19 January

1983: Boston University defeated Dartmouth, 6-5, in overtime, at Walter Brown Arena in front of 2,591 fans. The game was a back-and-forth affair, with the teams taking turns with the lead. BU scored first when Tom O’Regan received a pass from Marc Sinclair and put it in the net. Dartmouth’s Dan Nugent tied it when he picked up a rebound and put it past Terrier goalie Cleon Daskalakis.

In the second Dartmouth’s Bill Flanigan received a penalty at 4:14 to put BU on the powerplay. At 5:41 Terrier Dale Dunbar received a penalty and the two teams played 4-on-4 for 23 seconds before the Big Green’s Doug Hirsch received a penalty giving BU a 4-on-3 powerplay. O’Regan scored his second goal of the game at 6:13 and created a storm over which Dartmouth player should be released from the penalty box. Instead of taking Flanigan, who had 1 second left on his penalty, out of the box, referee John McCarthy released Hirsch, who had 1:51 left on his penalty. Coach Parker went ballistic, but to no avail, and instead of 4-on-4 play for 1:28 and a 23 second BU powerplay, Dartmouth received a 1:28 powerplay. The Big Green were unable to score on the man advantage, but 6 seconds after BU returned to full strength Bruce Cullen tied it at 2-all. Flanigan gave Dartmouth the 3-2 lead at 9:08 when he scored on a Scott Borek rebound on a shorthanded break. The Terriers’ Mark Pierog tied the game again when he cut in front of the net and scored at 11:49. Allen Tabor gave Dartmouth back the lead at 13:42 when he cut around the BU defense and flipped a shot behind Daskalakis. O’Regan complete his hat trick at 15:43 when he took a pass from Peter Marshall and put the puck in the net past Big Green goalie Carey Gandy.

The Terriers retook the lead 47 seconds into the third when a Sinclair’s shot from the side glanced off a Dartmouth stick and through Gandy’s legs. At 6:48 Cullen tied it again when he skated in on another shorthanded situation, went behind the Terrier net, gained control of the puck and swept around to score. With just 3 seconds remaining in regulation Dartmouth had a great chance to win the game when Mark Ardagna cut in on Daskalakis and took a shot that came within inches of going in the net, but Daskalakis came up huge to make the save. In overtime Terrier defenseman George Klapes dropped the puck to O’Regan in the Dartmouth zone and he moved in on Gandy and prepared to shoot when he saw Sinclair busting down the right wing. O’Regan fed the puck across to Sinclair who settled the bouncing puck and then shot it into the net for the winning goal at 3:03.