CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — The RV/RV Northeastern men's hockey team earned a 4-3 overtime win over the RV/No. 20 Boston College Eagles on Saturday night at Kelley Rink.
Senior
Tyler Fukakusa buried the winner for the Huskies (3-2-0, 1-2-0 HEA), who rallied from two deficits against the Eagles (2-4-1, 1-1-0 HEA) to come back and win in overtime.
Along with Fukakusa, sophomore
Jacob Mathieu scored twice in the win and classmate
Amine Hajibi tallied a goal. Sophomore
Giacomo Martino picked up two assists, while senior
Lawton Zacher played a crucial role with 46 saves on 49 shots faced.
The Eagles found their way on the board off a power-play goal 4:20 into the game. Northeastern posted 11 first-period shots in a valiant effort to tie the game, but none came to fruition. On the first faceoff of a 4-on-4 opportunity toward the end of the period, sophomore
Jacob Mathieu found himself all alone in front of BC goaltender Louka Cloutier (20 saves), but his effort found Cloutier's right pad.
The power play provided answers for Northeastern as they scored twice on the man-advantage in the second frame. Cycling the puck, Martino passed it to fifth year
Joaquim Lemay, who dished it to Mathieu. He wound and connected with the puck, driving it over Cloutier's right shoulder and into the cage at 8:29.
Hajibi would propel the Huskies into the lead at 13:20 in the second. A scrum in the left corner resulted in Martino with the puck on his stick. He backhanded it over to Hajibi, whose one-timer found the same spot Mathieu's did.
Boston College would retort with a second power-play goal of its own at 16:39, then just 1:04 later the Eagles buried a rebound retake the lead.
Mathieu tied the game 3:00 into the third period, as his first shot on a 1-on-2 was blocked, but he gathered the rebound and beat Cloutier's blocker. Zacher was repeatedly called into action in the third, and he stood up to the Eagles with 17 saves in the stanza, including three in succession where he was without his stick.
In overtime, freshman
Jordan Tourigny cleared a rebound from in front of Zacher's net and caught two Eagles out of position behind the Huskies' end line. Sophomore
Miguel Marques gathered the puck and charged forward in a 2-on-1 with Fukakusa at his right. Marques fired the puck on cage, where it flubbed off Cloutier and Fukakusa was there to clean up the rebound.
Zacher finished the weekend with 91 saves on 97 shots and topped his career high in saves each night. For the first time in his career, he recorded back-to-back 40-plus save performances.
Next, the Huskies will travel to Holy Cross on Saturday, Nov. 7 for a matchup with the Crusaders at 7 p.m.
