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Boston University Offseason Thread 2: Moving Forward by Booting Forwards

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BUT09 said:
They could still lose to Northeastern or Harvard. That would have to be worse. :D
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Man, that would be the ultimate. LOL. Miami is like Charlie Brown kicking the football. Good times...:)
 
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Jacques Joubert said:
This will never, ever get old:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-mBI7jEfVU&feature=related

How great was this?

Where were you and how did you react?

Me?

I was in DC and I just slumped into my seat and asked somebody next to me if that "really just happened?".

Not sure if I'd prefer the cakewalk number BC did over Wisco over this.

I'll certainly never forget this...
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I was in my living room in Northern California texting my daughter in Oregon that it had been a great season and we can learn from losses...then all hell broke loose!
 
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Puck Swami said:
Anybody know more about the "scheduling oversight" that forced BU to drop out of the GLI?

http://www.kktv.com/sports/headlines/97033049.html

Colorado College is replacing the Terriers....
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From my understanding, it was not an oversight at all. The decision to go to the Shillelagh instead of the GLI was made about halfway through last season, at the latest. That's interesting that CC is replacing BU because originally the plan was simply for BU and BC to swap years (BC this year, BU next year). I also found it interesting that the schedules for Michigan and Michigan Tech still listed BU in the GLI. If a bunch of BU people have known about the swap for +/- 6 months, I would've assumed they did too.
 
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Federal League said:
From my understanding, it was not an oversight at all. The decision to go to the Shillelagh instead of the GLI was made about halfway through last season, at the latest. That's interesting that CC is replacing BU because originally the plan was simply for BU and BC to swap years (BC this year, BU next year). I also found it interesting that the schedules for Michigan and Michigan Tech still listed BU in the GLI. If a bunch of BU people have known about the swap for +/- 6 months, I would've assumed they did too.
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Thanks. Makes perfect sense.
 
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2010-2011 schedule has been released. http://www.goterriers.com/sports/m-hockey/spec-rel/062410aaa.html

In addition to the season-opening exhibition vs. Univ. of Toronto, there is an exhibition game on Wednesday, Nov. 3, against the Swedish U-20 team. For Nieto and Clendening, that should be a reunion with many of the players they faced in World U18 championships this past Spring. Adam Larsson, who edged out Clendening for top defenseman, is at the top of many 2011 draft rankings. The motive for this exhibition game seems obvious.
 
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Rogie beat me to it, but a brief writeup's been posted to the blog, and you can view the schedule there, as well.
 
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From 12/11-2/11, we have road trips to RPI, Chicago, UVM, Merrimack, UNH, Maine and UMass. That's a lot of mileage in 2 months.
 
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dear god, that home schedule is awful. two exhibitions, plus brown and harvard? what the hell am I paying for?
 
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slurpees said:
dear god, that home schedule is awful. two exhibitions, plus brown and harvard? what the hell am I paying for?
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Obviously it's a lackluster home schedule in terms of OOC games, but like I said before, you can't get North Dakota, Michigan St, Michigan and/or Notre Dame every year. I'm actually pretty excited for the game against the Sweden U20 team. Lots of talent, first-round picks, etc. on that team.
 
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slurpees said:
dear god, that home schedule is awful. two exhibitions, plus brown and harvard? what the hell am I paying for?
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looks like BC's from last year, welcome to the club. you guys had great home schedules the past two years though
 
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Federal League said:
Obviously it's a lackluster home schedule in terms of OOC games, but like I said before, you can't get North Dakota, Michigan St, Michigan and/or Notre Dame every year. I'm actually pretty excited for the game against the Sweden U20 team. Lots of talent, first-round picks, etc. on that team.
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I know, I'm just a little bitter that they also chose to raise ticket prices this year for this crock of **** home schedule. I don't expect WCHA or CCHA powerhouses each year, but something better than two of the three worst teams in the ECAC would be nice, especially if they're trying to justify a ticket price raise.
 
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slurpees said:
dear god, that home schedule is awful. two exhibitions, plus brown and harvard? what the hell am I paying for?
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If Clendening, Nieto and Coyle turn out as advertised will it make any difference?
 
