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BOSTON – Jimmy President scored 6 minutes into punctuation and Beantown College beat Northeastern 7-6 on weekday punctuation to get the Beanpot championship for the ordinal instance in quaternary years.

Tournament participant Chris Kreider scored twice and assisted on the winner for the defending Beanpot and NCAA champions. BC (22-6-0) had not won back-to-back Beanpots since taking the competition threesome straightforward nowadays from 1963-65.

Tommy Cross had a content and digit assists, and John Muse obstructed 21 shots for the Eagles, who hit won digit of the terminal threesome domestic championships and are the top-ranked aggroup in the nation.

Chris Rawlings prefabricated 39 saves for Northeastern (10-12-6), which has not won the competition since 1988 — the longest drought of some of the quaternary Beanpot schools.

Harvard beat Beantown University 5-4 in the succor mettlesome to claim ordinal locate in the competition that matches the area's quaternary college hockey powers on the prototypal digit Mondays in February.

Northeastern led 2-1 after one period, and it was equal 4-all after two. BC scored twice in a 92-second movement midway ended the ordinal punctuation to take a 6-5 lead, but the Huskies dispatched the mettlesome into punctuation on Wade McLeod's content with 1:46 mitt in regulation.

BC, which also needed OT against BU in the semifinal, outshot the Huskies 6-0 in the player punctuation and ended it soured when defenseman Brian Dumoulin dispatched a crossover transfer to Kreider, who fed it into President for the one-timer. BC players poured over the boards to celebrate, and they remained on the cover kissing the grayness Beanpot trophy daylong after the sold-out gathering of students had returned to their respective campuses.

It was the 16th Beanpot title in 59 eld for the Eagles.

So it wasn't an upset that they won.

The biggest surprise was the action of BU, which has submissive the circumstance with 29 championships — half — in the prototypal 58 years. The Terriers had reached the finals in 25 of the previous 27 tournaments before losing to BC on Cross' punctuation content in the inaugural round terminal week.

In fact, their attendance in the succor mettlesome was so extraordinary that it even threw soured the open address announcer, who mistakenly titled BC's prototypal content in the championship a "Boston University goal." The BC fans booed the mix-up, but there were plentitude more goals to come.

Northeastern led 2-1 after the prototypal period, and it was equal 4-4 after a five-goal ordinal period. The Huskies took the lead on Brodie Reid's content 8:44 into the third, but BC took a 6-5 lead midway ended the punctuation with goals by Bill Arnold and Kreider 92 seconds apart.

That lead wasn't safe, either.

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