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BOSTON - Junior captain Matt Grzelcyk scored two goals, including one on the first shot of overtime, to lift the No. 4 Boston University men's ice hockey team past Northeastern, 4-3, for its 30th Beanpot title on Monday evening at TD Garden.

The Terriers took a 3-1 into the second intermission, but the Huskies rallied with goals less than two minutes apart midway through the third to force overtime.

Just nine seconds into the extra session, junior Danny O'Regan drew a hooking penalty on Northeastern's Matt Benning. Just 42 seconds later, the Beanpot was back in BU's hands for the first time since 2009.

A shot by Grzelcyk from above the left circle beat Huskies' netminder Clay Witt near side at the 51-second mark to send the BU bench and crowd into a frenzy. Senior Evan Rodrigues and freshman Jack Eichel assisted on the goal, which was Grzelcyk's sixth in the past five games.

The performance earned the Charlestown native tournament MVP honors. Grzelcyk's dad, John, has worked at TD Garden for over 40 years as a member of the arena's "bull gang."

With the victory, BU reached the 20-win mark on the year, improving to 20-6-5, while the Huskies fell to 15-13-4. Junior Matt O'Connor and Witt each made 30 stops on the night.

The Terriers never trailed in the contest, as junior Mike Moran took advantage of a Northeastern miscue along the boards and opened the scoring on a breakaway just 2:19 into the contest. The Huskies, however, got a quick equalizer just 28 seconds later from John Stevens.

Sophomore Robbie Baillargeon broke a 1-1 tie at 5:31 of the second when he followed up a rebound at the foot of the left circle for his first tally since the opening night of the season. Senior Cason Hohmann and junior Ahti Oksanen assisted on the play, which came off a rush.

BU took the game's lone two-goal lead a Grzelcyk slapper found the back of the net with 5:42 left in the middle stanza. Freshman Nikolas Olsson set up an offering for Grzelcyk at the left point and the junior tucked his blast inside the far post.

Despite the fact that the Terriers have dominated third-period play all season long, the Huskies did not let that deter them from making a comeback.

Kevin Roy continued his strong play of late when he potted his 17th tally of the year at 9:18 of the third. Dustin Darou followed that up by scoring his third goal of the season - and his second of this year's Beanpot - at the 10:53 mark to make it a 3-3 affair.

BU only had two power-play chances, but used the latter to end the game. All three of Northeastern's power plays occurred in the second period and the Terriers were able to kill them all off.

The crosstown rivals will meet again this weekend in a home-and-home series to close out the regular season beginning Friday (Feb. 27) at Agganis Arena when BU honors its senior class. Game time is set for 7:30 p.m.

NOTES: This was BU's first tournament title of any kind since winning the 2010 IceBreaker, which was held in St. Louis ... With an assist on the overtime winner, Jack Eichel became the first BU freshman to record 50 points in a season since Tony Amonte put up 58 during the 1989-90 season ... Freshman Brandon Hickey recorded a game-high five blocked shots to raise his team leading total this season to 63 ... BU has now won its past five meetings with Northeastern ... Matt O'Connor is 7-0-1 in his past eight goaltender decisions ... Matt Grzelcyk is the first Terrier from the Boston city limits to earn Beanpot MVP honors since South Boston native Mike Prendergast back in 1992 ... This marks the first Beanpot tournament that all four games were decided by one goal ... It is also the first Beanpot in which BU went to overtime in both rounds.