By Cary Betagole/DFP Staff
Boston University men’s hockey coach Jack Parker said his team “played not to lose” in the first two periods of Saturday’s home contest against Merrimack College, knowing an empty weekend against two of the league’s bottom dwellers would spell doom in the Hockey East standings.
“I was unbelievably disappointed in my team the first two periods. We looked like we were trying not to lose again thinking, ‘what if we lose to Merrimack? Oh, this would be an awful weekend’,” Parker said.
But junior forward Joe Pereira (1 goal, 1 assist), in just his third game back from hernia surgery, stepped into his role as the quintessential sparkplug to break a 3-3 tie with 8:07 left in the third, and the Terriers (7-10-3, 5-8-2) never looked back en route to a 6-4 win over the Warriors (7-12-0, 4-8-0).
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