By: Jake Reiser<\/p>\n
On Friday night in Game 1 of the Hockey East Quarterfinals, the No. 11 University of Massachusetts Lowell Riverhawks outlasted the No. 8 Boston University Terriers, 3-2.<\/p>\n
After a lot of jockeying in the Hockey East standings in the last regular season weekend and a BU sweep of Amherst, the Terriers looked to quell a rested Riverhawks squad and a team that had only two home losses all season. Despite a sizeable shot margin in the third period, 18-6 in favor of Boston University, Kevin Boyle all but shut down BU\u2019s final period attack in Lowell\u2019s victory.<\/p>\n
The first period saw two Terrier power plays, stemming from an Adam Chapie trip and a Tyler Mueller high-sticking call. Despite six shots on the man advantage, none would trickle through the Riverhawks netminder. BU would need to kill a penalty of their own, a tripping on Robbie Baillargeon, and the PK unit came up big then.<\/p>\n
Boston University struck first with a Jakob Forsbacka-Karlsson goal 6:22 into the second period. On a wrap around play, Brandon Fortunato dumped the puck low to Danny O\u2019Regan. JFK slid low, then out into the middle of the face-off dot to the right of Boyle. O\u2019Regan found a passing lane to the freshman from Stockholm, Sweden, and he slipped a shot through the five hole of Boyle to put the Terriers up 1-0.<\/p>\n
On a Doyle Somerby hitting from behind, the shorthanded group for BU lost Joe Gambardella in the fray, who backhanded a rebound shot from C.J. Smith through Terrier goaltender Sean Maguire.<\/p>\n
Boston University erased a Charlie McAvoy charging call that came with some contention, after it was thought a penalty was called on Lowell just seconds earlier. The score remained tied through the second intermission.<\/p>\n
Lowell took the lead in the third, when Michael Louria cut to the middle of the ice 1-on-3 and shot a puck, which deflected off the stick of BU defenseman Brandon Hockey and dipped under Maguire\u2019s blocker.<\/p>\n
On a Matt Grzelyck slash to stop a breakaway, a one-touch pass by Smith found Chapie wide open for a one-timer to the right of Maguire.<\/p>\n
Just 33 seconds later, the Terriers answered when Grzelyck\u2019s own shot deflected off the right hand of Mueller and past Boyle.<\/p>\n
Coach David Quinn pulled Maguire with 1:39 to go, and despite three shots, Boyle didn\u2019t give up any rebounds en route to a 3-2 Riverhawks win in Game 1.<\/p>\n
The two squads take to the ice for Game 2 of their quarterfinals match-up at 7:00 p.m. at the Tsongas Center in Lowell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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