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BC Women's Hockey '14-'15: #SOAR

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I want to see the competition BC will be playing this year. I hope we play Minnesota,Wisconsin or Clarkson.
 
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sheagle008 said:
I want to see the competition BC will be playing this year. I hope we play Minnesota,Wisconsin or Clarkson.
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No luck. It's the same OOC schedule as last year with flipped home/away:

2x SLU
2x Cornell
Yale
Quinnipiac
Princeton
Harvard
Dartmouth
Syracuse
2x Beanpot

They are working on a WCHA team for the upcoming 2 seasons though.
 
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Not sure why BU is so much better at organizing tough OOCs then we are -- they had Wisco last year in Colorado and they have Clarkson this year. But maybe I'm being distracted by the top matchup: going a bit deeper, we have three tournament or near-tournament teams in Cornell, Quinni, Harvard and they had four in Wisco, Harvard, UMD, Robert Morris, and their weakest matchups of Union and St Cloud are weaker than any of ours. A WCHA matchup would be great.
 
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wwhyte said:
Not sure why BU is so much better at organizing tough OOCs then we are -- they had Wisco last year in Colorado and they have Clarkson this year. But maybe I'm being distracted by the top matchup: going a bit deeper, we have three tournament or near-tournament teams in Cornell, Quinni, Harvard and they had four in Wisco, Harvard, UMD, Robert Morris, and their weakest matchups of Union and St Cloud are weaker than any of ours. A WCHA matchup would be great.
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Well keep in mind, Cornell is usually more of a premier eastern OOC opponent than Clarkson is. I think you'll find Cornell will be better than Clarkson next year.

Based on the way things have turned out I'm guessing Kinger has 2 year home-and-home agreements with the school's we're playing this year/last year and will probably get an all-new slate in '15-'16, '16-'17.
 
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As for the comparison with BU, these are the OOC opponents we did not have in common with them this year:

BU:
Wisco -- 3rd in KRACH
RMU -- 12th in KRACH, usually meh, surprised everyone with one of their best seasons ever
Duluth -- 13th in KRACH, uncharacteristically poor season for them
SCSU -- 26th in KRACH, usually awful despite being WCHA
RPI -- 28th in KRACH, usually meh
Union -- 34th in KRACH, usually meh to bad

BC:
Cornell -- 5th in KRACH
QU -- 11th in KRACH
Cuse -- 16th in KRACH
Princeton -- 18th in KRACH
SLU -- 23rd in KRACH

I wouldn't exactly say BU had the edge there. It played out pretty even.

Going back to the year before, the non-common OOC's were:

BU:
RPI, Union, Robert Morris,

BC:
Dartmouth, QU, Yale, Clarkson, SLU, Mercyhurst

Not as easy without having historical KRACH ratings but I would give BC the edge on that one.

More than anything it just seems like BC and BU are on alternating scheduling patterns. BU's 12-13 and 13-14 OOC schedules appeared to be the same (other than the trip to Vail) so they will probably have an all-new slate this year. BC's looks like its pattern is 13-14 & 14-15.

Give BU credit for getting so many western teams on the schedule last year but it was more of an anomaly than a pattern, I think.
 
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Eeyore said:
BU is traveling to Minneapolis this year to play Minnesota and St Cloud once each.
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Like I said, new schedule deals probably started up for them. I suspect -- hope -- that might mean Minnesota will come out to Boston to play BU in 15-16, and possibly start up a home-and-home with BC at the same time.

The 'anomaly' comment was more about the fact that they played 4 games against western teams last year, half of which were from the Colorado series.
 
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TonyTheTiger20 said:
Give BU credit for getting so many western teams on the schedule last year but it was more of an anomaly than a pattern, I think.
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Since BU started the varsity program Coach Durocher has scheduled WCHA teams every season except the inaugural season in 2005-06. Usually there are just two games, but there have been four games in 2007-08, 2011-12 and 2013-14. Of the 24 games only 8 have been at BU, 12 have been at the other teams home rink and 4 have been neutral site games requiring road trips. Of the teams BU has scheduled neither Minnesota or Wisconsin have made trips to BU.

Sean
 
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Sean Pickett said:
Of the teams BU has scheduled neither Minnesota or Wisconsin have made trips to BU.
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To date, Minnesota's regular-season games versus BU have been part of a four-team showcase, not the type of two-game home series that are typically returned.
 
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Katie is a great goalie, awesome kid, and has solid support from a good family. Still will be alot to ask of some young goalies to step right into the college game speed.
 
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Royale with Cheese said:
Katie is a great goalie, awesome kid, and has solid support from a good family. Still will be alot to ask of some young goalies to step right into the college game speed.
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First off I really like cheese so I'm sure we're going to get along great.

You're right on the young goalies, it's tough to adjust. I'm hopeful, though. BC has a good history with freshmen starters. Schaus was a 4 year starter, and though men's is a different animal, Thatcher Demko started off last year as a 17 year old freshman and Muse played every minute of his freshman year. And won us a title :cool:
 
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TonyTheTiger20 said:
Article on losing Miller but gaining Burt

http://www.bcinterruption.com/bosto...oalie-to-wisconsin-but-gains-accelerating-usa
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I HATE this.... Now kids are not only getting recruited in their freshman year of high school, they are forgoing their senior year of high school to matriculate to college early so that they can be part of a 3 way competition for a starting spot? The insanity is growing......

BTW - I'm also a little surprised that BB&N and BC signed up for this. One thing if BC had NO goalie or even just 1 goalie, but they have 2 very talendted goalies already coming in
 
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wpiguy said:
There are virtually no flaws in her game and I would expect her to be as good as any collegiate goaltender who has ever played the position.
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Whew, that's some bold prognosticating... Here's hoping you aren't just a proud relative! haha
 
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Burt is going to be great! She is a big and very well positioned. She will be a star right off the bat for these Boston college eagles.
 
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