The 12th-ranked University of Maine’s hockey team completed a weekend sweep of No. 5 Boston University with a wild 8-5 victory at Alfond Arena on Saturday night.
The eight goals is the most since a win over Merrimack on Nov. 2, 2019.
UMaine is now 5-2-1 overall and 2-0 in Hockey East while BU is 3-5-1 and 1-3.
UMaine won Friday night’s game 5-4 in overtime.
UMaine freshman goalie Mathis Rousseau made 26 saves to earn the win on Saturday night.
The Black Bears spotted Boston University the game’s opening goal by freshman right wing Ben Merrill, BU’s fifth one-goal lead of the weekend, but junior right wing Charlie Russell answered just 23 seconds later and they built a 3-1 lead on goals 34 seconds apart by freshman defenseman Jeremy Langlois and senior left wing Owen Fowler later in the first period.
Merrill scored his second goal in as many games off a rebound.
Cole Hutson flipped a nifty pass to Brandon Svoboda, who had gotten behind the defense and cut right to left across the low slot. Rousseau made the point-blank save but the rebound spilled to Merrill and he lifted into the net.
Russell tied it when he was set up just outside the crease by Max Scott, whose pass came from behind the net.
Yegorov made the initial save off Russell but Russell jammed the rebound past his pad for his first goal of the season.
Langlois scored his first career goal as he took a cross-ice pass from Jaden Lipinski and snapped a wrist shot from the middle of the slot that squeezed through Yegorov’s pads and trickled over the line.
Fowler scored his third of the season by swiping home a rebound off a scramble in front.
That ended Yegorov’s night as he was replaced by Max Lacrois.
BU opened a wild second period which featured three goals by each team.
Brandon Svoboda made it 3-2 by deflecting Cole Hutson’s wrister past Rousseau for his first of the season.
Justin Poirier answered with his eighth as he was spun around by a pair of Terriers in the low slot but was able to chip a backhander that floated over Lacroix’s glove.
Kamil Bednarik sliced the lead to one with a shorthanded goal.
UMaine defenseman Brandon Holt fell at the offensive blue line and Bednarik and Jonathan Morello skated down the ice in a two-on-one and executed it to perfection with Bednarik flipping it into the open net off a Morello feed.
UMaine responded with goals 1:54 apart by Max Scott and Russell to take a 6-3 lead but a power play goal by Conrad Fondrk with 1:10 remaining in the period narrowed the gap to 6-4.
Scott scored with a one-timer from the slot before Russell expanded the lead off assists from Holt and Lukas Peterson.
Fondrk sliced into the lead with a wrist shot from the left circle past Rousseau’s glove.
UMaine restored its three-goal lead early in the third period with a shorthanded goal by Max Scott as he was sent in alone by Thomas Freel and tucked the puck past the right skate of Lacroix.
The Terriers’ Svoboda scored his second goal of the game while the Terriers were shorthanded but Oskar Komarov sewed up the win with an empty net goal.
