minute-and-49 seconds relief stint. During that stretch Baillargeon completed a pretty passing play, ripping home a Lane feed from the left faceoff circle dot for what proved to be the game-winner and the only goal in a penalty-filled opening period.

Merrimack had four minutes of power play time in the second period, but it was the Terriers who found the net as O’Regan stole a pass in the center zone, broke through two defenders and scored a shorthander that gave BU a 2-0 lead. In the third, BU’s current goal-scoring co-leaders both struck: Lane converting his own rebound and Oksanen, whose empty-netter was his 50^th career goal. Both have a team best 14 scores this season.

Maguire made several difficult saves late in the game, along with 10 power play saves, to preserve the team shutout.

Commenting on LaCouvee’s “six-minute win,” Coach David Quinn said:

“I realized it when we were walking around shaking hands. Connor got dealt a bad hand a couple of times last year. We put him in at New Hampshire when we were down 3-0, and they scored right away to make it 4-0. Then we scored three goals to make it 4-3, and he got a loss. That happened a couple of times last year.”

While Maguirewasn't credited with the win or a shutout, he did earn first-star honors for yet another strong performance. O'Regan and Brien Diffley were the second and third stars. Diffley assisted on the Baillargeon and Lane goals for his first multiple-point game this season.

In the final minutes, Captain Matt Grzelcyk passed up several opportunities at the empty-net to set up shots for Lane and Oksanen.

In the third period, O’Regan nearly duplicated his goal, breaking through the Merrimack defense again, but was denied by the Warriors’ Collin Delia.

● GoTerriers.com recapand comprehensive box score

● Video highlights

● Post-game comments: Quinn; Baillargeon & Diffley

● Daily Free Press recap; Maguire perfect but no win

● Boston Hockey Blog Pluses & Minuses; Photo gallery

● USCHO recap

● SB Nation recap

Looking ahead

Kieffer Bellows game winning goal for @USAHockeyNTDP tonight vs. Green Bay https://t.co/Xzmv5dpaAq
— STATE CHAMPS! (@statechampsnet) January 30, 2016

2016 recruits Kieffer Bellows and Clayton Keller both scored a pair of goals in the NTDP U18s 4-3 win over Green Bay. Bellows, who assisted on Keller’s first goal, delivered the game-winner on a wrap-around in overtime—his team leading 30^th score and sixth game-winner this season. Chad Krys assisted on Keller’s second goal and netminder Jake Oettinger stopped 26 shots to gain his 17^th win.

● USA Hockey recapand box score

►Tonight’s rematch between the U18s and Green Bay is available in HD online for free. 7 p.m. ET.

2016 recruit Dante Fabbro scored a goal and added an assist in Penticton’s 6-1 win against Trail. The right-shot defenseman now has 50 points (11G, 39A) in 34 games for the BCHL’s league-leading Vees.

●Penticton Vees recap

Looking back

● BleacherReport: Searching for What Drives Jack Eichel

Women’s Team

Terriers take on Merrimack at Walter Brown Arena Saturday in a 3 p.m. start. Saturday is the Terriers' second annual "Do It For Daron Mental Health Awareness Day." DIFD is an organization dedicated to raising awareness, inspiring conversations and transforming youth mental health. BU is unbeaten (3-0-1) in its last four conference games.

● GoTerriers.com preview, Game Notes, GameTracker, TerrierTV, @BUGameDay

Sports journalist Jashvina Shah interviewedformer BU standout and Olympic gold medalist Jennifer Wakefield, who now plays in Sweden’s top women’s league.

Beanpot Previews

BU Today spoke with senior assistant captain Danny O’Regan about playing in his final Beanpot Tournament. O’Regan scored the double-overtime game-winner in last year’s Beanpot semifinal against Harvard. (video) The San Jose draft pick and his father, Tom O’Regan, who co-captained the 1982-83 Terriers, are the only father and son duo to each score 50 goals in Division 1 hockey.

It’s also the final Beanpot for senior Mike Moran who spoke with the Patriot Ledger about the tournament. Last year Moran scored BU’s first goal in the championship game won by the Terriers in overtime, 4-3 (video).

● Boston Herald preview

● Beanpot Watch Parties in 14 cities organized by BU Alumni.

● Hockey East Online previews BU’s first-round opponent, Northeastern BP/NU

► Following Friday’s 4-0 win against Merrimack, BU is #8 in the PairWise Rankings. There are five Hockey East teams among the top 11.

