Weighart: Red Hot Hockey Provides Cool Memories for Tri-State Terriers

NEW YORK – A late rally came up just short for the No. 19 Boston University men's ice hockey team on Saturday evening at Madison Square Garden as No. 7 Cornell held off the Terriers, 4-3, to earn its first Red Hot Hockey win in six tries. 

Sophomore Dante Fabbro scored a goal and added two assists for the Terriers, who move to 6-8-1 on the season. Cornell got goals from four different players and improved to 9-1-0. 

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Cornell took a 3-0 lead into the third period before Fabbro got BU on the board with a power-play goal from the top of the zone with 15:12 left in regulation. 
• The Big Red made it 4-1 at 11:51 of the third before the Terriers made things interesting by scoring twice in a span of 77 seconds.  
• BU threatened to knot it up with an extra attacker but the Big Red hung on to claim the one-goal win. 
• Beau Starrett opened the scoring at 15:18 of the opening period with a goal from the inside of the left circle. 
• Cornell doubled its lead when Trevor Yates scored his team-leading seventh goal of the season at the 6:51 mark of the middle stanza.
• With the Big Red skating on a power play, Alec McCrea threw the puck towards the net and it went off a BU defender and in to make it 3-0 with 10:54 left in the second.
• After Fabbro got BU on the board, Cornell's Tristan Mullin reestablished a three-goal lead for the Big Red.
• The Terriers utilized an extra attacker on a power play to score a 6-on-4 goal at 13:45 of the third as sophomore Chad Krys one-timed a shot to to the back of the net from above the right circle. 
• Moments later, sophomore Patrick Harper redirected an offering by freshman Brady Tkachuk past Cornell netminder Matthew Galajda to make it 4-3 with just under five minutes left in regulation. 

GAME NOTES

• The Terriers were undefeated in the first five Red Hot Hockey games against Cornell (3-0-2). 
• BU recorded 38 shots on goal, nine more than Cornell has allowed in any game this season. 
• Fabbro assisted on BU's final two goals to match a career high with three points.   
• Sophomore goaltender Jake Oettinger made 26 saves for the Terriers while Galajda turned aside 35 BU shots.
• The Terriers went 2-of-3 on the power play and killed off two of the Big Red's three chances with the man advantage.
• Sophomore Bobo Carpenter had two assists and Krys added a helper for a two-point night.
• Attendance for the game was 14,606.

UP NEXT

• The Terriers now turn their attention to No. 14/13 Boston College as the archrivals kick off their annual home-and-home series on Friday (Dec. 1) at Conte Forum in Chestnut Hill. 
• Game time is set for 7 p.m.