30 March

1995: In the NCAA Final Four semifinal in Providence, Terriers erupt for four third period goals to skate past Minnesota, 7-3. Captain Jacques Joubert and Doug Wood scored in the first period. Matt Wright gave BU a 3-2 lead in the second, but the Gophers knotted the game at three. Bob Lachance scored the go-ahead goal in the final period, followed by goals from Chris O'Sullivan, Shawn Bates and Mike Sylvia. Derek Herlofsky, a Minnesota native, turned asside 30 Gopher shots.

1990: BU's remarkable post-season run came to an end with a 3-2 loss to Colgate in the NCAA semifinals. BU, led by captain Mike Sullivan and Joe Sacco, had won three best-of-three series, each time losing the first game before winning the next two: Northeastern in the Hockey East quarter-finals, then North Dakota and Michigan State (in E. Lansing) in the NCAA tournament.

25 March

1978: Boston University won its third national championship in the first all-East final since BU's 4-0 shutout of Cornell in 1972. The Terriers defeated arch-rival Boston College, 5-3, in the first ever NCAA tournament meeting between the schools. BU was led by freshman Mark Fidler, who registered a 30-goal season, and three future Olympic gold medalists, Dave Silk, Jack O'Callahan and Jim Craig. After Fidler scored 38 seconds into the game, BC's Joe Mullen and Bobby Hehir put the Eagles on top. Goals by Silk and Tony Meagher restored BU's lead. Meagher's second and Fidler's second extended the lead to 5-2 before BC added a final tally. Craig stopped 28 shots while BC's Paul Skidmore had 31 saves. The win capped a 30-2 season for BU, which had won its first 21 games before falling to Yale.

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24 March

1990: In game 2 of its best-of-three NCAA quarterfinal with Michigan State, BU rebounded for a 5-3 win to knot the series at one apiece. The Terriers got goals from Captain Mike Sullivan, Shawn McEachern, Tony Amonte, Ed Ronan, and Phil von Stefenelli in the game played at Munn Arena in East Lansing. Scott Cashman stopped 23 shots for BU.

23 March

1996: Defending national champion BU won the NCAA regional tournament in Albany, edging Clarkson, 3-2. Chris Drury, Bill Pierce and Mike Sylvia staked the Terriers to a 3-0 midway through the second period. The Knights scored twice in the final period to make it close. Tom Noble had 20 saves for the Terriers.

1991: BU completed a two-game sweep of Michigan in the NCAA quarterfinals with an 8-1 thumping at Walter Brown Arena. (QFs were played on campus at the time). Tony Amonte led the way with a pair of goals while single goals were added by Petteri Koskimaki, Dave Tomlinson, David Sacco, Ed Ronan, Tom Dion and Darin MacDonald. BU scored its eight goals on just 29 shots, while John Bradley shot 21 of 22 Wolverine shots. The sweep avenged a regular-season loss to Michigan, 8-6, also at WBA.

1978: The Terriers met defending national champion Wisconsin in the NCAA semifinal in Providence and came away with a 5-2 win. Dave Silk scored twice and John Bethel, Tony Meagher and Mark Fidler added goals. Co-captain Jack O'Callahan assisted on four of the five goals and Jim Craig had 20 saves.

22 March

1997: Chris Drury's goal at 12:20 of overtime gave Boston University a 4-3 win over Denver in the NCAA East Regional Final in Worcester. The second-seeded Terriers (Clarkson was the #1 seed) had taken a 3-2 lead with 3:19 left in regulation on Shawn Bates' shorthanded breakaway goal. However, the Pioneers forced overtime with an extra-attacker goal by Eric Anderson, beating Michel Laroque with 53 seconds left. In the overtime, skating 3-on-3 Chris Kelleher took a pass from Jon Coleman and fired a shot from the left point. Drury was locked up with Denver defender in front of the net, but gained control and slid the rebound past tournament MVP Jim Mullin and then leaped into the glass in celebration.

Drury's goal was his 37th of the season. BU hadn't won a game all season in which Drury didn't get a point and he'd been held scoreless in regulation. Current associate head coach Albie O'Connell scored the first two goals for BU, which would go on to upset defending champion Michigan in the Frozen Four semis before losing to North Dakota in the final.

