{"id":49701,"date":"2025-10-04T20:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=49701"},"modified":"2025-10-04T20:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T00:04:49","slug":"womens-hockey-minnesotas-abbey-murphy-blasts-terriers-with-hat-trick-leads-gophers-to-a-series-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2025\/10\/04\/womens-hockey-minnesotas-abbey-murphy-blasts-terriers-with-hat-trick-leads-gophers-to-a-series-sweep\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Hockey: Minnesota\u2019s Abbey Murphy Blasts Terriers with Hat-Trick, Leads Gophers to a Series Sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"

Featured image by Gwyneth Moe<\/em><\/p>\n

By Ethan Pott<\/p>\n

Boston University Women\u2019s Ice Hockey (0-2-0, 0-0-0 HEA) dropped the second half of a two-game set against the Minnesota Golden Gophers (4-0-0, 0-0-0 WCHA) on Saturday afternoon thanks to a hat trick by graduate right winger and co-captain Abbey Murphy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they tied it up, we struggled to answer,\u201d Head Coach Tara Watchorn said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to figure that out in terms of how that got to us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Murphy tallied her first goal in the seventh minute of play, deflecting a puck initially stopped by Terrier graduate goaltender Michelle Pasiechnyk into a wide-open net with Pasiechnyk on the edge of the crease.<\/span><\/p>\n

Minutes later, BU punched back as senior left winger and assistant captain Sydney Healey, the Terriers\u2019 leading goalscorer last season, slipped the puck past Minnesota freshman goalie Layla Hemp for her first goal of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Gophers went on the power play as Terrier senior right winger Riley Walsh was called for interference. BU\u2019s penalty kill unit stood strong, allowing only one shot from Murphy and breaking through the pressure late in the power play, generating a blocked shot by senior left winger Luisa Welcke.<\/span><\/p>\n

The game went to 4-on-4 play going into the second as Murphy was called for hooking and BU freshman center Ane\u017eka Cabelov\u00e1 for holding. The period began with a series of back-and-forth punches as the Terriers came out swinging, the Gophers intercepted the puck in BU\u2019s defensive zone, and momentum bounced from end to end in the first few minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

BU senior right winger Clara Yuhn was aggressive in the midgame, rocketing five shots in the period, but Hemp got in front of each. Gopher senior left winger Josefin Bouveng had a wide-open look at the Terriers\u2019 net after winning a faceoff beyond the Terriers\u2019 blueline, but Pasiechnyk was ready and defied the attacking Swede with her stick.<\/span><\/p>\n

With BU on the power play due to a penalty assessed to Gopher freshman defender Sydney Bailey, Murphy slid hard into the boards and collapsed to the ice. After a trainer came out to tend to the Minnesota captain, the Dog Pound applauded as she got up and her teammates helped her to the bench.<\/span><\/p>\n

BU kept possession after failing to convert their advantage and was promptly rewarded as Cabelov\u00e1, assisted by Healey and Yuhn, managed to sneak the puck through Hemp for her first collegiate goal, putting the Terriers up 2-1.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though a recovered Murphy returned to the ice and fired her sixth and seventh shots of the game, the second period ended much as the first had. BU carried a one-goal lead into the game\u2019s final stretch.<\/span><\/p>\n

Minnesota opened the third looking reenergized and applied pressure on BU. Murphy got the best of Pasiechnyk once again to tie the game at 2-2.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unable to keep up with the Gopher barrage, the Terriers folded under pressure as senior defender and co-captain Nelli Laitinen and freshman left winger Tereza Plosova both scored in a span of 30 seconds, sending the Minnesota bench into a frenzy and BU into a timeout.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[We need to] be able to frame all those experiences and not panic too much,\u201d Watchorn said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Terriers got chances to restabilize as Gopher junior left winger Ava Lindsay was sent to the penalty box on a tripping minor and Bouveng was called several minutes later for roughing.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Gophers\u2019 penalty kill unit looked like a brick wall for all four total minutes of their disadvantage. BU went scoreless.<\/span><\/p>\n

Minnesota took control of the puck with Pasiechnyk pulled from the game, and it was none other than Murphy who sunk the empty-net dagger, completing her third collegiate hat-trick. Murphy has scored nine goals in the first four games of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n

Watchorn declined to comment on Murphy\u2019s performance.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s early in the season,\u201d Healey said. \u201cThat\u2019s a good hockey team we\u2019re playing against.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[We need] feedback coming in all directions, peer to peer,\u201d Watchorn said. \u201cContinuing to learn from this weekend, we\u2019ll look at a lot of film.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Terriers will hunt for their first win of the season away at Colgate University on Friday, Oct. 10.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Featured image by Gwyneth Moe By Ethan Pott Boston University Women\u2019s Ice Hockey (0-2-0, 0-0-0 HEA) dropped the second half of a two-game set against the Minnesota Golden Gophers (4-0-0, 0-0-0 WCHA) on Saturday afternoon thanks to a hat trick by graduate right winger and co-captain Abbey Murphy. \u201cWhen they tied it up, we struggled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24794,"featured_media":49668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,1039,1041],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49702,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49701\/revisions\/49702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}