2024-25 Men's Ice Hockey Roster
Roster
Matt Copponi
- Class:
- Senior
- Position:
- Forward
- Height:
- 5-11
- Weight:
- 180
- Hometown:
- Mansfield, Mass.
- Previous Team:
- Merrimack
AS A SENIOR IN 2024-25
Appeared in all 40 games ... Is a career-best plus-16, having totaled six goals and 18 assists for 24 points ... Tied the game at 3-3 just 12 seconds after then-No. 8 Ohio State scored and then had the primary assist on Aiden Celebrini's game-winner in an 8-3 triumph in the NCAA regional semifinals on March 27 ... Scored a first-period equalizer in a 3-2 overtime victory over then-No. 16 Cornell in the regional final on March 29 ... Assisted on the opening goal of the national semifinal against then-No. 5 Penn State on April 10 ... Notched two third-period goals, including a shorthanded strike, in a 6-3 win over Merrimack on Nov. 22 ... Collected two assists in a 4-3 win over Notre Dame in the Friendship Four title game on Nov. 30 to complete a three-game point streak ... Tallied one goal and added two assists in a 5-2 triumph at then-No. 17/16 UMass Lowell on Nov. 9 ... Secured an assist in each game of a weekend split at then-No. 7 North Dakota on Oct. 25-26.
BEFORE BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Selected in the seventh round (216th overall) by the Edmonton Oilers in the 2023 NHL Draft … Played three seasons with Merrimack … Led Warriors with a career-best 32 points on seven goals and team- and career-high 25 assists last season … Has totaled 70 points (24g, 46a) in 92 career games … Tied for team lead in goals (14) and was second on the squad with 29 points as a sophomore, helping lead Merrimack to the NCAA Tournament … Scored game-winning goal in overtime of 2023 Hockey East semifinals ... Winner of the 2021 John Carlton Memorial Trophy, given annually by the Boston Bruins to the outstanding female and male student athletes in Massachusetts high school or junior hockey.
PERSONAL
Son of Debra and John Copponi .. Has two siblings, Nick and Chris … Enrolled in the College of Communication, majoring in advertising.
