Long before the start of the season, Jay Pandolfo pulled off a recruiting coup by getting top prospect Macklin Celebrini to commit to BU.

[1] With Celebrini, as well as several NHL draft picks being added to a club that had just made the Frozen Four, Boston University was seen by many as the prohibitive favorite for the national championship and entered the season with the #1 ranking.

BU had to fend off a furious comeback attempt and surrendered two markers but managed to hold onto their lead and advance to the tournament championship.

With under 30 seconds to play, Tom Willander misplayed a loose puck and Northeastern was able to get a clean shot from the left circle that beat Caron and win in a stunning upset.

The team began to show some nerves when Northeastern scored twice to cut the lead down to 1 but Celebrini ended the come back attempt with his 30th goal of the season just 26 seconds later to turn the game's momentum.

[6] The loss left Boston University as the #2 team and, due to a confluence of NCAA seeding rules, forced the Terriers to be placed into the West Regional bracket.

After Jack Harvey scored the 5th goal for the Terriers, the team pulled back their offense and tried to just bleed the clock down.

[8] Facing the team that had eliminated them the year before, BU got off to a decent start against Minnesota but that were not able to solve the Gopher goaltender for the first quarter of the game.

BU collected two empty-net goals in the final two minutes to take the game and made the frozen four for the second year in a row.

Denver continued its unexpected run of strong defense to limit the Terriers afterwards; however, that was a sideshow for the main feature of the game.

Eventually, the team's luck ran out and a hard shot from the right circle slipped through Caron's legs for the winning goal.

The Terriers kept the pressure on and, four minutes later, Celebrini made another pass from the right side of the Gopher cage that ended up in the back of the net, this time to Jack Harvey.

In the later half of the period, Macklin Celebrini made a third miraculous pass from the right side but this time the shot was stopped by Close.

About a minute later, Hughes got the puck near the Minnesota goal line and had a partially open net to shoot at but he could not overcome the steep angle.

With no other option, Close was pulled again and minute later, Macklin Celebrini chipped the puck out of the zone to Sam Stevens and the second empty-net goal sealed the win for BU.

Celebrini got another great scoring chance about 2 minutes into the second and he tried to bunt a fluttering puck into a half open cage but it hopped wide.

In the back half of the second Denver was finally able to establish some zone time and after turning over the puck behind the BU cage, Miko Matikka found Tristan Lemyre for a shot that leaked through Caron to tie the score.

Jared Wright nearly gave Denver the lead just seconds later when the puck bounced to him in front of the cage but Caron managed to close his five-hole in time.

With under 30 seconds to play, Denver got a surprise rush up the ice and Aidan Thompson got a glorious scoring chance when he beat Caron with a deke but the BU goaltender made a desperate save with his glove right in front of the goal line.

With under 4 minutes to play, Celebrini found Harvey alone in front of the net for a one-timer but the puck hit the post as stayed out.

With under 90 seconds to play, Dylan Peterson layed a hard check on Behrens on the forecheck and the defender was buried into the boards.

Boston University pulled in tight and held the fort to keep the Pioneers mostly to the outside and they were able to bleed the clock down and force overtime.

Afterwards, Sam Stevens injured his knee on what was likely a tripping penalty and, despite the puck not being in the offensive zone, the officials did not blow the play dead to provide assistance to the downed player.

Even though they could not buy a call, the Terriers continued to press and a hard one-timer from Celebrini just barely missed the net.

About a minute later, Tristan Broz skated into the BU end and fired a shot from the right circle, it went right between Caron's legs for the winning goal.