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

[Lemonade]

Not a big fan of Matt Gilroy?

Nope. I am a fan of college age kids playing a college sport. 18-22 or so. I despise this junior hockey setup and how most players have to spend 2 years in juniors and coming in as 21 year old freshman.

[Lemonade]

Are these the same voters who voted UMass to finish 2nd/3rd or whatever it was after losing their goalie and all viable scoring?...

I think Borek and Hutson are locks for COTY and ROTY. I would vote for Hutson as POTY but I am skeptical it will happen. I feel like over the years voters often get these things wrong and prefer to weigh seniority. Of course we also just saw a rookie team with 5 forwards and no goalie on it. So here is my rank of how I think it will go:

1. Levi POTY
2. They share the award
3. Hutson wins it outright

I think Borek wins COTY. Hutson should win POTY then possibly give the ROTY to Gauthier ROTY if they don't want a player winning two awards? I feel the POTY is more impressive of an award. Then again these voters are usually very lazy and don't put much thought into it seems.

[Scarlet]

It's kinda like the Oscars or Emmys when they award someone who has a body of great work but never won, then they have a performance that is really good but not great but they award that person any for their body of work. I think Levi is outstanding but I think he was better last season and should have won it then. I remember being annoyed on his and Northeastern's behalf. Who votes on these? Is it the same people? I just want to avoid the two awards that Lane is up for to cancel each other out because voters think he'll win one so they don't vote for him for the other and then he gets neither.

[brassbonanza]

You cannot give Lane the POY then give someone else the ROY, that would invalidate the ROY. A freshman POY is not the ROY? Huh?

The biggest argument for me against Levi is his performance in the middle of the season against NU's weakest competition:

PWR 41 Union - L
PWR 42 Sacred Heart - L
PWR 58 LIU - OTW
PWR 56 Bentley - L

In those four games, he was .881/3.25 and could not generate a single regulation W. That four-game stretch is the sole reason their season is over and he was a main reason why their record in those four games is what it was.

To me, the POY does not consistently come up short against the weakest competition on the schedule.

[J.D.]

I don't think they take into consideration non league play for this award. Sure, there's no way to block it from your mind but in theory the awards are based on league play.

[navy44]

A couple of things here. Borek added 6 grad students and 1 undergrad from the portal. All good players, but no game changers (you know, like Lane Hutson). As others have already stated, and I think you ultimately agreed, he blended them with the existing players and has made it work.
"Pandolfo took the same team....". Really, the same team? Did he have a hand in recruiting the Hutson brothers and Jeremy Wilmer? They've kinda had a pretty big impact on your season, don't you think? Albie was a train wreck as a head coach and Jay is a HUGE improvement.
I appreciate your fanaticism with all things BU, but c'mon, sometimes you need to take off the scarlet and white glasses.

This.....all of it. Thank you.

[Lemonade]

You cannot give Lane the POY then give someone else the ROY, that would invalidate the ROY. A freshman POY is not the ROY? Huh?

The biggest argument for me against Levi is his performance in the middle of the season against NU's weakest competition:

PWR 41 Union - L
PWR 42 Sacred Heart - L
PWR 58 LIU - OTW
PWR 56 Bentley - L

In those four games, he was .881/3.25 and could not generate a single regulation W. That four-game stretch is the sole reason their season is over and he was a main reason why their record in those four games is what it was.

To me, the POY does not consistently come up short against the weakest competition on the schedule.

I think there is a lot of parity in HE and no player really stood out head and shoulders among the rest this year. I think Hutson being a defenseman and leading the league in points is enough to win POY. His team came in first place and he played a large role in that no matter what year he is in. In reality he deserves ROY and POY. In terms of Levi I have made my case clear - there was a 7 game stretch where some of his defense was banged up and he gave up 29 goals in 7 games for a 4.14 GAA and a .876 save percentage (amazing drop off when you don't have his normal defense). That stretch kept them out of the NCAAs. It is a HE award but I think those loses impacted HE and how many teams made the NCAA so those games do factor in league success like it or not.

