BU 2013-2014 (Part III): Close your eyes, we're coming up on the end here...

[CollegeHockeyRinkReport]

Re: BU 2013-2014 (Part III): Close your eyes, we're coming up on the end here...

J.D. Carrabino, Brendan Collier only BU players cut to date.

http://www.sbncollegehockey.com/2014...ch-david-quinn

[Agganis]

Re: BU 2013-2014 (Part III): Close your eyes, we're coming up on the end here...

J.D. Carrabino, Brendan Collier only BU players cut to date.

http://www.sbncollegehockey.com/2014...ch-david-quinn

You misspelled "Mike79" as "sources".

[CollegeHockeyRinkReport]

You misspelled "Mike79" as "sources".

Actually I did not. I have my own sources but thanks for that.

[Don't Stop, Hammer Time]

Re: BU 2013-2014 (Part III): Close your eyes, we're coming up on the end here...

That's too bad, if there's any player that can claim he didn't have a chance to prove himself, it's Carrabino. Hopefully he sticks around, it looks like the players and coaches like him. Maybe he can play on the club team and stick around the way Eruzione Jr did.

[ericredaxe]

That's too bad, if there's any player that can claim he didn't have a chance to prove himself, it's Carrabino. Hopefully he sticks around, it looks like the players and coaches like him. Maybe he can play on the club team and stick around the way Eruzione Jr did.

It is a curious move to me, but we don't know what the coaches saw in practice. His limited playing time at Clarkson is curious, but I don't know the circumstances there. Wish him well whatever happens.

[CollegeHockeyRinkReport]

It is a curious move to me, but we don't know what the coaches saw in practice. His limited playing time at Clarkson is curious, but I don't know the circumstances there. Wish him well whatever happens.

Injuries were a contributing factor to his lack of PT at Clarkson.

[ericredaxe]

Based on Mich and MSU's schedules looks like they will be returning here Oct 24 and 25. Which also makes sense because that is the weekend we visited them last year

Mich/MSU Oct 24 and 25
Harv Nov 25
@RPI Dec 13
Union Early Jan (2nd, 3rd, or 4th)
Wisc Jan 9 and 10

Based on HE schedule Colgate would probably have to be either before Mich/MSU or Thanksgiving weekend. As would the 2 "mystery" games.

UNH is 2/13 and 2/14

[ericredaxe]

Re: BU 2013-2014 (Part III): Close your eyes, we're coming up on the end here...

Mich/MSU Oct 24 and 25
Maine Nov 21
Harv Nov 25
@RPI Dec 13
Union Early Jan (2nd, 3rd, or 4th)
Wisc Jan 9 and 10
UNH is 2/13 and 2/14

[Agganis]

Re: BU 2013-2014 (Part III): Close your eyes, we're coming up on the end here...

Mich/MSU Oct 24 and 25
Maine Nov 21
Harv Nov 25
@RPI Dec 13
Union Early Jan (2nd, 3rd, or 4th)
Wisc Jan 9 and 10
UNH is 2/13 and 2/14

HE schedules that have been released seem to very closely mirror last year's with just 2 UConn games scattered in and generally the home and away games flipped from last year. This would make the 2015 part of 2014-5 be:

Jan 2/3/4 Union
Jan 9+10 @ Wisc
Jan 16 BC
Jan 17 UML
Jan 23+24 @ UVM
Jan 30 UMass
Feb 2 Beanpot
Feb 8 @UML
Feb 9 Beanpot
Feb 13/14 UNH home and home
Feb 20/21 ND
Feb 27/28 NU home and home

Figuring out the fall portion is a bit harder as there are more individual games than weekend series with a single opponent, but I think you can at least pencil in a Merrimack home and home the weekend before RPI, the PC home and home over halloween weekend, and at BC for one game the weekend after that.

[Sean Pickett]

Re: BU 2013-2014 (Part III): Close your eyes, we're coming up on the end here...