20 March

1971: Boston University defeated Minnesota, 4-2, at the Onondaga County War Memorial Auditorium in Syracuse, NY, to win its first NCAA championship. Terrier goalie Dan Brady made 32 saves and was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, while captain and All-American Steve Stirling scored two goals--the second one unassisted--to lead BU to the title. Bob Gryp and Ron Anderson had the other goals. BU finished with a 28-2-1 record and scored a then-record 210 goals while yielding just 60. For the season, the Terriers averaged a 7-2 and had a 40% power play percentage.

The tournament had originally been scheduled to be held at BU’s brand new Walter Brown Arena, but construction delays forced the change in venue. WBA would open the following season.

18 March

1995: Boston University won the final college hockey game played at the old Boston Garden, defeating Providence College, 3-2, to win its 4th Hockey East championship and complete the second leg of what would be the second "triple crown" season (Beanpot, league championship, NCAA title) in Terrier history. PC 's first period goal by Chad Quennville was matched by BU's Ken Rausch. Mike Grier put the Terriers ahead in the second before the Friars knotted the score on a Brady Kramer slapper past a screened Derek Herlofsky. Then, late in the second, Chris Drury muscled his way off the sideboards and passed to Matt Wright, who wheeled, closed on the net and whipped a shot past PC goalie (and tournament MVP) Bob Bell for the game-winner. Bell had 40 saves and Herlofsky, 24. Wright scored the last college goal at the Old Garden; a month earlier, he'd scored the final Beanpot goal at the Old Garden in BU's 5-1 win over BC in the championship game. All three Terrier goals in the HE championship game were scored by walk-on players: Wright, Rausch and Grier.

1972: Five years to the day after losing to Cornell, 4-1, in the 20th NCAA championship game, Boston University returned the favor, shutting out the Big Red, 4-0, to win its second consecutive NCAA title. A then record crowd of 14,995 fans filled the Boston Garden for the 25th NCAA championship to see the top two teams in the East in a rematch of not only the 1967 NCAA championship, but also the ECAC championship of a week earlier (also won by BU). Forward Ron Anderson scored a power play goal in the first period and defenseman Ric Jordan added one power play goal in the second period. Each scored again in the third period. Goalie Tim Regan, who made 39 saves to lead the Terriers to the championship and only allowed one goal in the final two games, was named Most Outstanding Player.

17 March

1950: Boston University, playing in its first Frozen Four, defeated Michigan, 4-3, at the Broadmoor Ice Palace in Colorado Springs. Michigan took a 2-0 lead after the first period, but the Terriers controlled the second period as Dick Kelley scored twice while Jack Garrity and William Jurgelevich each scored once. The Wolverines added a goal in the third, but that was as close as they got as BU goalie Ralph "Ike" Bevins made 34 saves for the win.

15 March

1986: Boston University won its first Hockey East championship by defeating Boston College, 9-4, in front of 6,134 fans at the Providence Civic Center. John Cullen opened the scoring for the Terriers at 4:08 of the first period when he finished off a give-and-go with Clark Donatelli. Just 1:25 later, Peter Marshall doubled the lead when he picked up Brad MacGregor’s rebound and flipped it past Eagle goalie Scott Gordon. Boston College pulled within one while on the powerplay when Doug Brown scored on a rebound at 13:50 of the first.

The Terriers broke the game open in the second period, as they scored five straight goals to take a 7-1 lead after 40 minutes. BU came out fast and Donatelli scored a powerplay goal on a Cullen rebound just 53 seconds into the period. Fifty-five seconds later Marshall got just enough of his stick on a MacGregor rebound to get the puck over the goal line. Scott Shaunessy scored next when he made some nice moves on the Eagles defenders and fired the puck past Gordon’s glove at 6:51. At 8:23 Marshall completed his hat-trick when he shot the puck over Gordon’s stick with a pretty backhand. Finally, Jeff Sveen closed out the scoring in the period when he put the puck through Gordon’s pads at 17:34.

The Eagles attempted to make a game of it in the third period, as Ken Hodge scored at 2:04 to make it 7-2. BC continued to play hard and at 8:58 Scott Harlow put the puck in the net to make it 7-3. The Terriers, however, put a swift end to any BC hopes, as MacGregor scored at 11:11 and Sveen got his second goal of the game just 63 seconds later. The Eagles’ John Devereaux closed out the scoring for the game with his goal at 14:39.

14 March

2003: Boston University outlasted Boston College, 6-5, in double overtime, in the Hockey East semifinals at TD BankNorth Garden. Justin Maiser's second goal (video) sent the game into overtime. He completed his hattrick in the second extra session to win it (video).

