BOSTON -- In a manner of speaking, the shutout streak is still alive.

Boston University's Sean Fields turned away 40 New Hampshire shots on his way to picking up the MVP Award at the Hockey East Tournament championship game Saturday night at the FleetCenter.

	Even in defeat, Boston U's Sean Fields was still named tourney MVP.

Only a deflection off the stick of Terrier defenseman Ryan Whitney at 11:43 of overtime prevented Fields from being the winner as well.

Instead, UNH (25-7-6) took the goal credited to sophomore defenseman Tyson Teplitsky for a 1-0 win over BU (24-13-3), and the Lou Lamoriello Trophy will stay in Durham, N.H., for a second consecutive year.

With both teams in the middle of a line change, Teplitsky picked up a loose puck in the neutral zone, headed up the right boards and drove wide around BU defenseman Mike Bussoli before he flipped the puck toward Fields.

"The guy just backhanded it toward the net and it took an unlucky bounce off of Whit and bounced up over me and in," Fields said. "Whenever you get into a playoff game and overtime, it seems that goals go in that way -- just an unlucky bounce."

Teplitsky, whose goal was his first in 25 games and only his second on the season, saw his good fortune the same way.

"I was just trying to go wide and get the puck on net and it was fortunate enough to bounce off their player and go in," he said.

The goal officially ended Fields' shutout streak at 104:52, going back to the third period of BU's double-overtime win over Boston College in Friday night's semifinals.

Following that win, BU coach Jack Parker thought (hoped?) adrenaline would be enough to get his players through the championship game despite the quick turnaround. It looked like he might be right as the Terriers outshot the Wildcats 12-5 in the opening period.

From that point on, however, UNH dominated offensively and registered a 36-12 shot advantage.

"After a strong start it looked like we hit a wall," Parker said. "I don't know if we were worn down from the long haul or from (Friday) night's game.

"We didn't have quite enough energy. Our lack of legs, combined with UNH's great legs turned the game into the Sean Fields Show for a lot of it. Unfortunately, we put it in … they didn't put it in our net. They weren't going to put it by Sean tonight."

Fields' performance was good enough to be compared to former Providence College goalie Chris Terreri. The former Friars netminder took home MVP honors at the first Hockey East Tournament in 1985 after making 65 saves in a 2-1 double-overtime win over BC.

How good was Sean Fields?

Good enough that he was only the third MVP from a losing team in Hockey East Tournament history. The others -- goaltenders Dwayne Roloson (UMass-Lowell in 1994) and Bob Bell (PC in 1995) -- were both beaten by the Terriers, giving Parker the unique perspective of having witnessed first-hand some of the league's top individual performances.

"Terreriesque?" Parker said, upping the ante a couple of notches. "I would have said Drydenesque but I like it just the same.

"(Sean) had many more tough opportunities than Ayers did," Parker said. "I wasn't too worried about something getting by him. I thought they would have to drill something by him, but as it turned out, it was something weirder than that."

Almost weird enough to keep the shutout streak alive.

David Albright is a senior editor at ESPN.com and can be reached at david.albright@espn3.com