By Cary Betagole/DFP Staff
Trailing 2-1 with 14:22 remaining in the third period, Boston College junior forward Joe Whitney was so wide open from the left slot, he invoked the name of New York City’s most famous street to describe the look that led to BC’s third goal.
“I had a walk down Broadway,” the five-foot-six-inch marksman from Reading said.
BU coach Jack Parker echoed Whitney’s sentiment in recounting his first defensive unit’s third failure out of four, a breakdown in which poor bench miscommunication and on-ice decision-making each played a role. The tandem of junior defensemen Colby Cohen and Kevin Shattenkirk each finished at minus-three on the night.
“The third goal was a real bad read by our defenseman,” Parker said. “It was a 3-on-2 and our defenseman just played the wrong guy and let Whitney walk down Broadway and rip one. And [sophomore goalie Kieran Millan] couldn’t come running out on him because he had to worry about the other guys, too.”
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