1974: In Jack Parker's first year as Terrier head coach (he succeeded Leon Abbott six games into the season), BU reached the Final Four meeting Minnesota in the semifinal. The Gopher's held a 4-2 lead in the third period, but two goals by freshman Rick Meagher--one on a brilliant end-to-rush--tied the score. With regulation time winding down, BU went on the power play, but Mike Polich of Minnesota picked up a loose puck, skated in and beat goalie Ed Walsh for a 5-4 win.

13 March

1976: Boston University overwhelmed Brown, 9-2, to win their third straight and fourth overall ECAC title.

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12 March

1977: Boston University won their fourth straight ECAC title (and fifth in six years) as they defeated New Hampshire, 8-6, to cap off a wild championship weekend that saw 55 goals scored in four games.

The Wildcats struck just 28 seconds into the game when Bob Gould beat Terrier netminder Jim Craig. After one period it was 4-3 for New Hampshire with the difference being Jack O’Callahan’s own goal. In the second the Wildcats outshot the Terriers 21-7 and hit 5 or 6 posts, but Craig only allowed only 2 goals, while UNH’s goalie Mark Evans let in 3 goals on just 7 shots. In the third BU scored the only two goals to secure the win and championship.

Mike Eruzione and Matt Marden each scored twice while Dave Silk, Gary Fay, Bill O’Neill and John Melanson each scored once. Eruzione (2-2-4) and Rick Meagher (0-4-4) topped the scoring sheet with 4 points each, while Craig made 36 saves for the win.

11 March

1972: Boston University won its first ECAC Tournament championship defeating arch-rival Cornell, 4-1, at Boston Garden. The win ended seven seasons of frustration as the Terriers had lost in 5 of the 6 previous semifinals (3 times to Cornell) and once in the championship game (also to Cornell) in 1967. John Danby, Bob Brown, Dave Wisener and Peter Thornton scored for the Terriers, while Dan Brady only allowed Cornell one goal in the victory.



Danby, who netted a hat trick the night before in the semifinal win vs. Harvard, was named the tournament MVP, but according to The Intercollegiate Hockey Newsletter the Terriers won because of defenseman Bob Brown. The reports called him "probably the finest blueliner ever to play in the East" and "the sort of star who affects the play of the entire team."

10 March

1991: Shawn McEachern’s “wonderous dash up the Boston Garden ice to score 2:19 into overtime” (quoting the late, great Boston Globe writer Joe Concannon) gave BU a 4-3 win (video) over Maine and its second Hockey East Tournament championship. The Terriers’ other goal scorers were Tony Amonte, Ed Ronan and Peter Ahola. McEachern, Ahola and goalie John Bradley were named to the All-Tournament team. McEachern, the tournament MVP, finished the season with 82 points and earned first team All-American honors.

In a penalty filled first period (14 penalties were called for 36 minutes: 8-for-24 on Maine and 6-for-12 on BU) the Terriers took the lead at 6:44 while the teams were playing 4-on-4. Petteri Koskimaki pushed the puck to Mark Krys who passed it to Ronan and he shot in into the net off Garth Snow’s pads. In the second period another 8 penalties were called, 3 on Maine and 5 on BU. At 12:27 Mark Bavis went off for crosschecking and the Black Bears needed only 5 seconds to score the equalizer. Jim Montgomery won the face-off in the BU zone and sent the puck into the corner where Jean-Yves Roy won it away from Krys, circled in front of the net and put it into the corner on a low shot that beat Bradley.In the third there were only two penalties, but both resulted in goals that tied up the game. First Maine took a 2-1 lead at 9:22 when Dave LaCouture, who was in front of Bradley, put home a rebound of a shot by Matt Martin at the right point. BU tied it up at 12:01 halfway through a powerplay. McEachern got the puck out of a scramble behind the net and passed it to Amonte, who put it past Snow. The Terrier regained the lead with just 3:15 left in the period. McEachern took the puck and started a rush towards the Maine zone. Ahola jumped into the play and rushed down the left wing, took a pass from McEachern and beat Snow to the near side. Ronan was called for interference 17 seconds later and this time the Black Bears took jus 6 seconds to tie the as Keith Carney shot the puck through traffic to make it 3-all. In overtime Phil von Stefenelli intercepted the puck at the BU blueline and passed it up to Amonte, who was along the boards at the Maine blueline. Amonte made nice pass to McEachern who was in full stride in the middle and he skated around the Maine defensemen, and put a backhander through Snow’s legs to win it 2:19 into the period.

