WORCESTER — Still the prized possession of Chestnut Hill athletics, the Boston College hockey team once again clinched a spot in the Frozen Four Saturday night with a workmanlike 3-2 win over Minnesota-Duluth to capture the NCAA Northeast Regional title at the DCU Center.

Sparked by a pair of Teddy Doherty goals and the stingy netminding of Thatcher Demko (28 saves), the 28-7-5 Eagles built a 2-0 lead by early in the second period and advanced to the Frozen Four for a 12th time under the tutelage of coach Jerry York.

BC next will face either Quinnipiac or UMass Lowell on Thursday, April 9, in the Frozen Four semifinals at Amalie Arena in Tampa.

The Eagles will arrive in Florida hoping to win the sixth NCAA hockey title in school history and what would be their fifth with York, the Archbishop of April, behind the bench. They last won the title in 2012 (over Ferris State) and will be returning for the first time since 2014, when they were knocked out by Union.

The Duluth Bulldogs, who survived double OT vs. Providence on Friday night, finished the season 19-16-5. Their first goal, a power-play strike by Austin Farley with 7:11 left in the third, cut the lead to 3-1. Karson Kuhlman then cut the margin to 3-2 with 4:26 remaining in regulation.

Ryan Fitzgerald’s team-high 23d goal of the season provided the Eagles with the three-goal cushion with 6:35 gone in the third period.

It looked as if the Bulldogs might have had the tying goal in the final seconds, skating with a 6-on-4 advantage. But after video review, the officials were satisfied that a diving save by Demko with some six seconds to play preserved the win.

For a club that played into the 81st minute the night before, the Bulldogs had much the better of the first-period play. The few forays the Eagles made into the offensive end, UMD was quick to shuttle them out in transition, repeatedly flushing the Eagles out of the zone or carrying the puck down ice, helped by sharp passes and quick break-outs.

Finally, after going more than 14 minutes without a quality scoring chance, the Eagles were first to break on the board with Doherty connecting for his 12th of the season. Adam Gilmour set it up with a slick feed to Doherty as the Bulldogs once again were about to start up ice. Doherty took the relay and snapped off a short-range wrister that first ticked off Kaskisuo’s glove at 14:06.

One good shot. One goal. When the period ended, the Eagles still had the 1-0 lead, despite the fact the Bulldogs had roughly a 4-2 edge in quality scoring chances.

The Eagles easily dispatched Harvard, 4-1, in Friday night’s tourney opener. Alex Tuch and Austin Cangelosi had the goals, the Crimson unable to fight back from a 3-0 deficit from early in the second period.

The Bulldogs, the 2011 NCAA champs, needed two overtimes to rid themselves of Providence, 2-1. With less than a minute gone, and the Friars visibly fatigued and faltering, Kuhlman banged home the game-winner from near the top of the crease.

Other than their 2011 national title, the Bulldogs have been to the Frozen Four title game only one other time, in ’84, when they fell to Jerry York’s Bowling Green team.

Following Friday night’s win, his club’s third of the postseason, York said he was pleased to see his Eagles playing their best hockey in a month. The Eagles hadn’t lost in the 2016 calendar year until falling to UMass-Lowell in their final regular-season game. After returning to work following a first-round bye in the Hockey East playoffs, the Eagles were stretched to the three-game max before finally knocking off Vermont and proceeding to the tourney championship at TD Garden.

But what really troubled York was his squad’s play in the opening round of the Hockey East championship, where the Eagles were sent home by a red-hot Northeastern squad that nailed in a pair of second-period power-play goals to keep BC from reaching the title game. Too inconsistent, said York. The Eagles had not shot enough for his liking and they were too weak getting the puck out of their own end of the ice. Both those factors were at play again here in the first period vs. UMD.

UMD wasn’t nearly as sharp in the second period, the Eagles outshooting the Bulldogs, 16-10, and bumping their lead up to 2-0 on Doherty’s second of the night. Parked deep in the slot, he banged home the puck after a workingman’s dish out of the right corner from Chris Calnan.

The Eagles entered the third period only 20 minutes away from another trip to the Frozen Four.

Kevin Paul Dupont can be reached at kevin.dupont@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeKPD.