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

[Lemonade]

Fantastic college hockey game. Can’t say enough good things about Pandolfo and his staff. They have really done a great job getting this team ready to play. The effort and positioning is vastly improved.

[BU93]

Agree with everyone- great effort coming off the layoff. For most of the game we put on a clinic against a very good Harvard team. We should have had at least 4 or 5 if not for the goaltending. Can’t remember the last time we had that many breakaways and odd man rushes. Good shots off those too. Walter Brown seemed to suit our game well. Things happen more quickly than Agganis and we can turn a play the other way with the best of them. We also get back on D quickly. Pandolfo said he secretly wished we still played there and even Fensore said in the post game he wished we played more there. Some of it is the atmosphere, but maybe we think about modifying Agganis to WBA dimensions, which I think is the standard 200 by 85? Wish I was there to see it. It’s nice and probably necessary to have a modern world class arena, but I miss the coziness and deafening noise of the old place. Had some great times there.

[defkit]

More like a "Big Four." Gone for one game and Lane Hutson is forgotten. :-)
Fensore's last 7 games: 6G, 4A, 3 GWGs. Another Defender of the Month award for BU?

I"m putting Lane with Greene in the "Young Guns" group :-)

[Bomber]

As I’m settling in to watch the Winter Classic, the following question popped into my head: Did Mike Sullivan and Jim Montgomery face each other in college? I know that Mike was ‘90 and Jim was ‘93.

[Snively65]

As I’m settling in to watch the Winter Classic, the following question popped into my head: Did Mike Sullivan and Jim Montgomery face each other in college? I know that Mike was ‘90 and Jim was ‘93.

Presumably, as the their teams played one another four times in 1989/90, with Maine winning three, losing the fourth in OT.

[Scarlet]

I've been following along the Damar Hamlin situation from last night. How scary was that?? The conversation about how the NFL told them to regroup for five minutes and then get back to playing and and the ensuing outrage got me thinking about when Travis got hurt. How would that have been handled today? That game was a couple of minutes old when it happened. Play stopped for a long time. Then they re-started the game. I always wondered how the players felt about that.

[Bomber]

I've been following along the Damar Hamlin situation from last night. How scary was that?? The conversation about how the NFL told them to regroup for five minutes and then get back to playing and and the ensuing outrage got me thinking about when Travis got hurt. How would that have been handled today? That game was a couple of minutes old when it happened. Play stopped for a long time. Then they re-started the game. I always wondered how the players felt about that.

This was the first thing that came to my mind as well. I don't think they finish that game in 2022.

[Mellow1]

Was anyone else concerned with Peterson coming out and playing the rest of the game after he got absolutely leveled in the first couple of minutes and had to be helped off the ice? I don’t know how much they showed on the broadcast, but he almost fell multiple times when being helped off the ice by a couple of teammates and Larry. It seemed like he was out cold before being helped up. I’m all for being tough, but really have to question him returning.

[Rogie21]

Was anyone else concerned with Peterson coming out and playing the rest of the game after he got absolutely leveled in the first couple of minutes and had to be helped off the ice? I don’t know how much they showed on the broadcast, but he almost fell multiple times when being helped off the ice by a couple of teammates and Larry. It seemed like he was out cold before being helped up. I’m all for being tough, but really have to question him returning.

Pandolfo suggested, post-game, that Peterson had gotten the wind knocked out of him and he couldn't catch his breath. Said he was fine.

[Chuck Murray]

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I've been following along the Damar Hamlin situation from last night. How scary was that?? The conversation about how the NFL told them to regroup for five minutes and then get back to playing and and the ensuing outrage got me thinking about when Travis got hurt. How would that have been handled today? That game was a couple of minutes old when it happened. Play stopped for a long time. Then they re-started the game. I always wondered how the players felt about that.

