{"id":30220,"date":"2022-02-15T01:56:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T06:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=30220"},"modified":"2022-04-01T17:54:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T21:54:42","slug":"mens-hockey-terriers-win-beanpot-for-first-time-since-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2022\/02\/15\/mens-hockey-terriers-win-beanpot-for-first-time-since-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Hockey: Terriers win Beanpot for first time since 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By Owen Gund<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Boston University Terriers ended their seven-year Beanpot title drought in a thrilling 1-0 victory over the three-time defending champion Northeastern Huskies. Sophomore forward Dylan Peterson scored the game-winning goal with 2:48 to go in the game. The Terriers will taste the beans for the 31st time in Beanpot tournament history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI\u2019m really happy for our team. I\u2019m really happy for our seniors,&#8221; Terrier head coach Albie O\u2019Connell said after the game. &#8220;We\u2019ve got a few fifth-years that stuck around to be in a game like this. Now that they got an opportunity to win it, it\u2019s amazing.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Northeastern head coach Jerry Keefe said his team got outplayed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe better team tonight won. We didn\u2019t deserve to win that game,\u201d Keefe said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both teams played a tight game in the opening five minutes, and most shots on goal came from low-danger areas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roughly seven minutes into the first period, the Huskies got the game\u2019s first grade-A scoring chance on a 2-on-1 opportunity, but BU forward Jay O\u2019Brien and netminder Vinny Duplessis sacrificed their bodies to keep the game scoreless.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jay O\u2019Brien with the save of the Beanpot (so far) on Tyler Spott: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H1iyls5xDb\">pic.twitter.com\/H1iyls5xDb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Evan Marinofsky (@EvanMarinofsky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvanMarinofsky\/status\/1493391457310412802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A gasp could be heard throughout TD Garden after the play, and the scoring chances picked up from then on. BU freshman defenseman Ty Gallagher hit the crossbar with a turnaround shot. Four minutes later, the Huskies had a 4-on-2 opportunity broken up by Terrier junior defenseman John Copeland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both teams took back-to-back penalties in the final two minutes of the first period, and the opening stanza came to an end with the score level at zero.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fireworks picked up immediately after the second period began. The opening five minutes featured fine stretches of up and down action with few whistles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Terriers spent most of the second period in the Northeastern end, but Duplessis made three notable stops in the final 10 minutes of the middle period to keep the score tied. He stoned Gunnarwolfe Fontaine on a partial break, robbed Sam Colangelo on a 3-on-2, and denied Aidan McDonough on a quick shot off an offensive zone face-off.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cVinny\u2019s a competitor,&#8221; O\u2019Connell said. &#8220;If you watch how he preps for practices, games, how much work he puts in, he\u2019s really focused.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Huskies weathered a late second period push from the Terriers to keep the score even heading into the final frame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Terriers came out in the third period with their top two lines shuffled, and O\u2019Connell liked what he saw from the switch up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI thought it helped. It gave us a little bit of momentum. It got a couple of offensive guys on different lines. That line is pretty offensive-minded. So I think we wanted to switch that up and get some guys that play a little bit of defense on those lines too,\u201d O\u2019Connell said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">O\u2019Connell\u2019s defensive strategy immediately worked, as it took the Huskies nine minutes to register their first third-period shot on goal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the final 10 minutes, BU picked up their pace of play and had several long shifts in Northeastern\u2019s end, but freshman netminder TJ Semptimphelter stifled several Terrier chances and controlled his rebounds well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTJ was great for us,&#8221; Keefe said. &#8220;He gave us a chance to win that game. He\u2019s given us a chance every time he\u2019s gone in the net.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He could only do so much.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just inside the final three minutes of regulation time, the Terriers finally cracked Semptimphelter when Peterson buried a backdoor feed from junior forward Jamie Armstrong on a 2-on-1. Peterson poked the puck just over the outstretched left pad of Semptimphelter to give the Terriers the 1-0 lead.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THE TERRIERS ARE ON TOP WITH SECONDS TO GO <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WAZ37flkUb\">pic.twitter.com\/WAZ37flkUb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NESN (@NESN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NESN\/status\/1493426574493954048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI felt like nothing I\u2019ve ever felt before,&#8221; Peterson said immediately after the game. &#8220;My heart has been going a million miles an hour since that moment.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Huskies controlled the puck in the BU zone for almost the entirety of the final two minutes, but Duplessis held off Northeastern\u2019s late barrage of shots to help BU secure the championship victory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe knew he was going to be great for us, and he was, and I\u2019m so happy for him,\u201d Peterson said of Duplessis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Terriers have now secured Boston\u2019s bragging rights, but more important games remain on the schedule. They will have this weekend off before a pivotal home and home against the rival Boston College Eagles. The first game of that series is on Friday, Feb. 25, and the puck drop is set for 7:30 p.m. from Conte Forum in Chestnut Hill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured Image: Sophomore forward Dylan Peterson, who scored the game-winning goal late in the third period, hoists the Beanpot in celebration on Monday, Feb,. 14, 2022. Photo by Patrick Donnelly.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Owen Gund The Boston University Terriers ended their seven-year Beanpot title drought in a thrilling 1-0 victory over the three-time defending champion Northeastern Huskies. Sophomore forward Dylan Peterson scored the game-winning goal with 2:48 to go in the game. The Terriers will taste the beans for the 31st time in Beanpot tournament history.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18643,"featured_media":30221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1026,1028,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30220"}],"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\/18643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31027,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30220\/revisions\/31027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}