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Northeastern at Boston University HEA Quarterfinals
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Motorboaters
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Re: Northeastern at Boston University HEA Quarterfinals
I don't think there was any more "flopping" on the ice than what the BU players did in games 1 or 2
I don't think there was any more "flopping" on the ice than what the BU players did in games 1 or 2
It was a poorly officiated series also.... no doubts about that
Motorboaters
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Re: Northeastern at Boston University HEA Quarterfinals
That was for sure, but what else do you expect in Hockey East?
That was for sure, but what else do you expect in Hockey East?
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Here it is again, the "We're your rivals too!!!!!" mentality.
Most? Stony Brook. Had two full sections. For hockey, of the two, probably BC consistently. Most in general, Maine, not even close. There were close to 1,000 Maine fans at Agganis in November.
But how ever many fans the opposing team brings isn't a sign of a rivalry, especially if the home team's fans don't show up, as is the case with many BU-NU games at Agganis. Northeastern is not a ticket seller for BU the way BC, Maine, UNH, and a big time OOC game (Michigan, Cornell, Minnesota, etc.) You can expect those games to be drawing 6K to a sellout pretty much every time. If an NU game draws 6K people to Agganis, that's a sign something is up, and it's only happened once recently, in February of 2009.
Another example of what I'm talking about. "Yeah, BC-BU is big, but so can we!!!!"
If you ask an average BU fan to list who they consider are the top rivals of the program, you won't see NU listed in the top five of most people who actually pay attention to the team consistently. As eric said, BC's always going to be number one, and the gap after that is huge, then you'll see a smattering of Maine, UNH, Cornell, especially with the MSG games, heck some old timers might throw in some more ECAC teams like RPI and Harvard, but after that top tier of BC, UNH, Maine, and Cornell is where you'll find NU. That's the way it is. I know you all go ga ga every time we play, and we're supposed to be your biggest rivals, but the feeling is not reciprocal, and over the course of the season, NU is not a game BU fans mark on their calendar, that students line up for, and that tickets are hard to come by on game day. This is a one-sided rivalry except for the infrequent meaningful game the two play.
Here it is again, the "We're your rivals too!!!!!" mentality.
Most? Stony Brook. Had two full sections. For hockey, of the two, probably BC consistently. Most in general, Maine, not even close. There were close to 1,000 Maine fans at Agganis in November.
But how ever many fans the opposing team brings isn't a sign of a rivalry, especially if the home team's fans don't show up, as is the case with many BU-NU games at Agganis. Northeastern is not a ticket seller for BU the way BC, Maine, UNH, and a big time OOC game (Michigan, Cornell, Minnesota, etc.) You can expect those games to be drawing 6K to a sellout pretty much every time. If an NU game draws 6K people to Agganis, that's a sign something is up, and it's only happened once recently, in February of 2009.
Another example of what I'm talking about. "Yeah, BC-BU is big, but so can we!!!!"
If you ask an average BU fan to list who they consider are the top rivals of the program, you won't see NU listed in the top five of most people who actually pay attention to the team consistently. As eric said, BC's always going to be number one, and the gap after that is huge, then you'll see a smattering of Maine, UNH, Cornell, especially with the MSG games, heck some old timers might throw in some more ECAC teams like RPI and Harvard, but after that top tier of BC, UNH, Maine, and Cornell is where you'll find NU. That's the way it is. I know you all go ga ga every time we play, and we're supposed to be your biggest rivals, but the feeling is not reciprocal, and over the course of the season, NU is not a game BU fans mark on their calendar, that students line up for, and that tickets are hard to come by on game day. This is a one-sided rivalry except for the infrequent meaningful game the two play.
SkinsFan09
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Re: Northeastern at Boston University HEA Quarterfinals
Who cares if slurpees thinks it's a rivalry or not? Really...
Anyway, great series and it's too bad for that dumb ending without handshakes. Glad Cronin shook the BU team's hands and gave Parker a hug. No need for tomfoolery to conclude this 5 game stretch.
Who cares if slurpees thinks it's a rivalry or not? Really...
