Category: hockey (Page 18 of 26)

Together, Again: Boston University and the Beanpot

9 February, 2009 / Kat

Enjoy the following photo slideshow of the trophy presentation and special awards ceremony from Monday evening’s Beanpot championship game. I wish I was quicker on the camera – there are a few shots I missed, including all of the seniors carrying the Beanpot and a shot I saw right as I was putting the camera away of tournament MVP Nick Bonino and the scorer of both night’s game-winning goals, Jason Lawrence, soaking up some last few moments on the Garden ice. I hope someone got that shot.

My favorite picture is of all the players picking up their equipment off the ice – I tried to get a few of these, but my camera is elderly and just isn’t getting all the shots it used to. I think it’s the last one in the slideshow.

Oh, and there is a Beanpot recap – including an inexplicable, “Your mom goes to college!” line from Scott Van Pelt – on ESPN’s Sportscenter tonight. Unlike last week, I was able to catch it on TV.

Also, if you didn’t read it while the game was ongoing, my live coverage live from the Garden is available here (select play on the Cover It Live video.)

More Beanpot recap will be forthcoming.

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.

<a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=0a96dbc931" >Beanpot Monday, Part Deux</a>

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.

Dear ESPN: Could Your New Site Make Things More Difficult?

3 February, 2009 / Kat

I woke up Tuesday morning and literally bounced to work from my new apartment. I woke up early, stopped by my neighborhood Dunkin’ Donuts, got my iced coffee, put on the iPod, put on Kevin Rudolf’s Let it Rock (my obsession since October) and bounced to work.

I bounded up the three flights of stairs to my office, jumped through the door, smiled to the student who was working the main desk, skipped into my office, and fired up the trusty laptop. I fired off a few emails, and then opened up Google Reader to catch up on the morning’s recaps of the event that had made me full of so much bounce – BU’s blood-pressure-raising win against Harvard in the Beanpot semifinal the night before.

And then, there it was, in the Terrier Hockey Fan Blog. Yet another BU Beanpot goal had made the Sportscenter Top 10. In 2006, it was Chris Higgins’ crazy “How’d He Do That?!” slide into the boards goal. Monday, it was his classmate from down Route 1 North, Jason Lawrence’s game-winning goal that made the Top 10.

The Everyone’s Favorite Goalie Watch: Keep On Trucking

1 February, 2009 / Kat

It’s been a while since …On Being a Sports Girl checked in on the play of Everyone’s Favorite Goalie. No, John Curry hasn’t been called up to Pittsburgh again, but he has spent the last two weeks playing out of his mind in the AHL.

Take Friday night againist the Hershey Bears, for example. Curry stopped four shots in the shootout to lead the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins to a 4-3 win. He made 46 saves that evening.

On Saturday night, Curry stopped 21 shots as the Penguins rolled over the Syracuse Crunch 4-1. Curry faced former Terrier teammate Brian McGuirk, who plays for the Crunch.

Trusty Baby Pens beat writer Jonathan Bombulie had this fun Curry fact on his blog after Saturday’s game:

Since being touched up for five goals in a 6-4 loss at Binghamton on Jan. 16, John Curry is 5-0 with a 1.55 GAA and .953 save percentage.

The Penguins organization has made a gesture of faith in Curry with their recent trade of Dany “Now We Don’t Have To Worry About Pronouncing His Last Name” Sabourin for former Edmonton Oiler goaltender Mathieu Garon. According to many a Penguins blogger, Garon will be a free agent after this year, leaving the Penguins with the option to bring Curry up to be Marc-Andre Fleury’s backup for good. We’ll see…