The take here: Something has to give

BU's John Curry is 4-0 in Beanpot play, including last Monday's shutout of NU. (ELSA/GETTY IMAGES)

Boston University goaltender John Curry enters tonight's Beanpot championship against Boston College with a perfect career record in the tournament.

Curry, a senior, is 4-0 with a 1.65 goals-against average and .943 save percentage.

BC netminder Cory Schneider has had success in the tourney, too.

Last year, Schneider was the recipient of the Beanpot's Eberly Award, given to the goalie with the best save percentage in the two games. He turned back 61 of the 66 shots he faced and had a .924 save percentage in the '06 tournament.

He was the eighth BC netminder to earn the honor and the first since Matti Kaltiainen, who took it home in 2002.

Schneider had 45 saves in Friday night's 2-1 win over Providence, earning him his 53d career victory. That moved him into a fifth-place tie with Greg Taylor and Jim Logue, now a BC assistant coach, on the school's all-time win list.

The Eagles have not fared well against the Terriers in the tournament. Overall, BC has won 10 of their 36 meetings. BU has won the last two. The teams have met in the title game 18 times and the Terriers have come away with 11 championships. Last year, BU beat BC, 3-2 . . . Of the four Beanpot schools, the Eagles have played the most at the Garden (formerly the FleetCenter). In their 41 contests at the arena, they have a 25-15-1 record. BC has captured six championships at the Garden -- the 1998, '99, 2001, and 2005 Hockey East championships and the 2001 and 2004 Beanpot titles . . . BC's four seniors -- captain Brian Boyle, assistant captain Joe Rooney, Justin Greene, and Joe Pearce have a 5-2 career record in the tournament. They won it in 2004 as freshmen, beating BU in overtime, 2-1. They finished third as sophomores, beating Harvard in the consolation game, and last year took second.

Harvard, which faces Northeastern this afternoon in the consolation game, rebounded from its 3-1 first-round loss to BC by beating Princeton on the road, 4-2, Friday night. The Crimson peppered Princeton with 37 shots. Harvard trailed, 2-1, after the first period, as Princeton scored a pair of power-play goals, but responded with three unanswered tallies in the second. Kyle Richter earned the win with 22 saves . . . After a strong streak from Dec. 30-Feb. 2, during which Northeastern went 6-2-2, the Huskies have struggled. They have failed to score in their last two games, losing, 4-0, to BU in the first round of the Beanpot and dropping a 1-0 decision to UMass-Lowell Thursday. The squad has just two goals in its last four games and has won just once in that span.