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.