Anyway, great series and it's too bad for that dumb ending without handshakes. Glad Cronin shook the BU team's hands and gave Parker a hug. No need for tomfoolery to conclude this 5 game stretch.
Re: Northeastern at Boston University HEA Quarterfinals
He should not have done that, it's absolutely 100% wrong for a coach to grab an opposing player unless there is an imminent safety issue, which there was not. That said, it was a weird situation exacerbated by an apparently boneheaded decision by the officials to send off the NU team. What was classless was the way the NU players apparent taunting at the end of the game.
He should not have done that, it's absolutely 100% wrong for a coach to grab an opposing player unless there is an imminent safety issue, which there was not. That said, it was a weird situation exacerbated by an apparently boneheaded decision by the officials to send off the NU team. What was classless was the way the NU players apparent taunting at the end of the game.
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What you and others don't seem to realize though is it's not just me. I'm not the only BU poster here telling you that we don't really consider you anything more than a third tier rival at most.
What you and others don't seem to realize though is it's not just me. I'm not the only BU poster here telling you that we don't really consider you anything more than a third tier rival at most.
Re: Northeastern at Boston University HEA Quarterfinals
I don't know about impossible... NU played BC pretty tough this year, including the Beanpot final. NU also seems to have really benefited from all the games played against BC and BU this year, getting better and better each time out. Aside from BU, I think BC's perceived "home ice advantage" at the Garden is the least against NU compared to just about any other opponent.
MC now draws UNH. Merrimack beat the Wildcats 2-1 this season, one of the Warriors' only season series wins against a top team that required a road win to accomplish. If there's a team in the top half of the draw that derives the least perceived "home ice advantage" in tourney games at the Garden, it's UNH.
Frankly I think the top two remaining seeds have pretty much drawn the toughest matchups they could have. I'd also love to see an MC-NU final. I'd love to see any final that doesn't involve one or more of the "big four", and the prospect of none of them winning the title this year I think is great.
As tonight's losing coach once said, "it's good for the league."
I don't know about impossible... NU played BC pretty tough this year, including the Beanpot final. NU also seems to have really benefited from all the games played against BC and BU this year, getting better and better each time out. Aside from BU, I think BC's perceived "home ice advantage" at the Garden is the least against NU compared to just about any other opponent.
MC now draws UNH. Merrimack beat the Wildcats 2-1 this season, one of the Warriors' only season series wins against a top team that required a road win to accomplish. If there's a team in the top half of the draw that derives the least perceived "home ice advantage" in tourney games at the Garden, it's UNH.
Frankly I think the top two remaining seeds have pretty much drawn the toughest matchups they could have. I'd also love to see an MC-NU final. I'd love to see any final that doesn't involve one or more of the "big four", and the prospect of none of them winning the title this year I think is great.
As tonight's losing coach once said, "it's good for the league."
Re: Northeastern at Boston University HEA Quarterfinals
Congrats to NU. Would love to see a NU-MC Hockey East Final, and IMO it is quite possible.
On the rivalry thing, if you guys have to do post after post to try to convince us there is a rivalry, there isn't one. BC is, and will always be, BU's rival. I get more excited about Maine and UNH than NU. More weekends like this one and a rivalry will certainly develop, but trust us, on our side there isn't one. Not trying to disparage NU at all, just saying how it is.
Congrats to NU. Would love to see a NU-MC Hockey East Final, and IMO it is quite possible.
On the rivalry thing, if you guys have to do post after post to try to convince us there is a rivalry, there isn't one. BC is, and will always be, BU's rival. I get more excited about Maine and UNH than NU. More weekends like this one and a rivalry will certainly develop, but trust us, on our side there isn't one. Not trying to disparage NU at all, just saying how it is.
SkinsFan09
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Re: Northeastern at Boston University HEA Quarterfinals
When did I say it was a rivalry? I don't care what BU thinks it is. I just wanted to advance and we did. End of story.
When did I say it was a rivalry? I don't care what BU thinks it is. I just wanted to advance and we did. End of story.
SkinsFan09
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Re: Northeastern at Boston University HEA Quarterfinals
Also mper your post is the epitome of sore loser. You should take your own lessons and man up...lol all of a sudden NU dived enough to win.
