#11 Michigan Upsets #5 Boston University In OT Thriller : Inside The Ice Fourth Feature

During this series, Ice Insider covers NCAA outings that Head collegiate Reporter Nolan Larrabee attends during the 24-25 Season as a media member or a spectator.

By Nolan Larrabee @Nolan_larrabee Iceinsider.com NCAA All Access Reporter

BOSTON-- On Saturday, November 2nd, 2024, an attendance of 6150 came to Agganis Arena to see the #11 Michigan Wolverines (4-2-1) take on the #5 Boston University Terriers

(4-2-1) in a late-night nonconference matchup. The starting goalies were, for Michigan Cameron Korpi who was appearing in his 3rd start of the season, he has posted a 2.28 GAA and a .914 SVG over those 3 games. For the Terriers Mathieu Carron who was appearing in his 6th start of the season, he has posted a 3.10 GAA and a .908 SVG over those games.

The game started with both teams getting a ton of chances early, but Michigan was first to break the tie, with 11:43 into the 1st Michigan's Evan Warner scored to make it 1-0, Nick Moldenhauer and Dakoda Rheaume-Mullen assisted it. After Michigan's goal, Boston University kept on getting more and more chances, but they were finally able to tie the game up 14:33 into the 1st, Boston University's Shane Lachance tied it up 1-1, Quinn Hutson and Kamil Bednarik assisted the goal. Towards the end of the 1st in the dying seconds Boston University's Matt Copponi scored a beautiful backhand toe drag to make it 2-1 with 6 seconds left in the 1st, Cole Eiserman and Alex Zetterberg assisted the goal.

At the end of the first. Boston University was outplaying Michigan the whole period which showed as the shots at the end were 5 to 15 in favor of Boston.

With 31 seconds into the 2nd Michigan's Jackson Hallum scored to tie the game up 2-2, the goal was assisted by T.J Hughes and Luca Fantilli. The tie score wouldn't last much longer as Boston University's Alex Zetterburg would catch a not-so-great pass from Quinn Hutson between his legs and put it past Korpi's glove to break the tie, the goal was assisted by Quinn Hutson and Ryan Greene.

At the end of the 2nd BU was out playing and outshooting Michigan during the 2nd, but Michigan was showing more signs of life than in the 1st. The shots were 14 to 23 in favor of the Terriers.

At the start of the 3rd BU's lead would last for a bit before 10:12 into the period as Michigan's Kienan Draper scored from a great pass by Philippe Lapointe to tie the game up 3-3. With less than 2 minutes after Michigan tied up the game, Boston University's Devin Kaplan scored to put the Terriers back in charge of the game, the goal was assisted by Tom Willander and Sascha Boumedienne. Less than a minute after BU's goal they get called for a questionable penalty with Gavin McCarthy being called for boarding. BU's penalty kill only lasted 11 seconds after Michigan's Jackson Hallum scored to tie up the game 4-4 with 7:20 left to go in regulation.

At the end of the 3rd, Michigan was starting to awake. As now the shots after the 3rd were 20-27 still in favor of the Terriers.

At the start of OT, everyone was starting to get worried that BU would get upset again by Michigan. Overtime started with a ton of breakaways and great chances but nothing would happen until, 3:13 into Overtime Michigan's Jackson Hallum scored after Garret Schifsky beat the BU defenseman to the puck in the corner as passed it upfront to Hallum, who scored his 3rd of the night to get the 4-3 OT win for Michigan.

At the end of the game Michigan was still outshot 28-24 by the Terriers, but that didn't matter because the Wolverines wanted it more than the Terriers. The final stat lines for the goalies were, for Boston University Mathieu Caron (L) 4.76 GAA and a .792 SVG, and for Michigan Cameron Korpi (W) had a 3.81 GAA and a .857 SVG. Both goalies had some not-so-great numbers for this game.

Key players from this game were Jackson Hallum #21 Michigan, who scored 3 goals in the game and had 4 shots, and also from Michigan #13 T.J Huges who racked up 2 assists in the game as well as 1 shot. Key players from BU were #61 Alex Zetterburg who had 1 goal and 1 assist and 1 shot, and also from BU #18 Shane Lachance who had 1 goal and 7 shots during the game.

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