Looking back

Former BU standout and NHLer Ryan Whitney, is launching a hockey podcast together with Bruins’ blogger “Rear Admiral” on Barstool Sports. Whitney recent authored an article—Tales From Abroad: Russia— on his experiences playing in the KHL for The Players Tribune.

Looking ahead

For a second consecutive night, 2016 recruit Kieffer Bellowsscored twice—including the game-winner—and added an assist to lead the NTDP U18s past Green Bay. The Edina, Minn., native’s second goal of the game—and 33^rdof the season—broke a 2-2 tie midway through the third period. Fellow 2016 recruits Chad Krys and Clayton Keller each had an assist in the win.

● USA Hockey recap

● 2018 recruit Jack DeBoer (photo) earned first-star honors, scoring a goal and an assist in the Salisbury School’s 5-3 win against The Gunnery.

2019 recruit Joel Farabee scored twice in Selects Academy’s 4-2 win over the Syracuse Stars and had a goal and three assists in an 8-0 blankingof the Providence Capitols. The speedster from Cicero, N.Y., is second in scoring in the USPHL’s 16U division with a 10-20-30 scoring line in 17 league game.

Women’s Team

Junior defenseman Alexis Crossley (photo) scored a pair of goals—one each in the early minutes of the first two periods—in the Terriers’ 6-2 win over Merrimack at Walter Brown Arena. All three members of the Kayla Tutino-Sarah-Lefort-Victoria Bach line also found the net as did Sammy Davis.

● GoTerriers.com recapand comprehensive box score

► Bostonia feature on high-scoring sophomores Rebecca Leslie and Bach

#9 Terriers begin defense of their Beanpot tournament title as the 64th edition of the battle for bragging rights in Boston begins tonight. In an 8 p.m. start, BU takes on the team it defeated in last year’s championship game, Northeastern. This semifinal as well as the BC-Harvard semi, beginning at 5 p.m., will air on NESNand in Canada on TSN.

The Huskies have turned their fortunes around since being swept by BU (5-4 at Agganis, 4-1 at Matthews) and bring a six-game winning streak into the tournament. Junior Zach Alston-Reese is their top point-scorer with 16, while sophomore Nolan Stevens has 10 goals and the ever-dangerous Kevin Roy recently returned to the line-up following an injury layoff. Freshman Ryan Ruck has taken over the goaltending chores.

Tonight's BU line-up.

Andrén -JFK-O'Regan
Oksanen-Lane-Greenway
Cloonan -Carpenter-Baillargeon
Phelps-Moran-Kelley
Grzelcyk-McAvoy
Hickey-Fortunato
Somerby-Diffley
Maguire

● GoTerriers.com preview, Game Notes, GameTracker, Terrier Sports Radio Network Webcast, @BUGameDay

● Boston Hockey Blog live in-game blog

●Daily Free Press preview; Seniors reflect

●BU Today preview

●WTBU Sports: Beanpot Scouting Reports; preview

●BU Alumni Watch Parties

●Northeastern Game Notes

●College Hockey News preview and Tale of the Tape

●USCHO Hockey East Blog

●NCAA Sports preview

► SB Nation’s Jeff Cox and NHL.com’s Mike Morreale each examine NHL prospects playing in the Beanpot with freshmen Charlie McAvoy and Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson, as well as Matt Grzelcykand Doyle Somerby among those featured.

Seniors Matt Lane (photo) and Sean Maguire earned spots on the Hockey East Online weekly top performers list.

Terriers remained in the #9 spot in the USCHO Weekly poll and they sit in the #8 spot in the PairWise rankings, which has five Hockey East teams in the top 11. BU moved up from #10 to #9 in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll.

Looking ahead

2016 recruit Kieffer Bellows was named USHL co-forward of the week after scoring four goals and two assists in a pair of NTDP U18s wins over Green Bay. The left-shot forward had a hand in six of the U18s' seven goals in the two games, including the game-winner both nights. Bellows now has a team-high 33 goals, equaling the number of goals he scored last season helping Sioux Fallswin the Clark Cup championship.

Women’s Team

Freshman Sammy Davis earned Hockey East Rookie of the Week honors for the third time this season. The forward from Pembroke, Mass., leads all conference freshmen with ten goals and nine assists. Senior captain Kayla Tutino and junior Alexis Crossly were named to the weekly top performers list.

