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BU Off-Season: Forward to the Past

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Sean Pickett said:
I also really liked the 2005-06 team.

Sean
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John-ny Cur-ry, clap, clap…clap, clap, clap

Two-time All-American (1st Team 2006, 2nd 2007)
BU’s career leader in both save percentage and GAA
Three of the top 12 GAAs for a season.
Tied with Oettinger and Ferreira for career shutouts (13).
2007 Hobey Baker finalist and HE Player of the Year
Long AHL career and 8 NHL appearances.
Not bad for a recruited walk-on who played just five minutes as a freshman.

IIRC, Curry took over as starting goalie very early in the 2004-05 season after BU lost badly to Miami and Michigan in the Left McFadden tournament.
Wikipedia page

Thank you, Sean!
 
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Rogie21 said:
John-ny Cur-ry, clap, clap…clap, clap, clap

Two-time All-American (1st Team 2006, 2nd 2007)
BU’s career leader in both save percentage and GAA
Three of the top 12 GAAs for a season.
Tied with Oettinger and Ferreira for career shutouts (13).
2007 Hobey Baker finalist and HE Player of the Year
Long AHL career and 8 NHL appearances.
Not bad for a recruited walk-on who played just five minutes as a freshman.

IIRC, Curry took over as starting goalie very early in the 2004-05 season after BU lost badly to Miami and Michigan in the Left McFadden tournament.
Wikipedia page

Thank you, Sean!
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“He may not be a #1 goalie, but he is our #1 goalie.”
 
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buoldtimer said:
Yes, thanks, Sean.

I just watched the 1994 NCAA QF game vs. Wisconsin. The 1993-94 and 1994-95 BU teams may be my favorites of the 50+ years I've followed Terrier hockey.

Consider:

Two year record - 65-13-3
Two HE Reg Season Titles (one shared)
Two HE Postseason Titles
Two Final Fours
Two Appearances in NC Title Game
One National Championship

There may have been BU teams with greater talent (see 1989-90, 1990-91, 2008-09), but these were teams on which future NHLers Jay Pandolfo and Shawn Bates skated the third line each season.

Each of these teams was solid through all three zones.

Each team had an identity because no one left after 1 or 2 seasons. Through these seasons only 1 player, Mike Pomichter, left after 3 seasons. For the most, the lines and defense pairings were consistent throughout each season. You pretty much knew what you'd see from game to game.
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Amen to this! Chris Drury was a 4th line freshman on the 1994-1995 team. I mean, come on! #Top4TerrierEver

Deep, talented, smart. Great leadership, great buy-in. Size, strength, skating ability. They had it all. Though I still want to know what the **** happened in the 1994 National Championship game.
 
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Bomber said:
Amen to this! Chris Drury was a 4th line freshman on the 1994-1995 team. I mean, come on! #Top4TerrierEver

Deep, talented, smart. Great leadership, great buy-in. Size, strength, skating ability. They had it all. Though I still want to know what the **** happened in the 1994 National Championship game.
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The most unexpected results, from a negative perspective, while I've followed BU hockey.

1. Losing to Merrimack in the 1998 HE QF's.
2. Heinous loss to Lake Superior State in the 1994 NC game. Truly an outlier given the performances that led up to this game.
3. Loss to Penn in the 1973 ECAC QF's.
 
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Rogie21 said:
John-ny Cur-ry, clap, clap…clap, clap, clap

Two-time All-American (1st Team 2006, 2nd 2007)
BU’s career leader in both save percentage and GAA
Three of the top 12 GAAs for a season.
Tied with Oettinger and Ferreira for career shutouts (13).
2007 Hobey Baker finalist and HE Player of the Year
Long AHL career and 8 NHL appearances.
Not bad for a recruited walk-on who played just five minutes as a freshman.

IIRC, Curry took over as starting goalie very early in the 2004-05 season after BU lost badly to Miami and Michigan in the Left McFadden tournament.
Wikipedia page

Thank you, Sean!
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Curry replaced Karson Gillespie halfway through the Michigan game at the Lefty McFadden Invitational and barely left the goal crease the rest of his time at BU. He played in 105 of the next 117 games, starting 104 of them and was only pulled in 4 games, one due to an injury, IIRC.

Sean
 
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Sean Pickett said:
Curry replaced Karson Gillespie halfway through the Michigan game at the Lefty McFadden Invitational and barely left the goal crease the rest of his time at BU. He played in 105 of the next 117 games, starting 104 of them and was only pulled in 4 games, one due to an injury, IIRC.

