Providence beat New Hampshire 3-2 in overtime tonight at BC's Conte Forum. UNH waited until late in the second period to start playing with any intensity at all, trailing 1-0 after two periods courtesy of a Chad Quenville goal. Co-captains Eric Flinton and Kent Schmidtke gave UNH a 2-1 lead early in the third period, then George Breen tied it with about six minutes left in regulation. About 2.5 minutes into overtime, an intentional offsides call on UNH put the faceoff in the Wildcat zone. PC won the faceoff back to the left point, where a weak, bouncing shot appeared to deflect off of at least one player before beating Trent Cavicchi. (I never heard who was credited with the goal). Basically, New Hampshire did not deserve to win this game. They played with very little intensity for the first 30-35 minutes, then found that PC goaltender Bell was up for the game. Frankly, both of UNH's goals were flukes, and Bell could have easily had a shutout. I also believe that UNH coach Dick Umile should have had his players pay much, much closer attention to PC's top line of Kramer-Quenville-Breen. This is the *only* PC line that can hurt you, and they did. Umile did absolutely no line matching, and it didn't appear that any of his players made any extra effort to defend against this high-powered threesome. PC goes on to the Garden next week, while UNH waits to see if and where they will play in two weeks. It would seem they are still a virtual lock for the tournament, and knowing the NC$$ the way we all do, I expect they will play at Worcester so UNH's sizeable traveling contingent won't have far to go. The prospect of two weeks off does not bode well, however. The last time this happened, in 1992, all six Eastern teams (including UNH) lost their opening game after having two weeks off between the conference tournament and the NCAA regionals. Chris Craig Go Blue!