Alaska Fairbanks traveled to Chestnut Hill, Mass., on Friday night and came away with a 3-2 men's hockey victory over No. 11 Boston College in non-conference NCAA action.
Latvia native Davis Borozinskis scored both the tying and winning goals for the visiting Nanooks, who got 28 saves in goal from Tyler Shea. BC went 2-for-5 on the power play, but the Eagles couldn't get the equalizer late in dropping their home/season opener to UAF (1-2-0).
Boston College shook off an early deficit and rebounded for a 6-2 victory over Boston University last night in the 2026 Beanpot Tournament championship game at TD Garden in Boston. It was BC's 21st Beanpot men's crown all-time, in the 300th meeting overall between the two Commonwealth Avenue rivals, and first Beanpot championship since it also defeated BU in the title tilt in 2016.
After defending champion BU took an early 1-0, lead, BC responded with five consecutive goals, three of them on the power play. Andre Gasseau scored two goals for the 14th-ranked Eagles (16-9-1 overall), and Lukas Gustafsson notched the eventual game-winner from the point on a man advantage. Will Vote also scored twice for BC, including an empty-net insurance tally in the final two minutes of regulation, while Ryan Conmy collected four assists.
Louka Cloutier stopped 27 shots in net for the Eagles, and also earned the Eberly Trophy as this year's top Beanpot goaltender with a .950 save percentage. BC's James Hagens took home Beanpot MVP accolades after registering two assists last night, and five points over two Beanpot contests. Mikhail Yegorov finished with 32 saves for BU (13-14-2), which got goals from Brandon Svoboda and Cole Eiserman. The Terriers and Eagles will meet again on Feb. 27-28, in a home-and-home series in Hockey East conference play.
Harvard took last night's Beanpot men's consolation contest with 4-1 victory over Northeastern. The Crimson won this year's women's Beanpot, defeating BU in overtime at TD Garden.
James Hagens scored two goals, including the game winner, and set up another as No. 12 Boston College stormed into the 2026 Beanpot Tournament final with a 5-1 first-round victory over Harvard tonight at TD Garden in Boston.
Drew Fortescue, Dean Letourneau and Lukas Gustafsson also scored for the Eagles (15-8-1 overall), who built a 3-0 lead in the first period and never looked back. Andre Gasseau and Oscar Hemming had two assists apiece for BC, which also got 30 saves in net from Louka Cloutier. Ryan Healey scored Harvard's lone goal early in the second stanza, while Ben Charette finished with 38 stops for the Crimson (12-9-1).
BC will now face rival Boston University, a 3-2 shootout winner over Northeastern in the nightcap, in next Monday's championship contest.
Boston College raced out to a 3-0 lead and held on for 4-1 victory at Boston University tonight in Hockey East play. It was the first of three regular-season meetings between the MBTA Green Line rivals, with a home-and-home scheduled for Feb. 27-28.
Andre Gasseau, Dean Letourneau and James Hagens recorded a goal and an assist apiece for the Eagles (14-8-1 overall, 10-5-0 HEA), who have won three straight games, and five of their last seven outings. Louka Cloutier finished with 33 saves for BC, which also got an empty-net insurance goal from Brady Berard late in regulation. Jack Harvey scored the lone goal for BU (12-13-1, 8-10-0), while Mikhail Yegorov made 17 stops for the Terriers.
Both BC and BU will take part in the first round of the annual Beanpot Tournament on Monday at TD Garden in Boston. BC will meet Harvard in the opening game, while defending champion BU will face Northeastern in the nightcap, with both contests to be televised on NHL Network. The consolation and championship games will take place on Feb. 9.
Sage Babey scored one goal and set up two others as Boston College topped visiting Boston University, 5-2, tonight in NCAA women's hockey action, in the first game of a home-and-home series.
After BU (2-9-0 overall, 2-4-0 Hockey East) tied the contest at two on a late second-period power-play goal by Lola Reid, BC (6-6-1, 5-2-1) ripped off three unanswered goals over the final 20 minutes for the win at Conte Forum. Grace Campbell stopped 43 shots for the victorious Eagles, while Michelle Pasiechnyk posted 18 stops for the Terriers as BU outshot BC, 45-23.
