No. 19/20 Terriers, No. 17/16 Cornell Prepped for Red Hot Hockey

Saturday, November 29

New York, NY (Madison Square Garden)

8 PM

Boston University

Cornell

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Charlie Trethewey skating against Northeastern

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No. 19/20 Terriers, No. 17/16 Cornell Prepped for Red Hot Hockey

November 28, 2025 | Men's Ice Hockey

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#19/20 Boston University (6-7-1, 4-4-0 HE) vs. #17/16 Cornell (6-2-0, 5-1-0 ECAC)
Date & Time: Saturday, Nov. 29
Venue: Madison Square Garden - New York, N.Y.
Twitter: @BUGameDay | @TerrierHockey

Red Hot Hockey returns to Madison Square Garden for the 10th time when the No. 19/20 Boston University men's ice hockey team renews its rivalry with No. 17/16 Cornell on Saturday night. Puck drop is scheduled for 8 p.m. Tickets can be purchased here, with the contest also streaming live on ESPN+.

TERRIER TIDBITS

BU split a home-and-home series with Northeastern last weekend, dropping Friday's contest, 3-2, and earning a 4-3 overtime win on Saturday at Agganis Arena.
Sophomore Cole Hutson scored twice in Saturday's win, including the overtime winner.
He is up to 18 points (7g, 11a) this season, which leads the Terriers, is tied for the lead in Hockey East and leads all NCAA defensemen entering the weekend.
Also scoring in Saturday's win were junior Jack Harvey, who notched the first power-play strike in his collegiate career, and freshman Jonathan Morello, who tallied his second shorthanded goal of the season.
BU now has six shorthanded goals this year, second-best in the NCAA.
Morello is one of just three Hockey East players to have scored two shorthanded goals this season, with Terrier sophomore Kamil Bednarik being another.
Junior captain Gavin McCarthy assisted on two Terrier goals in the win.
He was named Hockey East Defender of the Week after blocking a league-high eight shots and finishing +3 in plus-minus on the weekend.
In Friday's loss, BU got goals from freshman John McNelis and sophomore Nick Roukounakis.
McNelis' goal was the first of his career, and Roukounakis' was his second in as many games.

RED HOT HISTORY

BU has accrued a 3-4-2 record at Red Hot Hockey, with Cornell having won the last four meetings.
That includes a 2-1 win in 2023.
With the exception of the Terriers' 6-3 win in the inaugural event in 2007, every game has been within at least two goals.
That includes three overtime games (2009, 2011, 2015) in which BU is 1-0-2.
BU won the shootout in 2015 to retain the Kelley-Harkness Cup.
2019 was the first time that the Terriers were held to fewer than three goals at Red Hot Hockey.
Only two Terriers on the current roster logged minutes in the 2023 contest (Gavin McCarthy, Aiden Celebrini).

SERIES HISTORY WITH THE BIG RED

Saturday will be the 54th meeting between BU and Cornell, with the Big Red ahead in the all-time series, 27-23-3.
The teams first met on Jan. 10, 1925, on Beebe Lake in Ithaca, with the Terriers posting a 7-2 win.
They played again at the same location a little over a year later (a 1-0 BU win) and did not play again until an 8-1 Cornell win on March 11, 1966, in the ECAC Tournament.
The teams met at least once a year as members of the ECAC for the next 19 years until BU joined Hockey East for the 1984-85 season.
They have faced off in the NCAA tournament on five occasions with the first two being the 1967 and 1972 national title games, won by the Big Red (4-1) and Terriers (4-0), respectively.
BU bested the Big Red, 3-2, in overtime in a 2025 NCAA regional final in Toledo, Ohio.
The Terriers are 11-8-2 in the 20 meetings that have taken place since they moved to Hockey East.

RED HOT HOCKEY (TOLEDO'S VERSION)

The Terriers captured a thrilling 3-2 overtime win when these two teams met in a NCAA regional final in Toledo, Ohio last March.
The winner came off Quinn Hutson's stick at 6:25 in the extra frame off assists from Ryan Greene and Shane Lachance.
The Terriers took a 2-1 lead thanks to a Cole Hutson tally just 34 seconds into the third, but the Big Red found the equalizer with 5:30 remaining.
Also scoring for BU was Matt Copponi, who tied the game for the Terriers at 8:47 in the first.
Current BU sophomore netminder Mikhail Yegorov made 37 saves in the win.

SCOUTING THE BIG RED

Cornell enters the weekend with a 6-2-0 record and have gone 5-1-0 in ECAC play.
The Big Red has played four straight games in Ithaca and capped off its homestand with a 6-1 drubbing of RPI.
Junior Ryan Walsh leads the team with 10 points off three goals and seven assists, while junior Jonathan Castagna and freshman Gio DiGiulian have both tallied four goals to lad the way.
Entering Friday, the Big Red has the nation's second-best ranked defense, allowing just 1.38 goals per game.
Freshman Alexis Cournoyer owns the NCAA's third-best GAA (1.30) and second-best save percentage (.953) after seven starts.