BC Strong, Beats Maine 7-2
The Boston College Eagles showed why they haven't lost a game since November. The top ranked Hockey East team beat the Maine Black Bears 7-2 Saturday night at Conte Forum. BC has now has a nine game unbeaten streak.
The Eagles scored the first goal of the game just 70 seconds into the game but Maine answered with a goal with 0.9 seconds left to tie 1-1.
Then in the second period, BC scored three goals in a minute and a half and that was it.
Johnny Gaudreau, nicknamed Johnny Hockey, dished out five assists. His linemate Kenny Hayes at a hat trick. BC improves to 16-4-3 overall and 10-1-1 in Hockey East.
Maine's goals were scored by Jon Swavely and Stu HIggins.
The Black Bears are now 11-8-3 overall and 5-3-2 in HE.
Check out the Hockey East standings...
GP | W | L | T | Pts | GF | GA | W | L | T | GF | GA | |||
1 | Boston College | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 48 | 28 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 105 | 55 | |
2 | Northeastern | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 32 | 26 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 81 | 64 | |
3 | Providence | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 29 | 24 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 79 | 51 | |
4 | Maine | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 33 | 21 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 71 | 49 | |
5 | UMass Lowell | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 21 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 63 | 43 | |
6 | New Hampshire | 10 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 33 | 24 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 82 | 65 | |
7 | Vermont | 10 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 17 | 23 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 63 | 51 | |
8 | Notre Dame | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 21 | 20 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 79 | 48 | |
9 | Massachusetts | 11 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 34 | 6 | 15 | 3 | 49 | 77 | |
10 | Boston University | 10 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 20 | 39 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 53 | 74 | |
11 | Merrimack | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 21 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 40 | 50 | |