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,