Three Mondays ago, the Boston University men’s hockey team spent the day in anticipation of its first-round Beanpot game against Boston College.

Well, that is, most of the team spent the day in anticipation — not senior winger Bryan Ewing, who spent the day with the flu. In fact, he spent every day for the next week-and-a-half battling the flu.

But unless you noticed that the forward was suddenly carrying a little less weight, there’s a good chance most Terrier fans didn’t have an inkling that Boomer had been under the weather – and that for a while, he’d been so sick he was missing most practices and just showing up for games.

And since that first-round Beanpot loss Feb. 4, they’ve all been games BU has won, fueling the Terriers’ monumental leap from the depths of the conference standings into second place.

This weekend alone, BU made the jump from fifth to second behind a three-goal, two-assist weekend from Ewing, who admitted that after three weeks he’s finally regained his full energy.

“I finally got my energy back this weekend,” Ewing said. “My line had a great weekend, especially Pete [MacArthur], he’s playing really well and [Chris Higgins] is right there, too, scoring points. It’s great to be back and feeling good.”

After a weekend like the Terriers just had, sweeping No. 14 Northeastern University in a home-and-home series, there was even a little more icing on the cake for Boomer.

With an assist on MacArthur’s game-tying goal Saturday night, Ewing became the 74th player in BU history to break the 100-point threshold, notching his 100th career point on the play and nabbing No. 101 just under nine minutes later, when he tallied the game-winner.

“It’s been in the back of my head for a while,” he said of the milestone point. “There’s not a better feeling. It’s nice to get that out of the way.”

Although the past few weeks might have been a little more challenging physically for Ewing, they have been remarkable weeks for the Terriers. Their national-best six-game winning streak is a product of contributions up and down the lineup – starting with the first line.

“MacArthur and Ewing were immense for us,” said BU coach Jack Parker. “Ewing is obviously getting his strength back, he feels 100 percent. He lost 12 pounds and he’s trying to put some of it back on, but he’s got his quickness back. He’s been a go-to guy for us all year.”

Earlier this season, Parker noted that the Terriers were going to go as far as their key forwards would take them, mentioning that players like MacArthur and Ewing needed to have 40-point seasons for the team to thrive. As it stands now, both forwards sit just four points away from that mark.

But just as the Terriers’ recent surge has come from contributions across the roster, so too has the ability to focus squarely on the task at hand — fighting for home-ice in the Hockey East playoffs — and not on individual accomplishments.

“As of now, we’ve won our last six games,” Ewing said. “We belong in second place.”

Fighting Dogs

The Terriers and the Huskies combined for 36 penalties this weekend, as BU was sent to the box 21 times and Northeastern took a seat 15 times.

Most of Friday night’s 24 penalties during a raucous game at Matthews Arena were the result of seven matching penalties. BU alone was whistled for a season-high 14 penalties Friday.

The amount of penalties is a credit to a growing rivalry nearing the height of BU-BC.

“It’s really close to [the BC rivalry],” Ewing said. “I honestly love playing either team because it just brings the best out of us and we always play well against them.”

All of that whistle blowing amounted to two power-play goals, a shorthanded score and two empty-net tallies for the Terriers on Friday, while Huskies netted one power-play goal in each game.

Streaking Into the Playoffs

With the two wins this weekend, the Terriers are riding their first six-game winning streak since March 2006, when they reeled off a seven-game streak to close out the regular season.

The seven-game run was the second longest streak of 2005-06, which included an 11-game winning streak from Jan. 7 to Feb. 13, 2006. BU went 18-1-2 over its last 21 games, propelling the team to a No. 1 national ranking heading into the NCAA Tournament.