Providence, Rhode Island – graduate student jack malone (Spring Lake, New Jersey) No. 1 Boston College (33-5-1) advanced to the Frozen Four with a 5-4 victory over Quinnipiac in Sunday's NCAA regional final.new student ryan leonard (Amherst, Massachusetts)
Quinnipiac (27-10-2) took a 2-0 lead early in the second period with two goals, including one on the power play, just 35 seconds apart. BC scored its first goal of the night less than a minute later on a power play of its own.Senior Eamonn Powell (Marcellus, New York) Passed the second year cutter gautier (Scottsdale, Arizona) On the right side, he immediately found Leonard open in front of the net.
The Eagles tied the score midway through the middle frame in his sophomore year. Andre Gasseau (Garden Grove, California) He scored his 12th goal of the season just nine seconds after the Bobcats stopped a power play. Quinnipiac took another lead late in the third, but Boston College answered again with Leonard's second power-play goal of the night.
Quinnipiac took a 4-3 lead just 16 seconds into the third set and held that lead for most of the period.He was a freshman with less than five minutes left. Aram Minnetian (Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey) He scored his third goal of the year, tying the game. After forcing a turnover, Minnetian connected with Gauthier. Oscar Gervik (Sweden, Teby) before receiving the puck again and firing a shot past the goalie.
Malone chased down a loose puck in front of the goal early in overtime and made a shot to lead the Eagles to the Frozen Four.
Scoring
2nd place 1:19 QU Jacob Killan (Travis Treloar, Jaden Lee) – PP
2nd place 1:54 QU Ivari Rasenen
2nd time 2:20 B.C. ryan leonard (cutter gautier, Eamonn Powell) – PP
2nd 11:35 B.C. Andre Gasseau (Oscar Gervik, Lukas Gustafsson)
2nd place 15:59 QU Christophe Filion (Charles-Alexis Legault, Ivari Rassenen)
2nd 17:55 BC ryan leonard (Will Smith, Eamonn Powell) – PP
3rd place 0:16 QU Jacob Quillan (Colin Graf, Charles Alexis Legault) – PP
3 BC 15:16 Aram Minnetian (cutter gautier, Oscar Gervik)
Old Testament 3:06 B.C. jack malone (Colby Ambrosio, Drew Fortescue)
game memo
●BC has a total of 51 wins and 43 losses in the NCAA Tournament.
● BC is 2-4-2 overall against Quinnipiac and 1-1 against the Bobcats in the NCAA Tournament.
● BC is 3-1 in overtime this season and 5-7 in overtime in the NCAA Tournament.
●BC has won 14 consecutive games. It is the first Hockey East team to go 10 or more games unbeaten since UMass' 14-game streak heading into the 2021 national championship.
●If the opponent takes the lead, BC is 7-3-1.
● This is the 14th time this season that BC has scored two or more points on the power play, and in four consecutive games.
●BC's 179 goals are the highest since 2010, when they scored 171 goals.
● Fowler earned his 31st win, the most by a freshman in NCAA history.
● Gasso scored his 12th goal of the season.
● Gauthier assisted on BC's first career goal and reached the 100-career point mark, becoming the 84th player in program history to reach that mark and the first since Logan Hatsuko (2017-21).
● Gauthier (37) and Leonard (30) became the first BC teammates to each score 30 or more goals since Jeff Farkas (33) and Brian Gionta (32) in 1999-00.
● Leonard recorded his eighth multi-goal game of the season, increasing his total to 31 and breaking Brian Gionta's (1997-98) single-season scoring record by a BC rookie.
● Smith recorded his NCAA-leading 46th assist of the season, tying him with Dave Emma (1990-91) for second-most assists in BC history.
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Boston College will play the Frozen Four on Thursday, April 11th against the winner of Michigan vs. Michigan-St.
