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BOSTON — <\/strong>Even with the multitude of departures to graduation following the 2015-16 season, going into the 2016-17 season, it seemed a forgone conclusion that Boston College would at least be contending for a Hockey East tournament championship. After all, the Eagles were the No. 1 in the preseason coaches’ poll.<\/p>\n In reality, the Eagles, in fact, will compete for a Hockey East tournament championship, and the league’s autobid, against the winner of the matchup of the semifinal’s second game between Boston University and Northeastern.<\/p>\n But it was not without a little bit of fight from Vermont.<\/p>\n The No. 6 Eagles defeated Vermont, 4-3, in double overtime at Walter Brown Arena after Vermont came back from a 3-1 deficit to force overtime. It was Andie Anastos who scored the game winner, a point-blank shot on Madison Litchfield that sent the Eagles to the final.<\/p>\n “I thought it was a great hockey game,” BC coach Katie Crowley said. “It was two very good teams going at each other and finding ways to tie games and make it close.”<\/p>\n The Eagles jumped in front in the first period. A quarter of the way through the period, Mackenzie MacNeil was sent off for slashing. BC made the ensuing power play count, as Kenzie Kent completed a tic-tac-toe play from Anastos and Megan Keller on a one-timer from Anastos, beating a helpless Litchfield, giving the Eagles the 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n While the Eagles only scored one goal in the period, they obviously dominated play in the first. The Eagles out-attempted Vermont 26-14, with many of those attempts grade A opportunities.<\/p>\n From that point on, however the nature of the game changed dramatically.<\/p>\n To wit, a major catalyst for the change started in the second period: the three penalties BC took.<\/p>\n Outside of the penalties, BC still looked like the stronger team in the period. Caitrin Lonergan extended the Eagles’ lead to two goals early in the second.<\/p>\n Near the halfway point of the second, the Eagles took their first penalty of the period, a slashing call on Keller, and the Catamounts quickly took advantage, with Taylor Willard willing a knuckler past Katie Burt from the point, edging the Catamounts within a goal.<\/p>\n Just under four minutes later, the Eagles regained a two-goal cushion when Makenna Newkirk, streaking down the ice, rifled a shot past Litchfield.<\/p>\n The Catamounts, however, responded again. Lonergan was whistled for a tripping call around the three-quarter mark and Ali O’Leary knocked in a rebound past Burt, setting a 3-2 score that would hold going into the second intermission.<\/p>\n All the while, the Catamounts’ efforts were helped by an inspired, gritty effort, spearheaded by fourth-liner Kourtney Menches.<\/p>\n “That’s who we are,” Vermont coach Jim Plumer said. “We don’t know who’s going to make a play, but whatever’s required, kids step up, and Kourtney, I think she relishes that, being a shot blocker.”<\/p>\n The third period, however, got even more crazy.<\/p>\n Vermont tied the game in the third, once again on a power play. After Haley McLean was whistled for a bodychecking that drew protests from the crowd at Walter Brown Arena, Alyssa Gorecki shot a knuckler over the top of Burt, tying the game at three, which held until the start of overtime. It was the Catamounts third power-play goal of the game.<\/p>\n “They found a way to put pucks in on the couple power plays that they got, and we really got to buckle that down a little bit,” Crowley said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [photoshelter-gallery g_id=”G0000zFzOqagTB1w” g_name=”20170304-BC-UVM-Wade” f_show_caption=”t” f_show_slidenum=”t” img_title=”casc” pho_credit=”iptc” f_link=”t” f_bbar=”t” fsvis=”f” width=”500″ height=”375″ bgcolor=”#AAAAAA” bgtrans=”t” btype=”old” bcolor=”#CCCCCC” crop=”f” trans=”xfade” tbs=”4000″ f_ap=”t” linkdest=”c” f_fullscreen=”f” f_constrain=”f” twoup=”f” f_topbar=”f” f_bbarbig=”” f_htmllinks=”f” f_enable_embed_btn=”f” f_show_watermark=”f” f_send_to_friend_btn=”f” f_smooth=”f” f_mtrx=”f” f_up=”f” target=”_self” wmds=”llQ6QNgpeC.p1Ucz7U.f0eug3GxITVrwJXPQQ07w6Y4h4Ttxo30DiLB54NdEQoykaWSf0w–” ] BOSTON — Even with the multitude of departures to graduation following the 2015-16 season, going into the 2016-17 season, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":22374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23321"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}