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Terriers punched their tickets to the Beanpot Championship game with a
convincing 3-1 win against Boston College at TD Garden. They’ll go for their 31st
tournament title next Monday night against Harvard, a 4-3 winner against
Northeastern in the early game. The win gave BU its first regular-season sweep
of its Commonwealth Avenue rivals since 1994-95.
BU
scored at even strength—Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson—on a power play—Chad Krys—and
shorthanded—Clayton Keller—while goalie Jake Oettinger stopped 23 Eagle shots
to gain his 16th win. The victory raised the team’s record to
19-7-2, tying Union College for most wins in Division 1.
Terriers
dominated the first period, firing 12 shots on goal while limiting their
longtime rivals to just two. Four and half minutes into the game, Patrick
Harper raced down the left side, circled the BC goal and fired a shot that BC’s
Joe Woll saved, but Forsbacka Karlsson was right there to slip the rebound under
Woll.
Daily Free Press photo by Maddie Malhotra
The
Eagles came out firing in the middle stanza but it was BU that found the net
first with a power-play goal. Chad Krys took a pass from Bobo Carpenter, closed
to the top of the left circle and beat Woll high to the glove side for what proved
to be the game-winner. Dante Fabbro also picked up an assist.
The
two-goal lead lasted less than three minutes as BC got on the board when unmarked Austin
Cangelosi converted a rebound for an even-strength goal. That tally ended a streak
of 102 minutes of shutout hockey against the Eagles for Oettinger, who turned
aside 15 shots in the period.
Mid-way
through the period with BC on a power play, Charlie McAvoy head-manned the puck
to Keller at the red line. He sped past
a defender and beat Woll with a backhander for his 14th goal, raising
the lead to 3-1. Keller noted:
“Joe Woll is a guy I’ve played with ever since I was about 10 years old, so I know his game a little bit. I was lucky enough to slide it five hole.”
BU
played a disciplined third period, limiting the Eagles to just five shots—and none
on their one power play of the period. An apparent insurance goal by Ryan
Cloonan on the rebound of a Patrick Curry shot was waived off.
Keller
extended his point scoring streak to 15 games— during which he’s scored 11 goals
and 14 assists—tying the Terrier record held by Jay Pandolfo in 1995-96. Keller’s short-hander was his fourth of the
season, tying Union’s Mike Vecchione for the national lead.
“It’s been a while (2007) since we beat Boston
College in the Beanpot,” Head Coach David Quinn said. “We’ve had three great
games with them. We’ve been fortunate enough to come out on the winning end of
it.”
Carpenter
has had a hand in the game-winning goal in seven of BU's past 10 wins (2g, 5a).
With
assistant captain Nikolas Olsson sidelined indefinitely, junior Brandon Hickey
wore the “A” and will split those duties with Charlie McAvoy for the rest of
the season.
On
four BC power plays (a few were less than two minutes), BU allowed just one
shot on Oettinger, while scoring a short-hander. The Terriers had six man-advantage
opportunities (also a few less than two minutes) and scored once.
●
GoTerriers.com recap
and comprehensive
box score
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Photo Gallery (Rich
Gagnon)
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HockeyEastOnline recap and
video
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Post-game comments: Quinn and Keller/Fabbro
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NESN Beanpot Notes: BU
ends drought vs. BC
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Daily Free Press recap, Timely goals
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SB Nation recap● USCHO recap
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BU Today recap
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WEEI College Blog: Keller
extends point streak
Terriers
meet Harvard in the consolation game of the Women’s Beanpot at Matthews Arena
today. Puck drop is at 4:30 p.m. There will be a free livestream from GONUxstream
●.Go Terriers.com preview
and links
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