at New Hampshire 3, Boston College 3
DURHAM, NH - Pat Mullane got free near the goal line and put home a Tommy Cross rebound with five minutes to go and Boston College held on to win Hockey East’s regular season championship. Phil DeSimone, Dalton Speelman and Mike Sislo scored for the Wildcats, who saw a 2-0 lead early in the second period go by the wayside when Cam Atkinson got behind the UNH defense and put the puck behind Matt Di Girolamo to tie the game with 12.4 seconds remaining. John Muse stopped 27 of UNH’s 30 shots to earn his 23rd win on the season, good for first in the conference.
at Providence 5 Merrimack 3
PROVIDENCE, RI - Senior night at Schneider Arena started sour and turned around in a hurry as the Friars’ answered Merrimack’s three-goal first period spurt with four unanswered goals of their own in the second period. Eric Baier scored twice and three Friars had multi-point nights as Providence won a Hockey East game for the first time since they beat Merrimack 2-0 on November 5th, a span of exactly four months. Alex Beaudry stopped 22 Warrior shots to earn the win. Providence finished a point behind UMass and missed the Hockey East playoffs for the third straight season.
at UMass 4, Maine 4
AMHERST, MA - Just when it looked like they were down and out of the Hockey East playoffs, UMass scored twice in 18 seconds early in the third period to tie the game. Brian Flynn scored his 50th career goal and Josh Van Dyk assisted on the first two Black Bear goals of the night as Maine - unable to improve or hurt its standing heading into the Hockey East playoffs - wasn’t able to play spoiler to UMass’ playoff bids. The tie earned the Minutemen a point and put them into the Hockey East playoffs as the eight seed. Dan Sullivan, getting his eighth straight start in net for Maine, stopped 26 shots and Paul Dainton saved 32 Maine shots to preserve the tie.
Northeastern 4 at Boston University 2
BOSTON, MA - Mike Hewkin scored his first career goal and Steve Silva followed it up with his eighth of the season 61 seconds later to give Northeastern a 4-2 lead in the third period at Agganis Arena, and the Huskies held on the rest of the way to earn Clay Witt his second win of the season. Kevin Gilroy scored to make it 4-3 at 17:10, but the Terriers were unable to generate the equalizer as the Huskies ruined BU’s senior night a night after falling at home, 3-2. Witt made 41 saves to earn the win. Northeastern will return to Agganis on Friday as they face BU in the quarterfinal round of the Hockey East playoffs.
at Vermont 4, Lowell 2
BURLINGTON, VT - Sebastian Stalberg scored mid-way through the second period and Rob Madore made 18 saves to hold off the RiverHawks and maintain seventh place in Hockey East heading into the playoffs. Vermont heads to the Whittemore Center on Friday to take on UNH in the quarterfinal round of the Hockey East playoffs.
DURHAM, NH - Pat Mullane got free near the goal line and put home a Tommy Cross rebound with five minutes to go and Boston College held on to win Hockey East’s regular season championship. Phil DeSimone, Dalton Speelman and Mike Sislo scored for the Wildcats, who saw a 2-0 lead early in the second period go by the wayside when Cam Atkinson got behind the UNH defense and put the puck behind Matt Di Girolamo to tie the game with 12.4 seconds remaining. John Muse stopped 27 of UNH’s 30 shots to earn his 23rd win on the season, good for first in the conference.
at Providence 5 Merrimack 3
PROVIDENCE, RI - Senior night at Schneider Arena started sour and turned around in a hurry as the Friars’ answered Merrimack’s three-goal first period spurt with four unanswered goals of their own in the second period. Eric Baier scored twice and three Friars had multi-point nights as Providence won a Hockey East game for the first time since they beat Merrimack 2-0 on November 5th, a span of exactly four months. Alex Beaudry stopped 22 Warrior shots to earn the win. Providence finished a point behind UMass and missed the Hockey East playoffs for the third straight season.
at UMass 4, Maine 4
AMHERST, MA - Just when it looked like they were down and out of the Hockey East playoffs, UMass scored twice in 18 seconds early in the third period to tie the game. Brian Flynn scored his 50th career goal and Josh Van Dyk assisted on the first two Black Bear goals of the night as Maine - unable to improve or hurt its standing heading into the Hockey East playoffs - wasn’t able to play spoiler to UMass’ playoff bids. The tie earned the Minutemen a point and put them into the Hockey East playoffs as the eight seed. Dan Sullivan, getting his eighth straight start in net for Maine, stopped 26 shots and Paul Dainton saved 32 Maine shots to preserve the tie.
Northeastern 4 at Boston University 2
BOSTON, MA - Mike Hewkin scored his first career goal and Steve Silva followed it up with his eighth of the season 61 seconds later to give Northeastern a 4-2 lead in the third period at Agganis Arena, and the Huskies held on the rest of the way to earn Clay Witt his second win of the season. Kevin Gilroy scored to make it 4-3 at 17:10, but the Terriers were unable to generate the equalizer as the Huskies ruined BU’s senior night a night after falling at home, 3-2. Witt made 41 saves to earn the win. Northeastern will return to Agganis on Friday as they face BU in the quarterfinal round of the Hockey East playoffs.
at Vermont 4, Lowell 2
BURLINGTON, VT - Sebastian Stalberg scored mid-way through the second period and Rob Madore made 18 saves to hold off the RiverHawks and maintain seventh place in Hockey East heading into the playoffs. Vermont heads to the Whittemore Center on Friday to take on UNH in the quarterfinal round of the Hockey East playoffs.
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