By Arielle Aronson/DFP Staff
The No. 6 Boston University men’s hockey team earned a trip to the Hockey East Semifinals with a double-overtime victory over the University of New Hampshire Sunday night, but the game was not always a close one.
Just 4:34 into the second period, BU looked as though it was finished as far as the Hockey East tournament was concerned. The Terriers were trailing, 4-1, thanks to four unanswered goals that were capped off by a short-handed Mike Borisenok tally. The goal marked just the second time the Terriers allowed a short-handed score all season.
At that point in the game, BU could not do anything right, including getting a shot on net. BU was being out-shot by a more than 3-to-1 ratio. The Terriers were not winning puck battles, and could not keep pucks on their sticks or out of their zone. The team was playing so poorly that some fans headed to the exits despite the more than 30 minutes remaining in the game.
And so, with BU struggling mightily at the time, BU coach Jack Parker called a timeout.
“We called a timeout and I’m thinking, ‘Boys, we could have went out to eat instead of showing up here. We could have had a dinner somewhere,’” Parker said. “I said, ‘You look like you were Friday night. You’ve got to sooner or later stop and start this game all over again because you look exactly like you played Friday night. You look like you’re lost. You look like you’re inept and you don’t know where you’re going. Let’s get going here boys.’”
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