Junior forward Sam Stevens registered a goal and an assist for the Terriers
Boston University Defeats Holy Cross in Exhibition, 5-1
Junior forward Sam Stevens registered a goal and an assist for the Terriers

BOSTON - The No. 10 Boston University men's ice hockey team earned a 5-1 exhibition win over Holy Cross on Saturday night at Walter Brown Arena.

Playing in front of a home crowd for the first time since the 2019-20 season, the Terriers answered an early Crusader goal in the first period before adding four more in the second stanza to pull away from Holy Cross.

Five different Terriers found the back of the net, with junior Sam Stevens scoring a nifty shorthanded goal as part of his two-point night (1g, 1a). Freshmen Tyler Boucher and Ty Gallagher both scored, as did juniors Robert Mastrosimone and Case McCarthy. Senior captain Logan Cockerill, freshman Brian Carrabes, sophomore Luke Tuch and juniors Matt Brown, Ethan Phillips and Wilmer Skoog also had one assist apiece. Sophomore Drew Commesso made 19 saves in 60:00 of work between the pipes.


HOW IT HAPPENED - Holy Cross opened the scoring at 11:37 of the contest, but BU responded just 30 seconds later on the power play. Tuch fed Boucher the puck from behind the net, and he was able to slide it past Matt Radomsky (eight saves).

- Mastrosimone notched his first goal of the season off his own rebound at 2:16 of the second, three seconds before the expiration of another Terrier power play. Outstanding puck movement between Mastrosimone, Phillips and Skoog as they entered the zone led to the strike.

- Gallagher's goal at 11:51came after a scrum in front of the net sent the puck flying up the slot. Fresh off the bench, Gallagher was able to intercept the puck and rocket it past Thomas Gale (14 saves).

- With 6:25 to play in the second, McCarthy gathered a rebound off a Cockerill chance behind the net and banked it off Gale and into the back of the net.

- Stevens iced the game with a sensational shorthanded goal. He broke past the Holy Cross defense and raced towards cage before lifting a puck under the crossbar.


GAME NOTES

- All five freshmen - Boucher, Carrabes, Gallagher, Tristan Amonte and Braden Doyle - dressed for the Terriers.

- BU outshot Holy Cross, 39-20.

- The Terriers were a perfect 7-for-7 on the penalty kill with a shorthanded goal.

- BU also went 2-for-9 on the power play.

- Saturday's contest completed a doubleheader of hockey at Walter Brown Arena, as the women's team won its home opener over New Hampshire, 5-1, earlier in the day.


UP NEXT

- BU will open its regular season on Friday, Oct. 8, when the Terriers begin a home-and-home series at UConn. Game time is set for 7:05 p.m.

- The Terriers will then return to Agganis Arena for the first time since March 7, 2020, when they host the Huskies on Saturday, Oct. 9, at 7 p.m.