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Boston College Hockey 2026 - 2027

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Out with the old in with the new. I think it will be a good year, maybe not a great year but they will be very competitive with the top tier programs. First test is MSU, which is expected to be a very strong team.
 
BTW hoops looks very promising. Get your season tickets while they're cheap. The bar has been raised.
 
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DNAEagle said:
Out with the old in with the new. I think it will be a good year, maybe not a great year but they will be very competitive with the top tier programs. First test is MSU, which is expected to be a very strong team.
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MSU is an exhibition
 
yes it is an exhibition but I am sure it will be a competitive game and will serve as a measurement of capability for both teams.
 
BCeagle said:
football is looking dreadful.
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BOB up to #10 on coaches hot seat rankings. Very lucky to beat Maine. Similar to the Holy Cross game where we essentially lost but the QB (who became a national story a bit later) ran out of bounds while running for the GW TD.

I'd imagine this Nor'easter this weekend could help prevent a blowout but it's going to be ugly during the ACC Schedule and BOB seems to not understand how to evaluate the QB position which is kinda important. Not sure where any other wins are going to come from. Maybe Syracuse again and that's probably it. Then you have the national news that BC was lowest of the P4 NIL spenders, which was disputed but still a terrible look. Things are beyond rotten in the athletic department.
 
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BOB up to #10 on coaches hot seat rankings. Very lucky to beat Maine. Similar to the Holy Cross game where we essentially lost but the QB (who became a national story a bit later) ran out of bounds while running for the GW TD.

I'd imagine this Nor'easter this weekend could help prevent a blowout but it's going to be ugly during the ACC Schedule and BOB seems to not understand how to evaluate the QB position which is kinda important. Not sure where any other wins are going to come from. Maybe Syracuse again and that's probably it. Then you have the national news that BC was lowest of the P4 NIL spenders, which was disputed but still a terrible look. Things are beyond rotten in the athletic department.
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Nick Saban could be the coach and you would still get the same results without the proper support and financial resources that teams like OSU and ND get. Leahy was good in non athletic fundraising but he was always steps behind for athletics and did he even show up for any games ? Doubtful

Will Butler be any different ? That remains to be seen. At least when I was a student and young alum, Father Monan was at games and supportive. BC had some ranked teams and competitive years.

Football should be the fundraising machine that supports all the other athletic programs. It is pathetic at Alumni Field when everyone knows what the product is and fans come late and leave early and all you see are empty stands practically. Apathy becomes reality and demoralization.

BC cannot field a competitive team and has become the new UMass. Even UMass now could beat BC today after they took apart Rutgers. The few talented players on the team is negated by injuries and shows the lack of depth and lack of talent to compete in an ACC conference.

The good players BC had left in the portal for better teams and bigger NIL payday. Do we even have a legit TE in an already weak offense that depends on the QB to make things happen ?

From what I hear, the SU coach is under the HOT seat.
 
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O’Brien has been given almost zero financial support his first two seasons.
This past offseason, BC allocated its first significant investment toward retaining and recruiting players, and free agents via portal. Unfortunately the pool of money allocated ($16 million approx) falls far short compared to 80% of the rest of Div. 1 competition. This is why he opted for a Div 2 QB in McKenzie, and developmental transfers such as Palano, Kahoun, Jones, Ballard, Zeke Moore et al. . Our starting left tackle V Ju Ju played at Tennessee State last season and can not run block. His backup Trevon Humphrey played at North Carolina Central and graded out poorly there as a run blocker (68).
Right tackle-Phillips (Mich St. transfer) is an often injured Guard converted to tackle because there is no one better on the roster. His backup is Reggie Jackson who played at Jacksonville State last season.
Our backup center is a Merrimack transfer-Amir Johnson. He is a 3rd stringer, as Crounse is injured.
The loss of TE Chudzinski was devastating, because there are no apparent Div 1 caliber tight ends on the roster. Moore is a blocking TE. Edgehille had no legitimate Div 1 offers. Clough is walk on and hurt.
We lost RB-Turbo Richards (tearing it up at Indiana) and WR-Reed Harris (5 TD’s at ASU) via portal. I assume we lacked the funds to retain.
 
