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Rachel Farrell's journey from the farm to the harbor

Alex Carpenter's empty-net goal with with 19 seconds remaining in the Women's Hockey East Semi-Final gave Boston College a 3-1 edge over UConn. Those 19 seconds, slowly ticking down at the Hyannis Youth & Community Center on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, would be the last of UConn forward Rachel Farrell's hockey career - or, at least that's what she thought at the time.

"I thought my last UConn game was going to be the last competitive hockey game I would play in," Farrell said. "I never imagined I would be drafted."

Farrell, a native of Cheshire, Connecticut and four-year letter winner for the UConn Huskies women's hockey team, was selected by the Boston Blades in the fourth round (20th overall) of the 2015 Canadian Women's Hockey League Draft.