Two scenarios lied ahead of Saturday night\u2019s game between No. 8\/6 Boston University and Northeastern University. If BU prevailed, they would advance to the Hockey East semifinals at TD Garden. If Northeastern came out on top, a decisive game three would be needed. Luckily for the Terriers, their late drama came out and gave them another 3-2 victory. Chad Krys scored the game winning goal on a power play late in the third, while Jake Oettinger stood large, making 24 saves in the match.<\/p>\n
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This game was as identical to last night as it could be, with Northeastern getting out to a 2-0 lead in front of Ryan Ruck. First, Biagio Lerario nabbed his first collegiate goal, a bar-down shot over Oettinger not even three minutes into the game. Then as a Chase Phelps holding minor expired, Matt Filipe found Nolan Stevens parked right in front of Oettinger, and the younger Stevens brother tipped the pass home.<\/p>\n
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Once again like Friday night, a second period power play goal by the Terriers brought life back into Agganis Arena. On the rush, Clayton Keller slid down the left wing while Jakob Forsbacka-Karlsson broke coverage to crash the net. Keller\u2019s pass found JFK\u2019s stick, which tipped the puck high over Ruck\u2019s blocker shoulder to put BU on the board. Coach David Quinn lauded his power play as of late, scoring goals in both games this weekend.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThis time of year, your year stats don\u2019t matter. It\u2019s what you\u2019re doing right now, how good is your power play right now. We may be 23rd<\/sup>, 22nd<\/sup> in the country, I could care. I want to know how we look right now, and right now, our power play looks good and we\u2019re being productive,\u201d Quinn said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Next, an upperclassman evened the score early in the third frame. Coming into the offensive zone 3-on-3, JFK made a pass to Nick The senior Roberto, who skated into open space just above the slot. Still gliding to change the angle, Roberto\u2019s snapper beat Ruck, tying the game at 2.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The late game luck for the Terriers found its way back into the narrative. Garret Cockerill took a hooking call at 18:26, and with just 24.9 to go, Chad Krys swiped a rebound to bulge the twine and give Boston University the lead for good.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cWe can\u2019t keep playing with fire the way we have been the last few weeks, but\u2026I certainly like some of the characteristics we\u2019ve shown the last few weeks,\u201d Quinn said. \u201cBeing mentally tough and playing well in crucial, critical times, which is something you\u2019re absolutely going to have to do this time of year.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Next up for BU, they await the other semifinalists to make it to TD Garden in Hockey East. Boston College swept Vermont, and Notre Dame swept Providence as well. UMass Lowell and New Hampshire play their game three at 4p.m. Sunday, and from there, the semifinal opponents will be set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two scenarios lied ahead of Saturday night\u2019s game between No. 8\/6 Boston University and Northeastern University. If BU prevailed, they would advance to the Hockey East semifinals at TD Garden. If Northeastern came out on top, a decisive game three would be needed. Luckily for the Terriers, their late drama came out and gave them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17192,"featured_media":577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1026,1028],"tags":[1053,1249],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509"}],"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\/17192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22095,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509\/revisions\/22095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}