These dogs just don't want to make it easy on themselves.
Northeastern and Boston University have split the first two games of the Hockey East quarterfinals and will play the deciding game 3 Sunday night at Agganis Arena. The Huskies of NU took the opening game of the series 4-2 on Thursday night, and BU evened the series up with a 5-2 win on Friday night.
On Thursday, Northeastern took advantage of some solid play in the last few minutes of the first period and the first few minutes of the second period to build an insurmountable 4-1 lead. The game was tied at 1-1 until the Huskies rattled off 3 goals from 1:55 left in the first 8:42 in the second to more or less put the Terriers away. Ryan Ruikka scored his second goal of the season to bring the game to 4-2, but the Terriers couldn't take advantage of some powerplays on the stretch and the Huskies pulled out the win.
Friday night was a much different story. After letting NU take a 1-0 lead only 3:25 into the first period, the Terriers scored 3 goals in under 7 minutes (Ruikka, Nieto, Gilroy) and never looked back. The Huskies brought the game to 3-2 late in the second period on a Jamie Oleksiak tally, but two 3rd period goals by senior Joe Pereira (one being an empty netter) shut the door on Northeastern.
Game 3 will take place Sunday night at 7 pm to decide who heads to the Garden for the semifinals. I'll put up highlights and press conferences as they come, so check back for those.
THURSDAY NIGHT
HIGHLIGHTS
FRIDAY
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