Sean
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Trivia question - One of the games Curry sat out, while injured, was BU's first round victory over BC in the 2005 (?) Beanpot. Who was the victorious substitute?
 
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Rogie21 said:
36 saves for Stephen Siwiec in the 2-1 win. Both goals scored by John LaLiberte.
https://hockeyeastonline.com/men/boxes/0405/020705/bu-bc.shtml
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Siwiec came to BU as the backup to Sean Fields in 2002-03. He was given the chance to be the starter in the first game of the Lefty McFadden Invitational, but Miami scored 5 goals on 26 shots. The next day Karson Gillespie gave up 7 goals on 19 shots in just 29:17 before Curry replaced him and stopped all 12 shots he faced. Stephen got 3 more starts in November and played well in the first two, before giving up 7 goals on 22 shots at CC in just 40 minutes. That was it for him until he came in to replace the injured Curry for the third period against Merrimack on 27 January, stopping all 8 shots he faced to preserve the victory. He started the next four games and had a 2.04 GAA and a 0.930 save percentage. That was the end of his career as a starter, as he only played in 3 games as a senior, coming in as relief for a pulled Curry one and in a mop-up role in the HE semifinal and NCAA regional semifinal blowouts.

Sean
 
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Bomber said:
Amen to this! Chris Drury was a 4th line freshman on the 1994-1995 team. I mean, come on! #Top4TerrierEver

Deep, talented, smart. Great leadership, great buy-in. Size, strength, skating ability. They had it all. Though I still want to know what the **** happened in the 1994 National Championship game.
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One of the worst days ever. We lost a close family friend that morning, and then the shellacking that night. Awful.
 
Re: BU Off-Season: Forward to the Past

Bomber said:
Amen to this! Chris Drury was a 4th line freshman on the 1994-1995 team. I mean, come on! #Top4TerrierEver

Deep, talented, smart. Great leadership, great buy-in. Size, strength, skating ability. They had it all. Though I still want to know what the **** happened in the 1994 National Championship game.
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I was riding the elevator down in the hotel on the afternoon of that 94 Championship Game that day when it stopped on a floor and in walks Jack Parker. It was just me and him as we rode down to the lobby. I said hi and asked if the team was ready for tonight. His reply was a less than confident "I hope so.." Not the answer I was expecting...neither was the later result.
 
wysi said:
One of the worst days ever. We lost a close family friend that morning, and then the shellacking that night. Awful.
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I’m sorry for your loss and that you had such a bad day. I also had an awful day on the day of a BU game. It wasn’t a playoff game, but on 13 February 1998 I woke up and went to use the bathroom and shower, however the toilet had backed up and there was water all over the floor. My father said he would take care of it, so I dressed and went to work without showering. After work I took the T to BU where I met my wife at WBA and we had dinner before the game. I was expecting a win as BU was playing well and was on a 7 game win streak, however Lowell took it to the Terriers that night, winning 5-2. When the game was over we drove home to find no lights on, which was unusual. After turning on the porch light I saw a note from a neighbor asking to call him. We went into the house and my father wasn’t there, but there were 3 messages on the answering machine: one from another neighbor, one from the police and one from my aunt. It turned out that after cleaning up the bathroom my father felt ill and had a neighbor drive him to the hospital ER. He had a list of emergency numbers in his pocket, but the ER staff didn’t go through his pockets. The hospital didn’t have my work numbers already in their files, so he passed away in the afternoon and I remained oblivious until about 11:00 pm that night. I didn’t get much sleep that night, especially as I kept thinking what if? My father had a compromised immune system, so did his cleaning up the bathroom cause his death? Why didn’t I clean it up? Would my having done so prevented his death (at least that day)?

