University of Minnesota Athletics
University of Minnesota
Boston College
Gophers Ground Eagles in 6-2 Victory
11/28/2014 12:00:00 AM | Men's Hockey
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CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. (GopherSports.com) – Thirteen Gophers tallied points including Vinni Lettieri’s first two goals of the season as the No. 3 Gopher Hockey program picked up a 6-2 win over No. 11/12 Boston College on Friday night at Conte Forum.
With Friday’s win, the Gophers are now unbeaten in their last four games against the Eagles (3-1-0) and are now 9-1-1 against Hockey East teams since the start of the 2012-13 season.
After struggling to find an offensive rhythm against Minnesota Duluth two weeks ago, Minnesota (8-3-0 overall, 0-0-0-0 Big Ten) recorded its highest offensive output of the season on Friday night with six goals including three unanswered tallied to quell a third period rally from the Eagles (7-6-0, 3-3-0 Hockey East).
Sam Warning put Minnesota up by a goal with the lone score of the first period at 16:57 for his fourth of the year (Justin Kloos, Ryan Collins) while Lettieri (unassisted) and Ben Marshall (Kloos, Taylor Cammarata) made it a three-goal game with goals at 17:32 and 18:22, respectively, of the second – 50 seconds apart.
The Eagles wouldn’t go quietly, however, with a hot streak of their own to open the third. Alex Tuck scored at 3:33 and Destry Straight cut the lead to one at 6:05 before the Gophers’ offense clicked into high gear once again.
Jake Bischoff found the net at 9:43 to snap a 31-game goal drought for the sophomore defenseman (Kyle Rau, Mike Reilly) while Lettieri lifted his second of the night over Thatcher Demko in net for the Eagles at 13:07 (Ryan Reilly, Christian Isackson) for his first career multi-goal game and second career multi-point game. Connor Reilly ended the run for the Gophers with an empty-net goal at 19:24 (Brady Skjei, Collins). Collins’ two assists gave the freshman his first multi-point game of his career while Skjei picked up the assist in his first game back after missing four-straight with an injury.
Adam Wilcox moved to 8-3-0 on the season with the 24-save performance on Friday night while Demko fell to 7-6-0 with a 24-save night as well. Minnesota’s penalty kill successfully held Boston College without a power-play goal on four advantages.
The Gophers close out this weekend’s road trip in Boston with a 6 p.m. CT game at Northeastern on Saturday.
-Pride On Ice-
