Lawrence had five points (one goal, four assists) in his last five games at BU this season, a sign he’s ready to take the next step as a sophomore.<\/p>\n
“I think he continued to get better … he continued to get used to the strength and speed of this level,” Boston coach Jay Pandolfo said. “I think that’s just helped his game. I think the production certainly wasn’t where he probably would like it, but he finished well, so hopefully that’s a good sign to come. He’s getting better, more comfortable in the defensive zone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I think playing at the USHL level, you probably can get away with more stuff, whether it’s circling a little bit too much, but he did a better job of understanding, getting to his spots and trying to build offense from playing good defense.”<\/p>\n
Lawrence had six points (two goals, four assists) in five games for sixth-place Canada at the 2026 IIHF Under-18 World Championship.<\/p>\n
“Tynan is an above-average skater, above average skill, above average shot,” Canada U-18 coach Drew Bannister said. “He’s highly competitive, quiet, but you could tell he’s extremely motivated. He was a pivotal role guy for us, played first-line center, played on the power play.”<\/p>\n
Perhaps most notable late in the season with the Terriers was his ability to finish checks on the forecheck, drive the middle lane and turn 50-50 battles into sustained offensive-zone time. His production rose and what stood out was how he created chances rather than waiting for them.<\/p>\n
“I feel like a big thing was just getting comfortable coming into a new team, kind of learning,” Lawrence said. “Each player is different, they all have their own skill set and play a certain way, so you have to read off that in order to build chemistry … that’s what translates to the ice. Whether it’s getting close with all the guys off the ice or practicing with a bunch of the guys a lot, I feel like that was important and it really helped out a lot.”<\/p>\n
Marr said Pandolfo deserves credit for how he managed Lawrence upon his arrival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawrence had five points (one goal, four assists) in his last five games at BU this season, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-733810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}