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For All The Beans and #300, too.

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For All The Beans and #300, too.

 

As if tonight’s game–the Beanpot championship, a rematch between last year’s finalists and the schools with the most Beanpot wins–didn’t already have enough cache, it’s the 300th meeting between the Commonwealth Avenue rivals who first met at Boston Arena in 1918.

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Tonight’s final, set for 7:30 p.m. at TD Garden, will air on both NESN and the NHL Network with a live stream from ESPN+.  Hall of Fame coaches Jack Parker and Jerry York will combine for a ceremonial puck drop for the milestone meeting.

Ten days after their last meeting, a 4-1 Eagles win, BU and BC will face off in the 73rd Beanpot Tournament championship game. The Terriers will seek to repeat the title they won last season by beating their Green Line rivals 4-1. BC is looking for its first tournament win in a decade. Their last title game win in 2016 was against BU, a 1-0 overtime victory.

   The Dunkin Men's Beanpot Tickets Feb 09 ...  

The Terriers, who have reached the championship game in 58 of 73 tournaments and winning a record 32 times, are looking to repeat for the first time since they won three in a row, 2005-2007. 

BU leads the series with BC, 141-137-21 (.507) and also has a 31-17 (.646) in Beanpot games. 

In Friday’s win against Maine, two Terriers ended goal scoring droughts. Cole Eiserman netted his first goal in five games, while Ryder Ritchie, who tallied the game-winner in overtime, hadn’t scored since early November. Both are hoping to keep the scoring touch going against BC.

Ritchie spoke about the Beanpot final at Friday’s post-game press conference: “It’s an honor. Just all the players that have played in the past,
how many people show up for it—it’s a huge thing for Boston, so it was an
awesome atmosphere. Can’t wait for Monday.”

Men's ice hockey players standing on the blue line during the national anthem at the Beanpot 

                Photo credit Eliza Nuestro 

Charlie Trethewey missed Friday’s game due to a death in his family. Coach Jay Pandolfo said the freshman would be back in Boston for Sunday’s practice. 

The #11/13 Eagles followed up their win at Agganis with a 5-1 victory over Harvard last Monday, but fell back to earth on Friday with a 6-1 home ice loss to Vermont. Since the calendar turned to 2026, BC has won four of seven, including a sweep of New Hampshire.  

CHECK BACK FOR TONIGHT’S TERRIER LINEUP 

● GoTerriers.com preview,
Game Notes,
Live Stats, BU All-Access (audio), BU Men’s Hockey Twitter

● Live stream ESPN+

● BU Hockey Stats Championship
Preview: 300 Battles, 1 Pot of Beans

● College Hockey
News Plenty
on the Line For BU, BC Beyond the Beanpot Title

● College Hockey
News Tale of the Tape

● BU Hockey Stats Previewing
the Maine Event Before the Main Event

● Boston Hockey
Blog

►►BU Hockey Writer
Scott Weighart spoke with the three Terriers who are Massachusetts natives—Nick
Roukounakis, Ben Merrill and Mick Frechette—about their memories of attending
the Beanpot growing up and their excitement about playing for the silver trophy Monday. 

● GoTerriers.com Beanpot
Final Extra Special for Terriers’ Local Stars

Beanpot Watch Parties

Once again BU fans
nationwide will be gathering at Beanpot
Watch Parties to cheer on the Terriers. More than 20 locations from Boston
to San Francisco have events scheduled. The link has an interactive map of
those sites where you can reserve a spot to join the festivities.

 

 

In Episode
139 of Terrier Hockey Talk, the Boston Hockey Blog crew goes in-depth previewing
the BU-BC Beanpot final.

►►NHL.com has posted new entry in Tynan Lawrence’s Draft Diary. The freshman center addresses his first month as a Terrier and his initial Beanpot experience.

So, I’ve been at Boston University for almost a month and it’s been
great. I think the college game is just a faster game. You’re playing
against guys who are quite a bit older and stronger but one of the main
differences is your time and space. In the USHL, you have 3-4 seconds to
make a play. In college, you have 1-2 seconds. The hockey is a lot
faster, but I think once you get adjusted to it, it becomes easier.

I experienced my first Beanpot game on Monday, a 3-2 shootout win
against Northeastern. It was definitely a cool experience, a great
atmosphere at TD Garden in Boston. It’s a great building to play in,
especially with all the teams that play there and I’m looking forward to
the Beanpot final against Boston College on Monday.

 

Winter Olympics 

►►Charlie McAvoy, who
will serve as an alternate captain for Team USA, is writing an Olympic
diary for The Athletic (subscription). Here’s an excerpt:    

It’s been a blast so
far in Milan, and I’m so glad I came early.

Landed a few days
ago and me and Zach Werenski, Jake Oettinger and Sway (Jeremy Swayman) got
fitted with our Ralph Lauren outfits and then got to be part of the opening
ceremony.

For me, it felt
like once in a lifetime, to be there and walk and see thousands of people
cheering us on and be with the other athletes and everybody from Team USA. It
truly was one of the most special things I’ve been a part of.

And once you get to
meet so many different athletes, you want to go to events and root them on. So
we went last night to the figure skating, and it was incredible.

The village is
really cool. It honestly feels like being back in college again, really, you
know, it’s dorm rooms, it’s small, there’s a dining hall, some rec spaces,
athletes everywhere. So that’s kind of like your students. And it’s always
busy. Everybody’s just coming and going, everybody’s on their own schedule. So,
it just feels like I’m back at BU a little bit.

Canada at Olympics | NHL ... 

At Team Canada’s first practice session, Macklin Celebrini skated on the top line with Connor McDavid and Tom Wilson. “It’s fun. It’s great,” Celebrini said after the practice at Santagiulia
Arena. “I think we’ve got to get a little chemistry, but it is super
cool.”

● NHL.com Celebrini is ‘going to be asked to play a big role’ for Team Canada at Olympics

Looking ahead

2027 recruit Brady
Knowling stopped 15 of 17 shots in the NTDP U18s’ 3-2 overtime win
Switzerland at the Five Nations tournament. It was the second tournament win and eighth in his last ten starts for the top-ranked North American goalie for the 2026 draft.  In Sunday’s 4-1 win over Finland, 2027 recruit Carter Meyer scored a goal and added an assist.

2026 recruit Viktor Nörringer scored his 16th goal in Muskegon’s 4-2 loss to Chicago. He has
eight goals in the last seven games. A fourth-round pick by Nashville in 2024, Norringer has 31 points in 33 games for the Lumberjacks.

2027 or 2028
recruit Andrei Nikolaev stopped all 32 shots to shut out Omaha for a 4-0 Des Moines win. He has
a 1.98 GAA in five games since being acquired by the Buccaneers from the NAHL TItans. 

Looking back

AHL quinn hutson 

Quinn Hutson is headed to the AHL All-Star Classic on Tuesday and Wednesday. With 43 points in 41 games, he’s sixth in the AHL in points and first among rookies. Quinn has a had two call-ups to Edmonton and scored his first NHL goal on December 18 at TD Garden against the Bruins.

● NHL.com Hutson’s skill, experience to be on display at AHL All-Star Classic 

This past Friday was the 48th anniversary of the 1978 Blizzard Beanpot when BU beat BC 12-5 in the late game of the opening round as snow brought the city to a standstill. The championship game was postponed until March 1 with the Terriers pounding Harvard 7-1. BU would go one to win its third national championship beating the Eagles, 5-3, in Providence.

● Boston.com When the Blizzard of ’78 shut down Boston, the Garden stayed open   

 

 

 

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