College alums vs a college crowd. @penguins vs @PredsNHL. More on the Stanley Cup Final matchup: https://t.co/ZMvstUUvcs pic.twitter.com/sBnUerIJ1D— College Hockey Inc. (@collegehockey) May 26, 2017
With
the Penguins earning a return to the Stanley Cup finals by eliminating Ottawa
in a double-overtime seventh-game win, two former BU teammates, Pittsburgh’s Nick
Bonino and Nashville’s Colin Wilson, will compete for Lord Stanley’s Cup. On
the Terriers’ 2009 national championship squad, Wilson was the team’s top
scorer with 55 points followed by Bonino with 50.
The
BU connections to the Cup Final, which begins on Monday, go beyond the two
skaters. Former Terrier captain Mike Sullivan is the Penguins’ head coach;
while Paul Fenton is the Predators’ assistant general manager and Jeff Kealty
is Nashville’s chief amateur scout.
►Blog
contributor Neal Boudette recently profiled Sullivan for Bostonia: How
to win a Stanley Cup
This year's #StanleyCup Final between @PredsNHL and @penguins will be the first in #NHL history with two American-born head coaches! pic.twitter.com/AfKpkToL4f— NHLCoaches (@NHLCoachesAssoc) May 26, 2017
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HockeyEastOnline: Stanley Cup
final to feature Hockey East Flair
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College Hockey Inc. Cup
Final full of NCAA storylines
According
to reports on the WEEI.com College Blog and in the Boston Globe, freshman Kieffer
Bellows has left the Terrier program. A first-round draft pick of the Islanders
last June, Bellows scored seven goals and seven assists with 40 penalty minutes
in 34 games. The left wing from Edina, Minnesota, who is expected to join the WHL
Portland Winterhawks, struggled to find consistency in his game and was a
healthy scratch in five games.
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WEEI.com College Blog report
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Boston Globe report
Looking
back
Former
Terrier co-captain and Hobey Baker Award winner on the 2009 national title
squad Matt Gilroy has been named to the 2017 BU
Athletics Hall of Fame class. A walk-on forward who converted to defense,
Gilroy would become a three-time All-American and the first defenseman to be
named All-Hockey East first team three times. He set up Bonino's game-tying tally (occurring at the 5:04 mark in this video) in the final seconds of regulation against Miami in the 2009 championship game, which BU won in overtime. Now in his second season with
Moscow Spartak of the KHL, he previously played in the NHL for the New York
Rangers, Ottawa, Tampa Bay and Florida.
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GoTerriers.com report
There
are three former Terriers in the AHL Calder Cup semifinals: John McCarthy and
Danny O’Regan with San Jose and Matt Grzelcyk with Providence. Both teams trail
their series, 3-1.
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