BU: '22-'23 Season: Sail The Boats

[lifeoncommave]

Now that college sports has devolved into free agency it doesn't seem to mean that much. Players are changing colors to give themselves the best chance for PT or pro ambitions or whatever the reason. In other words don't take it personally. I think these old rivalries are less important, for me it is more about watching good hockey exciting hockey more than anything else. As a fan it is not a happy state of affairs to see guys move around so much but it it is much better and fairer system for the players. I was disappointed to see Warren head off to Ann Arbor but I appreciate his four years at BC and wish him the best out there. Hope that Armstrong has success at BC.

Yes, but some things JUST AREN'T DONE.

[Tater]

Unlikely at they named Dan Borges former assistant coach at Colgate to staff today

Why would the hiring of Borges as an assistant coach preclude O’Connell being hired as an associate head coach?

[Rogie21]

Lane's season isn't over yet. He joins Commesso, Tuch and Bonino on Team USA for the IIHF Men's Championship beginning next week in Finland and Latvia. David Quinn is US head coach. 21 of the 22 named so far are former D1 players, with 12 different schools represented. BU leads the way with four players, while the Notre Dame and Harvard (Thrun, Coronato, Farrell) each have three. Gauthier and Alex Tuch from BC.

https://twitter.com/usahockey/status...853420554?s=20

[Scarlet]

Tuch???

[Bomber]

Lane's season isn't over yet. He joins Commesso, Tuch and Bonino on Team USA for the IIHF Men's Championship beginning next week in Finland and Latvia. David Quinn is US head coach. 21 of the 22 named so far are former D1 players, with 12 different schools represented. BU leads the way with four players, while the Notre Dame and Harvard (Thrun, Coronato, Farrell) each have three. Gauthier and Alex Tuch from BC.

https://twitter.com/usahockey/status...853420554?s=20

Bonino playing with Hutson is pretty funny. Lane was 5 when Nick scored the biggest goal in BU Hockey history.

BU Hockey: The World is our Oyster

[Scarlet]

Bonino playing with Hutson is pretty funny. Lane was 5 when Nick scored the second biggest goal in BU Hockey history.

BU Hockey: The World is our Oyster

Fixed your post. I think Colby has the honors of the biggest goal.

[Bomber]

Fixed your post. I think Colby has the honors of the biggest goal.

I stand by my assessment. Colby's doesn't happen without Nick's. : )

[Jofa]

I stand by my assessment. Colby's doesn't happen without Nick's. : )

Good point they didn’t have to have Colby’s goal they had to have Nicks goal

[ericredaxe]

I stand by my assessment. Colby's doesn't happen without Nick's. : )

Agree - I’m gonna go with Nicks goal as the biggest.

althogh Colby’s was huge.

[brassbonanza]

By this logic, Zach Cohen has the biggest goal in BU history. Nick's doesn't happen without Zach's.

Colby's hung the banner. Without that, none of us are having this discussion in the first place.

[Sean Pickett]

By this logic, Zach Cohen has the biggest goal in BU history. Nick's doesn't happen without Zach's.

Colby's hung the banner. Without that, none of us are having this discussion in the first place.

I was about to post the same statement.

Furthermore, with over 100 years of hockey there are many other goals that could be considered the biggest goal in BU history. Here are some that I think could qualify:
Warren Pond - scored the first BU goal in hockey vs BC on 6 February 1918
Charles Viano - scored the only goal in the first BU victory over BC on 23 December 1924
Dick Kelley - scored the GWG vs Michigan in BU's first Frozen Four semifinal on 17 March 1950
Bill Downing - scored the GWG vs BC for BU's first New England Intercollegiate Hockey League (NEIHL) tournament championship
Steve Sterling - scored the GWG vs Cornell in the ECAC consolation game on 13 March 1971, giving BU their first win over Cornell since the formation of the ECAC and more importantly the second eastern slot in the NCAA tournament, which they went on to win
Bob Brown - scored the GWG vs Cornell in the ECAC championship game to give BU their first ECAC title
Tony Meagher - scored the GWG vs BC in the Frozen Four championship game on 25 March 1978
Scott Shaunessy - scored the GWG vs BC in the Hockey East championship game on 15 March 1986
Tony Amonte - scored the GWG vs Michigan State in game 3 of the NCAA quarterfinals on 25 March 1990, sending BU to the Frozen Four for the first time in 12 years
Shawn McEachern - scored the GWG in overtime vs Maine in the Hockey East championship game on 10 March 1991
Mike Prendergast - scored the GWG in overtime vs Maine on 19 February 1993 to give Maine their only loss of the season
Shawn Bates - scored the GWG vs Lake Superior in the NCAA quarterfinals on 25 March 1995 to send BU back to the Frozen Four enroute to winning the NCAA championship
Chris Drury - scored the GWG in overtime vs Denver in the NCAA quarterfinals on 22 March 1997 to send BU back to the Frozen Four
Tommi Degerman - scored the GWG vs Michigan in the Frozen Four semifinals on 27 March 1997 as BU defeated "the best team"
Brandon Yip - scored the GWG in overtime vs BC in the Hockey East championship game on 18 March 2006
Jason Lawrence - scored the GWG vs New Hampshire in the regional final on 29 March 2009 advancing BU to the Frozen Four
Danny O'Regan - scored the GWG in overtime vs Yale in the regional semifinals on 27 March 2015
Evan Rodrigues - scored the GWG vs Minnesota-Duluth in the regional final on 28 March 2015 to send BU to the Frozen Four
Lane Hutson - scored the GWG in overtime vs Merrimack in the Hockey East championship game on 18 March 2023
Ethan Phillips - scored the GWG vs Cornell in the regional final, sending BU to the Frozen Four for the first time in 8 years

Of course, you could also argue that the goal that but BU ahead for good in those games was bigger than the GWG goal if different. Still, I think these are some of the games for which you can argue had BU's biggest goal.

