Top Dogs (Week 22 Recap)
The women's squad lift the Bertagna Trophy and punch their ticket to the NCAA Tournament, while the men smash Providence and Vermont to end the regular season.
The women win another OT game to clinch the Hockey East Tournament title, and the men put up 14 against PC and Vermont.
Women’s
Northeastern (3-2 W (OT))
The Terriers are heading to the NCAA Tournament for the 7th time in program history after winning their 6th Bertagna Trophy—1st since 2015—and earning the Hockey East Automatic Qualifier bid.
Captain Tamara Giaquino opened the scoring with her 9th goal of the season and just her 3rd even strength goal. Nearly 13 minutes into the period, Northeastern tied things up. In the second, the Terriers held the Huskies to just 5 shots, but NU was able to make them count, scoring on the power play to take the lead late in the period. In the third at the 3-minute mark, Clara Yuhn scored her 11th of the season to knot things up at 2. The goal was Yuhn’s 4th against NU, all four coming in different arenas—Walter Brown Arena, Agganis Arena, Matthews Arena, and Toscano Family Ice Forum. In the overtime period, team scoring leader Sydney Healey did what she does best, scoring her 15th goal of the season to send the Bertagna Trophy back to Babcock Street.
The win was the 3rd OT win for the Scarlet and White in the 2025 Hockey East playoffs, become the only team in tournament history to go to overtime in every round.
Four Terriers were named to the All-Tournament Team: Goalie Callie Shanahan (.907 SV%, 1.95 GAA), Defender Tamara Giaquinto (1g-0a, 7 blocks (4 in Final)), Forward Riley Walsh (2g-2a, GWG in QF), Forward Sydney Healey—also named Tournament MVP—(2g-0a, GWG in Final).
Other Notes
Tara Watchorn becomes the first ever to win the Bertagna Trophy as a player and a head coach
Lilli Welcke and Maeve Kelly recorded multipoint games in the final and the quarterfinal vs. Vermont
Providence (8-2 W)
On senior night, it was the freshmen who shined for the Terriers. Cole Eiserman opened the scoring on the power play barely a minute into the game, with his 15th goal at Agganis Arena, 8 of which have been on the power play. Less than four minutes later it was another Cole, Cole Hutson that extended the lead to 2. It was Cole’s 11th of the season and extended his goal streak to 3 games. 49 seconds later, senior Jack Hughes further pushed the lead to 3, with his first goal since January 17th vs. UNH. Cole Hutson completed a 3 point game not even 6 minutes into the game with assists on Eiserman and Hughes’ goals. Brandon Svoboda added to the goal fest with his 6th of the season and first since the Beanpot Championship game. BU’s 4 goals in the period game on just 8 shots on goal. It was the Terriers’ first 4 goal first period since scoring 5 against Notre Dame on October 21st, 2023.
The scoring did not stop as the period flipped to the second as Cole Eiserman scored his second of the game 38 seconds into the period. Quinn Hutson recorded his 4th assist of the game on Eiserman’s goal, his 2nd four point game of the season, the 3rd of his career but the 1st four assist game. Co-captain Ryan Greene scored his career high 13th goal of the season at 11:40 in the period.
In the third, the Friars were finally able to get one past Mikhail Yegorov at 5:36 of the period, ending a 105:36 goal drought against him. Cole Eiserman got the Terriers lead back to 6, with his third of the game. Prior to this season, no Terrier freshman had scored a hat trick at Agganis Arena, Cole Eiserman has now done it twice. At 14:45 in the period, Brandon Svoboda scored his 2nd of the game, recording his second multi-goal game of the season and first since November 22nd vs. Merrimack. Grad Student Billy Girard IV saw his first game action as a Terrier, making 4 saves on 5 shots faced in 5:15 in net.
The win clinched the #3 seed in the Hockey East tournament for the Terriers. It was their 120th game against Providence in their 200th matchup with the Friars.
Other Note
Cole and Quinn Hutson both have 3 point games through 8:53 in the first, just the 2nd time a pair of Hutsons have recorded 3+ points in the same game and first since Lane and Quinn did so on January 21st, 2023 vs. Maine
The 8 goals are the most scored by BU on PC since January 21st, 2012 (8-0 W)
Advanced Stats
Despite the final score, PC actually led in most advanced stats categories include xG (-.5), shot attempts (-26) and OZone Possession (-4:09). The Terriers did have a slight edge on Scoring Chances (+1). BU also held the edge in puck battles, 53%-47%. As well as OZone (67%-45%) and DZone (55%-33%) faceoffs.