HE schedules that have been released seem to very closely mirror last year's with just 2 UConn games scattered in and generally the home and away games flipped from last year. This would make the 2015 part of 2014-5 be:

Jan 2/3/4 Union
Jan 9+10 @ Wisc
Jan 16 BC
Jan 17 UML
Jan 23+24 @ UVM
Jan 30 UMass
Feb 2 Beanpot
Feb 8 @UML
Feb 9 Beanpot
Feb 13/14 UNH home and home
Feb 20/21 ND
Feb 27/28 NU home and home

BU has been scheduled to play Northeastern the last weekend of the regular season for the past five seasons and 7 of the past 9. I have followed BU for the past 29 seasons and I would like to see BC at the end of the regular season, like in the past. In the early years of Hockey East, BU and BC met at the end of the season 6 out of the first 7 and 11 of the first 17, but now they haven't played at the end of the season for 13 straight. Below is BU's last regular season opponent since the start of Hockey East:
1984-85 BC
1985-86 BC
1986-87 UML
1987-88 BC
1988-89 BC
1989-90 BC
1990-91 BC
1991-92 MC
1992-93 PC
1993-94 PC
1994-95 BC
1995-96 BC
1996-97 UNH
1997-98 MC
1998-99 BC
1999-00 BC
2000-01 BC
2001-02 Maine
2002-03 Maine
2003-04 UNH
2004-05 UNH
2005-06 NU
2006-07 NU
2007-08 PC
2008-09 PC
2009-10 NU
2010-11 NU
2011-12 NU
2012-13 NU
2013-14 NU

Furthermore, over the last 5 seasons only two other teams, UMass Lowell and Vermont, have played each other 3 times, with the remaining teams not playing any other team more than twice. So there really is no valid reason for BU and NU to always play each other at the end ot the regular season. I hope that in the future BU will play BC again at the end of the regular season, as well as other Hockey East teams

Sean

[mookie1995]

Re: BU 2013-2014 (Part III): Close your eyes, we're coming up on the end here...

Sean has a good point

It would be nice to get those Ws earlier in the yr.

[Agganis]

Re: BU 2013-2014 (Part III): Close your eyes, we're coming up on the end here...

Furthermore, over the last 5 seasons only two other teams, UMass Lowell and Vermont, have played each other 3 times, with the remaining teams not playing any other team more than twice. So there really is no valid reason for BU and NU to always play each other at the end ot the regular season. I hope that in the future BU will play BC again at the end of the regular season, as well as other Hockey East teams

If BU and NU are the only teams playing during the final weekend with this frequency I'm going to assume the two schools have asked HE to schedule them this way, otherwise I don't know why they would have kept doing it while switching up everyone else. If my assumption is correct you may not get your wish as soon as you would like.

[ericredaxe]

Re: BU 2013-2014 (Part III): Close your eyes, we're coming up on the end here...

If BU and NU are the only teams playing during the final weekend with this frequency I'm going to assume the two schools have asked HE to schedule them this way, otherwise I don't know why they would have kept doing it while switching up everyone else. If my assumption is correct you may not get your wish as soon as you would like.

For what it is worth, I noticed that the Hockey East Schedule really didn't change much from year to year over the past several years. (except for last season when we went to 20 league games) I'm not sure if that was at BU's request, or if the easiest thing for the people creating the schedule to do was to just dust off the previous years schedule, tweak it as needed and then send it out again. Remember when it all of a sudden became a "tradition" for us to play BC on the first weekend of December?

Personally I"d like to see the schedule varied more from year to year as far as when we play people.

[claver2010]

Re: BU 2013-2014 (Part III): Close your eyes, we're coming up on the end here...

So according to some of the schedule leaks, looks like BC is @ BU while the kids are on break?

That sucks.

[Agganis]

Re: BU 2013-2014 (Part III): Close your eyes, we're coming up on the end here...

So according to some of the schedule leaks, looks like BC is @ BU while the kids are on break?

That sucks.

Where did you see this?