Sean

[defkit]

I did a very long post back in the summer of 2009 in the aftermath of the national championship, listing the biggest goals in the time that I had watched BU Hockey (since 86-87). I had Bonino's as #1 for the reasons outlined above - when that was scored, it was such an "I can't believe it!" moment. Whereas Colby's (which I think I had at #3, I mean it did win us a NCAA title) was scored when we had at least a 50/50 chance of winning the game. I listed 11 goals, and all but one of them were tournament games. The only one that wasn't was David van der Gulik's GWG in OT at UNH on the final day of the RS - a game we needed to win just to make the playoffs. If UNH could have just held on for a tie, Northeastern (I'm pretty sure) would have been the #8 seed, and we would have been done. If we had not upset BC in the first round, maybe the goal wouldn't have seemed as big. I had David Sacco's tying goal in the 91 title game perhaps at #2, because the fact that we didn't end up winning didn't take away from how big a goal that was at that time. I had Drury vs. Denver, Yip vs. BC in there. One I forgot was Chris Bourque's Beanpot winning goal - someone pointed out my oversight.

[BUPhD]

Yah. Colby's felt sort of inevitable after the comeback. But Bonino's was like i literaly flew out of my chair and felt like i hit the ceiling in surprise

[mookie1995]

Mookie thinks of Bourque, it is in the hea semi at the garden when he was playing point on the power play across the ice from the bench. He broke his stick and for some reason just skated towards the bench after dropping his stick. Uhn dude said “thanks” and started on a breakaway to score a shortie with ease.

mookie has two memories from the 8th seed terriors beating bc. 3rd game was an igle (older, wearing whale pants) with his mother getting up with maybe a minute left to beat traffic saying to her “I hate them so much I can taste it”. :-). Then in the final seconds Sean Fields turning around to face the student section, and stretching out his arms and tilting his head back. :-)

[Rogie21]

I was about to post the same statement.

Furthermore, with over 100 years of hockey there are many other goals that could be considered the biggest goal in BU history. Here are some that I think could qualify:
Warren Pond - scored the first BU goal in hockey vs BC on 6 February 1918
Charles Viano - scored the only goal in the first BU victory over BC on 23 December 1924
Dick Kelley - scored the GWG vs Michigan in BU's first Frozen Four semifinal on 17 March 1950
Bill Downing - scored the GWG vs BC for BU's first New England Intercollegiate Hockey League (NEIHL) tournament championship
Steve Sterling - scored the GWG vs Cornell in the ECAC consolation game on 13 March 1971, giving BU their first win over Cornell since the formation of the ECAC and more importantly the second eastern slot in the NCAA tournament, which they went on to win
Bob Brown - scored the GWG vs Cornell in the ECAC championship game to give BU their first ECAC title
Tony Meagher - scored the GWG vs BC in the Frozen Four championship game on 25 March 1978
Scott Shaunessy - scored the GWG vs BC in the Hockey East championship game on 15 March 1986
Tony Amonte - scored the GWG vs Michigan State in game 3 of the NCAA quarterfinals on 25 March 1990, sending BU to the Frozen Four for the first time in 12 years
Shawn McEachern - scored the GWG in overtime vs Maine in the Hockey East championship game on 10 March 1991
Mike Prendergast - scored the GWG in overtime vs Maine on 19 February 1993 to give Maine their only loss of the season
Shawn Bates - scored the GWG vs Lake Superior in the NCAA quarterfinals on 25 March 1995 to send BU back to the Frozen Four enroute to winning the NCAA championship
Chris Drury - scored the GWG in overtime vs Denver in the NCAA quarterfinals on 22 March 1997 to send BU back to the Frozen Four
Tommi Degerman - scored the GWG vs Michigan in the Frozen Four semifinals on 27 March 1997 as BU defeated "the best team"
Brandon Yip - scored the GWG in overtime vs BC in the Hockey East championship game on 18 March 2006
Jason Lawrence - scored the GWG vs New Hampshire in the regional final on 29 March 2009 advancing BU to the Frozen Four
Danny O'Regan - scored the GWG in overtime vs Yale in the regional semifinals on 27 March 2015
Evan Rodrigues - scored the GWG vs Minnesota-Duluth in the regional final on 28 March 2015 to send BU to the Frozen Four
Lane Hutson - scored the GWG in overtime vs Merrimack in the Hockey East championship game on 18 March 2023
Ethan Phillips - scored the GWG vs Cornell in the regional final, sending BU to the Frozen Four for the first time in 8 years

Of course, you could also argue that the goal that but BU ahead for good in those games was bigger than the GWG goal if different. Still, I think these are some of the games for which you can argue had BU's biggest goal.

Sean

Great list, Sean. There are video clips of many of them on the Milestone Goals page of the blog and will add some of the others, including the most recent ones. I agree with defkit about including Bourque’s BP-winning goal and VDG’s in the ’04 regular season finale. That one went in off an UNH player—just as Jason Lawrence’s GWG did in the ’09 regional final.

One more to add is Justin Maiser’s 2OT game-winner (completing a hat trick) in the ’03 HEA semi-final vs. BC. The 1-0 OT loss to UNH in the title game the next night deserves a place on a list of gut-wrenching losses, with the puck deflecting off Ryan Whitney’s stick past tournament MVP Sean Fields.