BU and Lowell meet for the Hockey East tournament championship tonight at 7 p.m. The game will air on NESN in New England and on NBC SN nationally.
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617.353.3008.#3 Terriers return to the Hockey East championship game after scoring four unanswered goals to defeat New Hampshire, 4-1 at TD Garden. BU received goals from senior assistant captain Cason Hohmann, freshman Chase Phelps and freshman Jack Eichel, who scored twice—the second an empty netter. Junior Matt O’Connor was a wall in net, stopping 32 UNH shots for his 21st win this season.
Photo Credit: Maya Devereaux
UNH got the scoring going at 14:34 of the first on a d-zone turnover and Tyler Kelleher’s partially-fanned shot that fooled O’Connor. Minutes later, on a delayed penalty to the Wildcats, Hohmann converted a sharp angle shot after taking a pass from junior captain Matt Grzelcyk, with freshman John MacLeod also assisting.
Photo Credit: Steve Babineau
BU took the lead halfway through the second period when Phelps backhanded home a rebound after sophomore Nick Roberto had carried the puck from behind the net to put a shot on goal. Mike Moran also had a helper.
After
BU successfully killed three penalties—two in the second period and another
early in the third, Eichel extended BU’s lead tapping home the puck after senior
assistant captain Evan Rodrigues’s shot hit the right post. With three minutes
remaining, UNH pulled goalie Danny Tirone, who had stymied numerous BU scoring
attempts throughout the game, including two breakaways by freshman AJ Greer, an
Eichel wrap-around and a goalmouth shot by junior Matt Lane. Rodrigues stole
the puck in the BU end, worked his way past the red line and wristed a shot that hit the
same right post of the empty net. Again, Eichel was there to cash in the loose
change and close out the scoring.
With
his two goals, Eichel has 63 points, just two behind BU’s all-time freshman
record and the most by any NCAA freshman since 1998-99. During his current
11-game points streak, Eichel has 23 points (7G, 16A).
The
win was BU’s 24th of the season and when the smoke had cleared from
the day’s playoff games, the Terriers were in the #3 spot in the Pairwise
Rankings. BU is 12-2-2 in its last 16 games.
Eichel
and Hohmann dominated in the face-off circles, combining to win 27 of 41 draws.
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Post-game comments: Quinn;
Hohmann & O’Connor
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Boston Hockey Blog: Pluses & Minuses
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HockeyEastOnline recap
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WEEI College Blog recap
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USCHO recapLooking ahead
2015 recruit Robert Carpenter scored his co-league-leading
30th goal for Sioux City as the Musketeers doubled up Sioux Falls,
6-3. 2016 recruit Kieffer Bellows scored his 29th goal for the
Stampede.
2015 recruit Jordan Greenway and 2016 recruit Clayton
Keller each scored a goal, while 2015 recruit Charlie McAvoy registered an
assist and was +5 in the NTDP U18s’ 11-3 thumping of Lincoln.
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