1972: BU avenged its ECAC semifinal loss to Harvard in 1971, by dumping the Crimson, 3-1, in the conference semifinal. Prior to this game, BU had lost six of seven semifinals, including the four previous seasons. Captain John Danby scored all three BU goals and became the first Terrier to record three 20-goal seasons,

9 March

Riding a 12-game unbeaten streak, the 1970-71 Terriers began the ECAC playoffs with an offensive explosion, ripping RPI 11-0, at Boston Arena. Seven Terriers found the back of the net with Don "Toot" Cahoon, now head coach at UMass, scoring the first of his two post-season hattricks. Captain Steve Stirling and Ray Cournoyea each netted a pair while John Danby, Paul Giandomenico, Steve Dolloff and Bob Murray each added a goal. Goalie Dan Brady stopped 28 Engineer shots as BU improved its overall record to 25 -1-1

4 March

1975: Second seeded Boston University needed overtime to defeat seventh seeded Brown, 5-4, at Walter Brown Arena in an ECAC Quarterfinal game matchup. Brown lead most of the game behind a sterling 55-save performance by Kevin McCabe, as the Bruins took a 2-0 lead in the first on a pair of goals by Dave Given. In the second Mike Eruzione got one back for BU, but Brown scored again to lead 3-1 late in the period before Rick Meagher closed it to 3-2 after two. Bill Buckton tied the game at 9:42 of the third, but the Bruins responded and quickly retook the lead, 4-3, on Bill Gilligan’s solo effort. The Terriers tied the game up again when Ken Kuzyk scored with 5:17 left in regulation and sent the game to overtime. Meagher then ended the game at 1:42 overtime on a long shot that eluded McCabe to send the Terriers to the ECAC semifinals for the 10th time in 11 seasons.

3 March

1984: Boston University defeated New Hampshire, 5-2, in the second game of a two-game ECAC quarterfinal series to tie it 1-1 and force a 10-minute mini-game to determine which team would advance to the Garden for the ECAC semifinals. Ten minutes was not enough to determine a winner as the Terriers finally prevailed, 1-0, in overtime.

Less than a minute into the game the Wildcats went on the powerplay, but the Terriers clamped down and did not allow a single shot on goal. BU then took the lead at 4:27 when Tony Majkozak beat Bruce Gillies to the far side from 8 feet out. The Terriers then went on the powerplay, but were unable to score and then the Wildcats went back on the powerplay. This time they scored when Dan Potter put the puck in from the crease at 7:17. UNH took the lead at 11:01 on a 30-footer by Shane Skidmore that went through the 5-hole of Cleon Daskalakis. Cesare Carlacci tied the game at 16:41 when he put home a rebound.

The game stayed tied until midway through the third despite a number of great chances by both teams. BU finally retook the lead on a powerplay goal by John Cullen, who scored from 30 feet out after a face-off win by the Terriers. Denis LaGarde made it 4-2 when scored from 10-feet out at 13:47. LaGarde scored again to seal the win for BU and force the mini-game.

In the mini-game the Terriers pressured the Wildcats the entire ten minutes, outshooting them 8-1, but Gillies was up to the task and so the teams moved on to sudden-death overtime. Brad MacGregor finally ended it when he beat Gillies at 1:33 to win the mini-game and series and propelled the Terriers into the ECA semifinals for the final time.

2 March

1948: Boston University defeated Middlebury, 5-4, in a regulation 10-minute overtime at Boston Arena. With the win the Terriers clinched the New England Intercollegiate Hockey League regular season title for the second consecutive season and the top seed in the new league tournament (which was being held for the first time).

1 March

1978: Boston University pounded Harvard, 7-1, to win their first Beanpot in three years in the Blizzard delayed championship game. The Terriers came out and relentlessly attacked the Harvard goal in the first period. BU took a 2-0 lead after one, but if it were not for Crimson goalie Jack Hynes it could have been much worse. Jack O’Callahan scored at 4:17 on the powerplay when he fired the puck from just inside the blueline in the middle. Mickey Mullen then put in his own rebound at 7:12 on a 3-on-2 break.