● GoTerriers.com report

BU and Walter Brown Arena will host the Women’s Beanpot tomorrow with the Terriers taking on #6 Northeastern in a 5 p.m. start that can be seen on TerrierTV.

● Daily Free Press: Women’s hockey on hot streak

#9 BU earned the right to defend its Beanpot title with a 3-1 victory over Northeastern at TD Garden. The Terriers, who will face BC in next Monday’s final, received first-period goals from junior Robbie Baillargeonand freshman Charlie McAvoy, an empty-netter from junior Doyle Somerby and another extremely sharp effort in goal by senior Sean Maguire .

In addition to propelling BU into next week’s final, the victory—the Terriers’ 15^th of the season—achieve a program milestone: 1,500 wins since the Terriers first took to the ice in 1917. BU will play in the Beanpot championship game for the 28^th time in the past 33 seasons.

BU got on the board at 13:14 of the first when freshman Ryan Cloonan kept a puck alive in the Huskies zone, leading to two shots by freshman Bobo Carpenter. The second deflected into the air to goalie Ryan Ruck’s right and Baillargeon batted it home. Three-and-a-half minutes later, freshman Oskar Andrén’s pass sent senior Danny O’Regan into the NU zone, where he dropped the puck to McAvoy, who blasted a shot into the top left corner past a partially screened goalie.

Maguire, coming off last Friday’s 4-0 shutout of Merrimack, held Northeastern at bay until late in the third period, stopping 24 shots, including a Mike McMurtry breakaway in the first period. The Huskies finally broke through after pulling Ruck for an extra attacker. Maguire made a pad stop on a shot from the point, but an unchecked John Stevens slid the rebound under him. Two minutes later, with NU pressing for the equalizer, Somerby cleared the puck with a 180-foot shot that went dead-center into the empty net.

Ruck was immense in goal for Northeastern keeping BU from extending its lead on breakaways by O’Regan and freshman Jordan Greenway and denying a Matt Lane one-timer from the right circle on a power play that seemed labeled. Cloonan nearly added to the lead in the third period when his backhander rang off the crossbar.

BU coach David Quinn was pleased with his team’s performance:

“Just a really good team effort — from start to finish, we were ready to play. I thought our forwards had a good night, our ‘D’ corps had a good night, our goalie had a good night.”

McAvoy, whose goal proved to be the game-winner, reflected on his first Beanpot experience:

“Coming in, you choose to go to a school like BU to play in the Beanpot and it was everything that it was hyped up to be.”

● GoTerriers.com recapand comprehensive box score

● Video highlights; BU goals: Baillargeon, McAvoy, Somerby

● Photo gallery

● Post-game comment: Quinn and O’Regan

● Daily Free Press recap ; McAvoy’s growth; Andrén shines

● USCHO recap; Maguire regains focus, shines in Beanpot
● SB Nation recap; Puck possession is king

● College Hockey News recap

● Boston Globe recap

►O’Regan and captain Matt Grzelcyk are on the list of 23 finalists for the Walter Brown Award, which recognizes the top American-born college hockey player in New England.

Women’s Team

Terriers host Northeastern at Walter Brown Arena in the opening round of the 38^th Women’s Beanpot Tournament. Puck drop is set for 8 p.m.

● GoTerriers.com: preview, game notes, game tracker, TerrierTV, @BUGameDay
● Daily Free Press preview

Episode 15 of Inside BU Hockey features Bernie Corbett's interviews with Coach David Quinn, freshman defenseman Charlie McAvoy and Dennis O'Connell, captain of the 1965-66 Terriers. The youngest of the Terriers also is the youngest player in Division 1 this season, McAvoy has 13 points (2G, 11A) this season including his game-winning goal (video) in Monday's Beanpot opener. The Long Beach, N.Y., native was the top-scoring defenseman for the NTDP U18s last season with 40 points and, along with fellow freshman Jordan Greenway, won a gold medal in the IIHF World U18 Championships. Last month, McAvoy and sophomore Brandon Fortunato skated for the U.S. bronze medal winning team at the World Junior Championships.

