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Boston College: It's Trophy Time

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Boston22 said:
So I just did some looking on the Hockey East website. Since the start of the new year BC's record is 10-0-4. Colin White won the Rookie of the Week for January 11th, Ryan Fitzgerald a Top Performer this past week and Ian McCoshen from the week of January 18th-- when BC took three of four points from the Terriers. That same weekend BU happened to have three guys mentioned in Top Performers: JFK, Maguire and Grzelcyk.

And nothing for Thatcher Demko this past weekend, when his stats were better than Nick Ellis of Providence. If Hockey East doesn't want to acknowledge Demko as their Defensive Player of the Week, fine-- but at least put him in Top Performers. 2-0 record, 1.00 GAA, .970 save percentage.

That is far too little recognition for the best team in Hockey East.
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I scan over those releases and noticed the same over the past few weeks and I did wonder if it was just me. Not a big deal but perhaps it goes to show how you have such spread out depth on the team with no real PTPer. I think guys like McCoshen and Santini go terribly unnoticed because they don't score the points. And truthfully you look at a guy like Cangelosi and what he does and how he contributes every night and he is not even top 3 scorer on BC... and he is playing like an All-American as far as I'm concerned. Could also argue Sanford is way way up there and doesn't get the recognition either.

Bottom line, if there is one program where this doesn't affect them one bit it is BC. The majority of the other programs practically raise banners for these things, and that's only a slight exaggeration, as it is all they have to clip out of the paper and put on their refrigerator when the season is done. BC goes hunting for trophies.
 
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Boston22 said:
I felt as though Brian Dumoulin was pretty top end. Tommy Cross not too far behind.
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So do I. They are both top end. Have seen many more just like them play at BC. Key word in my post. . . DEPTH. Across the board depth this season, offense, defense, net. This d-corp has the depth to allow a senior defenseman to play forward in the absence of a forward. The D doesn't miss a beat.
 
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Nick Papagiorgio said:
Boy I don't know about that. But this team is very hard to get a good read on. 2011 was stacked. 2012 stacked. 1998-2001 stacked. 2004/2005 was pretty ridiculous. We'll have to wait and see what they do to determine what their legacy will be and how they will be looked back upon.
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2010 and 2011 were very good. 2012 not as strong on the blue line, but they won the big one, so that rates them as one of the best. They got it done.

I think this 2016 team is actually quite easy to get a read on. They are very consistent. So far, their on/off switch has worked very well. I don't recall a BC team that can roll 3 lines down the ice playing tic-tac-toe with the puck like this group can. They make the game look like a pregame warmup drill at times... 3 wide through center ice... pass, pass, pass, try and stop us. Sometimes the 4th line does it too.

Look at the stats. Will probably end up with 2 guys over 50 pts., 2-3 over 40 pts., 2-3 over 30 pts., plus another 5 over twenty. That's 13 guys with significant point production. Compare that to 2001, or any other team. Then throw in the D and goaltender. I like this team. :)

Then again, none of it means squat at this point. They lose Friday night and they're a bunch of bums. ;) Show me the money.
 
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FiveHole12 said:
2010 and 2011 were very good. 2012 not as strong on the blue line, but they won the big one, so that rates them as one of the best. They got it done.

I think this 2016 team is actually quite easy to get a read on. They are very consistent. So far, their on/off switch has worked very well. I don't recall a BC team that can roll 3 lines down the ice playing tic-tac-toe with the puck like this group can. They make the game look like a pregame warmup drill at times... 3 wide through center ice... pass, pass, pass, try and stop us. Sometimes the 4th line does it too.

Look at the stats. Will probably end up with 2 guys over 50 pts., 2-3 over 40 pts., 2-3 over 30 pts., plus another 5 over twenty. That's 13 guys with significant point production. Compare that to 2001, or any other team. Then throw in the D and goaltender. I like this team. :)

Then again, none of it means squat at this point. They lose Friday night and they're a bunch of bums. ;) Show me the money.
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I don't think we'll ever see a unit up front as deep as the 2011 group

using the HE final as lineup:

8 of 12 made NHL, 4 that haven't:
Mullane: 28th leading scorer in BC history, 14th ever in assists
Almeida: 2012 2nd team All American
SWhitney: 2013 1st team All American
Dyroff: Humanitarian Winner
 
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claver2010 said:
white's at 1.3 PPG, can anyone recall a FR who posted better (not a trivia question, I just don't know)
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Found what I was looking for... here is an excerpt, at the time he was 1.46 so he is back into Marty Reasoner territory:

better than Kobasew (1.14), JG (1), Ben Eaves (0.95), Reasoner (1.32), and Joe Whitney (1.16) and slightly below the pace of Brian Gionta (1.55 - he played on a line with Marty friggin Reasoner).
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Also to update one other line of info that was posted... BC is 0-2-0 without him in the lineup and 23-2-5 with him. The record when he scores a point is 19-0-2 and 11-0-2 when he scores a goal. (16-0-0 when he has an assist)
 
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I have 2 extra tix fo Friday night against Lowell (free). BC fans can contact me if interested.
 
