BU Hockey Stats Record Expansion
BU Hockey Stats is proud to announce we have expanded our game stats database to cover every BU game
After weeks poring through nearly a century of newspaper archives, we have successfully identified the goalscorer of 9130 goals that we didn’t previously have in our dataset. That total covers 1989 games dating back to the very first BU men’s hockey game on February 6th, 1918 all the way through the 2001-02 season. This completes our dataset, which previously contained every BU goal from 2002-03 to the present. In 13425 lines of spreadsheet we manually cataloged 9500 BU goals, with only 370 where we don’t have the identity of the goalscorer. In our dataset, we have the goalscorer of all but 10 BU goals scored on Boston College. Let’s dive into the data and see what fun tidbits we can find.
Firsts
The first goal scored by a Terrier was scored by Warren Pond vs. BC on February 6th, 1918 at Boston Arena. The last at the Arena—before BU moved to Walter Brown Arena—was scored by freshman forward Ray Cournoyea. Cournoyea actually scored BU’s last two goals as a resident of the Arena in an 11-0 thumping of RPI in the ECAC tournament en route to their first National Championship. Senior Ron Anderson scored the first goal at Walter Brown Arena vs. Yale just 7:51 in the first after going down 2 to the Elis. The goal sparked a comeback and the Terriers won their arena opener 6-3.
The first goalie point was recorded by Ed Walsh at Walter Brown Arena vs. Merrimack on February 28th, 1974 in a 9-2 rout of the Warriors. The first goalie point in a Beanpot for the Terriers was recorded by Jason Tapp in the 2001 Beanpot final.
The first BU goal at the current iteration of Madison Square Garden was a product of the 3 skaters of the BU Four. Mike Eruzione lit the lamp with assists from Dave Silk and Jack O’Callahan on January 2nd, 1977 vs. Colgate in the ECAC Holiday Hockey Festival.
The Terriers’ first win also featured the first Hat Trick in program history when Joseph Almer put 3 in the back of the net of Aggies of the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now UMass-Amherst). Future Minutemen head coach Don “Toot” Cahoon recorded the last hat trick as a resident of Boston Arena in their farewell game vs. RPI in 1971 and recorded the first hat trick at Walter Brown Arena vs. Merrimack on January 4th, 1972.
In the Beanpot the first BU hat trick was recorded by junior forward Jack Murphy against BC in the 1955 semifinal and the most recent recorded by sophomore forward Brian Collins in the 2001 semifinal vs. Northeastern. Cole Hutson’s 4 point game in the 2025 semifinal vs. Harvard was the most by a Terrier in a Beanpot game since Brian Collins’ 4 point (3g-1a) effort in the aforementioned 2001 semifinal.
Joe Beauchemin recorded the first Terrier shutout on February 24th, 1923 vs. Bates on the road (6-0). While Don Martin, recorded the first BU shutout at Boston Arena and first against the Eagles on December 23rd, 1924 (1-0). Dan Brady earned the first shutout at Walter Brown Arena on January 29th, 1972 (5-0) against St. Louis University.
Records
Now that we’ve looked at some first (and lasts) let’s take a look at some records. Starting off with goalies, Jack Ferreira set the program record for most shutouts in a season with 8 in 1964-65, John Curry nearly matched him in 2006-07 when he recorded 7. Jack Oettinger is the only other Terrier goalie to record 5+ in a season. Oettinger is also the only goalie in program history to record 4+ shutouts in multiple seasons, doing so all 3 seasons between the pipes.
Jack Garrity holds the program record for most hat tricks with 9 in his record setting 1949-50 season, with 5 of those games being 4+ goal games.
Based on the data we have available, Garrity also has the most career hat tricks in program history, with 14. Chris Drury and Bob Marquis are next up, with each having (at least) 9.1
What’s New on BUHockeyStats.com?
All the game stat data we have collected has been added to the site, so you too can find your own fun tidbits!
Additionally, we have added a separate page for hat tricks and shutouts for ease of access.
The shutout page contains the goalie who record ALL shutouts in men’s and women’s program histories, while the hat trick page contains all known hat tricks.
Conclusion
It was such a fun experience to witness the history of BU hockey through box scores and game recaps. Following legendary players game by game, season by season, as their legacies grow and blossom. I am so excited to be able to have more stats and data to share with Terrier Nation. Go BU!
One More Thing
Even with all the data we have, we still have 370 goals marked as “Unknown”, and we would love to resolve those. So we need your help! We’ve listed all the missing games on our site. If you can help us fully complete our catalog of BU goals, it would be greatly appreciated. Contact us on Twitter or email us with the goalscorer and a source, if able.
There is a change one or both of them have 1-2 more hat tricks, we do not have goalscorer data for multiple games during their careers in which BU scored 3+ goals