BU captain Dennis O'Connell with BC standout John Cunniff at the 1966 Beanpot

A native of South Boston and a member of Jack Kelley's first recruiting class, O'Connell scored 94 points in three varsity seasons. Fifty years ago, he helped lead BU to the first Beanpot championship and first NCAA tournament of the Kelley era and a 27-8-0 record. It was following the 9-2 win over Harvard in the Beanpot final that a winning team first skated the Beanpot Trophy around the Boston Garden ice.

More Beanpot

BU Hockey historian Sean Pickett has updated his data bases of BU Beanpot records and Terrier records for games at TD Garden .

Among the former Terriers who attended Monday’s Beanpot semi-final were Matt O’Connor, former All-American, co-captain of the 1978 national championship team and 1980 Olympic gold medalist Jack O’Callahan (photo), and high-scoring defenseman Gary Fay who flew in from Switzerland.

Four 2016 recruits from the NTDP U18s--Kieffer Bellows, Clayton Keller, Chad Krys and Jake Oettinger--along with 2017 recruit and Avon Old Farms top scorer Patrick Harper,, were in the TD Garden stands for Monday's game. [Note: If you spotted other former at the Garden, let us know with a comment.]

USCHO: This Week in Hockey East

Looking back

Jack Eichel guested on NHL Live (audio) to talk about his rookie season as well as the Beanpot Tournament. Eichel recorded his 35^th point of the season, assisting on a goal in Buffalo’s 4-2 win over Montreal.

"I think BU's the front runner every year."@TerrierHockeyalum @Jack_Eichel11talks #Beanpot& more with #NHLLive https://t.co/5s4RNkyBT2
— NHL Network (@NHLNetwork) February 2, 2016

Eric Gryba (photo) scored his first goal of the season in the Oilers’ 5-1 win against Columbus. Adam Clendening, in his first start since being acquired by Edmonton, contributed an assist, a block and three shots on goal.

● NHL.com recap and video

Colin Wilsonreturned to Predators’ practice for the first time since suffering a lower-body injury in January.

Chris Bourque, who scored the game-winning goal in the 2005 Beanpot championship game (video), fired two goals to lead Team Atlantic to the finals of the AHL All-Star Classic.

Looking ahead

From USHL.com

The duo of Clayton Kellerand Kieffer Bellowshas been unstoppable, and that’s good news for both NTDP and Boston University. The two Terrier commits are both well over a point-per-game pace with Keller averaging 2.00 Pt/G and Bellows at 1.59 Pt/G. Bellows capped off his weekend with four goals, and two game-winning goals in a back-to-back set. Just as impressive has been the play of 2017 NHL Draft eligible goaltender Jake Oettinger. The Lakeville, MN native is chasing every Team USA USHL goaltending single season record including John Gibson’s 2010-11 USHL season record for save percentage (.926%), Thatcher Demko and Jack Campell’s GAA record (2.21) and Demko’s 2012-13 record for most wins (15). With seven games remaining Oettinger is 10-1-0-0 with a 2.16 GAA and .925 SV%.

USA Hockey spoke with 2017 recruit Brady Tkachuk about how father, former Terrier, NHL standout and US Olympian Keith Tkachuk, and brother Matthew Tkachuk helped the NTDP U17 power forward develop his game.

2018 recruit and Tkachuk’s teammate on the U17s Logan Cockerill is featured in the current edition of MIHockeyNow Magazine.

2018 recruit Tyler Weiss scored twice in the Don Mills Flyers 5-2 winover the Junior Canadians in game four of their GTHL playoff series. The speedy forward from Raleigh, N.C., scored the Flyers’ first goal on a power play and provided the game-winner on a penalty shot. Weiss, who has been named to Team USA for this month’s Youth Olympics in Norway, has scored 21 goals and 18 assists in 29 games.

Tyler Weiss (Don Mills Flyers) converts on his penalty shot to give his squad a 3-2 3rd period lead #OHLDraft pic.twitter.com/Q4oHyb8PTr
— Brendan Ross (@RossyYoungblood) February 4, 2016

Women’s Team

Terriers dropped a 3-2 decision to Northeastern in the Women’s Beanpot opener on Tuesday at Walter Brown Arena. Rebecca Russo gave BU a 1-0 lead midway through the first period, assisted by Rebecca Leslie and Alexis Crossley. However the Huskies scored twice in the second and once in the third period for a 3-1 lead. Crossley scored an extra-attacker goal, assisted by Leslie, with two minutes left in the period, but that was as close as the Terriers could get. Erin O’Neil stopped 27 Northeastern shots. BU will play Harvard in next Tuesday’s consolation game.

