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2023 - 2024 SEASON : Boston College

Looking at Denver’s last 3 games they have only been penalized 3 times including zero against BU. They make you earn your goals 5 x 5. They have not done well on face offs and they have been outshot by a decent margin. They trap the neutral zone and look for their opportunities. That’s also what they did at Conte.

Go Eagles!
 
eaglekeeper said:
Looking at Denver’s last 3 games they have only been penalized 3 times including zero against BU. They make you earn your goals 5 x 5. They have not done well on face offs and they have been outshot by a decent margin. They trap the neutral zone and look for their opportunities. That’s also what they did at Conte.

Go Eagles!
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Denver out game planned BC. They capitalized on BC mistakes and got the lead first and implemented their plan very effectively.

meanwhile BC was too passive at the beginning of the game and had very few shots on net. Denver disrupted BC’s flow and passing.

BC just waited too long to have that urgency and start getting shots on net. They could not convert on their power plays and Denver just ran out the clock while BC helplessly tried to get something going.

congrats to pios again their 10th
 
3rd period reminded me of Maine DU in Boston of 04, throw the kitchen sink at DU and nothing. Tough pill to swallow but DU was up to the task. BC will reload I expect them to be to near or at the top next year also.
 
Carmine Scarpaglia said:
So proud of these kids. They are such good kids. I just feel like a proud dad. They did all they could and left it on the ice.
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Agreed. The beauty and burden of a 1 and done tournament. Played fine against a very good team with a lot of experience and a goalie that's on one. From Leonard open net to Denver's 1st goal to Gasseau hitting the post off the ricochet, it just wasn't their night.

Brown's got the program back to the level it belongs.
 
walrus said:
3rd period reminded me of Maine DU in Boston of 04, throw the kitchen sink at DU and nothing. Tough pill to swallow but DU was up to the task. BC will reload I expect them to be to near or at the top next year also.
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I was thinking the exact same thing, with Matt Davis playing the part of Jimmy Howard. When Davis made that insane save on Leonard on the PP, it was clear that it was just not happening for BC.
 
I really don't have anything to complain about. Denver won the title in 2022 and is an experienced, proven team with a great coach (even beat BC early in season). They reinvented their game as the season progressed and became a defensive juggernaut with a hot goalie. Even then you need some puck luck in these game. DU got some on their first goal where as Gasseau missed that open net in first, ridiculous save on Leonard, Gustafsson post. That's hockey unfortunately.

I would have pulled Fowler earlier but BC isn't great at faceoffs so I wonder if that factored in. Potentially a learning moment for Brown though as I think the announcers were right in that go for it with about 5 minutes left. Trying to remember the sequencing but I think I also would have used my timeout to keep the first PP unit on late in the game. I think BC still had timeout at that point.

Either way that just had the feel of a game where the puck wasn't gonna go in no matter what. There was even a sequence in front where I think Jellvik and someone else had chances and Davis stopped both. Tip your cap. It was the type of game I expected but going in I thought BC would solve the Denver defense. Smith had a breakaway. Jellvik made a ridiculous pass to someone streaking in on net in the 2nd (same type of play to Gauthier against Mich Tech. Davis was just a wall.

You can't expect to win a national title. Just doesn't work that way. Often times these star studded teams fail spectacularly. That wasn't the case with this team. Delivered double Hockey East championship and played for national title. That's meeting expectations and more.

First HE title since 2012, first FF since 2016, first title game since 2012. Now you have to just keep knocking on the door and not have a lengthy down period. Time for some consistency. DU is doing it, QU, three straight FFs for Michigan, Minnesota etc. Become what those programs are and make sure you are in the mix just about every year.
 
What JD said, great team, lots of great moments, peaked in the HE tournament, survived Qpac but Denver would not let them be bop and scat all over the ice. Looking forward to next year, it is only six months away. Very proud of these kids and the coaching staff did a great job building the team and handling the talent.
 
Honest answers only. I wonder how many BC fans had the foresight to root for BU their hated rival because of bettering their chance at an NC. BU couldn’t have pulled off what DU did.
 
Interesting point Jofa, and you may be on to something there. I did not think BU could beat DU so I was rooting more for Denver because beating BU four times in one season seemed too much. I also thought DU would be really tough because of all their 2-1 games leading up to the NC. I did think BC would win and had they scored first I think it would have been a different game. DU deserves credit they took BC out of their game and then Davis just slammed the door.
 
Eh, who cares? Rooting for a team doesn't change the results. BU absolutely could have beaten BC. Odds would have been much lower but still.

Bottom line, it's one and done and anything can (and will) happen. It's amazing when it works out for you as an underdog and cruel when it doesn't and you're #1. That's just the nature of it. A lot of this comes down to matchups. I've said for a long time B1G teams were good matchups for BC and that's why I wasn't concerned about Michigan. Denver was another Quinnipiac. Maybe the only two teams that would push BC deep in a best-of-7 even. Both were bad matchups for BC. BC was very fortunate to beat QU but unfortunate to get both teams in their path.
 
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