CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - The No. 1 Boston College men's hockey team scored three early goals en route to a 6-1 win over No. 17 New Hampshire at Kelley Rink on Friday night. The Eagles improved to 20-5-1 overall and 13-3-1 in Hockey East, while the Wildcats dropped to 14-10-1 and 7-7-1.
Sophomore Cutter Gauthier (Scottsdale, Ariz.), who totaled three points in the victory, opened the scoring 1:07 into the game. BC went on to score three times over a span of three minutes and 28 seconds. Graduate Jack Malone (Spring Lake, N.J.) scored his first of two goals in the opening stanza and freshman Ryan Leonard (Amherst, Mass.) lit the lamp; both scoring on the power play.
Freshman Will Smith (Lexington, Mass.) scored BC's third power play goal of the night midway through the second. UNH got on the board in the third with a goal by Harrison Blaisdell, but the Eagles answered 61 seconds later with Malone's second of the night to return the BC lead to four goals.
Freshman goaltender Jacob Fowler (Melbourne, Fla.) made 30 saves in the win, while Jakob Hellsten stopped 21 shots for the Wildcats.
SCORING
1st 1:07 BC Cutter Gauthier (Oskar Jellvik, Eamon Powell)
1st 2:36 BC Jack Malone (Jellvik, Jacob Bengtsson) - PP
1st 4:35 BC Ryan Leonard (Gauthier, Gabe Perreault) - PP
2nd 11:47 BC Will Smith (Powell, Gauthier)
3rd 4:55 UNH Harrison Blaisdell (Robert Cronin)
3rd 5:56 BC Malone (Jellvik, Aidan Hreschuk)
3rd 16:40 BC Gauthier (Perreault, Smith) - PP
GAME NOTES
- Gauthier recorded his 10th multi-point and fourth three-point game.
- Jellvik tallied a season-high three assists; the fourth three-assist game by an Eagle this season.
- Leonard extended his season-best point streak to 10 games.
- Malone posted his third two-goal game of the season.
- Perreault extended his season-best point streak to 12 games.
- Smith extended his season-best point streak to 12 games.
UP NEXT
Boston College takes on Harvard in Monday's Beanpot consolation game at TD Garden at 4:30 p.m.
