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Thursday, December 5, 2024

Boston University Won Annual Friendship Four

Expectations for Boston University – as they generally are for the storied BU program – had been sky-high entering the 2024-25 season.

And why no longer? The Terriers had been coming off back-to-back appearances within the NCAA Frozen Four and had been a top-five staff within the nationwide preseason polls. However, due in no small phase to a grueling early-year time table, BU was once not able to win consecutive video games in one weekend throughout the first two months of the season.

A go back and forth in a foreign country proved to be a wanted tonic.

Playing in the yearly Friendship Four match closing weekend in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the Eleventh-ranked Terriers got here thru with back-to-back victories in opposition to Merrimack and Notre Dame to seize the Belpot Trophy.

Following a resounding 6-2 win over Hockey East rival Merrimack on Friday, BU wanted a three-goal rally within the 3rd length of Saturday’s championship recreation to slide previous the Fighting Irish. Sophomore F Shane Lachance (Andover, Mass.) arrange the tying target with just below 5 mins left in law, then he potted the tourney-clincher simply 20 seconds later.

Lachance, BU’s main scorer at the 12 months, was once named Friendship Four Player of the Tournament.

After a uneven begin to the season, the Terriers (8-5-1, 4-2-1 HEA) now roll into December having gained a season-best 3 directly video games. Positive indicators also are rising.

Offensively, BU ranks 3rd nationally in capturing proportion (12.7%) and is tied for 6th in scoring offense (3.7 objectives in line with recreation). Lachance is on a season-long five-game level streak. Freshman Cole Eiserman (Newburyport, Mass.) has a team-leading 9 objectives in his first 14 NCAA video games.

At the opposite finish of the ice, veteran G Mathieu Caron (Sr., Abbotsford, British Columbia) is rounding into shape with 3 directly wins and a Hockey East Goaltender of the Week nod.

BU will host UMass on Saturday in Hockey East play. The two groups will conclude their sequence with a mid-week conflict subsequent Wednesday.

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USCHO: Coming off sweep of Ohio State, Princeton overflowing with self assurance

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USCHO: Notre Dame performs ‘best weekend of hockey as a team’ at Friendship Four in Belfast

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The Lake Show:

It was once a hectic month for Lake Superior State, which hit the ice 10 instances throughout the month of November and performed all however a type of video games clear of house.

Despite the miles logged, LSSU led the CCHA in wins throughout the month by means of going 6-3-1. Only 5 groups within the nation posted extra November wins than the Lakers: Minnesota had 8, adopted by means of Bentley, Boston College, Michigan, and Providence with seven every.

Vital to LSSU’s November successes was once the play of junior F Connor Milburn (Kamloops, British Columbia), who led the NCAA in scoring throughout the month with 14 level and had multi-point efforts in part of his 10 video games. Earlier this week, Milburn was once named CCHA Forward of the Month.

On the again finish, freshman G Rorke Applebee (Châteauguay, Quebec) began all 10 video games for LSSU and tied BC’s Jacob Fowler (So., Melbourne, Fla.) and Bentley’s Connor Hasley (Jr., North Tonawanda, N.Y.) with an NCAA-leading six victories.

Milburn, Applebee and the Lakers host CCHA rival Bemidji State this weekend at Taffy Abel Arena.

Streaking Spartans:

Top-ranked Michigan State (11-1-0, 4-0-0 Big 10) picked up a non-conference sweep of Lindenwood closing weekend, extending its profitable streak to 9 video games. That’s the longest such streak for MSU for the reason that Spartans gained 10 in a row throughout the 2000-01 season.

Michigan State’s lone loss this season was once a 3-0 defeat by the hands of Boston College on Oct. 11. Click HERE for extra inside of MSU’s rapid get started.

The Spartans will hit the street this weekend for a Big 10 conflict at Wisconsin.

Jay Walking Among NCAA Leaders:

Last season, Niagara F Jay Ahearn (Sr., Staten Island, N.Y.) scored a career-best 10 objectives in 34 video games. He’s already matched that general this 12 months in part the collection of video games.

Ahearn lit the lamp every evening in closing weekend’s sequence in opposition to Union, making him simply certainly one of six gamers within the nation to boast a double-digit target general this season:

Ahearn and the Purple Eagles, who will seek advice from Air Force this weekend, are averaging 3.1 objectives in line with recreation, tied with Bentley and Robert Morris for this ideal output in Atlantic Hockey.

Fit to Print:

“We fly all across the country, playing the game we love, with our friends. We try to remind ourselves we’re lucky to be where we are.”

— Alaska F Brandon Birnie (Jr., Weyburn, Saskatchewan) at the Nanooks’ go back and forth time table, which just lately incorporated a stretch of 12 directly video games clear of house (supply: College Hockey News).

NHL Note of the Week:

San Jose F Macklin Celebrini (Boston University, 2023-24), closing season’s Hobey Baker Memorial Award winner, was once named NHL Rookie of the Month previous this week after racking up seven objectives and 12 issues in 14 contests.

Despite having overlooked 12 video games previous this 12 months because of harm, Celebrini ranks fourth within the NHL’s rookie scoring race with 14 issues in 15 video games. His 12 even-strength issues lead all novices.

Celebrini captured the Hobey Baker Award in his lone season at BU, racking up 32 objectives and 64 issues in 38 video games as a freshman.

Fries on the Bottom of the Bag:

Boston College has killed all 33 of its opponent energy performs throughout the first 14 video games of the season. The Eagles are the one last staff within the nation to boast a super PK … Saturday’s 3-3 tie between Cornell and Quinnipiac at Madison Square Garden drew a crowd of 16,593, the most important in NCAA Division I males’s hockey up to now this season … AIC junior F Josh Barnes (Cornwall, Ontario) registered the primary hat trick of his collegiate profession – a herbal hat trick, no much less – in Saturday’s 4-2 win over Robert Morris. Barnes already has seven objectives in 16 video games this season, topping the career-high 5 objectives he tallied as a freshman in 2022-23 … Penn State junior G John Seifarth (Pittsburgh, Pa.) earned his first two NCAA victories in a weekend sweep of Colgate. Seifarth spent closing season with Penn State’s ACHA membership staff … Augustana earned its first convention sweep in program historical past with a couple of CCHA victories over Northern Michigan closing weekend … Michigan Tech’s Isaac Gordon (Landmark, Manitoba) had 12 photographs on target in Saturday’s 2-2 tie at Bowling Green, essentially the most by means of a Division I males’s participant this season. Gordon scored the game-tying target within the 3rd length for his first tally of the 12 months.

Longest Active NCAA Point Streaks:

• 14 video games, F Aidan Thompson (Denver)
  • 10-22—22, started Oct. 5 at Alaska Anchorage
• 10 video games, F Brett Chorske (Colgate)
  • 8-4—12, started Oct. 25 at RIT
• 8 video games, F Devin Phillips (Holy Cross)
  • 3-8—11, started Oct. 20 vs. Army

Longest Active Goal Streaks:

• 7 video games, F Liam McLinskey (Holy Cross)
  • 8-3—11, started Nov. 7 vs. AIC
• 5 video games, F Ryland Mosley (Wisconsin)
  • 5-4—9, started Nov. 9 vs. Minnesota

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