With Thursday's scheduled game with New Hampshire cancelled, BU will focus on its final regular-season game against Lowell on Saturday at 3 p.m. Meanwhile, Merrimack's upcoming series with Vermont has been cancelled due to Covid protocols and there are reports that the Warriors won't participate in the Hockey East tournament. Check back for further details.
● Boston Hockey Blog preview of BU-Lowell (including Coach O'Connell's media call comments)
● Boston Globe Hockey East will crunch the numbers to determine its tournament seedings
● BU.edu Cockerill on What’s Behind Team’s Success
● The BU Hockey Show Podcast Episode 19 with Commissioner Steve Metcalf
● USCHO.com This Week in Hockey East
● USCHO.com Bracketology from Jayson Moy and Jim Connelly
’70-’71 Flashback: Mar. 5, 1971 BU 7 Colgate 2
Top-ranked Terriers completed the regular season with a convincing 7-2 win against the Colgate Red Raiders. Seven different skaters found the net as BU finished the regular season with a 24-1-1 record and the top seed in the ECAC tournament.
Despite an eight-hour bus trip from Boston to Hamilton, N.Y., earlier in the day, Bob Brown and Steve Stirling gave BU a 2-0 lead after one. The Terriers broke things open in the middle period with goals by Mike LaGarde, Ric Jordan and Ron Anderson increasing the lead to 5-0. Colgate broke the shutout at 17:25 and the teams traded goals in the next minute with Bob Gryp connecting for BU.
Jake Danby produced the only score in the final period for the 7-2 score. BU had unloaded 49 shots on the Colgate net, while limiting the home team to 18 shots as goalie Dan Brady lifted his record to 13-0-0.
Next up for BU would be the quarterfinals of the ECAC tournament and a second meeting with the eighth seed, Rensselaer.
The Red Raiders were coached by Ron Ryan who had played for legendary Terrier head man Jack Kelley when he was at Colby College. As a senior in 1961-62, Ryan scored a mind-boggling 104 points (48G,56A) in 27 games leading the White Mules, a Division 2 team, to third place in the ECAC and the semifinals of the conference tournament. Kelley earned NCAA Coach of the Year honors and headed home to Boston to restore the struggling Terrier program.
When Kelley departed BU following the team’s 1972 national championship to become general manager and head coach of the new WHA’s New England Whalers, he brought Ryan along as assistant general manager. After the Whalers claimed the league’s initial championship, Ryan became head coach for the next two seasons.
After seven seasons with the Whalers, he became executive vice president of the Philadelphia Flyer and in 2003 became team president, a position he held for three year.
Looking back
tw-align-centerNot 𝙌𝙪𝙞𝙘𝙠 enough. 😏 pic.twitter.com/PEZ2SBvNSi
— Arizona Coyotes (@ArizonaCoyotes) March 4, 2021
Clayton Keller beat LA's Jonathan Quick to score his seventh goal in the Coyotes’ 3-2 win against the Kings.
Trevor Zegras recorded his first NHL point, assisting on a goal in the Ducks’ 3-2 loss to the Blues.
●NBC Sports: Trevor Zegras as a future star Duck
Patrick Curry’s first professional goal came in Grand Rapids’ 9-4 win against Rockford.
tw-align-centerFormer Boston University captain Patrick Curry (@pcurry19) scored his first professional goal with the Grand Rapids Griffins (AHL) last night.
— Patrick Donnelly (@PatDonn12) March 4, 2021
Saw plenty of goals like this during Curry’s time at BU. Had 19g last season, and 39 total at BU. pic.twitter.com/FSo1YsM7pq
