Michigan? What’s a Michigan?

In my days in college hockey I’ve seen plenty of people give teams the ammunition to win. But in all my time have I seen such little respect given to a team that, in the history of the NCAA tournament, has more championships than any other club. Michigan will play North Dakota this weekend in … Read more

Thoughts on the NCAA Tournament field…

Well, a wild weekend of conference tournament hockey is finally behind us and the resultant is this year’s 16-team NCAA tournament field. Once again, the PairWise Rankings correctly predicted the tournament field. Over the years, I’ve noticed that the general public’s knowledge and understanding of the PairWise has certainly cut down on the griping after … Read more

UMass-ive Weekend

I’m definitely a writer who is happy to give the ol’ mea culpa when I screw something up. So I’m here to tip my hat to the UMass Minutemen. On Thursday, I said that I expected Maine to pretty much walk all over them in their best-of-three quarterfinal series. Instead, the Minutemen played in a … Read more

My favorite time of year…

Okay, so the second Thursday in March is pretty much my Christmas every year. No, it’s not because St. Patrick’s Day is nearing (as a true Irishman, I consider St. Patty’s to be amateur night for drinking). I get jazzed this time of year for college hockey’s post-season to hit it’s stride. This weekend, every … Read more

The National Picture

It’s natural for everyone to be thinking either regular-season standings or worrying about how their team will do in the conference playoffs. What is easy to lose sight of is the extremely cluttered national tournament picture. Right now, the PairWise rankings are as volitile as ever. Some perrenial powerhouses are living day to day on … Read more

Danger ahead as season comes to an end…

We all love the Cinderella story in sports. Heck, half the reason the NCAA men’s basketball tournament has such great ratings is due to upsets in the tournament’s opening rounds. With that in mind, there seems to be an unusally high number of what I call “land mines” in college hockey this season. Land mines … Read more

That’s a wrap

That ends things from the TD Banknorth Garden. Yes, it does seem like Groundhog’s Day with BU winning for the 28th time in 55 years. But anyone who had the chance to see Monday title game will tell you that it was one of the more entertaining, edge of your seat games in the tournament’s … Read more

Post-game thoughts…

Some quotes from the players and coaches of both teams after tonight’s thrilling, 2-1 overtime victory for Boston University over Boston College: BU head coach Jack Parker: “I told everyone on the BC team that I thought they deserved better tonight.” “I can’t say enough about John Curry. I can’t say enough about the way … Read more

ITS OVER – BU WINS BEANPOT NUMBER 28!

Brian McGuirk, after taking a faceoff and beating BC’s opposing winger, fired a shot that surprised Schneider to win the game and the championship at 5:06 of overtime. BU has captured its third straight and 28th all-time Beanpot championship, 2-1. The goal sent the BU student section into pandemonium. Announcement of the tournament MVP and … Read more

Third period stats…

BC had 29 attempts on goal during the third period, 13 of them on target, seven blocked by the defense and nine missing the net. BU had 14 attempts with just four getting through to Schneider, one hitting the pipe (Roche), with the defense blocking five and four shots going wide. BC holds a 35-21 … Read more

Overtime notes

This is the ninth time the championship game has gone to overtime and the third time that it has been BC and BU playing. BC has won the previous two overtime contests in the title game against the Terriers.