BU 5, Northeastern 3

Jack Parker is the men’s hockey coach at Boston University. Given his team’s success in the Beanpot Tournament over the years, you might as well call him the trophy’s curator, as well.

With the Terriers’ 5-3 win over a feisty Northeastern team in the title game of this season’s tournament, they remarkably skated away with their seventh ‘Pot in the past eight seasons and their 24th championship in its 50-year history.

But this one didn’t come easily, as BU freshman winger Justin Maiser scored the game-winner with only 1:12 to go in the game. Maiser received a beautiful pass from linemate David Klema in front, who had a Husky defenseman draped all over him to the right of Northeastern goaltender Keni Gibson.

The game looked as if it was destined for overtime thanks to some second period heroics by Husky forward Chris Lynch, who scored a pair of power-play goals less than two minutes apart to erase a 2-0 BU lead.

Then, Northeastern’s captain and front-running Hobey Baker candidate Jim Fahey whistled a slapshot by BU goaltender Sean Fields to give his team its first lead of the game with just 10 seconds to go in the second.

BU capitalized on a costly Northeastern turnover to tie the game. Terrier captain Mike Pandolfo pounced on the mishandled puck in front and slipped it past a startled Gibson 3:54 into the period to make it 3-3.