As expected, Saturday’s disheartening loss to Quinnipiac sent the Terriers plummeting in both national polls. BU lost five slots to #18 in the USCHO Division 1 Poll
and seven slots to #19 in the USA Hockey Poll.
Terriers are missing John Buccigross’ top 16 rankings.
The Boston Hockey Blog Sam Robb O’Hagen analyzes “What’s Wrong with BU Men’s Hockey?” He notes that there are many facets of the game that are underperforming: “But the sober reality is that after 12 games, BU’s star forwards are being outplayed by the top competition.”
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What’s wrong with the BU men’s hockey team? A lot of. But the play of the Terriers’ top forwards is one of the problems.
✍️ @samrobbohagan
📸 Trinity Robbins/BU Athleticshttps://t.co/mhRF0d7nnq— Boston Hockeyblog (@BOShockeyblog) November 17, 2025
Statistics don’t always tell the story in hockey, but on Saturday night they did, as BU Hockey Stats’ advanced stats show.
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— BU Hockey Stats (@BUHockeyStats) November 16, 2025
Looking ahead
2026 recruit
Braidy Wassilynn scored his eighth goal in London’s 3–2 shootout win over Sault St. Marie. He has scored six goals in his last seven games.
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Braided Wassilyn 📈📈📈#NHLDesign pic.twitter.com/oOhKEdUn0F
— London Knights (@LondonKnights) November 16, 2025
A McKeen’s Hockey profile of leading 2026 NHL draft prospects in the OHL features 2026 recruit Caleb Malhotrawho has an 8-17-25 line in 21 games.
Caleb Malhotra has strengthened Brantford’s forward depth for a shot at the Memorial Cup, and he has impressed. Manny Maholtra’s son Caleb decided to leave the BCHL last summer and join the Bulldogs before playing with the Boston University Terriers in the NCAA next year.
After scoring about half a point per game with Chilliwack last year, Malhotra increased his production to 1.38 points per game through the first 13 games, centering the largely successful Dennis-Malhotra-O’Donnell line. Malhotra has found success in many aspects of his game early in the season, including his competitiveness, two-way consistency and playmaking. Caleb seems destined to become a middle-six center in the NHL, seemingly everywhere, causing havoc on defenses. With the puck, Caleb regularly finds creative plays from his arsenal to open lanes and drive to the center of the ice. But perhaps the most impressive part of Caleb’s play in the OHL is his unwillingness to lose. He never backs down and will fight anyone toe to toe to win every encounter. Even after losing the puck, Malhotra makes sure he gives his all to make life miserable for the opponent; he simply refuses to gracefully lose any interaction on the ice.
After watching Caleb it is clear that there is no real weakness in his game. His hockey skills are still developing, but are stronger than most other OHL centers in his class and have allowed him to create chances using his stick handling, foot speed and passing. More with videos
►►NeutralZone’s NHL Prospect Evaluations rates 2026 recruits Egor Shilov the #1 prospect from 2009 in the QMJHL and the #4 prospect among all QMJHL players.
Both Shilov and Malhotra have been selected for the two-game CHL-USA Prospects Challenge scheduled for Nov. 25 in Calgary and Nov. 26 in Lethbridge. NHL Network will air both games at 8:00 PM ET.
Looking back
Lane Hutson‘s goal from the extra attacker tied Montreal with Columbus at 3-3, but the Blue Jackets came away with a 4-3 shootout withN. Hutson’s goal was his second of the season. He also added his 14th assist. Charlie Coyle recorded his 10th assist for Columbus.
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IT IS NOT COMPLETED
NOT OVER YET#GoHabsGo pic.twitter.com/SG0RSUTxZa
— Montreal Canadiens (@CanadiensMTL) November 18, 2025
Evan Rodrigues scored his fifth goal and AJ Greer scored his fourth as Florida outscored Vancouver, 8-5.
Tom Willander recorded his third assist for the Canucks.
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That was clean🧼 pic.twitter.com/LAMY1miJVb
— Florida Panthers (@FlaPanthers) November 18, 2025
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Greersy rips it 🔥 pic.twitter.com/R7DpqyX62k
— Florida Panthers (@FlaPanthers) November 18, 2025
Shane Lachance‘s NHL debut at Capital One Arena in Washington wasn’t his first visit to that venue. In 2009 he joined his grandfather, Jack Parkerand the Terriers on the ice after BU’s 4-3 “DC Miracle” win in the national championship game.
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Shane Lachance in 2009 on the same ice where he made his NHL debut tonight pic.twitter.com/BpWA8PKdqz
— BU Hockey Stats (@BUHockeyStats) November 16, 2025
Owen Gunda former play-by-play announcer for WTBU Sports who also produced Bernie Corbett‘s Inside BU Hockey and away game broadcasts are now the voice of University of Vermont hockey. For the past two seasons, he served as media director for the ECHL South Carolina Stingrays, where he David WarsoFair was assistant coach. Warsofsky is now the Stingrays’ head coach and director of Hockey Operations.
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