Winter Storm Linus, adding up to a foot of additional snow to New England, has forced the opening round of the 2015 Beanpot Tournament to be pushed back a day to Tuesday. Times remained unchanged and BU will meet Harvard in the early game with puck drop at 5 p.m. The Terriers will be the home team.
► Updateon Beanpot Watch Parties in nine cities.
Snow Date! Tuesday, February 3rd: Join DC @bualumni for the 2015 #BUBeanpot Gamewatch! #constantcontacthttp://t.co/qg1nVGKAtT
— BU DC Alumni (@DCBUAlumni) February 2, 2015● GoTerriers.com report
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● Boston Globe report
● Boston Herald report
►Senior Assistant Captain Evan Rodrigues, who tied a BU record—and set a Hockey East record—with six assists against UMass, is Hockey East's Warrior Player of the Week. Theright-shot forward is the fourth Terrier to earn P-O-W honors this season and joins previous winners junior Ahti Oksanen, freshman Jack Eichel and junior Danny O’Regan. Captain Matt Grzelcyk and Eichel were named to the Hockey East Weekly Top Performers list.
► NHL.com: Jack Eichelprepares for Beanpot
►With an extra day to wait for this year’s tournament, enjoy these video highlights of memorable Terrier victories in past Beanpots:
● 1987 Championship game—Mike Kelfer scores the game-winner
● 1998 Championship game—Nick Gillis
● 1999 semifinal—Russ Bartlett
● 2005 semifinal—John LaLiberte
● 2005 Beanpot Championship game—Chris Bourque
● 2006 seminfinal—Chris Higgins’ highlight reel goal vs. Harvard
● 2007 championship gameBrian McGuirk
● 2009 semifinal—Jason Lawrence
● 2009 Championship gameTwo shorthanders during one penalty kill
Looking back
Adam Clendening, acquired by Vancouver from Chicago last week, made his Canucks debut last night in a 4-2 loss to Minnesota. The game featured three ex-Terriers with Nick Boninoskating for Vancouver and Charlie Coyle for the Wild.