Category: hockey (Page 16 of 26)

Everyone Say, “Awww…”

22 March, 2009 / Kat

In reading the coverage this evening from Boston University winning the Hockey East Championship, I came across this photo in the Boston Herald:

Brandon Yip, Chris Higgins and Jason Lawrence celebrate BU's Hockey East Championship (Photo: Boston Herald)

I immediately thought of the following photo that I had featured in my blog last month. Wow, isn’t the above picture strangely familiar to this picture from their freshman year, isn’t it?

Lawrence, Higgins and Yip celebrate their first Beanpot win as freshmen in 2006. (Photo: Jamd.com)

Let’s all feel nostalgic and old now, shall we? Sniffle, sniffle.

Well, I Can Honestly Say It Was Better Than the Championship Game – the 2009 Hockey East Annual Mascot Game

22 March, 2009 / Kat

It’s the post you’ve all been waiting for – my pictures from the cheap seats of the Annual Hockey East Mascot Broomball Game, held during the first intermission of the Boston University – Boston College semifinal game.

100_1219 And they are off! Sam the Minuteman was definitely the most athletic of the bunch, despite having one of the most unwieldy costumes. Maybe they should recruit him to play on the actual hockey team?

Hanging Out in the Cheap Seats – The Hockey East Semifinal Liveblog

20 March, 2009 / Kat

I hate Duke. Darn dominant college basketball power…you know, Duke, you’ve had enough wins and titles and all of that. Why not just share the wealth? Let a team like Binghamton win once. Really, Coach K, don’t you want to like, take a vacation or something?

Now that I’ve gotten that bitterness out of my system, let me introduce you to the …On Being a Sports Girl Hockey East Semifinal Live Blog. I’m going to be there from the very beginning of the UMass Lowell Red & Blue Pigeons versus Northeastern Stick-Throwers game till the very end of the Boston University versus Boston College game. I honestly enjoy being in an arena for hours and hours on end, especially during early tournament games where I have like an entire section of the Garden to myself.

So to help out those of you unable to join me at the TDBanknorth Garden tonight, I’ll be sharing my witty observations (like if BC’s band breaks out any new pep band renditions of hip-hop songs) here through CoverItLive. I may not be delivering hard-hitting hockey analysis – I mean, I could if I wanted to, but what’s the fun in that? – but who needs that when I can muse about the fact that a riverhawk is really a pigeon?

Oh, but I will provide play-by-play at one point tonight – my favorite event of the Hockey East season, the Annual Mascot Game. My money is on the Skating Monk of Providence College – he had a rough year, and he may be out for revenge. I was hoping that Bananas the Bear might not be as depressed as he was last year, but I think he might be even more. Bummer Bananas – you really could be a contender in this game, especially if you pick up the patented Simon Danis-Pepin defense of literally sitting on the forward closest to you. Oh, and the Merrimack Warrior will inexplicably show up. Who invited him?

Oh wait, they’re still in our league? Oops.

Well, friends, join me at 4:30pm for what looks to be quite the evening of hockey.

<a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=a6d29e7e7e" >Hockey East Semifinals – The View from the Cheap Seats</a>

Countdown to Senior Night: Chris Higgins, The Quiet Sparkplug (Let’s Go Terriers!)

7 March, 2009 / Kat

My fellow Terrier hockey fan Joe, the king of game recaps and super awesome blogmaster from Let’s Go Terriers, has posted his Senor Night piece, Chris Higgins, The Quiet Sparkplug. Awesome analysis and video, Joe! I encourage you to check it out.

Countdown to Senior Night: Jason Lawrence, The First Goal I Ever Saw at a BU Hockey Game, and How I Learned How To Remember Where Saugus Was

7 March, 2009 / Kat

Despite choosing my graduate school choice on solely two qualifications – it being in Boston and having a Division I hockey team – it took me until January 8, 2005 to actually attend my first Boston University hockey game. My graduate internship in the Student Activities Office had me working late most nights there was a hockey game going on, so I had to wait till a game during winter break to attend.

I dragged my then-roommate to the game, an exhibition against the USA Under-18 Team. My roommate was perplexed. “We’re not even going to see them play against another college?” I hadn’t been able to get tickets at the first game ever at Agganis – a sell out the week before – and this was the only game I knew for certain I could attend, so I told her that I had to take whatever I could get. I just wanted to get to a game.

So we settled into the sparkling new confines of the Agganis Arena, our seats right behind the BU zone and then-backup goalie Karson Gillespie, and set to watch what we both figured would be a blow out of these 17 and 18 year olds against this reportedly dominant college team.