Boston-The Northeast Male Hockey goalkeeper, Cameron Whitehead, increased the East Hockey Tournament in a free for all with the strongest effort of his college career.
The 6-feet-3, 185-pound soup of Orleans, Ontario, recorded 30 savings to raise the number 9 in northeast until a 3-1 annoying victory over the Boston Boston Champion number 1 in the quarterfinals of hockey on Saturday night in Conte Forum.
Whitehead recorded her 13th victory against a team that had scored 121 goals this season. Jacob Fowler of BC, the Hockey East goalkeeper of the year, ended with 17 savings and won his sixth defeat of the season.
“I felt quite well and helps me when the team bought in the play plan and blocks all the features for us,” Whitehead said. “We played with great confidence because we were the only ones we think we would win.”
The Huskies improved until 14-19-3 and 8-14-3 in the League and will assume on Thursday (19:30) at TD Garden in the night part of East Hockey Semifinals.
Meanwhile, Seed 3 Boston University will face Uconn number 4 at the opening semi -final at 4pm
“Obviously, it was a huge victory for this group,” said Jerry Keefe, a Nu coach. “I am very proud of the way they were hooked and played one another, selling and eating bugs and committing to playing a checking game.”
Despite the loss, BC (26-7-2, 18-5-2) is the number 1 team in the country and will remove the first seed when the pairs of the NCAA tournament are announced on Sunday, March 23.
The Eagles advanced to the NCAA title match against Denver last season, so that this group will focus with a renewed vigor between now and the Manchester regional.
“It’s over; We are in Cincinnati, “said BC coach Greg Brown, making his best impersonation from Bill Belichick,” we must forget, but we feel the sting and we will use it. “
The Huskies intended to bring their physical play to the heights, and this was evident five minutes to the opening frame.
While BC improved the time of the area and the passage of the transition, several eagles were at the end of the crushing business at both ends of the ice. BC had a 13-7 lead in the shots at the goal after a period.
“When you play a specialized team like BC, we talk a lot about our checking game,” said Senior Center Ryan McGuire, who scored the final goal. “It means to finish your success everywhere, be on top and play an honest game.”
Whitehead got a great break when sniper Ryan Leonard hit the post at a break at 10:30. The party stood in a situation of 4 to 4 per third time in the period when the BC Center James Hagans (Slashing) and the Nu Left Wing Joe Connor (boarding) issued penalties at 10:59.
The teams had just settled in a uniform strength game when Northeastern reached the 1-0 to 17 of the Junior Cam Lund season at 14:11. Lund took a feed in the neutral area of the Jack Williams center, found an open lane through the high slot and beat Fowler with a wrist shot.
Nu seized the impulse and removed the people from the game in a slow play at 16:20. Christophe Tellier, on the right, hit the shit from the top of the right circle that Fowler stopped, but could not control.
The left wing of the first year, Joe Connor, sailed to the ignition and got the rebound to get the 2-0 with the seventh of the season. Nu Outshot BC, 10-6, in the period.
“Both were great goals, but I thought that JC’s goal gave us a breathing room and gave us more impetus,” Keefe said. “Obviously they were the two big goals, and achieving the first goal was huge, especially in this building.”
The eagles opened the third period with their hair on the fire and a white pillar head was made in the post. Whitehead made a spectacular glove stop in a shot that is staged by the sniper Gabe Perreault from the right circle at 6:38, and the attack never faded.
“In the third period, we all created possibilities and spent time in the offensive area,” Brown said. “But they blocked a lot of shots and proved their team to sell to put it in front of the hucks and, when they passed, their goalkeeper saved.”
Brown pulled Fowler from the match for an additional skater with just over three minutes remaining. The play ended at 17:26, when the first year center, James Hagens, won Whitehead with a wrist shot through the hole for his 10th of the season.
Tellier aggravated the situation of the Huskies by making a penalty with 25.7 seconds on the clock. McGuire sealed the agreement with an empty netter with 2.1 seconds to play.