Also mper your post is the epitome of sore loser. You should take your own lessons and man up...lol all of a sudden NU dived enough to win.
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Your posts are becoming tiresome, because you only see one side, the bu side, of every question, situation or controversy. You really didn't know what happened here, but there you are, once again, declaring that is bu a class act and NU is a group of skating barbarians.
Read your own blog. http://thebostonhockeyblog.blogspot.com/
You are a true parkerite. It is beyond either of you to be gracious in defeat and to admit that the better team won.
Your posts are becoming tiresome, because you only see one side, the bu side, of every question, situation or controversy. You really didn't know what happened here, but there you are, once again, declaring that is bu a class act and NU is a group of skating barbarians.
Read your own blog. http://thebostonhockeyblog.blogspot.com/
You are a true parkerite. It is beyond either of you to be gracious in defeat and to admit that the better team won.
"Nothing is as big as us and BC, its the biggest the best and we are the awesomest."
We are one of the most consistent teams to play you, we are right down the street, we are in conference and have been for ages, we hate each other...
You can say how UNH Maine and so on are the same way, but I would say those teams are all rivals.
There is great history between the two programs and just because NU hasn't been as successful as BU doesn't mean they cannot be rivals.
Its weird. I see the way some BU fans seem to think its a privaledge to be a rival of them.
I dont know, whatever. I'll sacrifice the banners and 'prestige' for the doghouse and yahoos.
We are one of the most consistent teams to play you, we are right down the street, we are in conference and have been for ages, we hate each other...
You can say how UNH Maine and so on are the same way, but I would say those teams are all rivals.
There is great history between the two programs and just because NU hasn't been as successful as BU doesn't mean they cannot be rivals.
Its weird. I see the way some BU fans seem to think its a privaledge to be a rival of them.
I dont know, whatever. I'll sacrifice the banners and 'prestige' for the doghouse and yahoos.
Re: Northeastern at Boston University HEA Quarterfinals
I don't mean to incite anyone. Just professing my point and opinion. BU and BC always gets me more excited than anyone else coming the doghouse.
The three Boston teams... the hate goes back to childhood when 75% of my neighborhood was a BC or BU fan but I always liked the huskies down the street.
I don't mean to incite anyone. Just professing my point and opinion. BU and BC always gets me more excited than anyone else coming the doghouse.
The three Boston teams... the hate goes back to childhood when 75% of my neighborhood was a BC or BU fan but I always liked the huskies down the street.
Re: Northeastern at Boston University HEA Quarterfinals
We play you as consistently as we play Lowell, Providence, and Vermont. You hate us, we don't hate you! And yes, BC-BU is the "biggest and best and awesomest" - that's why there was a movie made about it, why 38,000 seats were sold in a couple of days to a BC-BU game. BC is opponent #1 to BU fans and vice versa to BC fans, don't let the three stooges convince you otherwise.
If you want to sacrifice your program's success so you and your friends can get all hokey dokey in the stands then come online and talk about how awesome you sounded, you've got priority issues, not the least of which is that the two things have nothing to do with each other. It's not about you in the stands, it's about the team on the ice.
Not sure what the first line meant, but I commend your mentality growing up as "the northeastern fan." I didn't grow up here, but it's not hard to see that BC and BU dominate the college hockey press, have dominated the Beanpot, and both program's successes have grossly overshadowed that of Northeastern. It takes balls to grow up constantly rooting for the underdog who never wins (says the Whaler fan) when every other one of your friends is arguing over who is more likely to win the national title, and you really have no basis to be thinking about that. So cheers to you for sticking with it.
We play you as consistently as we play Lowell, Providence, and Vermont. You hate us, we don't hate you! And yes, BC-BU is the "biggest and best and awesomest" - that's why there was a movie made about it, why 38,000 seats were sold in a couple of days to a BC-BU game. BC is opponent #1 to BU fans and vice versa to BC fans, don't let the three stooges convince you otherwise.
If you want to sacrifice your program's success so you and your friends can get all hokey dokey in the stands then come online and talk about how awesome you sounded, you've got priority issues, not the least of which is that the two things have nothing to do with each other. It's not about you in the stands, it's about the team on the ice.
