Jim ConnellyDETROIT — Perhaps no one in Ford Field this weekend will have as much experience in Frozen Fours as Boston College head coach Jerry York. York, who played in the Frozen Four in 1965, falling to Colorado College in the title game as a member of the Eagles, not only has led BC to the … Read more
DETROIT – The NCAA men’s basketball tournament has become famous in past years for splicing together a highlight video from the 65-team event that airs prior to the national championship game called, “One Shining Moment.” During the layoff between the regional tournament and the Frozen Four, the Boston College staff put together a video, not … Read more
DETROIT – The NCAA men’s basketball tournament has become famous in past years for splicing together a highlight video from the 65-team event that airs prior to the national championship game called, “One Shining Moment.” During the layoff between the regional tournament and the Frozen Four, the Boston College staff put together a video, not … Read more
DETROIT – No team has ever played a hockey game on Ford Field. But that doesn’t mean Boston College doesn’t have a bit of a home ice advantage heading into Thursday’s national semifinal game at the Frozen Four in Detroit. The Eagles may not have played on Ford Field, but that have played on the … Read more
DETROIT – No team has ever played a hockey game on Ford Field. But that doesn’t mean Boston College doesn’t have a bit of a home ice advantage heading into Thursday’s national semifinal game at the Frozen Four in Detroit. The Eagles may not have played on Ford Field, but that have played on the … Read more
DETROIT – When this season began, Boston College goaltender John Muse was the team’s biggest question. Coming off surgery in the summer to repair his hip, head coach Jerry York wondered if we’d see the standout netminder before November. When he appeared in net, though, to start the season, many were shocked. But a somewhat … Read more
DETROIT – When this season began, Boston College goaltender John Muse was the team’s biggest question. Coming off surgery in the summer to repair his hip, head coach Jerry York wondered if we’d see the standout netminder before November. When he appeared in net, though, to start the season, many were shocked. But a somewhat … Read more
Conviction always beats convention. Just ask the Boston College Eagles. For the second straight week, the Eagles used an out-of-the-ordinary performance to capture a championship, defeating Yale, 9-7, in a wild and wooly Northeast Regional championship game to advance to the Frozen Four for the ninth time in 13 years and 22nd time in school … Read more
Yale enjoys the underdog role as it wins its first NCAA game since 1952.
After an opening day of the NCAA Ice Hockey tournament where top seeds were pressed to the brink, and in the case of top seed Denver saw its season come to the end, it’s no surprise that Boston College coach Jerry York was concerned that his Eagles could become yet another victim of an upset. … Read more
On an evening when everything that happened between Boston College and Maine seemed improbable, it was only fitting that the game’s hero was equally as improbable. Eagles senior Matt Lombardi, who entered Saturday’s Hockey East Championship game with three goals on the season, scored the game-winning goal at 5:25 of overtime to complete his first … Read more
It may not have been the most conventional win, but with a 5-2 victory over No. 3 seed Boston University, the No. 4 seed Maine Black Bears are headed to the Hockey East championship game for the first time since 2004. Maine will face Boston College, a 3-0 winner over Vermont on Friday, in the … Read more
On to Boston After one of the most dramatic quarterfinal rounds in league history, four teams will make the march to Boston this weekend to crown a league champion. For two teams, it will be a short bus ride as stalwarts Boston College and Boston University make their respective rides down Commonwealth Avenue, over Beacon … Read more
After Sunday’s 3-0 loss to Boston University in the deciding game of the best-of-three Hockey East quarterfinals series, Merrimack coach Mark Dennehy wasn’t shy when talking about the expectations for his Warriors this season. “I don’t know that anybody believed in this team except this team,” said Dennehy. “Any advancement we made as a program … Read more
The curse of the seventh seed lives on. No. 2 seed Boston College broke open a 2-2 tie with three goals in the third period to defeat No. 7 seed Massachusetts, 5-2, and sweep the best-of-three series quarterfinal series. The series victory for BC continues the futility for seventh-seeded team in the Hockey East tournament; … Read more
The calendar might read March 12 and Friday’s game between No. 2 seed Boston College and No. 7 seed Massachusetts was technically a quarterfinal playoff game, but the caliber of play between the Eagles and Minutemen at BC’s Kelley Rink made it seem more like an exhibition game played in early October. A game that … Read more
Women’s hockey may not be known for blistering one-timers off the stick of defensemen. Unless, of course, you’re talking about Boston University defenseman Tara Watchorn. The sophomore put every ounce of her 5-foot-10 frame into a one-timer from just inside the blue line that beat Connecticut netminder Alexandra Garcia at 9:52 of overtime to give … Read more
There may have been little to nothing on the line when No. 5 Boston College hosted No. 10 New Hampshire on Saturday night in the regular-season finale for both teams, but if that’s the case, no one told the players. Â A night after UNH rallied for three third-period goals to earn a 3-3 tie … Read more
Standings, Standings and More Standings I’m not enough of a Hockey East historian to know whether this officially is the tightest logjam entering the final weekend of play in league history. If it’s not, I can’t imagine the math that pundits were going through in the past. At this point in the season, the league … Read more
It’s college hockey playoff time and nowhere was that evident more than at Kelley Rink on Friday as Massachusetts and host Boston College played a prototypical postseason game. With UMass fighting for its playoff lives it gave the Eagles, themselves battling for the league crown, everything they could handle. But when the chips were down, … Read more