The Terriers fall to UMass-Lowell to close out the 2025-26 regular season
UMass-Lowell (3-4 L)
Owen McLaughlin opened the scoring at 4:09 in the first. His 5th of the season, 3rd on the road and first since November 8th vs. Merrimack. Shots were an even 8-8 in the period.
In the second, UML scored the only goal at 7:11 to tie things up. The goal ended Mikhail Yegorov's 147:11 shut out streak on UMass System campuses.
The third period saw a combined 5 goals, the most in period in a BU game since the second period vs. Merrimack on November 8th. Lowell took at two goal lead with goals at 3:42 and 8:37. Cole Eiserman got one back off the face off, his first goal at the Tsongas Center for the son of a UML hockey alum. Lowell got an empty netter at 18:11, before Gavin McCarthy brought BU back within 1. McCarthy has back to back goals for the first time since the 2024 Friendship Four in Belfast.
The Terriers took 7 penalties for the 3rd time this season, but did unlike the previous two games—Nov 1st vs Maine and January 23 vs. Providence—they were a perfect 7-7 and have killed all 10 of their last 10 penalties.
The loss was the Terriers first loss in their regular season finale since 2021-22 at Maine and first ever loss to Lowell in a regular season finale.
Other Notes
Both of Owen McLaughlin's goals in the Merrimack Valley this season have had a primary assist from fellow UND transfer Sacha Boisvert
Gavin McCarthy is the first Terrier defenseman not named Hutson to score a goal at the Tsongas Center since his brother, Case on October 30th, 2021
Advanced Stats
BU lost face offs in two of the three zones: OZone (41% to 57%) and DZone (43% to 59%), only holding the edge in the NZone (64% to 36%). They did however hold the edge in EV Possession 54% to 46% and Puck Battles 55% to 45%.
Per Period xG: 1st (1.02-0.95, BU), 2nd (1.71-1.66, BU), 3rd (1.4-0.72, BU)
Kamil Bednarik is the 16th different Terrier to be the team’s top performer in terms of Game Score with his best performance of his career, surpassing his previous best of 2.53 vs Maine on November 1st.
BU recorded a season-high 8 high danger shots (1.85 xG), one resulted in Gavin McCarthy’s goal (.34 xG), 1 missed the net and 6 were saved (1.3 xG). UML recorded 4 (.88 xG), 2 resulted in goals (.45 xG), 1 was saved, 1 missed the net.
The xG edge was close the entire game with the differential staying between <.34 for much of the game.
Kamil Bednarik (85%) and Jack Harvey (72.92%) are the only Terriers with xG% over 70, with 4 others >50%.