● GoTerriers.com recapand comprehensive box score

● Video highlights

● Post-game press conference

● Daily Free Press recap

#9 Terriers head West to take on UMass in Amherst with puck drop at the Mullins Center set for 7 p.m. BU will seek to gain an important two points in the Hockey East race and to extend its winning streak to five games. TerrierTV subscribers will be able to watch the UMass live stream of the game.

After starting the season with a 6-2-1 mark, the Minutemen have won just once in their past 18 games, which included a 7-2 defeat last month at the hands of the Terriers with Captain Matt Grzelcykcontributing a hat trick. Senior Shane Walsh and sophomore Ray Pigozzi lead UMass with 23 points apiece and Walsh is the top goal-scorer with 15. Freshman Nic Renyard has a 3.70 GAA in 18 games.

With 45 goals scored in the last 11 games, BU is getting contributions from all four lines and the defense corps. Seniors Matt Lane and Ahti Oksanen (photo)lead with 14 goals each and classmate Danny O’Regan is the top point-getter with 30. BU’s 25 goals from the defense—led by Grzelcyk’s eight—is second in the nation, just one behind Providence.

Freshman Charlie McAvoy will sit out tonight’s game with a lower body injury. Replacing him in the line-up is sophomore John MacLeod. Sophomore Nikolas Olsson, bitten by the injury bug again this year, has been shut down for the season, needing shoulder surgery.

Tonight's BU line-up
Andren-JFK-O'Regan
Greenway-Lane-Oksanen
Cloonan-Carpenter-Baillargeon
Phelps-Moran-Kelley
Grzelcyk-MacLeod
Hickey-Fortunato
Somerby-Diffley
Maguire

● GoTerriers.com preview, Game Notes, GameTracker, TerrierTV, Terrier Sports Radio Network Webcast, @BUGameDay

● Boston Hockey Blog live in-game blog

● Daily Free Press preview; LaCouvee trusts the process

● WTBU Sports game preview

● College Hockey News Tale of the Tape

● USCHO: Hockey East Picks and Predictions

● HockeyEastOnline weekend preview

● SB Nation preview

► O’Regan, with 140 career points, is eight away from surpassing Peter MacArthur to become the highest scoring Terrier since 2000 and 10 away from becoming just the 18^th BU skater to reach 150 career points.

► McAvoy, who scored the game-winner Monday in the Beanpot semifinal vs. Northeastern, is featured on the cover of the February issue of New York Hockey Journal and in a profile article (pgs. 34 & 35). The 6-1 defenseman from Long Beach is projected by many to be picked in the first round of the NHL Entry Draft, including International Scouting Services, which has McAvoy at #19 in its February rankings.
NHL Central Scouting ranked him #9 among North American skaters in its midterm rankings.

Episode 3 of BU Terriers All Access premiers tonight at 6:30 p.m. on NESN. When a link to watch the program online becomes available, we'll post it on the blog.

Beanpot

The cover article of the 2016 Beanpot Tournament program, titled “Patriarchs of the Beanpot,” has been added to our list of Terrier Tales in the sidebar. Written by longtime hockey writer and public address announcer at Conte Forum Tom Burke, it tracks the careers of four legendary coaches at Beanpot schools: BU’s Jack Kelley (photo), BC’s Snooks Kelley, Harvard’s Cooney Weiland and Northeastern’s Fernie Flaman. All four are members of the Beanpot Hall of Fame, which former BU netminder Terry Taillefer joins this year.

Looking back

Matt Nieto scored his seventh of the season, unassisted, in San Jose’s 3-1 win against St. Louis. Kevin Shattenkirk, who is one point shy of 200 as a Blue, rang a shot off the post during a power play.

● NHL.com recap and video
● Video clip

Freshman Jordan Greenway scored the game’s first and last goals and sophomore Chase Phelps had a goal and an assist as the Terriers doubled up Massachusetts, 6-3 at the Mullins Center. BU scored three early goals and later extended to a 5-1 lead before the Minutemen scored two third-period goals.

