Monday, April 08, 2024

UPDATED: Frozen Four Week!; CHN previews; Stellar Greene; Recruits shine

 

 

Frozen Four Week begins. #2 Terriers will soon head West to St. Paul where they'll face #3 Denver in the semifinals on Thursday at 5 p.m. BU is in the Frozen Four for the 24th time and will be seeking its sixth national championship.

UPDATED FROZEN FOUR COVERAGE

From College Hockey News:

▪ Mike McMahon previews the BU-Denver semifinal

▪ Jashvina Shah Inside the Frozen Four-Boston U

▪ Jashvina Shah BU's Harvey: Sticking it out made all the difference

►On Wednesday evening, College Hockey News will air a three-hour Frozen Four discussion featuring BU's Bernie Corbett, Adam Wodon and Mike McMahon of CHN and Jess Myers of The Rink Live. The live broadcast, which will take place at Zamboni's on 7th in St. Paul, will run from 7-10 p.m. ET. You can access it at @CHNEWS

►College Hockey News has posted previews of both semifinal games: BU-Denver, BC-Michigan. CHN On the Air will have a 2-hour pre-game show prior to Thursday's semifinals and Saturday's championship game.

From FloHockey.tv:

▪ Chris Peters: Frozen Four semifinal predictions (spoiler alert--he picks BU) 

▪ Chris Peters: Hobey Hat Trick analysis: Is Macklin Celebrini the favorite?

From USCHO:

▪ John Doyle: For BU, "Staying in the moment is probably the biggest thing"

From The Boston Globe (subscription):

▪ Andrew Mahoney The Blue Bloods have returned

“I was really happy BC won,” said Parker, who retired in 2013. “I have never rooted for BC in my life. But I thought it was pretty cool that BC won, because now it’s a BC, BU, Denver, Michigan group that’s in the Frozen Four, and that’s big time college hockey right there. What I always refer to as brand-name college hockey.”

 


                                   


Boston University Alumni has lined up watch parties in 10 cities nationwide: Austin, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Providence, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Paul, Washington, DC. Click here for Watch Party Details.

If you'll be in St. Paul, head to BU's  pre-game party at Smorgie's Bar across the street from the Xcel Energy Center. Begins at 2 p.m. Registration link

                                                  

                    Photo credit Gracie Davenport

BHB's Belle Fraser explores Ryan Greene's stellar season, invaluable contributions to BU's success and his expanding role as a 200-foot player.

“I feel like I’ve been able to play in a lot of situations this year. I feel like they’ve put a little more trust in me,” Greene said Friday after practice. “Obviously it’s something that I embrace, and I just try to give my all every game and help the team win.”

● Boston Hockey Blog "He does everything for us"--unsung hero Ryan Greene 

● Greene's unassisted goal against RIT

 

Terriers vs. Pioneers

Thursday's match-up with Denver will be the third meeting of the teams in the Frozen Four semifinal. In 1960, DU claimed a 6-4 win at Boston Arena (now Matthews Arena).

Eleven years later, the top-ranked Terriers used their speed to outclass a much bigger Denver squad. DU took an early lead but the Terriers responded with goals from "Toot" Cahoon and Wayne Gowing. Cahoon, who later was a BU assistant coach and head coach at Princeton and UMass, added two more tallies to complete his hat trick. Dan Brady stopped 23 shots and BU killed four second-period power plays.  

Looking ahead

2024 recruits Cole Eiserman and Kamil Bednarik each recorded a goal and an assist in the NTDP U18s’ 4-2 win over Muskegon. Eiserman, who assisted on Bednarik’s 24th goal, had opened the scoring with his own 49th tally. His two-year total of 117 goals trails Cole Caufield’s program record of 126.

The U18s have completed their domestic schedule and will conclude their season at the IIHF World U18 Championships in in Espoo & Vantaa, Finland beginning on April 26. NHL Network will air all Team USA games.

►2025 recruit Conrad Fondrk scored twice—including his third game-winner—in the NTDP U17s’ 3-1 win over Madison. Fellow recruit Charlie Trethewey assisted on Fondrk’s first tally. With a 20-23-43 line, Fondrk is second on the U7s in scoring, while Trethewey with 35 points is the team’s top-scoring defenseman.

►After the first weekend of BCHL playoffs, 2024 recruit Jack Pridham is tied for the league scoring lead with a 5-1-6 scoring line and 2025 recruit Callum Hughes is right behind him with 2-3-5.

Pridham, who is one of three finalists for the BCHL’s Rookie of the Year award, powered West Kelowna to an 8-2 win over Cranbrook with a hat trick on Friday. Last night he scored twice and added an assist in the Warriors’ 4-3 overtime win. Hughes, who is Pridham’s linemate, tallied a goal and three assists Friday and scored a goal Saturday.

Pridham finished the regular season with a 23-25-48 scoring line. Notable is that 44 of those points came at even-strength. Hughes wasn’t far behind with 42 points.

● Video highlights: Friday, Saturday


Looking back

Charlie McAvoy and Charlie Coyle scored goals in the Bruins 3-2 overtime win over Florida. McAvoy’s tally was his 11th while Coyle, who scored on a power play, now his a career-best 25.

Brady Tkachuk scored his 34th goal in Ottawa’s 4-3 loss to New Jersey.

 

 

 

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3 comments:

Skolzman said...

“Toot” Cahoon mention. Love it. I remember his assistant coaching days at BU (first stint).

8:47 AM
Terrier Blogger said...

Toot played for BU's back-to-back national championship team and was an assistant on the 1978 "Jack Parker's Wiseguys" champs.

9:54 AM
Skolzman said...

Would be great if someone could duplicate his feat of a hat trick vs. DU🙂. Go BU!

7:13 PM

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