Friday, February 07, 2020

Game Day Terriers host Merrimack; Book review-The Making of a Miracle



Terriers face Merrimack for the second time this season in a 7:30 p.m. start at Agganis Arena on Mike Eruzione Book Signing Night. The game will be live-streamed on CBS All-Access.

BU is currently in third place in Hockey East, a point behind BC and UMass, and will look to gain two important points in conference standings.  Three weeks ago, BU edged the Warriors, 3-2, in Ashton Abel’s first start in Scarlet.

Four Terriers are among the top scorers in Hockey East conference games: Patrick Harper, Trevor Zegras and David Farrance are tied for fourth with 19 points, while Captain Patrick Curry is tied for tenth with 17.



● Go Terriers.com preview, Game Notes, Live Stats, Terrier Sports Radio Network, @BU Hockey 
● CBS All-Access Live Stream 
● Boston Hockey Blog live in-game blog, game preview 
● USCHO.com Hockey East picks and predictions



Beginning with tonight’s book-signing event, BU will hold a series of “Miracle on Ice Month” events at three home games in February to mark the 40thanniversary of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team’s gold medal in hockey.

On Feb. 29, “The BU Four”—Mike Eruzione, Jim Craig, Jack O’Callahan and Dave Silk—will reunite and be honored during the BU-BC game.

The previous Saturday, Feb. 22, on the 40thanniversary of the 4-3 win against the Soviet Union, fans will receive a BUSA button.

Tonight, former BU and US Olympic captain Mike Eruzione will be signing copies of his new book, “The Making of a Miracle,” on the Agganis Arena concourse before the game and during the first intermission, as well as in the Burke Club Room at 6:30 p.m. He’ll be joined by co-author, BU grad and blog contributor Neal Boudette. 

Terrier Hockey Fan Blog contributor John Giles has authored this review of The Making of a Miracle:


By all accounts, Mike Eruzione and Jack Parker have been great friends for more than forty years. If you’re familiar with their backgrounds, the source of this friendship shouldn’t be much of a surprise. Each of them was raised in modest circumstances in hardscrabble towns; Eruzione in Winthrop, Parker in Somerville.



Parker demanded a high degree of competitiveness and determination from his players at BU. Eruzione cites these attributes as his greatest strengths.

Parker’s acceptance speech at his induction into the US Hockey Hall of Fame acknowledged the dominant role “coincidence” played throughout his career. In “The Making of a Miracle”, recently published by Harper Press, Eruzione, via co-author Neal Boudette, proudly and repeatedly asserts that chance played no less of a part in his life.

Eruzione’s honesty about all facets of his upbringing and career is the central theme of the book. He was raised in a “three-decker” in working class, insular Winthrop. His family lived on one floor; aunts, uncles and cousins occupied the other two. In fact, he terms the arrangement as “three floors, no doors” that housed one large, rambling family. His father, Eugene, known as “Jeep”, worked multiple jobs. Mike caddied and shoveled snow, giving the money he made to his mother.





Boston Hockey Blog: Eruzione’s story captured in new book   

BU Today: book excerpt

►This week’s Episode of Inside BU Hockey features Bernie Corbett's interviews with Coach Albie O’Connell and junior defenseman Cam Crotty. 

Looking ahead 

2020 recruit Jay O’Brien scored a pair of goals, including the game-winner, in Penticton’s 4-3 win against Surrey. He earned first-star honors and now has 58 points (22 goals) in 40 games, tops on the Vees and fifth in the BCHL.
● PentictonVees.ca recap and video highlights 

Looking back  
Kieffer Bellows scored his first two NHL goals, including the game-winner, in the Islanders’ 5-3 win against the Kings.
● NHL.com recap and video highlights 

Charlie McAvoy’s first goal of the season provided the overtime game-winner as the Bruins edged the Blackhawks, 2-1. Matt Grzelcyk assisted on Boston’s first goal. 
NHL.com recap and video highlights 

Matt Nieto’s eighth goal was the game-winner in Colorado’s 4-1 win against Ottawa. Brady Tkachuk scored his 16th goal for the Senators.
● NHL.com recap and video highlights 

Evan Rodrigues scored an extra-attacker goal to send the Sabres and Red Wings to overtime where Detroit took a 4-3 win.
● NHL.com recap and video highlights 

Dante Fabbro scored his fifth goal in Nashville’s 3-2 win vs. Calgary.
● NHL.com recap and video highlights



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