No. 5 Terriers Drop 8-5 Decision to No. 12 Maine

Saturday, November 1

Orono, ME

7:30 PM

Boston University

3-5-1, 1-3-0

Maine

5-2-1, 2-0-0

Boston University

Maine

No. 5 Terriers Drop 8-5 Decision to No. 12 Maine

November 1, 2025 | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

ORONO, Maine—The No. 5 Boston University men's ice hockey team dropped its second straight contest to the No. 12 Maine Black Bears, falling 8-5 at Alfond Arena Saturday night.

The Terriers (3-5-1, 1-3-0 HE) once again scored first, but once the Black Bears (5-2-1, 2-0-0 HE) took a 3-1 lead in the first period, the deficit proved to be too much to handle.

Maine scored three times in the first period, then the teams traded goals by adding three apiece in the second. In the final frame, BU scored once shorthanded and the Black Bears potted an empty-net goal as they came away with a weekend sweep of BU.

BU sophomore Brandon Svoboda racked up a four-point night and the Terriers got two shorthanded goals. Freshmen Conrad Fondrk and Ben Merrill along with sophomore Kamil Bednarik all each notched a goal.

HOW IT HAPPENED

On BU's first chance, sophomore Brandon Svoboda's shot generated a rebound for Merrill, who just had to wrist it into an open net to make it 1-0 36 seconds into the game.
In a callback to the previous night's opening, the Black Bears took mere seconds to answer, scoring on a rebound of their own after an odd-man rush to tie the game at 1-1.
Maine had more in the tank in the first period, as the Black Bears added on with goals at 11:47 and 12:21 in the frame.
Following Maine's third goal, BU junior Max Lacroix (33 saves) replaced sophomore goaltender MikhailYegorov (5 saves) in net.
BU, trailing for the first time during regulation this weekend, struck back with Svoboda's goal in the second.
Sophomore Cole Hutson flung a puck toward the crease and Svoboda was in front to get his stick on it and redirect the rubber into the net to make it 3-2 Maine.
Like they had all weekend, Maine found an answer to BU's challenge, this time in the form of leading scorer Justin Poirier, who scooped a puck up and over Lacroix to make it 4-2 Maine at 10:08 in the second period.
After a misplay on a Maine power play, freshman Jonathan Morello and Bednarik found themselves playing catch on a 2-on-0 opportunity before Bednarik calmly deposited the puck in the back of the net at 11:58 in the frame to cut the deficit to one again.
The Black Bears just kept pounding away, scoring twice more off shots toward crowds in front of the net in the second.
BU earned a power play with 1:24 to play in the periodand capitalized as Fondrk zipped a shot from outside the circle past the Maine goaltender, making it 6-4 Maine entering the third.
Maine went up by three goals just 1:29 into the third period, but then Svoboda lit the lamp for the second time, this time a shorthanded goal at 3:18 in the third.
The Black Bears would score an empty-net goal with 2:43 remaining to solidify the 8-5 win.

GAME NOTES

Svoboda's two assists and four points are both career highs as he recorded his third career multi-point game.
Hutson is now on a four-game points streak and his 13 points tie him for the lead in Hockey East.
He has four multi-point games this season and this is the second time this year he's had back-to-back multi-point games.
BU last scored two shorthanded goals in one game this calendar year — in the 2025 NCAA Regional Semifinal win vs. Ohio State. The previous instance was Feb. 10, 2017.
Merrill scored his second goal in as many nights.
Bednarik's goal was his second this season and his second shorthanded goal this season.
His two shorthanded tallies lead Hockey East.
BU is now 76-58-14 (.561) all-time against Maine.

UP NEXT

The Terriers will next play a home-and-home series with Merrimack on Friday, Nov. 7 and Saturday, Nov. 8.
Friday's game will take place at Agganis Arena with a 7 p.m. puck drop and Saturday's game will be played at Lawler Arena with a 6 p.m. puck drop.