The University of New Brunswick Varsity Reds learned the hard way why the Boston College Eagles are the top NCAA team in the country, losing 6-0 tonight in Chestnut Hill. The V-Reds played decent enough for most of the game, only trailing 1-0 after the first period, but a two minute span in the second period proved to be UNB's undoing as BC quickly turned a 2-0 game into a 5-0 advantage half way through the game. The V-Reds were never able to recover, giving up another goal late in the third period to make it a 6-0 final. The Eagles held a 34-18 shot advantage.
Despite the lopsided final score BC head coach Jerry York had some nice things to say about UNB after the game, courtesy David Kilfoil:
"I think the home team gets such an advantage. We had that advantage tonight. I thought the difference was quite frankly that our goalies played unbelievable. They made some terrific saves. I think this is an even better Varsity Reds team than the one we saw in Fredericton, and they won the national title that year. Sometimes when the score gets like 6-0 late in the game ... they've got great discipline ... there's no problem, Gardiner really controls his kids. I've been down 6-0 and sometimes it's hard to control your kids. He's always got control and nobody's going to try to get hurt out here."
- Taylor MacDougall, Ben Wright, and Luke Lynes were all out for UNB.
- Travis Fullerton played the first 40 minutes, making 21 saves on 26 shots. Dan LaCosta played the final period, stopping 7 out of 8 pucks.
- Attendance for the game was 1734.
- It was not a good day for CIS team south of the border as they went 0-14-3 against NCAA competition. The only teams to salvage a tie were York against UConn, UBC against Denver, and Western Ontario against Western Michigan.
- UNB looks to rebound tomorrow afternoon against the University of Maine Black Bears in Orono.
