Boston College
Northeastern
No. 8 Men's Hockey Defeats Northeastern, 7-1
February 21, 2010 | Men's Hockey
Feb. 21, 2010
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - Junior Brian Gibbons registered a hat trick, including his 100th career point, to lead Boston College to a 7-1 Hockey East win over Northeastern before 6,180 fans in Kelley Rink.
Gibbons, who scored one goal in each period, attained the milestone on the only goal of the first period - at 19:32. The Braintree, Mass., product became the 93rd player in school history to reach the vaunted 100-point plateau. Also recording one assist, Gibbons finished the contest with 103 points.
"Brian Gibbons had an outstanding night," BC head coach Jerry York said. "He has been an excellent player for us through his career. He scored his 100th point and scored three goals. He was a pretty good offensive weapon for us tonight."
Boston College added four second-period goals, before the visiting Huskies closed the period's scoring with a power-play goal. The Eagles added two goals in the third period.
Freshman Pat Mullane doubled the BC advantage at 4:12, and classmate Chris Kreider gave BC a 3-0 lead at 5:57. Gibbons netted his second goal - on the power play - at 13:40.
Northeastern senior Kyle Kraemer scored a man-advantage goal at 15:20.
Gibbons completed his hat trick at 11:43, and sophomore Jimmy Hayes tallied with 20.5 seconds to play to account for the final margin.
Freshman Parker Milner made 22 saves to earn his seventh win of the season. Northeastern freshman Chris Rawlings stopped 39 of 45 shots in 51:43. Freshman Bryan Mountain made four saves in 8:17.
"It was a very important game for us coming off what we thought was a well-played game on Friday night [Northeastern defeated Boston College 3-2 on Friday]," York said. "The outcome concerned us because Northeastern took the two points from us. We tried to come out with the same kind of effort but eliminate odd-man rushes and I think that was the one key thing we accomplished. We had much better structure to our game and were sounder from that perspective."
Team Records: Boston College 18-10-2, 13-8-2 Hockey East; Northeastern 16-13-2, 11-11-1 HE
Game Notes: Sophomore Cam Atkinson (one goal, one assist) and senior Ben Smith (two assists) both tallied multiple-point performances ... freshman Philip Samuelsson, who entered the game with a +6 rating, tallied a game-high +5 ... BC tallied a season-high 50 shots on net.
