Cat and Dog Fight (Week 15 Recap)
The men's squad continues their winning ways with a sweep of New Hampshire while the women get shutout in their Beanpot Final prelude
The Terrier men complete a weekend sweep for the second weekend in a row, while the women come home empty-handed after getting shutout in Durham.
Men’s
New Hampshire (6-3 W, 2-1(OT) W)
On Friday night, Devin Kaplan kept the Terriers’ scoring heat going with his 5th goal of the season. It was Kaplan’s 3rd in 4 games, accounting for 60% of his goals for the season. After UNH tied things up on a close goal that had to go to a video review, Ryan Greene gave the Terriers the lead back with midway through the period. The goal extended Greene’s goal streak to 4 games.
Just over eight minutes into the second, Quinn Hutson scored his 11th of the season to extend BU’s lead. Cole Hutson recorded an assist on the goal, the 3rd time this season and first since December 11th vs. UMass that Cole assisted on his brother’s goal. UNH scored two to take the lead into the 3rd period.
In the third, Ryan Greene again gave the Scarlet and White the lead back, this time for good. Greene now has 2 multi-goal games in each of his 3 seasons as a Terrier. In each season, the first was in a non-conference game, and the second was in a conference game. Jack Hughes scored midway through the 3rd to extend his career high 5 game point and 3 game goal streaks. Cole Hutson capped things off with a power play goal and for the third time this season both Hutsons scored in the same game, all 3 in road conference games.
The game was coach Jay Pandolfo’s 100th behind the bench, just the 7th Terrier head coach to reach that milestone.
On Saturday, a much tighter game. UNH took the lead early in the 8:27 into the first, but it was all that they could muster in the game. Cole Eiserman scored his team leading—also national freshman leading—13th goal of the season at 7:23 in the second. It was Eiserman’s 12th goal at Agganis Arena, meaning 92.3% of his goals have been scored there. The teams would go scoreless the rest of regulation and head to overtime.
Exactly 1 minute into the overtime period, the only shot on goal of the period was scored by Ryan Greene to give the Terriers 5 of 6 points on the weekend. His second game winning goal of the weekend. Goalie Mathieu Caron recorded an assist on the goal, the first Terrier goalie since Matt O'Connor on March 14th, 2015, to record an assist on the GWG (vs Merrimack).
Mathieu Caron was stellar on the weekend, stopping 39 of 42 shots on Friday and 34 of 35 on Saturday. BU also went a perfect 5-5 on the PK. Since the start of 2025, BU has killed 13 of 14 penalties. On the power play, BU has scored at least one power play goal in each of their last 6 games and 2 in 5 of their last 6.
The 2-1 win on Saturday was BU's lowest scoring win since March 25th, 2023 against Cornell in the 2023 East Regional Final (2-1).
Other Notes
Quinn Hutson’s 5 game goal streak was snapped on Saturday night
Ryan Greene is extended his goal streak to 5 games on Saturday night, only 3 Terriers since at least 2002-03 have recorded a longer goals streak
Mathieu Caron becomes the second Terrier goalie since 2002-03 to record 3 or more points in a season (Matt O'Connor, 2014-15)
Advanced Stats
Game 1
Despite the doubling the score of the Wildcats, the Terriers lost the xG differential (-1.2) as well as the Shots on Goal differential -6 and shot attempts -10. BU has lost just one game this season when they recorded OZone Possession over 12:50—Yale on December 29th (13:00).
Per Period xG: 1st (0.77-1.16, UNH), 2nd (0.95-1.02, UNH), 3rd (0.84-1.50, UNH)
BU recorded just 1 high danger shots (.2 xG) —Quinn Hutson’s 2nd period goal—compared to UNH’s 5 (1.27 xG) accounting for all 3 of UNH’s goals. Mathieu Caron saved the other two. BU’s 6 goals had a combined xG of .59, UNH’s 3 goals had a combined xG of .76.
BU held the xG advantage for just 7 minutes in the game but kept the differential under 1, until the 42nd minute of the game when UNH began peppering the net. Despite shot attempts 25-12 in the third, BU was able to score 3 goals compared to 0 for UNH.
Game 2
BU won game two, a game they had no business winning, UNH had a +.4 xG advantage, nearly double the shots on goal and 1:30 more OZone Possession. Goalie Mathieu Caron saved .59 goals above expected, keeping the Terriers in the game.
Per Period xG: 1st (0.51-0.59, UNH), 2nd (0.91-0.72, BU) 3rd (0.47-1.09, UNH), Overtime (0.18-0.08, BU)
Both Teams limited the high danger shots in game two, BU recorded 1 (.25 xG) which was saved by Jared Whale, UNH recorded 2 (.46 xG) one was saved, while the other was UNH’s sole goal of the game. Kamil Bednarik recorded a career high 12 takeaways—nearly double his previous high of 7 (11/29 vs. Merrimack, 1/11 vs. Vermont). Of New Hampshire’s 48 unblocked shot attempts, 39 were low danger.
Outside the first 5 minutes of the game, BU only held the xG advantage from the midpoint of the 2nd to the first minute of the third. The Terriers only recorded 5 shot attempts in the last 10 minutes of the game, 3 of those occurred in the last 2 minutes of the game.
Women’s
New Hampshire (0-2 L)
The Terriers were unable to get anything past New Hampshire’s Sedona Blair, who pitched a 26 save shutout. Callie Shanahan kept BU in the game as best she could, saving 22 of 24 UNH shots. The Terriers dominated shots in the first (10-8) and third (10-3) but UNH was able to score in both periods. The only period that the Wildcats led in shots, the second (13-6), they failed to score. UNH did not commit a penalty in the game. The last time a BU opponent committed zero penalties in a game was Vermont on February 16, 2024.
The Terriers held a slight edge at the dot, winning 52.5% of the faceoffs, led by Alex Law, who won 5 of 7. The loss was the first for the Terriers at the Whittemore Center since December 5th, 2020 (3-4).
BU has very little time to dwell on the loss with a big Beanpot Championship Game matchup with the cross-town rival, Northeastern Huskies.
Other Notes
This was the first time UNH shutout the Terriers since the 2008 Hockey East Tournament on March 8th, 2008.
This was also just Callie Shanahan’s 2nd loss of the season when allowing 2 goals or fewer—October 4th vs. Minnesota