Photo by Stuart Cahill
Dante Fabbro's third goal of the game, late in the third
period, broke a 3-3 tie, giving BU a 4-3 win against Merrimack in North
Andover. Fabbro’s two first-period goals—sandwiched around a Shane Bowers
tally, had given the Terriers a 3-1 lead after the first 20 minutes before the
Warriors rallied with two power play goals. The teams meet again tonight at Agganis Arena.
The Warriors were first on the board, scoring on the rush
at 4:39 when Brett Seney beat Jake Oettinger to the blocker side from the left
dot. BU got its first power play opportunity at 16:32 and needed just half a
minute to knot the score with Fabbro one-timing a Jordan Greenway pass from behind the goal line for a backdoor tally.
Brady Tkachuk also assisted.
Photo by Matt Dressens
Less than a minute later, BU took the lead when Bowers
bagged his 10th goal on an odd-man rush with Drew Melanson,
following a breakout pass from Cam Crotty. Melanson burst past two defenders in
the neutral zone and slid a pass to Bowers, who closed and backhanded a shot past
goalie Craig Pantano. The three-goal barrage was completed 23 seconds later
when Ty Amonte carried the puck off the half-boards to the high slot and
dropped it to Fabbro whose wrister zipped past Pantano, high to the stick side.
Patrick Curry had the secondary assist. The three BU goals came in a 70-second
span.
Terriers had the territorial and shots advantage (14-8) in
the second period, but the home team claimed the only goal on a power play as
Marc Biega one-timed the rebound of a Cole McBride shot, that Oettinger saved,
into a half-open net.
The Warriors pulled even five minutes into the third
period on another power play as Seney wired a shot from the left dot past a partially-screened Oettinger, again on the blocker side.
The Nashville Predators’ 2016 first-round draft pick
scored the game-winner twenty seconds after a hitting-after-the-whistle dust-up
sent four players to the penalty box. Bowers corralled a loose puck and sent it
to Logan Cockerill in the left corner. The freshman wing moved toward the net,
drawing defenders to him, then backhanded a pass that found Fabbro charging “down
central” and his one-timer flew past Pantano, low to the glove side.
BU head coach David Quinn, who earned his first win in five tries at Lawler Rink, said:
...DANTE'S INFERNO REFERENCES pic.twitter.com/rpStv5fGDf— BartRhett (@BartRhett) January 20, 2018
BU head coach David Quinn, who earned his first win in five tries at Lawler Rink, said:
“We haven’t won here in a long time. We didn’t do it the easy way. We were sluggish in the first, yet we come out with a 3-1 lead, and we’re better in second and lost the period 1-0. The third period we were cautious.”
Addressing
Fabbro's opportunistic and aggressive effort in the offensive end,
Quinn added:
“He’s been battling some injuries for a while. This week of practice put him at ease mentally and he played more confidently tonight. He was a little tentative (last week), just because of the injuries, so this was a big night for him and a big night for us.”
● GoTerriers.com recap and comprehensive box score
● WTBU Sports recap and photo
gallery
● USCHO recap
● Boston Herald recap
● Eagle Tribune recap
Looking ahead
2019 recruit Joel Farabee scored a goal and added two
assists in the NTDP U18s’ 7-6 win against Cedar
Rapids. Farabee now has 39 points (17G, 22A) in 33 games. Fellow recruit Jake
Wise assisted on three goals including the game-winner.
2018 or 2019 Matt Quercia scored his fifth goal of the
season in Sioux Falls’ 5-2 win against Central
Illinois.
2019 recruit Robert Mastrosimone’s two-point night—a goal
and an assist—helped the Chicago Steel to a 6-2 win against Muskegon.
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