A few random items of interest:
* The play by play guy (John Carlson) I recognized as the guy who did some of the early Whalers' games, and I think he also did some Patriots and college games before and after those days. Billy Cleary did the color, and there is a brief interview of Ron Mason (then with Bowling Green) looking very '70's. Gotta think his future son-in-law (some guy named Walshy?) was in the house, too;
* Carlson gives Channel 11 a name check at some point, and also mentions how Bobby Miller's younger brother was playing for BU (even then, UNH struggled with legacies?), which had narrowly beaten UNH in the first round of the tourney. One of the guys then tells the tale of Bobby Miller leaving UNH with no guarantee to make the B's, forfeiting eligibility to return to NCAA play, etc.;
* BU brought back most of its team the next season, and didn't even come close to having the same amount of success. Only Dick Lamby - as fantastic as an all-around defenseman as he was - left the team to graduation, other that depth guys here and there. They should have been dominant. But as noted earlier, several of those guys would make up for it on a bigger stage in '80;
* Mark Fidler … wow, where to begin. BU's frosh dynamo, whose older brother Mike was already in the NHL, scored his 29th and 30th goals of the season in this one. The sky seemed to be the limit … but as someone who grew up barely 5 miles away from where he did, and who had an older cousin who went to HS with him at Matignon, the on-ice and off-ice tales even back then pre-Internet and pre-social media were legendary. Unfortunately, the off-ice stuff eventually caught up with him, and while he was a great four year player for BU, he was never as great again as he was in his frosh season.
I know this isn't the BU thread, but this was an interesting read from Fidler's perspective on '78 ...
https://terrierhockey2.blogspot.com/...rk-fidler.html
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