Harvard had been in the same situation before. Against Northeastern, in the opening round of the Beanpot, Harvard fell behind by two goals late in the third period only to tie the game and send it into overtime.
Harvard forward Tim Barakett scored the tying goal in the North-eastern contest, and he did it again last night.
With just over a minute left in the game, Harvard wing C.J. Young controlled the puck in front of the B.C. net. The puck slid to Barakett on the right. Barakett mishandled it and didn't shoot immediately, but managed to recover in time to drive a shot past B.C. goalie David Littman.
The game will go down as one of the most memorable in Beanpot history, despite the fact that it was the undercard to last night's Boston College-Northeastern final. Most will remember it as Ceglarski's 556th win. A few Harvard players, however, will remember it differently.
"It's so blatant," Chiarelli said. "It ruined the best game of the year."
Eagles, 7-6(OT) at Boston Garden B.C. 1-2-3-1--7 Harvard 3-1-2-0--6
First Period--1, H, Tim Barakett 18 (Randy Taylor, Allen Bourbeau) 2:01; 2, H, Bourbeau 13 (Lane MacDonald) 11:14; 3, BC, Brian Leetch 7 (Ken Hodge) 18:39; 4, H, Steve Armstrong 6 (Barakett, Chris Biotti) 19:47. Penalties-Steve Scheifele, BC, (hitting from behind) 1:29; Dan Shea, BC, (high sticking) 10:55.
Second Period--5, BC, Schiefele 11 (Hodge) 0:46; 6, BC, Craig Janney 16 (Greg Brown) 4:07; 7, H, MacDonald (Mark Benning, Taylor) 9:57, Penalties--Taylor, H, (elbowing) 3:32, Kevin Stevens, BC, (tripping) 4:50; Stevens, BC, (interference) 9:48; Jerry Pawloski, H, (interference) 11:29; Don Sweeney, H, (elbowing) 12:58.
Third Period--8, H, C.J. Young 7 (MacDonald, Benning) 5:00; 9, BC, Tim Sweeney 22 (Shea) 7:34 10, BC, Hodge 19 Janney, Stevens) 16:39; 11, BC. Hodge 20 (Stevens)17:17; 12, H, Barakett 19 (Young, Bourbeau) 18:53. Penalties--Mike-Gervase, BC, (hitting from behind) 6:15; Armstrong, H, (hooking) 8:35, Peter Chiarelli, H (tripping) 15:56; David Buckley, BC, (interference) 16:45.
Overtime--13. BC, Hodge 21 (Leetch, Stevens) 9:59. Penalties--Schiefele, BC, (tripping) 3:40; MacDonald, H, (slashing) 4:27; Taylor, H, (holding) 8:44.
Saves---BC, David Littman 13-11-8-6--38; H, Dickie McEvoy 9-9-9-2--29