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claver2010 said:
I don't think we'll ever see a unit up front as deep as the 2011 group

using the HE final as lineup:

8 of 12 made NHL, 4 that haven't:
Mullane: 28th leading scorer in BC history, 14th ever in assists
Almeida: 2012 2nd team All American
SWhitney: 2013 1st team All American
Dyroff: Humanitarian Winner
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And they got frogstomped in the first round by Colorado College. I thought that team had as good a chance to repeat as any. Goes to show, that's why they play the games.
 
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Cross Check said:
And they got frogstomped in the first round by Colorado College. I thought that team had as good a chance to repeat as any. Goes to show, that's why they play the games.
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prolly was the best of many excellent BC teams that didnt win it all. I'll never understand that one but no one liked the match up when they announced the brackets and our worst fears were realized. Scored too early, thought it was gonna be easy?? who knows
 
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A lot going on tonight.

-Senior night.
-Chance to skate a trophy around.
-Chance to really blast UML off the bubble perhaps.

I think as Fivehole mentioned this team has tremendous mental toughness and always seems to bounce back but the penalty problem remains unsolved. This weekend will be a good mental test to see if these guys don't come out too amped up right off the bat with the possibility of winning a title tonight and take too many penalties. Perhaps the delayed start due to Senior Night festivities will help keep them from coming out too crazy in the locker room. And the killer instinct aspect of this is that they have a chance to really punish UML and put their season in jeopardy. And depending on Friday results may they take the foot off the gas Saturday? I sure hope not.

You're going to have possibly two tight contests here against the stingiest team in the league. Need to stay away from the box.

Going back to the senior night thing, fair or not, it's mostly Teddy Doherty night. Boy did this guy become a good hockey player and an excellent captain. Another excellent example of why you go to a good school and work your azz off and grind away. Was a little surprised to see that McMullen is already a senior as is Jeke. Jeke has show some nice skill up front this year, wouldn't be shocked to see him pop in a goal in the NCAA tournament as an unlikely guy that can make something happen - we've seen it before with Pat Gannon and Andrew Orpik. Silk may be the most unlucky guy to wear a BC uniform from his pre-BC ankle/achilles injury to his injuries here. Character kid from a great family ... any chance he can get a redshirt? Would he even want to?

Today's fun fact: The last seniors to graduate from BC without a national championship were class of 2007 (and they easily could have won several --> 2 title game appearances, 1 overall #1 seed that lost to North Dakota in the regionals and another juggernaut that lost to Maine in the semis). This senior class is still without a ring... could fix that problem this year though.
 
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Lowell is 3-0-1 at home against BU, ND and PC. Important for BC to take care of business tonight. Not just a big night for BC trying to clinch the title. Just as big for Lowell fighting for PWR positioning and that first round bye.
 
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Oh and against a team like Lowell, very important to score first. Vermont scored first in both games last weekend but they're Vermont...it didn't matter. If that happens again this weekend, you're asking for trouble.
 
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-Chance to really blast UML off the bubble perhaps.
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I was thinking more on the line of a 3 point BC weekend, ND sweeps(it sucks to)BU and UML jumps into 4th thereby whatstheirname from the other end of Comm Ave misses out on the HE tourney bye.

Anywho, my grandson and I will be there in sec Q.
 
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Nick Papagiorgio said:
Today's fun fact: The last seniors to graduate from BC without a national championship were class of 2007 (and they easily could have won several --> 2 title game appearances, 1 overall #1 seed that lost to North Dakota in the regionals and another juggernaut that lost to Maine in the semis). This senior class is still without a ring... could fix that problem this year though.
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Didn't know this. Interesting. So, I just looked this up. . . these seniors haven't won a HE Tourney title either. Only made it to the Garden once and lost to BU in the semi's. :eek:
 
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