Boston College Eagles 🦅 2018-2019

[J.D.]

Re: Boston College Eagles 2018-2019

Thank God for the freshmen they have coming in next year (on paper at least)

 

[BCeagle]

I saw it like a terrible d early, and suspect goaltending in the first on the second and third goals against BC. Then a rally and a momentum swing, only to be deflated when the Hutsko mishap happened. Then NU played great team defense. Both sides should be commended and feel proud. But NU goes on and should do well in playoffs.

Go Huskies, Go Minutemen, Go Friars!!!

We can all cheer on our hockey east companions... to not is to wish a down fall. Make HE proud and kick some!

I was watching from a side view in club seats with a friend and he blurted out Woll should have had it, the goals NU scored

I immediately commented to my friend that the BC defense was at fault for poor coverage

From sitting in 113 it looks like easy saves but then from a different angle and frontal shot of the goalie you can see gaps from a shooter point of view

None of the goals from that angle you can fault Woll

If your defense just stands there like static streetcones you have enough time to select where you want to go with the puck

You as a defender must find a way to disrupt or distract the shooter and find a way to either block shots or deflect the shots

When I watch BC shoot the puck a lot of their shots are blocked or deflected harmlessly away from the goalie or more often the BC shots completely miss the net

After the game I have watched 2 replays of the game and the 2nd time I watched it last night,

The BC 3rd period was so inconsequential that NESN skipped most of the 3rd period and showed the last two minutes of the game after showing all of the 2nd period when BC played well and had closed the lead to one goal after spotting NU a 3-0 lead

 

[BCeagle]

Howdy folks. Glad Hutsko is ok and recovering. Valiant effort the past two weekends (where was this all season?) but a total and utter disaster of a dumpster fire season. And we need to think long and hard about changing up some assistants to help out Coach York. Assuming he is able to be helped at this point.

So I thought this was funny. I found an old spreadsheet that I used to track just the name and projected date of a recruit (back when work/life was slower?! Or maybe when I actually cared). At some point I stopped updating but the snapshot is incredible to look back at. It's not pretty and really illustrates what a clustereff this program is:

2017 6
C/RW Monte Graham Never got here, ended up at Miami
LW Joseph Cassetti Never got here, heading to Merrimack for 19-20
F Mitchell Martan Never got here, ended up at Canisius
RF Casey Carreau Gone after one season. TBD future?
RW Zach Walker Still here, just finished junior season
LW Eeli Tolvanen LOL never showed up

2018 5
C TJ Walsh Never got here, heading to NU for 19-20
LW Chris Grando Still here, just finished sophomore season
RF Patrick Giles Still here, just finished freshman season
D Adam Samuelsson LOL Left after 7 games
LW Jacob Tortora Left after 1 season and a partial season
F Jacques Bouquot Pushed back a year

2019 1
RC Patrick Moynihan Changed commitment to PC

2020 1
G Spencer Knight

I was discussing one with someone because the PP in general has been awful

How does a goalie (Ayers) know how to run a power play better than a skater ? I suppose it’s possible but the BC power play has been dismal for the most part.

I am thinking someone else needs to coach the power play in practice and during a game and make better adjustments

 

[DNAEagle]

Re: Boston College Eagles 2018-2019

I don't even know what to tell you if you think the coaching staff situation is good. Do you like Jim Christian as our head coach in hoops too?



Define "compete".

Christian is not a ACC coach and he has proven that, but they are competing in a semi pro league with a just one or two ACC players, he should be gone.

I did define compete in a post, RS title last year, tied the year before for the title, made the championship game two years in a row. The season was a huge disappointment for everyone, we are used to better, but it does not call for a wholesale change of coaches. Their last 7 or 8 games they did compete but losing games 2-1 or 5-4 in OT is no shame, it is hockey, sometimes a very cruel sport.

 

[chickod]

Re: Boston College Eagles 2018-2019

Christian is not a ACC coach and he has proven that, but they are competing in a semi pro league with a just one or two ACC players, he should be gone.

I did define compete in a post, RS title last year, tied the year before for the title, made the championship game two years in a row. The season was a huge disappointment for everyone, we are used to better, but it does not call for a wholesale change of coaches. Their last 7 or 8 games they did compete but losing games 2-1 or 5-4 in OT is no shame, it is hockey, sometimes a very cruel sport.

