BURLINGTON, Vt. - No. 2 Boston College completed its weekend sweep of Vermont after skating to a 4-1 victory over the Catamounts on Saturday evening at Gutterson Fieldhouse. Andre Gasseau led all scorers with three points on two goals and one assist. Ryan Leonard and Teddy Stiga both finished with one goal and one assist, while Gabe Perreault tallied two assists. Jacob Fowler made 32 saves between the pipes.
BC improves to 24-6-1 overall and 16-4-1 in Hockey East, while Vermont drops to 11-16-3 overall and 6-12-2 in league play.
Stiga opened the scoring for the Eagles with a short-handed goal through the opening period. Stiga and Gasseau put pressure on the Catamounts in the neutral zone, and Gasseau was able to poke the puck forward to Stiga who went in towards goal and slotted home his shot to put BC in front 1-0.
Boston College doubled its lead later in the period when Leonard passed the puck from behind the UVM goal into the slot where Gasseau was waiting for the first-time slap shot into the top right corner of the net.
The Eagles added two more in the second period to push the lead to four going into the final 20 minutes. Shortly into the middle frame, Perreault found Leonard skating towards goal and Leonard went back-hand around the goaltender for the first goal of the period.
Later in the second, Gasseau scored his second goal of the night when Stiga layed it off perfectly for the quick shot from just behind the right faceoff circle to put the Eagles ahead by four.
The Catamounts got on the scoreboard late in the third with a power play goal from Timofei Spitserov.
SCORING
1st 9:58 BC Teddy Stiga (Andre Gasseau) - SH
1st 14:24 BC Andre Gasseau (Ryan Leonard, Gabe Perreault)
2nd 4:37 BC Ryan Leonard (Gabe Perreault, Aram Minnetian)
2nd 14:40 BC Andre Gasseau (Teddy Stiga, Will Vote)
3rd 17:54 UVM Timofei Spitserov (Duncan Ramsey, Colin Kessler) - PP
GAME NOTES
- The Eagles improve to 11-3-1 in true road games
- Boston College sits atop the Hockey East standings with 47 points with three games remaining
- Gabe Perreault hit the century mark for points with the secondary assist on the first Gasseau goal
- Perreault recorded two assists and now sits second in Division I with 29
- Ryan Leonard is now on a 12-game point streak
- Leonard scored his nation-leading 27th goal of the season
- Andre Gasseau recorded three points for the second-straight game
- This is the second time this season in which Gasseau scored two goals
- Jacob Fowler now has a 22-5-1 record this season
- Teddy Stiga scored his third short-handed goal of the season and the team's seventh
UP NEXT
BC plays New Hampshire in a home-and-home weekend series with Friday's game being played at Kelley Rink before making the trip to the Whittemore Center. Both games will be available to stream on ESPN+, while Friday's game will also be on NESN.
