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February 27, 2005
ON A TERRIER
I hope you'll indulge me a very Blairesque post here. While I don't display the outward obsession that my good friend Tim does with his alma mater's basketball team, I do passionately follow my alma mater's hockey team. And after a couple of down years, the Boston University Terriers are once again back.
The team's been on a tear this year, achieving a #10 ranking heading into this weekend. Led by freshman left wing Chris Bourque (you might recognize that last name... his dad was a decent NHL player for oh, about 20 years), earlier this month the Terriers won their 26th Beanpot title -- and 9th in 11 years. (For the uninitiated, the Beanpot is the name of the trophy and tournament played every year by the city's four D-I hockey powers, BU, Harvard, Northeastern, and Boston College.)
Following the Beanpot, the Icedogs swept Massachusetts before slumping a little bit this weekend against Northeastern. But even with the stumble, BU is in third place in Hockey East, only two points behind conference-leading New Hampshire. And best of all, the Terriers are young -- only three seniors on the roster in 2004-05 and well over half the team are either freshmen or sophmores -- meaning that if they're this good already, they're going to run wild for the next couple of years as we usher in the latest era of Terrier dominance.
Playing in their brand new, opened-in-January, state of the art stadium (Agganis Arena), the Boston University Terriers are on their way back to the Frozen Four. (Ironically, the two-time defending NCAA champions are my undergraduate alma mater, Minnesota... so the Icedogs are going to have to go through another team I have connections to in order to win.) So go Coach Parker, Yankees suck, and go BU!
