Kap-ing Things Off On the Road (Week 4 Recap)
Both Terrier teams return home with big wins, the women sweeping Syracuse and the men complete a wire-to-wire win in game two after a rough game one in Grand Forks
The women continued their winning ways in upstate New York, while the men split with a tough Fighting Hawks squad in Grand Forks.
Women’s
Syracuse (4-1 W, 3-2 W)
In game one, the Terriers allowed an early goal to the Syracuse Orange, but storm back for a 4-1 victory—their first at Syracuse. Clara Yuhn started the scoring, tieing things up with BU’s second consecutive power play goal. Freshman Lola Reid continues her scoring prowess with her first multi-goal performance of her BU career. Maeve Kelly rounded out the scoring with her first goal of the season.
At the dot, the Terriers won 45.7% of faceoffs. They were perfect on the PK, killing all 3 of the Orange’s 3 opportunities.
On Saturday, the Scarlet and White continued their winning ways, beating the Orange 3-2, sweeping Syracuse for the first time. Mari Peterson improved to 2-1 on the season, saving 16 of the Orange’s 18 shots. Sydney Healey scored her first power play goal of the season—and first since January 13th, 2024 vs. UConn—in the 2nd, before former Terrier Jackson Kinsler tied it in the waning seconds of the period. Riley Walsh took back the lead in the third with her 3rd goal of the season. Lola Reid continues her stellar first year, scoring in the 3rd to extending her point streak to 5 games. 4 of the Terriers 6 game winning goals have been scored by Reid.
After a 5 game drought, BU has scored a power play goal in three consecutive games. Including being a perfect 1-1 on the power play on Saturday. They also were a perfect 5-5 on the penalty kill on the weekend. The Scarlet and White penalty kill (.929) is second in the conference behind only Northeastern (.938) and their power play is 3rd (.182). The Terriers held the faceoff edge on Saturday, 37-23 (61.5%).
With the sweep of the Orange the Terriers are on a 5 game winning streak their longest since a 6 game win streak from Nov. 19th, 2019 through Jan. 4th 2020. BU improves to 3-0-2 vs. Syracuse, which includes three straight wins.
Other Notes
Lola Reid leads all Hockey East skaters in goals (6), points (11), points per game (1.22), game winning goals (4)
Keira and Sydney Healey recorded points in the same game for the first time
Lola Reid is in good company to start her BU career
Men’s
Update: An earlier version of this recap had an incorrect Player Impact Game Card for the Men’s Game 2 vs. UND, it has since been updated
After a chaotic loss on Friday night, the Terriers held strong on Saturday night to earn a split vs. the Fighting Hawks of North Dakota.
North Dakota (2-7 L, 4-3 W)
The Terriers come out of their road trip to Grand Forks with a split. The teams have split their last 5 regular season series against each other, dating back to 1996-97. However, in their last 10 games, BU holds the edge 6-3-1.
In game one, the North Dakota Fight Hawks came out strong 5 goals in the first 14 minutes of the game including 2 power play goals, finishing the 1st period with 5 goals on 11 shots. Terrier goalie Mathieu Caron was pulled after the 1st 4 goals, his shortest outing at BU, totaling 10:31 in goal. Max Lacroix—seeing his first non-exhibition game action since February 3rd, 2024 vs. Merrimack where he stopped all 6 shots he faced in 11:12 of ice time—would play the remaining 49:29 allowing 3 goals on 28 shots. The teams went scoreless in the second period. Each team would score two in the third, with Quinn Hutson scoring his first of the season and Tristan Amonte scoring his first goal since January 7th, 2022, vs. Arizona State. It was the Terriers first loss to the Fighting Hawks in the state of North Dakota since November 2nd, 2012.
In game two, the Terriers opened up the scoring, when co-captain Ryan Greene scored 17:09 into the first on the team’s first power play of the game. After UND tied it in the second, Jack Harvey gave the Terriers back the lead in the final minute of the period. With the goal, Jack Harvey has scored a goal against a team from each of the 5 conferences that he has faced (Hockey East, ECAC, AHA, NCHC, and Big Ten). Devin Kaplan would give the Scarlet and White the lead for good with his first of the season and first career shorthanded goal. Tom Willander added a power play goal, extending his point streak to a career-high 5 games. Despite a barrage of heavy pressure in their defensive zone, the Terriers held on for the win, with Matheiu Caron redeeming himself stopping 29 of UND’s 32 shots to get the win.
Other Notes
All of Tristan Amonte’s goals have been scored against teams currently in the NCHC (Arizona State and North Dakota)
Jay Pandolfo becomes the first coach in program history to win a game in both North and South Dakota, doing so in consecutive seasons
Advance Stats
Game 1
Although the xG differential was slightly closer than the final goal differential, BU was severely outplayed offensively, with UND having more than double the scoring chances of the Terriers. BU allowed 10 high danger shots1 (3 of which resulted in goals for the Fighting Hawks) while the Terriers only recorded 1. Shots on Goal were pretty even, as was OZone Possession.
Only 1 Terrier had a positive Net xG2, Jack Hughes with a miniscule .17. Cole Eiserman led the team in individual xG .44.
We’re looking at a new chart this week, it shows cumulative xG over time, goals are marked with bigger dots. We see how North Dakota got off to a hot start in the first (xG Differential 1.41-0.55 UND); BU started to pick things up in the 2nd (1.27-0.95 UND); but in the third UND limited BU to low danger shots, though it did lead to two BU goals (2.2-.55).
Game 2
Outside of goals and scoring chances, a pretty similar game as game 1. North Dakota had over 3 more minutes of OZone Possession yet BU help them to just 28 shots on goal and 15 scoring chances. The Terriers limited UND to just 3 high danger shots— none of which resulted in a goal. Jack Harvey scored his high danger shot in the 2nd, while Shane Lachance missed one of his and his other was saved by Semptimphelter, Quinn Hutson also missed his in the first.
Shane Lachance recorded a team-high .66 individual xG, while the Terriers recorded 1.32 xG when Cole Hutson was on the ice in game two.
UND led xG in the 1st Period (.82-.42 UND) and 3rd (1.4-.65 UND), while BU led the 2nd (1.26-1.08). The Terriers had a slow start but found their game midway through the game and kept pace with the Fighting Hawks for much of the rest of the game, until UND pulled their goalie in the waning minutes of the 3rd.
High Danger Shots: Unblocked Shot attempts with >= 20% probability of being a goal (As defined by MoneyPuck.com)
Net xG = Team xG when on the ice - Opponent's xG when on the ice
New chart 👀