“I think [the win] was huge, especially after what happened yesterday at practice,” BU forward Joe Pereira said. “We had a stinker.”

POWER GENERATOR

The Terriers put the power in power play last night, taking advantage early of Crimson penalties.

BU converted on their first three attempts by moving the puck quickly, finding open shooting lanes, and cleaning up rebounds.

Pereira scored two of the BU power play goals and Zach Cohen scored the third after redirecting a slap shot past Richter.

Cohen’s goal came during an advantage created by a five-minute major penalty for boarding by freshman Brendan Rempel.

“I was really pleased with [the power play],” Parker said. “In general, we did a good job with special teams and we did a good job in our zone. When you go out on the road and you outshoot a team that’s as fast and as clever as this club…that’s what I was looking for and that’s what I was hoping for.”

The BU coaching staff made strategy adjustments for the team’s power play in order to deal with Harvard’s aggressive penalty kill. The changes resulted in many opportunities and several open looks on net.

“We changed our power play around quite a bit for this game and it really paid off,” Parker said. “Harvard really likes to pressure you...when we’re playing an umbrella like we do, it’s easy to chase us, so we changed it—a little different look.”

“We stretched them out pretty good,” he added. “They wound up settling down, quieting down, and that’s when we got some opportunities.”

—Staff writer Jake I. Fisher can be reached at jifisher@fas.harvard.edu.