Despite going down early, the Boston College men’s hockey team ended to absolutely destroying UMass in tonight’s Hockey East semifinal and will face the winner of BU/UMass. The Eags defeated the Minutemen by a score of 8-1.
The Minutemen scored first, getting one past Jacob Fowler with 13:27 to go in the first period. The Eagles went on the first power play of the game under a minute later, and Ryan Leonard grabbed a rebound to score and tie the game at 1.
With 5:26 to go in the first, UMass challenge for a major penalty and Mike Posma was sent to the box for 5 minutes. The Eagles had a fantastic penalty kill and the period ended tied at 1.
Just about 5 minutes into the second period, Gabe Perrault, who returned to the ice tonight after missing a chunk of games with an injury, scored from behind the net to put BC up 2-1. BC quickly took a 3-1 lead as Cutter Gauthier set up an absolutely perfect chance for Andre Gasseau.
With just under 4 minutes to go in the second period BC took a 4-1 lead as a Will Smith shot bounced in off the UMass goalie. Seconds later, Gauthier scored his first of the game to make it 5-1.
Exactly 3 minutes into the third period, Aram Minnetian scored with an absolute rocket to increase BC’s lead to 6-1. Just over 2 minutes later Perrault scored his second of the game to make it 7-1 BC, and with 2 and a half minutes to go Gauthier got his second of the game for a final score of 8-1 BC