BU 2, Colgate 2

 

You win some, you lose some, and then there's Colgate. More than just an effective decay-preventing dentifrice, they're also a university somewhere in upstate New York and an unranked college hockey team.

In game two of their weekend series in Boston, Colgate traded goals with the BU Terriers throughout the game. Colgate scored first, and then BU's Cole Eiserman tied it up in the second period. Colgate scored again, and then BU freshman Jack Murtagh scored his first collegiate goal to tie it back up a second time and that's how the regulation time ended.

No one scored in the two OT periods, so the game officially ended in a tie. However, Eiserman and Jack Harvey scored goals for BU in the ensuing shoot-out and goaltender Mikhail Yegorov stopped both of Colgate's shots, so BU gets the extra point in the conference standings. Overall, Yegorov provided a conscientiously applied program of 23 saves on 24 shots (.958), including key saves in the overtime period. 

The No. 3-ranked Terriers are now 2-0-1 on the season, and things will get tougher next weekend when the No. 2 Michigan State Spartans come to Boston's Agganis Arena in probably the biggest NCAA hockey game so far this season.