The two MBTA Green Line adversaries will renew their rivalry Friday night at BU's Agganis Arena.
BC and BU teamed up to beat New York City.
Macklin Celebrini (Boston University) scored three goals and set up two others, and Will Smith tallied two goals, including the game-winner in overtime, as the San Jose Sharks defeated the host New York Rangers, 6-5, tonight at Madison Square Garden. It was the first victory of the 2025-26 NHL campaign for the Sharks (1-4-2), who also got two assists from Smith, plus a goal from Adam Gaudette (Northeastern).
Adam Fox (Harvard) and Conor Sheary (UMass) had one assist apiece for the Rangers (3-4-2), who are now 0-4-1 at home so far this season.
Chris Kreider (Boston College) is finished playing for the New York Rangers. The veteran left wing waived his no-trade clause today, and has been dealt to the Anaheim Ducks after spending the last 12 full NHL seasons in Manhattan. New York received center Carey Terrance and a 2025 third-round draft pick in return.
Kreider, 34, who was drafted 19th overall by the Rangers in 2009, has tallied 326 goals and 256 assists for 582 points in 883 career NHL regular-season games, all with the Rangers. He tallied a career-high 52 goals in 2021-22. He has also recorded 48-28—76 points in 123 Stanley Cup Playoff contests, and helped New York to the 2014 Stanley Cup Final.
A 6-foot-3, 230-pound native of Boxford, Mass., Kreider was a Hockey East All-Rookie Team and Hockey East Second Team selection in his three years at Boston College, where he helped the Eagles to both the 2010 and 2012 NCAA titles. He tallied 50-43—93 points in 114 career college games, and also recorded 10 power-play goals, 10 game-winning goals, and four short-handed goals with BC.
In international play, he represented the U.S. at the 2010, 2011 and 2018 IIHF World Championships, and at the 2010 and 2011 IIHF World Junior Championships, winning gold at the 2010 WJC.
The accolades keep rolling in for Boston College men's hockey for its completed 2024-25 season.
Ryan Leonard, who recently signed with the Washington Capitals and made his NHL debut on Tuesday after two seasons at BC, is a Hobey Baker Award hat trick finalist long with Denver sophomore defenseman Zeev Buium and Michigan State junior forward Isaac Howard. The winner will be announced on April 11 at the NCAA Frozen Four in St. Louis.
Leonard, a sophomore forward, led all NCAA Division I men's hockey players with 30 goals this season, and finished his college career with 61 goals and 109 points. He also won this season's Walter Brown Award as the top American-born men's player in Division I hockey, the 25th BC player ever to do so.
Also from the Heights, forward Gabe Perreault signed with the New York Rangers and made his NHL debut on Wednesday, while goaltender Jacob Fowler just signed with the Montreal Canadiens. Both were sophomores and 2023 NHL draft choices. Perreault tallied 35 goals and 108 points in two years with BC, while Fowler fashioned a 57-13-3 career record with a 1.90 goals-against average and seven shutouts while with the Eagles. Along with Leonard, they led BC to last year's national title game, and a Hockey East regular-season title this year.
Boston College sophomore forward Ryan Leonard has been named the 2025 recipient of the Walter Brown Award as the top American-born player in New England Division men's college hockey.
In 35 games so far this season, the Amherst, Mass. native has scored a nation-high 29 goals to go with 18 assists, and is ninth overall with 47 points. In two NCAA seasons with the Eagles, Leonard, a 2023 first-round NHL draft choice of the Washington Capitals, has notched 60-47—107 points in 76 outings. According to BCEagles.com, he is the 25th player to win the Walter Brown Award all-time.
Two-time Stanley Cup champion and native New Englander Brian Dumoulin (Boston College) is headed back east.
The veteran NHL defenseman from Biddeford, Maine was acquired by the New Jersey Devils today from the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for prospect Herman Traff and a conditional second-round selection in the 2025 NHL Draft. The Ducks will also retain 50 percent of Dumoulin's salary for the rest of the 2024-25 campaign.
