Box Score

BOSTON , Mass. – Senior Christian Jensen's goal at 13:58 of the third period broke a 3-3 tie and Rensselaer had two other tallies in the stanza on its way to a 5-3 come-from-behind victory at Boston University on Friday at Agganis Arena. With the win, the Engineers move to 9-9-1 on the season, while the Terriers fall to 4-9-3 overall.

Facing a 3-2 deficit heading into the final period, RPI put the pressure on in the BU zone as senior Erik Burgdoerfer scored his first of the season to make it an even game at 3-all. Assisting on the play was sophomore Patrick Cullen and junior Joel Malchuk.

Jensen's goal at 13:58 from Marty O'Grady and Alex Angers-Goulet gave Rensselaer the lead for good and an empty-net score by Tyler Helfrich with 53 seconds left, sealed the 5-3 win for the Engineers.

BU's Nick Bonino started the game's scoring with a short-handed effort, converting passes from Chris Connolly and Shattenkirk just 2:02 into the game for an early 1-0 lead.

A pair of RPI goals just 19 seconds apart gave the Engineers the lead at the end of the first period as Angers-Goulet and Bryan Brutlag both netted their third goals on the season to put the guests up 2-1 after the opening stanza.

BU's Zach Cohen needed just 3:10 of the second period to even the score with his team-leading sixth goal, a power-play effort off feeds from Max Nicastro and Corey Trivino.

Junior captain Kevin Shattenkirk gave BU the lead at the 9:55 mark of the second period on a heads-up play during a penalty kill. After Helfrich fired a shot on the Terriers net, Shattenkirk blocked it cleanly, collected the puck and took it the length of the ice for his third goal of the season.

BU goalie Kieran Millan finished the game with 20 saves while Rensselaer's Bryce Merriam stopped 32 shots in the win. The Terriers outshot the Engineers 35-25 for the game.

BU next takes the ice in 2010 as it faces off against Massachusetts in a 4 p.m. game on Saturday, Jan. 2 at Agganis Arena. RPI returns to action on December 29 versus Michigan at the Great Lakes Invitational at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.