Merrimack vs. BU — HE Quarterfinals Game 1

By Jake Seiner/DFP Staff As the hunt for playoff positioning put Hockey East through the spin cycle during the season’s final weeks, there was one team Boston University coach Jack Parker said he wouldn’t mind avoiding in the tournament’s first round –– Merrimack College. As fate would have it, the […]

By Scott McLaughlin/DFP Staff (1) New Hampshire (16-11-7, 15-6-6) vs. (8) Vermont (15-12-7, 9-11-7) What have you done for me lately?Neither of these teams is quite what you would call “on fire” entering the playoffs. The Wildcats have been a .500 team since late January — they went 4-4-3 to […]

We (The Daily Free Press) didn’t have anyone at the game, but I did manage to convince my boss at NESN to let me write a recap after watching the game on tape delay. Here it is.

By Scott McLaughlin The Terriers have landed their first recruit for the 2013 season. Matt Grzelcyk, a freshman defenseman at Belmont Hill School, has committed to BU, according to US Hockey Report. The 16-year-old from Charlestown is a 5-foot-9 left shot. He has two goals and 18 assists in 31 […]

By Arielle Aronson/DFP Staff After a season of struggles for the Boston University men’s ice hockey team, it seems fitting that an unlikely third seed in the Hockey East tournament would be secured by an unlikely player. Who was that unlikely star? None other than sophomore forward Kevin Gilroy, a […]

By Scott McLaughlin/DFP Staff Saturday night, sophomore forward Kevin Gilroy scored his first goal of the season, a wrister right off a faceoff that proved to be the game-winner in BU’s 4-3 win at Northeastern, and that proved to be the shot that clinched home ice in the Hockey East […]

Boston University vs. Northeastern

By Scott McLaughlin/DFP Staff BU clinched a playoff spot with its 5-4 win over Northeastern on Friday night. However, it can still finish anywhere from third to eighth in the final standings. Heading into the final night of the regular season, here is what it will take for BU to […]

By Scott McLaughlin/DFP Staff Sophomore forward Vinny Saponari secured the Terriers a spot in the Hockey East playoffs when he one-timed home a beautiful pass from junior defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk for the game-winning goal in BU’s 5-4 win over Northeastern at Agganis Arena on Friday night. With less than 10 […]