Dumoulin, 33, tallied two goals and 14 assists for 16 points in 61 games with Anaheim this season, after skating last winter with the Seattle Kraken. He spent the previous eight years with the Pittsburgh Penguins, winning Stanley Cup titles with them in 2016 and 2017. In 687 career regular-season NHL outings, he has tallied 27-144—171 points, to go along with 4-21—25 points in 81 career Stanley Cup Playoff outings.
The first Maine native to have his name inscribed on the Stanley Cup, the 6-foot-4, 214-pound Dumoulin was drafted 51st overall by the Carolina Hurricanes in 2009 before later having his rights dealt to Pittsburgh. After playing junior hockey with the EJHL's New Hampshire Jr. Monarchs, he spent three seasons with Boston College, recording 11-71—82 points in 123 appearances with BC and earning two All-America selections while helping the Eagles to NCAA championships in 2010 and 2012.
Following a sweep at Hockey East rival Vermont last weekend, Boston College is back at the top of the USCHO.com NCAA Division I men's hockey poll, released earlier this week.
Last week's No. 1, Michigan State, dropped to No. 3 after suffering a tie and a loss in Big Ten play against visiting Penn State, while fellow Big Ten school Minnesota moved into the No. 2 slot. The Big Ten regular-season title will be up for grabs this weekend between MSU and Minnesota.
Rounding out the top ten were Western Michigan, Maine, Denver. Providence, Ohio State, UConn and Boston University. Michigan dropped from No. 9 to No. 11, while Arizona State stayed at No. 12.
For the first time since 2016, the annual Beanpot Tournament will come down to Boston College and Boston University.
No. 8 BU routed Harvard, 7-1, in Monday's men's semifinal opener at TD Garden in Boston, while top-ranked BC pasted two-time defending champion Northeastern, 8-2. Cole Hutson tallied two goals and set up two others for BU in the Terriers' win, while Ryan Leonard notched a goal and two assists for the Eagles in BC's triumph.
Harvard and Northeastern will face off in the consolation contest next Monday at 4:30 p.m. ET, followed by BC-BU for all the beans for the 23rd time in the storied tournament's 72 years. The Eagles swept the Terriers in a home-and-home regular-season series on Jan. 24-25 as Leonard scored four goals and added an assist.
BC won its last Beanpot in 2016, defeating BU in OT, while BU last took it home in 2022 by beating Northeastern that year in the final, snapping a three-year NU title streak.
ADDENDUM: BU topped BC, 4-1, to win its record 33rd Beanpot title, while Harvard edged Northeastern, 4-3, in the consolation.
Ryan Leonard scored three goals for his second hat trick in two weekends to lift No. 1 Boston College to a 4-0 victory over UMass Lowell in Hockey East play on Friday night.
Leonard, who also scored three goals in a 6-2 conference win at Boston University a week prior on Jan. 24, now leads all NCAA Division I men's players with 22 goals overall after scoring three against the eighth-ranked River Hawks before 7,884 onlookers at BC's Conte Forum. Backup netminder Jan Korec earned the shutout with 22 saves for the host Eagles (19-4-1 overall, 12-3-1 Hockey East), while Beni Halasz made 22 stops for UML (13-8-3, 6-6-2) .
BC, which has now won seven straight games overall, begins the 2025 Beanpot Tournament on Monday night at TD Garden in Boston against Hockey East rival and two-time defending champion Northeastern at 8 p.m. ET. That contest will take place following the opening game at 5 p.m. ET between Boston University and Harvard.
A half-dozen Boston College Eagles have been named to the final U.S. roster for the 2025 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship (NHL rights):
D Drew Fortescue (NY Rangers)
D Aram Minnetian (Dallas)
F Teddy Stiga (Nashville)
F Ryan Leonard (Washington)
F James Hagens
F Gabe Perreault (NY Rangers)
Hagens is projected to go first overall in the 2025 NHL Draft next summer.