Or, one could ask, why did BC even join that league? You KNOW that you can't compete, given the academic standards. The Northeast is different than most of the rest of the country and you're just not going to be able to admin that type of student. Not disparaging anyone...but that's just reality. And if they think they can, they need to get over their Flutie hangover and move on.

 

[BCeagle]

Christian is not a ACC coach and he has proven that, but they are competing in a semi pro league with a just one or two ACC players, he should be gone.

I did define compete in a post, RS title last year, tied the year before for the title, made the championship game two years in a row. The season was a huge disappointment for everyone, we are used to better, but it does not call for a wholesale change of coaches. Their last 7 or 8 games they did compete but losing games 2-1 or 5-4 in OT is no shame, it is hockey, sometimes a very cruel sport.

This has gone on for 3 seasons and this year obviously was the worst

I really do agree he has to change assistants to not only improve the teams performance during games but to get back to attracting good players and not losing them

That list of decommits is a lot and you can see why BC has slowly sunk to the lower tier in hockey east and very alarming

 

[Nick Papagiorgio]

Re: Boston College Eagles 2018-2019

The notion there should be a coaching change is nonsense. They went to FF 2014 and 2016, lost 7 guys at the end of 16 which scrambled all the recruiting eggs for the next three seasons. There are some guys who would probably would be playing on other teams.

I think your whole post is a bad take but I want to contrast to you how things were handled in the early 2000s when BC lost FAR FAR FAR more (the best senior class ever ... Gionta, Allen, Lephart, Clemmensen, Scuderi, etc plus first rounders Kolanos, Kobasew, and Orpik) but had a competent coaching staff. Their "bad year" was a season where they finished .500 right after the losses. They followed it up by going 24-11-4 and lost in double OT of a regional final WITHOUT Patrick Eaves (thanks Hockey East). The next year they were in full juggernaut mode as the #2 seed overall going 27-8-4 only to be stuffed by Jimmy Howard in the Frozen Four in a game quite frankly they should have won. 3 years = back in business competing for a national title.

Contrast that to this situation, we are 3 years out and it is getting WORSE every single year. And I think it's also worth noting that BC added talent and graduated ONE friggin player last year. ONE! And they got worse. Quite frankly, I'm having trouble understanding your logic of whining about 2016 early losses to the pros even though our record gets worse the further away we move from the event.

I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul. But since you are new around here, I'll give you a mulligan and hope you smarten up.

 

[Nick Papagiorgio]

Re: Boston College Eagles 2018-2019

Or, one could ask, why did BC even join that league? You KNOW that you can't compete, given the academic standards.

WHOA... hold the heck up. BC proved they CAN compete. They played in an ACC championship game in both football (twice!) and hoops before Gene D destroyed the department that he built up.

Also, you know why they joined the ACC. It's sad they let us cash their gd checks. They should threaten to kick us out. But you know why we joined. Missing out would have been a death blow. Look at the saps over in Storrs (thanks Gene D )

 

[chickod]

Re: Boston College Eagles 2018-2019

WHOA... hold the heck up. BC proved they CAN compete. They played in an ACC championship game in both football (twice!) and hoops before Gene D destroyed the department that he built up.

Well, obviously I don't know the details of what has happened internally. What do you mean by "destroyed the department?" Are you saying they no longer allocate money for the resources that it takes to bring in better recruits?

 

[J.D.]

Re: Boston College Eagles 2018-2019

I think BC has always cut corners with money, try to do it on the cheap despite having bundles of cash at their disposal. Really it's just been poor moves at the AD level, haven't hired great people, don't know when to fire coaches.

Not that I care about these sports but the new AD has done well so far in minor hires like women's hoops and volleyball. Dramatic turnarounds in just one year for those programs. The problem is BC has not allowed him to put his stamp on the major programs. He inherited Addazio and Christian. Would love to know if he actually wants to get rid of those guys but is being told he can't.

 

[BCeagle]

Re: Boston College Eagles 2018-2019

I think BC has always cut corners with money, try to do it on the cheap despite having bundles of cash at their disposal. Really it's just been poor moves at the AD level, haven't hired great people, don't know when to fire coaches.

Not that I care about these sports but the new AD has done well so far in minor hires like women's hoops and volleyball. Dramatic turnarounds in just one year for those programs. The problem is BC has not allowed him to put his stamp on the major programs. He inherited Addazio and Christian. Would love to know if he actually wants to get rid of those guys but is being told he can't.

