9 December

1955: Boston University defeated Harvard, 4-3, in overtime at Boston Garden. It broke a 6-game losing streak and 7-game winless streak for the Terriers against the Crimson over the previous three seasons. Captain Jack Murphy scored the game winner just 32 seconds into overtime to give BU the win. The Terriers forced the play for most of the game and head leads of 1-0, 2-1 and 3-2 before Harvard’s Ed Owen tied the game for the third and final time in the second period. Crimson goalie Chuck Flynn was outstanding and kept Harvard in the game as he made 41 saves before letting in the winning goal. The game started out fast as both teams scored twice in the first period for a 2-2 score after one. Scoring got harder after that as each team scored just one in the second and were held scoreless in the third period.


1992: Boston University defeated Boston College, 7-4, at Walter Brown Arena and ended a 5-game winless streak (0-4-1) against the Eagles. Although none of the 3,421 in attendance knew it at the time, it was a harbinger of the Terriers most successful winning streak against the Eagles to date, as BU won 13 straight games against BC, not dropping a point until a 4-4 tie at Conte Forum on 12 January 1996. The Terriers then won the next two games before finally losing to the Eagles, going 15-0-1 over that span.


The Terriers started off fast, as Jacques Joubert scored on the powerplay just 1:43 into the game with Jay Pandolfo getting an assist. A little less than five minutes later the Eagles got the equalizer on a goal by John Joyce, but just 78 second later Co-Captain Kevin O’Sullivan, assisted by Petteri Koskimaki and Mike Bavis, put BU ahead again, 2-1. The Eagles evened the score 2-all at 4:34 in the second when Joyce scored his second goal of the game shorthand. Midway through the period Co-Captain David Sacco, assisted by Mark Bavis, gave the Terriers the lead for good when he put one past BC goalie Josh Singewald. Late in the period Rich Brennan and Jon Jenkins assisted on Jon Pratt’s goal to give the Terriers a 4-2 lead after two.


Stephen Foster scored the eventual game-winning goal 3:41 into the third on an unassisted play. At 7:56 Ron Pascucci scored unassisted on the powerplay for BC to make the score 5-3. Marc Beran cut the Terrier lead to one 2:07 later on an unassisted the Eagles second shorthanded goal of the game. With just 2 minutes left in the game Steve Thornton scored unassisted to give BU a 2 goal lead and Sacco, assisted by Mark Bavis and Kaj Linna, scored an empty net goal 53 second later to ice the victory. For the game Singewald made 30 saves for the Eagles and Derek Herlofsky made 22 for the Terriers.