Leonard has been named U.S. team captain, according to USCHO.com. This season's WJC will be contested from Dec. 26 to Jan. 5 in Ottawa, after the U.S. won the gold medal in last year's tournament in Sweden.
Ryan Leonard took a penalty in the third period that negated what would have been a Boston College power play, then scored the tying goal late in regulation and the game-winner in overtime to lift third-ranked BC to a 3-2 victory at No. 10 Providence last night.
After Gabe Perreault had put BC ahead in the first minute of play, the host Friars responded with second-period goals less than three minutes apart by Clint Levens and Ryan O'Reilly to put Providence ahead, 2-1. That lead stood up until Leonard tapped home a pass from the far wing with less than four minutes remaining in regulation to tie the contest, before he backhanded home a loose puck in front just over four minutes into OT to end it.
Jan Korec stopped 24 shots for the visiting Eagles (8-2-0 overall, 3-1-0 Hockey East) in making his first start of the 2024-25 NCAA season, while Philip Svedebäck made 36 stops for the Friars (7-3-2, 5-2-2). Leonard and Perreault tallied three points apiece for BC, while James Hagens set up two goals for the Eagles. The two Hockey East rivals will close out the season series on Jan. 17 at BC.
Boston College sophomore goaltender Jacob Fowler has been suspended by Hockey East for one game after earning a roughing penalty and a game misconduct in 5-4 loss at UConn on Friday. He will sit out tomorrow night's conference contest against Providence, and be eligible to return on Nov. 22 against Northeastern.
Fowler, 20, from Melbourne, Fla. stopped 25 of 28 shots against in just under 25 minutes of action at UConn. He is 7-1-0 so far this season with a 1.55 goals-against average and three shutouts in nine games, and 39-7-1 with a 2.04 GAA and six shutouts in 48 career NCAA appearances to date with the Eagles. He was selected in the third round of the 2023 NHL Draft by the Montreal Canadiens.
BC (7-2-0 overall, 2-1-0 HEA) dropped from second to third in this week's USCHO.com national poll, behind Denver and Michigan State.
It was a weekend of two-step sweeps involving top teams in NCAA Division I men's college hockey (national rankings from last week, per USCHO.com) ...
- No. 1 Denver swept Yale (5-1, 6-0)
- No. 2 Boston College swept at No. 6 St. Cloud State (4-1, 2-1)
- No. 4 Minnesota swept No. 18 Penn State (3-1, 1-0)
- No. 7 Maine swept Merrimack (5-0, 6-0)
- No. 8 Colorado College swept Air Force (3-2, 6-1)
- No. 9 Cornell swept No. 6 North Dakota (4-1, 5-3)
- No. 11 Michigan swept No. 5 Boston University (5-1, 5-4/OT)
- No. 12 Providence swept New Hampshire (6-3, 3-0)
- No. 15 Ohio State swept Lake Superior (9-3, 6-2)
The home team won in each of those series, except for BC and CC.
Will Vote scored twice and Oskar Jellvik added another goal, all in the second period and at even strength, as second-ranked Boston College blanked No. 4 Michigan State by a 3-0 count tonight at MSU's Munn Ice Arena. BC is now 1-0-0 overall on the 2024-25 season, while MSU fell to 2-1-0.
BC goaltender Jacob Fowler picked up his first shutout of the season, and the fourth of his NCAA career, with 24 saves, while five different Eagles recorded assists on the night. Trey Augustine stopped 26 shots for the Spartans, who were outshot, 29-24, and went 0-for-2 on the power play before 6,555 on-lookers. MSU still leads the all-time series between the two schools, 17-12-1, although BC has now won the last six meetings, including a pair at home last year.
The Eagles and Spartans wrap up their two-game series tomorrow night at Munn (6 p.m. ET, B1G+).
ADDENDUM: In the rematch, MSU got two goals from Wisconsin transfer Charlie Stramel, the game-winner from Daniel Russell late in the second period, and 32 saves in all from Augustine as the Spartans edged BC, 4-3. It was the 600th victory all-time for MSU at Munn, which first opened its doors in 1974. Jellvik had two assists for the Eagles, while Fowler made 25 stops.
