The ending to Sunday's Regional Final between Boston College and Quinnipiac felt all too fitting after the defending national champion Bobcats pushed the top-ranked Eagles to the limit for three-plus periods. Quinnipiac never trailed during regulation, but watched BC negate a 2-0 lead before the Eagles scored a third game-tying goal in the late stages of the third period, and the 4-4 game now advanced to an extra session reminiscent of their season-opening game six months earlier.
Quinnipiac possessed the up-and-down skating chops to hang tough shifts on BC, but the Eagles found themselves once again moving pieces around the chess board as they set up their offense against head coach Rand Pecknold's trademark defense.