Another season officially over with the banquet tonight. As usual, a fantastic event with tons of accolades from Lahey and McDonald. Currie's captain's speech was great and inspiring for the underclassmen. A common theme among all who spoke was thanks to the fans.
The highlight of the evening is always the awards and this year's winners are:
Most Valuable Player: Eric Hartzell
Rookie of the Year: Travis St. Denis
Coaches Award: Kevin Bui (Kevin received a well deserved standing ovation, as well as a chant of "Bui, Bui", when this was announced)
7th Player Award: Clay Harvey and Dan Federico
Academic Award: Zach Davies
Captains for next year were not announced because they haven't been chosen yet. Rand said they would try to get that done this week and it will be posted on the web site.
Next year's schedule features 7 games against Hockey East with Providence, UMass, and Maine coming to the Bank. In addition, there will be home and home's with UML and Merrimack. The season opens in Alaska with a game each against Anchorage and Fairbanks, and we'll be playing in the UConn tourney over the Christmas break. A home and home with Holy Cross is scheduled with the Saturday game being a 4:00 contest on Parent's Weekend. Rand mentioned there were still a couple of open dates to be filled.
As expected, Hartzell was not in attendance but everyone else was there. It was tough to say goodbye to all the seniors but Rand was very optimistic about next year's recruits. Plus, he thinks the returning group of kids will be better for the experiences of this season.
Kudos to Al and Lori for another fantastic night to honor the team that gave us so many memories this year. Just shy of 200 people attended making it the largest banquet turnout by far.