When I discuss it with a member who runs the bolster club he never speaks bad about Addazio. But those of us who speak freely and honestly know Daz is deficient in areas of football coaching. He should have been gone 2 years ago with his obvious deficiencies. I will still go to the games and just renewed my season tickets but BC will go nowhere in my opinion with this coach. He served his purpose when he came in but now it's time to replace him or BC will not progress to the next level.

 

[Nick Papagiorgio]

Re: Boston College Eagles 2018-2019

I think BC has always cut corners with money, try to do it on the cheap despite having bundles of cash at their disposal.

I mean, it's a university run by priests that almost went bankrupt back in the day. Not necessarily surprising they would be cheap but they are just losing future money by not paying for a good coach now. Both in hoops and football. And let's not even get into the g**** ridiculous contract extensions they give these bozos.

 

[J.D.]

Re: Boston College Eagles 2018-2019

Back in the day, sure. But the money is there now. Notre Dame has more money than BC but similar school and they pay for good coaches. The money BC gets for how much it costs to go there, money from ACC, donors. Plenty of dough just need to step up and spend it on good coaches.

 

[BCeagle]

Re: Boston College Eagles 2018-2019

Back in the day, sure. But the money is there now. Notre Dame has more money than BC but similar school and they pay for good coaches. The money BC gets for how much it costs to go there, money from ACC, donors. Plenty of dough just need to step up and spend it on good coaches.

It's penny wise pound foolish mentality

Father does not see a winning program gets more income for the university when you go to good bowl games and NCAA tournaments

I have no reason to believe he even attends one game even from what I hear

His support is clearly lacking and short sighted

 

[sigx15]

Re: Boston College Eagles 2018-2019

Thank God for the freshmen they have coming in next year (on paper at least)

Let's hope everyone stays who are committed. The good thing is up until now, Newhook has said all the right things and sounds like a hard commit, at least for a year.

If everyone comes and Cotton stays, the team has a shot to be very good. This should be the best recruiting class in years. BTW, Wahlstrom had a very disappointing year considering the expectations and I don't expect him to stay but I think he should at least give it another year and see if he can develop like Kevin Hayes did. Hayes had a much worse freshman season and didn't really break out until his senior year when he fully entrenched himself into working out. Wahlstrom's foot speed was really disappointing this year amongst his other faults, could really use another year.

Anyways, here's a look at the incoming recruiting class:

Spencer Knight - USNTDP U18 starting goalie (#1 central Scouting goalie)
Alex Newhook F - BCHL - First in BCHL in scoring 102 Pts in 53GP (#16 North American Central Scouting)
Matt Boldy F - NTDP U18 - 4th in Pts, 2nd in goals (#6 in North America NHL Central Scouting)
Marshall Warren D - NTDP U18 (#39 of North America Central Scouting)
Hardman F - BCHL 3rd in BCHL in scoring 72 Pts in 58GP (Undrafter)

TBD - Listed as 2020 on Heisenberg but could come
Helleson - NTDP U18 (#33 North America Central Scouting)
Bouquot - BCHL 28 pts in 31 GP (undrafted)

 

[J.D.]

Re: Boston College Eagles 2018-2019

I would expect Helleson. They lose two guys and they already lost Samuelsson earlier in the year. Cotton is expected to sign though. Gonna miss him. But need more three year players like him.

 

[Nick Papagiorgio]

Re: Boston College Eagles 2018-2019

Forgot to post this yesterday so happy belated 12th anniversary to our 2005-2006 Eagles especially Joe Rooney for single-handedly obliterating BU.

March 25th, 2006:
http://www.hockeyeastonline.com/men/boxes.php?mbc_bu_1.m25

Kinda brings a tear to my eye... winning big games, making the NCAAs, Frozen fours, national title games. I miss the golden era of BC hockey.

 

[BCeagle]

I would expect Helleson. They lose two guys and they already lost Samuelsson earlier in the year. Cotton is expected to sign though. Gonna miss him. But need more three year players like him.

Why did he leave ? He wasn’t getting playing time and didn’t buy into the system ?

 

[QUAlum2004]

Re: Boston College Eagles 2018-2019

Oliver Wahlstrom is one and done.

https://twitter.com/GlobeKPD/status/1110588244180258816

 

[J.D.]

Re: Boston College Eagles 2018-2019

Oliver Wahlstrom is one and done.

https://twitter.com/GlobeKPD/status/1110588244180258816

Good luck to him, he's gonna need it.