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BOSTON COLLEGE 2025 - 2026

ericredaxe said:
BU guy here - and also a Bruins fan. After last year i was admittedly worried about the Letourneau pick - but looking much better this year. Not to shift the subject from the matter at hand, but as a B's fan i'm wondering the odds of seeing them both in the Black and Gold once BC's season ends?
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Keep in mind he was only 17 and played with an injured hand. With a year to mature mentally & physically and going to the Bruins camp benefited him. His skating and shooting improved noticeably. Originally he was committed to Northeastern before decommitting to come to the Heights. On Friday the BU players couldn't get to him in a scuffle in front of the BC net as his height aand reach rendered the BU players helpless. It was right in front of me 2nd row from the glass.

I was telling the BU fans beside me he and Gasseau and Hagens could be on the line for the Bs. Gasseau is 6'4 Letourneau 6'7 and Hagens only 5'10

Personally I feel Hagens & Letourneau can use another year at BC but the Bruins may want them to develop in Providence and play more games.
 
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A+ for everyone. Wasn't perfect but really good. With Stiga out (and Jellvik) Brown was mixing and matching up forward combinations all night and these guys battled.

Hemming was dazzling tonight and he is a game-changer for the team.

Louka stood tall early on and kept BC in it and then they took off. This is the formula for Louka and the defense, have a good start and let the offense come. It eventually will.

Faceoffs were brutal early on and then they seemed to flip the script and seemed to win everything over the last half of the game. Without looking at numbers, Gasseau was great at least late in the game.

PP looked great. Dean finally got his Deanpot moment.

Gotta keep the momentum going.
 
First 10 minutes were a little shaky, LC bailed them out several time, gave up way too many shots, the goal by Fortescue settled them down a little bit, in the second they just wore Harvard down and the penalties just killed them. Third period they managed the game much better and Harvard just could not mount too many quality chances. Overall good game, on to Vermont. Want to see Stiga back.
 
BC is up to a 74% chance to make the NCAA tournament. Need to focus on this UVM game at Conte on Friday, keep the good vibes rolling and keep the students engaged and get them ready to roll out on Monday on the green line. I saw a video of the student section in the balcony and it was huge and took up a quarter of the upper bowl.

Not sure what to make of faceoffs, the numbers didn't look good statistically (26-36) but as others have pointed out, after a terrible start they seemed to really recover nicely at the dot and I believe at least two goals came off an O-Zone faceoff win.

The Resendes hit that was reviewed was dicey and I think BC was fortunate to avoid getting hit with the major there. Not sure why Minnetian decided to punch a guy and negate a PP but that's the type of stuff everyone needs to stop doing. Hagens did indeed seem to avoid a lot of the post-whistle scrums.

The formula was followed; not many giveaways, Cloutier stood tall early on and BC weathered the storm and broke it open later in the first period and they rolled from there. The defense is the strength of the team, or was coming into the season, and this is the type of game you want to see from them. After getting up early, they really just managed the game wonderfully IMO.

As was pointed out above, Hemming is a huge difference-maker for this squad. Here's why: He seems to have great hands and a great skill set which is always nice to have (and I believe from limited viewing a very high hockey IQ from what I've seen). But he has size and is willing to deliver hits and this is a big deal. I think this changes the makeup of the squad to help BC go up against NCHC and Quinnipiac like teams where BC might previously struggle. Gasseau (who looks great since returning to the lineup), Dean, Hemming. All big guys in the lineup now that can play and also bang if needed.

Big 7 days coming up for Greg Brown.
 
A team like PC would have taken advantage of BC's turnovers and mistakes, and it's a completely different game from the two PC games that resulted in 2 4-3 losses.

Stupid penalties a different team takes advantage of these BC mistakes.

Next Monday will be tough game no matter how you look at it. BU owns this tournament no matter the records. It's been 10 years since BC won one of these. Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

BU can outshoot us again and they may have puck luck this time. So BC must play well and limit their mistakes that often lead to goals anytime but especially in this BU invitational so described by some.

