Men's Hockey Battles in Tuesday Loss at Boston College

Tuesday, December 7

Chestnut Hill, Mass.

7 p.m.

Brown University

3-8-0

Boston College

8-5-2

Brown

Boston College

Photo by: Team Shred Photography

Men's Hockey Battles in Tuesday Loss at Boston College

12/7/2021 10:10:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The Boston College Eagles (8-5-2, 5-3-1 HEA) tallied three third period goals to take a 5-2 home win over the Brown Bears (3-8-0, 3-5-0 ECAC) Tuesday night at Conte Forum.

"I thought that it looked like we had some tired legs tonight and that's not a good team to have tired legs against," said head coach Brendan Whittet '94. "Boston College is an elite team in the NCAA with a long and storied program, and it didn't seem like we had the jump we needed. That being said, we tied it up 1-1 late in the second, we have to find a way to get to the third 1-1 to give ourselves an opportunity. It wasn't a great night for us, but we'll find a way to be much better on Friday in a huge game in terms of standings implications and points in the league."

Marc McLaughlin deflected a centering pass from the slot past Brown goaltender Mathieu Caron (22 saves) to give the Eagles a 1-0 lead 4:54 into the opening frame. Patrick Giles sent the pass in from the right boards and McLaughlin fought through a Brown defenseman for his 10th goal of the season.

Jonny Russell had Brown's best chance of the opening frame with a clean breakaway 11:20 into the frame. Russell skated toward BC goaltender Eric Dop (16 saves) with speed and tried to rifle a shot over Dop's left shoulder, but the former Bowling Green goaltender made the save and covered for a whistle.

Justin Jallen tied the game 14:48 into the second period, wiring a one-timer from the top of the slot past Dop's glove. Tristan Crozier hit Jallen with a pass from the left dot for the assist with Samuli Niinisaari picking up the secondary assist.

The Eagles re-claimed the lead 1:55 after Brown's goal as Giles found the back of the net for his sixth goal of the season. Marshall Warren assisted on the tally.

Boston College added goals at 2:56 and 5:10 of the third period to make it 4-1. Colby Ambrosio and Nikita Nesterenko scored the respective goals for the Eagles.

McLaughlin scored his second of the game at 13:35 of the third, beating Caron on a clean breakaway with assists from Trevor Kuntar and Giles.

Michael Maloney cut into BC's lead nine seconds later, finishing a centering pass from Wyatt Schlaht to make it 5-2. Luke Krys hit Schlaht with a long pass through the neutral zone following the center ice faceoff for the secondary assist.

GAME NOTES

Boston College finished the game with a 27-18 advantage in shots on goal. BC also led in faceoffs with a 34-for-60 (56.6%) edge.
Caron entered Tuesday night with a 120:00 scoreless streak, the 13th longest by a Brown goaltender since 2000. That streak ended at 124:54 as the 11th longest streak.
Jallen recorded his first goal of the season in the second period. The senior now has four points (1-3-4) in his last three games.
Crozier recorded his second assist of the season on Jallen's goal. The captain now has three points (2-1-3) in three games played since returning from injury.
Maloney added his third goal in as many games with his third period marker. Schlaht picked up his first collegiate assist on Maloney's goal.

Brown closes the first half of the 2021-22 season Friday at Yale (2-7-0, 1-6-0 ECAC). Friday night's game is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. at Ingalls Rink and will stream on ESPN+.