Boston College ended its month-long hiatus from Hockey East with a 7-1 beatdown over No. 9 Providence within the opener of a house and residential on Friday evening at Conte Forum.
The Eagles’ effort featured six completely different purpose scorers, a five-goal onslaught within the second interval and 31 saves from freshman goaltender Jacob Fowler, who notched his 14th win of the season.
The Eagles’ final convention match was a 5-4 residence victory over Providence on Dec. 9. The No. 1 ranked Eagles improved to 14-3-1 general, 7-2-1 in Hockey East and can face off towards the Friars on Saturday evening at Schneider Arena. Providence fell to 10-6-2 general and 4-4-2 in Hockey East.
“For your first game back, you are obviously very happy with the score but we know we are going to have to be sharper in their building, especially on our breakouts,” stated BC coach Greg Brown.
Brown had six of the USA Hockey-record seven gamers from the gold medal-winning U.S. group that competed within the IIHF World Junior Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, on the ice towards Providence.
Forwards Cutter Gauthier, Gabe Perreault, Will Smith and Ryan Leonard, defenseman Drew Fortescue and Fowler have been again in uniform. Defenseman Aram Minnetian was serving a one-game suspension for a cross checking incident towards Providence on Dec. 9.
“They had great energy and you could see that,” stated Brown. “We gave them a couple of days off and they practiced Wednesday and Thursday, but the energy and enthusiasm was there and they were excited to come back and play.”
BC eradicated any fears of gathered rust by taking a 1-0 lead on a tic-tac-toe tally 35 seconds into the competition. Gauthier crashed the Friars’ zone alongside the correct boards and fed Andre Gasseau within the excessive slot. Gasseau relayed the puck to Oskar Jellvik, who one-timed it from the left circle for his ninth of the season.
“On the first shift we were hemmed in our zone and scrambling around and Cutter executed a great 3-on-2 to get the goal, which is always the way you want to start,” stated Brown.
BC went 2-0 on a nifty collaboration by the third line at 6:40 of the second interval. Center Will Vote, a freshman from Arlington, pressured a turnover behind the Providence cage and received it heart Jack Malone in entrance. Malone slipped the puck throughout the crease to Jamie Armstrong, who backhanded it by PC goalie Philip Svedeback for his first of the season.
The Eagles went to city on Svedeback with two objectives within the eighth minute of the body. Smith flicked residence a rebound to make it 3-0 along with his ninth at 8:25. BC made it 4-0 on a foul angle shot by Leonard from the underside of the left circle at 8:40.
“The second period felt pretty even and then we had a few pucks that just had eyes and found the back of the net,” stated Brown. “The game was much more even than the score said at the end of the second period.”
Svedeback’s evening ended when Gauthier scored his 14th on a redirect that made it 5-0 at 10:30. Svedeback, a Boston Bruins draft choose, was changed by freshman Marcus Brannman. Vote redirected defenseman Jacob Bengtsson’s slapper to make it 6-0 at 14:05.
Fowler’s bid for his first shutout ended at 5:09 of the third on purpose by Graham Gamache.
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