BU Off-Season: Forward to the Past

[chickod]

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Eddie Effinger, the Director of Hockey Operations, left to take a head coaching job at St. Olaf College. Every time I hear St. Olaf, I think of Betty White’s character on Golden Girls.

My wife's favorite show. They are still showing reruns on Hallmark Channel. She has watched every rerun about 1,000 times.

 

[Sean Pickett]

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Here are the latest games I've uploaded to my Google drive:

1990 Hockey East Quarterfinals game 2 NU at BU
-when you've said Joe Sacco you've said it all
1990 Hockey East Quarterfinals game 3 BU at BU
-dogfight
1995 Nov 14 BU at Maine
-the rematch
1995 #500 Nov 21 Cornell at BU
-and retroactively #501
1998 Hockey East Quarterfinals game 2 MC at BU
-the ugly
1998 Hockey East Quarterfinals game 3 MC at BU
-the bad
(and I'm not talking about the tape the games were on, which was both)
2006 NCAA Northeast Regional Semifinal BU vs UNO
-the good
2007 Nov 16 BU at UVM
-goals, goals, goals
2009 Feb 27 BU at UMass
-comeback kids

bonus material
1990 NCAA First Round game 3 highlights UND at BU

When I started converting my old tapes I thought I had no BU losses and with the '98 HE QF game 3 I believe that brings the total I have found and digitized to 7 (not including the '91 title game).

Sean

 

[Harry Cleverly]

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Eddie Effinger, the Director of Hockey Operations, left to take a head coaching job at St. Olaf College. Every time I hear St. Olaf, I think of Betty White’s character on Golden Girls.

Effinger takes over what has been an ongoing disaster at St. Olaf.

Former Wisconsin coach Mike Eaves was there and departed for Cleveland of the AHL before the start of the season. Eaves had a poor tenure, and the players that hadn't transferred couldn't wait for him to leave. They only won four games all season and the interim coach was not retained.

Effinger has nowhere to go but up, since they are at rock bottom.

 

[buoldtimer]

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Polling seems to be showing that a significant majority of sporting fans won't come back out anyway until a vaccine is available.

Perhaps you're right. But we're all assessing this situation while in the midst of the maelstrom. By July, August the situation may be entirely different. Conceding that all colleges must look far into the future while making their decisions.

 

[brassbonanza]

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Perhaps you're right. But we're all assessing this situation while in the midst of the maelstrom. By July, August the situation may be entirely different. Conceding that all colleges must look far into the future while making their decisions.

It's very reasonable and correct that no one should be making these kind of projections right now. The range of possibilities of where we are on October 1 is very broad. Anywhere from much worse than expected to fairly better than expected. No one knows at this point.

 

[Sean Pickett]

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Here are the latest games I've uploaded to my Google drive:

1986 Dec 10 NU at BU
1986 Dec 13 BU at NU
2004 Jan 24 Maine at BU
2004 Jan 30 BU at UML

The two 1986 games are very likely the last from the eighties, unless someone lends me a working Betamax VCR (I have another 11 BU games on Beta, plus Harvard's '89 NCAA run). And the UML game is yet another bone tossed to the opposition.

Speaking of help form others, four very kind posters have already offered me support as I continue to convert and uploaded my old tape library of games. One has even offered to match up to $100 of support by others, so if you are thinking about helping your support will be doubled. I still have nearly 200 games to digitize, but if I get enough space I'm considering offering to convert the games of others once I finish my tapes.

Sean

 

[defkit]

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Here are the latest games I've uploaded to my Google drive:

1986 Dec 10 NU at BU
1986 Dec 13 BU at NU
2004 Jan 24 Maine at BU
2004 Jan 30 BU at UML

The two 1986 games are very likely the last from the eighties, unless someone lends me a working Betamax VCR (I have another 11 BU games on Beta, plus Harvard's '89 NCAA run). And the UML game is yet another bone tossed to the opposition.

Speaking of help form others, four very kind posters have already offered me support as I continue to convert and uploaded my old tape library of games. One has even offered to match up to $100 of support by others, so if you are thinking about helping your support will be doubled. I still have nearly 200 games to digitize, but if I get enough space I'm considering offering to convert the games of others once I finish my tapes.

Sean

Sean - I will be contributing.

BTW - got the tapes back fine. Glad I could contribute at least one game.

 

[Bomber]

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Nice article in the Boston Globe today about the 1995 Terrier reunion right before the world closed down. (It sounds like one member of that team got it.).

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04...-hockey-team-got-its-reunion-just-under-wire/

I watched the 1991 Hockey East Championship game today. One of the all-timers. I do love watching McEachern tuck that backhander through Garth Snow's 5-hole. (Hey Now!)

