The best season in Penn State hockey history will end without a national championship.
In St. Louis, Penn State fell to Boston University, 2-1 in the national semifinal.
Both goals were scored in the second period.
Not a lot happened in the first four minutes, with neither team scoring and Penn State outshooting BU 3-1.
In the next four minutes, the game stayed scoreless, with Penn State star Aiden Fink having a big scoring chance that didn’t go through.
BU reeled off seven unanswered shots but Penn State goalie Arsenii Sergeev saved all of them.
By the 3:30 mark, BU had an 11-5 edge in shots on goal.
A shot by Fink with around 2:20 left was a great chance but ultimately saved by Mikhail Yegorov.
Add Nittany Sports Now as a preferred source in Google! Click here to add us.At the end of the period, it was scoreless with BU holding an 11-7 edge in shots on goal.
Early in the second period, Sergeev’s first slip of the night led to the game’s first goal. After a saving a harmless shot, Boston’s Jack Hughes pounced on the puck and made it 1-0.
Penn State went on the power play at 5:55 of the second period but wasn’t able to convert, not even getting a shot on goal during that power play.
With a little more than nine minutes left in the second period, Cole Hutson made it 2-0 on a perfectly executed 2 on 1.
Penn State cut the deficit in half 2:12 into the third period on a goal by freshman Nick DeGraves.
An empty netter with 59 seconds left sealed the deal.
Had Penn State won, it would have played Western Michigan in the national title game, scheduled for 7:30 Saturday night.