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slurpees said:
two of the three worst teams in the ECAC
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But on paper, Harvard is.....oh well. :rolleyes:
Let's just hope BU doesn't make Conor Morrison look like the next Great One again. :mad:

Re the 2011-12 season, Mike Lynch announced at the alumni event in NYC that Red Hot Hockey 3 is set for MSG. I guess we're not going to see the Big Red at Agganis or have BU trek up to Lynah.
 
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Federal League said:
Obviously it's a lackluster home schedule in terms of OOC games, but like I said before, you can't get North Dakota, Michigan St, Michigan and/or Notre Dame every year. I'm actually pretty excited for the game against the Sweden U20 team. Lots of talent, first-round picks, etc. on that team.
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I would love to go to that game. But it's on a Wednesday. Seriously? They didn't have a single Saturday free??
 
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BUT09 said:
I would love to go to that game. But it's on a Wednesday. Seriously? They didn't have a single Saturday free??
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Yeah, I'm definitely not thrilled about having three Wednesday games. Especially weird that two of them are conference games. If I'm not mistaken, there were only like two weeknight HE games in the whole league last year, and one of those was a last-minute change because of the Fenway game.
 
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Federal League said:
Yeah, I'm definitely not thrilled about having three Wednesday games. Especially weird that two of them are conference games. If I'm not mistaken, there were only like two weeknight HE games in the whole league last year, and one of those was a last-minute change because of the Fenway game.
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BC had two weeknight games themselves last year (Merrimack and Providence i believe) and, yes, they s**k........the Providence game may be the one you are referring to as being moved
 
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sterlippo1 said:
BC had two weeknight games themselves last year (Merrimack and Providence i believe) and, yes, they s**k........the Providence game may be the one you are referring to as being moved
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Yeah it was. I forgot BC played Merrimack on a weeknight, too. The other one I was thinking of was PC-NU.
 
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slurpees said:
I know, I'm just a little bitter that they also chose to raise ticket prices this year for this crock of **** home schedule. I don't expect WCHA or CCHA powerhouses each year, but something better than two of the three worst teams in the ECAC would be nice, especially if they're trying to justify a ticket price raise.
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Seriously, this complaining is really so ridiculous. If they had raised them last year would you have just shut up and paid it because they won it all the year before? The home schedule should have nothing to do with whether the arena chooses to raise ticket prices. The schedule is what it is. We've had it pretty good the last couple of years. That doesn't always happen. What happens if they do really well this year? Will you pay the higher prices then? The season is what the season is. They play the same teams in HE every year and then it's a crap shoot with the OOC schedule. The cost of season tickets should be separate from what the schedule is. If they go undefeated in OOC games - regardless of how crappy the teams are - and that gets then in the NCAAs, then how will you feel? If you can't afford it, you can't afford it. That's one thing. You shouldn't go into debt even if the best teams ever came to HAA. You should go into debt because they're your team that you support, regardless of who they play - 80+% of which are the exact same teams we play every single season.
 
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Scarlet said:
Seriously, this complaining is really so ridiculous. If they had raised them last year would you have just shut up and paid it because they won it all the year before? The home schedule should have nothing to do with whether the arena chooses to raise ticket prices. The schedule is what it is. We've had it pretty good the last couple of years. That doesn't always happen. What happens if they do really well this year? Will you pay the higher prices then? The season is what the season is. They play the same teams in HE every year and then it's a crap shoot with the OOC schedule. The cost of season tickets should be separate from what the schedule is. If they go undefeated in OOC games - regardless of how crappy the teams are - and that gets then in the NCAAs, then how will you feel? If you can't afford it, you can't afford it. That's one thing. You shouldn't go into debt even if the best teams ever came to HAA. You should go into debt because they're your team that you support, regardless of who they play - 80+% of which are the exact same teams we play every single season.
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I understand your thoughts, my original comments were a bit from the initial disappointment of the schedule (and getting soaked walking home from work). That said, please don't preach to me on how and why to spend my money. A little out of line. And if wins against Brown and Harvard are making or breaking our NCAA tournament chances, we're very likely already up a creek.
 
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