In 1971 there was a similar situation to the Hamlin incident towards the end of a Bears-Lions game, but unfortunately Lions WR Chuck Hughes didn't make it. FWIW they finished the final seconds of the game shortly after Hughes was removed via ambulance. Some links provided below have more details, including the radio play-by-play. TV-wise, there was only regional coverage, but brief commentaries on the usual highlight shows. Back in those days, NFL game-day coverage wasn't like it is these days, so you got most of those details after the fact either at halftime on Monday Night Football (via Howard Cosell) or later in the week on "This Week in the NFL" with Pat Summerall and Tom Brookshier. Clips of those two shows are immediately below here, and long form coverage is at the bottom, and probably is the most compelling of the bunch.

The Chuck Hughes Game (Howard Cosell version) - YouTube

1971 Bears at Lions week 6 - YouTube

As a result of the editing of the highlights (roughly 3:00 in on the GOTW clip above), a vicious hit by Bears' MLB Dick Butkus on Lions' WR Charlie Sanders two plays before the Hughes collapse was mistakenly believed by many viewers to have been the incident that claimed Hughes' life (and if you see the hit, you can see why). Butkus would draw hate mail in the pre-Internet days for years because of this misunderstanding, which was particularly sad because it was Butkus who first noticed Hughes had collapsed on his way back to the Lions' huddle, and frantically called to the sidelines for the medical assistance - apparently not unlike Lawrence Taylor's 1985 reaction to breaking Joe Theisman's leg live on MNF.

The Bill Masterton incident early in the expansion era is the only NHL on-ice death I can recall. Sports are a great escape hatch, but every once in awhile they give us a reminder that there are very real risks involved. Hoping and praying for Hamlin's family, that he can live a normal life after.

[Bomber]

Thanks for sharing Chuck. Fascinating history lesson, for sure.

[Rogie21]

To the surprise of no one, Fensore earns Hockey East Defender of the Month, after 4-3-7 in five games with three GWGs. That's four straight DOTMs for BU. Hutson won for October and November. Dom took the final one last season (Feb.)
https://goterriers.com/news/2023/1/4...the-month.aspx

[Jofa]

Call me un-informed but why do the World Juniors have an elaborate ceremony after a “semi” final game. Canada celebrating like they won the championship both teams on
the ice calling out all-tournament players. Winners anthem played. Kind of cool but seemed odd. Did Hutson play much during the tournament I didn’t hear his name .

[Scarlet]

I think they do all that stuff after every game, not just that round. Which is a little odd, but I'm not going to begrudge any team the chance to celebrate at a tournament like this.

I didn't hear Hutson's name either but maybe he didn't need to be as involved in the offense so he didn't register any points. He was on the second defense pairing on every line chart I saw so he did play every game. Wondering if there's any way to get him on a plane to Arizona after the third place game today.....

The picture of all the former BU players who won gold back in 2017(?) popped up on my Facebook memories this morning. All of them, except for Patrick Harper, are currently in the NHL: McAvoy, Greenway, Keller, Oettinger, Bellows. What is Patrick Harper doing these days? I know he got called up to Nashville (I believe) for a few games but I don't think he's with the big club these days.

[DLG]

I think they do all that stuff after every game, not just that round. Which is a little odd, but I'm not going to begrudge any team the chance to celebrate at a tournament like this.

I didn't hear Hutson's name either but maybe he didn't need to be as involved in the offense so he didn't register any points. He was on the second defense pairing on every line chart I saw so he did play every game. Wondering if there's any way to get him on a plane to Arizona after the third place game today.....

The picture of all the former BU players who won gold back in 2017(?) popped up on my Facebook memories this morning. All of them, except for Patrick Harper, are currently in the NHL: McAvoy, Greenway, Keller, Oettinger, Bellows. What is Patrick Harper doing these days? I know he got called up to Nashville (I believe) for a few games but I don't think he's with the big club these days.

Patrick Harper is playing in Sweden this year
Hutson had a lot of action in last night's game-Hughes was main pffensive defeseman though
Hope he just come back to Boston and plays Wednesday vs UMass
Too much hockey to travel that far and play this weekend