Hardworking Greenway put BU on the board just 57 seconds into the game, banging home the rebound of a Brandon Hickey shot. Less than two minutes later, Phelps finished off passes from junior Tommy Kelley and captain Matt Grzelcyk with a wrap-around goal. That early assault prompted UMass Coach John Micheletto to replace goalie Henry Dill with Nic Renyard, but the move didn’t slow down the Terriers as senior Mike Moran, assisted by Phelps, scored on a sharp-angle shot.

UMass cut the lead to 3-1 when Ray Pigozzi found a loose puck in the crease for a power play goal—one that Coach David Quinn felt should have been disallowed because the whistle had blown. Terriers matched that one in the final minute of the first period when senior assistant captain Danny O’Regan found freshman Oskar Andrén (photo) in the slot for a quick wrister that was the Stockholm native’s first collegiate goal as well as the game-winner.

O’Regan scored the second period’s only goal deflecting freshman Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson’s shot past Renyard. In the third period, the Minutemen scored twice in a one-minute span. The first was a power play goal by Dominic Trento, whose sharp-angle shot seemed to surprise senior goalie Sean Maguire; the second was scored by Joseph Widmar on a goal-mouth scramble. Greenway closed the scoring, stuffing the puck home following a UMass turnover.

First-star honors went to O’Regan, who has a team-leading 32 points. Greenway was the second star and Phelps was the third.

BU’s faceoff dominance, winning 41 of 63, was a key factor in the puck possession advantage BU enjoyed throughout most of the game.

● GoTerriers.com recapand comprehensive box score

● Video highlights

● Post-game comment: Quinn and Greenway
● Boston Hockey Blog: Pluses & Minuses

● Daily Free Press recap ; 4th line's strong effort

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Looking ahead

2017 recruit Patrick Harper scored a goal and assisted on two others as top-ranked Avon Old Farms blanked Westminster, 3-0. Harper has a team-leading 43 points (13G, 30A).

2018 recruit Jack DeBoer scored the game’s first goal in Salisbury’s 5-0 win against Trinity Pawling.

2019 recruit Joel Farabee (photo) scored his 12^th goal in the Selects Academy’s 3-1 loss to the Connecticut Rangers in USPHL 16U action. The Cicero, N.Y., native has a team-leading 37 points in 20 games.

The Boston Herald talked with junior defenseman Doyle Somerby about his evolving role on the Terriers' blueline and his earliest Beanpot memories.

The 2016 Charity Beanpot Challenge is set for tomorrow (Monday) with games at Agganis Arena beginning at 2 p.m. and 3:15 p.m. The event raises funds for the Travis Roy Foundationand the Mark Bavis Leadership Foundation, and this year it will also support injured Boston Pride skater Denna Laing. Event details

The Boston Globe talked with former Terrier defenseman and power play specialist Gary Fay, who has has been flying back to Boston for the Beanpot the past several years. Fay, who scored 102 points during his BU career and played for four ECAC championship teams, spent seven seasons as a Northeastern assistant coach.

The Buffalo News examined the career of 1960s Terrier standout Eddie Wright, who became the first black head hockey coach in NCAA history at the University of Buffalo. Wright, who skated with Herb Wakabayashi and Serge Boily for Coach Jack Kelley, helped launched the UB varsity hockey program and also became an assistant professor.

► We finally located video highlights of BU’s 6-3 win against UMass on Friday.

Looking ahead

2016 recruit Dante Fabbro scored the tying goal and then the winning goal--71 seconds apart--in the third period as Penticton edged Alberni Valley, 3-2. Fabbro, who had three assists the previous night in a 6-1 winover Nanaimo, has 59 points in 38 games this season, including 11 in the last five games. The 6’1” right shot from Coquitlam, B.C., is the BCHL's top-scoring defenseman, averaging 1.55 points per game.

● BCHL box score

● Penticton Herald recap

#7 Terriers meet #3 BC tonight in the championship game of the 64^thBeanpot Tournament. Game time at TD Garden is set for 7:30. The contest will air on NESN and TSN. BU moved up two spots to #7 in the USCHO Weekly Poll, while the Eagles moved up one spot.

Terriers, seeking to defend the Beanpot title won a year ago, last played BC in the championship game in 2012, losing 3-2 in overtime. The Commonwealth Avenue rivals have met 21 times previously in the championship game with BU holding a 12-9 edge.

