BOSTON - Four different Terriers found the back of the net but the No. 5 Boston University men's ice hockey team dropped a 5-4 overtime decision to No. 11 Michigan on Saturday night in front of a sold-out crowd at Agganis Arena.
BU (4-3-0) led on three different occasions, including with 8:12 remaining in regulation, but Michigan (5-2-1) answered back each time before Jackson Hallum completed a hat trick with 1:50 to play in overtime.
Freshman Alex Zetterberg notched a goal and an assist for the first two-point night of his collegiate career while junior Quinn Hutson recorded a pair of assists. Sophomore co-captain Shane Lachance and junior Devin Kaplan both lit the lamp, as did senior Matt Copponi, who scored his first goal as a Terrier. Freshmen Kamil Bednarik, Sascha Boumedienne and Cole Eiserman, junior co-captain Ryan Greene and sophomore Tom Willander each added one assist apiece. Senior Mathieu Caron made 19 saves.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Evan Werner opened the scoring at 11:43 of the first but the Terriers responded just 2:50 later. Bednarik won an offensive-zone draw and Hutson bumped the puck to Lachance who zipped it over Cameron Korpi's left shoulder for his second goal of the season.
- Copponi then put BU in front with just six seconds remaining in the frame. Zetterberg skied the puck out of his own zone towards the Michigan blue line. Eiserman won a battle to retrieve the puck and get it to Copponi, who toe dragged past a defender before backhanding the puck past Korpi.
- Jackson Hallum equalized just 31 seconds into the middle frame, but Zetterberg regained the Terriers' lead at the 4:48 mark. Greene and Hutson combined to force a turnover at the half-wall, with Hutson dishing the puck to Zetterberg in the slot. The puck took a slight deflection off a Michigan player's skate, but Zetterberg reached back to collect the puck and slide it through his legs and onto his forehand before roofing a shot from point-blank range.
- Caron made a sensational stop at the buzzer to keep the Terriers up by a goal entering the third period.
- The Wolverines scored at the 10:12 mark of the third to level the score at 3-3, but Kaplan restored the Terriers' one-goal edge just 1:36 later. Boumedienne slid the puck over to Willander, who then slid the puck across the zone to Kaplan at the left post. The junior deposited the puck into a wide-open net for his second goal of the season.
- Michigan once again tied the game with a power-play goal at 12:40.
- In a back-and-forth overtime, Copponi had the Terriers' best opportunity when he dangled through two defenders before putting his shot over the net.
- Hallum won the game on a 2-on-1 when he converted a pass from Garrett Schifsky.
GAME NOTES
- Lachance (2g, 5a), Eiserman (5g, 2a) and Hutson (1g, 6a) are all tied for the team lead with seven points apiece.
- Willander has recorded a point in six of his first seven games this year.
- This was the first time all season the Terriers were held scoreless on the power play, as they went 0-for-2 with the man advantage.
- BU outshot Michigan, 28-24.
UP NEXT
- BU will return to conference play next weekend when the Terriers face No. 20/19 UMass Lowell in a home-and-home series.
- The Terriers will begin the two-game set by hosting the River Hawks on Friday (Nov. 8) at Agganis Arena.
