12 January

1985: Boston University won a 1-0 forfeit victory over Michigan Tech at Walter Brown Arena. With the Terriers leading 5-1, Michigan Tech coach Jim Nahrgang took his team off the ice with 7:24 remaining in the second and when they did not return in the allowed three minutes the forfeit was declared by referee Bob Quinn.

BU started walk-on goalie Bob Deraney, who had only played one previous game, due to injuries to both Terry Taillefer and Peter Fish. Deraney stopped all 19 shots he faced in the first as the Terriers took a 2-0 lead. Ed Lowney buried a 20-footer at 5:07 and then scored again at 17:37 on the powerplay when Scott Shaunessy stopped a clearing attempt by the Huskies and directed the puck to Lowney, who blistered an easy 15-footer.

Michigan Tech closed it to 2-1 just 52 seconds into the second period when Chris Cichocki scored on a 35-footer from the right side. That was it for Tech as BU took control of the game. First Tom Ryan scored at 4:54 after he received a pass from a prone Chuck Sullivan. Then Shaunessy scored from in tight and finally John Cullen scored on a 5-3 at 9:22 of the second.

Shaunessy and Huskies goalie Darryl Pierce started mixing it up in front of the net and referee Quinn called a five-minute high-sticking major and double minor for roughing on Pierce and double minor for roughing on Shaunessy at 12:36. Nahrgang then pulled the Huskies off the ice, forfeiting the game.

After the game Nahrgang stated he was afraid that the game could get out of hand and some player might be hurt. He also said that the game was not being called the same as the Friday night game and it bothered him that Hockey East used different officials for the two games.

Terrier coach Jack Parker said that in all his years he had never seen anything like it.