Hutson Heroics (Week 11 Recap)
Cole and Quinn Hutson combined for 3 third period goals to lift the Terriers over the Minutemen
The men earn a win in their last Hockey East contest of the first half and close out 2024 at Agganis Arena with a win over the USNTDP.
Men’s
UMass Amherst (4-2 W)
The Minutemen opened the scoring in the second minute of the first, taking an early lead, then extending their lead to two midway through the second. On the power play, late in the second, Devin Kaplan finally broke the Terriers 102 minute and 15 second, scoring drought with his third of the season. It was Kaplan’s third career goal at the Mullins Center, his most at any arena outside Agganis.
In the third period, the Hutson brothers took control of the game. Cole Hutson tied things up at 8:49 of the period, his third of the season and second outside of Agganis Arena. Just over a minute later, Cole gave the Terriers the lead with a power play and earned the first multi-goal of his career. Brother, Quinn also recorded his first multi-goal game at the Mullins Center when he was a freshman. Speaking of Quinn Hutson, he sealed the game with a goal two and a half minutes after his brother. Quinn’s 5th of the season and second assisted by his brother Cole—October 25th vs. North Dakota.
Cole recorded a point on all four Terrier goals, his first career 4 point game. He becomes the first Terrier to record a point on every BU goal in a game where BU scored 4 or more goals since Chad Krys and Dante Fabbro both recorded 5 points on March 2nd, 2019 vs. Merrimack (5-1 W).
The Terriers were a perfect 3 for 3 on the PK. BU is 4-0 this season when they don’t allow a power play goal. On the power play, the Scarlet and White went 2 for 5, the first time they’ve scored multiple power play goals since November 8th vs. UMass Lowell.
Goalie Mathieu Caron stopped 22 of the Minutemen’s 24 shots, his lowest save total in a win this season.
BU improves to 9-0-1 in the last game of the fall semester since 2014-15. BU ends the first half 9-6-1, the third straight season in which they recorded 9 or more goals in the first half, the longest since an equal span from 2014-15 through the 2016-17 season.
Other Notes
BU is a perfect 8-0 all-time when Jack Page is in the lineup
Quinn and Cole have scored in the same game twice this season. Both were in road games on UMass campuses
Terriers won at least 1 game against the Minutemen in every season they've played, except 1919-20 (only 1 GP) and 2018-19
Advanced Stats
BU recorded their second highest xG and xG differential of the season—vs Holy Cross (5.8 xG, +2.9 xG Differential). The 29 scoring chances was also second most on the season—vs Holy Cross (34 SC). BU 62% of OZone faceoffs (UMA won 42%) an improvement over Saturday night’s game when they won 58% in the OZone.
Per Period xG: 1st (2.62-1.61, BU), 2nd (1.95-1.01, BU), 3rd (.86-.87, UMA)
BU recorded 8 high danger shots (2.09 xG), 2 resulted in goals, Devin Kaplan’s goal in the 2nd and Quinn Hutson’s in the third. UMA recorded 4 (1.09 xG) including their first period goal. Kaplan’s goal had the joint highest xG (.34) of the season, tied with Cole Eiserman’s goal in the 3rd period vs. UConn. The Minutemen’s first 3 came in quick successions, at 1:38, 1:39, and 1:42 (Jack Musa goal), the last came in the last 30 seconds of the game; meaning BU did not allow a high danger shot attempt for 57 mins and 47 seconds.
After a flurry of shot attempts in the first 11 minutes of the game by the Minutemen, the Terriers took the xG lead in the 12th minute of the game and did not let up. They ballooned the lead to +2.42 by the last five minutes of the game.
USNTDP (7-5 W)
With 4 Terriers—Tom Willander, Brandon Svoboda, Cole Eiserman, and Cole Hutson—out on their way to the 2025 World Junior Championships, other Terriers stepped up to fill in the gaps. Birthday Boy Max Lacroix also got the start, with Mathieu Caron given the night off.
The Terriers got out to an early 2-0 lead, with Matt Copponi and Quinn Hutson each getting a goal in the first. The U18s got one back midway through the first and then a second early in the second period to tie things up.
A three goal second with goals by Tristan Amonte, Kamil Bednarik, and Alex Zetterberg gave the Terriers a 5-3 lead heading into the third. Max Lacroix finished the first two periods, saving 20 of 23 shots on goal, and was relieved of the net for the third period.
Billy Girard IV came into the game in the 3rd and saved 5 of the 7 shots he faced. The Terriers extended their lead with goals from Alex Zetterberg and Jack Hughes in the first half of the third period, however, the U18s answered late in the third with two of their own.
The win was the Terriers first over the USNTDP since October 19th, 2018 (5-4 (OT)) and first in regulation since October 6th, 2016 (8-2). It was also their first win over the U18s in December since December 8th, 2007 (3-2).
Other Notes
Kamil Bednarik record 3 points in both last year’s BU-USNTDP as a member of the U18 team (0-3—3) and in this season’s edition as a Terrier (1-2—3)
Mailbag
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