Hemming's self pass I didn't see sitting at the other end of the rink but after going home and seeing it on replay is something you rarely see but it led the Hagen's goal.
 
Nick Papagiorgio said:
BC is up to a 74% chance to make the NCAA tournament. Need to focus on this UVM game at Conte on Friday, keep the good vibes rolling and keep the students engaged and get them ready to roll out on Monday on the green line. I saw a video of the student section in the balcony and it was huge and took up a quarter of the upper bowl.

Not sure what to make of faceoffs, the numbers didn't look good statistically (26-36) but as others have pointed out, after a terrible start they seemed to really recover nicely at the dot and I believe at least two goals came off an O-Zone faceoff win.

The Resendes hit that was reviewed was dicey and I think BC was fortunate to avoid getting hit with the major there. Not sure why Minnetian decided to punch a guy and negate a PP but that's the type of stuff everyone needs to stop doing. Hagens did indeed seem to avoid a lot of the post-whistle scrums.

The formula was followed; not many giveaways, Cloutier stood tall early on and BC weathered the storm and broke it open later in the first period and they rolled from there. The defense is the strength of the team, or was coming into the season, and this is the type of game you want to see from them. After getting up early, they really just managed the game wonderfully IMO.

As was pointed out above, Hemming is a huge difference-maker for this squad. Here's why: He seems to have great hands and a great skill set which is always nice to have (and I believe from limited viewing a very high hockey IQ from what I've seen). But he has size and is willing to deliver hits and this is a big deal. I think this changes the makeup of the squad to help BC go up against NCHC and Quinnipiac like teams where BC might previously struggle. Gasseau (who looks great since returning to the lineup), Dean, Hemming. All big guys in the lineup now that can play and also bang if needed.

Big 7 days coming up for Greg Brown.
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the normal great turnout with 8 full sections of BC students, The other two struggle to get 5.
 
Nick Papagiorgio said:
@navy44 can I get an update on Ronald Reagan University? 2-6-1 in 2026, no home arena, 5 pm game next Monday, and 5% chance of making the NCAA tournament. :eek:

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. ;)
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You still don't get it. i never said NU is as good as BC, quite the opposite. And have even taken a shot at my own school saying way back in this thread that NU is going nowhere.
At the time, i merely asked a question, and apparently hit a raw nerve. You can go back through my posts on this entire page and have in fact been very generous and complimentary to BC in many ways.
You can go back through tabs 1 to 3, and your own homies recent posts after the Providence weekend echoing exactly the same questions, about the team, GB, etc......no need for me to jump in at all.

The questions still stands though, which i noticed you conveniently managed to eliminate from your paste...........and i don't need to resort to lowbrow "shot-taking". At some point BC is going to have to beat someone REALLY good. I'm guessing you won't be happy in March, losing to Penn St, WMU, ND, or UMD, but comforting yourself with "at least we didn't have any bad losses, and we are better than NU this year!"..........😇
 
navy44 said:
You still don't get it. i never said NU is as good as BC, quite the opposite. And have even taken a shot at my own school saying way back in this thread that NU is going nowhere.
At the time, i merely asked a question, and apparently hit a raw nerve. You can go back through my posts on this entire page and have in fact been very generous and complimentary to BC in many ways.
You can go back through tabs 1 to 3, and your own homies recent posts after the Providence weekend echoing exactly the same questions, about the team, GB, etc......no need for me to jump in at all.

The questions still stands though, which i noticed you conveniently managed to eliminate from your paste...........and i don't need to resort to lowbrow "shot-taking". At some point BC is going to have to beat someone REALLY good. I'm guessing you won't be happy in March, losing to Penn St, WMU, ND, or UMD, but comforting yourself with "at least we didn't have any bad losses, and we are better than NU this year!"..........😇
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When BC played Western Michigan they were missing some of their best players due to the world junior games when they were in the tournament against W Michigan and LSSU
 
