Weekly Wrap-Up Eagles soar past Badgers

The Boston College Eagles went on the road this weekend with one thing on their mind, revenge from last years National Championship game. The Eagles got that in the weekend sweep against the defending National Champion, Wisconsin Badgers.

Sophomore Nathan Gerbe got things started with a shorthanded five on three goal 5:48 into the first period giving the Eagles a 1-0 lead. In a scoreless second period, Junior goaltender Cory Schneider made 14 saves in the second period, while BC only mustered five shots on goal. Late in the third BC pulled away with another goal by Nathan Gerbe and Brock Bradford added an empty netter to give the Eagles a 3-0 victory on Friday night.

The second game on Saturday saw much of the same thing, total BC domination. All of the goals came in the second period. BC scored two power play goals back to back to give the Eagles a 2-0 lead as Benn Ferriero and Andrew Orpik added to their goal total. Wisconsin would respond right back on their power play with a goal from Jake Dowell making it 2-1 with less than nine minutes left in the second period. But, the Eagles came right back as Joe Rooney scored on a breakaway to make it 3-1. And to cap off the scoring, Benn Ferriero added another goal with a little over five seconds left in the second to give the Eagles a 4-1 lead. Cory Schneider again was solid with 28 saves, and again stopped 14 Wisconsin shots in the second. His counterpart, Brian Elliott struggled stopping 33 of 39 Boston College shots in both games.

In other action this weekend:

Northeastern went on the road to Michigan and gained a surprising split over the Wolverines.

New Hampshire lost both of their games at home as Yale, and UMASS-Amherst came in and defeated the Wildcats.

Northern Michigan and Ohio State split in a key CCHA series.

Colorado College got swept for the second weekend in a row as the Minnesota Golden Gophers took care of business on their home ice.

And Rensselaer won the Governor's Cup in Albany, NY as the Engineers defeated Union (shootout victory) and ECACHL favorite Colgate in the finals.

This coming weeks games include:

A home and home series between Michigan and Michigan State.

A key Hockey East series between New Hampshire and Northeastern also a home and home series.

Minnesota's biggest rivalry between Minnesota and Minnesota-Duluth.

And #1 Maine and Boston University will play each other on Saturday night at Agganis Arena.

All of these games and much more coming up in the weekly preview.