Category: Hockey East (Page 6 of 10)

It’s Beanpot Monday, Part Deux

8 February, 2009 / Kat

Well, friends, it’s the day we have all been waiting for: #1 Boston University takes on #3 Northeastern University in what is being billed as the Beanpot final to end all Beanpot finals. According to several news outlets, this is the first time a #1 ranked team has faced a #3 ranked team in the Beanpot final.

The rest of Boston is off to inexplicably jump on the Northeastern University bandwagon – which makes me angry, because if the Beanpot is quintessentially Boston, why are Bostonians openly rooting against a team with 10 players with Boston ties, including 4 on the top line alone? Does that make any sense? You want to openly root against guys who have dreamed of Beanpot glory since they knew what ice skates were?

I’ll be live tweeting from the Garden again, and I promise to do a far better job than last weeks debacle, where I spent most of the third period covering my face. I’ll start with the Boston College – Harvard University matchup at 5pm because I’ll use any excuse to spend more time in the TDBanknorth Garden (I have a thing for arenas) and because I want to see Harvard freshman goalie Matt Hoyle again in an unbiased atmosphere. Hoyle faced 50 shots and saved 45 of them against Yale on Friday night, and Harvard still lost 5-1. I think Hoyle might be the real deal for Harvard, yet unfortunately, the rest of his team can’t get things together.

If you enjoy hockey of any kind, I implore you to follow the Northeastern – BU game. This is arguably the biggest game in college hockey yet this year, and already is the most highly anticipated college hockey game I have ever experienced.

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Love the Article, Hate the Geography Lesson

5 February, 2009 / Kat

I am a sucker for “local-athlete-does-good” stories. Actually, I’m just a sucker for anything about Monday’s BU victory over Harvard in the first round of the Beanpot. So I was super excited to read the “On-Campus” column on NHL.com this morning, which has the all-important “local-boy-does-good” angle on the Terriers’ game-winning-goal. (I mean, the game-winning-goal was a lazy sports reporter’s dream – local hockey player celebrates his birthday by scoring the game-winning-goal with one minute remaining at a giant college hockey tournament that he’s watched since he was five. Really. The recap writes itself. That’s like the ending to the perfect piece of “learning-to-read” fiction for 8-12 year old Canadian boys.)

But I digress. What is more important is that according to this NHL.com article, Northeastern University and Boston University are separated by the Charles River. Really? Let’s take a look.

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That’s an oops for them. Oh well. They tried.

At That Rate, I’m Surprised They Didn’t Give the Arena Away

25 January, 2009 / Kat

The Whittamore Center at the University of New Hampshire (photo by yours truly)

The Whittemore Center at the University of New Hampshire (photo by yours truly)

Before I get to the body of this post, I would like to take the opportunity to let you know that this is a Unitel Power Post, sponsored by Jewelry Creations of Dover and with special thanks to Margarita’s. We’d also like to thank our local fishery for providing our first goal fish, and take this opportunity to give away a 10 percent off coupon to the Tea Times Inn in Conway to everyone sitting in sections 120, 121, and 122. And students, if you’re sitting in section 112, row H, seat 10, you have just won a piece of pizza from Wildcat Pizza. Wildcat Pizza, where wildcats eat.

Oh, the University of New Hampshire. I’ve been attending hockey games at the “Whit” (UNH’s Whittemore Center) for just about four years, and they always make for an amusing evening. Saturday evening’s BU-UNH tilt, however, had to be the most amusing of them all.

And Your Leading Goal Scorer for the Terriers As Of Tonight Is…

24 January, 2009 / Kat

Bad cell phone photo, but it'll do.

A-Number-Twenty-One, on your left.

BU decimated the University of New Hampshire Wildcats tonight, 5-0. This is not always a good thing, for the two teams meet again Saturday evening, and when UNH gets angry, they get…angry. Like, I may be assaulted by a smelly, slimy, dead trout when I walk into the Whittamore Center Saturday evening with my BU hockey jersey on. At least my cat will want to cuddle with me afterward.

Have I mentioned that I love this hockey team? Holy heck – they’re fast, they’re great penalty killers and they try so hard most of the time. This team is amazing. There’s nothing else you can say. In the mobs of people exiting the arena after the games, you just hear people in awe talking about what they’ve just watched. Tonight I heard about six people as I left the arena use the word dominance. That might be what this is. I prefer the word fun. This is fun.

I’ll report back from New Hampshire. Check the Twitter feed to your right for in game updates Saturday night.

Awww…How Fast They Grow Up

23 January, 2009 / Kat

Lawrence, Higgins and Yip celebrate their first Beanpot in 2006. (Courtsey Jamd.com)

Awwww….

I couldn’t wait for next week’s Beanpot preview to share this photo of Jason Lawrence, Chris Higgins and Brandon Yip with the 2006 Beanpot. The three of them, now seniors for the Terriers, owned that Beanpot. Most notably, Higgins had a goal so remarkable that it made ESPN’s Sportscenter that evening.

But I’ll talk about that more next week. I am about to head off to the BU-UNH game at Agganis, but I just had to share that photo.

We may have lagged in our regular programming as of late, but it’s because I’ve been blogging fast and furious over at Examiner Boston about the “Biggest Hit of the Year” in pro lacrosse – Boston Blazers’ Mitch Belisile’s hit on New York Titan Jarret Park last Saturday night. Thanks to my readers from the Examiner for making me one of the top Examiners this week!