navy44 said:
At the time, i merely asked a question,
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As was pointed out, you could have simply done your own homework but we all know you came over to act a fool when NU was higher in the NPI and that other NU bozo was posting links to the NPI every night in this thread. I noticed he stopped doing that once NU went into the gutter.
navy44 said:
no need for me to jump in at all.
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And yet you did.
navy44 said:
The questions still stands though
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Below in the same post "At some point BC is going to have to beat someone REALLY good"... looks like you already have the answer to your "question."
navy44 said:
i don't need to resort to lowbrow "shot-taking".
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Sure

navy44 said:
I'm guessing you won't be happy in March... comforting yourself with "at least we didn't have any bad losses, and we are better than NU this year!"..........😇
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You on January 3rd: "hopefully we'll have a chance to win a game or two against BC this year............nvm...... 😇"

NICE TRY.

Do you think NU might win a game in the NCAA tournament before the end of the Trump administration? I "merely asked a question" :ROFLMAO:
 
I like having NU and BU fans post in this thread and I welcome other HEA fans as well. I agree that when given the opportunity BC needs to beat a really good team.

That said, what I look for is improvement game to game. Getting GAA down to 2, putting the right line combinations together, back checking, preventing high quality shots, getting the PP going and finishing odd man rushes. I have seen significant improvement in all of these areas and that is without 2 and sometimes 3 forwards in the lineup.

Stiga has a sore shoulder from practice. Jevlik has been nursing a groin strain. Both are day to day, but I don’t expect to see them on Friday. Hopefully Stiga will be back on Monday.

If the season ended today, here is the Worcester regional.

WMU
PSU
BC
St Thomas

Go Eagles! 🦅
 
eaglekeeper said:
I like having NU and BU fans post in this thread and I welcome other HEA fans as well. I agree that when given the opportunity BC needs to beat a really good team.

That said, what I look for is improvement game to game. Getting GAA down to 2, putting the right line combinations together, back checking, preventing high quality shots, getting the PP going and finishing odd man rushes. I have seen significant improvement in all of these areas and that is without 2 and sometimes 3 forwards in the lineup.

Stiga has a sore shoulder from practice. Jevlik has been nursing a groin strain. Both are day to day, but I don’t expect to see them on Friday. Hopefully Stiga will be back on Monday.

If the season ended today, here is the Worcester regional.

WMU
PSU
BC
St Thomas

Go Eagles! 🦅
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The glaring weaknesses that need improvement are faceoffs and less turnovers in their end.

Often watching them bunch up in front of thee goalie, either block the shot or get the h*** out of the way so you don't screen your own goalie like in the Providence game. Last avoid dumb penalties like Hagens penalty led to the lone BU goal.
 
Forgot to mention this but Gasseau got his 100th career point on Monday if I'm not mistaken. Tremendous accomplishment for a heck of a player.

His laser vs Quinnipiac in the regional final will always be a favorite of mine.
 
Stiga in the line-up tonight. Davey is participating in the warmups. I assume that is in case one of the forwards scheduled to play is a last minute scratch.
 
Yea so, let's have a few thoughts but not too many:
- UVM played a near perfect game tonight. They deserve a lot of credit.
- It was clear we were in for a long night after the first PP.
- The building was dead, students filled the sections behind the nets and the entire upper area of the balcony was pretty much empty. Sad.
- I'm having a hard time finding a game in my memory that was this bad. I'm sure there are some more recent ones, but I go back to 2000 when a completely terrible UMass team beat the bag out of BC one night at Conte 5-1 and also the early season 7-2 beatdown from UML (also terrible at the time) in 2001-2002 when all the good players left after the national title. In other words, this was a historically bad, Hall of Shame night tonight.
- Greg Brown doesn't have it. Cloutier doesn't have it. This team is going nowhere with those two. Even a win on Monday isn't going to really change this. Forget about the excitement of getting Hemming added (he didn't do much tonight) or potentially getting Jellvik back (yea right) and their rise in NPI and potential. Brown. Cloutier. This team is done.
- Long-term, it's obvious Greg Brown is not the guy.
- This team is poorly coached.
- Greg Brown is not the guy.
 
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