Well, THAT'S some bullshit right there!
BU was robbed - robbed I tell you - of an OT goal with 1:15 left in OT. Cole Eiserman took a shot at the Michigan State goal that appeared to go in before it got stopped by Spartan goalie Trey Augustine. But the officials called it a save, and MSU immediately took the puck down the ice and scored a goal at 1:10. There was an official review of the Terrier's previous shot to see if it was actually a goal or not. I couldn't see - the game was on ESPNU and I only get ESPN and ESPN2 - but the radio guys said it was close but to them it looked like a goal. Granted, they're biased, but after watching several replays they said the puck crossed the line "by an eighth on an inch." The officials, though, said "nope," it didn't, and gave the winning score to Michigan State.
It's all the more frustrating because of how it got to that point. MSU took a 2-0 lead into the third period, but BU's Gavin McCarthy finally ended the drought by scoring early in the third. Michigan State came right back and scored again within a minute to take a 3-1 lead. BU's Kamil Bednarik scored a short-handed goal midway through the third, and then Terrier Conrad Fondrk added another a few minutes later to tie the score up. Mikhail Yegorov made 30 saves in the course of the game, and it went into OT with the teams tied at 3.
And then that bullshit up above happened.
BU doesn't get a point in the Hockey East standings for the OT loss because it wasn't a conference game, but by NCAA rules they get 40% of the win for taking it to overtime. BU won't be No. 1 next week, but with the solid effort tonight (and last night, too, to be sure) against an elite opponent, they shouldn't fall too far.
We'll know Monday.
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