Sean
 
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Sean Pickett said:
I’m sorry for your loss and that you had such a bad day. I also had an awful day on the day of a BU game. It wasn’t a playoff game, but on 13 February 1998 I woke up and went to use the bathroom and shower, however the toilet had backed up and there was water all over the floor. My father said he would take care of it, so I dressed and went to work without showering. After work I took the T to BU where I met my wife at WBA and we had dinner before the game. I was expecting a win as BU was playing well and was on a 9 game win streak, however Lowell took it to the Terriers that night, winning 5-2. When the game was over we drove home to find no lights on, which was unusual. After turning on the porch light I saw a note from a neighbor asking to call him. We went into the house and my father wasn’t there, but there were 3 messages on the answering machine: one from another neighbor, one from the police and one from my aunt. It turned out that after cleaning up the bathroom my father felt ill and had a neighbor drive him to the hospital ER. He had a list of emergency numbers in his pocket, but the ER staff didn’t go through his pockets. The hospital didn’t have my work numbers already in their files, so he passed away in the afternoon and I remained oblivious until about 11:00 pm that night. I didn’t get much sleep that night, especially as I kept thinking what if? My father had a compromised immune system, so did his cleaning up the bathroom cause his death? Why didn’t I clean it up? Would my having done so prevented his death (at least that day)?

Sean
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That's a really tragic story. I'm very sorry for your loss, Sean. :(
 
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wysi said:
That's a really tragic story. I'm very sorry for your loss, Sean. :(
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Well, I never thought it so much a tragedy as a black comedy:
1. He told me he would clean up the mess in the bathroom, even though he probably shouldn't have
2. I let him
3. When he felt ill he called a neighbor to take him to the hospital, not 911
4. He had the neighbor drive him to the hospital he had gone to for 40 years even though it took twice as long than if he had gone to a closer hospital
5. When he arrived at the hospital he was no longer lucid and no one there went through his pockets looking for a list of contacts
6. They eventually tracked down and called one of his nephews and then his sister, but neither had my or my sisters work numbers

I'm also a big Monty Python fan so I tend to always look on the bright side of life:

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I got all the arraignments done the next day so we went to the game at Tsongas that night and saw BU win 5-1, the start of another 7 game win streak (I think that 9-1 shellacking of Merrimack at end the regular season was the worst thing for the team :mad:).

Sean
 
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I'm uploading four more games to my Google drive:

1996 NCAA Quarterfinal BU vs Clarkson
2005 Beanpot Semifinal BU vs BC
2006 Beanpot Semifinal BU vs Harvard
2006 Beanpot Semifinal BC vs NU

I've also replaced the edited version of the 2005 Beanpot Championship with a complete version which uses my SVHS SD copy to fill in what was edited out of the HD rebroadcast. If anyone watches it please let me know what you think.

Sean
 
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mookie1995 said:
If pomichter stays for his sr year, who doesn’t dress?
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Coach Parker believed in most players only playing one position (once he decided what that position was) and Pomichter was a left winger, so he would have taken one of those spots away. For the 1994-95 season Coach Parker used 11 different players at left wing, with Chris O'Sullivan (40), Billy Pierce (33), Kenny Rausch (32), Bob Lachance (23) and Jay Pandolfo (20 - injury) playing the most games at the position. O'Sullivan, Pierce and Pandolfo played every game at the position, while Rausch played 32 of 37 and Lachance played 23 of 38 at the position. Lachance played right wing the other 15 games that season, as well as 61 of 63 games his freshman and sophomore seasons, so he would likely have remained a right winger. Coach Parker used 9 different players at right wing, with Mike Grier (37), Mike Prendergast (37), Matt Wright (35), Chris Drury (20) and Bob Lachance (15) playing the most games at that position. So Lachance would likely have just taken Drury's games at right wing. Drury played 6 games at left wing and a dozen at center, but Jacques Joubert (40), Steve Thornton (39), Shawn Bates (38) and Mike Sylvia (27) were the team's four regular centers. So, if you only consider forwards I think that Drury would have been the odd player out, but I also think he would have dressed for about 3/4 of the games. Besides the 18 games he played at left wing and center he could have dressed in place of Peter Donatelli (3) and John Hynes (7), which would have brought his total games dressed to 28.

However, Coach Parker moved Chris O'Sullivan from left defense to left wing for the 1994-95 season. If Pomichter had returned Coach Parker may have left O'Sullivan on defense and Drury would still have gotten his 39 games. However, then one of the d-men would not have dressed. Since O'Sullivan played left defense, and right defense was solid with Jon Coleman (40), Doug Wood (38) and Rich Brennan (32), one of the left d-men would have likely lost their spot. Coach Parker used 5 player at left defense: Kaj Linna (37), Chris Kelleher (33), Shane Johnson (26), Jeff Kealty (22) and Kenny Rausch (1). It seems likely that if O'Sullivan had stayed on defense Kealty would have been the player to not dress, while Kelleher and Johnson would have each played fewer games.

Sean
 
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