Seacaptim said:
We lost RB-Turbo Richards (tearing it up at Indiana) and WR-Reed Harris (5 TD’s at ASU) via portal. I assume we lacked the funds to retain.
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Or the prospect of winning/success/competitiveness. I had the over/under on wins this season at 1.5. I'd have taken the under. I never dreamed that Rutgers would be that bad. It's only a matter of when, not if the SEC and B10 expand to 20 team super conferences and it is a guarantee that BC will be left at the kiddie table on the outside looking in. At that point the football program will be a glorified FCS program and football rather than being a revenue generator that helps carry the athletic department will be an anchor weighing it down.
 
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Brown said he is “happy” with the goaltending competition in camp. Will it be Cloutier or Henriquez in October?
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This is good. I expect to see a fairly even split for a good while through January. Cloutier has some upside but consistency issues, perhaps there is improvement there from offseason work, and the addition of Henriquez will certainly push him and they will push each other. By Beanpot time you'll probably see someone emerge. Crazy we also still have Korec, who was very good as a backup to Fowler, but really struggled early last season and just sealed things for the rest of the season (sadly, as we all know he should have been given a shot during the late choke).
 
Stiga is not dressed. Sandreal Conmy and Vote top line, Deano Hemming and VonHanen, Pellitier and the Mutryns 3rd line, Moore Resendes and Kudrick. Rado, Kosta, Mallgrave, Grimes, Joyce and Beauchesne on the D. 2 -0 sparty at the end of one. 2-1 Pellitier
 
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5-2 MSU. Shots even in 1st, BC dominated second, MSU carried 3d. Only report I've seen on X so far said 'BC may have a Cloutier problem'. Pelletier had 2 PPGs for BC.
 
Anyway, don't want to make too much of this as it was an exhibition so it thankfully doesn't count. MSU could be a very good team and this will be a good chance to get on the ice and get the team up to game speed without taking the PWR beating.

Perhaps the single thing I was looking at was to see what Cloutier would do. It was right back to the same old which obviously is problematic. Check out this post from last year:

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This could be a problem that doesn't go away unfortunately. To add tonight's unofficial numbers, it appears he would have been .777 after one and .818 after his half of the game was over. It's just strange but clearly the pattern emerges.

My main concerns from last year have not gone away after an exhibition.

Hagens just got his first NHL goal.
 
That is why he needs a strong defensive core in front of him. Gustafson, Minnietian and Fortescue were very good and they covered a lot of weakness,, they were not DuMoulin or Mottau. but still very good. DuMoulin is still playing in the NHL, LA Kings BTW. Amazing.
 
If you search Anthony Smith on X, his article on the pay site re: last night's game is free to read. Also has a post or two in addition to the story.
 
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O’Brien has been given almost zero financial support his first two seasons.
This past offseason, BC allocated its first significant investment toward retaining and recruiting players, and free agents via portal. Unfortunately the pool of money allocated ($16 million approx) falls far short compared to 80% of the rest of Div. 1 competition. This is why he opted for a Div 2 QB in McKenzie, and developmental transfers such as Palano, Kahoun, Jones, Ballard, Zeke Moore et al. . Our starting left tackle V Ju Ju played at Tennessee State last season and can not run block. His backup Trevon Humphrey played at North Carolina Central and graded out poorly there as a run blocker (68).
Right tackle-Phillips (Mich St. transfer) is an often injured Guard converted to tackle because there is no one better on the roster. His backup is Reggie Jackson who played at Jacksonville State last season.
Our backup center is a Merrimack transfer-Amir Johnson. He is a 3rd stringer, as Crounse is injured.
The loss of TE Chudzinski was devastating, because there are no apparent Div 1 caliber tight ends on the roster. Moore is a blocking TE. Edgehille had no legitimate Div 1 offers. Clough is walk on and hurt.
We lost RB-Turbo Richards (tearing it up at Indiana) and WR-Reed Harris (5 TD’s at ASU) via portal. I assume we lacked the funds to retain.
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I don't have the patience to watch on TV but listen for a few minutes in the car. Nothing new but they did make it look respectable scorewise and were in the game for the most part. But man, same mistakes but I guess given the lack of NIL money provided, they are what they are. I have season tickets to the 3 sports but I do go to all home games and have low expectations. Why was the #4 TE in and he drops an easy 5 yd pass & TD ? Although, I guess we're splitting hairs if all the TEs are bad except for the injured TE out for the yr.

I guess I can go on about Leahy being responsible but we all know the facts under his tenure as Prez.
 
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