2 January

2005: Boston University played the 528th and final men’s ice hockey game at Walter Brown Arena. The visiting Minnesota Golden Gophers won the game, 2-1, becoming only the second of 42 college teams to have a winning record [4-3] against the Terriers in the rink. With the loss BU ended with a 362-129-37 record in 34 seasons of playing home games at WBA.

Gino Guyer opened the scoring in the first at 7:19 with the assists going to Barry Tallackson and Kris Chucko. Then, with just four seconds to play in the period, Danny Irmen scored when he tipped in a rebound from the right of Terrier goalie John Curry. The assists went to Tyler Hirsch and Chris Harrington.

After a scoreless second period the Terriers took advantage of a 5-on-3 powerplay when Brad Zancanaro collected his own rebound to the right of the Gopher’s goalie Briggs and knocked it home at 6:39 of the third. Assists went to John Laliberte and David Van der Gulik. Zancanaro’s goal was the 2,615th scored by the Terriers in Walter Brown, just 15 shy of 1,000 more than they allowed [1,630].

The Terriers, who outshot the Gophers, 10-6, in the final period, came within a cross bar of tying the game with 9:45 to play. Laliberte fired a shot from about 10 feet to the right of Briggs and it rang off the cross bar. The Terriers pulled Curry with 1:21 to play but could not score the equalizer. Curry ended with 29 saves for BU, while Briggs ended with 23 for Minnesota.