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Boston College 2024-25 TV * JG * MG

One game at a time as every HE game is important and sweeping UVM is a must. The following 3 games are winnable with UNH and MC.

Knocking out UNH assures them practically hosting the regional and winning the HE tournament

Letourneau should be a project over the summer working on his skills like skating and shooting and a few more pounds could help. Working on agility and quickness
 
Carmine Scarpaglia said:
I found it very interesting they put Traeger in for Shamburger, he was quite good on Friday, but Traeger was also solid last night. It got me thinking perhaps personnel needs to be moved around.
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Shamburger served the bench minor for too many men on the ice in Friday's game. That means he was on the ice when that happened. Not sure who was at fault for it, but he would have been the choice to serve it no matter what. I believe he jumped into the play getting out of the box which seemed rather strange instead of going the few feet towards the bench and letting someone else jump in. It did seem logical for him to get there as UMass had puck control and his presence helped but if he was supposed to go to the bench that could be the reason for the switch. Traeger is fast and last year he looked good when he got his chance in the exhibition game.
 
Carmine Scarpaglia said:
Interesting fact of the day. Ryan Leonard is the first back-to-back 25+ goal scorer in the program since Cam Atkinson (30 and 31 in 2009-2010 and 2010-2011). Nathan Gerbe also accomplished this feat in 2006-2007 and 2007-2008. Jeff Farkas has also done it and Brian Gionta did it in four straight seasons (goat conversation). Tony Voce had two but not back-to-back. Farkas is the only one that didn't get a ring, but wasn't far from winning three. Gerbe basically single-handedly won them the title in 2008.

Leonard likely will match the back-to-back 30+ goal campaigns of Atkinson, Farkas, and Gionta since he had 31 last year as a freshman if he can net another 5 over the course of the next few weeks.
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Thanks for that summary Carmine, a trip down memory lane, those guys were a part of the Golden Age of BC Hockey. Seems like a long time ago but the teams we have now are pretty good.
 
Saw a stat by the BU hockey stats account on twitter that based on shot quality the expected score was 4-3 BC. so maybe a tad overreaction last week. Granted the expected score from the national championship against denver was something like 5-1.

anyway, saturday was very good to see. while there were no results, I think the powerplay showed some life over the weekend
 
Jacob Fowler up to 5th all time BC goalies, with 9 career shutouts. His career save percentage is 1.97, which is tracking at #1 in BC history. GAA is 1.71 on the season to date. Agree with above on necessity for Leonard to tone back the needless physical scuffles and the slight embellishments. He does no good watching from penalty box, and the latter will only make HE refs start to see embellishments that do not exist.
Leonard ranks right there with greatest I have ever seen at BC-with Gionta, Janney and Gaudreau. I might put him ahead slightly because he also can dominate physically to go with this skating & scoring.
 
Seacaptim said:
Jacob Fowler up to 5th all time BC goalies, with 9 career shutouts. His career save percentage is 1.97, which is tracking at #1 in BC history. GAA is 1.71 on the season to date. Agree with above on necessity for Leonard to tone back the needless physical scuffles and the slight embellishments. He does no good watching from penalty box, and the latter will only make HE refs start to see embellishments that do not exist.
Leonard ranks right there with greatest I have ever seen at BC-with Gionta, Janney and Gaudreau. I might put him ahead slightly because he also can dominate physically to go with this skating & scoring.
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I think that David Emma might belong in that group.
 
eaglekeeper said:
Any word of Jevlik?

I thought anyone can serve the too many men on the ice penalty as it often is Shamburger.

Go Eagles 🦅
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From what I heard Oskar Jelvik has a labrum injury which sounds like it's going take more time to heal.
But the team sucked it up in his absence in the 2nd UMass game and hopefully continues to play that way the rest of the way.
Agree on Leonard, teams are purposely targeting him and getting him to retaliate and ends up being flagged for unnecessary penalties.

Coach Brown needs to talk to him and just take it and skate away especially being a captain.
I am curious how many EN goals he has out of his 25 goals.
 
Leonard has not quite achieved Gionta or Johnny Hockey status for me but he is close. He makes big plays at critical points in the games and they are not always goals, however he does have 8 GWG this year, that is pretty remarkable.
 
BCeagle said:
From what I heard Oskar Jelvik has a labrum injury which sounds like it's going take more time to heal.
But the team sucked it up in his absence in the 2nd UMass game and hopefully continues to play that way the rest of the way.
Agree on Leonard, teams are purposely targeting him and getting him to retaliate and ends up being flagged for unnecessary penalties.

Coach Brown needs to talk to him and just take it and skate away especially being a captain.
I am curious how many EN goals he has out of his 25 goals.
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Any idea if it is the hip or the shoulder Labrum? If the hip that would prevent him from any skating. If he is skating, then it must be the shoulder. I read that if non-surgical it would be about 6 to 8 weeks which at best gets him back for the regionals or for the Frozen 4.
 
DNAEagle said:
Leonard has not quite achieved Gionta or Johnny Hockey status for me but he is close. He makes big plays at critical points in the games and they are not always goals, however he does have 8 GWG this year, that is pretty remarkable.
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Leonard is very, very good.

But those two were other worldly.
 
From the sounds of it, Jellvik is done for the season according to the kid.

I think you leave the top 3 lines as they were in Amherst, and swap out Letourneau for Shamburger on the RW of the fourth line and call it a day until someone gets hurt or plays their way out of the lineup. I think that's a solid 4th line you can roll out there and expect them to handle some minutes. It's time to put the best lineup on the ice.

Need to get a little more now from Vote, Hagens, Berard, Posma, Stiga and probably some offense from the D. PP still needs to get moving; that will also help a lot. If the D stays healthy and focused, I still think that is the strength of the team and you can win from there.
 
Nick Papagiorgio said:
From the sounds of it, Jellvik is done for the season according to the kid.

I think you leave the top 3 lines as they were in Amherst, and swap out Letourneau for Shamburger on the RW of the fourth line and call it a day until someone gets hurt or plays their way out of the lineup. I think that's a solid 4th line you can roll out there and expect them to handle some minutes. It's time to put the best lineup on the ice.

Need to get a little more now from Vote, Hagens, Berard, Posma, Stiga and probably some offense from the D. PP still needs to get moving; that will also help a lot. If the D stays healthy and focused, I still think that is the strength of the team and you can win from there.
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What is the status of Hreschuk as well.
 
Nick Papagiorgio said:
From the sounds of it, Jellvik is done for the season according to the kid.

I think you leave the top 3 lines as they were in Amherst, and swap out Letourneau for Shamburger on the RW of the fourth line and call it a day until someone gets hurt or plays their way out of the lineup. I think that's a solid 4th line you can roll out there and expect them to handle some minutes. It's time to put the best lineup on the ice.

Need to get a little more now from Vote, Hagens, Berard, Posma, Stiga and probably some offense from the D. PP still needs to get moving; that will also help a lot. If the D stays healthy and focused, I still think that is the strength of the team and you can win from there.
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no bueno.

season hinges on 3 things IMO:
1) powerplay
2) vote being able to stabilize the 2nd line
3) not getting dominated in faceoffs
 
BCeagle said:
When I was a BC student in 1978 we had a player who was pretty good too. (Joey Mullen) As it turned out, he became one of the top US players in the the NHL in goals scored.
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Agreed Mullen was the best college hockey player and US born player of his era
 
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