This was primarily thanks to the all-freshman line of Ryan Leonard, Gabe Perreault and Will Smith who were not only a terror at even strength but helped BC produce the #2 power play in the nation.

The Eagles suffered their first loss of the season when they met Denver, another championship hopeful, and the two power play goals that BC allowed convinced the team to redouble its efforts.

The Eagles weren't able to hold off the likely top pick in the upcoming NHL draft, Macklin Celebrini, for three consecutive games and lost their chance at ending the program's 8-year Beanpot drought.

Boston College won their last 9 regular season games, many by wide margins, and marched into their conference playoff atop all national rankings.

Graduate transfer Jack Malone scored a few minutes later to give BC the lead once more and enabled the Eagles to escape disaster.

The top line scored four times and Gauthier raised his total to a nation-leading 34 when he capped off the eight-goal deluge on the power play.

The Eagles' power play decided the match with Boston College scoring four times on the man-advantage Smith finished the game with 4 goals and was named as the tournament MVP.

They began their climb with the best possible matchup and faced a relatively weak Michigan Tech team that had earned its appearance only by winning a conference championship.

A power play allowed Leonard to cut the lead in half just seconds later while Andre Gasseau tied the score just past the halfway point of the game.

Quinnipiac turned up the pressure in overtime and with his team reeling, Greg Brown called a timeout just 2 minutes into the extra session to give the Eagles a break.

The stellar goaltending meant that Smith's goal, just 80 seconds into the game, stood as the winning marker but the team scored three more for good measure.

Jack Malone found the loose puck and shuffled it over to an open Leonard who fired into a half-open cage for BC's second lead of the night.

Michigan Tech got a few chances on Fowler, much of their time was spent trying to set up in the offensive zone and the Huskies were unable to convert on the man-advantage.

Just before the mid-way point of the match, Jayden Lee took a slashing penalty and gave Boston College yet another chance on the power play.

The Bobcats kept BC to the outside and managed to stave off a repeat but just after Lee had exited the box, Andre Gasseau fired the puck from the top of the left circle past a partially screened Duplessis to tie the game.

A few minutes later, during a broken play in the Bobcats' end, BC flubbed a scoring chance and Smith committed a hooking penalty as Quinnipiac started back up the ice.

On the ensuing faceoff, Fillion was able to find a loose puck right in front of the goal, kick it to his stick and fire it past Fowler in one motion.

Quinnipiac get set up in the offensive zone and remained their most of the power play but they could not find any clear lanes to the net and didn't get a shot on goal for almost a minute.

Quinnipiac took over after the near-miss and combination of speed and physical play to not only prevent the Eagles from getting a good shot on Duplessis but also generate further chances for themselves.

With under 5 minutes to play, Boston College finally managed to do something with a turnover and Aram Minnetian tied the game with a laser from the high slot.

Turnovers, forechecking and icings hemmed the Eagles in their defensive zone for most of the first two minutes and forced Greg Brown to call a timeout to give his team a breather.

Boston College got off to a fast start in the middle period and, in the second minute, Leonard was nearly able to dance around Barczewski for a goal but the prone Wolverine netminder made the save with his right pad.

Mike Posma made a potentially goal-saving slash near the middle of the period and gave Michigan a chance to finally get on the board with another power play.

Just before the mid-way point of the game, Oskar Jellvik found Gasseau wide open in the high slot but could not solve Davis.

Around the 7-minute mark, a flubbed pass at the Pioneer blueline gave Jared Wright a breakaway but Fowler was able to make the save from in tight.

A few minutes later, Zeev Buium made a tremendous pass to Rieger Lorenz in the left circle and the Denver forward fired the puck into the near corner.

The #2 power play took on a rather poor PK and the Eagles were able to get a tremendous chance when Gabe Perreault found Ryan Leonard wide open in the low slot.

BC continued to press after the penalty ended but Denver had pulled back into a defensive shell and did their best to melt down the Eagle rushes.

At the 8-minute mark, Smith got open in the high slot and beat Davis with a hard shot, however, the puck clanked off of the right post and bounced away from the goal.

The Eagles didn't pull their goaltender until less there was less than 3 minutes to play and put the Denver goal under constant pressure in the final moments of the match.