 

[Sean Pickett]

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Here are the latest games I've uploaded to my Google drive:

1996 Nov 26 Harvard at BU
1997 NCAA Quarterfinal BU vs DU
2004 Mar 04 UNH at BU
2004 Mar 06 BU at UNH
2007 Jan 12 BU at Maine

I finally found the 1997 NCAA game vs Denver , but the tape tracking wasn't great (nor are most of the tapes from the channel 68 period). The 12 Jan 2007 game had an issue with the sound being out of sync when I recorded it to DVHS tape. I spent most of yesterday doing my best to sync the sound back up, but the lag time seemed to change during the game. Anyway, I hope I did a decent job on that it is not noticeable.

Sean

 

[Sean Pickett]

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Sean - I will be contributing.

BTW - got the tapes back fine. Glad I could contribute at least one game.

Thanks for sending the tape to me, it was great to see the game for the first time since it was played.

Sean

 

[Scarlet]

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Not sure if somethings wrong with my laptop or the Google Drive, but none of the games would play for me. Which is weird because I was able to play a game a couple of weeks ago. You can play directly from the drive, right?

 

[defkit]

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I had fun watching the 1987 Beanpot Semi-Final for the first time. That was my first Beanpot game ever, and I didn't remember much. Some interesting takeaways for me (Apologies if I am repeating anything from a post by Bomber or others):
- For a BU-BC game, very little pushing and shoving after the whistle. I think in general this is something that didn't used to happen as much as it does today.
- No glass on the penalty box boards.
- No helmets for the refs.
- The goal signal for a ref was not to point at the net, but to lift their arm up (seemingly just like a penalty call). Weird.
- The quick whistles for tie-ups on the boards. Wow that was way too easy a way to get a whistle.
- Love that stand-up goalie style. A lot more shots from far out back then (unscreened). I think these have gone away because with butterfly-style goaltending, they are going to get saved every time.
- Greg Brown looked really good, better than Brian Leetch. I often thought Brown was overrated (I think he was HE POY twice), but he looked really good in that game.
- How about that 1st PP Unit for BC: Leetch, Brown, Craig Janney, and Kevin Stevens. Amazing we kept them off the board.
- Speaking of Brian Leetch, my favorite call from the game was "John Preston steals the puck from Leetch and goes in alone". A career highlight?
- Taillefer and John Bradley could be twins in their outfits and #30s. They look exactly the same.
- Scott Young's skill was evident. So was John Cullen's craftiness.

 

[Scarlet]

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Are you playing them directly from the drive?

 

[buoldtimer]

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- Speaking of Brian Leetch, my favorite call from the game was "John Preston steals the puck from Leetch and goes in alone". A career highlight?

Pretty safe guess that this is the first John Preston reference on this board. I vaguely remember the name, but have no on ice recollection of him; not even his steal from the future HOFer.

According to hockeydb, he played 13 games at BU all occurring in the 1986-87 season. Across the board 0 0 0.

He was 10th round draft choice of the LA Kings in 1987.

 

[defkit]

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Are you playing them directly from the drive?

Yes. I did have an issue with the game freezing right after we made it 4-0. Stopped twice in the same place. SO I didn't actually see the whole thing.

 

[defkit]

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Pretty safe guess that this is the first John Preston reference on this board. I vaguely remember the name, but have no on ice recollection of him; not even his steal from the future HOFer.

According to hockeydb, he played 13 games at BU all occurring in the 1986-87 season. Across the board 0 0 0.

He was 10th round draft choice of the LA Kings in 1987.

So he was Scott Perry before Scott Perry?

Also, that is why the draft is only 7 rounds now.

 

[Scarlet]

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Yes. I did have an issue with the game freezing right after we made it 4-0. Stopped twice in the same place. SO I didn't actually see the whole thing.

I can’t get anything to start. I click play and nothing happens.

 

[buoldtimer]

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So he was Scott Perry before Scott Perry?

Also, that is why the draft is only 7 rounds now.

I felt badly for Scott Perry. He was a "useful" player during his Fr and So seasons; 3rd, 4th liner, PK. As the scoring drought continued, he seemed to evaporate; racked up the DNP's.

 

[Sean Pickett]

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I can’t get anything to start. I click play and nothing happens.

I've had trouble a few times after uploading a game and checking to make sure it processed, but not multiple games at the same time. What games have you tried? Also, did you close the tab to the drive and then open it again?

Sean

 

[Sean Pickett]

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- Speaking of Brian Leetch, my favorite call from the game was "John Preston steals the puck from Leetch and goes in alone". A career highlight?

Pretty safe guess that this is the first John Preston reference on this board. I vaguely remember the name, but have no on ice recollection of him; not even his steal from the future HOFer.

According to hockeydb, he played 13 games at BU all occurring in the 1986-87 season. Across the board 0 0 0.

He was 10th round draft choice of the LA Kings in 1987.

And a very nice steal it was. After the next commercial break NESN showed the play again and Bob Norton commented on it and mentioned Preston was from Arlington. And moments after Preston's shot there was this line, "now John Matterazzo throws it behind the net," and then "Matterazzo couldn't keep it in." Matterazzo played in only 7 games for BU, also all during 1986-87. That's two players who barely played both being mentioned in less than a minute in the same game.

Sean