‘Unless you’re Boston College, you don’t get here every year.’

TAMPA, Fla. — “Unless you’re Boston College, you don’t get here every year.” Minnesota coach Don Lucia was talking about his team’s joy at advancing to the Frozen Four and was stressing the importance of taking advantage of the opportunity when he paid his upcoming opponent the biggest of compliments. “Unless you’re Boston College,” he … Read more

Boston College’s 17-game winning streak: Who cares?

TAMPA, Fla. — Plenty of ink has been spilled discussing Boston College’s 17-game winning streak. And deservedly so. It’s an impressive achievement. Arguably, though, winning streaks are the stuff of regular seasons; the playoffs are a different animal. “If one win streak ends in the regular season, then you can start another,” BC captain Tommy … Read more

Not so Frozen Four

TAMPA, Fla. — It’s currently almost 90 degrees outside the Tampa Bay Times Forum, a strange atmosphere to settle college hockey’s champion. But Minnesota coach Don Lucia thinks the change does the sport good. “It’s more of an event [now],” said Lucia. “I think it’s an event that cities want to bid on. So I … Read more

Size isn’t relative, but perception certainly is — just ask the Bulldogs

TAMPA, Fla. — Some folks in the press are playing up the David-and-Goliath angle of the Ferris State-Union semifinal versus the Boston College-Minnesota game, even referring to the former as “junior varsity” as opposed to the alleged varsity game — the real game — between the Eagles and Golden Gophers. “I think that’s silly,” said … Read more

For Union, it’s just business

4 Apr 12: Wednesday at the Frozen Four in Tampa, Fl, (Jim Rosvold)

TAMPA, Fla. — Union had a great season last year: The Schenectady, N.Y., program won its first regular season title and advanced to its first NCAA tournament, to boot. But the truth finally came out a month ago, from junior Jeremy Welsh. “We can say it now, but it was huge,” Welsh said about making … Read more