Mullen scored again at 3:18 of the second after mucking in the corner and passing the puck back to Bill LeBlond who shot it towards the goal and it deflected in off Mullen, who had gone to the net. The Crimson tried to staunch the Scarlet attack as Rick Benson won a face-off and wristed a shot past Jim Craig to make it 4-1 and then almost scored another on a deflection 15 seconds later. Mullen completed his hat trick less than two minutes later when he tapped in a rebound of another LeBlond shot. Dick Lamby then scored twice 31 seconds apart early in the third and LeBlond finally scored later in the period for the 7-1 final. All that was left was a brawl that erupted with 3:36 remaining in the game.

29 February

1928: Boston University shutout Boston College, 5-0, at the Arena. Sydney Silberberg played 2½ periods before being relieved by backup netminder Burton Grodberg who played the last ½ of the third period. Holmes Whitmore scored a hat trick, the first by a Terrier against the Eagles, while Charles Viano and Benjamin Currier scored the other goals.

28 February

1991: Boston University easily won their single elimination Hockey East quarterfinal game against Merrimack, 7-1, at Walter Brown Arena. Doug Friedman started the scoring at 3:36 of the first when his shot glanced off Merrimack goalie Yannick Gosselin’s glove into the net. David Tomlinson doubled the lead less than two minute later when he took Ed Ronan’s pass and beat Gosselin to the near side. Tony Amonte scored at 13:01 when went behind the net, passed back to Peter Ahola, then took the return pass and put it into the net. Keith Tkachuck made it 4-0 when he gathered up a loose puck out of traffic and banged it home with 1:40 left in the first.

There was no scoring in the second, but there was a scrum at 12:15 when 3 Warriors and 3 Terriers mixed it in front of the BU bench and then Gosselin decided to join the party and high-stick Tomlinson on the head. The 4 Merrimack players received 6 penalties for 12 minutes and the 3 BU players received 4 penalties for 8 minutes.

Tomlinson scored at 2:28 of the third and the period then remained scoreless until a final flurry of goals late in the game. Shawn McEachern scored at 15:49 and just 28 seconds later John Barron beat Scott Cashman to ruin the shutout. Just under two minutes later Chris McCann scored with 1:45 remaining in the game for the final 7-1 score. For the game Cashman made 18 saves of the win while Gosselin made 32 saves in the loss.

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2009: Boston University defeated Northeastern, 2-1, in the Hockey East quarterfinals at Walter Brown Arena. Three hundred and eight fans watched as the team won the first playoff game in the program’s four year history. With the win BU advances to the Hockey East Championship for the second consecutive season, where they will face Boston College in the semifinals.

The Terriers stormed the Huskies net in the opening period, out shooting NU 16-5 but were held at bay until late in the period by Florence Schelling. Gina Kearns finally beat Schelling at 17:49 when she knocked in a rebound to give BU a slim 1-0 lead after one. It was the first post-season goal in the program’s history and it was also Kearns’ 50th career goal as she became the first 50-goal scorer in the program’s history.

In the second the shots were even, 14-14, but it was the Huskies who scored the lone goal of the period when Missy Elumba put in a rebound at 14:33 of the period. In the third the defenses for both teams stepped up and as there were only 11 shots (BU 7, NU 4) combined in the period. Jenelle Kohanchuk scored the game winner unassisted at 12:47 as she put the puck under the crossbar on the right side. Allyse Wilcox was solid in net making 22 saves while Schelling was wonderful making 35 saves in the loss.

27 February

1990: Boston University defeated Boston College, 4-2, at Walter Brown Arena in the final game of the regular season in front of 3,340 fans. David Tomlinson opened the scored at 5:26 of the first when he received a nice pass from Tony Amonte and beat Eagle’s goalie Scott LaGrand. Just 2:31 later Ed Ronan doubled the lead when he put in the rebound of a Tomlinson shot that LaGrand had made a wonderful save on but was unable to control the puck. Alexandre Legault made it 3-0 when he scored from the left point on the powerplay 1:41 after BU’s second goal. The Eagle’s finally got a goal at 13:45 of the first when David Emma scored from a scramble.

The second period was scoreless, as the Terriers killed off four Eagle powerplays. However, BU lost captain Mike Sullivan as he was checked hard to the ice and had to assisted from the ice. He was taken to University Hospital where he was checked out and it was found he had a badly sprained left ankle. The Eagles scored 59 seconds into the third when Bill Nolan beat Scott Cashman on a two-on-one break with Ted Crowley. That was as close as BC would get and at 9:40 Joe Sacco put home a rebound of a Legault shot to close the door.