Not sure what the first line meant, but I commend your mentality growing up as "the northeastern fan." I didn't grow up here, but it's not hard to see that BC and BU dominate the college hockey press, have dominated the Beanpot, and both program's successes have grossly overshadowed that of Northeastern. It takes balls to grow up constantly rooting for the underdog who never wins (says the Whaler fan) when every other one of your friends is arguing over who is more likely to win the national title, and you really have no basis to be thinking about that. So cheers to you for sticking with it.
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Re: Northeastern at Boston University HEA Quarterfinals
NU played well enough to have it be a great hockey game without diving and bringing officiating into the game which is never a good thing in HE. and Ryecheers, I read boston hockey blog and have the right to draw my own conclusions from it. I was at the game and I saw what happened at the end of the game. Complete lack of class I would say the same thing if my team acted that way. NU played a clean game besides the diving which was unneccessary. You just hate BU and anyone who defends them. Why dont you take a step back and look at your own team? played well on the ice but what separates you from the upper hockey programs in the country is how you handle winning which you did with taunting. You will never see a BC, Denver,Wisconsin,BU..etc team taunt their opponets after a win and be forced to leave the hand shake line.
NU played well enough to have it be a great hockey game without diving and bringing officiating into the game which is never a good thing in HE. and Ryecheers, I read boston hockey blog and have the right to draw my own conclusions from it. I was at the game and I saw what happened at the end of the game. Complete lack of class I would say the same thing if my team acted that way. NU played a clean game besides the diving which was unneccessary. You just hate BU and anyone who defends them. Why dont you take a step back and look at your own team? played well on the ice but what separates you from the upper hockey programs in the country is how you handle winning which you did with taunting. You will never see a BC, Denver,Wisconsin,BU..etc team taunt their opponets after a win and be forced to leave the hand shake line.
Re: Northeastern at Boston University HEA Quarterfinals
I think the point is that what the BU guys are saying here is that a rivalry is by definition reciprocal. If you even have to argue the existence of a rivalry, then by default there isn't one, because what makes a rivalry exist is mutual feeling. What they are saying here is that they understand that NU fans hate BU just as much as BC fans hate BU, but this doesn't make a rivalry-- it's the reciprocal feeling that BU has about BC, and doesn't have about NU.
If it makes anyone feel better, I think Merrimack might be willing to be your rival. Usually it's Lowell for us, but they're not playing anymore this season, which sort of puts a damper on things.
I think the point is that what the BU guys are saying here is that a rivalry is by definition reciprocal. If you even have to argue the existence of a rivalry, then by default there isn't one, because what makes a rivalry exist is mutual feeling. What they are saying here is that they understand that NU fans hate BU just as much as BC fans hate BU, but this doesn't make a rivalry-- it's the reciprocal feeling that BU has about BC, and doesn't have about NU.
If it makes anyone feel better, I think Merrimack might be willing to be your rival. Usually it's Lowell for us, but they're not playing anymore this season, which sort of puts a damper on things.
Re: Northeastern at Boston University HEA Quarterfinals
Nope, Sean Fields taunted the BC student section DURING the game...
Nope, Sean Fields taunted the BC student section DURING the game...
Lol, you don't hate NU?
Captain obvious, its pretty clear BC is your #1.
You don't consider yourself a 'rival' to either unh,maine,or nu?
Regarding that second paragraph.. I would gladly be an NU fan any day. Shove it about the hokey pokey comment. If loving matthews and its aura (btw agganis lacks an aura, so does conte) is a sin, I'm perfectly happy. Program is on the rise and they have a promising future. I gurantee whatever they win in the future will feel ten times better because of what I went through in the past watching the horrible crowder years.
Captain obvious, its pretty clear BC is your #1.
You don't consider yourself a 'rival' to either unh,maine,or nu?
Regarding that second paragraph.. I would gladly be an NU fan any day. Shove it about the hokey pokey comment. If loving matthews and its aura (btw agganis lacks an aura, so does conte) is a sin, I'm perfectly happy. Program is on the rise and they have a promising future. I gurantee whatever they win in the future will feel ten times better because of what I went through in the past watching the horrible crowder years.