[ericredaxe]

Also - the ticket office sent out the email to order tickets in the BU section for this weekend. Interesting to note that you can buy tickets for each night rather than a package for both nights. You never used to be able to do that. Also, the link takes you to the TD Garden site. And they're trying to join the Ticketmaster site with the TD Garden site so I had to create a new password to use for both. I checked my email to se if I had a link to the tickets so I could download to my phone. Nothing. So I went to Ticketmaster.com and it showed no tickets. Ugh. I went to the TD Garden site and it's not user friendly at all to find tickets you ordered. I finally did and was able to download them. What the hell was the point of joining Ticketmaster and the TD Garden sites if you can't access tickets on both?

same experience for me with the Beanpot. And none of the Ticketmaster/TD garden/ Agganis website seem to link together even though they are all Ticketmaster.

[OldAlum]

Also - the ticket office sent out the email to order tickets in the BU section for this weekend. Interesting to note that you can buy tickets for each night rather than a package for both nights. You never used to be able to do that. Also, the link takes you to the TD Garden site. And they're trying to join the Ticketmaster site with the TD Garden site so I had to create a new password to use for both. I checked my email to se if I had a link to the tickets so I could download to my phone. Nothing. So I went to Ticketmaster.com and it showed no tickets. Ugh. I went to the TD Garden site and it's not user friendly at all to find tickets you ordered. I finally did and was able to download them. What the hell was the point of joining Ticketmaster and the TD Garden sites if you can't access tickets on both?

I had this same problem with Beanpot tickets - couldn't find them on TicketMaster or on the Agganis site. I was told to use this link and, voila, there they were: https://am.ticketmaster.com/tdgarden/myevents. I hope this works for you.

[OldAlum]

Is there any word on Dom Fensore? I hope he's OK.

[Scarlet]

I had this same problem with Beanpot tickets - couldn't find them on TicketMaster or on the Agganis site. I was told to use this link and, voila, there they were: https://am.ticketmaster.com/tdgarden/myevents. I hope this works for you.

oh I found them on the Garden site. It was just so difficult to find them. I hope BU has a good crowd!

[riverchief1]

oh I found them on the Garden site. It was just so difficult to find them. I hope BU has a good crowd!

That's a shame. Lowell has their usual Championship Central page up with all essential information including ticket links, special student ticket and bus deal, and the pregame at Hurricanes at 4 Friday. https://goriverhawks.com/sports/2022...stCentral.aspx

Initially only Loge 2 and Balcony 302 and 303 were available for Lowell fans. Loge 2 has since sold out and they've expanded to Loge 3, 4, 5, and 6 (Loge 3 is almost sold out as well) as demand warranted.

[brassbonanza]

That's a shame. Lowell has their usual Championship Central page up with all essential information including ticket links, special student ticket and bus deal, and the pregame at Hurricanes at 4 Friday. https://goriverhawks.com/sports/2022...stCentral.aspx

Initially only Loge 2 and Balcony 302 and 303 were available for Lowell fans. Loge 2 has since sold out and they've expanded to Loge 3, 4, 5, and 6 (Loge 3 is almost sold out as well) as demand warranted.

That's a Garden problem, not a BU problem. They're talking about accessing the tickets through your "Garden account" via Ticketmaster which isn't automatically linked to your existing Ticketmaster account. It's a pain in the ***.

[riverchief1]

That's a Garden problem, not a BU problem. They're talking about accessing the tickets through your "Garden account" via Ticketmaster which isn't automatically linked to your existing Ticketmaster account. It's a pain in the ***.

What a pain!

[defkit]

Was it Chris Peters that recently tweeted the story about Levi and how his career save % is the second highest of all time in college hockey?? Maybe it was Mike McMahon. Have to admit that surprised me, even though I knew he had great numbers. This year wasn't as high as last year, so that may not help him as much for POY votes.