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Postgame comments (Jim Madigan - YouTube.com)

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - The Northeastern men's hockey team (2-1, 2-1 HEA) suffered its first loss of the season in front of a sold out crowd (7,884) at Conte Forum on Saturday night in a 3-0 setback to Boston College.

The Eagles struck early in the first period and never looked back on a night in which BC was honored for winning the 2012 NCAA championship.

The game was riddled with penalties but Boston College was the beneficiary on two of its six chances. The Huskies went 0-for-8 on the evening. The Eagles also edged Northeastern in total shots, 27-26.

Senior netminder stopped 24 shots in his 100th-career start at Northeastern while BC's Parker Milner turned aside 26 shots in his second win of the season.

Northeastern earned the first power play of the contest after sophomore assistant captain Ludwig Karlsson created an opportunity be threading BC's blue line and had an opportunity on the goal mouth. Teddy Doherty had no choice but to hook Karlsson down to impede Northeastern's grade-A chance.

Senior Garrett Vermeersch had the best chance on the power play with a quick snap shot from the near post. Milner made the stop and in effort to keep the puck in BC's zone, Vermeersch was hauled off slashing at 3:17 of the first period. On the ensuing exchange, freshman defenseman Colton Saucerman put the Eagles on a lengthy 5-on-3 after a cross check in the far corner at 4:25.

The Huskies penalty-killing unit fended off Vermeersch's penalty, but could not close out Saucerman's infraction after Kevin Hayes drew first blood with a power play tally at 6:16.

Doherty jostled the puck free at the top of Northeastern's zone and quickly shifted to the right dot where Hayes discharged an unattested one-timer snap shot to put Boston College up early, 1-0.

BC's Isaac MacLeod was issued a holding penalty at 7:02, but the Eagles killed it off and Johnny Gaudreau's breakaway at 10:06 doubled up the lead, 2-0.

Northeastern attempted to establish offensive presence in front of Milner, but Pat Mullane poke checked the puck free on BC's blue line where Gaudreau was already in stride and off to the races on Rawlings. Gaudreau deked once and beat Rawlings five-hole on the backhand for the two-goal advantage.

Boston College came out of the second period firing on all cylinders as well and prevented Northeastern from sustaining any kind of possession in the Eagles' zone. Rawlings kept Northeastern in it with a huge stop on Gaudreau at 4:20 on the goalmouth through traffic and kept it a two-goal game.

After sophomore Joseph Manno and Michael Matheson received embellishment and hooking minors, respectively, at 6:17, the Huskies gained a 4-on-3 opportunity when Wey sat down for holding at 7:21. Wey had to cut junior Braden Pimm down from behind on a breakaway to yield NU's opportunity.

Karlsson rifled a shot from the point that bounced off Milner's mask before senior Garrett Vermeersch was robbed point blank by Milner's glove on the right circle midway through the eighth minute of the second stanza.

With about 2:30 to go in the second, Manno tried to ignite Northeastern's offense with strong forechecking that led to an open wrister on Milner, but the BC backstopper was in position to make the stop.

On the ensuing play, rookie Cam Darcy was issued an interference call in NU's end at 18:08. Seconds later, sophomore Dax Lauwers gave the Eagles a two-man advantage at 18:17 after a roughing call to bring out the Huskies' 5-on-3 penalty-killing unit.

Steven Whitney wasted no time and blasted a one-time missile from Gaudreau in between the circles over Rawlings' glove for the 3-0 cushion at 18:32.

Despite a couple power play chances for each squad in the third, neither team found the back of the net. Northeastern registered several shots on Milner late in the third, but the Huskies could not beat Milner as the Eagles settled on the 3-0 win.

Northeastern stays on the road and looks for its first win in Durham, N.H., since Nov. 16, 2007, when the Huskies pay a visit to the Whittemore Center for a Friday night game at New Hampshire on Oct. 26 at 7 p.m.