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BU Hockey '25-'26: Can we keep up the run to Vegas?

Hideously bad, boring and dumb team. Special teams blow. Season should be over thankfully in 30 days. Hope to see the last of SB,CH, CE, SBo, AC .
 
Turning out to be same old, same old. The inability to extend that lead in the first on the PP, and then giving up 3 on the shorthand was the game obviously. It started so promising. Cole Hutson almost invisible again. Why they want to make an extra low percentage pass across 2 defenders instead of getting it on net in most cases is beyond comprehension at this point.
 
Jofa said:
Can’t stand how Pandolfo pulls goalie down 3 a habit going back to last year. He’s not trying to “win” he wants to embarrass his team. I think they are plenty embarrassed already he’s just being a dink.
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Same. Hate when he does that!
 
BU93 said:
Turning out to be same old, same old. The inability to extend that lead in the first on the PP, and then giving up 3 on the shorthand was the game obviously. It started so promising. Cole Hutson almost invisible again. Why they want to make an extra low percentage pass across 2 defenders instead of getting it on net in most cases is beyond comprehension at this point.
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Unable to sustain ... attention.
 
Tonight was the first time in 30 years of watching this team that I have left a game with 15 minutes left. Any game, let alone a Beanpot Championship.

They quit and why wouldn’t they when the coaches keep trotting out the same players that make stupid mistakes that cost them games.
 
They're not worth the time to construct words to assess their ineptitude. Play out the string. I'd like to see some of the suit wearers on the ice on Friday, but it won't happen. Is there anyone you'd be disappointed about if they didn't return next season?

BU Hockey: When you suck, you suck.
 
It’s a young team and the lack of veteran leadership is pretty obvious. I don’t know if they expected to lose Lachance but it hurt. He’s spent most of the season in the minors so I wonder if there’s regret on both sides.
 
Section 6 Row S said:
It’s a young team and the lack of veteran leadership is pretty obvious. I don’t know if they expected to lose Lachance but it hurt. He’s spent most of the season in the minors so I wonder if there’s regret on both sides.
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16 pts in 39 games (with a huge minus number)🙄

And Kaplan is the same….though mookie is glad he isn’t back here.
 
I think this quote from the BHB states it fairly well. The team for next year is built very similarly to this one. Is BU building a *team* or just a collection of the highest draft picks they can get?

BU is quite obviously too young, even if Pandolfo has yet to directly admit it when asked about the potential consequences of fielding the country’s youngest roster (by almost a year on average). Pandolfo and associate head coach Joe Pereira’s recruiting strategy is built around high-end NHL Draft picks — BU’s got quite a few of those this season, you may have heard — who almost always arrive as true freshmen and almost always leave before their senior season. And while BU’s youth movement clearly worked over the last three seasons, those Terriers still had at least some experience to rely on — BU rostered five seniors each of the last two years and nine in 2022-23. These Terriers have one senior, a transfer playing as the extra forward. If struggling sophomore defenseman Sascha Boumedienne — who, in a startling podcast appearance last month, said Pandolfo and Pereira tell recruits their goal is to get them to the NHL as soon as possible — is to be believed, that’s by design.

But BU flew too close to the sun in 2025-26. And it’s worth noting that Pandolfo has been caught attributing several of the Terriers’ most potent issues, namely their lack of urgency during a season that’s been on the brink for a while, to youth. Those moments, when he isn’t directly asked about age, are telling.

Put those struggles with urgency next to the energy of BC, which is the third-youngest team in the country and still so much older than BU, and you get a damning look at the consequences of a roster this young.
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Section 6 Row S said:
It’s a young team and the lack of veteran leadership is pretty obvious. I don’t know if they expected to lose Lachance but it hurt. He’s spent most of the season in the minors so I wonder if there’s regret on both sides.
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He was there last night.

Not sure if this is a mind thing. Don't they have a sports psychologist on staff? Maybe they should all be booking time with that person. They looked really good early on. That Michigan State series destroyed them.
 
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