Acadia falls 4-2 to Boston University

Giftopoulos and Franko score for Acadia

The Acadia Axemen were in Boston, Massachusetts on Saturday for an exhibition game against the Boston University Terriers. The final result wasn’t what the Axemen had hoped as BU knocked off the Axemen 4-2. The Terriers were the #3 ranked team in the NCAA last season, and all indications are that they will be one of the top teams again this season.

BU opened the scoring at 9:53 of the first period as Danny O’Regan sent a pass from behind the net that deflected off the leg of sliding Axemen defenseman Tyler Ferry and through the legs of Acadia goaltender Brandon Glover to put BU up 1-0.

Just over two minutes later, Acadia tied things up as Remy Giftopoulos tipped home a point shot from Tyler Ferry. But the Axemen didn’t stop there as exactly three minutes later, Zachary Franko took a breakaway pass and went in alone on the Terrier goalie. The Axemen second year sniper went forehand to backhand and roofed the puck under the crossbar, to give Acadia a 2-1 lead.

The Axemen took that lead to the intermission, but BU didn’t take long to tie things up in the 2^nd period as Shane Switzer put home the equalizer at 2:09. That was all the scoring for the second period as the teams started the third period knotted at 2.

BU scored just over 5 minutes into the third period as first year forward Jakob Forsbacka-Karlsson put his team ahead to stay by making it 3-2. The Axemen pressed for the tying goal, with three powerplays, but were unsuccessful at finding the back of the net. At 13:15 of the period, BU’s Forsbacka-Karlsson took a breakaway pass as he exited the penalty box and went in alone on Glover, but was interfered with from behind by Axemen defender Daniel Poliziani. A penalty shot was awarded, and the lanky BU forward made no mistake, beating Glover with a clever deke to put his team up by a score of 4-2.

Final shots on goal in the game were 30 by Boston, 29 by Acadia. The Axemen were 0 for 4 on the powerplay while Boston was 0 for 2.

Acadia heads to Vermont to play the NCAA’s University of Vermont Catamounts before returning home to prepare for their regular season opener next week.