Per Period xG: 1st (1.04-0.69, BU), 2nd (0.69-1.30, PC), 3rd (1.61-1.80, PC)
Quinn Hutson had the team’s best Game Score performance for the 8th game this season and recorded his 3rd best Game Score this season (5.3956) behind only the Terriers’ last game vs. UNH (6.5896) and their season opener vs. Holy Cross (5.5786). Cole Hutson recorded his second-best Game Score (3.9956) only behind his Beanpot semifinal performance (7.1766).
Sascha Boumedienne recorded a team high 13 takeaways, his third most in a game as a Terrier.
Both teams recorded 5 high danger shots, (BU: 1.1 xG, PC: 1.14 xG) with 3 of the Terriers’ resulting in goals—Jack Hughes’ goal and both of Brandon Svoboda’s goals. Yegorov saved 3 of the Friars’ high danger shots, one missed the net, and the other was scored on Girard IV.
The Terriers held the xG lead for much of the first and second. In the third, the xG differential was tight, with no team having a lead greater than .09 from the 42-minute mark to the 52-minute mark.
6 Terriers recorded an xG% of over 50 with Quinn Hutson leading all with a staggering 82.32% in his over 16 minutes on the ice.
Vermont (6-1 W)
The Terriers continued their scoring prowess in Burlington, putting 6 past the Catamounts. Cole Eiserman opened the scoring with a 5 on 3 power play goal 13 minutes into the 1st, his 20th of the season—just his 2nd outside Boston. With the goal, Eiserman becomes the fourth Terrier freshman since 1990 to score 20+ goals in a season, joining Jack Eichel, Clayton Keller, and Macklin Celebrini. Two minutes later, Quinn Hutson extended the lead with his 10th career goal vs. Vermont, his most vs. any opponent.
In the second, the Terriers doubled their lead with another two-goal period. Cole Hutson extended his goal streak to 4 games, nearly 7 minutes into the period. It was the fifth time this season that Cole and Quinn Hutson have scored in the same game. Devin Kaplan matched his career high, with his 10th goal of the season, at the tail end of the period.
In the third, Vermont finally got on the board at 2:25 of the period. Jack Hughes, scoring in both games this week, gave the Terriers their 4 goal lead back and matched a career high 19 points on the season. Quinn Hutson capped things off with his 20th goal of the season, and his 10th multi-goal game of his career.
Mikhail Yegorov saved 20 of the 21 shots he faced, the 10th of his 12 games played in which he has allowed 2 or fewer goals.
The win was the Terriers’ 10th straight over the Catamounts, BU has scored 6+ goals in 5 of those games.
Other Notes
Cole and Quinn Hutson combined for 13 points in the last two games
In the past two seasons (6 games) BU has defeated Vermont by a combined score of 35-10
Advanced Stats
The Terriers dominated in most all advanced stats categories that we follow: xG (+1.1), Shots on Goal (+13), Shots (+14), Scoring Chances (+7), and OZone Possession (+2:28). Despite BU having the xG advantage, the only period they led xG was the 1st. At even strength the teams were nearly tied with BU holding the slight xG edge 2.2 to 2.17.
Per Period xG: 1st (1.90-0.79, BU), 2nd (0.72-0.74, UVM), 3rd (0.91-1.02, UVM)
For the 9th time, Quinn Hutson was the team’s top Game Score performer (5.67), the fifth-highest Game Score for a Terrier this season, and Quinn’s second-best Game Score behind only the Terriers’ last game vs. UNH (6.5896).
Both teams recorded 2 high danger shots, with BU’s (.46 xG) both being saved and one of UVM’s (.46 xG) being saved and the other missing the net. BU recorded 12 medium danger shots and hold Vermont to just 8.
BU held the xG lead for all by 3 minutes in the game, topping out at +1.25, midway through the game at the 37-minute mark.
For the second game this week, Quinn Hutson recorded an xG% over 80. Ryan Greene and Cole Eiserman also recorded an xG% over 70.