Our seniors are ready to defend our title tonight in their final Beanpot game. https://t.co/dHUK38NmVB #BUBeanpot pic.twitter.com/JqvAtHptIV
— BU Men's Hockey (@TerrierHockey) February 8, 2016

The game also marks be the 270^th meeting in the series that began in 1917-18 with BU holding a 130-121-18 lead. The BU Game Notes (link below) includes the scores of all 269 games plus the scores of all BU Beanpot games.

Last month BC defeated BU, 5-3, at Conte Forum and the next night at Agganis, the teams tied, 1-1. Since that loss, BU is unbeaten in its last six games, while the Eagles are 6-0-3 in their last nine.

Freshman Colin White leads BC with 35 points, while junior Ryan Fitzgerald has 31. Junior goalie Thatcher Demko has a 1.71 GAA and a .937 save percentage.

Senior Danny O’Regan (photo) tops BU’s scorers with 32 points, while seniors Ahti Oksanen and Matt Lane each have 14 goals. Senior Sean Maguire has started the past 10 games with a .956 save percentage in those contests.

UPDATE: Freshman Charlie McAvoy, who missed the UMass game with an injury, returns to the line-up tonight.

● GoTerriers.com preview, Game Notes, GameTracker, Terrier Sports Radio Network Webcast, @BUGameDay

● BU Alumni WatchParties

● Boston Hockey Blog live in-game blog

● Daily Free Press preview

● WTBU Sports game preview; What the Beanpot means to Jack Eichel
● Boston Globe: Maguire back after long recovery from concussion

● BC games notes

● College Hockey News Tale of the Tape

● Salem News: Somerby, Terriers eager to repeat
● NCAA.com: Five Things to Watch

►Freshman Jordan Greenway, who scored a pair of goals against UMass, earned Hockey East Rookie of the Week honors. O'Regan, who scored a goal and assisted on Oskar Andren's game-winner, made the Weekly Top Performers list.

Looking back: Past Beanpot video highlights

1987Mike Kelfer’s overtime goal gives BU its 14^th Beanpot title.

1989Mike Sullivan’s shorthander ties up the semifinal vs. Northeastern.

1998Nick Gillis tips in Tom Poti’s shot in OT to beat Harvard in the title game.

2005Chris Bourque scores after Bryan Miller’s rush to beat Northeastern in OTfor the title.

2009A Jason Lawrence (photo) late slapshot pushes BU past Harvard in the semifinal.

2009Two shorthanded goals in 28 seconds seal a 5-2 title game win over Northeastern.

2015Matt Grzelcyk’s overtime goal clinches BU’s 30^th Beanpot title.

Looking ahead
2019 recruit Joel Farabee scored twice and added an assist as Selects Academy 16U defeated the Jersey Hitmen, 5-0, to complete a weekend sweep. On Saturday, the forward had a goal and an assist in a 6-3 win, bringing his team-leading points total to 42 points (15G,27A) in 22 games. With a 21-1-0 record, Selects lead the USPHL 16U South Division.

2017 recruit Brady Tkachuk assisted on the game-winning goal as the U17s defeated the Czech Republic in a pre-tournament game for the Five Nations event that begins tomorrow. Team USA is the host team for the event that also includes teams from Finland, Russia and Sweden.

● USA Hockey feature on Tkachuk

2016 recruit Dante Fabbro, projected to be a first-round pick in the June Entry Draft, is analyzed on the NHL Radio Hockey Prospects show (begins at 4:30)

Late power play goal pushes Eagles past BU

Terriers settle for 1-1 with Eagles

Tuesday Linkorama; Kudos for Maguire and Keller

IBUH #13: Quinn, Kelley, McEachern & More

Game Day: Terriers visit Maine

Terriers grind it out, defeat Maine, 5-2--UPDATED

Carpenter & Lane power BU to a weekend sweep

Oksanen and Leslie claim Hockey East Player of the Week honors--UPDATED

Midweek Linkorama

IBUH #14: Quinn, Oksanen, Drury; Maguire revival

Game Day: Terriers host Warriors At Agganis

Seniors lead the way as Terriers stifle Warriors

Heading to the Garden

Game Day: Terriers vs Northeastern in the Beanpot--UPDATED

Beanpot: Terriers defeat NU, will face BC in final--UPDATED

IBUH #15: Quinn, McAvoy, O'Connell

Game Day: Terriers visit UMass

Greenway, Phelps lead BU past UMass

Super Bowl Sunday Linkorama

Game Day: BU vs. BC at TD Garden...for the Beanpot Championship