Terrier hockey this week…finally; 70-71 flashback—a blowout win

The week Terrier fans have waited for has arrived. BU men’s hockey will finally launch its season with a home-and-home series against Providence, starting with Friday’s contest at Agganis Arena. The women’s team, which played three games in December, will resume play, also against Providence, facing off with the Friars Friday at Schneider Rink and then Saturday at Walter Brown Arena.

World Junior Championships

Team USA faces Finland tonight in the semifinals. Gametime is 9:30 p.m. ET. Finland defeat the U.S. in the 2019 gold-medal game.

 ● USA Hockey preview and game notes

1970-71 Flashback: Jan. 4, 1971  BU 14 Princeton 0  

Top-ranked Terriers began second semester with a bang, ringing up fourteen goals while producing their fourth shutout in ten games. Sophomore Ron Anderson (photo) caused the most havoc for BU with a six-point effort (2G,4A), while classmate Bob Brown assisted on five goals, as the Terriers improved to 9-0-1.

BU flexed its offensive muscle with five first-period scores. John Danby struck first, followed by Anderson, then a pair by another sophomore, Steve Dolloff and one in the final minute by junior Guy Burrowes.

Things got worse for the Tigers in the middle period with Ric Jordan scoring in the first minute. Paul Giandomenico and Peter Thornton increased the lead to 8-0 by the middle of the period. Then Danby, Burrowes and Giandomenico each scored their second of the contest.

Toot Cahoon got in on the scoring early in the third. Anderson’s and Thornton’s second goals closed out the scoring.

Junior goalie Dan Brady made his first start of the season in goal and stopped 13 Princeton shots. Two months later, he would be named Most Outstanding Player in the NCAA title game.

At the other end, beleaguered Tiger goalie Ed Swift made 45 saves as the relentless Terriers unleashed 59 shots. He was the only goalie on a Princeton team that finished 1-22-0. After two somewhat more successful seasons at Princeton and a dismal stint as a TV news reporter in Montana, he was hired as a writer by Hockey Magazine. In 1978, he joined Sports Illustrated, initially to cover hockey, and remained on staff—as E.M. Swift—for 32 years, specializing in Olympic sports.

In November 1995, he authored a poignant feature article for SI, “Eleven Seconds”, on Travis Roy’s spinal cord injury--a month earlier on opening night of the ’95-’96 season--that featured interviews with family, friends and coaches and traced Roy’s pursuit of his hockey dreams since he was a toddler.  Two years later, Roy collaborated with Swift to tell his story in a memoir titled Eleven Seconds: A Story of Tragedy, Courage & Triumph.

Currently, Swift is a freelance writer living in Carlisle, Mass. He is a contributor to WBUR.org’s new ideas and opinion page,  Cognescenti.

● Switft: Crease to Press

● Sports Illustrated: Nov. 20, 1995 Eleven Seconds

Looking ahead

2021 recruit Quinn Hutson has left the Penticton Vees and joined the USHL Muskegon Lumberjacks due to the delay in starting the BCHL's regular season. The right-shot forward had scored 17 points in a 14-game pre-season tournament, second best for the Vees. Since joining the Lumberjacks in mid-December, Hutson has 5 points (3G,2A), all coming in his last three games.

2022 recruit Jack Harvey, currently skating for the USHL Chicago Steel, was called up to the NTDP U18s and played in last night’s win against Youngstown.