Coming off of the program's 1st national championship, the Bobcats needed to replace nearly half of the roster largely due to graduation.

In their place, Quinnipiac welcomed Boston University transfer Vinny Duplessis, who was expected to begin the season as the starter, and freshman Matej Marinov.

While the offense had lost some talent as well, the Bobcats still resturned several key players, including Collin Graf and overtime hero Jacob Quillan.

Andon Cerbone's power play marker midway through the final period put the Bobcats ahead for good and two empty-net goals swept the Engineers aside, clearing the way into the semifinals.

While Quinnipiac had been dreadful in extra time to that point, going 1–5–1 during the season, the previous games were played at 3-on-3 and the NCAA tournament kept the teams at 5-on-5.

Around the middle of the period, a stretch pass from behind the net eventually found its way to a streaking Czerneckianair and, after a quick deke, the sophomore scored the biggest goal of his career to send Quinnipiac to the regional final.

As the clock ticked away it appeared that the Bobcats might be able to pull off the upset but, with under 5 minutes to play, a lapse on defense allowed an open Eagle to get a shot from the high slot and it beat a visibly disappointed Duplessis stick-side.

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.

Quinnipiac found it far tougher to set up in the offensive zone on their second man-advantage and the Boston College kept the game tied.

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.

Cristophe Tellier tried to clear the puck but it went right to the stick of Jack Malone who fired it between the legs of McGee for the winning goal.