Roadtripped (Week 7 Recap)
The women get swept by BC and the men loss to Quinnipiac in Connecticut
Despite playing well in both games, the women can’t find the back of the net vs. BC, while the men fall to Quinnipiac.
Women’s
Boston College (2-5 L, 2-3 L)
Kaileigh Quigg opened the scoring at 9:03 in the first on Thursday, her 3rd of the season and 2nd against BC—1st since January 31st. Despite hold them to just 5 shots in the first, the Eagles went into the intermission with the lead, after scoring at 17:12 and 19:07. Midway through the second, Lola Reid scored her first career power play goal at 15:42—her first goal since January 24th, 2025 vs. Holy Cross. BC blitz the Scarlet and White with 3 goals in the first 5:41 minutes of the third, to clinch the 2-5 decision. Despite outshooting the Eagles 45-23 and winning 58.8% of faceoffs and have 7 power play opportunities, the Terriers were unable to find the back of the net.
On Friday, before a Hockey East Home Attendance Record setting crowd (3,965), the Terriers took on the Eagles at Agganis Arena. BC opened the scoring on BU’s power play at 16:12 in the first. Less than 30 seconds later, Sydney Healey evened the scoring with her 6th of the season at 16:41 in the period. Healey is the only Terrier to score in both BU-BC games at Agganis Arena. In the waning seconds of the period, the Eagles restored their lead at 19:52. After a scoreless 2nd, Clara Yuhn tied things up at 5:44 in the third, her 4th career goal and 6th career point at Agganis Arena—her most at any arena outside Walter Brown. At 16:42, BC took back the lead for good. For the second night in a row, the Terriers outshot the Eagles (33-32), won a staggering 71.7% of faceoffs and 6 power play opportunities, yet could not find the back of the net.
Other Notes
This weekend vs. BC is the first weekend series that BU has scored a power play goal in both games since October 25th and 26th, 2024 vs. Syracuse
Quigg has recorded a point in 4 of 6 games vs. BC
Men’s
Quinnipiac (2-6 L)
Cole Eiserman returned to the lineup after missing the previous four games, and Nick Roukounakis made his season debut, returning from injury.
Quinnipiac came out strong, blitzing BU with 25 shots in the first, scoring 3 goals in the first.
Jack Harvey cut into the lead with a short-handed goal at 10:37 in the second. Harvey’s first shorthanded goal as a Terrier. However, on the same power play, Quinnipiac restored their 3 goal lead at 11:21 in the period. The Bobcats extended their lead with another power play goal at 12:30. 24 seconds later, Nick Roukounakis scored his first as a Terrier. Quinnipiac added another in the third at 11:01.
Mikhail Yegorov tied a career high 43 saves set in the Beanpot final vs. Boston College. The Terriers went 0-6 on the power play, failing to use it to cut into the Bobcats lead.
Other Notes
Cole Hutson extended his point streak to 7 games, matching his career high
The 49 shots on goal allowed was the most by the Terriers since allowing 54 vs. Providence on January 8th, 2021
Advanced Stats
Despite almost the same OZone Possession times, Quinnipiac nearly doubled BU’s Scoring Chances and more than doubled their xG. The 7 xGA is the most in the Pandolfo Era by a large margin—the previous high was 5 set on December 11th, 2022 vs. UConn and matched on October 13th, 2023 vs. UNH.
Per Period xG: 1st (0.73-2.76, QU), 2nd (0.76-2.82, QU), 3rd (1.84-1.19, BU)
Nick Roukounakis had his best game in terms of Game Score (1.7057) besting his previous high of 1.6768 in the 2025 Beanpot semifinal vs. Harvard.
Quinnipiac recorded 12 high danger shots (3.16 xG) compared to BU’s 4 (.86 xG). All 4 of BU’s shots were saved, while Yegorov saved 8 of QU’s high danger shots (2.27 xG) with only 1 resulting in a goal.
Only 3 Terriers: Nick Roukounakis, Jonathan Morello, and Ben Merrill had an xG% above 40 among Terriers with TOI>10.5 minutes.
