By: Jake Reiser<\/p>\n
The Battle of the Green Line finally commenced on Friday night, as the Boston University Terrier traveled to Kelley Rink at Conte Forum on Boston College\u2019s campus to take on the Eagles. After a thrilling weekend where BU beat Harvard and UMass Amherst, the Terriers came into the weekend hungry for more against at No. 3 ranked Boston College team.<\/p>\n
The first period consisted of tight wall battles, big hits and only one tally. On Boston University\u2019s second power play of the night, a boarding call against Eagles defenseman Steve Santini, Jakob Forsbacka-Karlsson found the puck in the middle of a slot and wristed a puck over BC starter Thatcher Demko to make it 1-0 Terriers. (Fill in at the end of the game, PP goals\/opps, can find it on the bottom of the second page of the BU notes and update with tonights results).<\/p>\n
What came in the second period was a tremendously different game, and a lot of Terrier penalties to kill. On a BU power play, Danny O\u2019Regan tripped Austin Cangelosi on a breakway, garnering a penalty shot. With a lot of stick handling, Cangelosi put it past Boston University\u2019s starter, Sean Maguire, tying the game. Only 17 seconds later, on a delayed call against Ian McCoshen, the puck slid through a scrum in front and past Demko, the goal to Ahti Oksanen. That goal was the senior\u2019s 100th<\/sup> career point in a Terrier uniform.<\/p>\n Zach Sanford found the twine behind Maguire at 5:18 pulling the puck out of a scrum, catching Maguire down and roofing a backhander top-shelf. BU\u2019s penalty kill had their work cut out for them in the second, first a Doyle Somerby tripping, then a Matt Grzelyck tripping, 22 seconds of an overlap 5-on-3 chance for the Eagles. While the Terriers killed Somerby\u2019s penalty, Colin White wristed one through traffic to put Boston College up 3-2. The second would come to a close with that score.<\/p>\n After a back-and-forth second period, the third would prove to be much faster and quite decisive. At 14:37, Eagles defenseman Michael Kim would storm the BU crease, knocking Maguire over and receiving a goalie interference minor. On that power play, a scrum in front of the net and a sliding Boston University player would end up with a confounding Terrier goal. After some review, it was upheld, the credit to Matt\u00a0Lane.<\/p>\n \u201cThe power play has been pretty good over the course of the last month and a half. Obviously when you get three [power play goals], that\u2019s a great sign,\u201d coach David Quinn said.<\/p>\n But in the end, it was the Boston University penalty kill who couldn\u2019t hold it tight. On a contentious Carpenter tripping call, Ian McCoshen slammed a one-timer through a Miles Wood screen past Maguire for a 4-3 BC lead. Boston College ended the game 2-7 on the power play.<\/p>\n Quinn said, \u201cYou can\u2019t take seven penalties against this team.\u201d<\/p>\n McCoshen added another goal on a chip-shot 175-foot empty netter, sealing an Eagles 5-3 victory.<\/p>\n \u201cA frustrating loss. I think we took a little bit of a step back tonight,\u201d Coach Quinn said. \u201cCertainly not the way we want to play or we need to play if we\u2019re going to have success moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n The rivalry moves to Agganis Arena tomorrow night, where the two teams face off with a 7:00p.m. puck drop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By: Jake Reiser The Battle of the Green Line finally commenced on Friday night, as the Boston University Terrier traveled to Kelley Rink at Conte Forum on Boston College\u2019s campus to take on the Eagles. After a thrilling weekend where BU beat Harvard and UMass Amherst, the Terriers came into the weekend hungry for more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17207,"featured_media":6690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1026,1028],"tags":[1249],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947"}],"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\/17207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}